the damage is too great for [Obama] to fix in one term.

anyone can admit the damage is too great for him to fix. the man isnt God. he's got a lot of work, and a lot more disappointment ahead, and if one isnt honest about that, I'd worry.

still. i'm not going to choose another republican regime simply because "the damage is too great," - that would be absurd. that would be akin to rewarding someone for bad behavior ("Oh look Johnny, you put your hand in the whole cake and messed it up! Now, no one else can eat it! You have to eat the whole cake yourself now.")

isnt that exactly what johnny wanted? and wouldnt we be proving to johnny that we are simple-minded, manipulatable individuals if we gave him that?

There's an attitude to take: mess up long enough, and everyone will be so filled with despondency and despair that they wont even try to turn it around - no, they'll actually be afraid to try to turn it around. in fact, they'll be so beat down by what's happening that they'll just learn to expect the worst and give in out of hopelessness.
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Good Will Hunting ....Sarah Palin

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Selective Republican Forgiveness?

Let me say that I while I am not a fan of Palin, I dont think she's the Devil. In fact, I think once the (media) feeding frenzy is over, no one else (read: Democrats, I mean) really does either. My level of respect for someone who can admit the same about Obama while disagreeing with him is ratcheted up quite a few notches.


No. What is being played upon at this point is basic emotion - because it sells. And it works on even the most erudite. Because I have to admit, while I could care less about what happens in the Palin household, and while I have nothing but the utmost sympathy for parents whose teenage daughter comes home knocked up: there is something visceral about my reaction to Palin's knocked up daughter - and it has nothing to do with Palin herself.

It has everything to do with a ingrained sense of outrage over the idea of republican selective forgiveness: that when John Edwards (lets just insert "Democrat" here), sleeps with a woman who isnt his wife (read: adulterer), he's the Democratic Demon Child - but when Palin's daughter turns up knocked up (read: fornicator - potential abortion candidate (that part being speculative at this point seeing as how mommy/daddy probably nixed that option after the public became aware)), we should approach her family with love and understanding, and......gasp...forgiveness!

Shouldn't we approach all of the potential candidates that way, with that same tender understanding?

Yes. I feel betrayed. I feel betrayed that the self-portrayed "Moral Party" are the same people who would rip into Jamie Lynn Spears for daring to write a "How to Mother" book, and tear her to pieces over coffee, deem her an unfit mother - or if anything, definitely unfit to lead/teach other mothers - all because of having a knocked up teenager ---- and these same people are suddenly placing Palin on a pedastal of suffering parenthood, and asking for a tender approach to her home and her feelings?

Give me a break. She gave up privacy from media intrustion and judgment when she took the center stage. I am constantly baffled by the candidates' tiptoe approach to her - as if she might crack and break if we get "too personal." THIS is going to be our VP? Someone whose tender lady feelings we're even afraid to hurt?

I would have rathered Hillary Clinton, and I seriously disliked her, but at least I did not think she was a scared little puppy. The gloves are off, Palin. Welcome to the Big Leagues.

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The Search For Clarity in the 2008 Presidential Election

ok, somebody sent me this via email and I had to share.

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

* If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, ddifferent."
* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.


* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.


* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a ! state wi th only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.


* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.


* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.


* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.


OK, much clearer now.

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