Q & A

When it comes to electability, is John McCain’s age a bigger factor than the Democratic candidates’ race or gender?

Age, gender, and race do not count as much as a candidate's intelligence, ethics, and experience.

The experience factor might not matter as much as intelligence and ability.

But a candidate's ability to encourage and inspire others, and work effectively with others, is quite important.

Oh, and what about charisma?

Can Pennsylvania Sen. Casey’s backing help Obama with working-class voters?

It can't hurt Obama, but it will Clinton.

Political pugilism is alive and well.

One candidate receives a left-upper cut, and then the other candidate gives a head-butt---then come those mean jabs, jabs, jabs---until one candidate gets knocked out or the contest goes to the judges.

What will it be for the Democratic Party?

McCain is waiting to fight the winner.

Endorsements from any corner of the political ring will help Clinton and Obama.

The Casey endorsement is an important and timely endorsement .

If a ticket led by Al Gore somehow emerged from a brokered convention, would that be a good thing for the Democrats?

Anyone is better than the liars that we are presently cursed with.

Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama...one of the smurfs...

I don't care which Democrat wins at this juncture as long as Mr. BushClone Bomb-Bomb Iran McCain loses.

What does it say about the importance of this election if voter turnout in November could be as high as 80% in some states?

It says that this election is very damn important.

We are fed up with egotistic, dictator-like-leaders, and a Congress that licks their boots.

This election is a virtual revolt against the past 8 years of a creeping (and creepy) fascism

Health Care…not Warfare.

Education…not Destruction.

Do you agree with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the superdelegates should support the candidate with the most pledged delegates?

Yes.

The Will and Voice of the People has been lost---make that eviscerated---by this Bush-wacky administration, beginning with his Supreme Court selection when so many voters had their votes cast to the four winds that permitted this lying, Long-War idiot-president to nearly destroy everything that's good about America.

Don’t let those super-delegates trump the Choice and Voice of the People.

My answer was confusing, so I'll try again, with less inflammatory Bush-bashing.

I want the candidate to be selected based on which candidate receives the most votes from the American people, not from super-delegates.

This whole process is a little confusing itself.

If delegates go to candidates based upon the votes of the people, and then those delegates are obtained based upon those citizen-votes, then super-delegates should not go against the wishes and votes of the people.

Super-delegates, to me, are analogous to the Supreme Court justices who selected George W. Bush.

The Choice and Voice of the People should not be trumped.

Not even by Superman or Spiderman.

What does it mean if after all the campaigning Hillary Clinton’s positive rating is the lowest it has been since 2001?

Hillary drew her last straw (or made her last draw) when she claimed to have been in danger during her visit to Bosnia.

It was SO obvious that she was embellishing--o.k. lying---about what had occurred.

If Mrs. Clinton had only done this fibbing once, all would have been forgotten and forgiven.

But we don't like liars, especially those liars who are bold-faced ones without any sincere remorse.

Her positive rating is at its lowest because we have had enough of being Bush-whacked and hit over our collective heads with bald-faced lies. Enough is enough.

I don't see how her positive rating can go up much…now that she is a member of the

LIAR'S CLUB.

What does it suggest about the state of this country when AT&T says it’s having a hard time finding enough skilled American workers?

It suggests that the state of the country is in a perilous state of decline.

Hmmm...Doesn’t that sound familiar?

Does the Roman Empire ring a bell?

Instead of educating our children to become wizards and engineers, we train them to become skilled killers.

America the beautiful has become America the ugly because we have betrayed the ideals of our founders.

A big thanks for nothing to Dick Cheney and George W. Bush!

It is no big surprise, then, that other nations who care more about their country's welfare have much better trained and skilled workers.

Is sending excessive e-mails and text messages a sign of mental illness?

I think that the writers in the American Journal of Psychiatry are showing some signs of their own mental illness.

Their conclusions are a lot of bologna sauce (and eating the latter might be a sign of mental illness).

I personally don't experience any of their alleged symptoms.

But so much text messaging and e-mailing does decrease the mind's thinking abilities since so much time is spent doing these things instead of reading.