I cannot wait for this election to end. How is it that overnigt, people become the moral equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer just because they run for political office and have a D or R by their name. William Ayers appears to be a reformed terrorist. As far as I know he hasn't commited any crimes, robbed any banks or attacked anyone within the last 30 years. He is a part of the estabishment of Chicago and has tried to do some good in the remaining years of his life. I wouldn't nominate him for the Presidential Medal of Freedom but he is clearly not harming anyone. But instead of believing in the power of redemption the man is used as a national punching bag in the rights endless war on the 1960's. Sarah Palin is the former mayor of a small town in Alaska. She hangs out with a bunch of wacko people straight out of Northern Exposure. Their ideas are looney, but they are not violent, not harming anyone. Her so called extreme positions on guns are held by the current President and Vice President and a large majority of people in this country. A large enough group that the Democratic party won't even say the words gun control without diving for cover. Lighten up people, stop demonizing your opponents. And you wonder why no one wants to run for public office.

The attacks on Obama are not unique. This is standard GOP Atwater tactics since the 1980's. The GOP has always played the traitor card. Kitty Dukakis was falsely accused of burning an American flag. Clinton was the draft dodging guy who allegedly applied to give away his American citizenship, a man who protested the Vietnam war on foreign soil while at Oxford. Al Gore was the guy whose father was close to communist spy Armand Hammer. John Kerry was the guy who faked his war injuries to get his medals and was a secret Marxist sympathizer. So this kind of despicable behavior by the GOP has been going on for years and should be denounced. That said, the inciting people narative is getting out of hand. Common sense admits that Obama has unique security concens and the press should be vigilient in pointing this out as well as denouncing and identifying the repulsive cretins using hateful images and rhetoric. But remember the vast majority of people attending McCain's rallies are ordinary Joe Sixpacks who harbor no physical ill will toward Obama and I suspect they are getting pretty steamed at being associated with the words like, lynch, mob, hate, etc. At the end of the day, Obama is still gonna have to govern these people if he wins. Six months ago the Clinton's were the ones being accused of inciting hateful rhetoric and the backlash was Puma. A bitter polarized angry electorate that refuses to accept Obama's legitamacy is not what Obama needs. A little restraint on all sides is warrented.

The Democratic faithful want his head and with good reason. Can you see him on all the networks and cable shows if he's kicked out the party. Whatever the solution the Democratic caucus takes, its going to be ugly.

The Democratic faithful want his head and with good reason. Can you see him on all the networks and cable shows if he's kicked out the party. Whatever the solution the Democratic caucus takes, its going to be ugly.

Didn't the recent proposition battle in Califoria teach progressives anything. It taught something to conservatives. Gay rights continues to be a wedge issue to break up the Democratic coalition. I'm not a DOMA supporter and I'm not an Obama fanatic but saddling him with overturning DOMA right off the bat is a replay of the Clinton Administrations gays in the military fiasco. Pass on this one dude pass.

Joan, Hillary and her supporters have come to terms with her defeat and so should you. I understand the reason why so many women had such a hard time letting go of Hillary. It had less to do with racism but with opportunity. Her defeat makes it highly unllikely a female boomer, the generation that changed the way women are seen in politics and corporate AMerica will ever take the White House. It wasn't in the cards though, so its time to move on. And please not every decision to vote for a person is made on the basis of race or sex. Chemistry and ideology make a big difference too. I know several black women who voted for Hillary. I know a heck of a lot more black women who voted for Obama. In the end though every body voted Obama. Thats just the breaks.

They gave the money to the banks who took it and announced thousands of layoffs. And if, when Detroit gets the money they are going to retool their plants and announce more layoffs. The future of the automobile industry is in lots of smaller automobile companies not the big three. They refuse to abandon big oil and their fossil fuel engines now they are paying the big price.