I heard the Howard Sten thing showing how ignorant people in Harlem were too. first of all, the quality of an education in the portion of the city where people are worried about where their next meal is coming from and have no parents helping their kids get an education is like shooting fish in a barrel. Whoile it made it's point, who knows how many interviews they left out? I love Howard, but it is a comedy show and they do not seek to be balkanced. They went out and looked for people to make a funny bit. There are plenty of African Americans who DO know about the issues and plenty of white people who don't, (I'm not voting for Obama because he's an arab", "He's preparing to hire 250,000 paratroopers to enforce his rule"? There is ignorance on all sides to go around.)

Arlen Specter's comments were on par with a performer playing to their audience. While those comments may play well out there, I doubt he'd use them at an a ppearance within NYC or DC. I heard him on The Stern show recently, in fact, and he made no such incendiary comments, instead trying to appeal to as many people as he could to sell his book. these appearances are set up to appeal to the LCD of their base, which is the only way they can fight back since they are losing on the issues, or simply lack novel ideas to sell to their electorate base. I have no problem with inciting energy to your base, but to do so in "a base manner" and to do so with a positive style of encouragment are two very different behaviors. And by using negative energy, (whether specter meant to sound sub-rosa racist or not, any politician knows that things can be misinterpreted and usually avoid those type of statements, unless esparate to hold on to their power), it makes it that much harder to sew up the country back together to work as one after months of such divisive behavior. Lets just hope that the usal flea-life attention span kicks in and it Is possible for the country to come back together as a cohesive unit as we most hope to occur. But your naivete in not seeing or not wanting to see precisely how divisie a rally where shenanigans like this occur, is a prime example why they DON'T simply run on the issues.

If it doens't support her contention that he is a MEAN, MEAN MAN, then it doesn't belong here.

My apologies!

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-- something stinks

have to do with the way McCranky is running his campaign? Do you really not understand the difference between these roles?

Be afraid, be very araid....this is how we decide the future of our counrty? Well, if you are Republican I guess so. Move past your fear. Recognize that your party has seriously injured this great nation. Do something positive and pitch in to help the healing.

It seems like the fascist right wing has managed to discharge of massive quantity of inmates from asylums for the criminally insane and in exchange demanded that they write letters to Salon today.

the "Bradley Effect" is not a measure of how many hidden racists there are. It is a measure of how Liberal intolerance has caused a widespread fear of being called racist. The millions of people who told pollsters and others for the last 12 months that they were voting for Obama, but will actually vote for McCain (yup...millions) were never racists. They were just reluctant to sacrifice themselves on the altar of Liberal self-righteousness. Political correctness in the stuff of the Bradley Effect, not racism

I post over 3hrs ago, log off to take the family to church, come back and you're still fighting? LOL.

In these final days of the election people are forgetting (or not mentioning) one very important fact: The US (and world) economy had to collapse for Obama to even have a chance of winning. What does that tell you?

It means that the swing voters who end up voting for him are doing so out of desperation, believing the promises that he will "fix" things. But, as I've said before, nobody can "fix" the deep economic sh#t we're in. This will be another "Great Depression", kiddos -- you'd better stop believing that we'll get lucky this (umpteenth) time and dodge it (again).

So what happens then? As a jilted lover turns on a former flame, these people will turn on Obama with a vengeance once it becomes clear to them that all the promises were nothing more than that -- promises. The consequences could be -- to use another cliche -- devastating.

As I have said in many of my older posts -- beware of what you wish for.

And for those who are _really_ angry at how Obama ended up gaining this presidency I have two suggestions: (1) civil disobedience and (2) tax evasion. Two very powerful tools for public dissent against unwanted government. Use wisely :)

And the rest of the country. And a Specter has haunted the Senate for too many years. I haven't read all the letters to see if this post might be redundant, so here goes.

Arlen Specter is a racist. No better than the troll who posted the first letter. For complex and however unfortunate reasons of political reality, Senator Obama can't point that out about his fellow senator but I sure as hell can. For too long we let the Specters of the Republican party get away with false claims of moderation. No more. Senator Specter, have you no decency? Gutless, racist prick.

I wonder how many people are telling pollsters they'll vote for McCain, but secretly don't want a white woman in the White House?

I guess that "effect" will be yakked about when McCain loses by 15 points instead of just six.

That great patriot Lindsey Graham warmed up another crowd with this comment about Obama's ad:

"Anybody see the infomercial last night? Thank God for cable. If we had played that at a prison camp, it'd have violated the Geneva Convention."

Always good to know that torture is funny -- and so apparently is watching four real-life struggling families describe their hardships.

Is this guy in danger of losing his seat by any chance? That would be pretty humorous.