Dems/Libs/Progressives or whatever need to get their shit together when it comes to standing behind their leader. I don't suggest blindly following him, but these complaints from "many Democrats" is unfair. There is a backlash to all this handwringing. It sends the wrong message about who you are and what you stand for. When I watch the news the MSM only mentions Obama's supporters when they are "angry" or turning against him. Just this morning I read a blog on The Daily Beast by John Avlon titled "Hard Core Obama Haters." Guess who he named as hard core haters or "the self-appointed ideological enforcers"? : http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-12-05/hunting-the-obama-haters/

I love that Barney Frank line, but seriously, these people need to stop asking Obama to be the President. The Constitution says he isn't, and that's that.

Also, if Greg gets to ban all mentions of Bill Richardson's beard, then Eric needs to ban all mentions of Sarah Palin. As interesting as it is to hear about her stylist, I've really had enough of seeing her and her name on my screen. At this point she's even ruining my love for A Fish Called Wanda because Michael Palin is in it.

Sarah Palin's makeup artist was paid a total of $68,400 over the two-month period

Guess it takes an awful lot of lipstick to cover up a pig!

Obama has now filled 13 of 24 top posts, compared to only one from Bill Clinton at this point in the transition, two each for Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, and eight from George H. W. Bush.

That is truly amazing! And only Clinton, Carter and Reagan are relevant comparisons since Poppy's succession did not switch party control -- he could (and I believe in a couple of cases did) keep the existing Cabinet.

Hey Barney, you might want to borrow Kucinich's pocket Constitution, because there is actually only one president right now, and it sadly isn't Obama. Go to hell and focus on your own job...aren't you the chair of something...?

I'm sorry, Barney Frank has his head up his sizable ass. How could Obama be *more* visible and active than he's been WITHOUT having yet been inaugurated?

Frank needs to read the freaking Constitution.

And maybe turn on his damn teevee set. He'll see Obama on it every day.

If I was Obama I'd be pissed that Frank went public (I'm assuming) w criticism of him before he talked to him about it (again I assume they didnt talk). I dont understand why Frank would want to even give a HINT of Democratic division before we even get off the fucking ground.

Congressional Dems should be looking at themselves rather blaming Obama when he isn't even president yet.

Other Dems need to grow a pair.. PE Obama is not President or a Senator................. Frank Challenge Bush not Obama...... Idiots

"Obama might have been outspending John McCain on the campaign trail, but it sure looks like the GOP was able to outspend the Dems in one crucial area: Cosmetics for the VP candidate."

I appreciate the transition you are trying to make here, Eric, but the sexism is really snarky. There is no comparison, of course, between cosmetics for Biden and cosmetics for Palin. You might as well compare the cosmetics expenditures for Palin and General Petraeus.

You're going for a cheap laugh that is meant to underline Palin's frivolousness, but your comparison is wrong-headed.

A legitimate comparison would be between Palin's and Hillary's expenditures, or Cindy McCain's and Michelle Obama's. That comparison would tell us something meaningful about Palin and makeup.

You know, $750 million (Obama's campaign haul) used to sound like a lot of money, until we started talking $750 billion every day. And it sounds small still when we start throwing out numbers like "a couple of trillion".

But when I open my checkbook, $750 sounds like a lot of money to me.

PEACE

"Obama's total haul for the 2008 elections: nearly $750 million..."
A sad commentary on how much the media can profiteer from our presidential elections. How do we get dedicated intelligent leaders when it takes this kind of money to get elected?

Pundits assume the increase in gun sales was all to do with Obama when in fact many of us bought guns after seeing and hearing the opinions of those McCain/Palin supporters angrily pontificating while standing in line for a Palin rally. Paranoia runs deep among these goobers.

For Pelosi to assume that Bush would not do damage every single day being in office was a big mistake. He's more concerned about his image and being able to show his face in public without an armed escort without getting attacked than doing anything for the good of the country. How many more disasters can he add before leaving office just to make sure the next president's hands are tied as much as possible.

Under Bush's compassionate conservatism the nation has been wrecked, devastated... and all he attempts to do is protect the holdings of the wealthy and corporations and thanks to Pelosi he will walk away from this mess he created scott-free of consequences.

Almost 1/3 of the nation has been invaded by Paliens...and it is destructive...taken right out of the movie "Idiocracy"...Paliens have what voters need...it's got elected-lytes. What are elected-lytes?...it's what Paliens have and what voters need.

btw...for those who haven't seen it yet over at Reddit it has been confirmed that Bush has been drinking heavily for the past 1 1/2 yrs and any alcoholic can tell you that is drinking well beyond what non-alcoholics do to get drunk. So the disease has been running the country.

That incident of Bush not shaking hands with foreign heads of state was because he was plastered drunk and they knew it and were just reacting to his condition (like not knowing what to do rather than purposely ignoring him). How embarrassing.
One must separate the disease from the man but Bush sober is still a self centered spoiled brat. Even his ranch and his ranch pretense was a campaign prop??? Everything about this man is phony , a dangerous hypocrisy.