Cast your eye in this direction, Sen. Obama; we have the guy

Reread the article, Kerry was speaking of Vice Presidents from Virginia, not Presidents.

Kerry gets paid to do this kind of slopping reporting??????

The last president we had that was from VA was Woodrow Wilson !

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1856 as the third of four children of Reverend Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822–1903) and Jessie Janet Woodrow

I wrote using various points, plainly, & clearly why change is vital. Sorry if any one had difficulty understanding my illustrations. If one refuses to acknowledge our past, one really will have problems with most advances in society. I, as I had my first paying job at age 5, have earned everything I have. I served my country,(both in the military & as a supervisor in nuclear energy), I served my community,(police dept., narcotics division), I served my family, (4 children, all sent to college & graduated) & as a child to help my parents by working, studying & performing well enough to receive a complete academic & athlectic scholarship to college. I didn't grant any of you the right to attempt to insult me. I have only stated facts, without stooping to insults. I expect the same.

What does "present" NObama being empty on substance have to do with anything one poster has to say about history? Talk about diversion of the facts but that is what I would expect from this person. Recalling serfdom, voting rights and hotdogs? It is obvious what this person stands for and it isn't equality or reason. It amounts to taxpayer funded "change" in his pocket and nothing else. (Swaaaaay your arms)

All of you naysayers on "change"; change is the main reason you are able to voice or print your opinion, freely. Without change, everyday people, not born of the Gentry, couldn't own property. We'd all be serfs, working on some lords estate. Women, of any ethnicity, couldn't vote. I, & all such as I, couldn't eat a hot dog at the store lunch counter. Get with the 21st century. Do you still use a "Brothers" to write your posts & then send them to the Pilot via USPS? Do you still travel primarily by horse & buggy? If you say yes to these things, then perhaps you are Amish? But if you were, you couldn't use your "Brothers" or your PC.

Change, change, change (sway your arms in the air to the music) with nothing concrete as an alternative. One who buys into that ideology is usually a prime candidate for all those "revolutionary" products that cost $19.99 or get rich quick out of your home schemes if you now what I mean.

When you take a subprime mortgage with a huge balloon payment coming due, that is all in your paperwork that you are supposed to read before signing. People do graduate high school knowing how to read, yes?
People don't lose their houses due to their lenders going out of business or into bankruptcy. Those loans just get bought by other banks.
I really fail to see what was *not* disclosed to people in the housing bubble. I listened to Suze Orman last night and the main source of angst from her viewers was how to keep both their house and their vacation house from going into foreclosure until the prices come up enough to choose to sell one of them. If someone buys a vacation home on a subprime loan with a balloon payment, I have to say they took their risk and I hope they will have to live with the consequences themselves. Cheers, MGM

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Actually, with the environmental cissies we are facing the public best wise up. My sincere hope for my children and yours is that your way of government has no leg to stand on. Obviously, you have no care for what the priorities have to be to exist on this earth in the future. Simply put, read, Fuel Cell; Hydrogen to name one; the technology is here and ready. A good friend said to me; don't try and match wits with an un-witted person; I wholeheartedly agree. You won’t read you would rather deny because you are just afraid of change

Every "priority" must be accompanied with a solution of how it is to be accomplished. So, what sustainable alternative fuels? Who pays for Universal health care? Are we talking redeployment of troops not bringing them home now? Who pays for the ill advised overspenders besides themselves? The upper 25% already pay about 80% of all income taxes so what would be more balanced? How does one "force" companies to stay in the US and what does costly "green" tech have to do with that? Honestly, government was not meant to be mommy and daddy as you would wish. I can only laugh at the racial charges, they are truly rich but they do offer some insight into your outlook on life.

Why; because the present administration and GOP who controlled the other branches of government of the first four years did nothing to educate neither public nor put any regiment into place to hold these loaning institutions accountable. Just watch where the money tail ends up when a true justice department comes into play. Don't get me started on private non-bid government contracts to GOP Favourites. In fact, Republicans don't have right to say a word insofar as what this administration has done to this country. Immoral and corrupt and you cannot deny it. These are just two points of darkness

So you think that the people who took subprime loans are merely a bunch of children in adult bodies who need to be protected from themselves? Because that is what your idea to bail them out sounds like to me. Many Democratic ideas strike me just that way--that the governing folks think they are the adult supervision for a nation full of perpetual adolescents. Party on, eh? Cheers, MGM

Priority on alternative fuel means rather then this off shore drilling non-solution which is mealy an attempt to keep the power with Shell, Exxon and other Oil companies.
Priority on Universal Healthcare
Priority on getting our troops out of a bogus war created by the most corrupt administration our country has ever known.Priority on saving homes of lower to middle class family ruined by bunk loans and the real-estate scam set about by get rich quick land tycoons.Balance the tax structure by removing capital gains for the very rich and making cooperate America accountable for the first time in eight years.
Keeping our jobs here in America by putting priority of green tech and our ingenuity of invention which is what America was built on (Remember?)
In regards to the Racist mention; just admit it; you’re afraid, of what; a highly intelligent man holding office that has pragmatic solutions who is not a part of an old guard that presents the same old same old. Your alternative simply put; A LIER. And why would I say that you have issues? I wonder.I don't have enough room here but I could go on and Obama will. The evolved beleive; the inept watch fox news to console themselves

Just because most people keep saying the man is nothing but an empty hollow "change" dreamster doesn't make anyone a racists. That is just too darn funny to play that card. Wow talk about left field. Perhaps asner could enlighten us as what exactly NObamas change theory is with a few details. The only ones I know of are taxpayer funded health care (no it ain't free), change, change and change. Oh, how about no drilling but a $1k energy rebate financed by windfall profits tax (I wonder how much gas will go up to recoup that loss). Oh and change the direction of the economy....HOW!!! If I knew something, I might agree but alas rip off artists know how to stir emotion but keep their mouth shut about details.

Gilmore as governor of our state absolutely nothing and set us back, far back. Kaine is stumped by the GOP's of State senate and Kerry looks with blinders. McCain lies perpetually and those who are against Obama are racists because otherwise they say nothing when arguing his attributes. I'm just trying to state the obvious Kerry. I'm just trying to make it funny. Oh, I can't because its not. These are serious times we are in and they are too serious presently to sit idly by and waste your column on the low-brow. Though it could cause a nose bleed; come up to a higher standard... Please or pass it on. Murdock has a job for you at Fox news and then you can avoid truth all day long

I can't hardly believe some would call you article "Sarcastic". Facts are facts. Truth is truth. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. Thats what you get with Nobama and Kaine't. Please, if you want to defend your democrat party ask those running to start making some points. Ask them to actually sit down and debate someone asking tough questions where answers other than "We want change" are demanded. Please all you defenders of that mentality tell us all what changes will benefit us as a nation. Is it withdraw from the war, raise more taxes to give you more government freebees, start taking Spanish classes, keep your tires inflated, bow towards Mecca on a daily basis, dirarm our nukes, etc? Oh also, no smoking in resturants nation wide. What other changes can you think of these two could bring about?

She's right about Tim Kaine. This guy has accomplished absolutely nothing as Governer. Tried and (fortunately) failed to raise gas taxes with his ill-conceived transportation plan that would have disproportionatly benefited NOVA and shafted Hampton Roads residents.

It sounds like our chic Boomer journalist from the local supermarket tabloid is getting desperate.

I think children could run this country better than the republicans.The republican party should be disbanded.Their behavior is shameful.If you want more lies and deceit, vote republican.

than a fascist who uses the words hope and change to give a feel good speech. Just remember Russia got its change in 1917.

It's like seeing a good looking woman light a cigarette - instant turn-off.

If anyone feels that an Honor graduate of an Ivy League university, a former state senator, political organizer & present USA senator, who sits on important committees, has nothing going for him & nothing to offer, that someone most be pretty impressive.

Please, please, please take the devine Mz. Lucas. Maybe they can build a new hotel and conference center in some blighted D.C. neighborhood.

The convention should only be covered by journalist. People who know how to write news. Not someone who cranksout mechanical columns just because of a deadline.

I like Kerry. She is alway good for a laugh as well as the c interesting comments she draws from bloggers. I look forward to her columns.

I too am at a loss at to what criteria the fishwrapper uses to "Judge" the performance of it's columnists...

There ought to be a law.......LOL!!

It sounds good to me! I appreciate Governor Kaine's efforts in trying to protect the citizens of Virginia from the ill effects of smoking by banning it in restaurants. Too bad the filthy, greedy tobacco industry and those profiteering off the slow death of smokers continue to veto the bill. I like his stance against the archaic death penalty, too.

Why does the Pilot continue to pay for Dougherty's poorly written diatribes? It's baffling.

Great sarcastic article; well said, Kerry!

Hey!! BHO was in the Senate for two years, and he.... well...he.....umm.....

Ok, he did nothing. But he is young and handsome. Isnt that enough?

"Some critics will tell you that Kaine has accomplished nothing as governor. So what? Look at it this way: His anemic record won't overshadow your own."

Wow, harsh, but is it really true. Will Kaine's lack of productivity actually overshadow Barack of Obama's lack of pretty much everything?