As a working father with four kids, I really get tired of hearing the same old blah about how men don't have to care about being fathers, don't have any home responsibility, etc. etc. etc., unlike women! Its just ridiculous and near-offensive to imply that fathers don't have to do anything more than "moonlight as Daddy". Yeah, I guess I must have imagined every day of my life for the past nine years. Stereotypes help nobody.

So just lay off already; you guys sound like Rush Limbaugh talking about Chelsea Clinton. And she has a perfectly valid point concerning the impracticality of her actually serving in the military in Iraq (see: Prince Harry). And did it ever occur to any of you that she might not agree with her father on the war? Good for her for doing something more positive with her life than killing people.

You should read the entire article; Jenna is doing some good work that all of us would be applauding if it were anyone else. I don't get the impression that either of the Bush twins have exactly sought press attention for themselves; when you're the daughter of the president, it's gonna make headlines if you fart. Beyond that, I think that it's cowardly and misguided to attack someone who hasn't done anything wrong, just because of whom she happens to be related to.

From a New Testament perspective, divorce is morally acceptable for a Christian if a) your spouse cheats on you, or b) if he/she doesn't share your faith and wants to leave the marriage.

is that McCain's mom was (potentially) speaking for the McCain campaign, whereas some random person with a question wasn't. McCain didn't take the question seriously, and neither should we.

Which is ironic, considering their appeal to the presidential oath of office to support their belief. Unless I am mistaken, the President swears to uphold the Constitution as well as defend the country. Obama got it right. It's both, people. We do not need another president who is willing to chuck the Constitution under the pretext of "defending America".

At this point it's a vanity project. Would have been nice to see this in 2004.

I struggle to find anything about Razor that enhanced the Battlestar Galactica story. In fact, I think it hindered the story by depicting events we had already been told about (much more effectively, I might add), strung together by a character in whom we had no emotional investment. Storytelling like this is normally the province of fanboys and George Lucas. The only compelling part to me was the retroactive continuity-birthed relationship between Gina and Cain (which I suspect has a lot to do with the consistently brilliant Tricia Helfer), but even then it was only a point of interest, as both characters are long dead by now anyway. Even the maybe-it-is-maybe-it-isn't revelation about Starbuck at the end added nothing. Were we not already suspicious about Starbuck after she mysteriously came back from the dead? Overall, Razor struck me as a very expensive fan fiction. (How else do you explain the appearance of the jarringly anachronistic 1978 Cylon Centurions?)

This is the part where I remember that Salon's contributors haven't spent a lot of time in evangelical churches. To the average evangelical Christian, there is no contradiction at all between "I want us to be very careful that we don't come across as having some animosity or hatred toward people" and "I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle." Christians oppose homosexuality because they believe that the Bible opposes homosexuality, and they trust the Bible implicitly. The Bible also says that Christians' primary duties are to love God and to love people. Part of loving God is doing what he says, including telling people about God's morality (as they see it). Part of loving people is pointing them away from moral deviancy toward God's intent (again, as they see it). It's all part of a theological mindset that evangelicals immediately understand, but which is often misunderstood by outsiders. Of course I'm not saying that they're right to connect the dots in this manner (or even that they're interpreting the Bible correctly on this issue, which I believe they are not). I just wanted to explain that the 1992 Huckabee and the 2007 Huckabee are really the same man... with the addition of a few intervening years learning how to communicate controversial issues like this in a more palatable manner.

I long for the day when political candidates won't have to suck Jesus' dick in order to get elected.

Except I hope Hillary doesn't really end up advising Obama...

Hey geniuses, the fucking ad was ABOUT Christ.

Shed a few tears and political convictions go right out the window. Brilliant.

She "cries" and gets the Oprah vote.

I'm still mystified that a stunt like that would work. If she cried when talking about the poor or the soldiers maimed and killed in Iraq or the people in New Orleans still without homes or the average Americans who have lost thier savings in corporate scandals or thier homes in the mortgage crisis...no she cried because things weren't going her way. Immature, self-indulgant AND certainly not presidential.

I completely agree. And then women lined up to sympathy-vote for Clinton after that. Way to reinforce the stereotype. I suppose all Obama needs to do to get Black votes is eat a bunch of watermelon and say "sho 'nuf".

This male dominated crap makes me sick to my stomach.

One is supposed to be strong. One is not supposed to cry.

What a bunch of junk.

And one is NEVER, ever supposed to cry because one is personally upset! Oh, no....supposed to keep a stiff upper lip, show how strong and controller we are.

AND, you can only cry for IMPORTANT things like class struggle, or Hurricane Katrina.

Susan

Candidates can cry all they want. It doesn't mean they deserve my vote.