Thank you Ben, for your fresh perspective. Makes you wonder if Obama himself realizes how strongly his own personal insecurities impact his decision making.

...you apparently agree with these recent statements by Van Jones:

"The environmental justice community that said, 'Hey, wait a minute, you know, you're regulating, but you're not regulating equally.' And the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don't have a racial justice frame."

"What about people who've come here from all around the world who we're willing to have out in the field with poison being sprayed on them because we have the wrong agricultural system."

"So the green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole...

...is why the reporter felt this was an appropriate question with which to end a press conference about health care? Was the agenda perhaps to create a distraction from the miserable failure of Obama to provide clear answers to real questions?

She, like so many others has been permanently crippled by the devastating after-effects of a severe and protracted case of BDS.

The most tragic aspect of this post-BDS affliction may be neurotic psychological projection - accusing others of the vile behavior and nasty thought processes the subject him/herself is guilty of perpetrating.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. How many times have we heard that a successful woman must have gotten where she is because she "slept her way to the top"? What sexist garbage.

Steve Chapman must not have read Douglas MacKinnon's column of July 7, else he wouldn't have been so quick to reveal his deep-seated insecurities:

"Seriously, look at the "men" who belittle Palin on a regular basis. For the most part, they fit the description of "the pencil-neck geek" from high school. Are they now trying to make Palin pay for their long-ago inadequacies?"

" Sarah Palin is already
yesterday's news."

...Twice

"Plus, the part of America who vote and who have genuine interest in the political scene are already bored with her."

What, no news out there on Mars?

Wallowing in the muck of the same tired talking points, reiterating the false premises, straw man arguments and adolescent word play fostered by the DNC and their media lackeys.

No doubt the left resents having their own playbook used against them so effectively. And by "geezers" at that!

"Tauzin told The New York Times this month that the White House promised to help PhRMA fight against Democratic efforts to seek deeper cuts in spending on prescription drugs, such as allowing Medicare to directly negotiate their prices."

Apparently they've bought into the "appeasement" theory of dealing with the enemy.

...usually throw tantrums when Mommy and Daddy tell them "No".

That's no doubt why the repeated mantra of "The GOP is the party of NO" resonates with the dewey-eyed devotees of all things hopey-changey.

Deny it if you will, but the obsession with destroying Sarah Palin is based on the fact that she struck terror in the hearts of both Democrats and the namby-pamby segment of the Republican party the minute she stepped officially into the national spotlight.

If she was truly the lightweight bubblehead her detractors attempt to portray, she would already be long forgotten. As it is, they are desperate to discredit her, so gleefully pounce on every indication that she is not the world's greatest politician.

And make no mistake, she is NOT a great politician. Great politicians are polished speakers and practiced liars who treat their constituents with disdain and use their positions to grab more power and money from the...