You pick the letter that says people are feeling uneasy about Obama? Give me break. The vast sense of the letters section here is that this is a ridiculous media-created and fueled controversy with nosubstance.

Did anyone from his staff write the speech? Has Obama decried Rudyard Kipling's imperialist attitudes? Tell us! Clearly the media has decided that's what's important here.

Fringe is a blast. It's big dumb fun for the geek crowd.

Make them do the actual physical filibuster. Forget this namby-pamby "agree to filibuster" crap. Make them do it. There is too much important work coming up and the Republicans need to know that if they are going to be obstructionist, they are licked.

Goddamn it, let's dig up zombie Lyndon Johnson and get him to run the Congress for Obama. Where are all the master arm-twisters of our Democratic past?

Other letter writers have made the point, but you ought to get your science straight before you rant, Joan.

Maybe you have 300 lbs of weight. How much is lean mass? How much is fat? How much is liver?

Now how much of the drugs' toxicity is dependent on fat or lean mass and how much just on what your liver can process in a period of time?

Actually for many fields a fellowship is multi-year. Someone close to me is a pediatric oncologist. She did four years med school after undergrad, three years residency as a pediatrician, three years as a fellow in pediatric oncology and hematology and soon one year as a pediatric neuro oncology fellow.

Tough as nails when it comes to fighting Democrats, weak as water when it comes to confronting Bush or Republicans.

Mass transit has been neglected for forty years. $10 billion is a drop in the bucket. And it won't even start to fix freight rail and high speed passenger rail.

No, Obama certainly couldn't be interested in the TARP funds as a way to avert collapse of the economy - it must be some sort of payback to Wall Street cronies, despite the fact that Obama raised more money from OUTSIDE Wall Street than any other candidate in history and in sums that dwarf the amount he got from Wall Street types.

Sirota is suspect on Obama, and has been since he published his interview in which he claimed Obama criticized Paul Wellstone as a gadfly, but then refused to allow access to the tape he'd made of the interview to judge the context. He's been upbraided on DailyKos for that particular sin, and he just talks around it.

David Sirota is maddening in that he can be an excellent writer and he is a forceful advocate for whatever position he takes, which in this case happens to be a load of nonsense.

United the country against him. They said Nixon couldn't get elected dogcatcher if he ran again. I'm not sure Bush could could get elected assistant dogcatcher.

I thought it was pretty mediocre. Didn't hold a candle to the "Good Morning" one from Maya Angelou.

When you speak to the nation from behind the big desk, you don't actually have to wear pants. It's TRUE! They can't see you from the belly down at all.

Dad did it, I did it, and you know Billy Boy Clinton did it (don't worry, we had the chair re-upholstered since then). The A/C don't work so well in the summer so this is good to know.

Also, Marilyn Monroe was an alien. Nancy Reagan, too.

Heh. Gotcha! It's just Marilyn.

Good huntin' and don't work too hard,

-W 43.

If he took a third time they'd say he looked put out at having to take the oath and claim it still didn't count because you have to "really mean it." These people are tools and have no interest in the country, just in power and in tearing down the good guys.

The grown-up thing would have been to leave Gary and then start a relationship with Brian. That would have been the nice, clean grown-up way to do things. But I don't know if things can ever really be clean and nice and tidy with those kind of things.

Yeah, things really can be clean and tidy if you have any kind of sense of the damage you're doing. Even staying in the relationship was damaging. If you're not happy in a relationship - fix it or end it. It's that simple.

There was a time when you'd find women lying around in back alleys, their foreheads hideously relaxed by black-market Botox injectors, sipping post-treatment martinis made (shudder) with the house brand of gin.

Never again. We will not go back to saggy eyebrows and paralyzed cheekbones. Never again, I say!

Armey is irrelevant and will remain so. He's done. He's got nowhere to go but onto one of the cable networks. Ignore him and he will dry up, fall to dust and blow away.

Do we need hourly updates or vote-by-vote updates on who is going to be the chair of a party that's been beat like a rented mule for the last two elections? I don't think we had this kind of coverage of Tim Kaine, did we?

We dumb men shore would be happy to do what you want if only we weren't so gosh darn stupid, lazy, and dishonest.

Stereotype much? I cook every night, I change more than 50% of the diapers, I do the marketing every week, and I handle the male-oriented tasks like fixing the backed up toilets, and taking out the trash.

Men are the last group you can stereotype and deride without being called on it.

Actually Limbaugh "clarified" his original comment about wanting Obama to fail to fit into the frame you suggest.

"Clarify" in this context means, of course, to quickly try to take back the most inflammatory part of what you just said because you won't be able to explain away your comment without looking like an unpatriotic ass.

Limbaugh is out for Limbaugh. Period.