I would gladly forward each and every one of my social security checks to you, c/o The Marx on Mars Programme, but something tells me you are one of them arm chair socialists, and not willing to volunteer to contribute based on your abilities and to receive whatever you should justly receive based on the findings of a committee made up of the finest minds we can find in Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Cambridge, Hyde Park (we plan to rebuild Citizen O's fine 5000 square foot home brick for brick up there), Madison and Princeton (Paul K has been volunteered to be the chief economist of Mars).

You are not just one of those limosene liberals with a gazillion trust funds, are you? I gotta tell you, you'd be expected to do more than listen to Nina Totenberg on NMR (National Martian Radio) and balance your checkbook up there. What about a position with the elite guard of looker downers at those friggin' awful pessimistic, unhopeful selfish people down there on Earth?

America's big cities are at the highest risk of terrorist attack. The last thing we need are a bunch of bible-thumping idiots declaring a holy crusade against Islam.

For all of McCain's vaunted experience, he still doesn't know a damn thing about the economy. What good is your 26 years in the Senate if you don't know anything about the economy?

McCain is desperate. As my late beloved mother would say, some of you folks are "dazzled by bullshit". McCain talks about the surge, but he was and is still wrong about IRAQ. Hell, even George Bush agrees with Barack Obama's commitment to a withdrawal timetable. When you Hillary honks were calling Barack naive for suggesting that we go into Pakistan and attack Al-Quieda if Pakistan failed to act, George Bush was doing exactly that. That's intelligence folks. No, not experience, but someone damn knowledgeable about the big picture.

John McCain has to lie about his record and his VPs record to win this thing. That tells me that the Republicans have a lot to worry about. No Dem was going to have a cakewalk to the Whitehouse despite what the pundits in the media would have you to think. The electorate, for the most part, is split. I agree with others who say Barack has to roll up his sleeves and go into the diners. He has to come out swinging in the debates and he has to have SHARPER AND CRISPER ads explaining what he will do for Americans (TAX CUTS AND LESS WAR)too. Look if you timid Democrats want to attract more bigots to the party, count me, and I strongly suspect, lots of other blacks out. I'm perfectly willing not to vote for another Dem Presidential candidate. Did Bill Clinton win a huge majority when he first ran for the Presidency? Nah, he didn't.

I'm registering voters tomorrow.

And what some of you are exercising on here, towards Senator Obama, is some of the ugliest, saddest hate-filled drivel I've ever seen.

Do you people have lives?

Does this honestly make you FEEL good to talk like this?

Because if it does you need serious mental help. You do realize this election is going to END right? And you're going to have to go on with your lives. And that Obama is probably going to win this thing.

I mean that's why you're on here, yelling hysterical, hate-filled rants right?

Step away from the television, put down the remote, get off the computer and take a deep breath.

As for small towns:

1.) They don't have the best record. I mean they ARE the ones who gave us George W. Bush. (Well them and the same soccer/security moms who are now going to vote for John McCain because of Sarah Palin.) So thanks. Twice.

2.) From their standpoint, might be to learn to be a little more open-minded.

I wonder if small town America is aware that Russia isn't Iraq. It has a huge military and nearly 30,000 nuclear weapons, many of whom still targeted at US cities. How exactly would a conventional or nuclear confrontation with Russia improve the lives of rural, small town Americans and who will the burden of such a catastrophe fall on?

-- pantanal

As someone who has lived & worked in Russia, it goes without saying that you are correct, but if the 'values" recorded in this ethnographic reporting are reflective of a a significant, (i.e. election-tipping), minority of American voters, your analysis is far too complicated to have any meaning for them, until the shock-wave hits. And, frankly, where these folks live, they'll have to wait for the fallout.

This is a very depressing view of an electorate that is too stupid to survive. My problem is that, if we do not vote in extraordinary numbers, they will drag us down with them.

That still makes it OUR MOVE.

Joey Tranchina

Joey Tranchina

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperinsheriff/sarah-palin-instituted-ra_b_125833.html

Is this a woman white women can rally around???? Are conservatives ok with this? Why should citizens pay for evidence collection? Is this a preview of the "small government" reforms we can expect from a McCain/Palin administration??

I love Barack's new ad. He's right there in your face talking about "change being more than a slogan". This is a good start.

It's really been played HARD by the wingnuts against Obama, but it's just flat-out wrong. He's a freekin' banker's candidate, for cryin' out loud.

The guy doesn't have a socialist bone in his body.

I don't recall hearing "socialist" cries against Kerry or Gore. So what is it about Obama that results in such a ridiculous charge?

I realize a lot of these bizarre attacks are viral, and just crawl out of the muck of the right-wing radio subconscious, but I was hoping maybe there was a real source.

McCain, the former flyby gigolo with the gazillion-dollar wife, is the one collecting Social Security.

McCain keeps confusing Iraqi Shi'a and Sunni. He still gets confused about where their geographical strong holds are and the complicated reasons for the 1500 year hostility between them, which now effects the US in many ways. Even after several visits to Iraq, McCain needed Joe Lieberman to whisper in his ear, since he didn't seem to know the difference, even the difference between Iranians and Iraqi Shi'a, when that difference his crucial to understanding what's going on in Iraq. He seems totally unaware that the Taliban has made a powerful comeback in Afghanistan, and has even taken over tribal areas in eastern Pakistan using the strategies used by Hamas and Hezbullah.His knowledge of economic and financial policies is nearly zero. As for Palin, she doesn't even know what the words Sunni and Shi'a mean, knows nothing of the complicated history of the Middle East or any other part of the world for that matter. and speaks of world affairs within the framework of a religious zealot that waits for the end of the world. Obama, although young, is extremely well read and well informed on world affairs and travelled the world over many times. His hosts in Europe, Israel and the Arab countries he visited were amazed and impressed by the breadth of his knowledge. Biden of course has tremendous knowledge of world affairs AND economic and social affairs. Those who keep claiming Obama isn't qualified and McCain is, are not only dead wrong, they are also mean, stupid and demagogic.