James Hannaham's idiocy at interviewing is further magnified by his ignorance of history:

What I mean is that they're heroes in that John McCain sense, that they fought bravely but they were captured --

John McCain didn't fight bravely anywhere or anytime. Son of an admiral, he graduated at the bottom of his Annapolis class and acquired his pilot slot through politics, not ability or worth. He was shot down while possibly committing war crimes. He was imprisoned, tortured, broke under torture, then returned home to embark on a political career remarkably similar to his brief military experience: selfish mediocrity emboldened by entitlement.

McCain has one thing in the political world he would never have had in the military world (which is why he bailed - that and a military career actually requires some work): a chorus of dull-witted simpletons like Hannaham, who are so intellectually lazy and morally corrupt that they would promote a fairy tale of "bravery" that insults true acts of heroism. I wish Spike Lee had punched Hannaham at this point in the interview, then kicked the dumb reporter in the head a few times - that is, after all, the way you get a stubborn, foolish mule to behave.

Gads, what a deep shithole of vacuous pseudo-intellect Salon has become. Heckuva job, Joanie!

You're hilarious! Your logic-twisting, fact-inventing, and broken logic are a subtle but effective comedy act! You are without a doubt the most clever anti-Palin liberal out there, with your faux-support love-letters which plainly admit (while pretending to demur) that Palin lacks experience, competence, intellect, and other traits normally associated with good leadership. Thanks for the laughs! Keep up the good work.

...you're offended by someone making reference to "old people."

I knew the answer to that question - and many other questions Mistress Sarah has dodged, evaded, answered wrongly, or just plain misunderstood.

My "foreign policy experience" consists of actual visits to other countries, rather than staring at a foggy spot over the Bering Strait and wondering if it's land.

I guess that makes me over-qualified for the VP slot. No wonder McCain didn't call me!

The Bush Administration is driving America with FEAR again.

Determined to retire NOW, fearful Americans would sell out the future of their children to compromise with and reward those who led them to this juncture.

Throughout the buildup to this "crisis," Americans were offered get-rich-quick schemes, obvious scams, but driven by GREED Americans played along.

Since the 80s, a large number of Americans have believed they could become millionaires by investing in Wall Street, real estate, or bonds. Americans driven by GREED have always ignored the warnings by those with more sober and less rapacious minds.

Why should GREEDY FEARFUL Americans be "bailed out" of the mess they made for themselves?

And by this I do not confine myself to Wall Street tycoons but everyone foolish and greedy American who based his/her "retirement" (i.e. future security) on a stock market already proven volatile and corrupt. By this I mean a lot of YOU.

How many people wanted Social Security privatized? Raise your hand, GREEDy and FEARful American - there were a lot of you, liberal and conservative, Republican and Democrat, who wanted that, who wanted much fatter "retirement" accounts that the meager public fund could provide. Where would we be now if we had listened to those Americans who were driven by their FEAR that Social Security would fail and their GREED to have more for themselves?

For years, many Americans have chanted the mantra, "Greed is good." They have idolized millionaires and made a game of becoming wealthy. Millions of Americans sit in front of the television, eyes glazed over with lust, as they watch Fellow Americans open briefcases, guess answers, or complete simple challenges to win a pile of money.

Why should there be any relief or even pity for those who built a house of cards in the advent of a storm?

Don't be deluded that it's Wall Street fatcats and banking tycoons who have put you in this place. All those GREEDy bastards did was dangle a gnarled bone - you were the ones foolish, FEARful, and GREEDy enough to think it was a side of beef.

America, you decided to gamble. You decided to "play the market." You decided to redirect your wages into an investment account. You decided to risk your children's college fund on some short trading.

We've seen this before, we'll see it again. FEAR-driven, GREED-driven Americans who make mistakes and destroy lives, then refuse to accept responsibility and demand a do-over.

None of this will change until we change.

Whining about not getting a fair shake from NPR? Whimpering that the news media is unfair?

Whatever happened to the tough Republicans? When did the GOP become dominated by whining babies?

Poor Elephantboy and all the other tools who back McCain/Palin: get smart. Our party (yes, I'm a Republican) decided to take a dive in this match by running a senile old fool and a rambling incompetent idiot - there's no reason for you to sell out your own dignity and veracity by blindly supporting these two losers. You all know there were a dozen people more qualified than Palin, and a few more able than McCain. Hell, Elephantboy: you weren't even a McCain supporter a year ago, but now you toady along like a good little... well, baby elephant.

It's all a show - McCain is taking a dive. The Palin choice proved it. There's no desire to win in '08 because the GOP knows what it can do four years later - and the hardcore in the party are already salivating at the damage they can do to an Obama Presidency between Nov 5, 2008, and any day in 2012.

Too bad nobody sent you the memo, Elephantboy...