The polling data is out there that the public option is supported by the public. Thus conservative Democrats who believed that they were at risk if they supported public option were wrong or just using it as cover to keep their insurance donors.

The doctors also support public option. The top three groups trusted by the public are nurse, patient groups, and doctors.

It may well become politically perilous to oppose public option.

I suppose that it would be a little much to ask Obama to share the secret of how he walks on water but do you think you could get someone to get him to share his miracle cure for jet lag?

If the presidents as a group say they get more done on Air Force one they are not controlling their work environment in the Oval Office optimally.

The point of more effectiveness when in closer proximity is true and is the basis of the complaint by those who would rather that he had stayed home and lobbied the Senate on health care reform.

It is clear that President Obama was spending time and energy on working for the Olympics. It is fair to argue about whether the expenditure was well chosen -- it is absurd to argue that it didn't take time and energy away from alternative activities.

I'd picked Rio as the winner before Obama announced that he would go. There is a real tendency for the Olympics to try for geographical balance and Rio had made it to the final four which meant that it had an acceptable bid.

"I would do many things differently if I were the parent in question. I wouldn't be a stage parent, I wouldn't introduce my daughter to a guy who was known to have had affairs with young girls (indeed the mother hoped that Samantha would be a star like Natsia Kinski), I wouldn't try to live vicariously through my child, I wouldn't send my child off unsupervised for a photoshoot (of any kind), the list goes on and on. " (from ClearThinker)

This is the family whose word on what's good for their child I'm supposed to respect?

What this child learned from her family,Polansky, the press, the courts and much of the public is that nobody gave a damn about her.

And now you want to tell me she wasn't traumatized?

What she learned was the sex was about taking, not about loving. That nobody cared what she thought, let alone cared about what was good for her.