No, it's not election coverage but it's getting ready. As an avid political reader it kills me to say this but, to finally put the republican nightmare to rest, the democrats will have to be just as childish as they are.

It shouldn't be that way. I was outraged at the overplay of the "dean scream", the "gore kiss", and thought the waving of flip flops during the republican convention was simply pathetic. But somehow these simple, childish things penetrate the reptilian brain of the uninformed voter and stick there. (Edwards may already have been taken out by the "$400 haircut" although the "Hillary cackle" doesn't seem to have gotten the traction her oponents were hoping for.)

It's how the battle is going to be fought and to ignore it, because we are above all that, will mean yet another loss. And because of the war and the whole aging SCOTUS issue, the 2008 election (like all of them, I guess) will be one of the defining elections of this generation.

Pooping on our lawn and not cleaning it up. Bad Dog! Go back to LGF and Malkin where you belong.

This picture needs to go on a bumper sticker to remind any independants left out there just what they would be voting for if they pulled the republican lever that year. 2 branches of government: Executojustice and Castratocongress.

Main arguments are:

None of them were in theater in the last year so they don't know how good things have become.

Any soldier who criticizes the mission must have joined to "polish their resume". (Seriously)

All twelve of these captains must be discontents who are out of the service because they were passed over for major.

Or,as the jpost title says, these are just another bunch of phony soldiers.

There should be a Church of the Iraq War because the faith in the mission and its ultimate success as long as we don't wimp out (I'm talking to you, defeatocrats!) is not so much political as religious dogma. They have an unshakable, if somewhat irrational, faith that what they believe about Iraq, Iran, and the Neocon agenda are true and they will tolerate no dissension or complaint.

"First I heard of it"

You need to read more. It may not be 10% felons but actually is 11% of some legal problem.

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but without an identifiable screen name, I just assumed you were our favorite troll who also goes by "anonymous". If you are hiding behind the anonymous title for other reasons, sorry to offend.

Unless, of course you are troll anonymous, joe, elephantman in which case sarcasm was intentional.

I'm awaiting your standard posting on a subject like this.

Here, I'll do it for you.

Ted Kennedy! Barney Franks! Bill Clinton! Sandy Berger's pants!

"Nothing succeeds like failure!"

If it's between the National Science Foundation and his particular Church's interpretation of the Bible as written by a 16th century English monarch, the NSF loses.

Just who I want in the White House!

"and just start hiring more au pairs?"

I think you are on to something. If we took all the billions spent on this war and had used it hire potential insurgents to come here and rebuild bridges, work forestry projects, and repair highways, we would all be much better off. No more Uncle Sam as satan; back to "Uncle Sugar"!

Another lost opportunity

If you pulled the rib out of Adam, extracted the DNA, and then reinserted one set of chromosomes which included the X chromosome into one of his cells from which you had eliminated half the genetic material including the Y chromosome; that could work.

God, the original stem cell researcher! But I don't think that is what Mr. Huckabee had in mind.

Unfortunately the original research notes have been lost and all we have left is this mythic, misinformed, mis-translated, mis-interpreted owner's manual that folks still take as...well...gospel.

Good point. That's why my sister is the evolutionary geneticist and I am the humble dermatologist.

When he was governor of our fair state, I didn't much care because one hack politician is just like another to me. But that was before Iraq...and Guantanamo...and waterboarding...

It struck me as rather Gannon-ish if you know what I mean. Perhaps talon news has a new stringer in the press room.

Did you really mean "ignorantly arrogant"...or perhaps "arrogantly ignorant"? Nevermind, both apply.

In case he does somehow become the republican candidate, is there some way to make one of these credit card statements into a bumper sticker?

You want family values? I got family values for you!

It isn't just the ignorance, which is appalling but nothing new for this administration.

It's the fact she actually gave an answer to the gathered scribes and stenographers, an answer based on nothing. She was not acting as the presidents spokesperson. She was not relaying administration policy or opinion. She was asked a question that she knew nothing about and made up an answer (which incidently could insult one of the most powerful people in the world...one who already has nukes-o-plenty). Why do folks even show up for these "news conferences" if this is the quality they are going to get.

I hope the sandwiches and latte's are good.

The entire republican pre-campaign has been structured around GOP v. Clinton. The bottom line on their candidates qualifications, besides who can build a bigger fence or who could personally waterboard terrorists themselves, is the debate of who could most likely beat Hillary. Suddenly there is the realization that she might not be the Dem candidate after all so there is a scramble to dig up dirt on Obama. Old dirt. New dirt. Non-dirt. It doesn't matter. They have to fling it in the air to abort this threat from a dynamic speaker they really, really don't want to run against.