She said that the only way that McCain would win, would be if Obama were assassinated.

How did we come to this even as a prospect?

Are we that racist a society, that fear-driven?

But this puzzles me:
I told my wife that at this point, Obama is a shoe-in, that even with another terrorist event, he would not win.

Meaning?: I told my wife that at this point, Obama is a shoo-in, that even with a another terrorist attack, he would win.

How does Bromwich know this? Was he there? I was, and this sounds like an entirely fictional load of swill that Bromwich conjured up.

Actually, Kennedy allied himself with the powerful southern Democratic Congressional committee chairmen of the day by talking a good game on civil rights, while doing diddly-squat. Integration of southern schools was at a standstill during Kennedy's term, despite Brown v. Board of Education approaching its tenth anniversary.

Kennedy's assassination may have had something to do with Lyndon Johnson's lust for power (peruse that telling photo of Johnson's knowing wink to a political buddy, in the midst of shell-shocked mourners). Or it may have had something to do with Kennedy's courageous opposition to Israel's nuclear program, which Johnson promptly reversed. But trying to pin Kennedy's death on some fictional "virulent southern hatred of Kennedy" is nuts.

Without the Neocons, Evangelical Fundamentalists could never have risen to such prominence – but their regard for "the Holy Land" was too useful. After savaging half the planet militarily and economically, the Neocon's lasting legacy may be the elevation of Evangelical Fundamentalism to the abject detriment of American society.

"Ding dong the witch is dead; dong ding fairy godmother will head"

Obama wouldn't serve on a board with a former Nazi. So why does it do it for a former member of the Weather Underground? He can't claim he didn't know about the Weather Underground. Anyone who really never heard of them doesn't know enough American history to be president anyway.

I suspect he knew full well Ayers's history and that of the Weather Underground as well. It just didn't bother him. In his eyes they had the right goals. They just didn't go about them the right way (they should have planted fewer bombs and applied for more community action grants).

I am not thrilled about Obama but when he doesn't want to answer a question he evades so smoothly that you almost think he answered it. I'm astonished that neither McCain nor Obama think the current economic meltdown will require them to trim any of the new spending they've proposed. What are they going to do? Just print money? Unfortunately, yes.