Gee, where is everyone? That earliest of US suns is up and a cup of ginger tea with a half of a banana and I am swingin.' 

Oil prices are treading water, but our Maine reps are a do nothing bunch. Actually, in doing nothing(removing restrictions on drilling and refineries) that is the same as doing something. Why they do not get it, I don't know, but many of us here in the NE are really upset, but there is little we can do. McCain-Feingold has taken care of their seats and we have three Senators left in the race, none of them Presidential.

My banana may not stay down! 

Is the best hope for communism the drive-by media has ever had. They have been lamenting the loss ever since the Soviet Union went belly up under the weight of it's top down command and control economy -- And now want to show that just given enough of your money, they can make communism work here.

I can understand how the leftists, the socialists, the Marxists, the Communist swoon in anticipation ... Karl Marx would look down upon them through fawning eyes.

Collectivism is just Harvard speak for communism.

First up energy rationing ... err sorry, that would be climate change, forgot the camouflage for a second there. I bet you thought the lefties were just paying social calls on Hugo Chavez ...

Does anybody ask? Why the global warming taxes just get spent as if it were any other tax. AGW == Tax and Spend with a green tint. 

   What is it with reporters and their mancrushes for Democratic candidates?

   They need to have their own teenbeat type magazine and shut the frell up.

  Speaking of shutting up, I am getting sick to death of every little news item and how it relates to carbon. (creating less of it)

  We as a race have been using and spewing out carbon since the first mantype beings have learned to create fire, I think it was all the way back in 1983 during that Quest For Fire movie. The earth has seemed to deal with all that carbon just fine.

Obama’s policies may be far-left, but he has grasped something that’s been missing for a long time: it’s about the people, stupid. You can’t lead by TV.

• When a candidate is standing in person, talking to you and your neighbors, that’s a far different thing than a 30-second sound byte. Of course, you can’t speak in person to 300 million American citizens. Live, in-person rallies are great, but they’re impractical. You can reach more people through television. The problem is that TV has a washout effect. You see so many people on TV that they all fade into a haze. You may be reaching more people through TV, but you’re getting far less bang for your buck. Eventually, the volume you’re getting through TV is mitigated by the increasingly smaller return.

• It’s comparable to playing offense in football. TV is like the passing game, where you can cover a lot of yardage more quickly. But teams that rely exclusively on passing always wind up being passive, pardon the pun. They try to throw over the defense, rather than go through them. Those teams always stall and settle for field goals, because the closer you get to the goal line, the less room you have. Instead, the proven, long term method for a solid offense is to have balance. It doesn’t have to be 50-50, but you can’t do either one exclusively.  

The same is true for trying to do politics by TV. Thirty-second sound bytes cost a lot of money, but they have increasingly less impact, because the public has seen so many of them. There has to be a balance between mass media and in-person events. You have to talk to real live people. You can’t do politics by remote. Obama has had great balance in his campaign, and it makes him a stronger candidate.

It also shows how bland and how boring the campaigns have been for the last few elections. At least the Obama team hustles, instead of trying to maneuver onto the network evening news.

I imagine it is hard for a bunch of politically correct liberals not to get caught up in a liberal African American's campaign - it's everything they'd ever hoped for....