I was watching Hardball. Matthews and the panel were gabbing about the most important issue facing Americans--Reverend Wright--when Matthews broke in about Wright's alleged accusation of the US government in creating the AIDS epidemic. SOmething like, "of course, we all know about Tuskegee..."

Do we? How would we know about Tuskegee? When was the last time you saw mainstream news reflect at all on the history of black people in this country? Or even mention that there is a history, especially when talking about Wright?

A human born in a barn's moo-cow stall don't mean s/he's a heifer.

A moo-cow born to a plush GOP lifestyle don't need to act like a piglet.

A human can sire a freak human monstrosity who runs for a presidency.

A church pew-sitter don't make them a cow-paddy flopper in a Spring meadow.

Why does a neoconservative pro-lie, pro-kill, and war monger act like a stinker?

This column is Glenn "In the Tank for Obama" Greenwald at his whiniest worst.

His petty, personal attacks on people he doesn't like are straight out of junior high school.

"His petty, personal attacks on people he doesn't like are straight out of junior high school."

You're projecting.

After some heavy duty plant rescue operations last week, the garden is lush, indeed, in bloom.

No bonnets, but I do have a beat up ball cap that reads "Head Gardener". Will that do?

This column is Glenn "In the Tank for Obama" Greenwald at his whiniest worst.

His petty, personal attacks on people he doesn't like are straight out of junior high school.

I know a poster can't find any assailable points of contention when they immediately resort to broad, empty, complain-y statements.

To be honest, there are about 12 more updates I want to add, because the more I think about it, the more hideousness is revealed to me, but I'm just restraining myself because it's still relatively early in the day and, really, how much can one bear?

Oh, please don't stop. They are most entertaining. (I say that as a Gate 14 person who lives in an efficiency apartment.)

sitting in church ... you might be thinking about playing the ponies or how that woman in the third pew would look with her dress pulled up over her head or what a droning bore the pastor is

Listen, I only go to church once every twenty years or so. It isn't polite for you to sit there in the row behind me reading my mind.

Seriously, is there any episode (this one is still an intro, it's been a commercial and a trailer, but I suspect it's about to blossom into an episode and maybe a mini-series) that reveals more fully how manufactured is the 'suspicion' and 'outrage' ordinary people allegedly feel about Obama, with whom they 'cannot connect', than this whole thing about whether he does or does not sufficiently love America?

I think this one is top of the charts, even beyond all the other silliness about his name, his alleged madrassah education, flag pins, bowling scores and Wright, because either a) those have insubstantive novelty value, which does play in a news cycle, or b) they aren't manufactured by the media, only passed on slavishly upon receipt from their overlords. Obama does or doesn't love America enough? Are you serious?

If Noonan actually talked to some of those fine folk at Gate 14, representative or no, she would probably find quite a few who, at the moment, do not sufficiently love America either, at least insofar as the test is written by her. There are a lot of people who are pissed off, for a dizzying array of reasons; in fact, anyone who isn't pissed off is not paying attention.

Those people ... like a lot of us ... would probably be very receptive to a message that acknowledged that they aren't just imagining things, that they might have reasons to be pissed off and those reasons are not things that are occuring for the first time in our history; it's about the least likely time in human memory that people are going to be reaching for their LovesUsSomeAmerica meters and taking the speaker's stats.

But it is gridlocked road conditions. I remember a Lady in a conical hat who placed the straw hat upward for a moment of privacy.

Then we kissed once for just good luck.

Don't inform Richard about that okay?

The author @ UT needs a new nickname?

How about 'bulldozer'... And then do a bulldoze?

How about a mercy bulldoze @ 11:31. T. Suarez?

T. Suarez wears a pink corsage lapel promoting a GOP mess.

it's tough to figure out exactly what readers the paper is speaking to, or seeking

It's not tough for anyone with a three digit IQ. The paper is speaking to and seeking intelligent, literate readers who don't see a Peggy Noonan column as something to "curl up with" when the goddamn thing only takes three minutes to read.

That you'd miss the point is not at all surprising.

More 'hideousness' please (from a person who recently sat at Gate 14 watching the Arnold Schwarzen-biggermusclesthanallofyou Contestants leaving town - talk about 'not normal'!).

How could anyone so neatly display both their contempt for "Gate Fourteeners" and their complete ignorance of everyday life? When was the last time you met a guy named Vinnie? I believe the appropriate pseudo-bigoted stereotype he was searching for would be something like "Luis" or "Achmad".

You want a specific? I'm one of those people who sees Obama's refusal to wear a flag pin as speaking something about the man. It tells me he's embarrassed of his country and thinks he's above ordinary sentiment. If he had just remained silent about it, no one would care. But no, he had to explain to us why he is better than the rest of us, why he feels no need to explain himself. Yet he wants us to trust him!?

It's not about patriotism; it's about character, just as his hanging out for 20 years at Wright's church is a commentary on his character. All the 30-bullet-point policy prescriptions are baloney, and the people know it. That's why they care more about the type of person who will be president than they do over all his 6-point-agate policy proposals. We know none of them are going to come to fruition anyway.

Greenwald might revel in reading this meaningless boilerplate, but most people don't, because most people live in the real world. And Greenwald, in best junior high hissy fit, clenches his fist and stamps his feet and calls everyone names because they don't care about what he cares about.

I resent being called a McCarthyite because my concerns are different from his. Greenwald resorts to cheap insults that don't even mean what he thinks they mean. He has contempt for anyone who doesn't think as he does. He is ... ephiphany! ... just like Obama, which is why he's so in the tank for Obama.

It would be sad if it wasn't so funny, and it's funnier yet because he's so un-self-reflective and so un-self-aware that he's not even aware of his blind prejudice ... kinda like Obama himself.