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I'm sure we stayed in VN despite all the rancor at home and despite what they told the populace. I'm sure that Korea was far less popular than the government hoped it would be. Heck - even WW2 had a strong and persistent strain of un-popularism at home throughout. And if you go all the way back to 1776 only 1 out of 3 colonialists sided with the Revolution. You simply need to understand that wars are fairly unpopular when they are going on. It's only later that they become heroic. If we could, we should go back to 1776 and just stay a colony. At least it would all be someone else's fault.
For the glint eyed zealots no apology for anything is ever required. For the skeptics no apology is ever sufficient. I just hope Black America makes the best of this Black Presidential opportunity and doesn't come back in 2012 or 2016 picking at the same old victimhood, the same excuses for what could only be called hate speech coming out of anyone else's mouth, however that's a normal part of the communities wider dialog. And I do hope Rev Wright is elevated to an official position in the Obama cabinet so we can at least be witness to the unvarnished truth, unfiltered by his acolytes.
Here the news is a preview to the weather, the weather, more weather, the drought, a weather recap, some local crime news, the weather, local government news and the weather.
Because nobody stopped this from happening. Words bigger than actions.
Tuber Grub on a stick in Abidjan perhaps? The best pork free pizza in Kuala Lampur?
Just a speech. Perhaps you should stop considering it in the same light as the sum total of all human wisdom. And please, I understand he travels on a beam of light, shatters the barriers of time and space, parts the waters, feeds the hungry and raises the dead, but someone wrote that for him while he was busy campaigning for elected office. And the office isn't the Papacy.
I bet most people forget that he was an engineer. He invented geosynchronous orbital dynamics. I always thought his sci-fi was a little too too engineer-y in the way he'd go into a long description of some exotic tech and when you got to the end, you realized it was a thermocouple or something mundane like that.
And let the muttering superstitious pass it by in the grocery store. It's probably heretical to mention it here but perhaps you-all would be happier with Halal or Kosher.
We pay a lot of money to vacation in far off exotic places that get written up in NatGeo where they do odd things like this. If you're offended stay home.
What if she had a family that needed her and now was SOL. Aren't people at least on par with animals? We don't have to elevate people over animals but a little parity wouldn't hurt.
Me neither, the last few are just about blaming Israel for crop failure and sunspots or something. I didn't pay attention.
If we just turned the power off in America for 8 hrs a day it would solve the greenhouse gas problem and all the other problems as well. Just go dark 1/3rd of the time. For that 33% you're living happily in the bucolic 19th Century. And ban all motorized travel during that time as well.
Mr Obama's beliefs are his own. But are these the things we want our Presidents to sort-of excuse? Imagine if you will any other scenario where the President had an odd acquaintance, a mentor even and that person advocated revolution, literally, grab an M-16 and kill people revolution. Or racial separation, or burkhas, or any number of other things that go against what we generally conceive of as the American experience. It's wonderful that we live somewhere where people are permitted to espouse those ideas if we like. But that's not the same thing as seeking out the wildest most extremist views and embracing them because you believe that's the way to be inclusive.
About a third of all mainline news reports were about Iraq. Now it's about 3%. Iraq is now the 3rd or 4th most pressing issue to the voters. And again Democrats run the risk of snatching defeat by elevating this election to a single issue: Iraq. Fact is, most Americans are tired of hearing it. They understand that in either case we're there for many more years and it's simply a matter of distinguishing McCain's cheerleading from the Dems gloomy inactive shame.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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