You leave yourselves open to charges of insensitivity when you create snarky artwork like the photoshop of a McCain wearing a dunce cap and scratching his head.

McCain can't scratch his head--he can't even button his collar or comb his hair without an assistive device (or an assistant). That's because the torture left him unable to raise his arms past his shoulders.

Frankly, I've met a lot of people who spend a lot of time on their computers, and they're frigging idiots, some of them. Being facile with Google does not a genius make. You can manage just fine without it, particularly if you have a good staff who does know how to use that search engine--AND the Library of Congress, AND Lexis-Nexus.

This should have been the "Election of the New Century." Instead, we get to choose between an inexperienced, sleazy crook and an old, corporate martinet. I'm not happy about either one of them, but ageist and snarky "If you can't use Google, you ain't $h!t!" articles are pretty doggone intolerant, if you ask me, and more so, coming from a web magazine with an ostensibly liberal bent.

I want a President who has the brainpower to listen to input and come to a solid decision based on that input. I want a President who will choose good staff to carry out his (and it will be his, it would seem) directives. Google ain't gonna help anyone with that. And SALON certainly doesn't help the level of discourse with "Naaa naaa--McCain's OLD!!! He's not good at using a COMPUTER!!! Because, like...you know...he's OLD, Dude! Did I mention...he's OLD? Tee, hee!"

Those sorts of snarky insults reflect poorly on you. You come off like snobbish jerks when you do that kind of stuff, the very opposite of "liberal."

Giving McCain's "celeb" ad such a low mark proves it. That ad, like it or not, was sheer genius.

How many times did the cable pundits play that ad, every hour on the hour, while they discussed it, at no cost to the candidate?

How many times did they mention it without showing it, driving the curious to YOUTUBE or the McCain campaign site, to have a peek at the thing?

McCain started to get his NAME mentioned with that ad. Prior to it, the news cycle was All Barack, All The Time.

If you're going to do an analysis, you really should "do an analysis." Like that ad or not, it got people talking--it even got Paris Hilton into the Presidential act...which got MORE people talking, and more people looking for the "source" ad.

Wishful thinking and skewed opinions don't make for a good article. I have to say Alex Koppelman's rose colored viewpoint produced a poor product that didn't accurately reflect reality.

The spectacle of Joe Biden copying Neil Kinnock, word for word, IS on video tape. I remember seeing it on TV years ago, before most of the Young Obama Acolytes were even born, and being a bit .... appalled. Disappointed, certainly. Ashamed FOR Biden.

That, of course, was back in the day, when people rather quaintly didn't think that sort of cheating/"copying the work of others" thing was "OK."

Obama did it, too. Word for word, he copied Deval Patrick, and then claimed it was "OK" because Deval didn't mind.

That's not the point, though. The point is, if you copy people, you aren't transmitting YOUR ideas. It's "Just Words," if ya know what I mean. The GOP or a 527 could, and probably will, have a field day with that video footage.

Stealing someone else's speeches? That's BAD.

Not properly crediting those "Just Words" and whining that you were misunderstood when caught plagiarizing by the Fourth Estate?

That's, well, Just Sleazy.

So, what have we learned?

Joe Biden is to Neil Kinnock as Barack Obama is to Deval Patrick.

Copycats. Cheaters. Liars. If that's "change," sorry, I can't believe in it. I "hope" you understand.

No, that WASN'T really the only stumble.

If you intend to REPORT, Mike, do REPORT. Don't propagandize. We have televisions and that thing called YOUTUBE, we actually can see for ourselves what happened. And when what we see doesn't match your words, it makes you look, well, foolish.

Take off the rose-colored glasses and give your readers a full picture, an honest picture.

Include the key bit you glossed over.

After that not-the-only-stumble, Biden got up and called Barack Obama "Barack Americ..." -- it sounded like he wanted to say America, but ran out of gas.

It was an "Ewwwwww" moment to anyone viewing the event.

The party is NOT coming together.

Defections to McCain continue, and DNC stooges like Elaine Kamarck aren't helping matters by calling dissatisfied, lifelong Democrats who have been generous donors over the years "Republican stooges."

I want all my money back, it's got to be many thousands over three-plus decades. I want every donation back, all those hours of volunteering and fundraising and doorbell ringing and phone banking, and I'd frankly like to take a few VOTES back, too, if I could.

I've never EVER voted for a Republican, I am not a Republican stooge, and I don't think Barack Obama is ready to be President, even propped up by Joe (I Love To Hear Myself Talk) Biden.

The Democratic Party isn't "healing" anything--they're creating a permanent fissure. The hubris and stupidity are quite astounding. If this keeps up my party will soon be my former party.

Further, my party is going to have to try to Win Without Me...and a whole slew of others, just like me. I'll remember, come November, just how I've been treated. And others will as well.