Can we just ignore her? Please? Every time somebody prints her words or covers her movements, it just calls more attention to her and she is not worth it. It's a little bit like wasting time on flag amendments when there are real problems to solve.

I agree with the posters who suggested that Mrs. Landis' comments stand on their own merit without interpretation. I was raised Mennonite (though a different group than those in Lancaster Co - we are not known by our appearance but by some of our other choices). The press has reported that the Landis family has reconciled with their son, and the Landis's have been seen at the Tour in support of him. Still, leaving the family way of life 'to live in the world' is a serious business to a Mennonite, and I can imagine Floyd's choice is still largely not understood or completely accepted by his parents and their church elders. Going against my own admonishment not to interpret Mrs. Landis' comments, I heard in them the pragmatic Mennonite realism with which I am so familiar: we are all subject to temptation; if we succumb then shame on us. Please don't flame me: I am a pacifist :) (sorry, a little Mennonite humor).

Just a thought here - but since Chris Wallace isn't known to be one a member of the 'Fox commentariat', as I believe the WP said, what if Wallace was slyly giving Clinton a chance to actually put forth a response to all the neocon revisionist propaganda that is circulating around the media all but unchecked? What if that was the point? Is that too much to hope for?

It's all very nice that some people see the error of their ways - and votes, but I have a hard time finding sympathy or empathy with all those who are shocked, shocked that their 2004 vote has come to such disgrace. There is nothing of substance known now that wasn't known prior to the '04 election; we've just got better details. Fifty one percent chose to believe what they were told to believe ("Gay marriage is coming! Must vote Republican to stop this terrible scourge! What bungling of what war? That's not as important as gay marriage!") instead of the truth and now we have such a big mess who knows when and how much it will cost to dig out of it.

I am a step parent too. The kids were 6 and 8 when we got married; now they are 17 (almost 18) and 16. The 16 year old boy has lived with us by his choice for the last 2 years. My stepdaughter and her mother live in another state, so the visits occur only during school breaks and summers. I married late and never had any children of my own, and I'm adopted, so I've some different insights on how people come together as families.

I got lucky in a way right from the start, in that I knew I should never try to replace Mom, so I worked hard to establish a separation in their minds. They knew they were expected to mind me but we never pretended I was their mother. An example would be when we were out for a meal, and the waiter might say something like, 'and what will mom have?' Of course it was none of his business, but to help the kids I would say, 'well, I'm the stepmom and I'll have...' and the tension would drain out of especially the older one. I wonder if actions like that allowed them to learn to love me (or not) without feeling like they were being disloyal to Mom.

Now that the boy lives with us, it is harder to maintain the separation, because things that happen with him more directly affect me than when the two children only visited us for short periods. But now that they are a little older and somewhat more sure of themselves (also more over the acute pain of their parents' divoirce), they've both told me I don't have to make the stepmom distinction quite so rigidly as I used to, so maybe we did the right thing.

I feel for LW because it must be hard to go back again to the little boy stage with anyone's kids! I hope they are all able to adjust to this big change in their lives.

My question is: would all of this happened so fast without Sept 11, when Congress and the MSM, the two bodies responsible for providing checks and balances and transparancy, abrogated their responsibility for the next 5 or more years? How would this project have gone if not for that one event? The same only slower? Or would it not have happened at all?

Dick Cheney.

I took my stepkids - girl and boy, one each - to work with me in 1999. I had totally forgotten about it till now, but as I think about it we all had a great time. My employer at the time, a large pharmaceutical company in Palo Alto, California, made a big effort on the part of the kids and staged talks and demonstrations all over campus. The kids went to a lecture about how new drugs discovered and how some medicines work, they got to look through an electron microscope, they got to make stuff in a chem lab, under the watchful eyes of the resident chemists. The kids loved it and talked about it for a long time afterwards. My stepdaughter is now a biochemistry major at Cal Poly. Coincidence?

Is that true? Did he win all of his heats?

...it sounded like Bill hit it out of the park. Positive, upbeat, coherent, and over it. And I must say I felt a bit wistful hearing his voice, and remembering a time when I could listen to the president speak and not cringe, but feel uplifted. Please God, let it happen again with Obama.

I was before I read this article, and now only more so.