you were out driving around and missed St.Louis? we're right here in the middle. if you travel thru here sometime, put the radio on FM88.1, KDHX(or try it via the internet). this is real public radio, not NPR, just a local listener supported anarchy on the radio waves. various music and various programming, only thing they buy is DemocracyNow and that's the news programming. glad your back. Digby was great.

I get a kick out of the Dem.'s and their problems with Ralph. "Ralph is responsible for 8 years of neocon/neonazi...........blah, blah.....

could it be that the Dem.'s just couldn't get out the vote? maybe there was a problem with PR, hmmm, leftover Slick Willie? maybe there was a problem with the candidates, Gore/Lieberman?

any goofy party that ran "Fritz&Tits", should take a long look at themselves. the fact the Bush won, back to back, should tell them something.

eh, probably doesn't matter much anyway, there are no donkeys or elephants, just pigs at the public trough. good luck.

in a way, I'm wondering who wrote that. guess I could have written it, I'm an old guy that lives in a poor neighborhood, see all that stuff everday. then again, I could wonder if Chris Rock wrote it(ever see his video, "Black People Vs Niggaz"?), or maybe some of my black neighbors who are trying to move up to the middle classes and very tired of carrying the black baggage.

yes, there needs to be some (long overdue) dialogue.

"By the way, Chris Rock regrets his "nigger" bit quite profoundly now, seeing as how it's been abused over and over by dumb white people who fancy themselves cultural critics."

hehehehehe. well, I don't know Mr. Rock, I am a long time fan. don't know if he has any regrets. if you watch the entire bit, you'll get to the part where he's talking about the white trash out in their trailers, eating mayo on white bread sandwhiches and fukin de sister--don't think he was trying to spare anybody.

point is, trash is cross ethnic. when you go to the fast food joint in de hood and the voice on the box, axes,"whan de muffukin fries wid dat?" you know theres some sort of cultural/educational failure thing going on.

we all know the stats about blacks in prison, etc., etc. these problems need to be fixed(years ago!). need some real leadership here. the tired old Jesse, Al bs never got anybody ahead. Jesse and Al look like some sort of cartoon characters.

hopefully Obama is the beginning of a change. maybe he can get the conversation going and get people to see some reality.

that's the title of an article in the STL Post-Dispatch.

here's the url-- http://tinyurl.com/2d9lc6

".....Here is a nation that has been led by that archetypal American hero, the

self-made man: the Lincoln who strides out of the backwoods with an ax on his

shoulder and a book in his hand; the Truman who failed as a farmer, failed as a

haberdasher but somehow, because he read widely and deeply, had the wisdom to

help rebuild a shattered world.

And now, here is this same nation, led by a man who can't correctly pronounce

the word "nuclear" and who once told an interviewer that he avoids reading

newspapers because they're full of "opinions."

This is not to say that President Bush is stupid, only that he is profoundly

intellectually incurious, willing to substitute belief for science, ideology

for fact. And in this, he is typical of his age........."

thought see was just a party hack, still dragging around hubby's baggage. sad.

america might be ready for a woman in the white house, just not Hillary.

why not get rid of the sham/scam of elections and just select presidents, etc. by lotto.

"I didn't say it as well as I should have," Obama, an Illinois senator, said in Muncie, Indiana.

"But what is absolutely true is that people don't feel like they are being listened to. And so they pray and they count on each other and they count on their families," he said.

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said.

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."<<<<<<<

Hilly and McCain are trying to spin that -----

"Barack Obama's elitism allows him to believe that the American traditions that have contributed to the identity and greatness of this country are actually just frustrations and bitterness," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said. (McCain was napping. )

"The people of faith I know don't cling to religion because they are bitter. People embrace faith not because they are materially poor but because they are spiritually rich", said Hilly( a devote millionaire/party hack).<<<<<

can't tell it like it is huh? this country is doomed to mediocrity and failure.

the old babes(Hillary, Ferraro, Albright) are getting bashed because of sexism? or bashed because they're so desperate and phony?

much to Obama's credit, he didn't drag Jesse, Al, Farrakhan and other cartoon characters along for the ride.

now, you want real desperation? look at McCain and crew(Kissinger, Lieberman, Powell, Kristol----good grief!)

guess I was bitter when this country rejected Gene McCarthy and George McGovern.

frankly, the voters get what they deserve. now they got an ass full of Bush and I don't care.

I run my trading accounts, try to make some money on Wall St. much of that money is in overseas companies( global economy, huh?). when I retire, may not even stay in the US.

like they say, "I jus be stayin". (post industrial, post modern, post bitter).

this video is a keeper. thanks Salon. thanks Naomi Klein.

that was funny/scary. Condi has apparently left the door open for running as a VP, maybe with Hilly and not John? would give Hilly a good shot at butching up and getting more neocon/AIPAC votes. (and black votes too.)

thought we went over there to Iraq to get their oil? 5 something years later, no contracts, no deals, just shooting and bombing. think we have a a management problem here. just looked at the chart for HAL(Halliburton), they seem to have done ok since '03.