I'm dreading having people on the phone all flight. "No no, the doctor said it's infected! Yeah, infected! Pus and all that."

Oy.

That's why Trippi jumped in on Penn. If Edwards doesn't win the nomination, he's being positioned to be Obama's VP.

Can you point me at the mailing list that'll send out the notification when it's OK for a black guy to run? Thanks.

And not "1984" or "Animal Farm", but the essay "Politics and the English Language" where he excoriates the kind of prose Paglia has built a career on.

I'll even give her a link directly to the essay - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

While I agree that there probably WASN'T voting machine fraud in New Hampshire, his previous articles about fraud in the Ohio election in 2004 were incredibly poorly reasoned to the point where his byline discredits the views put forth in any voter fraud article.

Deflating pompous gasbags since 2006.

Qualifications:

1. Looks good in a suit.

Apply in person at...

"If the primary purpose of this flier -- as Obama supporters insist -- was simply to rebut that false claim, why didn't Obama distribute this Christian brochure to Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada?"

Because the Christian part of the Democratic electorate in South Carolina is more reactionary than that part of the electorate in Iowa, New Hampshire, or Nevada. Of those states, only Iowa has a largish Evangelical portion of the electorate and they mostly go Republican in Iowa.

In South Carolina, being even rumored to be anti-Christian (or pro-Muslim, which low-information Evangelicals would see as the same thing) could be fatal.

It's a simple decision if you're on his campaign team to decide the Muslim rumors are a threat to him in the Bible Belt.

And it still hasn't suck to Obama. What seems to be lacking in every story about the "relationship" between the two men is this - What exactly did Barack Obama do wrong? Not what did he do that might possibly in some fevered politico's imagination seem to possibly maybe give the impression of some minor wrong doing but this - What exactly did he do wrong?

Please answer that question instead of saying the relationship raises questions. Go ahead and raise those questions and lets get them aired out. The campaign by the Sun-Times has come up with no concrete questions that Obama has not answered satisfactorily.

that Hillary Clinton feels its fair to make this an issue raises the question - did she feel it was fair when she was investigated for Whitewater/Vince Foster's death/filegate/travelgate or is she just passing on the abuse?

Interesting accusation, but wrong.

Rita Rezko bought the lot for $625,000. She sold 1/6 of the land to Obama for $104,500. That's just shy of 1/6 the cost of the land.

The superdelegates can change at any time. They are not committed to the candidate the way delegates from an election result are. No news organization should use them when counting up the delegates won.

Imagine if Obama were to win the race of elected delegates but lose because of superdelegates. Would that stand? Not a chance.

I mean, clearly they do count, but they can change allegiance at any time. I's not honest to use them as proof of Edwards lack of support.

Edwards doesn't really have a path to the nomination because he'll get crushed on Feb 5th and beyond, but that'll be because of the elected delegate count, not the superdelegate count.

You're wrong about a lot of the Rezko story, but I'll sick to the easiest assertion of yours to refute. You say Obama bought land from Rezko at below-market prices.

In reality, Obama paid $104,000 for 1/6 of he square footage of a lot that cost Rezko's wife $625,000 a few months earlier. I'll save you the math - that's almost exactly 1/6 the price she originally paid.

And this was during the real estate bust, so no, Obama didn't get a deal.

And the answer is that yes, you could have gotten the same deal. The price Obama paid for his house was reasonable for a property with that original list price and the amount of time it was on the market.

Close game, the script was almost played out and the underdogs somehow won. Only the Titans-Rams Superbowl or Montana's last second victory compare.

I thought WES was quitting the forum last year after the Bears beat the Saints in the playoffs.

Huh.

He lost me back when he used a radio ad than not he, but a friend of his several states away sort of heard once in Iowa as the basis for an attack column on Obama.

I've deleted my bookmark to his column. Maybe it'll go back after the convention if he gets it together.

McCain, Clinton and Revenge of the Sith?

Seriously, you guys at Salon are just fucking with us now, right? No one could take this article seriously.

Rough childhood

Better now.

Yeah, I get the MySpace connection, but will you be covering the Cubs if one of the players uses a phone or drives a car under the guise of "tech"?

Have we travelled back in time and brought back a young Binkley?

Or is he just the comic version of Gary Coleman?

"Hey, Camille Paglia generates a lot of mail, she must be good for the site."

Not when all that mail says - "Please. Stop."

Those in power will always define the high standards to favor those people most like them. That might be fine if you had a generation of brilliant thinkers and ethical giants in charge, but governments are much more often made of mediocrities than statesmen.