"Police Luring Supporters out of road with broadcasts of 'Talking Point Memo' videos"

Its a new day, a new administration and we have a whole bunch of new challenges.

Lets wipe the board clean and tackle our problems together. Its the only way we are going to fix this nation.

Seriously, its been 7 years already.

I have my voter registration card mailer and even checked my status against the registration website, and it all checks out.

WTF?

I have my voter registration card mailer and even checked my status against the registration website, and it all checks out.

WTF?

No matter how our reputation has fallen around the world these past 8 years, the world still looks to us for leadership on matters of civil rights and equality.

The symbolic nature of an Obama presidency is not lost upon the world and it certainly isn't lost on folks like Charles who probably never believed this could happen in his lifetime.

Matt Drudge should be relegated to the likes of The Weekly World News reporting news about Batboy and alien sightings.

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/460/slide_460_11037_large.jpg

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security

Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.

I recently had to go through the whole emasculating rigamarole in Hawaii. I mistakenly assumed that TSA had lightened up on the whole "liquids" restriction and innocently tried to bring through some sunblock and some juice in my carry-on bag. The security guards not only confiscated my stuff -- without questioning whether I wanted to finish my juice before I walked through -- they also celebrated by high-fiving each other for another "catch", then talked down to and patronized me by scolding me as if I were a child.

Let me tell you something -- deep down inside me, I wished something very bad upon those security guards. I feel dirty now, but at that moment I felt humiliated and wanted to retaliate somehow.

Growing up in culturally diverse Hawaii, conservative Kansas, foreign Indonesia.

Being exposed to a working-class, blue-collar lifestyle, followed by education in an elite Ivy League school, ending up full circle in down-trodden communities as an organizer.

When you have as broad an exposure to as many different cultures and people as someone like Obama has, rather than just noticing the differences amongst people -- as most are prone to do -- you start to see the similarities between different people.

I think he utilizes this ability to "weave" peoples together through this "web of similarities" that he innately notices.

That's transformational. They get it. He gets it.

But, I do think it would be more along the lines of a deadlocked nation unwilling to recognize its mistakes, realizing no real progress resulting in a slow, debilitating malaise that gradually eats away at the U.S.'s financial, military and cultural power as nations like China and Russia slowly rise in power at our expense.

I think we are useful to countries like China in the same sense that detritus is useful to fungi.

Moments like these are what finally brings the question to the American people: "Are you for this type of thinking, or are you against it?"

Maybe we still need another 4 years of Republican reign to finally bring our great nation crumbling into civil and financial destruction before we are prepared to recognize the true nature of the modern GOP and make a change. Maybe if Obama wins the election by anything less than 60% percent of the popular vote, he should just concede to McCain...

But then I think about all the good, honest, hard-working people who would be most adversely affected by 4 more years of GOP rule and I snap out of it.

However, I think if I were China, Russia or Iran, I'd probably be rooting hard for McCain and holding out for some sort of disastrous event to take Obama out of the race.

This is a replay of Sarah Palin, and it just goes to show you: McCain JUST DOESN'T LEARN FROM HIS MISTAKES. And he is doomed to repeat it over and over and over...

"terrorist tongue jab"

Here's the hilarious thing: The field of Republicans this year was so terrible and so lame that they weren't able to cull this all out during the Primary. In other words, this was the best they could offer.

So Hillary and her supporters were right. Her tough campaign perfected Obama for the General election and by being so tough, made a hack like McCain a cakewalk.