DISQUS

Guilty on all 12 counts by a jury of 12 white people. That includes 2 counts of kidnapping with a min of 15 years each.

"John McCain turned 72."
"We don’t know the extent of what his medical conditions are."

Ageism and ableism in the same post.

"with no experience"

This is a bit sexist in itself. Palin is the only one of the four with any executive experience whatsoever. If she were a man, those two years as governor would be an asset.

"the GOP continues to believe that a woman’s place is in the home"

How quickly we forget Condoleezza.

Looks like I need to get a new username.

It was a good speech for the faithful, but I doubt it swayed many from among the undecided.

I wouldn't vote for any of my in-laws either.

Is all this really coming from the Clinton camp, or is this the media milking an old story that still has legs?

As someone who will be voting for whichever C-list candidate has the last name that is most difficult for school children to spell, I would sign that (with a few edits). However...

The real guts of either candidate's campaign will not begin much before their respective conventions. Everything up to now has been establishing range and windage.

CNN gives more context of what was said. Geisel "told agents that 'if he wanted to kill Senator Obama he would simply shoot him with a sniper rifle.' " As for the weaponry, that is fairly typical of someone who would be "attending a bail bondsman training class".

Is black politics a single entity? Are Obama's politics really the same as Cynthia McKinney's, or are their differences enough to say that they represent different groups of blacks? Does Obama still represent black interests, or is the scope of presidency so wide that representation is abstracted to a higher level that eliminates color lines?

in the spirit of needing to represent all Americans in the best way that they see fit.

Unfortunately, whoever becomes president (or sits in Congress) will often have only one track to follow in cleaning up after Bush, as in the one road leading from hell. On the day after inauguration, we are going to see a whole bunch of career bureaucrats unload on their respective inspectors general and the OMB eight years worth of pent-up frustration over the fraud, waste and abuse that they were forced to sit on out of fear of reprisal.

In fact, I would not be at all surprised to see stacks of green logbooks filled with dates, descriptions and numbers; the kind of information government employees know should never go into a computer. Actually, if any of the union stewards that I knew are still around, I can guarantee you those logbooks.

And that will only be the first onslaught. Not even a President McCain would dare interfere with the inevitable investigations into justice, intelligence, military, finance, and Homeland Security matters, nor with their subsequent criminal proceedings.

Further, before anyone can begin to address national healthcare, the Social Security Administration needs major repairs; not just in future funding, but current breakdowns within the system itself that have resulted in a backlog of a hundred thousand disabled currently owed for four years worth of back payments -- a good many of those individuals are owed nearly $50,000 each. Another 800,000 likely recipients are mired in the appeals phase. You do the math.

Anyway, that is just Social Security. Anyone who only reads headlines knows that many other federal agencies, like transportation and the VA, are dealing with problems caused by neglect from upper management. Many would suggest that the government could just repair those agencies toward supporting new programs, but nope, I think the harm is too deeply rooted.

The next president cannot help but represent all americans because the damage impacts all americans, including those too blind to see any damage whatsoever. The thing is, you got to put the train back on the track before you can move in either direction.

They whipped that puppy through so quick I have to wonder if any significant numbers will notice.

Or else what? They already have the ear of one of the most powerful movers in the Senate, someone who could just as easily get her legislative way with McCain as she could with Obama. Whoever becomes president will eventually have to go through Hillary for their budgets. As things stand today, Hillary and her supporters are in the unique position of having the least to lose over the next four years. Threats against them are stillborn, and they know it.

I have had a hard time pinpointing where the Hillary hold-outs lie on the political spectrum. Many are so radically left that they see Obama as a sell-out to centrist Democrats. Why they don't see that in Hillary is beyond my ken. Meanwhile, the centrists generally recognize Hillary's ties to business, and they believe firmly that her health plan is not only workable, but the most effective path to eventual universal coverage. The feminists pretty much divide into the older generation who has been loyal to Hillary since she was First Lady and the younger group who prefer Hillary's dedication to gender equality over Obama's. Among the rest are the noisemakers who, with the least to say, get the most attention from blogs and the press.

"there’s an obvious double standard with the treatment of Michelle Obama as compared to the Pill Poppin’ Piece-On-The-Side."

Not when you constantly refer to her as "the Pill Poppin’ Piece-On-The-Side".

"with rights and freedoms come responsibilities. That’s something the mainstream media seems to have forgotten too many times during Bush’s presidency."

If the MSM ever had a sense of responsibility, and that I doubt, they lost it long before Bush.

Taking shots at the artist is fine, but he is not the one who decided to run the cartoon on the cover.