I am as disappointed in Obama's FISA decision as anyone, but don't delude yourself into thinking that Hillary wouldn't make the EXACT same decision if she were the nominee. I have no idea how she will vote now, but her votes for the war authorization and Kyl-Leiberman clearly point to candidate Clinton voting exactly as Obama has said he will.

Obama is wrong on FISA. I am disappointed in him. I have written his campaign expressing my disgust in no uncertain terms. I urge others to do the same and let him know that your vote and your dollars are contingent on him being the candidate we expect him to be.

The FISA "compromise" is a political bind for him and one that he should never have had to face. I am equally disgusted with Pelosi. Republicans LIE. If Obama fights the bill like he should, there will be ads running about how he led the drive in the Senate to strip away the law enforcement tools that have kept us safe for 7 years. Can Americans be trusted to get the facts and not just accept such a lie at face value? I still think that he should fight the bill because the issue is just too important, but I can certainly see how the choice is a difficult one for him.

Some Hillaty backers are just using FISA as another excuse to not back Obama. That is wrong. Obama is wrong on this one, no doubt. However, two wrong do not a right make.

Does anyone else find the advertisements for Puma smeakers to the right somewhat hilarious?

Is this, (aside from the joke of Bush v Gore), the absolute worst Supreme Court decision since Plessy v Ferguson? It certainly joins Plessy and Dred Scott on a short, shameful list.

PUMAs, this election matters. I am sorry you are disappointed or angry that your candidate lost, but stop and think about what the Supreme Court has just done and you will see why your bitter feelings are meaning less and less every day. The Supreme Court of the United States of America just ruled that half of the Second Amendment is totally irrelevant to interpreting it. They just rewrote a key part of the Bill of Rights.

There is too much at stake in this election to hold a grudge. If Obama loses, we ALL lose. In 2012, you and I will have to make a decision based on Obama's performance in office. If the FISA fiasco and other recent disappointments are the start of a trend, I will be right out there fighting for Obama's primary challenger in 2012. Or maybe he will surprise you. We can't know.

What we can know is that McCain beatng Obama would likely give us a Court that will rape the Constitution for years to come. I question whether the American experiment can survive a Supreme Court that skews any further right. Yesterday, the Supreme Court rewrote the Second Amendment. Next they may rewrite the First, or the Fourth, or the Fifth. We cannot allow that to happen.

So the article goes on for two pages then concludes that what they are advocating is the most likely outcome anyway. Did summer vacations create the need for such mindless filler?

The reason not to make abortion reduction a part of the Democratic platform could not be more simple. It is a double edged sword. For every "values voter" who are pleased by the inclusion of the idea of abortion reduction, how many are going to be turned off by issues such as contraception that are a vital part of any strategy to reduce abortions? The potential is there to do more harm than good, even among the "values voters", with a platform built on abortion reduction.

I do not, however, think that Obama should run from the issue. He should be just as willing to criticize avoidable abortions as he was to criticize absent fathers. Perhaps at the political edges, there is some odd belief that abortion rights are more solid now than 30 years ago, but I don't think that these people are being honest about the situation. While I don't have hard numbers, I would guess that a majority of the pro-choice community falls much closer to the middle. Just because one supports a woman's right to choose does not automatically mean that you personally approve of the choice in many of the situations.

With sexual freedom comes sexual responsibility. The argument from the far left that we see here is one that longs to reject any notion of responsibility for one's choices and that is not an idea that will fly in the fly-over states that Obama wants to win in November.

While making abortion reduction a part of the platform this year would be a bad idea, making abortion reduction central to and inseparable from the pro-choice movement would do wonders to heal the red-blue divide.