I cannot wait for the day when they kick Liebermann out of his chairmanships.

Hanging over a cardboard sea,

but it wouldn't be make believe,

if you believe in me!

People don't believe.

It's a phony election covered by phony newspeople.

Congratulations.

One of the ways in which Sarah Palin helps McCain's candidacy is that now, people who were uncomfortable voting for a man with African blood in his veins but who at the same time couldn't see a phony old geezer like McCain in the White House, now have someone they can justify voting for. In our eyes, a phony younger geezer, but to them a way to get past the the bred-in-the-DNA revulsion at the thought of voting for a black president.

I am an Obama volunteer in Georgia, and I too saw the story in the AJC. I am not willing to let the dream of turning my state blue for Obama/Biden fade away and for the first time ever in my life am working in a Presidential campaign. There are others like me, people who have been silent and apologetic Democrats ever since Reagan. No more. No more. This election is far too important.

So, I say to any Obama campaign staffers who just might be reading this: if you are about to leave our state, make sure you appoint a local to run the show and to continue running it. Don't leave a vacuum. And, by the way, Obama campaign, help us get some campaign stuff sooner rather than later;people are begging for it!

The only reason for Obama to campaign in the South is to help local Democrats get elected. The notion that Obama could win even one Southern state has always been a fantasy. The South is at least 20 years away from giving a majority in any of its states to a Democratic presidential candidate. Democrats must come to term with the reality that two separate nations exist side by side in the USA. They alternately despise and ignore each other and if this is ever going to change, it isn't going to change for a very long time.

given how "blue" Boulder is and how overwhelmingly the caucuses went his way ... it adds to the sense of a momentum dissipated or lost or becalmed....

Bumperstickers, yard signs, car antenna ribbons ... get it out there.

(I live in an neighboring county which also went for Obama ... so far I've seen 1 yard sign and 2 bumperstickers -- no, McCain/Palin yet, but they'll come)

who would have guessed???

Now that no journalist of any integrity or self respect will work for Joan Walsh, she has had to go into some interesting parts of the internet to find anyone else who is between gigs and whose unemployment is running out.

Meet little Alex:

>Formerly the media critic for another online magazine, Dragonfire, Koppelman is a contributing editor at Smith Magazine and has written for New York Magazine and the Huffington Post, among others.

>Alex Koppelman has appeared on MSNBC, CNN Headline News and Fox News, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

His highest aspiration turn the war room into a second rate version of the Note...

Heck of Job, Alex.

Not only is this guy lightweight, he has zero credentials for doing any serious reporting.

Wow!

Public Polling Policy has it at a four point margin, McCain 48% - Obama 44%:

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_NC_910.pdf

The margin of error: 3.9%

The USA Today poll is so far off what has consistently been reported in NC it's laughable on its face. The PPP poll tracks much closer to every single other poll that's been taken in the state.

As a far left edger, it was hard for me to understand just how much residual latent racism there still is in this country. I truly thought the Obama campaign would prove to be a watershed event in the tortured history of racism in our nation. But, as this campaign enters the home stretch it is getting hard to ignore what seems to be the direction all this is going. It looks like there are simply too many closeted white racists to let get Barack over the hump. I hope I'm wrong. But when poll after poll show just how unpopular - nay, reviled - the majority of proven to fail Republican policies are, there is only one factor left to consider as to why Obama isn't walking away with this. And that is his perceived "blackness".

I'm sick to my stomach at the direction this country is headed. That it's doing so for what appear to be blind racism only makes it worse. Add to that the absolutely FAKE "feminism" of this godawful bad joke from Alaska and, should they prevail, there IS no hope for this country.

That never happens either. But if you don't make the effort people see you as writing off half the country and ignoring the values they hold.

So every election, each party declares they'll make inroads into states they haven't had a voice in in decades, and often they are wrong, but every so often, you might just pull off a Virginia, or a Colorado, or a Montana, and if you don't know until you try which states you can pull off.

I'm disgusted and astonished at the passivity of the Obama campaign, especially when you look at the ammo that the McCain/Palin ticket is giving them. There's the story of how her husband was a member of an Alaskan separatist group and video of her telling them what a wonderful job they are doing. Imagine how that would be used by the GOP if that had been Michelle Obama. Where's the ad running in the South questioning whether Palin can be trusted if she supports a group that "hates America"?

There's the great video of the Vietnam vet and former POW who was locked up with McCain who talks about McCain's hair trigger temper and how he wouldn't want his finger on the button. Where's the ad questioning McCain's mental and emotional fitness to be POTUS because of his POW experience (not to mention his health concerns due to age and recurrent melanoma)?

Where is the offense? Where's the knife-fight attitude that dealing with the GOP demands? I, too, would love this election to be about hope and high-minded ideals, but again we let Karl Rove set the rules, and it's about dirt, pandering to base emotions and controlling the news cycle. So where are the Democrats who understand that? You don't have to surrender the South if you get out the right messages and go on the offensive!

Are you guys TRYING to lose?!?!?!