Maureen Dowd clearly is in love with Hillary Clinton and fantasizes about having her as her life partner. Think I'm losing my mind with this one? Think again. Dowd has done nothing but savage Mrs. Clinton since she hinted that a presidential run was on the horizon and she continues that attack with a piece in today's New York Times. Rough love is what I call it. In today's piece Dowd questions whether Clinton has shed her feminist past in order to be president, and if so she has become unsuitable to do the job. “The former American first lady, the one who’s supposed to be brimming over with feminist impulses, has ignored and overlooked her husband’s peccadilloes for the greater gain of keeping her marriage intact, as she tries to return to the gilded perch and run the White House.” Dowd presents Clinton as a cold calculating person that is willing to shift her positions (is she dreaming of Hillary in bed) to suit what is coming up ahead of her. Dowd has often taken this route with Clinton and the shtick is getting very old. Yes, Hillary is competitive, she is calculating and she can be steely. What would Dowd like in a president? Would she like stupidity, slacking, and softness. If so she should just endorse Bush for king. So how do I know Dowd is in love with Clinton? As the old adage goes, she protests too much. Today's Times piece is crap over turned and heated up. Dowd again talks about the issue of the Clinton marriage. This issue has been talked about, written about and apparently fantasized about in ridiculous amounts. Yet Dowd continues. She even refers to Clinton as a Dominatrix. More fantasies perhaps? Whatever Dowd says about Clinton as a candidate, wife, mother or president should be viewed as exactly the opposite of its meaning. Dowd is a woman scorned. She loves Hillary but knows she can never have her.

Jon Hurdle, Reuters, October 31, 2007 BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral. Church members said Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's death was God's punishment of America for tolerating homosexuality, and they attended his 2006 funeral in Maryland with signs saying "You're going to hell" and "God hates you." The federal jury determined the Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, and three of its principals invaded the privacy of the dead man's family and inflicted emotional distress. Albert Snyder, the Marine's father, testified that his son was not gay, but the church targeted the military as a symbol of America's tolerance of gays. Matthew Snyder died in combat in Iraq in March 2006. The jury awarded Snyder's family $2.9 million in compensatory damages plus $8 million in punitive damages in the first civil suit against the church, which has demonstrated at some 300 military funerals the past two years. The lawsuit said church Web sites vilified U.S. soldiers, accusing them of being indoctrinated by "fag propaganda." Read More Here

John Hill, The Sacramento Bee, October 27, 2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's own party is turning on her, apparently because of a perception among California Democrats that she has not done enough to shake up the status quo in Washington, D.C., according to a Field Poll released Friday. Congress overall is doing even worse with California voters, with an approval rating sagging to 30 percent or below for only the seventh time in the past 15 years, the poll of 1,201 registered voters found. Both Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat who became speaker this year, and Congress as a whole have fallen short of voter expectations since taking over both houses, poll director Mark DiCamillo said. "I think the reason for her decline and the low ratings Congress is getting is that voters here are not seeing any change," DiCamillo said. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's approval rating of 51 percent is down 10 percentage points since March, but consistent with her average over the years. Sen. Barbara Boxer's rating also has slumped, from 54 percent in March to 44 percent. Both Boxer and Feinstein, however, still enjoy the approval of more voters than disapproval of them. For Pelosi, it was the first time the poll showed more people disapproving than approving of her performance – 40 percent to 35 percent, with 25 percent having no opinion. Other polls since 2003 have shown larger numbers of voters with no opinion, but Pelosi always won more approval than disapproval. As recently as March, California Democrats approved of Pelosi by a 5-to-1 ratio, DiCamillo said. Now it's less than 2-to-1. Nonpartisan voters also have soured on her. Read More Here

For months now we have watched an completely inept group of Republicans attempt to run for president and truthfully it has made for some good comedy. Watching the GOP candidates fall all over themselves during their many debates is often more amusing than a great Three Stooges episode. Looking at the GOP candidates seriously is hard to do but for the safety of the nation must be done.

What is very clear from watching the GOP debates and various appearances by the candidates is that they are clearly unsure who is currently president of the United States. Over a 90 minute debate you rarely every hear the candidates mention the name George W. Bush. Given that Bush is the incumbent president and leader of the GOP it is surprising that he is not mentioned. Oh, wait a minute. I know why they never mention old George, its because he has royally fucked up the country and the GOP.

Instead of discussing Bush and his seven long years of destroying the Constitution and everything that is good about this country they have chosen to focus on Democratic candidate and perceived front runner Hillary Clinton. From the tone of people like Rudi Guiliani you would think it is Clinton that has been president all this time while the country has gone to shit. Each and every day we here Guiliani or Romney or McCain etc. taking shots at the Clinton presidency that never was. This may seem like a good idea to the candidates but what it really does is reinforce the fact that Bush and the GOP are the ones that have destroyed our nation. Someone should really remind these GOP bozos that its not the 1990s when a Clinton was in the White House during peace and prosperity but the 2000s of Bush's war and economic decline.