Dear XX Factor,

I understand you are understandably disappointed with the way things are going. It must be terribly disheartening to work so hard on behalf of a politician, have him win, and then learn that he sucks like no one has sucked since Jimmy Carter. But please stop taking it out on Sarah Palin.

She is back to being the governor of Alaska and giving interviews on running, and has been for some time now. It is possible she would run in the primaries for the Republican nomination, but she would not win, and knowing this will likely not even try. The only running she will be doing from now on is for office in Alaska and across the frozen tundra. On that later point, I can't imagine anything more innocuous than a runner talking about running. Your attempt to read deep meaning into this interview is rather sad.

I know you are trying to relive the glory days when you had McCain and Palin to attack, but these two, and all other conservative politicians, are on the sidelines now. Live in the now. It's time to discuss what a liberal President with a liberal Congress and Senate are accomplishing or failing to accomplish for our country. I know you can do it. Yes you can.

V/r,

here2help

I wonder how that change is working for everybody...Hope for more? Or just looking through the couch for spare change, and hope you find some....Were all gonna need any spare change we can find...

I love the self-delusion that politics brings out.

Just so I can understand this. George Bush presides over eight years of disastrous government (unpopular wars, environmental damage, historic deficits) and (according to polls) is considered the worst President of all time...and Obama, in less than a year, was supposed to just pull off a miracle and fix the global depression that Bush started?

Imagine this...you are the new GM of Washington Nationals...you have a shit roster, a shit scouting and farm system, no real fan base...would you call the guy a failure if the team didn't win the World Series in his first year on the job?

Self delusion... you are comparing running the free world to running the Washington Nationals.

No one expected Obama to take a bad situation and make it good. There was an expectation that he would not make it precipitously worse.

Now we have: more troops in Afghanistan with a new policy of increased hostility destroying any good will we had earned and getting more of our Soldiers killed, Obama is not reducing forces in Iraq to anywhere near the extent he promised, and so there is no peace dividend at all. We wasted a trillion dollars on a stimulus package that didn't do anything, China is going to stick us with the entire bill for cutting carbon emissions and laugh at us as they collect our interest payments to them, and the rest of the Axis of Evil (Iran and North Korea) know a pansy is in the White House and so they can do whatever they want. The new President is making things worse. Please stop letting him off so easy and start demanding he make improvements.

...And President Harding was the worst President in history. Mustyoureallypickupahistoryboo­k.

I believe you make an assumption that one shouldn't make;

That Obama's policies are making things worst, just because things are worst (in your POV).

This assumption is folly because no matter what the policies these 'things' (situations) could of gotten worst anyhow.

In other words if the GOP had the same amount of power the Dems now have, who is to say that these 'things' wouldn't of gotten just a bad has they are going under the Dems.

Note I said the same to the Dems when they blamed GWB and the GOP for EVERYTHING, especially the economy. GWB is clearly at fault for a very flawed foreign policy (Iraq takeover was NOT necessary at all in my view), but the economy is NOT run by the feds as much as people believe.

My view is that the ponzi scheme that is America has reached its peek and neither the Dems or GOP can stop the slide. In the long run this will be good for the nation.