"She. Is. Not. Her. Father."

No, but the only reason Diane Sawyer is interviewing her is because her father is president. She got a book contract because her father is president. She could have, you know, said 'no' when asked to do it.

"So just lay off already; you guys sound like Rush Limbaugh talking about Chelsea Clinton. "

Really? Who called her "the official White House dog"? I missed that post. I actually find the Bush twins quite pretty.

I only logged on to say her answers seem pretty coherent, especially considering they are trancriptions of converation, which can easily be made to sound to stupid. Not to damn her with faint praise, but she comes across as a lot smarter and more humane than her father, and answers this question far more coherently than any of her father's shills have.

I couldn't read past this sentence:

" The Egyptians gave us bread, which traveled via the Greeks and Romans to Europe, and reaches its pinnacle in the phallus-shaped loaf wielded by prancing Frenchmen everywhere."

...if I wanted sophomoric contrarianism, I'd read Slate.

Garry answered my question, but I was wondering if the July he felt the press was nasty about was his rug shopping trip with Lindsey Graham. McCain made himself look like an ass, and the press was rather gentle in not emphasizing the company of soldiers and three helicoptor gunships diverted from doing their jobs (i.e. trying to stop people from killing each other) so that a political campaign could stage a photo op. On my ( and your) dime.

If the McCain campaign had been required to pay for all that man- and firepower, as it should have been, I wonder where his COH numbers would be now.

I don't like it either. The column of the main text is too narrow, and the font sucks too.

Kerr should have been honest about his affiliation, but because of Grover Norquist and, even moreso, the diamonds and pearl question, CNN has no business complaining about his question. They have become a sad self-parody. Not really a coincidence, I think, that this happened after their merger with TimeWarner.

Besides the fact that Rudi doesn't seem to understand what "strategic" means, consider 'our military thinks there's a chance we can...."

Based on that triple attenuation of possibility, Macho Rudi is willing to leave US troops in the middle of a civil war indefinitely. A civil war almost certainly exacerbated by the presence of those troops.

The most disturbing thing about this article is that Hillary Clinton has that sleazy little Liebercrat Lanny Davis on her campaign. The man is the go-to guy whenever Villagers want a "even Democrats say ...." quote to bash Democrats with.

Then again, considering everything the Clintons did to keep Joe Lieberman in the Senate in '06, it's not really surprising.

Triangulation and using David Broder as your guiding star gets great results, doesn't it?

God, I'm sick of hearing that HRC wore a Goldwater button when she was fifteen.

However, I would love it if some entreprising journamalist would ask her, or her husband, if they're glad they worked so hard to keep Joe Lieberman in the US Senate.

http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/connecticut-an-unmitigated-blessing/

Obama supported Lieberman in the primary. He didn't do the last minute, save-his-ass campaigning for him (including robocalls) that Bill Clinton did. And he didn't go on national TV and say it didn't matter who won because "Joe" is a great Democrat. Hell, Hillary is still babbling about what great friends she and Lieberman are. The Clintons' stupid, short-sighted, self-serving (and look how that worked!) support of Lieberman is one of the reasons I'm for Obama.

In his new book, Lincoln Chaffee says one of the reasons he never left the GOP is because he was afraid of payback. Lieberman is a textbook example of why Democrats are so weak. Who's afraid of Harry Reid?

I agree that the Dem candidates should appear on Fox, but in one-on-one situations, not a debate. The al-Foxeerites would have too much control in a debate format, and both of these Dems are too eager to score short-term points off each other. Clinton and Obama oughta go straight for the heart of the beast and go on O'Reilly. Chris Dodd was on, I believe around the time of the MoveOn/Petraeus ad, and handled it perfectly, calm, polite, and ever-so-subtly dismissive. O'Reilly started screaming and made a fool of himself.

And if possible, they should control the format of the show as much as possible. Don't let Bill-O cut to a fair and balanced panel of Lanny Davis, Ann Coulter and Dick Morris to discuss what Clinton or Obama said.

**I don't know why people think Obama can win in November.**

Because besides the states that are more or less a given for whichever Dem wins the primary race (California, New York and New Jersey), Obama has been drawing out record numbers of new voters in swing states like Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Connecticut and Missouri?

**and he's losing in states that Democrats will need like Florida.**

Did somebody tell you McCain wouldn't be campaigning in Florida?

As an Edwards supporter who's now for Obama, he's half right. There are a lot of Obama supporters who are cultish and more than a little creepy, but there are also a lot of Clinton supporters with the same blinkered view about HRC. Sam Seder asks people to call in to make the case for their candidate, and at least half the Clinton supporters can't get through a complete sentence without descending into spluttering, incoherent rage about Obama.

My new hope is that Al Gore stays on the sidelines to lead us all in a big chorus of kumbaya when one or the other wins, to nicely tell the cultists on whichever side loses to get over it. And themselves.

like a confident candidate. "I have nothing to hide, I just don't want to tell you until that nothing can't impact your decision".