"It is typical for the left to blame everything on Bush including the weather."
I blame Bush for a dumb war, and for raising spending while idiotically cutting taxes, hence ruining the dollar. And yes, your democratic congress is also a piece of crap. I didnt say it wasnt.

"You equate inheritance with a handout?"
It IS a handout!!! How is it any different to a socialist state handout?! Think about it, idiot! Both enourage laziness and both involve one person gaining for doing NOTHING. Why is it different just because it's your parents instead of the state? You think the state doesnt pay?! If they dont take your money when you die THEY TAKE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE. That's how the economy works.
"So your money belongs to the government when you die, not your family?"
Here's a question for a dumbass who clearly doesnt understand how the economy works. Would you rather pay taxes when you die or when you are alive? Because it's not "either you pay inheritance tax or you dont", it's "either you pay tax as inheritance or you pay somewhere else." The government will get it's money. When do you want to pay? Think about it. Honestly, American's are completely unable to understand the basic math. YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR GOVERNMENT. There is no way around it. Doesnt matter where. Lower taxes and you pay in debt so you pay later. Remove inheritance tax and you pay somewhere else. You will pay. You need to learn that- it really is very simple.

Palin is drop-dead gorgeous.

PUMA08

Martha's comment is the most relevant here I think.

No one is going to deny that Palin has some rough edges, but attacking her personally only really plays into the hands

of the millions of Republician looking for an excuse - any excuse - to vote for her and/or her boss.

The way to attack Sarah Palin is not through the guns or the pork or the bad soap-opera family life. Its by pointing

out again and again that saying "Im just a hockey mom who stumbled into politics" is not a credible basis for an

application for the job of Deputy Commander in Chief. That kind of hustle will certainly play to the crowds at GOP

rallies, but I suspect the generals in the War Room (if she tried it on them) might take a different view of her

understanding of America's problems and the level of her commitment to solving them.

Palin's a lightweight punching above her weight. Thats no crime and she's been doing that all her life and cleverly

too, so good luck to her on that. But even in an election such as this where both leading candidates are so much less

qualified than their predecessors and both have qualities that the other needs and lacks, she stands out.

A direct attack on her rough edges willl only embolden her - you have to cut off her room to manouvre, ignore the soap

opera, stop her playing to the crowd the way she has been doing so far and test her on how seriously is she taking her

application for the job she is applying for - thats when you play the "hockey mom" card, not before. Setting her up so

she digs her own hole and falls in is easier said than done of course, but probably as good a way of taking her down as

any.

Secondly, Andrew's point about how Obama is misreading his opponent is a perceptive one. Personally I dont think

Obama-Clinton was ever going to happen, given Obama's nature and his limitations. Kennedy-Johnson only worked because

Kennedy was the boss, Kennedy was as qualified as Johnson for the job and had as much political throw weight as Johnson

and (although both needed each other), Johnson needed Kennedy more than the other way round. And both of them knew it.

Even if Obama had had the bottle to choose Clinton, I suspect they would have fallen out a year or so down the line and

he would have had to ask for her resignation. Kennedy only had to deal with one Johnson at a time after all.

That said, Im not sure Biden helps him in any way that matters. Its not hindsight to say that Obama should have known

that McCain would pick somebody "young" and given the presence and impact of Hilary, had to have known that a woman was

at least a possibility. More than anything, Last but not least, Obama had to think like McCain and by so doing, wonder

whether McCain would ever want to be shafted again the way he was in 2000. Those wounds still run deep despite the

presence of Karl Rove and other ex-Bushites on his team. McCain wants to win of course, but some things you dont

forget. He wasnt ever going to pick someone who didnt accept who was boss of the outfit.

So who would I have picked? Er, let me get back to you on that..............

i was being sarcastic you complete clown. i have just shown you for what you really really are though. totally naive, no streetwise skills. easily wound up. in fact, an absolute donkey, in life and political thought (i apologise to any donkeys reading this who may be offended).

how you fell for that one has made my day. my week. even my year. i take the chubby brown remarks back AL. you are the mr bean of the new statesman.

getting back to sarah palin, did you two go to school together? neither one of you is the sharpest knife in the drawer after all!

CT - Just read your comment and am astounded by your ignorance. Don't think Andrew Stephen ever hinted for one second that Obama wouldn't win, but warned us (with great foresight, as it turns out) what a charlatan he is. We're seeing this already in his appointments of lobbyists, his big-money donors, and Zionist extremists. Also don't see a single fact or word word in the paragraph you quote, namely, "She also knows that the Democrats have selected a previously little-known male celebrity [oxymoron] to be their presidential candidate, who in turn chose a 65-year-old man to be his running mate, rather than the woman who finished in a virtual dead heat with him in the Democratic primaries." Not an oxymoron at all: Obama was previously little-known but became a celebrity thanks to the media. Are you disputing Stephen's assertion that Clinton finised in "a virtual dead heat" with Obama in the Democratic primaries"? In the primary elections alone, in fact, Hillary Clinton easily BEAT Obama; Obama did better in the caucuses, that's all. Get over it, CT, and get a life.