It's a good thing neither of them decided to try to make a living at comedy

Besides it's hard to do satire when what's really going on is more outlandish than what any comedy writer could come up with such as Mark Sanford's "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" affair and John Ensign's needing mommy and daddy to pay off his mistress

For those who lost family members in the Holocaust, this new tactic by the far-right is nauseating, particularly when used to incite racial hatred

Those trying to take over the country with tactics such as the Big Lie and shouting down anyone who disagrees with them should look in the mirror if they want to see the face of political evil in the 21st century

How ironic that it took Bill Clinton to rescue these two women who worked for Al Gore.

Had Gore not spent the 2000 election running away from Clinton, he would have won the electoral college even with Jeb Bush fixing the results in Florida.

But because he wanted to distance himself from Clinton's personal failings, which for most voters really mattered only to his family and Monica Lewinsky, Gore also got no credit for the prosperity the Clinton Administration brought the country.

Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush were terrified the Iranian hostages would be released before the 1980 elections which could benefit Carter. So they secretly struck a deal with the Iranians at two meetings in Madrid to have the hostages held until after the election and then ransomed them in for weapons.

For the followers of Reagan and Bush to criticize Bill Clinton for his role in getting these women released is hypocrisy of the highest order.

After listening to the Clinton-phobes and the birthers and the phony grass rooters at town hall meetings, I'm starting to wonder if liberals just don't loathe our enemies enough.

When I look at Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly or Glen Beck, I wonder how anyone can believe their drivel, they're laughable at best. And I dislike everything about Dick Cheney except his self-serving stand on gay marriage.

But I've never become worked up roward the far right into the kind of screaming, drooling anger that they direct toward the left.

Now they are starting to drown out common sense and convince a growing number of uninformed people that the president is an illegal alien and that his health care plan will involve killing senior citizens.

I wonder if rage is what it is going to take to stop this small minority who want to overthrow the president and stall any meaningful changes in the hope that two years from now, they will find enough people to vote for their unqualified candidates.

I had the hardest time making my way through this article and determining what the author was trying to say and am somewhat relieved to see that other readers had the same reaction.

Salon's articles generally provoke strong feelings in me, leaving me glad, mad or sad, but this one just leaves me feeling as though novocain was injected into my brain toward the end of the first page.

Since 2001, no long-form birth certificates exist for anyone born in Hawaii. Even if they did, it would not contain anything about religion, that was not asked in the 1960s in Hawaii.

A certificate of live birth is valid proof for any government purpose from getting a driver's license to getting a passport to being president of the United States.

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

Then you have Rep. John Matthews (R-CA) on "Hardball" defending co-sponsorship of a bill to require future presidential candidates to present a copy of his or her birth certificate to prove they are qualified to be president.

These people are loons, as Chris Matthews pointed out. How the hell do they explain that back in 1961, both major newspapers in Honolulu published President Barack Obama's birth announcement?

And why are Liz Cheney, Meghan McCain and Michael Steele being used as spokespersons? Does the GOP really think that putting their faces on TV to defend the party's obstructionist policies and absurd accusations will fool young people, women and African-Americans into thinking that Republicans really do care about anyone except themselves?

President Obama, running on a platform of change, won more votes than any candidate in U.S. history. In addition, there are now 60 Democratic senators, a filibusterproof majority. In the last election Democrats expanded their control of the House of Representatives and also increased the number of governorships holds to 29.

Why do we keep worrying about bipartisanship when even most Republicans have an unfavorable view of their own party?

What Obama needs is far more pressure from the left, and that includes people willing to criticize him, not just harangue their senators and representatives.

When he starts making good on his promises, such as getting rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (I'll let him slide on the vow to get a shelter dog), then I'll believe it wasn't just a lot of words

I see very little difference between the behavior of Republicans and Democrats.

The two scandals that disturb me the most are Mark Sanford and John Edwards, both of whom coincidentally condemned Bill Clinton for his indiscretions.

Their wives are beautiful, educated women who gave up their careers to stand by their men and were repaid by their husbands having not just physical affairs like Spitzer and Vitter but emotional infidelity.

If we could go back to the time before Gary Hart, when the press did not cover the private lives of politicians, the nation might be in far better shape. Some of the greatest presidents in our history were philanderers while some of the worst never cheated on their wives.

When it comes to trying to legislate the morality of others, I'll believe the Democrats practice what they preach when they show the courage to get rid of DOMA and Don't Ask, Don't Tell.