Oh, I guess that explains his appointment of Hillary at State.

And what's with the catty swipe at MoDo?

Great idea. What could possibly go wrong?

Oh yes you did!! Want me to dig up the link for you? Ok.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/18/michelles_booty/

Obama is perpetuating some of the very worst of Bush's policies. 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan with no strategic plan and no exit strategy? How does this end well? Does nobody remember what happened to the Soviet Union after their adventure in Afghanistan?

Escalating the war in Afghanistan; perpetuating the war in Iraq; and spending trillions of dollars WE DON'T HAVE ... these are not actions that are going to end well for this country.

Where is the healthy skepticism about the role of government in our lives that we had the past eight years? Is dissent truly treason now? I find this mindless groupthink disturbing.

is exactly what the market is responding to?

The daily cheerleading for the Obama's disastrous spending proposals, along with the daily oh-no-ing about the plunging stock market, is what they call a "disconnect." The one is directly responsible for the other.

And please, people, don't flame me as a Republican. I'm not. I hated Bush and I hope for the best from Obama, whom I voted for. It's just that we got into the mess we're in by spending trillions we don't have, and now Obama proposes to spend additional trillions we don't have.

What is it about this problem that Salon readers don't get?

I get mine from Humboldt county, right here in California. And why the hell don't we legalize and tax it already?

This was one of the key points recognized early by George Gilder in the 90's, before he lost all his money on bad investments. He was a futurist who was too early! But still a smart guy.

He pointed out that traditional telecommunications networks consisted of dumb terminals and smart networks, ie the phone company, which did all the switching and value-added services (like call waiting, etc.) in the network, while the end-user devices were dumb handsets.

The Internet inverts that relationship. Smart endpoints (ie high-powered personal computers, cellphones, etc.) pass TCP/IP packets around, and the dumb network has only one job: route the packets from the sender to the receiver.

I'm not sure if this article is trying to make the same point. But the trend is clear. Dumb networks, smart peripherals are how the Internet works; and efforts to add value and complexity inside the network instead of on the periphery go contrary to this trend.

But you'll never top that booty article. That piece defined the essence of Salon's worldview. Michelle Obama's ass.

"American politicians have about as much appetite for confrontation with Israel as they do for supporting world communism."

Last time I looked, the U.S. government had just taken over the car companies and the banks. The times they are a changin', Comrade.

I'm sure the White House took note of the recent election in California. Voters have had it up to here with irresponsible government spending and are not inclined to bail out the government with tax increases.

I admit I didn't read the article and I didn't read any of the letters. I'm just one lone guy sitting here reading Salon and outraged and disgusted that Obama is still covering up and condoning and refusing to expose and prosecute torture.

How the hell do you think the Arab world feels about this? Ain't NOTHING Obama can do till he mans up and cleans up this country's dispicable behavior: launchin a war under false pretenses that were themelves obtained through torture; and then invading, occupying, and torturing the innocent civilians of that country.

What the hell is the matter with Americans that we are blind to this reality? I grew up hearing the question, "Where were the good Germans?" Now I know. We're the good Germans now.

That he's for peace, getting out of Iraq, closing Gitmo, exposing the torture, that he's for gay marriage (he's actually opposed, same as Miss California) that he's for the people and not the banks, etc. etc.

Is this the change we voted for? Yeah the GOP are barking nutballs, no disagreement there. But knocking the GOP is easy. It's holding Obama's feet to the fire on ANYTHING we thought he believed in that's hard.

It's not really parks versus education. It's the state employee union pensions against the rest of us. A list came out a few weeks ago showing hundreds of retired state workers taking down multiple pensions over $200k, $300k and up.

3000 retired teachers pulling down $100k or more. That's where your state tax money goes. http://pensiontsunami.com/blog/?p=97

And of course McCain would be against prosecuting or even investigating the torture itself. And a McCain administration would probably defend the Defense of Marriage Act by likening gat marriage to incest.

Oh wait, that's the Obama administration. Silly me!

Didn't read the whole article so apologies if you mentioned this. But isn't it nice that women HAVE that option? You don't have to stand on a streetcorner ... you can do webcams or phone sex and there's no personal contact. Women can ALWAYS sell their sex. Men don't have that option ... men can turn to stealing or they can figure out some other way to survive. Way of the world. But these "shocking" articles about women's sexwork options never seem to note that this is a CHOICE that women have that men don't.

Still ... in my head I keep hearing a soulful rendition of Don't Cry for me, Argentina ...

And what's the downside?

Obama's wars good.

The left is out of touch and dead wrong on pretty much everything these days. The idea that even more massive amounts of borrowing, printing, and spending by the federal government is the solution to our economic problems is simply laughable. That so many believe it to be true ... tragic.