Reply #141: You may want to run a google search for [View All]

"obama - wellstone - gadfly". You will quickly discover that this is a context-less quote and more. I would challenge anybody that wants to use this as an attack to provide the full context of the statement that Obama made, I have yet to find it. You will also find that the word "mere" was added to the context-less use of the word "gadfly" by the poster of this piece to amp up something that already sounds bad when given no context.

As for body language and speculation about lie detector tests, my goodness, how low can we go.

John Edwards is a fine candidate, I would be proud to vote for him.

This piece, however, is a disgrace. It is everything that is wrong with how campaigns chatter moves forward. This piece can be summed up fairly briefly as "don't vote for Obama because I don't like the way his body moves during debates, I think that if we hooked old Obama up to a lie detector he wouldn't pass though I really don't have anything to base that on, and - oh, oh, oh - once a blogger said that Obama refer to Paul Wellstone as a gadfly and that must be really bad - though I have no idea what a single other word used in that statement was."

John Edwards would be anything but proud of this kind of attack. It is void of substance.

I certainly fall into the crowd that believes that we (yes I used the word "we" to describe the Democrats) have a good slate of candidates to choose from. I also believe that "we" would be much better served finding actual differences between the candidates and discussing those things in an intelligent fashion - as opposed to posting context-less quotes, speculation about lie detectors, and discussing body language. This sort of post is simply an embarrassment.

I get that people are working hard for this candidate or that one - that passions are running high and that they need to in order to sink the kind of time and energy many of us are putting into the support of our candidate of choice. But many here are not showing any level of maturity as they do so. After I read this piece my first thought was - wow, somebody needs a bottle.