Amber Fields, you're right.  Suzanne Craig was a staffer in Craig's office.  They married six months AFTER he denied accusations that he was involved in the 1982 page sex scandal.  The fact that no one had ACCUSED him of anything was apparently lost on him.  

Suzanne Craig had three children, he was an older, single guy . . . instant cover and instant family.

Krista,  Laura (all your posts)  we are all thinking the same things!  

Jaime,  going to Italy,  I envy you.  I love Italy,  I would drop everything this very moment and go back to Florence. I loved every minute of the time I spent there...have a blast and find a good internet cafe (many in Florence, a few in Rome). That way you can blog for a few bucks a day if all else fails!  Be safe!

Trust a terrorist leader more than republicans. How political can you get.  Anyone that supports him is an extremist
Ghost of NJ (Sent Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:30 PM)

But it's ok for Republicans to go & speak with him?
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/05/breaking-republican-congressman-darrell-issa-currently-in-syria-for-talks/

Who's the traitor now?

June - it's the same way Hollywood actors used to get married as cover.  Because their careers wouldn't survive a "gay" accusation.

What dooms Republicans is that they always need a group of people to hate.  In the 60s it was independent women and African Americans.  Today it's Mexicans and gays.  Hopefully, they'll run out of groups they consider it patriotic to hate.

ANOTHER change of heart by Senator Craig? Didn't anyone warn him about flip-flopping (especially on restroom floors)? No wonder it seemed he was sending mixed signals in Minneapolis. . .

LARRY CRAIG:  THE GEORGE MICHAELS OF THE SENATE!!

While Keith has every right to be as partisan as he wants to be, his implied endorsement of Michelle Malkin being spit on by con the world with a bottle in Al Capone's vault guy is too much. If he hates the president so much, why doesn't he take the show on the road and do it in a location near the White House. When the president is on the road, Keith can take the show and stalk George Bush everywhere he goes. Where's the Special Comment condemming Dan Abrams, Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough? He has the ok because Media Matters already condemmed the three people.

Pam Bignardi, San Pedro, California (Sent Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:13 PM)

Yeh, I am sure that the Iraqi study group recommended that we tell the Middle East that the US in Iraq is an illegal occupation.  That always brings about goodwill.  The Iraqi study does not recommend that Dennis Kucinich act on behalf of the American Government.  What right does he have to undermine US foreign policy.  You can't defend his actions, so your typical response is to divert and ask questions about something that has nothing to do with the topic.  You never respond to the topic at hand.
We can only hope that he wins the dem. nomination.  That would ensure 4 more republican years in the white house

Larry Craig claims that their feet touched in the stall because he's a wide guy. Are you kidding me. He would have had to look like he was giving birth to touch someone in the next stall's feet. I guess liberals aren't the only politicians that lie and think the American public is stupid.

Keith, I love the idea of a memorial plaque in Craig's MSP airport mensroom stall! I'm a pilot, and I've got a set of Sharpies...I'll see what I can do. (Don't worry...I have a narrow stance.)

To Carol, Long Valley, NJ:
I wonder how old you are? Seems you are so one sided in your views. Your critism and opinion, which you're entitled to, (having been born in the great country of ours,) ALLOWS you to voice that opinion! It is sad that the young generation or maybe you're of the Vietnam Generation(?) does not comprehend the worldwide picture or the lessons of the past as in what could happen with a tyranical dictator such as Adolf Hitler and (which some countries still have one almost as bad.) You do not have all the intellegience data that this administration has, nor would they put it "out there" for possible terrorists to interpret (such as MSNBC showing a map of all possible nucleaur storage sites in the U.S.?) How WISE was that? Are we so out there to get the news, which changes from one hour to the next!, that we are not considering we might be putting our whole population of the United States at risk? Talk of soldiers dieying...it is sad...but let's talk about innocent civilians, women and children especially that could die because of some radicals who DON'T LIKE OUR IDEOLOGY... THE ABILITY TO SPEAK OUT IN FREE SPEECH...AND BECAUSE OF THE RADICAL WILD LIFESTYLE THEY "THINK" WE HAVE AND SEE ON TV AND DON'T WANT IT TO SPREAD TO THEIR COUNTRY? Let us honor and support our troops for their willingness to serve us and do their duty! It is sad that they are fighting to protect us and all we do is critize just to prove a point. I think we are in the Middle East as cover to continue to look for and capture terrorists who want to colapse us, economically and geographically! And yes it has to do with oil too, for if we were at the mercy of these people would we be able to use this blog...drive our cars...live the kind of life we live? I have relatives in the N.Y. area....that remember 9/11 and lived through it...we want to protect all our citizens! On the anniversary of this terrible tragedy...let us remember it could have happened and still could happen to any of us, anywhere but they where the target. Our troops and the Military exists to serve, defend and protect...even those that would critize and don't agree with us SO THEY (YOU ALL) COULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH! THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF LIVING IN THE GOOD 'OLE U.S.A.!

In a (probably misguided) attempt to pull together a few threads...  Bill-O charges $49.95/yr to join his blog; WPITW Malkin's site has an arcane members-only policy whereby the rest of the world can enjoy their wit and wisdom but not contribute. "It's my party and I'll snub who I want to."

And congrats to Geraldo for speaking up about MMalkin.  He deserves the wholly unprecedented honor of twice being named "Best Person in the World" for taking on the wing-nuts' porno princess.

Maybe Geraldo can be retrieved from the dark side -- though he'd probably end up in the Arianna Huffington nut-case fringe.

A.F.S., Steubenville, Ohio (Sent Friday, September 07, 2007 11:10 AM)

If we went to war and took out every bad guy in the world we'd have several wars going on simultaneously.  Good luck with that policy.

And what about other countries that think that Bush is a bad guy who needs to be "taken out".  Is it OK with you for them to invade America?

War is a last resort when everything else fails and there is a danger to our country.  Just as other countries can't dictate policy to us, we have no business dictating policy to other countries.

We should do what we have always done best in the past:  Lead by example.

3:10 PM
A.F.S., Steubenville, Ohio (Sent Friday, September 07, 2007 11:10 AM) (from a previous post)

I'm old enough that the flag only had 48 stars on it when I was born, and I know what I was doing when JFK died.  I was too young to go to Woodstock, but I remember the music.  My brother-in-law fought in Vietnam and spent years suffering from the effects of Agent Orange exposure.  I know more history than most, especially WWII, because my father never met a WWII movie he didn't like and watch repeatedly.  I also found your post just a tad condescending.  

As to Afghanistan, they harbored terrorist training camps, OBL is probably still in the neighborhood hiding out in the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan.  When we went to war in Afghanistan, the whole world was behind us, I was behind it.  If we had finished the job, the world would be a better place.  

With regards to Iraq, Saddam was contained and he was a secular dictator who would never share his power with religious zealots.  I firmly believe that '43' and Cheney had the correct intelligence, and warped it to fit their goal of stealing Iraq's oil.  This invasion was planned long before they took office and 9/11 gave them the excuse.  I don't trust either of them at all -- and I consider myself more of a Republican than a Democrat.  I can't think of one good reason to stay in Iraq, but I can think of at least 3700 reasons to leave.  

There will always be some group that hates America, and lately bush has increased those numbers exponentially.  You can't 'win' an occupation, you can only stay forever or leave.  You can't export democracy via a 'rifle', you only recruit new terrorists or 'freedom fighters'.  If Bush and Cheney wanted to make our country safer, they could start with port inspections, they could continue with keeping our national guard at home and training them as well as our first responders how to handle a 'terror' emergency.  They could stop with the 'code red' fear mongering, and start with working towards fossil fuel independence and infrastructure repairs to our bridges, tunnels, roads and sewers.  They could stop with the partisan politics and distribute the Homeland Security money where it will do the most good, but that would mean that 'blue' states would get their fair share, and bush can't have that.  

For the moment, we barely are keeping our free speech, but 43 and co are working on preventing an anti war protest rally in DC.

http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8625&news_iv_ctrl=1636

They are monitoring our phone calls, our email, probably our snail mail.  America is becoming more and more like a dictatorship, and I'm going to keep speaking up until they are stopped and/or the last 28% wake up from their coma.  

I haven't found a candidate for 2008, I'm watching the debates on both sides, I'm listening and paying attention, but if the Republican candidate is 'bush-lite', then whoever the Democrats nominate will get my vote.  It won't be the first time that I voted 'against' one of the candidates, and it probably won't be the last.  

Craig is an embarrasment to the Senate and should resign. Of course, if all the embarrasments to the senate resigned, we'd only have Democrats there.

Does anyone really think this is the first time senator Craig has done this. It might be the first time he's been caught. And for someone who claims to be for family values, whatever that is, I don't see where he or anyone else is that much differant then most people. They just claim to be better then most. And I don't buy it.  Mike

Can anyone tell me why the emergency beacon on Fossett's plane and that watch of his didn't start going off if he crashed?  Isn't that what they were supposed to do?  If they don't find wreckage is there a possibility he just walked away from his life?  Don't jump down my throat I'm just asking about a possibility.

I love animals but I can't imagine leaving 12 mil to a dog (cat or any other animal).  Can you imagine how far even a portion of that would go toward feeding hungry kids in this country?

Re: Sen. Craig.  Why is it a crime for one adult man to "come on" to another adult man?  How is that different from one adult flirting with another adult of the opposite sex in a bar or anywhere else?  I am not defending Craig - he obviously has some problems - but I don't get how flirting is a crime.  If he hadn't been acting out his self-hatred by being so anti-gay all these years, I think a lot of people would have called this incident discrimination and gay bashing.  If he had been flirting with a woman in the  parking garage would he have been arrested?

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