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Sunday, September 14, 2008 06:54 PM

If you don't vote for Cynthia McKinney

YOU ARE A RACIST!!!

/you can hold a mirror up to a moron, but they will never recognize themselves

Sunday, September 14, 2008 06:50 PM

@Mona

The issue is that is there such a thing as a "Bush Doctrine"?

Please post a link to a paper or proclamation written by George W. Bush entitled the "Bush Doctrine".

/Cheney Doctrine?

Sunday, September 14, 2008 06:42 PM

@GlennGreenwald

Please post a link to a paper or proclamation written by George W. Bush entitled the "Bush Doctrine".

Sunday, September 14, 2008 06:39 PM

@Mona

The issue is that there is there such a thing as a "Bush Doctrine".

Please post a link to a paper or proclamation written by George W. Bush entitled the "Bush Doctrine",

/Cheney Doctrine?

Sunday, September 14, 2008 06:22 PM

@GlennGreenwald

Whole lotta people calling BS.

In this day and age, that is remarkable.

Check your pants.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 05:48 PM

@maotsetung

I think it would be a good idea to send them all to Russia and let Putin deal with them. Except for McKinney, Kucinich, Paul and any one else who opposed the war, them we keep so we can rebuild America into a peaceful and sane nation.

Notice how after Putin invaded Georgia, he left?

How long before we leave Iraq?

Sunday, September 14, 2008 05:39 PM

@GlennGreenwald

"Al Qaeda, the group Obama is advocating we bomb, already has attacked us."

Well then, don't you think we should arrest and charge the co-founder of that nefarious group?

He is Obama's foreign policy advisor. I think he also had something to do with that terrorist attack on the Russian Peacekeepers in Georgia that Biden definitely had something to do with. Maybe we should turn them both over to Russia, eh? Putin would give them some justice.

Very careful and clever of you to not say that al-qaeda did 9/11. You have some standards left.

Joan will have them gone real quick.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:59 PM

@Christopher Michael Neill

Palimpsest?

Where does a high school kid learn such words today?

I guess kids still like to make fun of people's names.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:45 PM

@ Kitt

That's pretty one sided of you and narrow minded. What about the other VP and the other candidate?

Don't they deserve the same scrutiny?

I guess they don't, do they.

/rimshot

/sound of crickets

I am not betting on any candidate.

I am not a loser.

Keep playing and betting, you still have money left in your pocket!

Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:37 PM

@druidbros

It was a setup.

You anticipate the response and give a stimulus that will likely result in the response that suits your purpose.

Like:

Setup: "Lipstick on a Pit Bull:"

Response "Lipstick on a Pig"

A very good salesman taught me the techniques when I was about 19. It took a lot of setups to get someone to buy a vacation lot in the course of 2 hours. Rove is a good salesman.

And now you see why I did the setup. Because Glenn doesn't "get it".

/Do you, Glenn?

Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:28 PM

@Cocktailhag

Did you hear Biden talk about Russia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan at the Convention?

How is that any different?

Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:22 PM

@ AnnieW

Imagine you are in the only Casino in town. The roulette wheel is rigged, the dice are loaded and the decks of cards are stacked.

Keep playing until you have no money left.

That is your only choice.

Don't you ever DARE to think about walking out of that Casino and never coming back.

They appreciate your business.

Be a good customer.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:10 PM

@ AnnieW

When you think of the MSM remember that they are the ones who sold us these wars, without question or comment.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:07 PM

@druidbros

I figured a moron would make a post like that.

Calling means that you are not a participant.

Naming and labeling something as Bullshit is not the same as dealing with it as if it were a serious and weighty subject for debate, argument and analysis.

If you are served a plate of Bullshit and say "THIS IS BULLSHIT - TAKE IT BACK" that is calling bullshit. On the other hand if you eat it and discuss its relative merits of flavor, aroma and texture, that is what you and the rest are doing.

I am appalled, but it is kind of funny.

BON APPETITE!

Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:07 PM

@druidbros

I figured a moron would a post like that.

Calling means that you are not a participant.

Naming and labeling something as Bullshit is not the same as dealing with it as if it were a serious and weighty subject for debate, argument and analysis.

If you are served a plate of Bullshit and say "THIS IS BULLSHIT - TAKE IT BACK" that is calling bullshit. On the other hand if you eat it and discuss its relative merits of flavor, aroma and texture, that is what you and the rest are doing.

I am appalled, but it is kind of funny.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:54 PM

Bush Doctrine - Monroe Doctrine - I CALL BS!

There is no Bush Doctrine. This is all BS and it is just a label to make Bush look presidential - LIKE MONROE. Doing whatever you please is not a doctrine. You have taken hype and spin and made it into something you think is worthy of debate over its semantics and nuance.

It is bullshit. Opinions about bullshit are also bullshit. The democrats agree with the BULLSHIT Bush Doctrine 100 percent. Obama will continue to exercise this NEW supra-constitutional right of capricious war.

We have already used a proxy to attack Russia. BIden want to finish the job.

You people are incredible.

Hype, spin and bullshit are all that is real to you.

Arguing over what Charlie Gibson did is the NADIR of stupidity and shallowlessness.

IT'S A DISNEY, MORONS!

DISNEY excluded Kucinich. Ignore and exclude them.

But no, make it important big and real, you pathetic whack jobs.

Sunday, September 14, 2008 09:29 AM

Working for Joan Walsh has ruined you.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203324.html

Damn! Now Garrison, Camille and myself are the best writers here AND I AM NOT EVEN GETTING PAID!

HARRUMPH!

/so very very sad.

ANYONE GOT A TISSUE?

Sunday, September 14, 2008 09:14 AM
Original article: Making a mockery of 9/11

@pegster

Joan is not stupid. She knows exactly what she is doing. She will end up hosting Meet the Press. She is an excellent propagandist for the corporatists.

She also writes a pretty mean couplet, eh?

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