The thing about drug warriors.. liberal, conservative and neocons alike is that they really do understand the concept of harm reduction very well.

All you have to do to prove it is to advocate alcohol being added to the list of prohibited drugs and the drug warriors will all start chanting harm reductionist proverbs frantically in unison.

Hypocrites, pure and simple.

Are you afraid of what your grand kids will say about you?

The great uniter went after Ferraro again for a comment she made 6 weeks ago to a minor newspaper. He sees a party elder as nothing more than a foil--his grandmother,too. seems to be what his elders are for. Looking for that old moral equivalance to wiggle out of his own tight spot. The great uniter has united this lifelong Democratic with John McCain, it it really comes to that.

I don't agree with some of what you have to say but it is amusing how all this "hope", "change", whatever is dependent on our voting for him. It's a rather obvious ploy. I mean, it's not like we could do all of this wonderful stuff by and for ourselves, huh?

Has got some baggage to handle.

Terrified of speaking to the issue of the fact that one in every three black men in "the land of the free" will lose his right to vote, thanks largely to the drug war.

If you really are as open minded as you think you are then you will actually address the issue..

Otherwise you are just as hypocritical and, dare I say it, racist as those you love to point fingers at.

Any party that will enthusiastically support a policy which disenfranchises one sixth of their most loyal voting block doesn't deserve to win.

And that is precisely what Democrats have done and will continue to do.

What a bunch of cowards you are..

"i guess there's just something i find fundamentally unfair when you have to convince people to not believe blatant lies about you. and let's be honest - obama is the only one who has had to endure this."

Perhaps you weren't around in the '90s when Newt and his group were, with the help of the msm, trying to convince the public that the Clintons were murderers, rapists, and not to mention corrupt, conniving, and morally suspicious. Let me guess, some of you Hillary-haters out there still believe this (unsupported and mostly debunked) stuff that was fed to you by an msm that at the time you believed was telling you "the truth."

Perhaps you weren't around during campaign 2000, when Al Gore was trashed by msm as being a "liar" and a serial fraud because of stuff that msm made up about him and then proceeded to quote as fact.

And then of course the swift-boating of Kerry in '04.

Yes, it is fundamentally unfair, you are right about that. But that doesn't stop stuff from happening.

But to think that Obama is somehow being singled out for this sort of nonsense, that is just deluded.

No offense intended.

perhaps i should have been clearer. obama is the only one IN THIS ELECTION being forced to deal with blatant lies being spread about him.

i agree with the rest of your post.

For the record: I grew up in Kansas, my mother is from the South. We are mixed race. Whenever my mother would say something racist all of us kids where gang up on her and tell her to stop it and eventually she got the message. But I would die before I would stand up in front of the world and slander the name of the woman who spent her life taking care of me and my siblings. She would be humiliated.

This speech showed as nothing I've seen from him that he has the really important experience necessary to be president. Hillary has her years of White House intrigue, McCain his tours on Senate committees, but Barac has the true experience of the soul of his people.

Extraordinary.

Wonderful speech - I've never heard any politician speak this way in my lifetime. Hillary prefers to play up the old fears and racism in her bid to maintain the status quo. You may want to be cynical, but Obama really is the only chance we have to BEGIN to accomplish what he is talking about. Hillary or McCain will gaurantee 4 more years of exactly what America is like now.

A vote for anyone other than Obama is a vote for no improvements.

Not all who rant are insane.

There are those who deliberately inflame.

Don't bother responding to their bait, lest you encourage them to keep on baiting.

Better to remain silent, and be thought a fool,

than to open your trap and prove it once and for all.

The sad fact is that there are those who will throw fuel on these fires even as the honest and forthright are saving lives.

As far as the armchair 'analysts' regarding the general election, etc etc, hey, you get what you pay for. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

The internet is just another proof that an infinite number of idiots do not wisdom make.

Thank goodness for Barak Obama, who is sure enough of his own identity to challenge the idiocy of the net.

I was an Edwards supporter that migrated to Obama when Edwards left the race. I had some doubts, but mostly thought Obama was a promising candidate--seemingly as honest as a politician can be, devoted to uniting disparate groups and not taking tons of $$ from special interest groups. I vastly preferred him to HRC, despite the fact (or so I have been told) that I am 43, white and female.

But I have never, ever wanted to vote for him (or anyone in my lifetime) more than I want to vote for Obama now. He addressed the issues I had with his pastor's statements and he gave one of the greatest speeches I have ever personally witnessed, that wasn't recorded before my birth. If you can't tell that he was speaking from his heart when he said what he just said; that he has lived through BOTH sides of "the great divide"; that he sees there has been no real racial discourse in this country, just self-serving, hurtful talking points--if you can't tell that, I am sorry for you. That speech had me, a cynic, in tears.

He is a much greater hope than I first thought. I just truly saw him for the first time. And I will work like a dog to get him elected.