It's a shame you're so uninformed; it's no wonder you're voting for Romney.

Cecilia Brown = Low to no information voter.

Witless Watts Again

Just stating the obvious.

I guess the new gallup and NH polls are having quite the emotional reaction from the moonbat contingency.

Will Jill think she is in Nevada? Is Joe lost?

"Except in an academic setting, lawyers are usually addressed as Mr., Mrs., Miss, or Ms. rather than as Dr. Some lawyers style themselves "Esq." (esquire) and prefer that written communications be addressed to them that way. "

Romney seems to prefer Gov.

I have never met a lawyer who was addressed as " Doctor". Have you?

I have never met a lawyer who was addressed as "Doctor" either, apart from law professors, and even then, not in a social context. I have met a few blowhards with EdDs who socially go by "Doctor" though. In fact, they seem more apt to do this than are people with PhDs in more prestigious subjects. I agree with JC that Ms. Biden's use of the term here is pretty silly.

Jim, it's up to the person what they prefer to be called.

If you earned a doctorate, you might choose to be identified by it especially if its important to you. Why are you so offended by it?

Jan

As a matter of fact, I earned a JD as well, but have never, in the 2 decades I've held it, been called (nor requested to be caller ) doctor. The pretentiousness of it all is what I find offensive. The title of doctor should be reserved for the medical field.

Plus she's not coming here in an academic setting, she's coming here to pander for votes so that her husband might keep his job.

Well good for you and whoopsie doooo!

Jim Class esq.

A doctorate is earned, if you choose to use it it is your decision. And why do you think a visit from the wife of the VP is "pandering"? When the other side has had people visit here constantly! It's part of the political process we've developed - painful as it can be.

Big bird may draw larger crowds than Jill or Sandra Fluke at this point....

Good for you Jan for not being threatened by someone else's achievements. Too bad that others are not like-minded. If you've done the time and earned the doctorate, you deserve to be called Dr if you so wish. People don't think twice about calling a scientist by Dr. The best teacher my son ever had was a Dr and that's what everyone called her and the extra years of education made a world of difference.

Don't worry, Biden will be an even better president, when he runs for that in 2016!

"Biden will be an even better president, when he runs for that in 2016!"

No matter what happens in 2012, it would be great to have Joe as the Democrat candidate in 2016.

Hillary is not campaigning because she believes that the Secretary of State, as the representative of the United States to the rest of the world, should not lower him or herself to campaigning. I believe that this is an old tradition, not some excuse whipped up by Ms. Clinton, but I would be happy to stand corrected if anyone has information about past SOS's campaigning for their President.

I'd lay low too if I had presidential aspirations. She's smart by steering clear out of all Obama's miscues. You know when the rubber meets the road in this re-election and presidency. One could imagine how much better Hillary would have been. This would have been another landslide election....

As representative of foreign policy to other countries, the Secretary of State would not denigrate a potential future president. Foreign policy often survives administrations. Just ask Henry Kissinger.

She's busy; there's work to be one.

As compared to, say, someone like you who blogs here 24x7.

She's busy figuring out what to do about Libia

Sadly, I have to agree. Too bad we have to deal with snide remarks instead of real dialogue.

"Neocon"? How does namecalling add to the dialogue?

Seamus, you've been told this before... By me... Several times...

Neo-con is a short form of neo (meaning new) and con (conservative)

It isn't name calling, it's is what it is - the new group who call themselves conservatives. Not conservative like my mom, not even conservative like Reagan... Think Rove and you have the idea. Those who manipulate, buy, lie...

@Jan - It isn't name calling, it's is what it is - the new group who call themselves liberals. Not liberal like my mom, not even liberal like John F. Kennedy... Think Karl Marx and you have the idea. Those who manipulate, buy, lie...

Holly & Jan,
While by derivation it might appear that "neoconservative" means any new-style or present-day conservative, using it that way is historically ignorant and ignores that the commenters here who are conservative are as likely to be paleoconservatives or social conservatives or libertarian conservatives. Rather than resort to short-hand terms which add nothing to the discussion and which you don't understand how to use, why not state clearly exactly what it is you are objecting to in the other side's premises, arguments or ideology? Your failure to do so makes people think you have nothing intelligent to say, and I'm sure that's not true.

It is a slur. The connection is to neo-nazi.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=neo-con

You can repeat your justification all you want, Jan, but that does not make it so. And you get upset when people use "Democrat Party" instead of "Democratic Party"...

Seaums, the Urban Dictionary is not the place to find a reasonable definition for a loaded political term. "Neocon" is not necessarily a slur, although people on the left have attempted to make it and use it as one, at least since the start of the 2nd Iraq War. The term generally referred to intellectuals who were liberal (or even leftist) in the 1960s, but then became more conservative or moved to the Republican Party as Democrats became more dovish in the face of the Soviet Union and communism. The term also had connotations of probably being Jewish. So the point of the anti-Iraq War protesters, when they shouted "no neocon war" was in many cases to say that Jews were behind getting Bush II to agree to Iraq II, because of their primary alliance to Israel. So this use was a slur; but since there have been and are people who call themselves neoconservative, it isn't necessarily so.

Unfortunately for your side, President Obama is up in most national polls.

Those other polls must not have arrived in your daily (hourly?) E-mail from Command and Control, huh?

And happily, he is open about the fact that he and his partner will vote for Obama. We'll see soon who is making wishful predictions.

Nate Silver??? I'll bet you put a lot of faith in Punxsutawney Phil too.

David:

Non-sequitur. Everybody (except the truly apathetic) votes for somebody. Even people on Faux Noise.

Atlant,
Who's using the non sequitur? There are polling firms where the two partners are of the opposite party, and there are polling firms where the principles keep their politics to themselves; no doubt some are independents, and some may not vote out of a sense of professionalism, not apathy. (It wasn't that long ago that many political reporters did not vote.)

In your dreams, DUMP, in your dreams.

So how much have you bet on Romney on Intrade? Surely you can't pass up this opportunity to make a killing: Romney shares are priced at $4.17 right now so you could more-than-double your money.

So???

Here's an interesting article: "Part I: Obama optimism: why it is unfounded"
http://www.bobkrumm.com/blog/?p=2456