When will you people ever learn? The Democratic Party fails you over and over and over and over again and yet you blindly keep voting them in. You think Obama is the answer, he's not. This hopefully serves as proof of that (following his comments that he would strongly like to see Lieberman stay).

Applause to bbpdx for taking a stand and changing his registration.

I'm reading the wonderful comment all over the place that "This was a genius move by Obama. Lieberman will now be indebted to him." Uh, no he won't. He can do whatever he wants now. They let him stay. The guy has nothing to lose. If they decide later on to change their minds and let him go they look like idiots for bringing him back in the first place. And frankly, they are. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Please wake up and smell the coffee. We saw the hell the Republican Party put us through the last 8 years; and the fun is just beginning for the disappointments the Dems have in store for us.

I wish you folks could think for yourself, take a stand, and vote 3rd party and get rid of all this trash. I hear talk about "Lamont 2012!" Lamont is just another DEM. Is it really so hard to think about a third party candidate who will be immune to this increasingly-obvious corruption? Thank God the people of Vermont elected a good guy in Bernie Sanders.

The media is trying to spin this as bi-partisanship, Lincoln-esque "working with my enemies," etc...what I call it is pandering.

I was disappointed in the Emmanuel appointment, but then hearing he was going to be keeping Gates, then hearing Lieberman's going to get a free pass, then hearing Summers is coming in, and now this.

What happened to the whole argument of "I voted with my party 90% of the time because they're right?" Same logic applies here--Obama should't have to pander to Repugs or the DLC. HE WON.

It's one thing to be belligerent about your victory like Bush and the GOP were in '04. It's another to listen to the opposing side but politely tell them, "Sorry, you were wrong. Now go away." I don't understand why he can't do the latter and has to cave in to these bickering interests of a political era that people clearly want to be over.

Now I remember why I didn't vote for him. I knew this was going to happen.

Then again, how often did people talk about Andy Card when he was around for Bush? How often does Josh Bolten get brought up?

Probably this is cuz bush doesn't do anything anyways...hahaha...but at the same time, I am hopeful that this intense focus and overanalyzation on Rahm is just because it's Obama's first decision/appointment as president. Best case scenario would be that he fades to the background on 1/21/09 and starts kicking ass and taking names behind the scenes.

I'll be happy with that.

Obama vs Jindal 2012 would be a great matchup in terms of history...

My point in bringing up the Pope was that if someone of international stature like Pope Benedict could speak out against this case - someone who technically has no need to worry about this, is not an American, and arguably has better things to worry about - then the least Obama can do is at least condemn the breakdown of the justice system in Georgia, a state that he needs. He has yet to do so. Why?

My point in bringing up the Pope was that if someone of international stature like Pope Benedict could speak out against this case - someone who technically has no need to worry about this, is not an American, and arguably has better things to worry about - then the least Obama can do is at least condemn the breakdown of the justice system in Georgia, a state that he needs. He has yet to do so. Why?

Completely disagree - unless Obama grows a pair and decides that he will speak out against the state sponsored murder of Troy Anthony Davis, something that Pope Benedict - the POPE, for crying out loud - has already done, he won't win. This is the most gripping issue in the Georgia courtrooms right now, with an issue that is 10x more important and relevant to us because it involves our justice system. It has gripped the Georgian African American community and multiple times Sen. Obama was contacted by the Davis family to join them in condemning this mentality of "guilty until proven innocent" that has infected the US legal system. He has ignored this request. I think if you look in the numbers that is probably what that 8% of African Americans are concerned with that has left them undecided or voting "other," that this so-called candidate of the people is not standing up against injustice.

I read something that summed it up the best:

"One of the saddest realities of this political season is that Barack Obama or John McCain will become the next president of these United States without being asked a single serious question about their thoughts on the state of America's "justice system."

Pathetic.