...vote McCain"

This could be a great election slogan!

That's why he needs Obama to win. He's pumped his prostate dry over his Clinton hate and it's made him a very wealthy and popular powerful man. What's there to go all Freudian over McCain? Not much. He NEEDS a Dem for that.

I saw you on Matthews tonight, well done.

Oh, and I'm sorry they kept talking over you. That's sexism, for sure. You made it clear you had something to say and yet they (especially Buchanan, iirc) pretended you weren't even there.

That's on Matthews as the moderator to say, "Shut up, Joan has something to say."

You got it in eventually, but I was angry they ignored you like that.

You handled it gracefully enough.

Buchanan does that a lot, though. He thinks he's a fucking prophet.

Right, that was a good point too. What did Matthews say?--"Leave it to Joan to make a leftist point" or something like that?

Well, at least someone out there thinks you're a leftist.

(Couldn't resist, sorry.)

If I had my way Chris Matthews would be on the corner begging for a job. He is an over opinionated, arrogant, sexist pig. He did not show Hillary the respect that she deserves, and therefore I would not give him a penny for his worthless thoughts. I don't know why they did not cancel his show along with the very annoying Keith Oberman. At least they took the first step in getting rid of Tucker Carlson. I swear thought that Matthews was going to have an orgasm over the fact that he thought Hillary was going to loose to Obama. I could never watch an entire show because my stomach could not take it, but I listen long enough to know that MSN is now one of the worst networks on the air. Finally, I wish they would give him a bib to wear while he is speaking and provide his guest with some protective gear to shield them from the shower of spit that often springs from his loud mouth!

is a better metaphor, in fact an almost perfect one for Bush-McCain and company. A quote from Wikipedia:

"The ship of fools is an allegory that has long been a fixture in Western literature and art. The allegory depicts a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious, passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction."

Also the title of a truly wonderful novel by Katherine Anne Porter, for anyone who wants to read a great book.

Despite the media's refusal to meaningfully cover third party candidates, Senator McCain and Senator Obama are not the only choices.

Uber misogynist Chris Matthews can shove his inaccurate metaphors. I am not some sheep he can march lock step to the voting booth.

I'm reading up on Cynthia McKinney and sent her a donation yesterday.

www.runcynthiarun.org

PS -- call you Congressional Representative tomorrow and urge him or her to do his or her job and impeach.

www.impeachbush.org

History has not been kind to nations that fool themselves by grasping at once heroes for leaders at times of severe challenge...Weimar Germany and defeated France in the 20th Century come to mind. U.S Grant did not do us much good. Eisenhower bringing the McCarthy era to the summit did not serve us well either.

We are ending an era of our Executive gone criminal, our Congress reduced to an extension of the White House staff, our treasury looted by a select rich few and their K-street charlatans, our enemies enriched, our friends insulted and our Constitution denigrated.

This all stays in place with an election of John McCain ( as his handlers desire.) - a man once heroic and honorable but now a hollow speech reader than smiles for approval when periods appear on the monitor. His threats are fantastic, his facts distorted and his greatness delusional. He performs like a man who has taken the devil's bate in Laura Bush's favorite story of The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. He has been so chosen.

The denigration is unfortunate to see; but, unforgivable to believe or support.

LT:

So you're opting for the lifeboat with the great big hole in it that will leave you as dead as the people on the Titanic...

Way to go! Cynthia who? Confess, were you one of those smart asses who voted for Nader in 2000? Thanks a whole lot for that! Because Gore and Bush were identical twins, right? Gore would have gotten us into some unnecessary war, right? We'd be in a recession now, right? We'd have just as large a gap between rich and poor now, right? We'd have people rotting in faraway prison cells without benefit of counsel or actual charges being brought, right? We'd have the Justice Department going after Gore's political enemies, right? We'd have wasted millions of dollars on abstinence education, right? We'd have gutted every single regulatory agency, right? We'd...be in just as big a pickle as we are now, right?

Welcome back Joan! Thank God we're putting that family drama behind us and going after McCain. Wait, McSame. Couldn't resist that, especially after being called an Obamabot for months.

Hillary for VP...if it helps us defeat McCain and Cynthia whatsername there...

I don't think the media will turn on Obama and treat him the way they treated Hillary. Obama is favored by the elite. America's image around the world is in the toilet and we have pressing foreign policy concerns in the Middle East and Africa. Who better to persuade those populations and their leaders to give us what we want (oil, other natural resources) than a charasmatic President with an African father and an Arabic name.

I could never watch an entire show because my stomach could not take it, but I listen long enough to know that MSN is now one of the worst networks on the air.

Let's face it, they're all pretty substandard. It's not about racism or sexism or partisanship or ideology. These things are all just adjuncts to a basic, good old-fashioned anti-intellectualism.

The problem is that it's all commercial television and the medium makes it impossible to articulate an original thought, much less develop one.

Although I've become quite addicted to television during this political season, there are plenty of cringe-inducing moments that have nothing to do with sexism or racism, but rather poor journalism.

This is the number one scourge that should arouse our indignation.

If we demand real journalism, real intellectual probing, the subsidiary issues of racism, sexism etc. will not stand up under the heightened scrutiny.

Let's just go for the kill, in other words, and stop fucking about on the margins.