Speaking of balls, it's telling that NewOrleansNative has not returned to this thread to defend his decision to vote to keep in office the party that let his city drown.

I'm assuming that mrliberal's moniker is meant to be ironic, like the New Yorker cover but considerably less clever.

Perhaps the only people I have less respect for than Republicans are Democrats who plan to vote for McCain.

Obama is far more experienced than Bush was eight years ago, yet you want to vote for the man who vows to continue his policies. Being a community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s is comparable to Vietnam in the sense that it was violent, chaotic and an experience that shoved the failure of American policy in your face. Certainly I would think that anyone who figured out how to master the present-day Chicago political machine is far savvier than someone who's spent the last twenty years as an Arizona Senator.

And I honestly wonder, given the choice between spending five years as a POW and having been born into poverty with black skin, if McCain would choose the latter. (Someone should ask him that. Someone brave.)