A speech does not policy make.

What is Obama fighting for? What did he say he would veto? Nothing. I mean the word VETO.

He tries to compromise with people who will slit his throat in a heartbeat?

He said years ago we need single-payer. Now he doesn't. He was right back then. He is an enormous trickster and failure.

I'm never voting Dem again. Never. It's a corporate party.

You make very good points. I have read, a little, that Switzerland and the Netherlands have an extremely tight, regulated market of private insurance. As you have pointed out, there are untold thousands of lobbyists at the disposal of the insurance industry to influence Congress, and it is unlikely to be regulated.

I just don't see any meaningful reform with the Dems or Repubs. Ever. They are fundamentally capitalist parties who take corporate money and serve the interests of the rich, those who control our economy. You can't get past the fundamentals here. I'm always open to being pleasantly surprised but I think I'll have to wait until heaven and earth pass from this universe into another one before this leopard (Obama) changes his stripes.

Republicans do not share the same goals. I believe that many Democrats want to initiate legislation for the good of the majority but corporate money poisons the well. I can't believe that Obama thinks that Republicans bargain in good faith. All evidence points to the contrary.

Republicans seem like such a bunch of effeminate pansies.

I really don't care about decorum. I rather enjoy Prime Minister's question time, but I realize that Obama's role is not in the legislature (or any president). Obama can take heckling.

To Wilson and the Palins of the world, where's the beef? Point to the text in each bill where it says "X" and where Obama is lying. Put it up on your website, verbatim, and back up your argument with facts. Then I might believe y'all. I never see right-wingers engaging and debating with FACTS, like Greenwald does (arguably the best writer on Salon).

To my knowledge, the normal man has TEN times the amount of testosterone of a woman, not three times. This may put Caster on the lower side of a normal amount of circulating testosterone for males. Are her times in the vicinity of the male runners? I haven't checked, I'm curious.

I agree with Rogers that this is heartbreaking. Nevertheless, elevated testosterone is an advantage over the other runners and thus she should be disqualified according to the rules.

I don't agree with the idea that sex should somehow be thought of as a continuum like height, weight, or eye color. If you could somehow quantify the degree of "maleness" or "femaleness" and then plot the population on a Y axis and "degree" on an X axis, the graph mathematically looks like two clusters of probability at the extremes of "maleness" and "femaleness." In other words, we would say scientifically that most of the population fits into one of the two extremes. There would be a low lying continuum connecting the two maxima, the intersex, with a low probability. But height, weight, and eye color (especially the first two) would look more like a normal (Gaussian) distribution. So putting sex and height/weight into the same "continuum" category is mathematically misleading and this distinction is going to be lost on most people who know little of statistics. Technically both graphs contain a continuous function, but I think the graphs look dramatically different and meshing the two confuses the reality.

Illegal immigrants are super-exploited. They DO NOT cost society any extra money because of the amount of unpaid labor they produce.

You got it all BASS-ACKWARDS.

I don't support Obama because he is TOO right wing. He is NOT doing what he was elected to do. His support among whites (like me) is slipping because he lost us progressives by the millions. Compromising with Fascists who want to slit his throat, or, better yet, lynch his sorry black ass? Good god, the guy is a dumb-fuck and doesn't understand his enemies. NOT the mark of an intelligent dude.

I'm voting socialist.

I used to teach tennis, so I follow the women's circuit closely.

I'll have to check out the video! But really, I can't believe that it would be any worse than the male players. I do think there is sexism at work.

Serena is enormously talented on the level of Billie Jean King, Navratilova, Evert, and my all-time favorite, Monica Seles. She is superbly talented, capable of dominating any surface. I've not seen her be a brat and if she doesn't agree with the call, but only agrees that her behavior was out of line, then so be it. She is an athlete who cares about the game. McEnroe was a first class asshole, but in his retirement has contributed enormously to the game, and arguably no one cares more for the game than McEnroe.

if he thinks that they will voluntarily regulates themselves. When has that EVER worked? NEVER. No one can cite even one example in American history when an industry has regulated itself for the public good.

Marx described HOW and WHY crises of production arise. The "bourgeois" economists never discuss/critique these writings in the mainstream media. They are most instructive.

Yup-

Marx critiqued and wrote why crises occur. This one is no different, fundamentally. Have you read the three volumes of Capital?

Walsh states that the DROP in support among white voters is due to racism while Carter is saying that an "overwhelming" majority of the hate spewed at Obama is due to racism. The two are different. I think Walsh is wrong: support among whites slipped because Obama sucks, politically; he isn't doing a tenth of what he promised.

Carter is stating the obvious and is NOT arguing that support among whites is slipping because of racism. Those who are spewing the hate never, ever supported Obama or any Democrat.