Two simple things to remember here, as weak and wobbly as any truism may be, but still:

1. Politicians are liars.

2. Campaign advisers lie for politicians.

With those things in mind, go back and read the words of these lying liars who are paid to lie for other lying liars. Give these people the credit they deserve, their words the weight they're worth, and see where that gets you.

(This public service message brought to you by a former political adviser.)

Watching Americans try to think, after decades of self-imposed ignorance and cultural isolation, is very amusing!

Keep the letters coming, red-white-n-blue dullards!

It's "change" because that is all we'll have to spend very soon. Change you can spend. Maybe.

It's "change" because it's an even bigger bailout that we've paid before. Change you can depend on. Maybe.

It's "change" because he "changed."

Don't fear "change!"

Pardon me while I vomit...

It's going to get a lot nastier between now and election day.

And it won't stop then either.

Man shot three times in street by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1070975/Man-shot-times-street-racist-gunman--wearing-Barack-Obama-T-shirt.html?ITO=1490

:(

Some say America exports hatred & violence. Or perhaps it is just leakage from some of our increasingly violent and hateful countrymen. 24% still extremely committed enough to blindly support Bush - that's a lot of Americans. & let's just say it's half that delusional bunch who are inclined toward extremism & violence. 12% of 301,139,947 Americans - over 30 million citizens, many of whom own guns, is not a group to be trivialized. Even if you reduce that number by another decimal place, 3 million armed and angry extremists. I suspect that once elected, President Obama will have to revisit the militia raids of the Clinton years. There will be no way around it, I fear. Already the threats are open and visible - does anyone really think the KKK and their allies are simply going to roll over and wait for the next election?

We should all hope (& those of us inclined, pray) none of those chickens come home to roost on Obama.

But it's going to get uglier in the next few days, and it won't get prettier for a long, long time.

More like, Liarliar.

I get ill whenever I read articles like this. My illness grows when I read the letters written in response.

Puritanism has so twisted Americans that even ostensibly "liberal" and "feminist" thinkers (even a "pro-sex feminist" like TCF) think that a young woman sending nude photos of herself deserves some sort of punishment. "Sexual harassment" laws, when applied outside the workplace, are just as ridiculous and punitive as "sexual predator" laws applied wholesale to anyone who transgresses this insane Puritannical hatred of the human body.

Make no mistake: all of you who feel the slightest bit of condemnation are guilty of this: your own fear and insecurity about sex, your sexual practices, and the human body (particularly your own body) - you own deep and unhealthy neuroses about sex contribute just as much to this absurdity as any fundamentalist minister or over-zealous prosecutor. The salacious desire to know "why" this young woman chose to expose her own body via pixelated cell-phone pics exposes an even deeper sickness in many of you.

Of course, I'm not surprised at all by this: all feminists are historic in their disregard for the rights of younger women; disdain for younger, "under-aged" women is a generation-spanning tenet of feminism. The classic rivalry between second- and third-wave feminists is a perfect example of this. The old guard hates the new guard, and will do little if anything to lift them up, protect them, or otherwise lend aid to their ultimate liberation.

Second-wave feminists are somewhat notorious in their Puritanical attitudes about sex; the third-wave of pro-sex thought was supposed to be an antidote for this. But true to their historic antecedents, third-wavers really only care about their own liberation. As for teenage young women? Third-wavers don't see them as politically viable enough to merit concern. Thus why third-wavers support parental notification laws, government-mandated vaccinations, and any number of other egregious practices or policies which restrict the liberty of anyone under the age of eighteen years.

Ah, but I rant, to a crowd of sexually-uptight me-firsters who'd rather have teenagers shut up and play along, no mater what the game, than actually be free-thinking, free-acting individuals. I don't care whether you're conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat: the one thing both sides seem to agree on is their dislike of freedom (and sex).

Now we see what this twisted cabal of neo-cons and right-wing religious fanatics do when backed into a losing corner: they bare their teeth and claws, ready to tear apart their own country simply because they did not win. It is an amazing statement about this so-called "land of the free, home of the brave" that Americans must legitimately fear the reality that a crazed Republican zealot, egged on by the lies and vitriol of the party leaders, will take violent action to ensure victory for their cause. A bigger bunch of freedom-hating anti-democracy crybaby sore-losers you cannot find in American history. You have to fly to Afghanistan to find people who hate America as much as the thugs and nitwits showing up at Republican rallies these days. This is a truly sad situation for the Grand Ole Party. Maybe they should try changing their name to the Grand Young Party - GYP* definitely sums up the way America has been treated by the Bush years.

*Apologies to all Romany in the audience.

Yet another Republican crybaby. Whatever happened to the tough guys in the GOP? The ones who could both dish it out and

You cant afford no ring

You cant afford no ring

I shouldn't be wearing white and you cant afford no ring

Babys on its way

Babys on its way

Say I do and kiss me quick

cause babys on its way

--Dixie Chicks