This thing reminds me of the Bobbit trial. It's pretty hard to find someone to fight for. Both sides seem pretty disgusting.

Posted at September 5, 2008 2:43 PM in response to Trooper-Gate Trooper Breaks Silence

Reeks of desperation. Though she is very pretty.

Maybe she was the only candidate they could find who was shorter than McCain (I'm very short, so I can say that).

Sounded like the chair of the PTA. I just don't think this one is gonna' click.

Loved the way McCain "hovered" over her during her speech. I'm sure he has a lot of confidence in her.

Also, like those "body language" experts who were so diligent in assessing the Democrats, did anyone else pick up on Palin's effort to keep physical space from McCain?

Posted at August 29, 2008 1:25 PM in response to Obama Campaign: Someone With "Zero Foreign Policy Experience" Is "Heartbeat Away From Presidency"

Greg,
Suggestion for less brain addling. Try PBS or Cspan.

Being an older Obama supporter, I want to see it all, but I can't stand the noise in the background at MSNBC. So, in the evening I tune into PBS and get sensible analysis and comments. Lehrer is having a great time making tiny jokes and smiling, Judy's interviewing people who matter, Gwen is doing floor duty and seems to giggle more than usual, Margaret has the historians, and you get hours of Mark Shields and David Brooks, who could ask for more?

I miss Keith, Rachael, Gene Robinson, but the days of loving the "noise" are over for me, and I just can't stand it.

Posted at August 27, 2008 10:42 AM in response to Rendell: Obama Is "Like Adlai Stevenson ... What The Heck Is Going On?"

Ok, I guess I'm stupid on this issue. How can anyone legally give $28,500 to any campaign?

I thought the limit was 2,300.

Anyone have an answer?

Posted at August 4, 2008 10:48 PM in response to Hess Employee Who Gave $28,500 To McCain Effort Is A Renter

Oh, and the "first mom" took her child into this dangerous place? hmmmm...

Posted at March 24, 2008 2:35 PM in response to Hillary Campaign: She "Misspoke" About Bosnia Sniper Incident

I have two observations.

One, how did the higher-ups learn about this? A reporter from the Washington Times? How did he hear about this? Was it someone in the office of the snoopers or someone else in the State Department? Or, was the info more wide-spread than State is acknowledging?

Regarding the breach of the Obama files. I understand that on the dates they took place he was in the news for various wins and defeats, but I don't think the information--if any was uncovered--would have been used right away but more likely used at another important point in the campaign.

Also, did they ever find out who sent the "Obama in Native Garb" picture to Drudge?

Posted at March 21, 2008 12:40 PM in response to Today's Must Read

Call me naive, but I fail to see the horror in Rev. Wright's comments.

Did he speak untruths, or did he use uncomfortable metaphors for the injustice that African-Americans have suffered for years?

Wright's comments about 9-11 are disconcerting, but are they untrue?

Do I like anyone shouting from the pulpit? No, but is his shouting so different from the many white clerics whose opinions drive so many Christians, Muslims, Evangelicals and others in this country.

Posted at March 14, 2008 12:11 PM in response to Crazy Like an Uncle

Can you still vote as a superdelegate if you've been indicted? Does this mean that Hillary loses a vote?

Posted at March 10, 2008 3:38 PM in response to Spitzer Prostitution Story Temporarily Stops Media Coverage Of Prez Race

All those guys lost, right?

Posted at March 9, 2008 10:07 PM in response to History in the Making

Thank you one and all. This thread is great. I'm so tired of being manipulated; I feel as though the entire political spectrum as become the typical family of an alcoholic...the dysfuntional kind, before they get help.

The HRC campaign, and HRC herself, have been pampered and enabled. The MSM is scared, they don't want to be called sexist. And, though I can guess that the name Chris Matthews will elicit a groan from many, he had it right.

Hillary has been aided by the coindidence that her last name is the same as that of the last Democratic president, and of course that she is the legendary "wronged woman" who rides to victory on "sympathy."

The lies she is spewing seem to be best characterized as a "wee bit silly for exaggerating the part she played", according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.

A wee bit silly, but horribly damaging if not called to account.

Posted at March 9, 2008 8:43 PM in response to Calling All Former Clinton Supporters