tag:www.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk/blogs/platopal//4436 2008-11-26T00:59:03Z 2008-11-25T23:23:25Z 2008-11-25T22:40:00Z 2008-11-25T22:06:27Z 2008-11-25T22:01:12Z 2008-11-25T21:53:05Z 2008-11-25T20:57:45Z 2008-11-25T20:13:25Z 2008-11-25T19:45:37Z 2008-11-25T19:41:55Z 2008-11-25T19:22:44Z 2008-11-25T18:51:37Z 2008-11-25T18:23:54Z 2008-11-25T18:14:29Z 2008-11-25T18:04:38Z 2008-11-25T17:58:55Z 2008-11-25T17:32:43Z Movable Type Pro 4.21-en tag:www.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk/blogs/chronospark//2934.243757-comment:3282748 2008-11-10T20:52:16Z 2008-11-10T20:52:16Z I watched the conduct of Michelle and Barack. The effect on my own conduct goes deep. Now when I face a difficult situation or potentially nasty one, I ask myself, how would they act? I admire them both so much. I teach college history and I always ask my students, who is your hero? Never before now has it ever been a politician.

]]> tag:www.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk/blogs/platopal//4436.243617-comment:3281431 2008-11-09T13:13:46Z 2008-11-09T13:13:46Z Let's take the Military Commissions Act that Congress just enacted. It eliminates the right of habeas corpus for some people. This allows the government to continue to hold hundreds of people without charging them or giving them their day in court. It's a slippery slope. If it's okay to take away a fundamental constitutional right, they can all be removed incrementally, and with the consent of the people.

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