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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Marty Carpenter
Published Letters: 41 Editor's Choice: 8
" I am swearing off filibuster follies and Alamo analogies." Is that a promise? Your reading of the daily kos sentiments regarding an Alito filibuster was so far off the mark that it wasn't even funny. The person who wrote front page diary after diary there, week in and week out, calling for a filibuster, Armando, might not be happy to see you "cherry picking " the evidence like a good Republican spin artist. Do your homework, please. Read thoroughly, and sample widely. John Kerry actually wrote to dkos members, seeking their opinions on a number of issues, and they told him what they thought, too. They asked him to filibuster. PFAW does not deserve your malignant comments, either, although I give money to them only when I can afford it. The next thing I know, you will be saying that the ACLU doesn't care about our Constitution and only wants to line its pockets. Think how calloused and cynical you sound, Mr. Shapiro. I'll bet you bought into that Republican lie that the confessed felon Jack Abramoff's sins are also Democratic sins, didn't you? Ask Howard Dean about that, and you will get a fight!
Did anyone notice Bush's oddly worded claims about our place in history, delivered close to the end of his SOTU address?
Today, having come far in our own historical journey, we must decide: Will we turn back, or finish well?
Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. Like Americans before us, we will show that courage and we will finish well.
He gives the impression that history will be finished when he is through doing what he is doing. I thought this wording so odd that it made no sense until I discovered this 1997 sermon by Jerry Falwell: "Learning to Finish Well;" the full text can be found at http://sermons.trbc.org/970713.html.
Bush's lines are reported to be a message in "code" to reassure his right-wing evangelical base that he loves them. While this may come as no surprise to some, one has to pause and ask, how come most of the rest of the world thinks he is loony? He sounds loony, that's why. They (and a whole lot of us) are not in on his private jokes. And his actions portray a mad man at the helm.
If Mr. Sands turns out to be correct, here is the final evidence to show that George W. Bush is a dangerous, tyrannical nut who will stop at nothing, has murdered countless human beings in his quest for power, and has put this nation on the brink of destruction. Enough! He must be stopped.
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"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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