I think Biden calls McCain "John" because they've known each other for decades. I personally don't think it's a problem.

The problem is that pointing out the whackjobs that Palin associates with in blogs and letters isn't as powerful as a candidate making statements on national television. Now I know that Obama and Biden have too much class to call out Plain and McCain on their questionable associations, but when is the MSM going to publish front page articles about Palin's crazy witch-huntin' pastor, for example?

I swear to god this read like something from a freeper web site. Is Paglia your new conservative columnist?

I wonder how long it will take. Do you think Camille tips off Rush when she's going to pen an article for Salon so that his fans come running to praise her for being the only intellectually honest liberal in the universe? She must really get off on that.

"pronounces Pakistan in a phony ass way"

Yeah, how dare someone pronounce the name of a country properly. And, any candidate who doesn't pronounce Iraq as Eye-Rack is an East coast liberal phony elistist terrorist baby killer who can't be trusted.

Let's see, the Dems look down on women and don't put them in powerful cabinet positions. The first woman in a presidential cabinet was Francis Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor. Clinton had Reno, Albright, and O'Leary. There have been more Democratic women in the U.S Congress than Republicans. First female Speaker of the House is a Democrat. First woman elected to the Senate was a Democrat. I could go on and on, but I wouldn't want the facts get in the way of your bogus talking point about how the left looks down on women.

Willow and Bristol look quite similar, hence the confusion.

Let me get this straight. JLo pulls out right before the final runway show with a "foot injury" and then 2 days later participates in a triathlon. What the hell? It's really a shame because having Tim Gunn fill in just didn't feel right given his mentor role on the show.

After reading Ms. Didion's rant, I get the impression that she doesn't talk to many people outside of her own social circle. I invite her to talk to the many Obama supporters that I know personally who are much more interested in his policies and what he and we can do together to help bring change to our country than his "story". I really have to wonder how closeted Ms. Didion is that she assumes that because the traditional media sucks that it means that the rest of us have been zombie-fied. I encourage her to leave uptown for a while and talk to some real folks out there who not only see the challenges but are living them.

I will betcha that after she loses in 2010, Faux News will offer her a gig. I don't think she's crass enough to leave her post as governor to accept a job before then. If she runs in 2012, the same stories will come up again and we'll be reminded again about why she lost in 2008. And, there's no way Romney will let her get the upper hand. I think the other folks running will drive her candidacy into the ground. Even the wingers must realize that many Republican leaders are voicing support for Palin though clenched teeth.

By the way, I just had to see this again:

See, the problem with the republicans these days, in a way that you typify, is their complete abandonment of actual good ideas in favor of simply trying to fool people into voting for them.

Thank you. Every piece of literature I've received from the RNC and McCain/Palin has focused on why we shouldn't elect Obama and not what they have to offer the country. They project no sense of hopefulness or enthusiasm or spirit of bringing the country together.

These stereotypical "boomers" and "Xers" barely represent real people. Every boomer in my extended family is a Republican who voted for Reagan and Bush. It wasn't until I moved to Madison, WI that I met the type of boomers that actually did march and protest.

As for Xers, I don't know any of these slackers that people describe. Every Xer I know is involved in their community in some capacity. Also, they keep moving the dates around, is it 1961 to 1981 or 1965 to 1984? How are we supposed to create working stereotypes if they keeping moving the dates on us.

If you really want to give a generation credit for Obama's election it would have to be Gen-Y/Millenials who overwhelming voted for him and helped win states like Indiana.

I rarely think about generations until I read articles like this. I wish we'd stop this ridiculous stereotyping and intergenerational warfare. We have a country to fix and a president to support and I for one could care less about which generation is the best.

When I see boomers dissing the silent generation or the greatest generation or whatever they want to call the generation before them, I have to laugh. Many of the achievements of the 60s are due to the sweat, toil, and leadership of individuals born before the boom. Most of the leaders of the civil rights, women's, peace and even student movements were born in the 30s. This doesn't diminish the boomers contributions to these movements, but it's boggles the mind to see people who were barely in their twenties in the late sixties take credit for civil rights or feminism.

I'm disturbed by those who seek to put some special blame on the African American community for the way they voted on this proposition. It seems there are a multitude of reasons why the proposition succeeded and African Americans should not be scapegoated the way that they have been. So, instead of playing the blame game, why not funnel the frustration and anger into efforts to reach out to minority communities and build relationships.