meara, seriously?

I mean, the statement isn't so bad, but just the....I can't decide whether I'm more annoyed that no one seems to have a faithful marriage, or that the newsmedia and the public seem to care....

I kinda gotta dig how he's handling it though. The attitude seems to be "It happened, it's between me and my wife and we went to counseling and it's over now and shut up."

I found it kind of refreshing that he and his wife made the statement that they'd both had affairs, thought their marriage was toast, and decided, nope, let's stick it out and make it work.

I just like that their special place is the Days Inn.

Yeah, that's the thing--I like HOW he said it, and that's the part of me that's leaning towards being annoyed that the media and the public give a shit and feel the need to know this stuff.

On the other hand, there's a part of me that's like "dangit, even the blind guy is getting more action than I am!"

For those looking for Obama's speech, here's the video.

On the other hand, there's a part of me that's like "dangit, even the blind guy is getting more action than I am!"

You owe me a monitor meara. Also, it pretty much speaks to how I feel too.

Thank you, Kathy.

You don't want me to get started on the whole "stimulus" thing. It probably costs millions to send out the checks, and it's all funny money anyway, since we're into deficit spending on a grand scale. All the government has to do to get more money into the economy is to spend it: buy supplies for teachers, increase the food stamp program, reconstitute the CCC to work on our crumbling parks and infrastructure.

I'm with you, Susan. I'm always irritated when speakers conflate the Puritans, who busily persecuted other people looking for religious freedom, with the people who formed the revolution and wrote the Constitution. The far right is always talking about going back to the values of the founders. Do they mean the Puritan theocracy or do they mean people like Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Adams and Hancock, whose religions were Deist, Deist, atheist, Unitarian and money.

I am so stoked that the next president of the US (you know, I think he'll win) actually has a command of the English language.

I completely understand *why* there can be racist connotations to saying that Obama is articulate, but whenever I've said that, I swear that I only meant that he's articulate compared to the drooling slack-jawed yokel currently in the White House.

Seriously, all partisianship aside, have we ever had a president with such a complete lack of understanding of the English language?

I'm pretty sure no.

Are republicans/conservatives embarassed by it? I'm not talking about the 30% wingnutters, just regular conservatives.

They have to be. Right? But probably won't admit it.