I am angry that Bush will get away with what he has done to the Constitution. I would think that rape is a crime, after all. I am angry that Bush and company will get away with lying us into a war. Four thousand dead soldiers adds up to mass murder under any definition of the crime. I am angry that the Bush administration made us look like a bunch of werewolves. Didn't the Nuremberg trials convict (and hang) people for waging aggressive war?

I agree with one of the other posters here that we have fallen. We have done what Moynihan counselled against -- defining deviance down. We have ceased to be horrified and that is a dangerous, dangerous position.

Migod, that is so pathetic. I was embarrassed for her. Then I remembered reading that she and John McCain had a boozefest together on a European trip. They "bonded" over a bottle. This is supposed to be the leader of the free world? These guys want to prove that they can run an army and a government by getting blotto? I don't think so.

I admired Hillary Clinton. She was doing a pretty good job for New York and I voted for her twice. Now I don't think I could vote for her again unless the Repubicans ran Ms. Coulter for the Senate.

I think Obama told the truth and when people get over being sore about it, they will rally to him because they will understand that someone knows what's going on and will do somthing about it.

I was nauseated by Bush's comments this morning when he greeted the Pope on the White House grounds. He alluded to a prosperity most of us are not experiencing in a country that has betrayed its promise and its citizens in the process. Fortunately, the Pope is intelligent and probably knows a heck of a lot better -- that a lot of his constituents, patriotic and Catholic, are suffering under this misadministration. I expect that he will deal with it in his own way.

Most people I know (not living in small town America but in the suburbs and exurbs of New York) are hurting and they are bitter.

Her campaign for President, its nastiness, ugliness, submerged and outsourced racism, is the reason why I will only vote for her re-election for Senator if an ear-pulling moron is running against her. I was pleased by her performance as my Senator but she has turned into a monster in my eyes. She cares only for herself and not the country. She would doom us to four more years of Republican misadministration just to get what she wants. Pfui.

Not this voter. Never again. Jamais plus.

There was a superb documentary about advanced cancer on PBS at the same time and I decided to join it. I'm glad I did. There is something more compelling about reality than about a pseudo-debate where Sean Hannity and Britney Spears were feeding the questions.

I think the difference is whether your anger is given justice to and responded to in a meaningful way. If I am angry and express that anger in a situation of hope and if the person I'm talking to gives me a coherent answer, even if the answer is no, I am not likely to become bitter. If, on the other hand, there is no comprehension on the part of the other person of why I am angry, if the person blows me off, if the person misinterprets my anger and comes back with an ad hominem, damn right I'm going to be bitter.

The people Obama says are bitter are probably those who have never been responded to in any way that doesn't mystify them, confuse them, depreciate their experience and make them feel smaller and less consequential. That would make be bitter. As to whether they cling to what is known, maybe.

I am a religious historian. In the time of the Roman occupation of the areas aroung Jerusalem, the Jews were oprressed and turned to the rule aspect of Judaism. They obeyed the rules but without heart. They thought God had turned against them and they clung to what they knew. The whole point of Jesus's ministry was, IMHO, to remind them that God had not turned their back on them, to move away and return to practicing Judaism out of love, not fear and bitterness. So Obama's statements do resonate with both Jewish and Christian history.

People cling to clan alliances because at least they trust them. They cling to the means of protecting themselves (guns) and they are afraid of newcomers who both compete and insert other ways of viewing issues.

However awkwardly it was put, Obama's statement was more faithful to reality than Hillary Clinton knocking back a boiler maker (or whatever it was she was drinking) to show her solidarity.

I would not believe a Bush statement on the weather unless I actually saw the tornado.

Hagee speaks and McCain is his dummy. Hagee wants to be a player in the Middle East so he can pave the way to Jesus's return. He wants to wipe out the Arabs and hope that the Jews will return to Israel. At that point, the risen Jesus can slaughter all the Jews who have not apostasized their faith and converted to evangelical right wing Protestant Christianity.

McCain is sucking up to the Christian right. This is not the Israel lobby speaking. Indeed, many of us, American Jews, are on the side of a two-state solution living side by side in peace. Those of us who don't want to move to Israel so that Jesus can cut our throats prefer to establish good lives in American and wherever else we have settled.

When McCain decides to grow balls and kick Hagee out of bed, maybe he will be qualified to speak about the Middle East. Right now, he ought to just shut the heck up.