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    The 2010 election turnout is the relevant one to look at.  President Obama won't be on the ballot this fall,…
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    • I see your "Best of My Love" and raise you one "We Are Family": http://youtu.be/_Oiu9jW-VyE With commentary:  http://masscommons.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/morning-song-we-are-family/
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    • And why is there no Eisenhower?  Because of the masterful takedown of Gen. Petraeus by President Obama.
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    • For what it's worth, they're not mutually exclusive.  Many might even say they're directly linked.
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    • Thanks for your comment, but it seems to me you're stretching words beyond their meaning.  Democracy is rule of the…
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    • Not to mention the extent to which he's already done what you hope he will do: *read Michael Grunwald's "The…
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    • Consider the possibility that President Obama was addressing multiple audiences.  Most immediately, he was addressing the Republican caucus.  By "confessing"…
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    • Excellent stuff, Booman.  Adding for the left wing: all of this is exactly what you should expect when electing as…
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    • Probably not. But in 2015, after the mid-term elections?  Maybe.
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    • To some extent, that's their job as parliamentary leaders.  (Not defending, just explaining.)  And since they've yoked themselves to a…
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    • Having an anger management problem and being a bigot aren't mutually exclusive.  Baldwin (or anyone else) could do both at…
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    • Not speaking for Booman here, but agonizing over the impact of war (including the 242 years of de facto war…
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    • Well, technically they expanded the right of white male property owners to vote...but, yes.
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    • Really?  Why "Jefferson's toady" when the two of them split and (basically) created the first two-party system?
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    • You're right, I think, about the importance of the Bork nomination (and defeat).  One important fact to remember (or for…
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    • There's no need for the failed former half-term governor to worry about trusting the media.  She can get the pope's…
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    • All good points.  One of Fischer's arguments is that these folkways/cultures have persisted up to the current day (1989, when…
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    • Woodard's analysis all (well, much of it) goes back to David Hackett Fischer's magisterial, award-winning "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways…
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    • Money talks.  It's one reason Cardinal Law left Boston.  The archdiocese's chief source of operating funds was an annual collection/campaign,…
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    • I think it's probably fair to say that Benedict and John Paul II believed a lot of what they said.…
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