Vendetta -

The original work, the graphic novel, was written by a British guy named Alan Moore, who thought that Margaret Thatcher and the 80's Reagan conservatives were odious and oppressive. Anyone care to guess what he thinks of the current American regime? To try and place his viewpoint as somehow being in synch with the mindset of the invading and occupying army in the quagmire in Iraq is laughable, at best.

clownsense - please stop don't.

I heard a little of this interview on my way home the other day, and was stunned by how quickly the callers turned to the whole "he would have voted with Chamberlin" meme. It was like the man had just gotten on and spouted gibberish - I don't think the listeners, or Hewitt, listened to a word he said.

Come to think of it, it was kind of like engaging Shooter, or daley, on these comments.

I especially like Odom's comment about how Kim Jong Il and others "...knows how to cause us to jump up in the air and get all excited, and cause people of your frame of mind, and particularly the neocons' frame of mind, to start doing things that are not in the U.S. interests. And then as you hit the ground, we'd pay him off and bribe him."

I was reminded of a concert review in the Albany Metroland a few years back - a band had played what was apparently not a particularly inspiring set at a local club. but the lead singer was one of those guys who jump all over the stage, and there happened to be a low hanging ceiling fan right over where his spot on the stage was, and this kept the reviewer riveted - far past any contribution, musically, the band was making to his attention or concentration.

If it works for the lead singer of an anonymous rock band, why not for radio pundits, or talking heads, or heads of state? See guys? I'm jumping all over the place, so it has to be interesting! See how high I am jumping! Watch ... I almost hit the fan that time! Don't pay attention to what I am saying, just listen to how fervently I believe it!

Some if not all the gentlemen on the other side of the House, who have spoken addressed the committee within the last two days, have spoken rather complainingly, if I have rightly understood them, of the vote given a week or ten days ago, declaring that the war with Mexico was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the President-- I admit that such a vote should not be given, in mere party wantonness, and that the one given, is justly censurable, if it have no other, or better foundation-- I am one of those who joined in that vote; and I did so under my best impression of the truth of the case-- How I got this impression, and how it may possibly be removed, I will now try to show-- When the war began, it was my opinion that all those who, because of knowing too little, or because of knowing too much, could not conscientiously approve the conduct of the President, in the beginning of it, should, nevertheless, as good citizens and patriots, remain silent on the point, at least till the war should be ended-- Some leading democrats, including Ex President Van Buren, have taken this same view, as I understand them; and I adhered to it, and acted upon it, since I took my seat here; and I think I should still adhere to it, were it not that the President and his friends will not allow it to be so-- Besides the continual effort of the President to argue every silent vote given for supplies, into an endorsement of the justice and wisdom of his conduct -- besides that singularly candid paragraph, in his late message in which he tells us that Congress, with great unanimity, only two in the Senate and fourteen in the House dissenting, had declared that, "by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that Government and the United States" when the same journals that informed him of this, also informed him, that when that declaration stood disconnected from the question of supplies, sixtyseven in the House, and not fourteen merely, voted against it -- besides this open attempt to prove, by telling the truth, what he could not prove by telling the whole truth

Abraham Lincoln, January 12, 1848 address to Congress

{some grammar errors, the transcription apparently made from both Lincoln's written notes and an "official" transcription of some sort}

I would say the correlation to the present day works nicely.