Wow...all of your Federal selections are Democrats!! I am shocked!!! Not just Democrats, these are leftist Democrats!

All of your choices?? Every one?? Where is the diversity? Where are the differences that make us stronger as a whole?

Barak a skilled politician? I thought we wanted change!?! Get rid of the "Politicians", and get some of "us" in office!!! What up with this snake-oil salesman. Can't we Democrats do better than a "Skilled Politician"??

OMG!!!

Racist.

Please we got Joe Sixpack with W!

You guys suck. I supported MFNW in part because of you, but your political bias is crap. What makes you so qualified to select the next leadership of this country? I don't recall asking you.

I don't need your help to decide that BO is as full of crap as the rag you guys publish. The cover of your latest edition is offensive. This may be Blue Portland and Blue Oregon, so you're just falling in line, but to fall in line with a complete vacuum like Obama is brain dead on your part.

We are approaching year 7 of the Iraq war - 2009 is the 6th anniversary. We are in the 8th year of the war in Afghanistan.

"What makes you so qualified to select the next leadership of this country?"

Uh, David...hate to break it to you, but in America, every citizen over 18 is qualified to select the leadership of the country.

Hey, Fork You! I don't need to be no citizen to vote!

RE: "As for the rest of the third-party flotsam

Not one stinking word is raised in this editorial over Obama's absolutely filthy, disgusting, thieving campaign against Hillary Clinton. No, we can't dare offend people for fear of being tagged "racist" or some stupid thing.

Obama, even more than McCain, is totally unfit and unqualified for president. The best action this paper could have taken would be no endorsement at all.

We have been handed a miserable selection. I intend to sit the presidential election out.

Susan - don't be so emotional - none of our votes matter - the fix went in for Obomber when the Neocons let their Nietzchien craving for endless war get the best of them; i.e. they failed Machiavelli 101: Don't fight those you wish to destroy, set them to fighting one another.

That's when the Global Oligarchy called in the A Team: Brzezinski et al, for whom the Middle East is a small-time side show; his goal, to set China and Russia at war, where after his Trilateralist/CFR/Bilderberg handlers re-organize everything.

Susan, non of the rest of us matter, not for an instatnt.

Nice to see the diversity of commentary here, everyone's represented: The Unabashed Liberal Cheerleader, the Disgusted Nihilist, the Trilateral Commission Conspiracy Theorist, even the Gynocentric Abstainerist.

"Our Votes don't matter." That's my favorite one. Don't get me wrong, I know there's more at work behind the scenes than your grade school civics textbooks would lead you to believe. But the old "I'm not voting because all the candidates stink" or "I'm not voting because there's a Fascist Column at work," come on-- Participation in democracy is more than voting, but that's where it starts. You don't like it, get off your ass and change it.

No time to gamble? Shame on you. McCain and Obama are bigger gambles than anyone! A half-crazed ex-fighter pilot and a wet-behind-the-ears political baby? Ralph Nader gave US citizens so much (including the Freedom of Information Act that you newspapers like so much!) and is a sure bet!

Susan said:

"We have been handed a miserable selection. I intend to sit the presidential election out."

I am disgusted every time I hear a Clinton supporter say in bitterness that they are going to vote for McCain or "sit this one out." Shame on you all. Get over yourselves - Hillary was a miserable candidate. If you are so bitter that you would rather not vote, or elect a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN who stands for everything your candidate hates, then you are far, far worse than the republicans themselves. Stop being such a bunch of whiney poor sports and vote for the positions that YOUR CANDIDATE supports.

It is amazing to me how so many women who want to scream "sexism" on the part of the Obama camp against Hilary Clinton tend to wallow in racism themselves.

Susan said:

"We have been handed a miserable selection. I intend to sit the presidential election out."

As a woman I can certainly understand the frustration Susan speaks of: I too was excited to witness Clinton's campaign, not because I don't love Obama (I'm a daily sipper of the KoolAid) but because my grandmother was born before women had the right to vote, and that means something to me. When I hear ANYONE say they will sit the election out, and in my life, I've heard it a lot, I'm saddened. Those who choose not to engage in the political process should remember women (and male supporters) DIED fighting for the right they don't even deign to use. Susan, please don't forsake the political process-we need every vote we can get! While I agree that Clinton experienced sexism, Obama is a courageous candidate, a kind human being, and by all that is just and good in this world, what we all desperately need if we are to embrace even the slightest hope of repairing the crushing damage Bush has created in the past 8 years.

Please vote. Remember, Clinton and Obama are identical on 99% of the issues. So go ahead, vote-do it for Clinton, do it for women everywhere, do it for yourself. If you support Roe v. Wade and ANY other liberal issue, vote for Obama.

PS. If you can't bring yourself to select a presidentical candidate, please vote on the other issues/candidates. This election is possibly the only time in our entire lives where Democrats have the possibility of gaining a majority in Congress...and that translates into who will be appointed to a lifetime on the Supreme Court...If that doesn't spur you to action, I don't know what could.

RE: ""Our Votes don't matter." That's my favorite one. Don't get me wrong, I know there's more at work behind the scenes than your grade school civics textbooks would lead you to believe."

Joe, some of us have been around long enough to teach your parents' Civics class. We've done our duty, played our roles, been model citizens while watching the global finance oligarchs screw everyone, everywhere with impunity and then torture the media into convincing little head bangers like yourself that it's your fault, you don't do enough to earn your democracy.

So let's do it now. Let's call up the specter of Robespierre. I for one would be thrilled to see him and his infamous Committee of Public Safety storm Wall Street and set up shop. Wonder if they'd draw the cheering throngs once seen at Place de la Concorde? Think they could make a game show out of it?

How's that for getting off our asses, Joe, Are you with us?