To the latter point, I'm not sure that a Gore administration wouldn't have gone into Iraq either in the poisonous atmosphere of the early part of the decade. The Clinton administration wasn't exactly fond of Saddam either (as they proved several times with bombing campaigns). And Lieberman was and has been pro-Iraq war. I might agree he might not have had incompetent morons like Rumsfeld running the war in the first place and that would have helped, but we don't know who his SecDef would have been either.

As far as stem cells, I'm in agreement we should be funding them, privately, publicly which ever where they show promising research potential. I would be greatly disappointed if reversing that policy (along with the Mexico city resolution with abortion and foreign aid) is the only thing done so far that matters however.

For those who argue that using embryonic cells is equivalent to killing life – Then we are all murderers when we wash our hands, chew our food, etc. A cell's a cell.

It's funny how Bush is so concerned about killing babies, meanwhile he had fully-grown men with families fight in Iraq and die for their country in the process. Unbelievable. That's why we shouldn't have a president for more than two terms. Although it would've been unlikely that Bush would've won again, you never know. Look at what happened with Florida vs. Gore.

There is clearly justification in applying as often as possible the same legal treatment to authority and power. But this is just as true, as I mentioned, in private citizens (CEOs, celebrities, et al). Emotional objection to a stratified society in form does not remove the stratification in practice.

Adult stem cell research is directly responsible for the saving of the life of a personal friend of mine. There have been no recorded incidences of embryonic stem cell research ever having resulted in anything but wasted time effort and money, whereas there have been great things that have come out of adult stem cell research.

Our currant POTUS has done nothing but embarrass this country and waste trillions of dollars since he took office. And yes, so did GWB, but not in as grand a scale as this idiot!

Look, take Ted Kennedy for instance. He was directly responsible for the death of a young lady way back in the 1960's and just because he was a Senator he did not do one day in prison . . . Now the way I learned it was that the law is for everyone and there is no such thing as a person who is above the law. Now everyone is looking upon his life as some kind of hero, but to me he is nothing more than another criminal who gt away with murder – just like O.J.Simpson!

This country was founded on the belief that all men are created equal and that we have equal justice under the law. So when a sitting President lies under oath like Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, it takes months or even years to impeach him? When a business executive commits a crime he/she can be fired immediately. I mean look at the Illinois governor that sold Obama's senate seat and it took them a several months to kick him out and he still hasn't served one day in jail.

The only solution to the problem of political elitism is to do away with career politicians and make political offices a one term deal. Anything else would just be another smoke and mirrors job.

I'd agree completely that breaking up the two party political system would be to our advantage, in this as well as other ways. But I still don't see a justification for limiting voters in their choices of public servants or that any supposed value of statesmanship is in someway negated by actually performing it.