Let us see you write a column that is headed "So Long Black Boy" or "So Long Mexican Boy" in regard to any subject.

"So Long Muslim Boy" will get your throat slit. You know you are in safe territory beating-up on Caucasians. Very Brave.

For the Democrats to make a one-eighty on the FISA Court wiretapping by-passes arouses suspicion. I have always thought the attacks on President Bush on the issue were phoney. Bill has finally seen that Hillary, the probable next President, will need such authority to protect America from terrorist attacks. Her Attormey General Gorelick will need to be amnestied too.

There will be no more cries of spying on the American people from the Demos. What is now decried as "evil" when done by Bush will be praised as statesmanship and a valid means of protecting the American people, when done by Hillary.

Hillary's lap dogs in the media will be strangely silent.

Justice would be served if the first casualties from a terrorist attack within the US were the complainers who hold the paranoid belief that George Bush is spying on them. The only reason I oppose the surveilance powers being given to the Office of the President is that in case Hillary wins, then Americans will really have cause for concern.

She has a track record of using the FBI files to get back at the folks who exposed Bill for the heel he is. A bitchy vindicative woman like Hillary will abuse the powers of surveilance and engage in "presidential evesdropping" for her own personal end. Not good.

Waterboarding is not torture per se. It instills fear and panic in the subject who does not want to undergo another session. A subject does not usually make up a story under such duress. He will spill his guts to avoid another session. Waterboarding can't be all that bad. It was invented by men of God and used with good results by the inqusiton from the thirteenth century through the sixteenth century with positive results. Thousands of heretics confessed to their sin and were burned at the stake.

We do not carry it that far now days. We just use the information to prevent a terror attack or find out the culprit's name who is responsible for a terror attack. The US should have waterboarding on the table as a final interrogation tool.

The subject in the video survived and even joked about it A very unpleasant experience but not lethal. The first ones to raise an outcry that Bush didn't protect us, in case of an internal terrorist attack, are the people who are complaining about waterboarding

I don't know where Salon got it's information that Fox News ratings are in the pits. I usually divide my time between MSNBC, Fox News, CNN and Headline news each evening. MSNBC is getting less of my attention in recent weeks. Keith Olberman is a total clown, Chris Matthews can't get away from his ingrained Democratic bias ever since he was the mouthpiece for Tip O'Neil. He is doing better, but his show could be better titled The Democratic National Committee Hour.

As for Fox News being "boycotted" by the Democratic candidates , I think it is because they are afraid of the tough questions that will be thrown at them and not the soft ball questions that they get from CNN and MSNBC. I am sure the candidates were advised by the DNC before hand to refuse appearances on Fox News. Then the DNC spun it as fearful of Fox bias. We saw through that in a New York minute. The Republican candidates subjected themselves to all questions by hostile interviewers from all networks. The Democratic candidates have not been through the "baptismal fires".

We don't know whether or not they will fold when the going gets tough. I can imagine Bill coming on stage or grabbing a microphone in a situation where Hillary is confronted by a problem thrown at her by some foreign dignitary, or being overridden by a Senate or House opposing one of her initiatives. A Barack Obama administration will counter with cries of "racism" if any of his initiatives meets stiff unyielding opposition. I specify his administration, not Obama. I think Barak Obama is above that. The liberal left MSM, though, will play that to the hilt.

The Democrats still have time to erase all doubts by standing up to the scrutiny of tough questioning. I advise them to do so.

The reaction to Joan's correct assessment of Obama's elitist remarks is like killing the messenger. She has it right when she says, in effect, Obama has shown his true stripes as a Harvard elitist. Obama has gotten the big head because he has been praised as a messiah by a well meaning over zealous press corps. He now believes all his press clippings.

As we have seen happen before, talk is cheap. What will a Barack Obama USA look like ? For myself, I am very uneasy at the thought of an Obama Presidency. Does he really love America enough to defend it militarily if need be ? Does he think we have something special in a free market economy and not a state owned economy which does not reward effort ? Just thought I'd ask. Remember, we are not voting for a class president or the captain of the cheer leading squad. This is about the PRESIDENT OF THE USA, not a popularity contest.