Experience also takes into account what Barack Obama hasn't done. And...

• Barack Obama has NOT run an oil company into the ground
• Barack Obama has NOT mismanaged a baseball team
• Barack Obama has NOT mismanaged a huge American state
• Barack Obama has NOT been an alcoholic
• Barack Obama has NOT stolen an election
• Barack Obama has NOT mispronounced the word "nuclear"
• Barack Obama has NOT been handed entry -- and later, a degree-- to an Ivy League school without the necessary intellect
• Barack Obama has NOT been born into wealth, and made more wealthy due to nothing he himself accomplished
• Barack Obama has NOT turned into a born-again wingnut
• Barack Obama has NOT put his fate in the hands of decrepit old vampires like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
• Barack Obama has NOT allied himself with someone like Karl Rove
• Barack Obama has NOT claimed to have messages from God
• Barack Obama has NOT taken America to war on false pretenses
• Barack Obama has NOT tried to get Osama Bin Laden and failed miserably
• Barack Obama has NOT lied to members of Congress and his own cabinet about nonexistent WMDs and a nonexistent Iraq/Al-Qaeda connection
• Barack Obama didn't sit there with a stupid idiot look on his face, reading "My Pet Goat" while our country was being attacked
• Barack Obama has NOT landed on an aircraft carrier, wearing a flight suit, and declaring "Mission Accomplished" years before the mission was even close to being done
• Barack Obama has NOT said "Heckuva good job, Brownie"
• Barack Obama has NOT tried to take away a woman's right to choose
• Barack Obama has NOT given tax cuts to the rich, and made sure that the poor got poorer
• Barack Obama has NOT suggested that Christianity should be a national religion
• Barack Obama has NOT supported war in Iraq, and never did
• Barack Obama has NOT sold his soul to the devil - at least we don't think so, yet...

Just in case anyone hasn't realized, the Washington Post is, for the most part, towing the conservative line.

They have been unabashedly supportive of the war, and unusually reticent about criticizing the administration...so much so that my husband and I have said, numerous times, that we need to finally cancel our subscription to our hometown newspaper (and I use the term "news" loosely).

Between Robin Givhan's breathless prose about Condoleezza Rice and Nancy Pelosi's wardrobe, to the infuriatingly right-wing editorials, to the utter lack of investigative capabilities, the Washington Post is washed up...

So much for the "liberal media."

If anyone actual finds any "liberal" media besides National Public Radio, Salon, Alternet, and Keith Olbermann, wouldya let me know?

Generally, I'm in agreement that this woman is not the person this man should make his life with, but Cary, I'm confused.

If this woman has only recently married the guy, why would you possibly think that she would end up paying child support to him?

She's not the mother of the children. She has no financial or legal responsibility for them.

Gee, imagine putting the urgent needs of our country ahead of your own personal ambitions...

Refreshing, and encouraging.

Does anyone doubt that Cheney, like Bush, Rumsfeld, Condoleezza and their ilk are all suffering from the same pathology: "Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)."

...NPD is a pattern of self-centered or egotistical behavior that shows up in thinking and behavior...People with NPD won't (or can't) change their behavior even when it causes problems at work or when other people complain about the way they act, or when their behavior causes a lot of emotional distress to others...This pattern of self-centered or egotistical behavior is not caused by current drug or alcohol use, head injury, acute psychotic episodes, or any other illness, but has been going on steadily at least since adolescence or early adulthood.

Some of the characteristics...

1. An exaggerated sense of self-importance

2. Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

3. Believes he is "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)

4. Requires excessive admiration

5. Has a sense of entitlement

6. Selfishly takes advantage of others to achieve his own ends

7. Lacks empathy

8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him

9. Shows arrogant, haughty, patronizing, or contemptuous behaviors or attitudes

We don't need a non-binding resolution. We need to get every single one of these pathologically destructive maniacs out of government, hands off the button, and out of situations where they can harm us, our fellow citizens, and others in the world...

BTW, by the above definition, it's pretty clear to see that John McCain, Rudolph Giuiliani and Hillary Clinton are all NPD in the extreme...

(For more on NPD, see: http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/dsm-iv.html#npd )