I think it's great that the NY Times ran this article on McCain's flip-flop on this position. Hopefully lots of regional papers around the country run the story as well. But the problem with regional papers is the editors. If the editor of the nation section is a right-winger, then it's reflected in what does and doens't get published. Case in point my local paper, the Rocky Mountain News, nation section SUCKS. The Senate Intelligence committee phase II study was released yesterday, that concluded the Bush admin deliberately deceived the nation about Iraq's WMD. No article in my paper today about it. But there was a long article on all the potential "skeletons" in Obama's closet. When it was revealed that Bush's "Principals" personally approved of waterboarding of CIA detainees, they ran one heavily edited AP brief on it. While every day that week, they had a 1/4 page or larger article on the FLDS cult down in Texas. So the NY Time can ran a thousand articles on all of McCain's flip-flops, but it all depends on the editor if it gets published in a local paper.

All right all you repugs, here's an offer I'd like to make. As a democrat, I will admit that Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin made mistakes in the handling of Katrina. Now will you admit that Bush did as well? Will you admit that a class 5 hurricane is beyond the resources of a local or even state government? Only the federal government has the resources to deal with such a natural disaster. So where the local and state government failed in their handling of the disaster, the larger blame falls squarely upon the federal government. That some of you can defend Rove playing political games with people's lives, is just plain disgusting. How dare you even call yourselves Americans.

Elephantman there was no social chaos at the Superdome. All the media reports of rapes and murders supposedly occuring there were based on unsubstantiated rumors. They were all debunked afterwards.

Well elephant boy, I never said that the right-wing media was responsible for spreading the rumors of social chaos at the superdome. I wrote the media reported unsubstantiated rumors, not the right-wing media. But it's typical of how you repugs always respond in these threads. You deliberately change what people say and then respond to your creation, instead of what people actually wrote. That way you are always right and everyone else is always wrong, atleast in your mind anyway. Then to further demonstrate how small you are, you continue to defend the indefensible Bush administration handling of Katrina. I admitted Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin made mistakes, but you can't allow yourself to admit Bush did as well. I'm done with you now, I won't be responding to you again. You are a waste of my time.

Juliebird, you failed to mention the little chuckle Bitch Bush had when making her how fortunate these people were statement. We wonder why Bush is such a heartless SOB. Well instead of like father like son, it's like mother like son in the Bush clan.

Well I'm absolutely shocked that Comcast has refused to run this ad. NOT!! This happens all the times. I remember a few years ago, ABC refused to run anti-drug war ads during the superbowl, while they ran ads from the drug czar. Companies shouldn't be able to disciminate like that. They should have to run ads regardless of political content.

Well if anyone ever wondered how the Holocaust was allowed to happen, I understand it now. Just look at what we as Americans have allowed. Our government admits they are holding 26,000 people in prisons around the world, without charge or trial. Yet it is barely reported in American media. I only know it because it was reported in the Gaurdian newspaper, not by any American newspapers. We know torture is being conducted in Gitmo, Iraq, and Afghanistan by our government, yet where's the outrage? We have a free press in this country, yet they consistently fail to report on the abuses committed in our names. If it gets reported at all, it's in the back pages in brief articles designed to be overlooked. Our elected leaders in Congress have failed to condemn the torture committed in our names. Too afraid of being called "soft on terror" to stand up for American principles of justice. Evil happens when good men stand by silent.

What a bunch of crap her "apology" is. Of course she meant to associate terrorist with Obama, it's part of the republican plan. They will be pulling this kind of crap all the way through the election. The plan is to try to make Obama into the "other", make him foreign and "unamerican". They can't come straight out and say, Hey he's black you want his kind in the white house. So they will do it through innuendo and subtle association. Where they go over the line and get called on it, they'll issue phony apologies like Hill's. But don't be fooled for a minute that it isn't deliberate.

So let me get this straight Obama is a secret muslim. But he's also a radical black liberation christian. I guess that makes him half muslim, half christian. You might think that would be a contradiction in terms, and no one would believe that, but you would be wrong. I recently had the pleasure of hearing some "low information" voter say just that. So it will be interesting to see how far they can go with this muslim smear.