How sad it really is. All we believe in is for nothing. The leaders on both sides of the political fence have built this gluttonous house where the American citizen is the servant eating scraps on the back porch while the pigs are stuffing themselves at a linened table.

You've ruined it. We're finished. It took you awhile, but you have ruined it. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.

As always, I see Salon reports only the most inflammatory portions of the news as it relates to anything that can be associated with republicans.

Current headlines have Obama staff admitting valuable information had come to us from our actions as well as a deeper understanding of the network of terrorism.

Surely, it is difficult to say anything positive about torture. Surely, a slippery slope. Clearly, there is another side of this story.

Why is it that knee-jerk liberals can't face the facts that Pelosi is just another slimy, self-serving politician? You want so desperately to not be republican that you can't see the democrats are the same. Sheeple!

You can be sure that the Christ-like Obama machine is enjoying this pickling of Pelosi so that someone more his political flavor can hold the seat.

Get real. What a whiny bunch of losers. Face it, this political system is completely dead and corrupt, left or right.

Surely, Limbaugh has lost credibility with thinking people over the years via his single mindedness and his dedication to accepting everything that even smells republican, regardless of accuracy.

...but this article? what? Winant, you need a hobby. This was useless, pointless, didn't even come close to doing some kind of damage to Limbaugh's place in talk radio or his reputation. It was a pretty mindless, useless read.

You needlessly sucked up bandwidth with this one. Go away.

Really? Obama has proven his dislike and distrust of what the electorate think. If there is any "part" I wish to contribute, it would be to somehow stop all the the jammed through, unread bills that have his blessing.

This guy doesn't want you thinking.

Large or small, the crowd doesn't matter nearly as much as the continued assault by the press with lies. Most conservatives (including Beck) went VERY sour on Bus and Co and were very public about their dismay. That, of course, is a fact easily omitted as the left wishes to interject "Klansman," "Nazi" and the like into the argument to diminish the single truth: America is as disenchanted with Bush as it presently is with Obama. Why, they are cut from the same cloth. They both are lied and twisted reality to meet their agendas.

It's just easier to not admit the new world messiah wears no clothes.

When my subscription expires I'm gone for good. Why can't you, Joan, and those who whine with you accept that being against what Obama stands for right now isn't about race?

Most of us, at least in corporate America, are quite accustomed to having people of all races and ethnicity as bosses. While I think the corporate world sucks, it is a great place for anyone, especially those with racist ideas (like you really), to see that color has nothing to do with performance and leadership.

Give it a rest. If this is all you have to rely upon to counter how many feel, then you have no argument at all. Goodbye Joan...I hope others choose to not give you their money anymore as well.

When discussing the mistakes and crimes at ACRON, how does trying to balance that with crimes of the right somehow settle the dust? It doesn't. It's stupid at best.

The right was complicit in the vote to oust their own this time around. No one wants more of what we had, but we got it, and this time with the liberal whining version of self righteousness. Sorry...

Nothing can excuse ACORN's acts. You call a variety of transgressions out as "a few" acts and members. Dear God, you're just not that stupid.

How about the fact that in various cities, each ACORN member essentially provides the SAME EXACT formula on the set of up the prostitution ring. That doesn't sound like coincidence; that's training.

ACORN is busted, as they should be.

Well, I hope that capitalism never dies...or something like that. What I do hope for is that it morphs into something more like our old merchant class society. One provides to the other what they need, via some kind of production or market in exchange for honest money to then be exchanged for what one needs and desires.

I think we are calling the economic system of today capitalism when it is something far more evil than capitalism or socialism can ever be conceived of being by their respective opponents.

Those on both sides of the isle, from top to bottom, feed this system of graft and favors at the expense of the American citizens and citizens of the world.

It's simply time to take it back and make it work.

My dollars no longer support your pay. There are plenty of strong democrats who find his winning a joke too. If they want to give it to him after he was in office more than 11 days before the nominations closed (and actually did something), good for them. This is a joke. You are a joke, and it is a sheer joy to respond knowing I no longer will ever subscribe.