I take it as a good sign the Ron Pau’s answer actually got one the biggest applause of the night. The people/voters in the room (as apposed to the candidates) seem to understand the Constitution and still support it.

That gives me hope that the public, even large segments of the Republican Party, may have realized the damage Bush, the neocons and there allies/accomplices in Congress (Republican and Democratic) have done to the basic fabric of our Constitution.

That has been Bush’s and his Neocons allies approach from the start. The absolute last thing this administration wants is to make American’s realize is the true cost of his foreign policies.

So Bush pays for war by going ever deeper into debt rather than increasing taxes.

Bush uses an all-volunteer military and paid contactors to actually fight the war rather than institute a draft that would affect the country as a whole.

Bush maintains a bloated and inefficient military procurement system that can’t get our troops the necessary body armor or up-armored vehicles it needs to save lives even four years into the war rather than directing manufacturing capabilities to the war (think about how many tanks we built during the thee and half years of WWII or for that matter aircraft carriers and now we can’t even build a thousand armored vehicles in two years, talk the loss of America’s manufacturing muscle).

Bush encourages Americans to go out and shop more, put more on their credit cards rather than instituting rationing and sacrifice to support our forces in the field.

I have said for a long time now Bush talks like this is World War II and that the stakes are just as high if not higher but he fights like this is Grenada. If Iraq and the War on Terror are truly the menaces Bush claims they are then he should put America on a true war footing as we did in WWI and WWII.

But he will never do that. Because the threat is not nor has it ever been that big.

Is that the Democrats still think they need to ‘appeal’ to these people. These are the people Hilary is trying to ‘win over’ by being more hawkish. These are the people the Congress are afraid will label them as ‘soft on terror’ when they reauthorize and expand wire tapping authority.

The Democrats can’t seem to understand that they will NEVER win these people over. They will NEVER get their vote. All they do by ‘reaching out’ to these people is tick off their base and make it easier for Bush and the Neocons to push through their radical agenda. Those radical policies now seem so much more reasonable and mainstream to the majority of voters in the middle because there is no major national figure articulating a progressive agenda.

Democrats just need to write off that 30% of the population the republicans have written off progressive voters.

I’m guessing this kind of thing happens far far faaarrr more often to woman between the ages of 18-35 who are relatively attractive (and with C-cups or bigger). Bored rent-a-cops taking advantage of their power to feel up and ogle pretty girls.

And the government says they don’t profile. Yeah right.

I’m one the people who can actually claim to have watched the Daily Show from its beginning. I remember the shows original opening which ended with:

“Featuring; The Daily Show News Van, The Daily Show News Chopper and the TDS 8400 Laser Copier”

I was hooked from that point forward. What a perfect slam on so many local news openings that stress all their little toys they over their actual reporting.

And yes Stewart is god. But there was a lot of fun in those early Kilborn years

I look forward seeing again the very first ‘5 questions’ with Bill Murray (the first quest to get all five questions correct). Those early feature stories from A Whitney Brown (someday hoping to become The Whitney Brown) were fun and even informative.

There was a little more wildness back then. A little more, ‘we can get away with anything because nobody knows what we’re doing attitude’. And they were a little more experimental, taking some chances that I don’t think they’d take today.

Were labeled as ‘Al-Qaeda’ operatives when the attacked was reported by Military and the stenographers of the MSN reported it to the American people. We’ve seen it before, when the bombs drop every dead body on the ground is labeled as the enemy and reported as such. When later investigation reveals that only 2 of those guys were ‘insurgents’ or whatever we’re calling them these days and the rest were innocent civilians its days or weeks later and the MSN has moved on.

But the Iraqi people have not.

They remember and they will keep remembering.

And twenty years from now their children will ride the next wave of terrorism into the Europe and United States and we'll all wonder why they are doing it.

The wheel keeps on spinning.

I’m serious has this EVER happened outside of an episode of 24?

Is there any historical precedence for the US capturing ‘the one guy’ on the eve of attack that has the crucial information to stop it from happening? Even in war time?

Has Bush or Cheney or anybody else ever cited one incidence where of anything remotely like this idiotic scenario playing out in the REAL WORLD?

Is the entire debate about torture (or ‘enhanced’ interrogation techniques) honestly being driven by what people see in the movies?

This is just sad.