Sir;...People in America are center right because they have been sold on that notion by some pretty glib ad men. They have likewise been warned off responsible control of the economy by fear mongers and red baiters. You, and yours can better sell people on revolution than every commie in America; because if the economic house of cards falls, and takes the government down too, people are going to find themeselves in deparate need, and find themselves without recourse but some kind of liberal left socialist organization... Do you think a liberal government can lead this people where they don't want to go??? I don't think if they were all Moses or Karl Marx that they could lead the people across the street. If they were smart they would give up the idea that they can lead the people any where. They should learn to follow, and take a hint from the people, and realize that if they cannot deliver a decent life and a moderate hope they are old news and bad history... Thanks....Sweeney

Buchanan, you are a true idiot. You are hemmed in by your trite ideological prognostications, and you leave no room for the reality of having to navigate the dysfunctionality of the American political process in order to get elected. As you unwittingly point out, nobody can get elected in this sad contest by being truthful or by failing to anticipate the vicious falsehoods awaiting any participant in it. McCain's treatment at the hands of his own party when he ran against Bush can't be beat as an example of how little appreciation our citizenry has come to have for responsible democracy. ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Obama will do what he has to do to get elected. McCain would do the same if he knew how. I understand that you and yours don't believe in evolution, and that you think the real stuff on science is all there in the Holy Bible, but the fact is that survival of the fittest rules our elections as it does everything else. Unfortunately for us, the winning formula for surviving the electoral process bears just about no resemblance to what works after the process moves on to a four-year stint in office. .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Let's hope the fact that Obama shows the all too rare trait in an elected U.S. president of having a brain and a positive IQ will be an indication of how well he and our nation will do after the contest of lies is finally over. His demonstrated intelligence and ability to communicate are about all we really have to go on, given the lack of anything else in our politics that permits reasonable analysis of what we can expect from a candidate. As an added plus, he hails from those elitists who know how to sound out English: He knows how to pronounce the word "nuclear."

I feel like I'm going out on a limb, taking Rachel Maddow's word that you're a better individual than the things I see you say on TV.

"As Americans render what Catholics call temporal judgment on George Bush, are they aware of the radical course correction they are about to make?"

Yes. Bush claimed that the squeaker he "won" in 2000 was a mandate. It never was, and a major course correction is in order, back towards real, traditional American values -- little 'd' democracy and a Constitutionally-limited Executive Branch, for starters -- and opposite the neoconservative hate- and fear-mongering, which I believe your "culture war" actually injected into an otherwise relatively rational political culture in the early 1990s.

"Headed for the White House is the most left-wing member of the Senate, according to the National Journal. To the vice president's mansion is headed Joe Biden, third most liberal as ranked by the National Journal, ahead of No. 4, Vermont Socialist Bernie Sanders."

I appreciate Ron Paul's defense of property rights and not George W. Bush's and not John McCain's, because the latter both approve of ignoring all other rights in the guise of the perpetual war on the tactic "terrorism."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/27245844#27245844

On the assumption that you're at least half the man that Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann give you credit for, I offer some friendly advice. The Soviet Union is dead. Al Qaida, though as close to the real world embodiment of Hollywood villains as the world is likely to ever see, is also just a couple tens of thousands of Montana survivalist and Todd Palin, Alaskan separatist type personalities of foreign citizenship. They are not in the same league that the Soviet Union was and we will not tolerate the creep of American fascism, with "terrorism" as the GOP fig leaf.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/27281352#27281352

Obama is not winning because he is Black, and your race-based analysis reeks of lazy research and stale ideology. He has had to work, maybe not twice as hard for every vote, but certainly twice as hard for some votes. He will win despite being Black, but he will win, because he has better policy positions on everything from domestic energy production to nuclear proliferation.