DISQUS

In answer to the column title - absolutely nothing. It's what made this nation great. It's what has brought men and women this far - it moves mountains.



But in Hillary's case perseverance isn't what keeps her keeping on. For years, she and Bill have had a strangle hold on the Democratic Party, inching it further toward the right. Their ties with big business, lobbyists and other questionable political connections are infamous. If Obama does win, this power structure collapses in upon itself. That's one reason she's not going away.



The use of Bobby Kennedy's assassination in June 1968 as justification for staying in the race was positively chilling and frankly there is no rational explanation for it nor an acceptable apology. But that statement, along with her grave mistake of trying to give LBJ credit for the Civil Rights Act, should have given even her most devoted insight to the true nature and character of one, Hillary Rodham Clinton. If you thought she'd say or do anything to win, that proved she would.



Bill Clinton was one of the most popular Presidents of the 20th Century. However, Hillary was not by any means a popular First Lady. Geraldine Ferraro's commentary about Obama's color being the primary reason he was still in the running only made it obvious to me that had Hillary Rodham not married William Jefferson Clinton, who in the Sam Hill would know who she was or care? So one might say the same about her.



But finally, this is not good old American perseverance fighting for good old American values. Hillary has made it exceedingly clear that this is about her. So rather than rising to the occasion and showing herself to be an exceptional woman of intelligence and strength, instead she has shown herself to be a self-absorbed egotist who believes she is owed the Presidency. Well she's not owed a da ed thing.

18 million voters - most of whom are women - aren't so hypnotized by the prospect of Hillary in the Whitehouse so as to lose complete sight of what this election is all about. Obama's platform and Hillary's are very almost parallel, unlike John McCain's - an 180 degree turn.

If they can do it, we can do it. Sounds like the justification from the Court of King George IV and entourage. The Constitution is just a piece of paper too.



There's something not quite right about a nation that threaten to torture and murder those who don't accept its offer of peace and freedom; did I mention also dangerously juvenile.



But stop, wait - for the past 8 years this nation has been in the control of a bizarre dangerous little twerp with a major father hang-up. An alcoholic drug addict who's found J-E-S-U-S. I've got a big New Flash so has everyone on death row. I agree with Bill Maher George W. Bush should have to walk home. And then he should be tried for war crimes against humanity and hanged in effigy in the Court of Public Opinion.







Just because the Nazi didn't win WWII doesn't mean the President's name isn't Schikelgrubber.

If we lived in a perfect world or could stay college seniors for life, Ayn Rand might just have some relevance to real life.





She was investigated by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee during that dark time, which when you consider her political leanings, is actually pretty strange. She's a real practicing Capitalist, boys.





I must say that I found Gary Cooper an irresistible Howard Roark in the movie version of "The Fountainhead". But "Atlas Shrugged" is my all time favorite, with its gigantic ego phallus - as if a corrupted modern materialistic view of the world were comparable to the Greeks true vision of Democracy.





Ayn Rand only works for the very young or the terminally naive.

Coming from a man who stands with someone who actually said God sent Hitler to move the Jews to Israel, what can you expect. Of course, what the moron forgot was did God actually direct Hitler to torture and murder 6 million of them first.



This country has lost all decency and intelligence - otherwise why would we continually elect these sleazy morons to represent us every where in the world and do our business.



Such men reflect more on us than they do on themselves. You are indeed known by the company you keep.

Iraq wasn't even a country anywhere - much less Africa - until 1921. That's when the League of Colonialists Welfare World Wide (aka the League of Nations)gave Lebanon and Syria to the French and Iraq and Palestine to England.



Americans, for the most part are totally ignorant about their own history, so we can hardle be expected to know where countries we try to conquer are located and their history. It might be a great idea before American greed strikes again in the form of a war that we all be able to pronounce the name of the country we're at war with properly, know who were fighting and be able to pronounce their names as well. And let us remember that America has supported more dictators over the past 60 years than we've deposed - that could prevent us from ever falling for that freedom from a ruthless one nonsense again.



This country has allowed itself to become the laughing stock of the world. As Bill Maher quipped about George & Laura Bush's trip to Germany - enter the King and Queen of Comedy. Unfortunately this isn't a Fairy Tale and I have this bad feeling that Americans are not going to live happily ever after.