Van Buren is once again the only sane choice.

I do not have a high opinion of anyone who bombs foreign countries to distract from his personal failings.

No that was just a part of his "War on Aspirin."

Romney should replace Petraeus at the CIA. Romney already is a master of disguise and can be trusted to not have sex with women other than his wife. It's a win-win.

Well it would be interesting to see a disbarred attorney serve on the highest court. Maybe President Obama could also name John Dean!

One of the best movies ever made. The film is like 85% montage and includes the songs "Hearts on Fire." It has a giant steroid induced Soviet boxer, the hardest working man in show business (James Brown) and a robot. What other movie has that? The answer is: none.

To not like this movie makes you a candidate to stand before HUAC.

Van Buren is the only sane choice in this election.

Yeah, he also has a traitor as his VP.

To be fair John Tyler was apart of the Virginia Peace Conference which tried to find a peace agreement between the USA and the CSA. He opposed secession until the U.S. Congress rejected the agreement and only then decided that the U.S. government had no interest in peace. Additionally, as president Tyler was willing to send troops to Rhode Island to put down Dorr's Rebellion thus showing he was willing to attack "traitors." Not that I agree with that but still.

If I remember to vote I'll probably vote for Gary Johnson but voting is not really all that important to me. I forgot to give out candy on Halloween and did not go to homecoming football game at the high school I teach at, thus, if I forget another symbolic autumn ritual I won't really beat myself up.

Also, I will vote against retaining all judges. Judges suck, a lot.

Van Buren is the only sane choice in this election.

Van Buren and his independent treasury are the only way to go in terms of banking. Thus, he has my vote.

That Varilek guy hits me as some Fabian Socialist UN lackey. I certainly hope he is not sent to congress as that is already the largest single group of people in the U.S. Congress. I thought we wanted diversity in the national legislature?

Should be in prison but Current TV is a fitting punishment.

To be fair if the media and press people would not ask about rape the odds that the GOP candidates would bring it up is probably not that high. One should ask why is the media so obsessed with rape? My hypotheses: reporters are into some weird stuff. 

The president is handing out burns like a sparkler on July 4th. In this debate he has been the real dealer of zings. Romney can barely respond.

This is really good. I applaud your efforts.

Do you think Romney used the term "Democrat senator" to irk the president or just to win points with the Limbaugh crowd?

America does not need anymore math and science teachers.

Space required between the 'any' and the 'more', methinks.

He's just proving his point that the English department needs more teachers.

No it was a typo. However one thing is true, we do need more behavior disorder teachers because you two obviously needed one in school.

If the 1980s called me that would be pretty cool.

Romney is already trying to be funny. This will be a long debate...

I am not superstitious at all. I wear the same pair of socks everyday because I like the smell.

You should go as Krispy Kreme and then you may stand some chance of owning a bunch of mice.

Andrew Jackson is my choice because he opposed tariffs (well, in rhetoric anyway), internal improvements and national banks. Clay's National System makes me cringe.

President:

[1] Napoleon and Nathan
[2] Jbrase and North Carolina Yankee
[3] Snowstalker and Redalgo
[4] Xahar and Hashemite

Midwest Senate:

[1]JulioMadrid
[2]Kalwejt

"They brought us binders full of women" - LOL

So women are statistics?

No, this is obvious proof that Romney is a serial killer who keeps pieces of his female victims in binders. However, anyone who saw American Psycho could have guessed that.

      My favorite poem by my favorite poet.

  OH! WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD or MORTALITY

        by: William Knox (1789-1825)

        H! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
        Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,
        A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
        Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
        
        The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
        Be scattered around, and together be laid;
        And the young and the old, and the low and the high
        Shall molder to dust and together shall lie.
        
        The infant a mother attended and loved;
        The mother that infant's affection who proved;
        The husband that mother and infant who blessed,--
        Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest.
        
        The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye,
        Shone beauty and pleasure,--her triumphs are by;
        And the memory of those who loved her and praised
        Are alike from the minds of the living erased.
        
        The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne;
        The brow of the priest that the mitre hath worn;
        The eye of the sage, and the heart of the brave,
        Are hidden and lost in the depth of the grave.
        
        The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap;
        The herdsman who climbed with his goats up the steep;
        The beggar who wandered in search of his bread,
        Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
        
        The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven;
        The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven;
        The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just,
        Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust.
        
        So the multitude goes, like the flowers or the weed
        That withers away to let others succeed;
        So the multitude comes, even those we behold,
        To repeat every tale that has often been told.
        
        For we are the same our fathers have been;
        We see the same sights our fathers have seen;
        We drink the same stream, and view the same sun,
        And run the same course our fathers have run.
        
        The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think;
        From the death we are shrinking our fathers would shrink;
        To the life we are clinging they also would cling;
        But it speeds for us all, like a bird on the wing.
        
        They loved, but the story we cannot unfold;
        The scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold;
        They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come;
        They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
        
        They died, aye! they died; and we things that are now,
        Who walk on the turf that lies over their brow,
        Who make in their dwelling a transient abode,
        Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road.
        
        Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
        We mingle together in sunshine and rain;
        And the smiles and the tears, the song and the dirge,
        Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.
        
        'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,
        From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,
        From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud,--
        Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?

David Pietrusza and Ed Bearss are excellent writers of non-fiction. Bearss is probably the finest battlefield historian of the American Civil War and wrote the definitive work on the Vicksburg Campaign. In terms of fiction I have always liked Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Allan Poe.