Unique and brilliant as always, Glenn. But I think you've gilded the lily with your emphasis on the distance necessary between the AG and the POTUS. After all, the greatest AG in American history was about as close as one could get to a President -- his own brother.

Try shitty racist life-haters.

"As a student of radio and a longtime listener of Rush's show, I have gotten a wealth of pleasure and insight from him over the years."

BWAHAHAHA!

I'm a personal friend of Ms. Paglia and I happen to know that this month's column was the result of a bet. Her pedicurist promised a year's free toe-buffing if Camille could "write" something even worse than her book on Hitchcock's "The Birds"(universally acclaimed as the worst book ever written on a major film). (If she lost she promised to start dressing like a woman.)

Pass the dappen dish!

A wonderful historic moment, but Obama has opened a door which may prove tragic.

Kennedy went his own way:

Laos 1961. Pathet Lao forces about to overrun the country and Kennedy is pushed by State, Defense, and the Pentagon to basically Vietnamize the situation, by sending 150,000 US troops. None are sent. A coalition government is setup including the PL, and stands through the 1960s.

Bay of Pigs. Massive pressure put on Kennedy to send air-cover and then US troops. No air cover. No US troops. Castro still stands.

Berlin Wall goes up. Again, the National Security State urges retaliation and confrontation. Nothing happens. Wall stands for 30 years.

Missile Crisis. In spite of massive covert provocations within his own government, and everyone but Adlai Stevenson and AG Robert Kennedy urging everything from bombing Soviet ships to bombing Cuba to invading Cuba to launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Moscow, no shots are fired. No one is killed. (Except for the US pilot shot down over Cuba during one of the provocations.)

Indonesia. JFK opens a back-channel to Sukarno, again urging him to adopt a coalition with the PKI. After Dallas, US forces arranged the removal of Sukarno, leading to the massacre of one-million Leftists.

Cuba again. Opened back channel to Castro brothers, using journalists and ambassador William Daniels. No way this did not leak.

Vietnam. According to Sy Hersh's otherwise scummy book, Kennedy opens back channel to the North Vietnamese government, trying to head off a hijacking of his own Vietnam policy. Again, no way this did not leak.

Etc.

Barack Obama was wonderfully funny and charming on Jay Leno about the secret service protection he gets. He better listen to them.

Almost as pathetic as Ted Koppel.

Look at this jackass piece. Kagan, Kristol, Goldfarb, Reid, Reyes et al. Hey goddamn it! -- they all LIKE our new Vietnam. And anyone else, says lil Andy, must be Chomsky-sucking marginalized dorks who don't get invited to the real parties. (Where Andy no doubt always plays the role of wallflower.)

Especially in this ecomony, there are so many real journalists available out there. Make space for them, Andy. 7/11 I hear is hiring.

Another DLC dictation transcribed by Mr. Koppelman.

Yeah sure, Alex. Focus on the baboon right, while clipping off any other possibility from the "consensus" besides the timing of shitty little SEALS blowing away darkies from 2000 feet away.

The administration had rejected negotiations that could have led to any peaceful release, opposing any solution to the standoff that did not involve killing the pirates.

So now Barack the Magic Front Man has shown his balls to the Vampire Class. And it's always 3 to 6 months into a "new" adminstration where this sort of thing happens. Clinton with the whole "Iraqi assassination squad targeting Bush I", Ford and Mayaguez, LBJ and Tonkin, Carter and Angola, and of course the ultimate, JFK and the Bay of Pigs.

In Jack Kennedy's case, he refused the bait. As he did with Laos, the Berlin Wall, Indonesia, the missiles in Cuba, Vietnam etc. Hence, Dallas.

God, this fucking system needs to be overthrown.

Great job.

What exactly is the point of this jackass article, a worthy successor to most everything Leonard "writes"?

Teeheehee. Look at all these moonbats not loving the failure to prosecute ANYONE for ANYTHING for the greatest Financial Crime in world history. (Actually, considering the worldwide impact of this transfer of everything not nailed down to the Vampire Class, make that "the greatest crime in world history.")

So let's lump Nobel Prize winners with loud-mouthed media whores and ugly female fascists and general illiterates. After all, the one thing they have in common is that none of them get invited to the right parties. (Parties Leonard also doesn't go to, causing untold misery.)

Explains the Chuck Todd poster he has over his bed.

Betcha the meeting wasn't like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx0t-pLLD2k

Obama suggests a "bipartisan" -- God, how the Fraudster loves that word -- commission to investigate torture abuses.

BWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

No doubt, all of the following(and no others) will be considered for membership, even if they must be pulled from their boxes of earth:

Earl Warren

Lee Hamilton

Daniel Inouye

Henry Kissinger

Arlen Spector

Allen Dulles

Madeline Albright

Sam Nunn

George Schultz

George Kennan

Philip Zelikow

Jeanne Kirkpatrick

Harold Brown

Clark Clifford

Leon Jaworski

Janet Reno

Dick Thornburgh

Elliot Richardson

William Cohen

Les Aspin

And that ultimate piece of human Crisco -- Gerald R. Ford.

Only responsible people need apply!

. . .is the Ed Murrow of our time. (Actually, much better.)

Keith Olbermouth? Ewwwww. . .

Holy Ronnie Raygun, Mr. Anti-Torture.

What a foul and sick piece, from someone who has (temporarily, I pray) lost his marbles.

Anti-Torture. Yeah, tell it to Archbishop Romero, and the Jesuits of El Salvador. The 10,000s TORTURED then murdered throughout Central and South America. Same throughout the African continent. Not to mention the beginnings of Prison World, USA.

Reagan embodied and immensely strengthened everything self-righteous, cheap, shallow, mean-spirited, ahistorical, selfish, simple-minded and divisive in this society.

He is the Father of the Big Dark.