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Bill Keller

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Saturday, March 1, 2008 08:54 AM
Original article: The audacity of narcissism

Timing of a crisis...the audacity of fear...

Joan;

Think you could use your access to the Senator from New York to ask her if she knows what time the first plane hit the World Trade Center or when the first wave of planes hit Pearl Harbor. 3am where?

Think she might be setting up a call center against early morning intruders in private homes? Is that a good use of the White House?

Monday, March 3, 2008 05:23 PM

Then a quarter of the Clintonians are betraying themselves....

This is not just an election for a personality, it is about a wholesale replacement of a cabal at contempt with the nation and with the Constitution. If the Clintons are pandering to this then all should review keeping them on any financial retainer.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 04:21 AM

Momentum comes from velocity as well as mass - Fla and Michigan vote again

This is a race among the people of velocity as the men of retro thinking sit on the side. Republicans have placed us the country in a isolated quagmire abroad and economically downward spire globally. As a former military ego is awarded the millstone of protecting the old by W today in the fashion of defeated French republic with Petain and failed Weimer with von whomever, lets us not forget that our vitality and ability to change our nation's path lies within the momentum of our races to Denver. Let the superdelegated lie fallow where they belong.

Sunday, March 9, 2008 06:56 AM

When we get personal, is it really about the issues or is it about annuity.

As we go about in some arenas, this is what our conferences of any size appear, issues have become a costume to be worn in the introduction of a drama wrestling match to control access to the god which we all seek...the annuity. It is a limited god which fears does not permit us to equitably share. Unfortunately, by consensus it is the only god we have.

Travis, when he asked, 'are you trying to replace me' stated it for what it has become throughout.

Go to the conservatives, their present costume (besides the defaced term "conservative") to hold the annuity is a hoax passed about of impending nuclear doom if we don't let their annuity agent continue their presence among those stone monuments that populate Washington and are adjacent to the most deteriorated neighborhoods in the U.S. The former costumes of Jesus, Compassion, Patriots, etc. have been discarded for not supporting their profligacy. A hero of the Petain mold is being formed to wear what will be the final campaign garb. Our only hope will be that he will bring a recipe for cold potato soup as our costs of energy will not permit it to be served warm.

Our perspectives in this blog are such that I’d be redundant to speak about the various costumes we of the other sides wear in the race for annuity.

Social issues of fairness, fair return, justice, empathy, compassion, equality and posterity are not and need not be race or gender based.

When we do, we play into the power of the bigots when we do and provide them wrestlers for their entertainment and continuity annuity.

Sunday, March 9, 2008 04:50 PM

Give hope for heroism.....

Hello All:

While we liberals focus on Angels on the head of a pin, Ben Stein is writing in the Today's NY Times business section asking John McCain the question; "Do you have the guts to stand up to the myth makers and tax cutters and the rich?"

This is all made after he places a case that we have not been acting responsible managing our treasury since 1954. Have used tax cuts in ways only to delay raising the money to meet political promises and only while hiding the costs in ways that have collapsed the value of our dollar, made us subservient to the most despicable practicioners of all forms of inequality and will indenture our children on an equal opportunity basis.

This is not a liberal but a conservative liberatian commentator who understands wealth management.

Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide...wake up, someone from the other perspective is giving a challenge to a hero that lately has not shown he has guts.

see NY Times Everybody's Business What McCain could do about taxes.

By BEN STEIN

Published: March 9, 2008

Friday, March 14, 2008 06:27 PM

Warrantless surveillance and the grand hoax

As we discuss the constitutional concerns for which the House Democrats provided a defense, I suggest considering the shrill nature of justifications for these excursions into our privacy and attempts to indemnify the profiteers who execute these violations along with the FBI. It makes me wonder if either we have had a major failure in our intelligence and national security capabilities that has left us wide open to the action of real and perceived enemies. Or could this be part of a grand hoax undertaken in the Republican tradition for the political purposes of reelection and opposition suppression?

Even today, John McCain, cowardly old fool, a hero once, is starting the fear mongering of al-Qaeda at the gates - fears they will disrupt the election. (Instead of having the guts to tax the rich as asked by Ben Stein)

If after all the years of money, blood, surges, hearing; we are in no better than before 911, then why would we be placing unconstitutional power the same party, cabal, as if expecting that it would then not deliver Don Quoxite as a replacement to Alfred E. Neuman and his side kick, Rasputin, men who consider the war romantic? Unless we buy into a hoax.

Sunday, March 16, 2008 06:46 AM
Original article: The rise of the superclass

Appreciate the perspective

One can not go about a neighborhood in either the depressed areas of Newark, NJ or the blasted sections of Baghdad or any inner city school without comming to the impression of a shear which exists between these areas and the haunts of those who by whatever means have achieve sustainment and mobility without any accountability.

This is the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald's rich gone global and carrying a few Rasputins along.

Monday, March 17, 2008 05:04 PM

He is named Jeremiah isn't he.

We should take ministers for what they are. Advocates. And let's be serious we rarely take them to head or heart.

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