Candace Suerstedt

Talk radio is banned from the airwaves, all 25,000 conservative hosts, as well as you five or six progressives who are still allowed a tiny broadcast frequency. All country western DJ's who feel compelled to punctuate their shows with misogynist or racist ignorance are hereby sent away for sexual and racial reassignment...I mean sexual and racial sensitivity training.

I can't help but think that Republicans would like to have "do overs." This is the sorriest presidential campaign that I have ever witnessed. John McCain has managed to parlay his war hero status into a political career for the last 20 years, but this time the stakes are too high. Can we really afford to have such an

My plan was to simply show the NY Times photo to receptive Stand Down participants and ask them one single question. "What would you say to these re-enlisting men and women in the photo?" Their responses ranged from ironic disbelief to patriotic slogans. If there was any consensus among those questioned, it was to say, "God help them."

Though I believe everyone has the right to beach access, & I found myself getting a bit irritated as I tried to back out of my garage at 6 a.m. to make the 10 minute trip to Tidelands Park where the race was to start. In front of my house two 20-something men were unloading cases of beer and bags of ice... no cooler. Were they going to bury the ice in the sand and put the beer on it... or sit on the ice and drink the beer really fast?

And just this week, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, in an interview on CBS'

Throughout the day, I asked everyone I came in touch with, "Do you know who Bob Barr is?" & Sadly no one did. Not one. I feel a bit vindicated for my previously admitted ignorance about the man. What I anticipated to be a morning of dry political sleuthing turned up some interesting information.