Just a guess, one_wilson, but are you one of those who, when smelling flowers immediately looks around for the coffin?

Posted at August 28, 2008 2:06 PM in response to The Election of Our Lives

I recognize the 'stars' in your eyes because, although I'm about 12 years your senior, I have them too. We star-gazers are rather rare these days as there seems to be an over-riding aura of cynacism out here, a certain despair as though all dreams are mere pipe-dreams and hope only lives in the minds of fools.)

Fortunately, however, there's still anger - at least we're not all dead above the neck, yet, but I suspect if we have to live under a McCain regime for 4 years, we will be - and it's unlikely that we could ever recover. So, here's to anger, not confined to paper but taken to the voting booth and even to the streets when called for.

Posted at August 28, 2008 1:24 PM in response to The Election of Our Lives

Has anyone checked the polls, past and present? Are the Clintons really the most favorite people in the US?

They just lost an election, primary and caucus and delegate and super delegate driven, but hey, they lost. Bill got fired. Hillary didn't get the nominee spot on the ticket.

It's about time they suck it up, face reality and disappear quietly into the land of has-beens.

Posted at August 27, 2008 5:11 PM in response to Hillary's Smart Speech, and What Bill Should Say Tonight

And it's the same people who are blind to the fact that McCain got into Annapolis because his father was an admiral. (Affirmative action is only a negative when made available to the poor or minorities. Like Bush's admittance into Yale had absolutely nothing to do with his father?)

Posted at August 26, 2008 1:50 PM in response to Bob Herbert In The Times: It's Race, Stupid

Well, McCain has managed to convince me that along with age and condition of birth a qualification for POTUS must include imprisonment somewhere for at least five years. Time to amend the Constitution.

Posted at August 24, 2008 6:05 PM in response to McCain Himself Invokes POW Past To Deflect Criticism Of Houses Gaffe

We 'get' the candidates we are most likely to end up electing. Maybe we'd better take stock of ourselves.

Posted at August 23, 2008 2:23 PM in response to What Biden Brings

'Bush's Brain,' the book which lays out Rove's history as a political operative makes clear that the latest percolations oozing from the McCain campaign have Rove's fingerprints all over them.

(When the news that McCain's office had received a threatening letter and some 'mysterious' white powder came out, I recalled when Rove wire-tapped his own office {he was working for a candidate at the time} and accused his candidate's opponent of the dastardly deed. The FBI was called in etc. etc. investigated and surmised that it was an inside job - too many things didn't add up.)

Posted at August 22, 2008 1:04 PM in response to New McCain Ad: "Celebrities Don't Have To Worry About Family Budgets"

It must be a slow news day. Other than that, when will people get that the media are in the money-making business just like any other corporation. When it comes down to tell or sell, sell will win every time.

Posted at August 21, 2008 4:06 PM in response to Liberal Media! Run Away!

Americans, it seems, will (make-it-up) pay $700/month for health insurance and gripe about it but if offered a deal that raised their income tax by $200/month, and did away with having to pay out the $700 for health insurance, they'd opt for paying the $700.

The very mention of higher taxes, probable if we had a single-payer system, evokes such attacks of apoplexy in the electorate that I suspect we'll just devolve into 40 percent of the GDP and never blink an eye.

One encouraging note, hospitals in my southern Calif. area are advertising like crazy for customers - which is really rather ghoulish if you think about it - but it might indicate hospitals will be forced to reduce fees due to lack of business?

Posted at August 20, 2008 3:48 PM in response to Eating up America: Who can fix it?

Robert Reich argues in his book 'Supercapitalism' that "capitalism is a precondition for democracy. Democracy requires private centers of economic power independent of a central authority; otherwise, people can't dissent from official orthodoxy and also feed their families. Yet democracy may not be essential to capitalism (Southeast Asia, China.)"

And I have to agree with BevD. One size may fit all but it never fits any one very well. Of course the Queen of Flapdoodle, Ms Rice, not long ago told the world that all of it really wanted to be America - which would seem to include China - so what do we know.

Posted at August 20, 2008 1:56 PM in response to When Good Democracies Go Bad