NOW, not in a few days, but NOW is the time for Hillary to body-slam the woman who is trying to waltz behind Hillary, down the road Hillary paved, and cynically exploit the glass-ceiling issue that Hillary raised on behalf of so many women, all for the purpose of electing for President a man whom Hillary (and Bill) have passionately said would be the worst thing that could happen to this country. Hillary is the only one now who can slam this woman without having it twisted into being a sexist attack. This move by McCain is the most grotesquely cynical and transparent and recklessly irresponsible attempt to jeopardize our country and our future by deliberately exploiting the misplaced anger of women who wanted Hillary to win because she's a woman. Now, strictly in terms of every public policy Hillary says she believes in for this country, and everything she says she abhors, this gun-toting female nobody from Alaska might as well be the anti-Christ. If Hillary doesn't show her superior class, intellect, and power against this little Repugnican reptile in female clothing by making clear that it's NOT about gender, it's about the substance of public policy, then Hillary just obliterated any shred of credibility or integrity she may have had to say it's not about her, but about the country and, as she so stirringly said at the convention, about all the people she met who need the kind of change we all need. Take this woman out NOT, Hillary, or don't ever try to say it isn't all about you and your quest for power! Do what is needed to bring the to this country the sanity it so desperately needs through the policies and leaders for which you so passionately advocated at the convention; don't let your own quest for power, and your misguided use of the gender issue, allow you to be demeaned and used by that woman to help destroy our country!!!!

lolcait, you are a broken record. You have no vision for the future of your own to offer, only your hatred of one man. You have no intelligent praise of the woman you claim to adore, and ignore what she asks you to do, though you adore her so.

You are what is known as a right wing troll. You are not a Hillary supporter. You think we don't know this, but we do, because you prove it by your actions. Call yourself what you wish, but your behavior excludes you as a supporter.

I guess this is funny for you. To me, it's as serious as a trillion dollar war. That trillion dollars isn't an abstract concept, you jackass. It's a very real trillion dollars. You probably wouldn't understand the economics if I laboriously explained them to you, so I won't. Suffice it to say that we owe it and we have to pay, bankruptcy is not an option. It amounts to 33k in debt for every man, woman, child, and infant.

The only thing that really seems to entice you right-wing types to vote is your pocketbook. Do you have 100mil in the bank? If so, go ahead and ignore everything I'm saying.

If not, the Republicans are going to stick you and me with the bill, just like they always have. You're going to be taxed 100 ways from Sunday. Your life will be all tax. There will be city taxes and county taxes, and value added taxes, and everything but income tax once all is said and done. You'll pay about 60% of your income in taxes, once you add it all up, and you won't get healthcare, but you won't have to pay income tax.

But you'll have to pay for the continuation of this war. Or maybe you believe the, "surge is working," theory, whereby the U.S. takes credit for the Iraqis' ethnic cleansing and calls it a certain kind of peace.

You probably believe we can win this war somehow. How? Who are we even fighting? Do you know? Because even the military can't decide, so if you figure it out, give them a call. How do you "win" another country's civil war? Who are you rooting for, personally, the Shia, the Sunni, or the Kurds? Are the Republican Guard and the Baathists good guys or bad guys this week? Have you even thought about any of these questions?

Or are you so blinded by your hatred of Obama and liberals in general that you stay ideologically static, don't learn about what goes on in the world around you, and never change your mind?

In the VP debate, all Biden has to do is bash McCain's judgment, and subtly point at Palin as case in point.

In the most isolated (even more so than Hawaii) and under populated state in the union, Governor Palin has no experience with national issues, has never met a foreign head of state or even a high ranking member of a foreign government, and has never written so much as a paper on foreign affairs.

And to make matters worse, having served less than 2 years as governor, she is currently under investigation for cronyism/ethics violations.

Her only cred is that she is staunchly pro-life.

And she was for the "Bridge To Nowhere" before she was against it.

If you don't mind hearing from a Republican, months ago I said the only VP choice I really worried about was Hillary Clinton. I said then, and believe now more than ever, neither a Dodd nor a Biden brings anything to the table in terms of getting elected. I assumed if not Hillary, Obama would go with Kaine/Webb/Warner to target Virginia or Strickland to get Ohio. I can only assume he concluded that none of these other choices would move either VA or OH into his column. And announcing Biden at sometime after midnight on a Saturday morning... What was he thinking? He lost a day of free media, which McCain did not do. Like it or not, McCain generated all the attention to his side with the Sarah Palin announcement--and less than 12 hours since Obama finished his speech from the Acropolis.

As for Palin, I would not underestimate her. She negates many of the themes that Obama and Biden would have hoped to establish, and reinforces those which McCain wants to drive. As a Republican, I am very happy with the choice. Indeed, from what I have seen from our side of the hill today, we now have an energized base where none existed before. We will now turn out in strength for Palin-McCain. I also think that when people west of the Hudson and east of the Sierra Nevadas look at the four candidates, they will most identify with Palin as someone who is just like them. She comes across as a normal person who made good. Not a Princeton-Harvard-University of Chicago lecturer. And she, like McCain, is personally brave: when faced with a hard moral choice--for him to come home from a POW camp ahead of his fellow prisoners; for her to bring a child with Down Syndrome into the world and into her family--they took the harder, but braver path of doing what was right at personal cost. Nothing I have seen about either Obama or Biden matches the narrative. Not to be too snarky about it, but Obama tends to just vote "present." And when do either Obama or Biden buck the Democratic leadership? McCain and Palin have and do, much to the irriation of the GOP establishment.

One final comment, electorally speaking, the Palin choice has probably finished Obama in Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Ohio, Indiana and Virginia. When you look at the electoral map without these states, the math is too steep for Obama to overcome. Looks to me like 16 years more of Republicans in the White House.