Well, Genghis, we've each put in our two cents about the state of conversation in these parts. Now I'm going to bed.

Unfortunately this is the kind of bullshit we can expect.

Incidentally, the movie Six Degrees Of Separation was directed by Osama Bin Laden. That's zero degrees of separation, my friend. So, will you also denounce and reject use of the phrase "six degrees of separtion," which is separated from the movie Six Degrees Of Separation by only one degree of actual separation; and therefore, separated from Osama Bin Laden by only two degrees?! And Genghis, that makes you, by a mere three degrees, separated from Osama Bin Laden. And that makes me, by posting, separated from Osama Bin Laden by four degrees- a little too close for my comfort. So I am going to both denounce and reject myself-- but also, I will go further: I am going to pre-denounce and pre-reject the future degrees of separation from Osama Bin Laden that will flow from me to my friends and family, who are future fifth-degree-ers (and the poor suckers don't even know it yet... it's like HIV, I tell you!) Also of note, one of my friend's friends is Osama Bin Laden! So this would separate Osama Bin Laden from Osama Bin Laden by six degrees: further tainting the phrase "six degrees of separation!

Well no one's perfect.

Besides this might help Osa (oops !) Obama.
He'd get a sympathy vote from most of voting segment with an embarrassing relative .(Except of course for those who are married to the embarrsasing relative.) How about all those
families with a pederast cousin in the church?
That could be quite an electoral windfall.

I hope they're including this in the exit polls.

What's truly sad is that it's now too late for Gibsonopolous to grill Obama about this in between commercial breaks during what is, woefully, the final debate of this glorious debate season.

And of course the fact that those lovely little Obama spawn, er, daughters, probably have been exposed to this horrid terrorist on a weekly basis. Lucky for him they're not from Texas or they'd be taken at gunpoint by state authorities. Those poor little Lost Girls.

Thank God President Clinton II will have that umbrella of deterrence open to protect us all from these evildoers.

Since were talking about the candidates association with divisive figures, I wonder how bias the press is against Hillary when this little ditty gets swept under the rug.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/clinton-accepts-aid-from-a-div.php
The comments are especially good.

darkly hinted that Obama has more skeletons in his closet which might be questioned by Republicans,

1 -- Will they question these skeletons on national teevee?
2 -- I want to see skeletons questioned. Best pastime evah.
3 – Will these skeletons be waterboarded? Will Steffi, Gibson, Russert, Hannity participate?
4 – will his skeletons be assigned lawyers. I think they should have full legal representation, don’t you?
5 – What have these skeletons been up to in Obama's closet all these years?
6 -- are these skeletons wine or beer drinkers?

I recall hearing that Barack Obama's cousin was behind the deception that led to a pre-emptive invasion of a sovereign nation, which maimed or killed a half million people, causing millions more to flee the country. Infact, his cousin six times removed authorized torture. This relative...rumored to be none other than our VP Dick Cheney.

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You're caught up in ridiculing the opposition, but think about the five or ten percent of voters in the middle, people who aren't as sophisticated as you are. You need to take seriously that the purposes of our side are negatively affected by what you're doing. Trashing the opposition only adds to the conviction that Obama is just being defensive when he attacks the other side.

A better course is to get above the frey, to address gotcha politics in general, as I've suggested in my most recent posts. You need to respect the people who are beguiled by the attacks.