I would be ecstatic if the right wing of the republican party were simply motivated by stupidity.

Unfortunately I think its a nasty combination of greed for oil money and war profiteering, trashing the constitution in order to establish the permanent dominance of their political party (its funny that they used to call Democrats communists), arrogance all greased with raw stupidity.

If they just stupid I'd have a lot easier time forgiving the bastards for the damage they've caused this country...

from letting 9/11 happen,

to lying us into a disastrous war,

for not capturing Bin Laden,

for making torture something that Americans do,

for causing crisis after crisis in the housing mortgage market, the energy markets (enron anyone) by passing harebrain deregulation laws at the behest of corporate cash making theft legal for corporations, by ......... OK, this could go on all night.

Prosecute those &^$%&ds and throw away the key.

99.999% of the HR Clintons supporters during the primaries are Americans first, Democrats second, and candidate Clinton supporters third.

I could have been one of them. After 8 years of republican greed and stupidity in the executive and 20 years of republican control of congress destroying what makes American great and I just wanted the Democrat with the best chance to win. That appears to have been Obama and now that the Democrats have their candidate it sure as hell IS Obama now. If Clinton had won I'd be 110% for her (because she and all of the Democratic candidates would be ten times better for this country than McSame)

Having a parade for a losing candidate at the convention will hurt Democratic unity and chances at winning the election.

These republicans pretending to be "Clinton Supporters" are no different than those planeloads of republican aids that flew down from Washington to help steal the election in Florida.

This is an old time (but never used so successfully and so long) republican dirty trick where you pretend to part of the other party and do your best to disrupt and cause damage. (Look no further than the republican trolls on this site, they probably number almost a full third of the posts).

Salon and the rest of the media, as usual, are enabling this strategy by just regurgitating these people's claims of being Democrats without actually getting off your asses (I know, you are not "real" journalist that get out and gather first hand information, you just regurgitate information you get from other regurgitatators pretending to "journalists" on the web who get their information from Matt Drudge who gets his information right from the source. Carl Rove.)

Wake the hell up and stop passing this crap along as though it is established fact. Find out who these people really are and expose them.... but that would take plane tickets, long hours, many miles, talking to mean people who will threaten you, dead ends and not a lot of glammer.... hey, it would be like you were an old time investigative journalist!

A full 13% of Faux New viewers are not empty-headed dupes.

Faux news ran this 24 hours a day when a tabloid found out Edwards had an affair.

The only thing funnier than Faux trying to make an issue out of nothing is Joan Walsh trying to help them. Bush and his cronies lied us into war, killed 5000 US soldiers and a half million civilians and are almost certainly guilty of treason on several counts. But wait.... A guy who once was running for the Democratic nomination (and lost badly) had an affair!!!! Stop the presses.

Another hilarious example of "Yenta Journalism" is when someone like Walsh invents some type of imaginary emotional relationship with Elizabeth Edwards and uses that imagined relationship to ramble on bout "what she should think about it". Walsh does not know either of the Edwards, she is not their friend or confidant, does not share her background or even know if they have anything in common... oh, except she is female so I have sort of have a stake in the Edward's marriage. Bull!

P.S. ("Yenta Journalism" is a wholly owned phrase coined myself... so hands off!)

Most of the eastern block Communist countries and a few others had very aggressive steroid and doping programs that were just as important to their Olympic teams as the "non chemical" training programs.

These doping programs were not carried out by rouge athletes injecting themselves with what they hoped was a drug that would help them and not kill them. They were state run by some of the best doctors in those closed societies.

How many of medals from the Soviets glory days were produced by prodigious amounts of steroids... half, most all!!!! I don't think anyone, including the Olympic committee really want to open that dark box of secrets and gaze inside.

and although I don't think she was a "hide in the closet with a camera and dagger" kind a spy (at least if the book is accurate) her life was unbeleivelbly fasinating!

Among many adventures in her life, she did work for army intellegence services and when stuck in a desk job, in India I think, got herself reassigned to more important and dangerous tasks... even ending up with the now famous flying Tigers for a while (I can't remember what her job was with them... hey it was the intellegence service... whatever they do.)

And that was just the beginning. I thought those years ago and you have reminded me that her life would make a great movie.

Lol... that's good enough for the "WORD" on the Colbert Report.

good one Sacajawea.