Ashley Judd has as good a chance to beat pruneface as any other Democrat in Kentucky.TheClintons should stay out of it,none of their damn business.I have no problem with a woman for President in 2016,Elizabeth Warren for instance.

Iraq was just more U.S. imperialism,no different than the Mexican or Spanish-American wars or the war against the Filipino people which followed the latter.Surely no different than Vietnam or the various invasions of the Banana Republics in the old days.Just more of the same.

All that has to be done is to raise the cap to $140,000 from the present $113,000.Of course the insane tea party dominated Rethughs would never go along with this simple solution.

God save us from another Bush Presidency,hasn’t his family done enough harm to this country.

As a practicing Attorney for 47 years,I predict that its only a matter of time that the Supreme Court,when it has a 5 vote liberal majority,which should be in the next 5 to 7 years,declares that political gerrymandering is unconstitutional in the same way they threw out districts of unequal population in Baker vs.Carr in 1962.

We must remember that it was a long struggle in various Courts to get rid of rural domination of state legislatures and Congress.But that struggle was finally won in Baker and the cases that followed it,Lucas vs.44th General Assembly et al.We now take one man one vote for granted and in the future,gerrymandering for politcal purpose will be a historical anamoly,the way unequal districts are today.

Not only are the Rethugs in trouble with the fast growing Hispanic and Asian population,they also lost women by 11 points.As long as they are the party that would criminalize all abortions(GOP platform) or 98%(Romney) they will continue to lose women by big numbers.

You raise a very important issue on the Full Faith and Credit clause on whether Aalbama would have to recognize a gay marriage performed in a state which allowed gay marriage. I have practiced law now for 47 years and frankly,I do not know the answer. The answer would be,however,what 5 justices on the Supreme Court at the time the case was decided would want in to be.

There are two separate cases with two diierent issues. The DOMA case is all about federalism and states rights. Marriage has always been defined by state law. If a state wishes to legalize gay marriage,can the Federal govt. refuse to recognize it?The answer is no,it is a fundamental of constitional law that the Federal govt. must treat all states equally.If New York says gays can marry,the Federal govt. must recognize that marriage.

However,on the California case,the issue is vastly different. It is,is there is Federal constitional right for gay marriage that a state must recognize like they must recognize interracial marriage?I think the answer on this issue is No,its up to the states to decide for themselves on the issue of gay marriage.

Arnold was born in Austria and can never be President,but I agree that Obama should direct the Justice Dept. to respect state law on pot.

We are not going to have public ownership of the means of production in this country for the forseeablefuture,if ever,I fully realize all the problems of the free enterprise system,however we have a clear choice in November before a predatory plutocrat(Romney) and a President who seeks to ameliorate the worst abuses of predator capitalism. This man is not perfect but there is no such thing as perfection in this world.

Paranoia,mind destroyer,Judy and John. If what you say is true,how did Obama win Florida in 2008?Your nonsense is of no help to the President or anyone else.

Does Rahm Emanuel hate the “left” because he has stood up to the greedy and selfish Chicago Teachers Union? I think not and most of us on the political “left” do not think so either.

You people have to realize that public employee unions are not really part of the “left” in America today. They are an overpriviledged group of people who have been catered to by politicians for many years but the financial catastrophe that many cities and states are undergoing have changed the situation. Ask the Democratic Mayor of San Jose,CA what he thinks about his cops being able to retire with 90% pensions and what effect this has on working class homeowners,many of whom are black and Hispanic?

This election is going to be a landslide for the President as I have been saying all along.The Rethugs will lose the House and lose seats in the Senate.Romney is the worst candidate in many years.

I wish the paranoid people on this site would stop nattering about the Rethugs “stealing” the election.In 2000,Gore lost Florida because of the “butterfly” ballot in Palm Beach County which cost him 3000 votes and the state.In 2004,Kerry lost Ohio by 119,000 votes,much too many votes to “steal”

The way that Romney is collapsing,Obama should win by at least as many points as he beat McCain,namely 7.27.Way,way too many votes.Obama has this election in the bag,the only questions left are the House and Senate. We must take the House and keep the Senate or else the big Obama win will largely be negated.

Romney is the biggest asshole ever to run for President,just a dork without any political skills.He just keeps playing to the wingnut base of the Rethuglican party instead of moving to the center to get the independentThe birth certificate remark will come back to haunt him.

I sure do hope that wingnut Akin stays in the race since he is the man who can be beaten by Sen.McCaskill.The people he defeated inn the Rethug primary would have been stronger general election candidates.

One of the reasons the Court denied the injunction was because Pennsylvania has announced that birth certificates will not be required to obtain photo ID if the person applying does not have theirs.2 forms of proof of residency like a utility bill will be required which should not be a problem And of course,the photo ID must be given free of charge or else it would be considered a “poll tax” which was outlawed by constitutional amendment.

Trust me,Obama will easily carry Pennsylvania,photo ID or no photo ID law.

So the public doesn’t like the lying plutocrat? Who would have thunk it.This guy is a phony from the word go and the public,or enough of them,sees right through his nonsense and lies.