So many advocate talking to our enemies abroad, but talking to our enemies at home is apparently scandelous. Where is the logic in that?

More and more I come to think that our problems with a polarized Congress are only reflecting what a polarized public wants them to be.

That's exactly the right question to ask. The minute-by-minute polls are doing more than taking the pulse of the public. They affect and skew our ability to make reasoned assessments: the more frequent the polls, the more narrow our range of vision.

Polling is a profitable business, and it's a feeding tube nourishing the personlity and sensation driven methodology of the media. Just think how much fun time can be spent 'analyzing' poll resutls, ones that change daiily so that there is never a break in the source material.

In the meantime, real events at home and abroad go underreported.

I suspect you are right. A few months ago, Obama and HRC both had the GOP quaking in its boots…now they are looking at the big guns the Democrats have given them in each hand, and wondering which is the more vulnerable target.

However, three more months of this, and who knows what the landscape will look like?

Obama is BY FAR the weaker candidate against McCain. The Repubs know this. They're more than happy to see him get the nom if he gets it.

Obama will be damn lucky to win five states. He's definitely heading for McGovern-Mondale territory history-wise.