Your ignorance is on display for the world to see, Annie. Even Erica does politics better than you.

The most recent example (and I'm not letting Clinton, Dodd or Biden off the hook for it either) was his absence from the vote on the Mukasey nomination.

And because of it we now have an Attorney General who believes:

1. That the President is above the law because he is free to ignore the laws that Congress passes and he signs.

2. Waterboarding may not be torture.

I'm sorry. Obama's absence from this vote is inexcusable.

Yup, but when the President won't change course, you need to do more than speak out -- you need to cut off the funding.

To cut off funding you merely block or do not pass the next funding bill. So you don't need that 60 vote margin you need in the Senate to get things done.

What you need is courage.

So far, neither Obama nor Clinton has been out there demanding that we cut off funding now.

And because of it we now have an Attorney General who believes:

This is just not true. The vote was 53-40, and the result would be the same even if every one of those Senators were there to vote "no". Perhaps they should've been there as a symbolic gesture, but it's almost certain they already knew for sure that enough Democrats were defecting to make their own vote essentially meaningless.

Lets say, hypothetically, he had been president these last seven years. And to take it further, he believes and acts the way Bush has. Basically we have GW in Obama's body.

That hybrid, i maintain, could have eloquently and convincingly gone to the UN and convinced them "hey, lets take care of this douche over in Iraq."

Our reasons for going there sucked. And the way it was done, and especially how it was executed after we got there and in the following years, was horrific. THAT SAID, Saddam was killing literally hundreds of thousands of people. For shitty reasons. And we, as a race, have a responsibility to say NOT ON OUR PLANET. He needed to be stopped. What he was doing was not OK.

But if we had a well spoken black man who could make the world see this, instead of a cowboy with the worlds most powerful army at his command, things would have gone differently. I really believe that.

And THAT is why Obama needs to be the next president. He is, at his core, a more moderate democrat. Far lefters may not like that, but the fact is, a Howard Dean type will just lock up our government as republicans kick and scream with every move. He is, through and through, a guy who can bring the respect back to our country, worldwide, something I'm not sure Hillary has the charm to do. He is smart, he sticks to his convictions...

He is just right.

Listening to Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy - even Carter and johnson - makes me realize how low we've sunk.

I can't blame him for currently playing the political games. The nation is deadlocked and immobile until Bush is gone. It is pointless to throw away your energy on a no win cause. It only takes Lieberman to jump party and the Dems lose their sliver of control control of the Senate and they become even more lame for the next 13 months.

1. "Let's hear from someone who was right about the war all along."
   
2. "I'll shut up now."
   

Howard Dean was pretty moderate too, in actual ideology. He's just a wee too straightforward. That doesn't go over well in the Beltway.

thankyou annie

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/09/filibuster/index.html

The failure of the candidates to even show up speaks volumes, and I believe the lack of commitment to challenging the nomination by the candidates explains why Schumer and Feinstein felt free to vote to approve the nomination in committee and the failure of the dems to filibuster it when it reached the floor.

Yeah, the surge has been a smashing succes. No doubt. It's just that the Democrats and the Iraqi people don't want to give credit where it's due. In fact, the Iraqi people are such raging anti-Republican ideologues that a strong majority of them think that the surge has, in spite of its obvious success, made their situation worse; and a growing plurality want US troops out immediately:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6983027.stm

US troops are also having a hard time accepting the success of the surge. In fact, in 2007 more of them than ever decided to die rather than admit they were wrong:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/06/iraq.main/index.html

i like his eyes.

they are dreamy.

Could the country REALLY have become that mentally retarded, or have you been talking to your relatives again?

Sorry, closeted gay man who became an activist once being a staffer for a Republican Senator didn't work out; you have no standing to talk about anyone throwing anybody under a bus.

You might want to consider leaving the city limits once in awhile.

Noone will vote for Billary, and it seems like the Dems have conceded he is the candidate.

Too bad the rest of the country may hate Bush, but they will never put her in power.

If you believe otherwise you are destined for disappointment again during the next election day.... and you thought this past election didn't go your way...