...That Democratic voters alone are not going to decide the next election. Let's even set aside for the moment the probable election fixing in Florida and Ohio, at least, and Diebold's stranglehold on the voting machine. When you think of Bush's diehard approval rating of 27%, you have to surmise that every one of those knuckleheads is a Hillary-Hater. That means - do the math - that Hillary is the one Democrat who cannot win without 70% of the rest of the voters.

And that ain't gonna happen.

I can't believe she doesn't know this. That she is willing to sink our nation into four more years of Republican subjugation does not speak well for her patriotism. I'm no longer amazed that candidates put their own egos and aggrandizement above the good of their country. But I continue to be saddened and disappointed.

I respectfully disagree, Mr. Scherer. A soldier shouldn't have to be dead to be honored. The other authors of the editorial, Staff Sgt. Buddhika Jayamaha, Sgt. Wesley D. Smith, Sgt. Jeremy Roebuck, Sgt. Edward Sandmeier, and Staff Sgt. Jeremy A. Murphy, should at least have received an honorable mention for having survived the letter they wrote.

Scherer might also have noted First Lieut. Ehren Watada, the Army's first commissioned officer to publicly refuse orders to fight in Iraq, on the grounds that the war is illegal. Lieut. Watada stated publicly that his "... participation would make me party to war crimes." The Army has been unrelenting in its prosecution of Watada, not only of his refusal to deploy, but particularly of his right even to speak out. Last month his latest proceedings resulted in a mistrial. Three years ago, Petty Officer Pablo Paredes claimed conscientious objector status, and refused to board his Iraq-bound ship in San Diego Harbor. By the Army's own admission, at least ten other servicemen have also refused to deploy.

We should not fail to remember the struggles of the living war resistors, who continue to need our support and encouragement. It is not necessary to abandon the living to honor the dead.

For many reasons, most of which center around her relentlessly right/centrist politics and connections.

But most of all, because she is not willing to realize - in the way Ted Kennedy did realize that if he ran for president, some nut case would make it a priority to assassinate the last Kennedy brother - that she is the ONLY Democratic candidate who is GUARANTEED to bring enough right wing hate-mongers out to the polls to elect another Republican. Her negatives are so great among Republican stalwarts that every single registered Democrat and two/thirds of the independents in the entire country would HAVE to vote for her, and that wouldn't even happen in a feel-good Hollywood ending.

That she is willing to let her own self-serving personal ambition take precedence over the best outcome for the nation is contemptible at best.

I'm amazed at the verbiage given over to why women should/shouldn't vote for another woman. Would you vote for Rice? Coulter? Would Thatcher have made you happy? Just voting for one persuasion of genitals over the other is not necessarily a brilliant or admirable way to rejoice in our feminism.

But if we care to retain any of the gains feminism has made, we need to vote a Democrat into the presidency. Not only is Clinton a moderate Republican running in the wrong party, but, statistically, her negatives are so strong that she needs every independent vote to outpoll the wrong wing fascists who will put everything they have into defeating her, even if they have to Diebold her.

At this point, the only Democrat who can run away with the election is Obama. For all his faults, he is not the schismatic figure Clinton has always been, from her chocolate chip cookies to her installation as a Senator from a state she'd never lived in. Sure, he's no Kucinich, and no Edwards, but he's way better than our alternatives, including another eight years of Republican oligarchy.

I've no doubt that the 25% Clinton supporters will all fabricate highly principled rationalizations for their defection from Obama. But what they're really saying is

(a) My way or the highway; and

(b) I'd rather the country travel further down this particular highway to fascism. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Yeah, and McCain is also a warmongering right-wing torture flip-flopping women's rights hating lapdog of the 1% wealthiest Americans. But at least he's white...

Hang out with people way older than you. And throw away that stupid-ass book. It makes you look anxious.

I suspect that the letter came down because Cary finally saw his mingy response for what it was: a shameful refusal to acknowledge LW's right to a forthright answer. Hang your head, Cary, and see the crow on your plate.

There are no moral standards for this war because this is an immoral engagement. From the President down, everyone in command is a murderer. The President is a murderer. The Vice President is a murderer. Gates, Rice, Mukasey, Rumsfield, Petraeus, Armitage, Barber, Wolfowitz, Mullen, Leahy, you name them all, they're murderers. They hired and armed their hit men, aimed them at an innocent nation, and their corporate capitalist buddies reap the benefits of Defense contracts by the billions. They are killing humans for financial gain.

Every Senator and Congressperson who voted for this war, and every one who continues to vote to fund these murders, is culpable. Every single American and Iraqi death is on their hands. They are cowards who hide behind the flag and forswear themselves to safety and reelection.

If we are serious about fighting terrorists, we should begin with the Executive Branch, and work through the Legislative and Judicial.

The Bush oligarchy has sent this whole country to hell. But I'm not bitter...

Oh, wait. Yes I am. Link below to why.