Toni Morrison's original comment was glib and worth a chuckle.

To then take it seriously enough to ask a black candidate for president about it, during a debate as if in some way to be taken serious is embarrassingly offensive.

In other news: Toni Morrison is endorsing Obama (for whatever that is worth)

To those who question Obama's blackness because he's only half black: Would he have been half a slave? Would Bush shoot him for fucking Jenna?

Don't be silly, he's black.

Neither will be president.

Ex-President Bill Clinton!

I think the deal is Lieberman knows that if Dems take a larger majority in the senate come November, which they have a good chance of doing, he'll lose all his power, clout, chairmanships. So is only hope to retain any power is to hitch his wagon to the only candidate that A. Has a chance of winning, and B. Would have him on board the campaign. Narrow field.

P.S. This comment: "the only Republican who can defeat the Democratic candidates in November" will come back to haunt him come Jan. 2009.

Thanks Rudy, for sullying 9/11 by 'branding' it to your failed, lost campaign that will only be remembered in the history books as part of an argument over whether you or Thompson ran the most pointless presidential campaign.

Running statement through language evaluator...

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Semantic value of statement is: zero.

"His opponent, and her husband, stand for déjà vu all over again -- a return to the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled years of the almost infinitely self-indulgent Clinton co-presidency.

"Does America really want to go through all that once again?

HA! News Corp did all it could to create the above conditions, now rails against them, lol lol lol! They wish they had a president to thrash just for the increase in ratings and readership.

"...what does race has anything to do with which way Edwards supporters will go?"

Think about American history, all of it. Now a black man is running for president. OF COURSE race is going to have something to do with it. The MSM, the Clinton campaign, the Obama campaign and everyone who vote will to some extent bring race into it. Be realistic. To any rational observer the question of race, though distasteful must be addressed.

No one is more defensive than someone who on some level knows they are wrong.

'Not cooperating' with inspectors but leaving them in the country means there was a possible solution that didn't require force. Also 'not cooperating' doesn't mean the inspectors were just sitting in their offices doing nothing. They were inspecting, they were however having problems. To attempt to equate that with Saddam expelling them from the country is hugely intellectually dishonest.

Were I Risen, and I were sentenced to jail for contempt for failing to reveal my sources, I would appeal on constitutional grounds

Amendment the First: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

Seems to me that whatever law the judge uses to imprison Risen, it's application is unconstitutional as long as the subject concerns Risen's work as a member of the press.

(Yes, I know it'd never fly, but it should, shouldn't it?)

WTF? I've been reading around and I don't see anyone really talking about this. Am I not reading this right? Pats on the Giants 26, 4th & 13, and they go for it!!! Why? Seeing as how they lost by 3, isn't this one of the biggest coaching blunders of all time? Yet I didn't really see any comments about it on the postgame.

And yes, I thought Belichick, leaving the field early and his pouting grunting monosyllabic postgame interview was really classless. What a loser.

The problem conservative men have with women is that they are only used to dealing with two types of women:

1. The type that is DUMB enough to buy into that 'submit to the husband'& 'brood mare for the state' mentality; and

2. Hookers.

Is it any wonder they fear strong minded women, and that the thought of a strong woman as president makes them quake in their (secretly worn) silk panties?

"To equate disliking HRC with being scared of women is preposterous."

Bill Kirstol's quote was: "White women are a problem" We're addressing his attitude towards women. You can try to turn it into an anti-HRC thing but you'd be off base.

"But the left spews all the time without regard to any reality. No wonder they are considered marginal.

Very typical of a conservative when presented with evidence of the right's stupidity, i.e. Kristol's comment, the response is to blame the left. Lol. Also considering the whomping the right took in the 2006 elections and the fact the primary turn out is nearly 2 to 1 over the dems over repubs, I'd say the right is even more marginal than the left at this point.

"If some of the same banter, word-for-word, had been uttered on The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, it wouldn't have been a blip on the Salon radar."

Those shows are comedy shows. It Kristol's quote were to be said on their shows, it would be a joke.

Who said something hateful about all men?

"...you would shake hands with and slap on the back any women who said "white men are the problem", which makes you hypocrites.

Not at all. One could easily look at the world and come to a fact based, reasoned out conclusion that conservative white men are the problem.

However no one said that. Another favorite dishonest conservative tactic. Put words in your opponent's mouth then attack them for what they didn't say. lol

Regardless of who anyone supports, the idea of voting for someone 'just because' they are a woman, seems anti-feminist. I woulda thought that a woman freely making a choice and freely voting would be the sumation of feminism as far as the election is concerned.