So... What is it about Bush that you find admirable? What is it about Bush you find so "manly". For that matter, what is is about the Republican policies of Bush that John McCain has repeatedly voted for and vowed to continue that you find so compelling that you're lured to this board to rail about the color of someone's shirt?

And finally, are you aware of the copious research that indicates males who obsess about supposed societal masculine markers like clothing choices are often closeted homosexuals? Not that there's anything WRONG with that....

two words: Dan Quayle

Wasilla, Alaska has a population considerably under 10,000. As little as half that, really. I imagine there are blocks in Chicago with that many people. Certainly precincts.

Obama's executive experience?

He's run a pretty decent campaign for the last 18 months.

Age of mother factor in the probability of giving birth to a child with Downs:

25 1 in 1400

30 1 in 800

35 1 in 380

38 1 in 190

40 1 in 110

45 1 in 30

But she's "pro life"?

yeah... right.... what's her "political position" on governmental support of children born with Downs? Oh yeah... she doesn't have one? The mayor of a town of 9,000 doesn't NEED no steenking position on anything.

City council and mayor of a town considerably smaller than 10,000?

She's only been governor for a little over a year.

Ya think?

Maybe like "drown in the bathtub" (Grover Norquist)... or "Starve the Beast" (PNAC)

A woman in her mid forties has a 1 in 30 chance of having a baby with Downs syndrome. When you already HAVE four children, what is the rational argument for taking a chance getting pregnant when you look at odds like that?

She's either an insane fundamentalist mindless breeder who could care less what kind of life her offspring face as long as she has LOTS of them, or she's incredibly irresponsible... probably both.

I don't believe Ayers is Barack Obama's running mate. You'd think he was by the frantic spinning that the Fascist Party supporters are engaging in.

Hardly.

But then, I don't know very many, if any, self professed Republican kids this age.

The liberal kids I know find this sort of jocular bubbaism to be annoying at best. Even the pregnant ones.

The public is reacting to "the Maverick's BOLD masterstroke" of annointing the unvetted Palin.

She was snorting and huffing on NPR this morning... Presumably not from the grave, yet.

is the new insane.

The Rs and their lackies like Tiberius are so quick to throw around "how it would be" for "liberals". The comment on how supposedly black teen fathers are more likely to abandon their swelling paramours than white kids is typical of this. No supporting documentation, no evidence, no facts... just smugly stupid stereotyping.

Phyllis Schafley - one of the matrons of this sort of absurdist reductionism - was on the radio the other day proclaiming that if the Palin Downs baby was that of a "liberal" .. "It would have been aborted"... when it was pointed out to her that 90% of Downs babies are aborted, she simply sputtered and repeated her fatuous claim more loudly.

I'm so damn sick of these blind insane people attempting to distort and twist reality. And I'm sick of the media for giving them coverage.

The real "executive experience" that Obama displays EVERY DAY, and the kind of "executive experience" that you GOP toadies so fear is his proven ability to organize, oversee, and conduct a campaign that has accomplished the unthinkable: A perceived black man with a better than even chance of winning the White House.

Compare that with Palin's "executive experience" of signing off on the hiring of a new groundskeeper for the city park in Podunk, AK.

Like most sane people, I laugh at the National Enquirer's screaming headlines as I wait in the grocery line.

John Edwards probably doesn't laugh anymore.

Perhaps Sarah will join him.

we can only hope.

"In closing, I will turn to the words of Sarah Palin herself: "But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out and those styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot -- what exactly is our opponent's plan?" What, indeed?"

Repeating right wing lies as fact makes you at least a tool of the fascist right. The fiction... YES FICTION... that Obama "never talks about his plans" is a patent lie. Did you not listen to his address at his convention? Do you not have the computer skills necessary to look on his website?

Maybe you don't like what he's proposing but to say that he hasn't proposed ANY plan is just plain Rovian B.S. If I want that sort of "reporting" I can always tune in the junkie's radio show.

It will burn just fine on its own. If there's any truth it WILL come out. I can only hope that it is true. I could care less what brings these people and their corrupt party down, as long as they lose and lose very badly.

I certainly don't care about Palin's personal life. I just want her to lose. I don't care how... only that she and Gramps lose and lose badly. Whatever it takes... or "by any means necessary" as far as I'm concerned.

Factual arguments haven't had ANYTHING to do with Republican presidential victories for as far back (at least) as Nixxxon's "Silent Majority" and "Peace with Honor" days. If factual, rational arguments could carry the day, NONE of the Republican presidential campaigns since 1968 would have been successful and the party would have been reduced to their core constituency of mouth breathing snake handlers and geriatric John Birch society members.