Mrs. Alito, if you need to get up to go to the bathroom, you don't

[rzemanfl]

have to cry. Just write a note like our beloved pResident does when he has to wee-wee or poop.

[NanceGreggs]

1. I guess Condi wasn't available ...

... to sign the 'permission slip'.

[CTyankee]

2. Good God, these people do need a little help

dealing with constructive criticism. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen, folks!

This is disgusting. What a put up to gain sympathy!

[rzemanfl]

3. This was a set up timed for the evening news. Ignore substance

play to emotion, like the fake indignation over the mention of Cheney's gay daughter in the debate.

[CTyankee]

5. I agree, but

I thought Kerry's bringing up of Cheney's daughter was a little strained. He should have left that out, period. Not that I disagreed with what he said, but it could have been left unsaid; it didn't add value to the conversation, and in the end subtracted worth.

[rzemanfl]

6. I thought it pointed out the hypocrisy of the Repuke "guns, God

and gays" appeal to the people they wanted to get to vote against their own self-interest.

[CTyankee]

7. The problem is

that people don't want their hypocrisy pointed out to them. It just makes them mad.

So Kerry's remark was just "too clever by half." And honestly, I don't think he even wanted to say it. Someone on his campaign suggested it and his ear was not true enough to hear it ring false.

[rzemanfl]

8. If the shoe were on the other foot there'd have been front groups

running ads about the "dyke daughter" and the Repukes would deny involvement.

[Joanne98]

4. Oh the drama!