Well, what can I say? The answer is probably “nothing,” because my post on this thread has disappeared, as have several other posts I’ve made on other threads on this website. Jeepers, ladies, I’m starting to feel unwanted here.

Some really good comments here. Thanks for the McCain update, Suzanne. You are so right about Tom Friedman’s book, Diana T. Your comments are right on. I’ve lived in the Washington DC area for 50 years and have watched administrations come and go. In Obama, we now have one of the most intelligent, honorable candidates possible. Perhaps too intelligent, perhaps too honorable for the political marketplace. I hope not. I will certainly work for him.

“If we keep talking about these banal subjects, it will keep us from talking about the fact that, by his own admission, McCain has a weakness for economic skills, and we are going into one of the worse economies in years. By Diana T on 09/07/2008 10:05 am” Thank you Diana. I wish there was some way to get a topic started with the introductory article being a comparison of where all of the candidates stand in relation to those of the Bush/Cheney/Rove team on the issues of foreign, economic and environmental policy. We know the last eight years have been a resounding failure for all but the small percentage of the population who have prospered under the Bush/McCain policies and don’t really care about anything or anybody else. I’d like a chance to hear how some of the people on here who say they think McCain’s policies are the best for our future can justify that when the reality of it is right there in front of them. I find it very hard to believe that responsible, intelligent American voters would still think McCain has the right plan if they were aware of the facts of it.

Interesting that the Democrats have done a great job of empowering McCain and Palin and passed the mantle of “change” over to the mavericks of the Republican party. Obama and Biden are now the same old Democratic line with just lip service to women. First chance they got, they threw threw Hillary under the bus. Thats where they will throw you ladies too, once they are in office. If you are of the feminine gender you don’t count…Today it is obvious that the Democrat party has a real contempt for women. Sarah Palin is today the most powerful woman in America. She has the attention of millions of people, who are listening closely to what she says. Not what her opponents have to say about her, that is just galvinizing lots of people to be more identified with her. Millions of women who both have a career, or work full time at jobs, and raise a family at the same time, are identifying with her. When she is criticized for standing by her family, her daughter, her infant son, millions of American women either are doing the same thing, or have done it. When she is condemned for having attended 5 or even colleges to get a college education, this is familiar to lots of families who had to make the choice of going to a college they could afford. We are talking here about thousands of middle class American women who are represented by Sarah Palin. Her issues are their issues. I just read where Geraldine Ferraro commented that Sarah Palin was the FIRST person to ever publically thank her for blazing the trail for women to run for highest political office. Not one person in the Democrat party ever got around to thanking her for her courage and fortitude. Its just most interesting to me that McCain and Palin represent change we can count on..They will bring a fresh breath of air through a stale Administration, routing out corruption and eliminating earmarks that are a huge waste of taxpayer money. If Obama and Biden win, well we will see you ladies under the bus…Where all those of the feminine gender will all be for the next 4 years.

The thing about Palin is simply what she’s done to McCain—she’s stolen his thunder and frankly I don’t see him recovering any time soon. Poor John, the Repubs screwed over you royally by picking her for you. Now it’s she that’s dominant and frankly I wonder if you still matter lol