@Mezbourian -- O'Bama does not look forward to a Palin debate

cuz he knows he'd get his clock cleaned. Look at the speech she gave from the heart with just notes. Not needing a word-by-word teleprompter like the Bamster.

Well you sure don't need a telepromter when you are on the bath tub meth she uses. Shit, she could ramble on after they had switched off the lights, locked the doors and everyone had gone home.

I was harsh on her. Now that she did the RIGHT thing and resigned... I only wish her well in whatever endeavor she chooses as long as it's not running for office-any office- again. She’ll make a hell of living joining FIX news, seriously.

Now they don't have "W" to kick around anymore. So they turned their ongoing hate machine toward Sarah. She wanted to spare her family from nitwits like Letterman so now she'll bide her time, gather her forces, and knock Bamster for a loop in '12.

But don't believe me. Hide and watch.

I should have characterized Rachel Jackson's death as "sudden" rather than "premature." Death at the age of 61 was not really premature during the early 19th-century.

Colin Powell just warned Obama about big government. Maybe there's some secret move to make the Republican party credible again.

It would be a smart move for the few remaining educated, intelligent Republicans left in the party to chase her off the stage.

It would be nice if the political dialectic could for a change be about competing intelligent well-developed ideas about the future instead of the kind of dumb, mean, divisive pseudo-populism that Sarah Palin exemplified during the 2008 campaign.

LOL That's one of the funniest things I've read online recently. But it's also true, and her fan club would be on Salon and other sites talking about how cats are evil, real Americans like dogs. Talking about all the rural folk that they knew when they weere knee high to a grasshopper that used to bag up cats and throw them in the 'crick', so eating them is not that big a deal, really, they would say, it just makes them admire her even more.

While I agree that the level of vritiol being flung in contemporary political discourse is unseemly, I think prognostications of society's decline are premature.

Ugly campaign rhetoric is as old as our Republic. For example:

Rumors about Jefferson's fathering a child with one of his enslaved Africans were first published in 1802 by his political rival, James Callender.

Ten years before Cleveland's presidency, he fathered an illegitimate child with Maria Halpin. The child was placed for adoption. During the 1884 campaign, his opponents popularized a chant of, "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?"

During the 1828 campaign, Andrew Jackson was called a jackass by his opponents. Jackson attempted to resignify the insult by using a jackass as a symbol (this was the forerunner of the donkey used to symbolize the Democratic Party). Jackson's wife was also accused of bigamy--and though the accusations were true, at the time of her marriage Rachel Jackson was unaware of its illegality, and the situation was rectified immediately. Further, the event had occurred nearly 30 years prior to the campaign. Some blame the pain of these accusations contributed to Rachel's death in December of 1828.

During the 1860 campaign, Abraham Lincoln was incessently mocked for his humble origins; he was referred to as a "clown" and a "bumpkin;" his physical courage was questioned; his clothes and haircut were subjects of derisive jokes; and he was ridiculed as just plain ugly.

My point is that vicious campaign and political rhetoric is nothing new. While that doesn't make it any more palatable, attempting to ascertain its party origin is futile--vitriol was common long before either of our current parties existed.

or something like that. One Salonista wrote they do not like ads. I guess they don't get the pop-ups and sidebars I do.

and told which interviews and what to say and not come out swinging. Then they tried to embarrass her by asking who is the sultan of Uzbekastan, as they did with Bush. And Katie Koran and Charlie Gibson had fun with her. But McCain restrained her.

Obvious McCain did not want to win, just like Bush 41.

We will now witness the real Sarah.

And the libs are terrified.

In '10 they'll start to lose control of Congress.

Then USA will be reinstated to normalcy after Sarah wins in '12. ACORN be damned.

But don't take my word for it. Hide and watch.

I truly hope your sentiments are bluster and posturing -- which is fine by me, we deserve to express our disappointment -- however, no matter how much I disagreed with the previous administration's behavior, I never hoped to exact revenge on my fellow Americans. I hope you will reconsider your wish -- as someone else said, especially on this rather special day.

We too easily lose sight of what we have in common when we focus on the little things that make us different. When we hold on too tight to those little things, we resort to mischaracterizing the little things other's believe. Look past the petty and insignificant and embrace what we share.

There is a difference between being concerned and being negative, e.g., after initially supporting war in Iraq because of the 'presented facts on the ground', I became 'concerned' that it was not the right thing to do and not in our best interests. I never became negative and hoped we would fail or suffer more loss of American lives to show how wrong-headed that misadventure has been.

For all of the economy's troubles -- the result of more than a decade of slow fundamental decline -- I dearly hope, for all American's sake, a recovery and not a cold dish of revenge.

Just extending an open hand...

slam the governors of the other 49 states by her "lame duck" analogy? Well, of course she did...it's Palin. She is such a divider.

She is playing the ultimate victim card. Poor, poor Palin.

The people of Alaska have seen very little of her since the election as Palin has opted for life in the spotlight, so she has some nerve suggesting that other governors are takin' a paycheck for traveling around the globe while she is workin' hard for the people.

Say what? She has been gone for weeks and just got home.

Wouldn't she want the support of other governors if she plans to run in 2012? Why slam them?