Sad, but McCain is on his way to senility. Joe the Schmoe is just delusional. These two clowns support the war on terror with three reasons: 1. Oil, 2. Israel, 3. Defense contractors. I know I feel safer.

So the phony fell on his sword. Now if only the rest of the field would follow him. McCain and his warmongering should quit. Huckabee should go back to the pulpit. Paul should go back to medicine. Hillary should go back to the senate and take Obama with her. So who should be the president? Hell if I know.

McCain is turning right. Right into channeling Curtis LeMay. LeMay was a general who agitated for a nuke first strike during the Kennedy administration. Sterling Hayden's character in Doctor Strangelove has been cited as a spoof of LeMay. You better believe McCain will sound more and more like LeMay since so many of McCain's positions rankle the conservative base. The party seems to have a jones for turning Al Queda into a modern day version of the communists. Rather than a threat, it would be a distraction to allow the war profiteering and civil liberty assault that has been going on through the Bush administration. You will hear Al Queda 24/7 from McCain. And the dems say....what?

Joan, neither can beat McCain. McCain will ape Reagan and go on a charm offensive. While he is much like Goldwater in hawkishness, he doesn't share the sourness of personality. Now with Hillary, you get Bill, triangulation, having it both ways on Iraq, and her basic arrogance and imperiousness. With Obama, you get Gary Hart-like substance. Like, "Where's the beef?" The Christo-zionists, rapturists, and war boosters will turn out for McCain. It remains to be seen whether the folks committed to MoveOn.org will bother with either dem. Nope, they can't beat him. Shame.

True, Hillary is getting a pounding. But to use a boxing phrase, she can simply employ a rope-a-dope. Yes, she may lost a few primaries now, but with Obama getting overconfident, it allows her to make a comeback later. (Much like her husband the "Comeback Kid" himself.) That being said, it still comes down to both candidates having too many flaws to take down McCain. If Hillary comes back, it'll be a TKO for McCain.

Mike Wallace must be embarassed by his son, Chris. He works for a bogus news organization that serves as a house organ for the Republican party. Mike is slowing down with age, but at least he has done some tough interviews in his heyday. Chris just does what he's told and makes like an infomercial interviewer. Sad.

The blind giant of the middle east suffers from willful blindness. The current prime minister merely serves as a scapegoat. The fundamental problem concerns Israel's future course in the middle east. Will it return to the "Greater Israel" policy, or will it try to employ a diplomatic track untested in the entire history of Israel. The various tactics used in recent history merely attempt to discredit critics or appease supporters without addressing the basic problem. Holding land, annexing land, evicting people, and making military campaigns against soft targets solves nothing. Can the people of Israel make such a choice? I wonder.

Please. Dems on the hill support the war in private and oppose it in public. Why? Money. AIPAC has them in the tank. (Pelosi herself addressed them and recognized Iran as a "threat.") Oil has deep pockets and Dems need just as much money as Repubs. Defense contractors. All the money they make allows them to lobby, lobby, lobby. (Plus some Dem districts have jobs related to the defense industry.) Then you have to look at the electorate. Does everyone vote? No. The only people that vote care. That leaves the deciding factor to who care more, pro or anti-war. Lets see, Christo-Zionists, rapturists, gung-hos, and knee jerkers vs. everyone else. What do you think?

Santorum is a dim bulb. By trying to concoct some analysis of a purported historical trend, he skipped the most obvious thing on his mind. He bet on the wrong horse. What say we check back with him in a few months and see what he thinks then. Bet he's a McMann by then.

Camille is such a tragic example of a fine mind shunned by the masses. Making points about Hillary as she has simply sends Hillary supporters bouncing off the walls. Old guard feminists may well simply be following the old Middle East notion of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Her points about McCain are also sharp but McCain may benefit from his age rather than suffer from it. How can people pick on a tired sick old man? Never mind the importance of the job. Do we need a rerun of a Reagan administration with an out-to-lunch president? Keep writing Camille. History will vindicate you.

I don't see a risk. Bush has gotten away with a boatload of whoppers and he did two terms as president. The changing of the guard in congress hasn't stopped the war. In fact, check out Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone and you'll find dems don't really want to get out of Iraq. (Hint: follow the money) So Johnny Mack really doesn't have any real risk short of a Beirut style disaster or a Tet offensive.

Lets see, the man who was bitterly distrusted by the right, betrayed by Newt, and pilloried for reversing his no new taxes pledge supports McCain. With friends like him, McCain needs no enemies.

Lets see, McCain cheated on his first wife when he got back from Vietnam. Dated a stipper. Had the Keating 5 scandal for influence peddling. Seem familiar? McCain is full of it and is trying to bluff his way past a reminder of what he is really like. But do you think repubs will care? Nope.