o what you are saying, all people who graduate from Harvard Law have the skills to qualify for president of the US? He graduated a number of years ago, what has he done since? What has he run besides a currently failing campaign? What bills did he get passed in his run as a senator?

I heard it on the radio, the National Enquirer, I don't know how much integrity they have

As far as a failing campaign, you can't tell me that there was not a big dissapointment for you all with the attention that was given to the Palin vice president appointment last Friday. The post convention bump that was expected never materialized.

Perjury is a felony offense in the US.

Edwards cheated on his wife. So did Guliani and a lot of other politicians.

How has Obama demonstrated better thinking skills in what he has accomplished in his life so far?

So what you are saying, all people who graduate from Harvard Law have the skills to qualify for president of the US?

What bills did he get passed in his run as a senator?

Obama, who was sworn into office in January 2005, spent much of his time in the Senate taking a high-profile position as spokesman for Democrats’ efforts to overhaul congressional ethics standards, including his own bid to make Senate colleagues pay the full charter rate, rather than first-class airfare, for rides in corporate jets. The effort drew the ire of such senior senators as Ted Stevens of Alaska, whose state is so big that corporate planes are often the only way to get around. Senate leaders included that jet travel requirement in a lobbying practices and disclosures bill signed into law in September 2007.

But as a member of the minority party, Obama also worked across the aisle with Republicans to push several measures that became law in 2006.

Working with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Obama won enactment of a law creating a single, searchable database of all federal contracts, grants and loans.

He also partnered with senior Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, the former chairman of the Foreign Relations panel, to sponsor legislation to strengthen international efforts to destroy conventional weapons, though it did not advance out of committee.

Separately, Obama was lead sponsor of a bill to provide relief and promote democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was signed into law in December 2006.

He introduced legislation in 2005 to require federal preparations for an avian flu pandemic, but it didn't advance.

And he weighed in on another “good government” initiative during congressional debate on tougher lobbying disclosure standards, by backing the creation of an independent “Office of Public Integrity” that would investigate congressional ethics cases and receive and monitor financial disclosure reports required from members of Congress, officers and employees of Congress and lobbyists. The bid failed in 2006 due to opposition from members of the Senate Ethics Committee, who said it would politicize the panel. Another attempt to include it in the Democrats' ethics bill failed in early 2007.

As far as a failing campaign, you can't tell me that there was not a big dissapointment for you all with the attention that was given to the Palin vice president appointment last Friday. The post convention bump that was expected never materialized.

I heard rumors ranging from affair to being swingers. . . Perhaps we found her excape clause after all. .

we're talking about a woman with virtually no public record so what we do know about her is important

you want the high road, go for it

The spiritual godfather of today's U.S. neo-conservatives was the late philosopher, Leo Strauss, of the University of Chicago, whom Irving Kristol cited as one of the two greatest intellectual influences on his thought. Strauss was known among his students and devotees for advocating using religion to "control the masses," though the "true wise men," (like Strauss, presumably) know that religion is a "deception of the masses", but that deception must be kept secret, to maintain control, Strauss privately admitted to his inner circle.

Unfortunately, Americans will not be fooled by these actions and most Americans don't care about sexual innuendo, rumors, and gossipy dirt that the parties dig up on one another. No one cares.
You may want to tell that to the Republicans because I could have sworn that they considered those things worthy of seeking impeachment over.

The term neoconservative was originally used as a criticism against liberals who had "moved to the right".[3][4] Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative in a 1973 Dissent magazine article concerning welfare policy.[5] According to E. J. Dionne, the nascent neoconservatives were driven by "the notion that liberalism" had failed and "no longer knew what it was talking about."[1]...In the early 1970s, democratic socialist Michael Harrington used the term in its modern meaning. He characterized neoconservatives as former leftists

In being a kind of secretive elitist approach, Straussianism does resemble Marxism. These ex-Marxists, or in some cases ex-liberal Straussians, could see themselves as a kind of Leninist group, you know, who have this covert vision which they want to use to effect change in history, while concealing parts of it from people incapable of understanding it.

Irving Kristol remarked that a neoconservative is a "liberal mugged by reality," one who became more conservative after seeing the results of liberal policies.

Kristol also claims three distinctive aspects of neoconservatism from previous forms of conservatism: a forward-looking approach drawn from their liberal heritage, rather than the reactionary and dour approach of previous conservatives; a meliorative outlook, proposing alternate reforms rather than simply attacking social liberal reforms; taking philosophical or ideological ideas very seriously.[32]

I am more in line with the views of Palin