If you're so desperate for Obama to immolate himself, Ed, and you really want put the millstone of a running mate who frequently sides with Republicans against their own party around Obama's neck, Joe Lieberman might be available.

Apart from a voting record startlingly like Hillary's, Joe also shares her penchant for putting his own ambition above the interests of the Democratic party and his constituents. He's demonstrated the same spiteful urge to punish the Democrats for their "crime" of rejecting him. He talks the same warmongering trash as Hillary when it comes to the Middle East. And he's got experience dribbling out of his withered butt - far more experience than Hillary has!

True, Joe's lips are firmly planted on McCain's ass (having recently been surgically separated from George W. Bush's tuchis). But then, Hillary's a big McCain ass-kisser too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMVOT-IH8sg

"I have a lifetime of experience I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he made in 2002." - Hillary Clinton (supposedly D-NY) ad nauseum, whenever there was a reporter or a camera within 100 feet of her

Don't forget that in the 2000 general election Joe got millions more votes than Hillary did in the primaries! Of course, that "18 million votes" metric is pure bullshit anyway. Does anyone really believe that the vast majority of those Democratic voters won't come over to Obama rather than McCain? The idea is as ridiculous as the notion that winning a state in the primaries means that the candidate will win it in the general election too. But don't let that stop you, Ed! Keep trying to force Hillary down our throats!

Idiot.

I'm a passionate lifelong Democrat - I've never voted for a Republican in my life - and so is pretty much everyone else in my family. We've discussed the election a lot over the past year.

And none of us will vote for a ticket that includes Hillary. We won't vote for McCain - that will never happen - but we won't be supporting another faux-Democrat, either. If we're forced to that unhappy choice we'll write in the name of a real Democrat instead.

I held my nose and voted for Gore-Lieberman in the 2000 election. That was the last time that a DLC candidate will ever get my vote, even for Vice-President. And I think Lieberman's behavior since that election has amply proved that some "lesser evils" simply aren't acceptable to a Democrat of good conscience. Hillary's atrocious voting record and behavior in the primary place her firmly in that "unacceptable" category.

I was going to make the first political donation of my life next week (on payday, I'm poor), to the Obama campaign. Instead I'll be sending it to ActBlue to fight this amnesty bill. And I won't be donating to Obama ever if he doesn't take a hard stand against amnesty - including a filibuster, if necessary.

Why on EARTH was Mike Myers ever allowed to get in front of a camera ever again after his rape-murder-cannibalization of Dr. Seuss in The Cat In The Hat, perhaps the worst movie ever made - and certainly the most grotesque desecration of all time of a precious children's classic?

This terminally unfunny "comedian" should have been exiled for life to a REAL spiritual retreat...preferably somewhere in the remote Himalayas, where he will never trouble popular culture again.

Okay, he did a few mildly funny things now and again. But some crimes are unforgivable. And on the scale of Art (or even the more-forgiving scale of Comedy) Mike Myers has been a massive negative for far too long.

He simply isn't funny.

I called Senator Obama's campaign today; it was the first time in my life that I've ever made a political phone call. And I plan to donate to ActBlue on payday next week.

I've written to my Senators and congressman already, and they're going to be voting against amnesty. But I want to call my Senators as well, to hammer home the point that this issue deserves a filibuster which they had damned well better support. Just wondering, is it better to call them at their DC number, or their in-state number? Is there a difference?

It took several tries, because the line was busy. When I got through the operator quickly dumped me into voicemail. Maybe some flunky will listen to it in a few days, long after amnesty is a fait accompli.

All I can do is redirect any contributions which I would have given to a Democratic candidate to ActBlue instead. I'm simply furious.

Okay, that did it. Obama just lost my vote, although he has obviously decided that he can do without it in any case.

So I'm looking for a new candidate. Any serious suggestions, please? My vote won't make a difference anyway, here in Rhode Island, but I need to make a statement. Right now there's not a single candidate that I can stand. Nader, Barr, Clinton, McCain...none of them. I hope they all f--k off and die, along with every member of the Democratic leadership and party who has supported this atrocity of a bill.

I'm willing to write someone in, but ideally it should be someone who might get another few write-in votes too...enough so that someone, somewhere in the party hierarchy might actually hear that there were a few protest votes for "X". Any suggestions?

Please, no jokes. I've pretty much lost all hope for the future of this country right now, and I'm just not in the mood for levity.