What a sad time!  We have lost one of the last great statesmen of our time.  

I'm getting a kick out of recent reporting on Bush's legacy!  What's all the fuss?  

He was incompetent when he ran, when elected, and remains incompetent. 

The election of George W. Bush proves the political adage:  "The masses are asses."  He was elected because Americans fell asleep at the switch.  We are now paying the price. 

After he was elected he quickly became a puppet for Cheney who insinuated himself on the American public without having to run for office.  Bush surrounded himself with sycophants.  Those that did not play along were ostracized, humiliated and scorned.  Others--like Condi Rice--managed to escape the confines of the White, save themselves with the ultimate result of never reaching their full potential.  

Still others--like Alberto Gonzales--while trying to save themselves, sold their souls in the process and will never fully recover.

Bush proceeded to loot, pilfer and trash our country--on all fronts.   Our country is a mess.  It is the worst it has ever been, and it will get much worse before it gets better!     

Why is anyone surprised about this legacy?  He will go down in history as the worst President--as he should. 

Why didn't the Secret Service protect our President from the shoe throwing Journalist?

The point is this.  McCain has been saying he knows where Bin Laden is.   He knows how to get him, and after he is elected he will get Bin Laden.

Unbelievable.  Here is a U.S. Senator who knows where Bin Laden is and knows how to get him.  Why has he not told our intelligence agencies, the intelligence committees and others, including the President, and his good friend Petreaus, about this.  He is holding this information back until he gets elected.  Wow, that is putting country first, isn't it? 

"My friends," that is the most unpatriotic position. 

Obama really needs to drive this point home.  If McCain is serious about cleaning up the culture of corruption, abuse and greed in Washington, he should start by firing all of his top campaign and political advisors who epitomize and represent the same culture he now rails against.  Obama should demand he do this immediately.  If he won't, his actions speak louder than words.   Sound bite:  If he won't clean up his campaign, he won't clean up Washington either! 

Here is the McBush line.  I'm losing.  I'll pick a women VP Nominee.  It is risky, but I'll  pick her anyway. 

I did not vet her properly and picked her  only days before I announced her.  How do we handle that?

She is a woman, we play that up.  When the press goes crazy we accuse them of being sexist!  The base will love that.  We will rally the white women vote who don't want to vote for Obama anyway.  They just need a reason. 

In the meantime, we can write her speech, tell her what to say, she is great at delivering a line, and those damn democrats won't have the guts to go after her.   We can woodshed her two weeks and control access to her.  How do we do this?  Well we just need her to go along?  Will she?  Oh yeah.  She wants this really badly.  She agreed to this.

How demeaning to professional and working women everywhere!  How demeaning to every working mother out there that has ever been devalued. 

As Democrats, we believe in equality.  We need to directly challenge this strategy! 

Oh goodness, they have become Co-Dependent!  

She has just demonstrated why she should not be President.  What an outrageous thing to say.  She is baiting every nut out there.  Disgusting.

Obama “rejects, denounces and renounces” Wright.  McCain “rejects, denounces, and renounces ” Hagee.   Wright “rejects, denounces, and renounces,” Obama.  Hagee “rejects, denounces and renounces” McCain.  

Each side has now “stricken” one religious leader.   And they each of them.  So where are we?  This race is not about religion or religious beliefs.   When will we learn?  

She doesn't even regularly attend any church.  Why does carry on so about Wright.  She doesn't even know a pastor--any pastor--as well.

It has been along time since I heard a political speech like the one given by Barak Obama today.

I acknowledge the speech was prompted by and necessitated by the growing political turmoil in reaction to the publicized incendiary comments made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright during one or more sermons at the Trinity United Church of Christ.

Nevertheless, it was a brilliant political speech because it genuinely was from the heart and for the first time in many years addressed the one topic that continues to permeate throughout our democracy and remains the cancerous tumor it has always been: racism.  What a dilemma for a black candidate in America!  He can continue to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist—how disingenuous!  On the other hand he can confront and deal with it—how dare he!  In many ways, he is damned if does and damned if he doesn’t.   This is not the same problem confronted by Sen. Clinton in her candidacy.  

Do we really believe Americans will go to the polls and cast their vote for either a black man or a white man without the color of their skin playing no role whatsoever?  Right.  

For the first time in years I can remember, we had a candidate for public office put it all out there for the world to see.  It was an incredibly honest speech evincing a candor that has not been seen or heard from since John Kennedy ran for office against Richard Nixon.  This speech was thoughtful, well reasoned, logical, articulate, and courageous!  Oh my goodness, it was written and delivered by a black man!

I particularly liked when he quoted William Faulkner.  I can just hear President Bush now as he lamely asked, “did he see ‘Meet the Fockers?’”  How nice it will be hear from a thoughtful, well reasoned, logical, articulate, educated President.