Theresa Heinz Kerry DID use the term "un-American," to describe Dick Cheney and the Bush Admin's actions in general. And, of course, she was right, but when asked what she meant (by a right wing media personality), instead of using the opportunity to say EXACTLY why a secretive, war-mongering, conflict-of-interest ridden, incompetent, arrogant, election-stealing, deceitful administration IS un-American, she flipped out and blamed the reporter for asking the question.

Of the opportunities lost in the Kerry campaign, this was for me always a big one.

"A Whole New World"

"Whistle While You Work"

"Someday My Prince Will Come"

"Pink Elephants on Parade"

"Bednobs and Broomsticks"

"You've Got a Friend in Me"

and so on... and so on...

I had the same idea about Obama asking people how many homes they have, except that it would make a KILLER commercial. Imagine this broadcast across the country:

Offscreen interviewer: "How many homes do you own?"

Man (or woman) on the street: "Um, one."

(REPEAT WITH MULTIPLE PERSONS)

Interviewer: "Are you sure you don't have to check with your staff on that?"

MOTS: "Um, no."/"I don't have a staff."/ etc.

I: "You mean, you DON'T have a staff on hand to remember how many homes you own for you? John McCain does."

VO: "John McCain can't remember how many homes he owns. Thinks if you make $4 million you're middle class. Wears $500 shoes.

Ask yourself: Does the man have any idea what my life is like?"

For U.S. Americans. And the Iraq.

Imagine the turnout at a Pizza vs. Beer runoff.

...was exactly what everyone who voted against the McCain/Palin ticket was thinking. Including many, many conservatives.

Of course, we all know by know that there isn't an ironic bone in a right-winger's body.

Now, was that so hard?

If I have rights, then you're damn right they should be extended to me them when I demand them. And when I don't. That's how rights operate.

Also, it's a funny slope from opposition to "abortion" to "abortion on demand" to "abortion rights on demand." So, the pro-life's main problem is not with abortion or abortion rights, but people being rude and pushy when they *demand* them?

All I can say to that is, "Heckuva job, Ty'Sheoma!"

...means what he thinks it means.

I can't wait for the self-appointed guardians of the status quo to go into a frenzy over a primary challenge just as they did when Ned Lamont beat Joe Lieberman. "Democrats enforce ideological purity!" they cried. "They can't survive if they can't tolerate someone who's 100% in lock step with those radical blogs and the extremists in the party!"

Oh wait! Sorry. These guys are Republicans. Therefore, no MSM pundit will ever have reason to suggest that anything they do is undemocratic, extremist, radical, or exactly what they spent years accusing the Democrats of doing.

How about advising Republicans to get their heads out of their asses and be part of the solution, not the problem for once?

... is admitting you have a problem. By this account, Democrats should reap the benefits of Republicans' scientiaphobia for many election cycles to come.

It seems to me that a number of good things could be accomplished if the banks, now nominally owned by us through gov't bailouts, shifted the focus of their relationship with credit card holders from "money off the interest" to debt reduction.

One of the major precipitators of the current crisis is simply that everybody, consumers and banks alike, have too much debt. Banks took TARP money that was supposed to be used for lending and recapitalized with it instead, which is probably wise in the short run but screws everyone else. Meanwhile they raise interest rates on everyone, good borrowers and bad, putting consumers further and further in the hole, making defaults, already severely on the rise, all the more likely.

What if, instead of raising rates and fixing nothing, credit card issuers cut rates to incentivize payback? Double the minimum payment, cut your rate in half. For many of them, the banks would still be making an obscene -- er, healthy 8-15% AND recapitalizing at a greater rate. Thinking bigger, what about an interest holiday for a year, like some offer when you get the card? You pay it off in a year, you're done; if not, you pay the full interest that would have accrued.

Clearly, none of this is ever going to be passed in the Senate, but why is this not in the bank's best interest? Obama even said as much on the Tonight Show. Wouldn't a more politically astute Treasury Dept be pursing this already?

... what an unquestionably qualified and intelligent Hispanic (or other minority) woman would look like, where Republicans would just say (as Dems did on Alito), I'm not going to agree with her decisions, but I can't dispute her qualifications.

It's incredible that, after years of demonizing Affirmative Action while asserting that minorities should advance in society on merit like everyone else (as if this were actually the case), that when an incredibly talented black man (Obama) or Hispanic woman (Sotomayor), with extraordinary records of achievement, actually achieve the goals conservatives set for them, they are STILL dismissed as "affirmative action candidates."

Obama and Sotomayer should be conservatives' "rugged individualism, pull yourself up by your bootstraps" wet dreams. I guess they still failed in the only way that matters: they didn't manage to become conservatives in the process.

The promotion may (or may not) be novel, but the idea is hardly new. For example, Larrivo has been designing stylish and sexy lingerie for over a decade, and has a fairly sizable celebrity following.

Not sure what makes this newsworthy, or particularly interesting to women, except maybe the ad. But it's not the sudden appearance of sexy undergarments for pregnant and nursing moms.