You stay classy, guys. You won… move the f*ck on.

Of course, now comes the REAL battle, to see if we democrats can avoid slitting our own throats while trying to give Uncle Sam a badly needed shave. Yes, we do need to hold Obama accountable, however, those on the extreme right are NOT asleep, and the extreme left would love nothing more than to rip Obama to pieces because frankly, if Obama does a good job, they will be out of business. Yeah Nader, I do mean you. We need to keep Obama’s attention, lest the DLC try to steal it back..we need to remind him that Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy won, but, when you hear people snipe at people like Rahm, we need to know that it comes from the people who still think Nader did this country a service back in 2000.

Been reading you since before I could vote and its always a pleasure to see a new post and i hope they come more often- my generation needs a new Thompson or Hicks(minus the early death bit)…

There was something about that speech that sounded very, very familiar to me when I heard it. I didn’t realize it then, otherwise I’d have thrown it in. After getting a little sleep and some coffee in me, it hit me: McCain’s speech reminded me of some of the less overt public statements made during the 1983 Chicago mayoral race (the first election I was able to vote in). There’s a rather good summary of that race in a book called “Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns Of All Time” by Kerwin Swint. If you have an aversion to dead-tree material, Google it.