Your sarcasm pierces me and has shaken my faith in the truthfulness of our government. Now I must turn on the FOX News channel to cleanse myself.

Posted at August 23, 2008 12:19 AM in response to CIA: Suskind Charges are "False" and "Offensive"

Completely agree. Amusing and accurate analysis of the "nontroversy" dynamic (great coinage).

Compare the way Hillary has handled her hapless campaign with the way Obama is always the calm eye in the center of the storm. Now, which one do you want to be president?

Posted at April 13, 2008 11:55 AM in response to Well, Here We Go Again.

You seem a tad touchy here. Toothwalker's comment doesn't seem condescending or snarky at all. On the contrary, to me at least, it seems respectful and carefully expressed.

Posted at March 12, 2008 11:05 PM in response to In Private Pep-Talk To Top Donors, Hillary Predicts: "We're Gonna Win This"

The high ground? Really? Do you think she'd be making the same case if Obama had "won" in Florida or Michigan? Her "principled" stand is nothing more than flagrantly self-interested demagoguery. As a Florida voter who voted for neither Hillary nor Obama, I would be mighty upset if the results of our distorted non-primary were to be accepted as legitimate. Furthermore, I haven't seen Obama trying to block a revote. I have seen him reiterate his position that he signed on to the rules and will continue to honor them. That, to me, looks like the high ground here.

Posted at March 12, 2008 10:57 PM in response to In Private Pep-Talk To Top Donors, Hillary Predicts: "We're Gonna Win This"

As a Florida resident who voted for Edwards in what I knew was a futile and distorted primary, I would strongly resent the Florida and Michigan "primary" results being accepted by the DNC. It would be the height of injustice. Those primaries were botched and distorted in full knowledge of the rules and their consequences by all involved, including the respective state governments, who changed the primary dates, and the presidential candidates, who agreed to the rules, Senator Clinton included.

Fortunately Dr. Dean is standing firm on not changing the rules in the middle of the game to satisfy the increasingly strident Sen. Clinton. Her pose is that in calling for the Florida and Michigan delegates to be counted she is standing for the principle that all votes should be counted. Would she be making that case if Obama had won in Florida and Michigan or if she had Obama's current lead in pledged delegates?

Of course Michigan and Florida voters should count, but only if we can get a do-over, as our Republican Governor Crist recently suggested (in a cost-free bid for his own re-election: no way will room made in the strapped budget by our Republican majority House and Senate, something Crist knows full well.) Otherwise, Michigan and Florida Democrats must put the blame where it belongs - on their state governments - and content ourselves with voting in the general election.

Posted at March 5, 2008 9:19 PM in response to Obama Still Has Popular Vote Lead — But Just Barely

Wow. "Real Americans," huh? Whew. I guess you're the one to make that call.

Let's see.... I was born 57 years ago in Saint Mary's Hospital in Long Beach, California, and grew up on a succession of military bases around the world and in many states. I went to high school in Reno, Nevada, and Citrus Heights, California. I did my undergrad at UC Santa Cruz and my graduate degrees at UC San Diego. I now live in Florida, holding on for dear life to a job I don't like simply because the economy here has utterly tanked and there are precious few places hiring in what I do. I have a wife and two step kids. My kid wants to join the Navy but wants to wait until Bush leaves office, but he's being tempted to join early because not even McDonald's is hiring right now. I'm a board member of my local Democratic Club.

I was a strong, contributing supporter of John Edwards. After he dropped out, I was initially somewhat indifferent as between Obama and Clinton. Hillary changed that for me when she began channeling Karl Rove.

I guess I'm not a "Real American" because I don't like the crap that Hillary's been shoveling.

This kind of "Real American" comment is the kind of politics of which I am thoroughly sick and tired and why I wouldn't vote for Hillary if you paid me.

Posted at March 5, 2008 8:08 PM in response to Obama Still Has Popular Vote Lead — But Just Barely