I just wish the network had done this six months ago before Matthews and Olbermann helped sink the Clinton campaign by acting not as journalists but as cheerleaders for Sen. Obama.

I am not defending Fox News, I never watch it because I know its bias.

And I agree commentators should be free to give their opinions when they are doing commentary shows such as "Hardball" and "Countdown."

But Chris and Keith brought this on themselves by being incapable of reporting news such as the results of the primaries without inserting their personal opnions to the extent that other journalists found objectionable.

People who describe themselves as evangelicals don't vote as a bloc. If they did, Pat Robertson would have been the Republican nominee in 1988.

Many moderate evangelicals care deeply about issues such as poverty and the environment. According to some surveys, Bill Clinton won the majority of their votes in 1996 but Al Gore lost them to George Bush in 2000.

Stereotyping voters by race, religion, gender, education or income overlooks major differences within such groups and is insulting to individuals, suggesting that they can't or don't think for themselves.

Annie W, regarding my comments about Sarah Palin being condemned for not being a stay-at-home mom, I wasn't aware that unless a comment is made by an official spokesperson, it doesn't exist.

The blogosphere has been filled with diatribes against Palin's decision to pursue her political ambitions despite having five children since McCain announced her as his vice presidential pick. I doubt that all those comments on sites like Salon and The Huffington Post are from Republicans.

Newspapers around the world have reported on how Palin's choice has reignited the debate here about motherhood and careers. The discussions we should be having are on equal pay for equal work, maternity leave and decent day care, areas where the US lags behind many nations.

But since you question who is saying these things, let me quote one example, The Washington Post's Sally Quinn: "We have conflicts and guilts that men simply don't have. And, basically the burden of raising children falls on the mother, no matter what kind of a job she has... One of the things I noticed over this last convention is John McCain, they must have said it 1,000 times, I put my country first.... Will she put her country first, or will she put her family first?"

I am no fan of Sarah Palin, I simply think that with more than 70 percent of mothers working outside the home, criticizing her about choosing to have a career is not a way to gain women's votes.

By the way, when it comes to a candidate who knows how to serve both country and family, there are few better examples than Joe Biden, who returns home every night from Washington to Delaware to be with his wife and children.

Blaming the Clintons for "demonizing" Obama is really a productive strategy for creating a unified party and winning in November, "buzman".

Clinton won some big swing states that are still there for the taking. Assigning a possible Obama loss to her is not going to win over any of her voters who are now undecided.

Democrats can continue to argue about who demonized who in the primary and keep on debating racism and sexism right up until the day McCain is inaugurated or they can stop whining about the primary and the mean Republicans and come up with a way to take back the White House

All candidates trot out their families and their life stories during conventions and campaigns.

I found the story of the McCains adopting their daughter touching and was impressed by Cindy McCain's charity work. Did his daughter look uncomfortable? I didn't see that but if she did, many kids her age would be uneasy standing on stage in front of a huge audience.

I admire John McCain's heroism as a POW and am offended by arguments about whether he made a mistake as a pilot or broke under torture.

And as a mother who worked outside the home, I find the criticism of Sarah Palin's not staying home with her children bizarre coming from a party that's supposed to be all about choice for women.

There are plenty of ways to attack McCain and Palin on political issues, not on his war record or their families. And the people making these personal attacks tend to be the same ones who are incensed over the "mean old" GOP.

Are their tactics a surprise? They shouldn't be, the phrase "Republican attack machine" was frequently used during the primary to describe what would happen if Hillary was the nominee. Nor have I seen the Republicans do anything this election cycle that comes close to the Willie Horton ad they employed against Michael Dukakis in 1988.

If the Democrats can't take back the White House after eight years of George W. Bush, it's time for the party leaders to take a long look in the mirror and ask themselves what they're doing wrong, not to blame an electorate which keeps turning down their presidential candidates, electing only one Democrat, Bill Clinton, since 1981.

I must not understand the definition of the word "independent." I thought it referred to somebody whose views on issues cut across party lines and who doesn't judge candidates simply by labels.

For a person to describe himself as an independent in the same post in which he says he will vote against every Republican this year just like he did last year sounds about as "independent" as Joe Lieberman

What a sense of humor the headline writer for this column has: "Simply saying the word 'change' a lot isn't enough," LOL!

That reminds me of what Hillary Clinton supporters said during the primary about Barack Obama.

Hopefully, now that the conventions are over, both candidates will stop speaking in catch phrases and sound bites and start talking about their specific proposals, not just posting them on websites where they can't be debated or questioned.