Just like it was between Bill and Hillary Clinton. And Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson (for some reason, everyone mentions JFK, but far fewer LBJ). I don't have a stake in someone else's marriage, thank you very much.

And "men" don't cheat. People cheat. There were women involved in all these affairs. Are they somehow free agents while the men are not?

We have the US Attorneys scandal. We have the DOJ hiring scandal. We have the complete abandonment of any pretense of doing anything except counterterrorism, attacking medical marijuana and some sex scandals (hi, Governor Spitzer!). And now we have an FBI thinking some profiler's conclusions are evidence when any idiot could poke holes in their "lone gunman" theory.

And this was counterterrorism, yet working with white Christians in suburban D.C., not Arabs in caves in Afghanistan or in sleeper cells in Dearborn.

One of Nixon's biggest applause lines, as stupid as it sounds, in his 1968 acceptance speech was a promise to appoint a new attorney general. I think Obama should steal it.

In every track event I've seen, the winner has gone off with a flag and done a victory lap. The only difference is that Bolt could start his before the finish line because no one was close to him. In a 100 meters race. Which so boggles the mind that he ought to be able to do any damn thing he pleases when he's finished, because the real message he sent to his opponents was the distance between himself and them when he crossed the finish line.

You don't enter this race without an ego.

The best line in the linked New York Times story is the last one, after he's been completed flustered by not knowing that condoms help prevent the spread of STD's:

"This went on for a few more moments until a reporter from the Chicago Tribune broke in and asked Mr. McCain about the weight of a pig that he saw at the Iowa State Fair last year."

Gotta love the Chicago Tribune. I'm sure they enjoy the McCain barbecues.

Consider the choices Senator Clinton herself could have made that would have locked up the nomination for her:

She could have voted against the Iraq War, or she could just have been more apologetic for having voted for it.

She could have hired smarter political operatives, instead of the most expensive but least competent ones she could find.

She could have treated the people in caucus states, and in smaller states, with some respect by campaigning and building an organization there.

She could have said, "Bomb Iran? Are you out of your mind?"

She could have told Bill to keep his lip zipped in South Carolina.

I believe if she'd done any two of these things--none of which have a damn thing to do with misogyny--she would be the one travelling slowly across the Midwest to Denver, while Barack Obama would have made a nice speech in her favor tonight.

for all those believe that only gradualism can work.

I'm talking to you, Mr. Obama.

There are real lives that are really changed. Being married to her partner, at law, mattered to Del Martin the same way it matters to you and Michelle.

Frank Murkowski was so hated by the end of his term as governor that he finished third in the Republican primary. He would have lost to "none of the above" or a fighting kangaroo. So Palin's beating him (in an election that probably had about 100,000 voters voting) doesn't mean squat.

We all laugh whenever an unsuccessful CEO or or a scandal-ridden politician quits to "spend more time with my family."

Here you have someone who has every reason, I would think, to spend more time with her family, and instead she's taking on a rigorous campaign that will presumably keep her away from home every day from now until November.

Seriously, does running the civic government of Wassila, Alaska convey anything about running the government of the United States? Does running the State of Alaska, with a population about the size of Memphis, equate to running the United States?

Barack Obama has thought about and considered the main issues confronting the country, and has been through a grueling primary campaign that tested his judgment and values. Sarah Palin has recently learned that the vice president breaks ties in the Senate.

Who ya gonna choose?

Obama has no relevant experience? What relevant experience are you talking about? He's a Senator, he deals with issues of national public policy all the time. Oddly, that is the only relevant experience Clinton has or McCain has. Stop sounding like a Perot voter.

To have one message for Scranton and another for San Francisco.

I wonder if Sarah Palin could find Scranton on a map. Shall we give her five minutes to look?

He showed a clip from 2006 of Lieberman referring to himself as Obama's friend and mentor.

Hey, buddy, didn't you notice it was your lovely Republicans who have been trashing the Constitution for the past eight years? They'll be quartering soldiers in your house next.

She isn't ready to be on Meet the Press but on January 20 she'd suddenly be ready to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency? Give me a break.

Why would Palin want to go on Oprah, when Oprah has campaigned with Obama and is significantly more knowledgeable about the issues in this campaign than Palin is?

The mean center of population in the United States is located in Edgar Springs, Missouri. Exactly none of the four debates will occur west of this point. Nice job, Democrats and Republicans.