Hey Walt,

You say its Obama who can't close the deal? Excuse me. Since before the very first primary its been Clinton's nomination to lose, and she's doing a pretty good job of losing it. Obama leads in states won, popular vote, and delegates. And now, in order to overtake Obama she must run the table in the remaining primaries. But according to you, Walt, it is he who can't close the deal. Wow, that's some interesting reasoning. Its.Clinton, the odds-on, presumptive favorite who hasn't closed the deal yet. Open your eyes, Walt.

Yeah, right. Is anyone stupid enough to believe that? This is nothing but good cop-bad cop, orchestrated by the McBush camp to make their guy look reasonable.

Hillary Clinton's pastor is Douglas Coe. He is the leader of a secretive and scary group that calls itself "the fellowship." This organization advocates the admixture of religion into politics. Google Coe, and read in scary amazement.

The first rule of comedy is to be funny. This isn't funny. This is wasted bandwidth. And don't tell me I don't get it. I get it. And it still ain't funny.

Its time to quit Palin bashing. Don't get me wrong. There's plenty to bash. But she's not the candidate. John McCain is the candidate. "Palin quickies" distracts us from the real task: beat McCain. There are plenty of "McCain quickies" to publicize. How about getting busy publishing them? In the end, the votes will to to either Obama or McCain, not the VP candidates. Get after McCain and forget the valley girl veep candidate.

In Washington, a blue ribbon commission has always been a vehicle for a whitewash (Kennedy Assassination; 9/11) or a wall behind which the truly clueless may hide. For McCain, the beauty of a commission would be that it could do both. He could hide his ignorance while cherry-picking the members from the same Wall Street firms that gave us this mess in the first place. To make it bipartisan, he could appoint people like Robert Rubin. Then the commission could recommend more deregulation and more tax cuts for the wealthy. Viola! Another perfect scam.

Please, please, please get to Palin before Thursday night and urge her to follow your recommendation to characterize Biden as pro-regulation. Please.

The characters in this movie are Hannah Arendt's admonition incarnate.

In out system there is this anachronism, put in place by the founders, as a nod to the slave states. Its called the electoral college. My fear is that the undecided vote will vote race and vote white, and the electoral college will give it to McCain despite a popular victory by Obama. And what an awful November 5, 2008 it will be. I will move to Spain and watch from afar as the American experiment disintegrates on account of the American original sin.

It must be the post election events vacuum. Is this really worthy of front page treatment?

and she still looks like a middle school cheerleader?

Camille;

Frankly, I'm surprised by your naivete regarding the HRC appointment at State. In the Senate she could be counted on to find her differences with Obama as a way to set herself up for another run at the White House. Now she's on the team. You keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Why not Rick Warren? What the hell. If some of his cabinet isn't Republican, they are from the Republican wing of the Democratic party. Warren is of a piece with everything else he's done so far.

Alton Brown is a god. The rest are recipe reciters, expecially Giada and Ina. Alton TEACHES!!

As for Giada, the only thing we don't know about her is what's in her garage. Probably an SUV; Land Rover, most likely. She is a terminally affected yuppie. Can anyone actually be charmed by such innocuous phrases as "this is really good cheese?" As for Ina, there is no more cloyingly sweet person on TV. Emphasis on cloyingly.

What Heather needs is about a week's worth of Nigella Lawton, who says things like "if I wasn't on camera, I'd lick this cutting board." That, dear foodies, is a living, breathing reminder of the connection between food and eroticism.

I once had the extreme pleasure of a meal in a fine little restaurant in Castadelfells, Spain, called St. Maximin. My freinds, residents of Castadelfells were friends of the chef-proprietor. There were five of us, and we were served 13 courses without ever seeing a menu. We had soup, salad, shellfish, finfish, lamb, beef, poultry, pork, desserts and wine. Lots of wine. When the chef came to the table for dessert and coffee, I complimented him profusely for his exquisite dishes, each a visual as well as culinary work of art. He humbly deflected the compliments by reminding me that the most important ingredient in a memorable meal is the company at the table.

What a lesson! There is no more social act than that of breaking bread together. Food is not about recipes and perfect presentation. It is about the folks at the table. Get over yourself, Giada. Get down and dirty Ina.

There is an irony here, in that General Motors has what should be considered the single most advanced fuel cell/electric platform in the world. Nobody, repeat, nobody, has anything even remotely close to it. It is a flat out engineering marvel. Its called the skateboard platform. Google it.

The sad part is that GM has had this platform for years, but shelved it because they were addicted to the profits they earned on SUVs. Its time to dust off the skateboard platform and start building cars on it.