"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."

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You know..I forgot about that. If Bush was really serious when he said that (and he didn't just want to send a message to Abbas that he was a nut-job, but didn't really mean what he said)...then, my, it is true. Our President is crazy. He really is. We're being ruled by a crazy person.

You have to wonder how many people in Congress understand this. It would be so great if few people inside the Administration started to talk. Really talk about what's going on, to the point where MSM and Congress couldn't ignore it. There has to be some seriously crazy shit going on in the White House right now.

as another poster had it, more-or-less, whether Bush was competent, or did his best, or whatever, is entirely a matter of where you're sitting.

If you're an oil-company executive, or a defense-industry executive, or a Big Pharma executive or share-holder, or you're in investment banking, or you are an executive in a polluting industry, or the auto industry, Bush has been the best president in the last 100 years. Maybe ever.

Bush was *always* just a sock-puppet for the rich and powerful. He said it himself in that famous speech near the beginning of his first term..I forget where, or exactly what he said now, but he was making a joke, and his colors appeared, bright and sharp. The richest and most powerful people in this country are Bush's true base..not the shit-kicking southerners he's spent the last 6 years deluding.

His father was a similar sock-puppet.

Anyone with any doubts about who *really* runs things in the good ol U. S. of A should have no doubts now.

The rich and powerful do. Always have. Always will. From their point-of-view, Bush has been a gift of the greatest proportions.

Those same rich-and-powerful just better hope that they're not in the blast-radius of the inevitable small nuke that someone will almost surely light up in one of our major cities in the next decade, almost solely because of Bush's abject failure to secure our borders against such a threat, and because of his utterly irresponsible foreign policy. Hell, only a few of them will likely die anyway. The cost-benefit of that isn't even worth discussing, from their point-of-view.

the NY Times long abdicated any position of credibility, responsibility or integrity, in reporting on this Administration.

It is a sad day for a once great rag. The political reporting in the paper is so bad, I haven't read it in a long time. It's good only for verifying what lies the administration is telling this week.

The people who run the Times should be ashamed. I mean, really ashamed, of what they wrought. Things would be very, very different now, possibly, if the management at that paper had done its job, and made its reporters do their jobs. As professionals, rather than bootlicking toadies for the right-wing whack-jobs in Cheney's office.

Unorganized workers perform out of fear. Management performs for the money they make on the back of labor.

Your argument is the argument management always uses to union-bust. Unions are often far from perfect, but in many places, and in many ways, they are, or would be, FAR better than relying on the tender mercies of management.

I've been on both sides of this divide, and I can tell you that if you think management at most big companies (or smaller ones) has the happiness of workers front-and-center, you are hopelessly naive

This is the best Romney can do? That's it? What a pathetic geek. What a dumb-shit. An offensive dumb-shit to boot. Are people really going to vote for this pathetic suit? Christ. Is this the BEST the GOP can do? I hope Clinton or whoever slices someone like Romney into little, tiny pieces. He deserves it. Richly deserves it.

As for mizbinkley: your reasoning is flawed. We say Bush and the rest of these warmongers should have to put their own kids on the line first, *because they're war mongers!* Get it? We're not. We'd bring them all home tomorrow if we could. Why should our kids fight, but their kids don't? It's THEIR WAR!!!!!!!!!!!! Let their kids fight their war.

In WWI, and even WWII, many leaders had children who fought, and died. Why should this war be different? Well...that's a different conversation, isn't it?

Richard Cohen has ALWAYS been a useless waterhead. I can't ever remember reading a single column of his without thinking "what a lightweight.." or a thought to that effect.

It's good to take people like Cohen apart..but it's a little like shooting guppies in a teacup: Cohen has all the intellectual integrity and mature insight of a four-year-old on a sugar-high rampage.

It'd be nice to think that all the useless dopes who constitute the DC press corps would actually pay for their uselessness by getting fired, but that'd be too much to expect, I know.

...it strikes me that this is a road Tony Snow definitely does not want to go down, ya know?