First a hypothetical, I am going to approach this from the point of view of a husband of a professional women. If I approached it from the other way I may open myself to the charge of sexism. I mean, for instance, say a woman with a Harvard law degree, who had been a resident lecturer of constitutional law at a major university for 10 years, who had also spent 10 years as a legislator at both the state and federal levels, and had spent her early private years fighting for; defending; and organizing for and with the "little guy". Wouldn't it smack of sexism if one of her political opponents said "...all she brings to the table is a speech she gave in 2002..."?

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One month after his party took a drubbing in the mid term elections, Oregon's Senator Gordon Smith actually got the guts to "call it like he saw it" so to speak, saying that this war was border line criminal. Well that didn't take a lot of guts for a member of the party that just got rebuked. Now Smith shows he is just as out of touch as the rest of them.

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Congressional support for Darfur-centric legislation is divided on party lines according the Darfur scores web site www.darfurscores.org. A cursory view of their map, which is depicted in shades of green (the lighter the better the voting record for that states lawmakers) looks like the electoral map for the '06 elections.

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The Washington Post has a story today about how Nancy Pelosi plans to celebrate her new speakership and, I assume, the Democrats taking back the majority. They describe it as an attempt to remake her image in the eyes of non-Democrats as not being a "San Francisco Liberal" (I still can't figure out what's wrong with that label?).

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I've played a few hands of poker in my day, but never have I held the royal flush. But that's how I feel as a Democrat looking at our potential field of '08 hopefuls. Don't take me too seriously, I am of the contention that the best person for the highest office in the land, is probably smart enough to know they don't want it! But when compared to the potential Republican field, we could potentially be looking at a royal flush, and then some!

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I am a Californian who lives in NYC. You live in Tennessee. We are Americans.
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I am sick of this! I want my country back! Where does Tony Snow, Tony Snow! get off telling John Kerry, a Vietnam combat vet, to apologize to the troops? Let Bush apologize, let him apologize for reducing what should be a honest debate about the issues into a smear campaign where republicans actually try to convince americans that others americans want the terrorists to win! They reduce our political process to to new lows every hour while our troops remain in harms way for a cuase that no one in this or any other country can cleary define. They should apologize to our troops for sending them into a war of choice! They should apologize for speding more time planning what slogan they are going to use for the strategy than they spend on the actuall strategy itself! They don't support our troops, they don't support working americans, they don't support christians, jews or muslims, they don't support me, they don't support you, they only support winning, power and money. It's time for change, in one week let's take our country back!