Just wait until the debate next week between Governor Bullwinkle and Joe Biden. Then we'll talk about whether she's helping the ticket or not. Since I live in Portland, Oregon with it's strip club on every corner "free speech" rights, I don't need cheesecake out of my "leaders" to get me excited. After the last eight years minimal competence would be sufficient. The Republican ticket has given us ample evidence that they don't bring THAT to the table... no matter how nice Sarah looked in a swimsuit 25 years or so ago, or how many years Johnny Ace spent as a POW.

I'm sure there were many angry missives coming across the transom for every single Congresscritter the last couple weeks opposing ANY bailout. With the election only about a month away, it would be extremely difficult for anyone in one of the many close races to actually vote to support this.

I still don't know what to think of the whole mess. There's so much spin and so little credibility on ANY side. As long as the beer companies don't stop making product, I should be ok, I guess... The Beer index, if you will.

The "promise" of Nuclear energy was oversold and it underdelivered horribly. Out here on the banks of the Columbia River we've been dealing intimately with the criminally negligent way that the nation's first nuclear site at Hanford has been dealt with as a good example of just how careful and responsible they ARE with the waste they've already generated. This sort of behavior goes a long way to understanding why there's so much resistance to siting long term storage facilities. The agencies involved simply have a proven record of carelessness. Carelessness with radioactive waste is a non starter with the public.

Even leaving aside the huge problem of where the hell the waste is going to be stored for the next half million years, the track record of Oregon's sole nuclear plant doesn't make the nuclear option any more attractive. After years of protest the plant was shut down less than half the way though its projected life. But it wasn't protests that shut it down, it was faulty design that doomed the plant to early decommissioning. It simply wasn't designed or built to last.

It's problems like the above - problems that were and still are solvable by honesty and quality control - that make most people skeptical of nuclear power plants. If the industry had decided to be a responsible corporate citizen there would be no public demand of the layers of redundancy and oversight that make operating these fiscal behemoths a risky gamble.

It's too bad, but the problems are of the industry's making and no amount of John McCain's hot air promises will change that.

What's he supposed to do with questions like that?

Oh.... try.... answer them honestly, forthrightly and clearly.

Wouldn't THAT be refreshing? In particular from a Republican. As a party there are a lot of things the Republicans are for that a large number of people (in some cases majorities) are opposed to, including some of the "social issues." Their time tested strategy to deal with this is to simply lie, or at least obfuscate. Why? Because they know that if they're honest they risk a greater chance that they won't be elected.

Heck, around here in the very blue western PNW most of the Republicans won't even put that word on their campaign signs. Dino Rossi - rerunning for the governor's seat in Washington - wouldn't even use it in his voter's pamphlet; opting for GOP.

It's the onset of rictus

That a mere brigade would be akin to pissing in the ocean against the outrage in the streets if this election is tampered with in any readily apparent way. I don't have great faith in the the American psyche when it comes to open, direct action rebellion, but there comes a time....

I'll be ready to throw off the traces.

This bill essentially puts debt on the national credit card. I honestly can't see how this does anything but providing a short term illusion of "action" while making the underlying problem even worse in the long run. Of course, it also kicks the problem down the road, past the election for both parties and gets the Gucci loafer crowd off their backs momentarily.

Dick Morris?

HAHAHAHA

Is THAT all you got?

Maybe you're not old enough to remember how Dick Morris attained his lofty position from which to pontificate. Perhaps, in the midst of surfing for long ago "terrorists" and such you could take a minute to google "Dick Morris", "sucking toes".....

... just sayin'.....

hmmm... what would that be? The only "stuff" I've seen "done to" Palin is to use her own words, verbatim, in extremely hilarious Saturday Night Live skits.

She's become a punch line and she did it all by herself, by golly!

"Knowing what we know now" about the world in general, and the Viet God Damned Nam War I would be inclined to agree with Ayers' assessment that perhaps they should have bombed MORE.

Maybe some of these same bumbling, treasonous right wing zealots responsible for THIS war would have been eliminated, thus saving this country thousands of lives and BILLIONS of dollars. After all, some of them are the SAME people (Cheney and Rumsdorf, to name just two of these serial war criminals).

But... Obama has absolutely NO connection with that part of Ayers' life. I will give you the benefit of doubt and assume you know that and are just trolling. Not even whacked out supporters of the current Fascist regime are dumb enough to blame an eight year old for things that someone unknown to him at the time did four decades ago, so you must just be dishonest and not stupid.

Oh?

"the same things happen at Dem rallies"

Do you have any examples? A url?

How about a clue?