Excellent post.  When I was a kid, I considered the "Holidays" the period between Halloween and New Years.  When I became a divorce attorney I learned that the time between the two days most prone to domestic violence, Thanksgiving and SuperBowl Sunday, were the real bookends to the holiday period, with all the time in between just nasty.

There's a primary, but Weirauch, the Dem, has only token opposition.  The GOP however has several in the field, and the two top guys are flinging a half a million bucks worth of mud at each other for the primary election in 2 weeks.

The general election, between Weirach and either Latta and Buehrer is December 11th.

Give 'em hell.

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I remember a time when Republicans weren't even allowed to enter Massachusetts.  Of course, that's when we still had a "liberal" media.

/snark

I think "OH-05" is a new tag!

How much cash do you think Hillary will waste on this state to move her numbers up to third place?

Right on cue, Romney calls Clinton a Marxist...

Thanks Kain:

I'm just not informed as I should be about the "fix" for NAFTA, but I knew that comment was way off base.

Lately I've been taking a pro-active, supply-side view of Mexican trade (very un-liberal of me, I know), and have invested in Mexico Fund.  Building up their economy can only help ours -- unless you're into unlimited slave labor.

Thanks RDem:

I get that, I really do, and have come to expect it -- and will give as good as I get.

What got under my skin is that the first mention of Obama was from an Edwards supporter, before they even started with their predictable, yet tired "my guy's more anti-war than your guy" crap.

If you ask me, littafi practically begged that this diary end up just another pissing match with his gratuitous Obama bashing in the first comment.  It was unnecessary.  It's only worse on KOS.  I used to find it fun, now it's old.

Oh I admit she's a throw-away, just a random Google hit that caught my eye -- and gave me a hook to shrug off the writer's block.  But she's not the first wingnut I've seen call Edwards a socialist.  Hell, they even call the more than moderate Mrs. Clinton a Marxist.

It was outrageous, and so I went with it.  Nothing particularly noteworthy however, so I accept your critique.  I didn't think I put nearly as much about Sonya in the piece as I did about Kucinich, but you're right -- she was unworthy of even that much free publicity.

Theny I'm sure you will be happy with the GOP nominee.

You know what this diary says about Obama?  Nothing!  How many times I mentioned Obama? Zero!  What did Obama say at Cleveland?  Naddah, he wasn't there!

Thank you guys so much for highjacking this thread.

Thanks Sarah,

KOS is not the the only blog out there, just the biggest.  I'll get to the Big Orange monster when I've a little more time to nursemaid a diary and ready to fight off the usual trolls.  

Edwards read the raw data this summary was based upon.  He made an informed decision to give Bush authority to act, and limited that authority to mandate that diplomatic options be exhausted first.  Edwards also refused to vote to fund this fiasco, unlike Hillary and Obama.

The AUMF did work, it got the inspectors back in.  It got the UN to approve, unanimously, SC 1441.  And unlike the original White House request, it limited the scope of force to Iraq only, and only if absolutely necessary.  Mind you, this was before the NSA scandal, before Katrina, before 800 signing statements, before Plame, before we knew damn well they fixed that intel around the policy because this was before we knew they had been planning to invade Iraq since the first Cabinet meeting.

Followup:
I spoke to my Congresswoman's office, Marcy Kaptur (a pretty cosistent liberal).

They just got the bill's language at 9am, for a  vote this afternoon -- 400 pages.

I got no answer as to which way she would vote.  I urged a no vote and told her I would love to report on the front page of AsOhioGoes that she was against it.  They'l "pass that along..."

Brown's office put me on hold, twice, then hung up on me.