(in general) went along with the adoption of the fascist policies ...... including the invasion of privacy thru spying on US citizens ...... ie, the whole nation is guilty of this affair and americans all deserve each others foul company.

Duopolies with vested interests .....

Political things to consider with all the problems we have .....

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11072008/watch3.html

Gen X'ers are conditioned consumers ....

They didn't "take to the streets" against the Iraq war because they don't really believe in anything ....... and you are not willing to be ostracized, tear-gassed or beaten on the head for something you don't really believe in ...

Sorry ...... voting in a presidential election is neither a sign of courage or an example of self-sacrifice ....

And if music is the expression of a generation's soul, there is a wasteland.

1) The president's gender, color or racial background.

2) What the candidate says before an election.

We will see if this man has the "guts" of FDR ...... I certainly hope so as change will require going against the endless interests of the corporations.

The people have to remain informed and keep the politician's feet to the fire.

Blood on her hands ...... the price of a high position in the Bush govt.

And not every other prisoner in the country ????

Different justice for the rich and powerful ????

That's not democracy and that is opposed to what Obama is "supposed" to stand for .....

Has shifted and biased the median ....... now McCain is a liberal and Obama is a socialist ..... 20 years ago, Obama would have been a moderate republican ...... which just shows you how fascist the whole country has become.

About the simple principles of basic human nature.

Just exploiting a bogus financial system and something we did not create that was already here (real estate).

The country is bankrupt ........... without foreign capital inflow (ie, Chinese), it collapses ..

Lived in Boston in the 70's ...

We should stick to the serious issues that now confront us and bringing up the past is only a distraction.

You're overeacting ...... when I was in college in the late 60's, this kind of thing happened often.

The college kids didn't give them a second glance ...... they had more important things to do ....... go to class and the Vietnam war (for the males).

Somebody (probably a prankster) wanted to attract attention and you're giving it to him ......... he/she is probably laughing their ass off right now.

I thought republicans were the low-lifes who appealed to emotion ..... what makes you any different???

An efigy is just an effigy.

And the south .......... ???? I'm from the south and I take that as an insult.

I lived in yankeeland (Boston) in the south and they were a lot more racist than southerners .......

I used to love how Kennedy argued for the necessity of school busing while he and his comrades sent their kids to private schools. I see thru that shit in a second.

Please spare us the liberal hypocrisy. Guilt is for the guilty.

Or maybe Reagan didn't believe his own propaganda that was for public consumption only.

Quote :

"Atwood at least understands how unrealistic this scenario is. What she doesn't understand is that forgiveness, in order to be meaningful, requires a party willing to be forgiven -- and conscious, moreover, of needing forgiveness. To put it mildly, al-Qaida meets neither of those criteria. Does Atwood really imagine that America's refusal to retaliate would have swayed Osama bin Laden from his course? Dropped him to his knees in a paroxysm of self-reproach? Eliminated any future terrorist threat to U.S. citizens?"

Forgiveness does not involve the need for a "forgiven" who is either conscious of that forgiveness or "repentant" of their behavior.

Forgiveness is an individual act by the party who feels offended ..... and its intent is to rescue the "offended" from being possessed by negative/dark natures that imprison and harm the "offended" and possibly 3rd parties.

Is a reflection of the culture which tolerates and supports it ..... we're heading into the toilet.

Is it that a culture obsessed with the internet, iphones, ipods, tv and movie rentals can no longer distinguish between reality and fantasy?

The real problems of real people have become sidelined for the circus pranks and theatre of the absurd that american politics has become.

Everybody should give it all up ....... the needed basics of life were evident in the 40's ........

Modern life ....... is insanity .....

I sometimes wonder if Sarah Palin knew she was going to be the VP pick more than a day ahead of time.

Obviously not "read" on many issues (her job of governor would not require the knowledge), she was immediately pushed into campaigning without time to "study-up" on the issues.

Flattered by her choice as VP no doubt, but way over her head in many respects, I can't help but believe she literally turned her life over to the republican handlers, doing whatever they told her to do.

Was it her idea to dress in this manner ??? I doubt it. She probably did so at the request of her republican handlers.

She could of objected ..... that's true and said that she thought it was inappropriate and unbecoming to dress in such a way.

But surrounded by the bravado of national politics and thankful for her chance to be ever so much than she had dreamed about, she probably has hesitated to question anything they have told her.

In that sense, I think she is a sad character in many respects.

I certainly don't agree with everything she believes in and I don't think she currently has the understanding needed to be VP, but I also think she has been "used" in the same way the american people were "used" in the republican's selection of her as the VP candidate.