The whole thing is just depressing.

I really, really am just disgusted by all of them right now.

I don't want McCain in charge, but now, I have very grave concerns about Obama. It's just terrible.

Murder is unforgivable because the forgiver is destroyed. All else can be corrected even Finegold admitted that. Get out of the frump.

Real news - have you watched Countdown on MSNBC the last fews days. There is a new person in the seat. She is better at it than the boys. Good delivery, believable projection. Nice job.

If Odd Ball, Keeping Tabs and weak 3-2-1 stories replaced, she could scatter the Fox Noise back to the huckster lineup of its early days.

Yes, Senator Obama voted with the Republicans on the FISA bill, and yes he is positioning himself more towards the center, gearing up for the general election, but dry your eyes.

If you believe Senator Clinton, the one that cares more for her own, as well as her husband's legacy more than the Democratic Party, or America itself, would have voted different if she had been, past tense get over it, the Democratic nominee, then you live on the Fantacy Island, which yes, it in the past as well. She damaged Senator Obama, as well as the Democratic Party's chances to take back the White House with her, 'He's not a Muslim, as far as I know' comment, and implying John McCain and she are ready on her famous "day one" comment of being POTUS and Senator Obama was not.

Senator Clinton and President Clinton both during the recent campaign for the Democratic nominee, showed me what all my Republican friends had been telling me for years, and that is that the Clintons would say and do anything to get elected. The former broke my heart. They truly are the sleeze I have been told by my Republican friends they were and I could not see it.

Yes, Senator Obama truly disappointed me with some of his votes and statements of late, but I truly feel he has done so in a prevent defense of what the Republicans would have been saying about him come September and on. The Republicans will, like the Clintons, do and say anything, except for talking about issues, to become elected or keep a Democrat from being the same.

Living in Georgia, where being a progressive liberal is almost as bad as being a Catholic down here, it is a daily frustration attempting to talk politics with people who are so closed minded on politics they don't even realize they are voting for people who will do absolutely nothing to help them if elected. The last people we need to have jumping on the Slick-Talk Express are people that know a McCain president would be as devastating for our country as, yes, a third Bush term.

You need to lighten up a little, and hold your breath until Senator Obama has at least been elected, before you start giving the Right more amunition. They truly don't need any help, as they can lie cheat and steal their way to the top all by themselves. As a Vietnam veteran, I was sickened when the Republicans "Swift-boated" Kerry, and any chance of the Swift-boat group had of being a hero in my eyes went down the drain with my tears.

Come on Ms Walsh, give Obama a break!

Isn't about being progressive or conservative. It's about whether preserving the provisions of the Constitution and the core framework of our form of government outweigh strategic electoral considerations. Obama clearly believes (as his fanatic followers do) that his winning the election is more important than protecting people's right to privacy. But it's OK, they say, because Obama is a GOOD person (I'm not so sure anymore). I remember people saying the same thing about Bush eight years ago.

God help us all now that we have to rely on the personal character of our leaders for our basic constitutional rights. The courts remain our last chance, but with the current SCOTUS, it's a very slim one.

I'll vote for Obama, but he has lost my support and will have to really show me some leadership (i.e., doing what's right even though it's not popular) to redeem himself in my eyes.

Motto of the Democratic leadership: "Please, don't hurt us."

This logic needs to go down the drain. Republicans will not pull their punches. No matter what, they will call him weak on security. No matter what, they will eviscerate him as un-American. No matter what, the Republicans will attack. That is what they do.

And yet every year someone says "We have to cave on this tiny little issue. Then they won't say we're weak on (security, family values, the fight against the gays, etc.). And lo and behold, we get attacked anyway, but instead of firing back with a pumped up base, we cower.

Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and a plethora of the Democratic leadership just proved that they do not understand this dynamic and until they do we will never get real change in this country. That is why Democrats are mad, and that is why we deserve to be mad.

Obama will likely win this election, but if he doesn't, trace it back to this moment when he betrayed the trust of millions of newly found voters in the name of a wrong political calculation.

And that is not the voters' fault, to all those who might blame that on them for not voting or voting Nader, or voting a write in. Voters are not beholden to politicians. It's supposed to be the other way around.

She doesn't care about politics, just about seeing her boy McCain get elected president.

I prefer your way, RobJ, no doubt about that. But, like I said, I keep voting for principled losers.

I know many working class whites. I live in Ohio. FISA doesn't make it onto the radar screens of almost everyone I know, including educated suburban folks. I also know (and am related to) many conservatives who are DYING for the specific ammunition that FISA would have given them had he voted no. Like I said, I hate it. I thought maybe Obama could have found a third way on some of these issues and am demoralized that he seems not to have.

On the polling numbers, of course I don't have evidence. I was just giving my thoughts.