"Sweetie"? Oh helllllll, no.

Quoted: May 15: Barack Obama took some criticism for not sporting a flag pin on his lapel. As Hardball noticed this week, Obama is starting to wear one. Plus, the 'sweetie' remark and Obama's apology.

Potential running mates for Obama. These get pretty funny, just keep scrolling down.

I always find it incredibly phony (if not devisive) when cadidates say "God bless America." That's something that you'd only genuinely say if you were moderately to very religious, which most of the candidates never are. I think they always think they have to say it to seem like "they got religion too," which is dumb.

Quoted: At the beginning of 2007 there were 38 things candidates could mention in public that wouldn't be considered damaging to their campaigns, but now they are mostly limited to 'Thank you all for coming,' and 'God bless America,'" ...

Interesting article ...

Quoted: For those of us who admire Mrs. Clinton and believe she would make a terrific president, there are hard trade-offs involved. She has an utter mastery of domestic and foreign policy, and among the Democrats she knows military and security issues in particular better than anyone else. And if the concern is to bring in fresh currents into the political system, what better way than electing a woman president?

A very interesting article -- redotted from Arun. I'm afraid this is the case. I was a little shocked Hillary got so little support from young women in Iowa. It backs my theory that my generation of women seem apathetic at best when it comes to the advancement of women. The author doesn't really touch on that, but this is a very important article, no matter who you are.

Quoted: Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House.