How about your candidates that take money from the gun lobby and pro dealth penalty groups. Do you selectively choose which dogma you'd like to follow like a person in a cafeteria?

I can think of nothing more emblematic of uncritical thinking than simply adhering to Church dogma regarding homosexuality and/or abortion. There may well be logically valid reasons to oppose the agenda of homosexual or "abortion" groups, but appeal to Church authority is certainly not one of them. Appeals to authority and dogma are not appeals to reason.

People say she is so calculating, and use her compromises as a striking point. This I do not understand. Politics IS compromise. This new blogosphere environment is admirable in demanding accountability, but when the far left (and I think I'm PRETTY far left) won't accept anything more moderate than they are, they're (we're) no better than the far right.

I don't know what angle this snide comment was made from, whether Bob is a liberal or conservative, but I had to get that out there. The country will do so much better under our first Madame President than it has been doing over the past six years, and I think THAT is the only thing to which we must wake up.

Recently the SARA Panel commissioned by the White House released their findings of the problems facing the acqusition workforce. One of these findings included the over relaince on government contractors in the federal workforce.

If this is the first draft of her management agenda as president, it's already 10 times better and more effective than Bush's President's Management Agenda that he laid out in 2002.