Obama-Edwards has the stink of 2004 all over it. As much as I like Edwards, I don't think he's viable as a veep candidate.

Obama was going to lose West Virginia big even with Edwards. It was smarter to wait until after that loss to use the Edwards nomination to one-up that bit of news (assuming it was already in the bag before Tuesday).

Pilots who abuse their authority in the air like this clown make it harder on their peers.

I said I was done playing that game, Chair. I'm sorry your delicate sensibilities were upset by the fact that members of my family suffered a personal loss in this war, and further still that President Bush's abandonment of golf hasn't make their loss easier. I wish it had.

Hell, his family is probably just as proud of you for using his sacrifice on the Retort as they are of Bush's sacrifice.

I'm done playing the game where mentioning a personal connection to a dead soldier means you're trying to exploit it for political gain. You don't have to be Cindy Sheehan to have a right to speak about the loss you've suffered. This gambit of yours is just an attempt to avoid facing the cost of war.

Man up, Chair. If you want this war, you should stand up for it, not run from the consequences.

BTW, how many posters have you told to go fuck themselves? Rob may have gotten ink in USA Today, but I've managed to get you to get in the gutter.

True. I think LZK got me to lose my shit and dump my own comment once, but I haven't dropped an F bomb here in anger in a while. Point goes to Chair.

We should never talk about how the war personally affects us, eh, Chair? It's much better to discuss it in the abstract so that we don't have to face the actual costs -- in lives and money.

Toting out your nephew's best friend as if you are now some how plugged in is fucking weak at best.

I'm supposed to hide the fact that my family's lost somebody over there? People who think it doesn't matter that I've been watching my relatives grieve over this for months are invited to go fuck themselves. Starting with you.

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night....err...I mean had a friend that died in the war.

Classy, Chair. I watched the kid grow up alongside my nephew since middle school, and he's devastated by his friend's death. The soldier was also his brother-in-law, so he's family by marriage. That enough of a connection for me to care about it?

Laugh at him, but how many of you have actually made personal sacrifices on behalf our soldiers? As an avid golfer, I have some idea of what he gave up. Not important in the war effort, for sure, but I think it does say something good about him.

Hooray for him. The sacrifice of my nephew's best friend, who's lying in Arlington National Cemetary, is so much easier because the president gave up one of his hobbies.

As for my personal sacrifice, I've given up my share of the debt required to finance this $1 trillion war. My sons, and their as-yet-unborn children, have also given up their shares. Is that enough, or should I give up Dungeons & Dragons until it's over over there?

What I find interesting, is that Obama is half white, was raised by his white mother, and yet he is characterized only as an African American. He's as white as he is black.

Do you think that kind of logic works with some of the racist stooges described in the article? If one of their daughters brought home Obama as a date, would the dad think to himself, "he ain't half bad"?

For the Obama Campaign to just now realize that RACISM will play in this election is laughable.

That's not what the article states. The Obama campaign has been aware of stuff like this since day one. They're just downplaying it, and have declined to seek publicity for racially motivated incidents like the vandalism of an office in Indiana.

They realize, smartly I think, that calling attention to it would end up hurting the campaign by increasing racial polarization.

But once again this article smacks of propagandizing the serious struggle Gay men and women have had over the years - by associating our struggle with those who are Mentlly Ill.

That sounds like what some blacks say after their civil rights struggle is compared to the gay rights movement.

If people want to humanize mental health problems by showing pride in themselves and admitting they have them, I don't see the negative in doing so.

Grump.

Must call mom.

What's funny about it? I find the ever-escalating charges put on drug offenders in this country pretty nauseating. People caught holding drugs they were planning to use should be sentenced to probation conditioned on treatment, not jail.

I didn't think it was worth posting until it became a felony.

O'Donnell's not a former journalist, TimBCI. He's a former high-ranking Senate committee staffer in the '90s who became a TV producer and a pundit.

I can't think of a time he's gone public with something like this and been wrong.

There certainly want be no blowout unless the republicans win by one. 2 or 3 other decent size states and McCain will have the victory.

You sound like the people who claimed a Democratic takeover of Congress was impossible in 2006. McCain's not a lock to win Virginia, a state that Jim Webb just won two years ago over a formidable Republican incumbent, or most of the states you listed outside the south other than Utah.

Even in the south, elections like the Democratic win of a safe Republican seat in Louisiana show which way the wind is blowing.

If it was as easy as you think for Republicans to win the presidency after eight years of Bush, the GOP wouldn't be shitting bricks right now.

I'm obsessing over what the name will be, given the constraint that it must begin with a J and should either be Biblical or sound country.

My bet: Jeb if it's a boy, and Jeraldine if it's a girl.

Glad your family is OK, Oohrah. I think I saw some footage from that storm system today and it looked rough. Let us know how we can help you and your neighbors.

Amen, Boortzpal. I should've known the days of cheap gas were over when the second plane hit the WTC.

Knowing where a presidential candidate gets his money is more important than privacy. Mr. Campaign Finance Reform should understand the risks here of allowing a politician's spouse to hide the sources of his or her income. I hope the media turns up the jets on Cindy McCain for this bogus expectation of privacy.

RCADE...you know you bought that gas guzzler for the status....and nothing else....if you really cared about anything stated above....you would have gotten rid of that SUV long time ago

Please close the window you've opened in my soul. It's getting drafty.

I bought the SUV because I have three kids and the vans were wimpy girly cars compared to it. The idea that the car confers some status to me is absurd. If I wanted to overcompensate for the size of my penis I'd get a Harley.

Then you are incredibly clueless as to where the US obtains the majority of it oil imports.

All I know is that the Saudis and other Middle Eastern oil tycoons use some of their millions to fund extremist madrassas and fuel terrorism, so a portion of every dollar I spent gassing up the tank ends up making the world a more dangerous place. If you'd care to dispute this, be my guest.

Since when is yelling at a kid tantamount to child abuse?

The way he talked to his kid on that voicemail was repulsive.