again, leadership.

It's very safe to either agree or disagree with the supreme court (in this case I think he got it backwards) -- AFTER -- the decision.

I am wondering if anyone bothered to asked him about these two cases BEFORE before it was safe to comment (and be in agreement with McCain, since "nothing can be done now.")

There seems to be lots of ambiguity as to the wide-ranging nitty-gritty real-world effect of the Heller decision.

I think if Obama had advocated striking down the D.C. gun control laws BEFORE the ruling, we would have heard about it.

Re: Capital punishment for other than murder, isn't that reserved presently only for treason and/or espionage?

I have read that that judgement is curious because capital punishment issues are generally considered a "states rights issue" ... Personally, I'm glad for the ban, but wonder... since Heller seems to be denying or removing the District of Columbia's "states right" to restrict gun ownership, etc. (actually in most places, county determined, gun rules/laws, etc.)

Anyway, I'm wondering about the jurisdictional implications, if any of both rulings.

A few months before the election. It would be nice for a "progressive" site to once in a while go after the gop, rather than obama every day.

Also, I know you like to blame olberman for the propoganda for profit media (the lone guy fighting it agaisnt his companies business interests, which is very brave. unlike you who propogates and attacks progressives for book sales and takes the easy route), and obama for all the political failures in america. But if your going to blame others for their failings and throw them over the bridge for one issue. Don't you think you should right your own ship first?

This site is STILl a clinton bobble head propoganda site. STILL. You can't even fix yoru one lone website, yet you would ask olberman to fix the media, obama the political process. When you can fix yoru one little site, then you can start attacking progressives for their faults. If you can't even fix your one little propoganda site, it is hypocritcal of your to demand fixes in others.

this is the same advice Democrats have been following over and over and which keeps leading to their abject failure.

Indeed it is, ever since the likes of businessman Terry McAuliffe took over the Democratic Party. You could make a strong argument that his leadership of Hillary Clinton’s campaign is the reason she lost the primary, too. I know her positions on the war, Iran, Israel and FISA among other things were the reason I didn’t vote for her.

Have McAuliffe and others now become part of Obama’s campaign? Could that partially explain Obama’s rightward shift?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11435.html

. . . McCain remains, after all, a maverick.

- - MIKE ALLEN | Updated: 6/30/08 11:46 AM ET

Stand by for upcoming bulletins in case this situation changes.

One day all the mask fall off. I read: `Wash that man, get the picture (?), and send him n his way.

okay.

Show a ho to the door.

[Nemo potest personam diu ferre fictim],

Seneca,

[ficta cito in naturam suam recident] or,

- no one can persevere long in a fictitious character. Nature will soon reassert itself.

*

Kitt is fun to read. Kitt is a chirping sparrow? huh. Kitt has flat feet? stinky? maybe. Kitt is a ton of fun, or a 60-inch hurly burly, sweetie pie? okay. Kitt picks mangoes, and cooks gravy to pour on the mashed potatoes. We need people to pick out 'our' vices. Who can see them without some help?

Kitt is never vicious. We need a human mirror. Kitt is ill-bred? Never. UT commenters, respectfully, sometimes remind me (o-me-too), of the story of the dog who was barking at the self-image, reflected in the crystal clear, pool. Where is Kitt? I hope loitering 'round somewhere, and resting in a mind-frame of peace. Maybe this is "off-topic".... huh. okay.

UT needs bald readers who sport one thin curl left on the noggin.

Take a pin with a pink bow and make the last curl on a head curl.

sysprog is growing a blue Mohawk!

sysprog has one secret rose tattoo?

sysprog has many red rose tattoos.

"Blame McAuliffe

this is the same advice Democrats have been following over and over and which keeps leading to their abject failure.

Indeed it is, ever since the likes of businessman Terry McAuliffe took over the Democratic Party. You could make a strong argument that his leadership of Hillary Clinton’s campaign is the reason she lost the primary, too. I know her positions on the war, Iran, Israel and FISA among other things were the reason I didn’t vote for her.

Have McAuliffe and others now become part of Obama’s campaign? Could that partially explain Obama’s rightward shift?

-- brynn "

don't blame terry (or do he is in that line of thinking). But the truth fault is the clinton, di fi, reid, rockafeller, sell-out for profit or power, dems. mcauliffe is small beans. It was teh clintons who mered the parties to two sides of if the same coin. Mcauliffe just did as he's told. he's got a big family to feed after all. Screw teh country, the sell-out clinton dem's say, as long as yoru getting yoours. Why can't I call them republcains again?

As a young boy enters a barber shop, the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you."

The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?"

The boy takes the quarters and leaves.

"What did I tell you?" says the barber. "That kid never learns!"

Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. "Hey, son!" he says. "May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?"

The boy licks his cone and replies, "Because the day I take the dollar, the game's over!"