I guess the fact that more Democrats have been registered than Republicans does not count. This was all done by people hitting the streets in registration drives.

Right now it’s 2 to 1, Democrats to Republicans registered to vote. So unless the Republicans figure out a way to steal the election, or all the independents vote for them, it does not seem like McCain will win.
Even if he does, he will have to make some huge compromises as the Dems will have both houses.
Forget about a right to life Judges in the supreme court. So all you zealots out there will have pray harder for the second coming or some other fantasy.

Of course they all have to vote.

However I realize that your trying to be funny. Which is interesting since the Republicans have been in power for the last 8 years and we have the biggest financial mess since the Great Depression. I do agree that it is amazing how the Republicans have been able to run against themselves and somehow people believe them that ‘change’ is going to come to Washington.

One more interesting note, Greenspan the darling of the right is on record saying that Obama’s plan for the economy is the only one that will work, as McCain’s is a joke.

Or look at it this way, appeasers. Palin is going to give an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio program. Why don’t you bring your Jack Beatty-listening liberal behinds over to A.M. and find out what a real interview sounds like.

Furthermore, I recommend you just relax and stop being such doom and gloomers. See, God has a plan. And it doesn’t include talking to terrorists, which what you’d do if you could. Sorry, librals. There just is no getting around it. God, guns, and lipstick. Wham, bam, thank you Ma’am!

They’re not mutually exclusive.

Anyway, The Iowa Electronic Markets, which is far and away the more consistently reliable “poll” on the planet because it’s the only one where people have to put their money where their mouth is, still shows Obama leading as he has all year.

And today’s economic news and the meltdown on Wall Street will only help the Dem’s.

As the anonymous spokesman appointed to represent the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, I just wanted to thank you all for your input in the above posts. Fortunately, the slection of Sarah Palin as the GOP VP nominee is so devious that even you pointy-headed NPR listeners will not be able to alert enough of your stupid fellow citizens to sway the election. McCain/Palin are rolling Obama/Biden and there’s no end in sight!

Don’t let this news discourage you, though. Fight the good fight and keep posting your comments after each show! It’s so much more effective than actually taking some action to change the outcome of the campaign.

Take Care. Oh, and I’ll see you guys and whatever loser you nominate in 2012! (We’ll crush him/her, too.)

People who take the bible as a literal document when it clearly is full of metaphors and meanings that reflect the superstitions of the time period they were written you can’t expect them to think for themselves.

After all it’s all in God’s plan, (I have heard Palin say this) whatever that is.

I don’t know about the rest of you but I didn’t get that memo.

George Carlin has an excellent routine on this.

“Religion has a convinced people that there is an invisible man living in the sky who needs money.”

Classic…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o

I want to second this. I think we need to come to grips with this basic problem and stop being in denial about it. Ignorance, and willful ignorance at that, by ordinary citizens is the central problem of our democracy.

And both the left and the right keep making excuses for it. “It’s the corporate media” “It’s the leftist media”, etc. ANYTHING, as long as people don’t have to take responsibility for their own decisions about how and where they gather news and information.

The apologists on the left and the right both think that the masses are duped by propaganda from the other side but they never explain why they have somehow avoided this fate. Metal plates in their heads? Who knows?

We’re all capable of making decisions about how much effort to invest in being well-informed. The choice to rely on Fox or CNN is just that: a CHOICE. I don’t watch TV. This is a deliberate decision because I think it dumbs-down everything. But the average American spends in excess of 4 hours a day watching TV. If he just spent an hour reading a newspaper or a magazine or a book, he’d be better-informed than 90% of his compatriots. Again, we need to recognize that people are responsible for their choices, and many Americans choose to be ignorant.

I think that Tom was being sure the caller wasn’t simply characterizing vast numbers of voters as “ignorant” on his show. I think that’s appropriate.

I appreciate the civil tone that gets maintained on this show, and the people who call in with more conservative or pro-war points of view make an important contribution to the program. I agree that it can be very frustrating when people seem under-informed, particularly on issues like Obama’s Christian religion.

I am a liberal. Actually, I’m a tax and spend liberal. And a defeatist.

But I appreciate the mediation of this show and the way Tom welcomes people.

I wanted a repeat of the James Joyce quote on life, politics and low comedy…

I will throw in a couple of interesting Joyce’s relevant quotes including:

“The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and partridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power

“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”

“Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion”

Working on a new book entitled, “Lipstick, PinkSlips and long legs!”

Also, Tom was very tough on the caller who mentioned “the ignorant masses”. When so many people in this country believed that Iraq was involved with 911 and now mistakenly believe that Barak Obama is a muslim, what is wrong with a little honesty? The fact is that most people I know don’t pay enough attention to politics to really know what is going on, and could well be described as ignorant. I happen to believe this is the major reason we keep electing so many mediocre people into office.

The Democrats should forget about her and focus on McCain. It’s about him, not her and the Palin bubble is going to burst in the next few weeks.

I said this before, she’s a modern day Huey Long.

From today’s NY Times:

‘Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes’

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

You write that you find Palin “refreshing” because she is “soo normal.”

I’ve had it with this sort of thinking. It sounds like an affable, salt-of-the-earth pragmatism. It is, however, incredibly arrogant and silly.

We’re not electing the head of the PTA. We’re talking about a person who may make decisions about war and peace for this country.

The fact that Palin was not humiliated during her interview with Gibson is being touted as a kind of triumpth.

But there was no evidence that she is a flexible thinker, no suggestion that she is intellectually curious or likely to seek opinions from people with different world views than her own.

She sounds to me a great deal “like” the last person we sent to high office because he reminded us of people we drink beer with: George W. Bush.

This time, I say we go with the guy that sounds (and dresses) like your sociology teacher who gave you a B- no matter how hard you worked.

Maybe we can try the “With whom would you rather go bowling?” test next time.

That would be a change.

Something like a new Truman Commission should be formed. Legislation should be passed exposing every asset owned by present and former executives, board managers, and major participatory note and equity holders (all the actual managers of the enterprises), to confiscation to repay the minor financial players, misled consumers (small profiteers should be prosecuted as much as the large ones)and taxpayers.

This mess and the savings and load debacle demonstrate that there are plenty of financial experts ready to scalp the markets and taxpayers.

Either John McCain’s campaign underestimates women or most of the women in this country buy this crappy package? I hope it’s the first.

Poor mothers should get a job at McDonald’s and leave the kids alone at home. No wellfare unless you are a big brokerage firm or an airline!!!!

Young poor teens should not have birth control but practice abstinence like Bristol Palin–not!

Oh but Bristol Palin has a Republican mothers so this teen is now the Republican Virgin Mary and gets to stand proudly in front of all Americans, unmarried, with teh supposed father.

I don’t take notes when I listen to NPR or the BBC, but I am certain that I have heard editorial omissions on stories that were revisited ten or fifteen years later. Granted most of the omissions are for time but they are made nonetheless.

This morning, Morning Edition had a story on Judge Isaac Borenstein, who stood up to “mob mentality” by ordering a new trial in the Fells Acre abuse case. Maybe I was distracted by the traffic, but I think one of the defendants was not mentioned.

The BBC may not be commercial but they have and interest in the commercial success of Great Britain. And the BBC frequently makes editorial decisions to be in line with Whitehall.

How do we get more people to care?

I think it requires new ideas – sometimes radical, sometimes incremental.

Of course the world has lots of new ideas every day – that’s why 2008 is different from 2007, which was different from 1997, etc. Social networking websites and Youtube and iPhones and sheep that make human blood, and machines by Codon that make custom DNA are all recent new ideas that have the potential to change things, possibly for the better.

Journalism is in a lot of trouble these days because the best, most in-depth journalism for a century has been newspaper journalism, but newspapers are in fast decline. Electronic media like TV and the internet is better suited for quickie, shallow news and appeals to people who are in a hurry and just want headlines and a few paragraphs. Our whole society seems afflicted with ADD.

So if you have a new idea for news and information you could be a hero.