"Is it necessary for us to sit in judgement of other people's private decisions?"

Ms Beech came to the decision to publicize her private decision by selling an account of it to Tina Brown. She was not thrust unwillingly into the spotlight of our culture's fascination with other people's morals and sexual negotiations, she pulled back the curtain herself, proclaiming "Ta-da! Look what I did!".

Frankly, her piece seemed more like a infomercial for the social networking website for cads and courtesans, the link for which she placed strategically toward the end of page 1. Wanna hook-up in a high-end FWB arrangement, guys and gals? Just go to this website...

nor did it become a soviet commune..

"If government can magically create wealth out of thin air, stimulate the economy, and 'create' jobs with financial injections, why is there ANY unemployment?"

One could ask the same of the market, which magically created wealth with arcane instruments like credit default swaps.

When I read and listen to the acolytes of the market diminish the significance of the New Deal I find that they generally ignore the political dimensions of the 30's. While other nations descended into fascism or flirted with Stalinist Russia's communism as a response to the profound socio-economic crisis, the US remained a democratic republic. This was the genius of the New Deal, it confounded ideologues on the right and the left, who weren't shy in flirting with fascism and communism in their contemporary critiques of Roosevelt. The right-wing lap-dogs of today never mention the tectonic geopolitical plates shifting in the thirties, they defer to minutiae and arcana to "prove" in retrospect that the New Deal failed.

The proof of the pudding was, IMO, in 1942, when the US was able to crank up its industrial capacity to supercede both the Axis and Soviet Russia and position itself for the post-war boom.

"barack hussein obama is a type of manchurian candidate except his handlers are not russian or chinese, but muslim."

I don't see much point in pushing FDR/Obama parallels, but it is interesting to note that the right demonized FDR too. Harold Gray, the cartoonist who penned Lil Orphan Annie, hated FDR so much that when FDR was voted in for a fourth term he had Daddy Warbucks take to his deathbed with a mysterious illness which was serandipitously cured when FDR died, Warbucks jumped out of bed, threw back the curtains and declared "it's a new day!" (Shdes of Ronald Reagan!) Harold must have spun in his grave like a top when "Annie" the musical had Warbucks and Annie do a buck and wing for FDR, but Warbucks as a protofascist wouldn't have played as well in the 1970's...

"his voting record in the senate was the most liberal of all 100 senators."

Being the most "liberal" (in the degraded parlance of American politics) in the conservative US Senate places Obama as a centrist, which explains most of his moves post-election, the ones that are for some reason astounding the left who thought he was a scrim for their millenarian fantasies.

"we can expect that economically 2009 to 2013 will be very similar to 1932 to 1936. he is beyond scary, he owes his allegiance to satan."

I hereby anoint thee Rocky Hussein Balboa, in honor of your bete noir...