"Barack is about fourteen years old!

He can be VP under Hillary for four or eight years, and still be only about sixteen when that ends."

Do you think Obama is a comic-strip character? Did you also think that Bill Clinton was about 14 years old when he was elected? Or maybe 13 - wasn't he younger then than Obama is now?

"He would be a fool not to take the VP under Hillary, if Hillary gets the nomination."

Speaking of Bill: with him around, what do you think Hillary's VP would be allowed to do? God forbid the VP do anything that might threaten the massive egos living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. On the other hand, I guess they'd find a way to make the VP retroactively responsible for anything that went wrong.

I don't think it'll come to that, but if it does, instead of

"the end of the Dem Party as we know it"

I'd prefer to think of what's left after the DLC goes as "the beginning of the Democratic Party as we need it" - something other than Republican Lite.

Magliozzi didn't get on "Dancing With The Stars" or we could expect to hear "Kristi Yamaguchi's tutu!" a lot.

On second thought, it's just as well.

1) Osama Bin Laden, who not only got the infidels out of the holy land* but will also get several generations of recruits thanks to Abu Ghraib and other spinoffs of the occupation; and

2) Iran - in particular Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who unlike Cheney or Bush can announce in advance when and where he'll be visiting and warmly greeted in Iraq.

*Of course, we shouldn't have had bases in Saudi Arabia to begin with. In this particular case, just because bin Laden wanted us out doesn't mean it was wrong to leave.

Quoting from the quote from the person that emailed you:

"According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is:

The anti-christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent..."

I bet this person also claims to have "studied" the Bible.

Isn't Revelations supposed to be from sometime in the first few centuries A.D. - in other words, 500 years or so before the establishment of Islam?

MY excuse for being unsure of the dates is that I was raised Catholic, which at least had the virtue of rendering me ignorant of the Book of Revelations. Or maybe I was even more inattentive than usual when it was discussed.

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As to the thread's topic: I hate to be superficial, especially since I don't look very bright myself, but could anyone possibly look more stupid than Chris Wallace?

(Okay, I can think of one guy: Stephen(?) Baldwin - the one who played Barney Rubble in the Flintstones movie that Halle Berry wasn't in.)

Don't let the screen door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

According to HUffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/19/huckabee-defends-rev-jer_n_92346.html), citing a Politico post (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Huck_defends_Wright.html), which referred to a Daily Kos post (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/19/72716/0494/229/479797):

An assist from an unexpected quarter:

"[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do," Huckabee says. "It's interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what ... Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you'd say 'Well, I didn't mean to say it quite like that.'"

Later, he defended Wright's anger, too:

"As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say 'That's a terrible statement!' ... I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names..."

"Obama is a member of a racist, america hating church. (if you can really call it a church)... Allen B. nevada"

Although I haven't ranted about it (as far as I remember, anyway) I've often thought that Clinton's campaign and SOME of her supporters here seem to be using Bush-like tactics and arguments.

But I don't think they actually believe the right-wingnut garbage spouted by Fox, Limbaugh, etc. - so I seriously doubt that "Allen B. nevada" was ever a Clinton supporter or even a Democrat.

I bet "Steve" agrees with me.

"Bill Richardson is a traitor to Bill Clinton who gave him some great appointment's when he was president."

Yep, it was BILL Clinton who appointed Richardson. Perhaps if BILL Clinton was running again, Richardson would endorse him - or at least then your "traitor" accusation would make some sense.

But BILL Clinton isn't running...so is Richardson supposed to let BILL Clinton determine Richardson's endorsements from now on - or just those involving Hillary Clinton?

Too late.