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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I love it and will vote for whatever party promises to fetch that big peach pie from the sky.
I found the comparison of Bush 43 to Churchill especially loathsome. Despite his lineage, Churchill was a self made man of letters, steeped in history, forced to write to support his family. GWB is none of those things. Churchill was always looking for ways to get into combat (Sudan, Boer War, WWI). As for Bush, well ...
Palin is no Harry Truman either. It's hard to imagine who is more ignorant: the people who dream up this history free stuff, or the people who might fall for it.
When I read your post here, I thought hmmm..... a racist. After I read your other letters, I thought hmmm.... I was right. Your other letters look like something from the KKK.
Regarding Truman, I liked Harry best when he told MacArthur to stand down and when he said, "The buck stops here."
Bush, his wanna-be successors, McCain and Palin, and Bush voters believe that the buck stops at Bill Clinton. Always Bill Clinton. They're even blaming the collapsing of the American and global economies on B. Clinton and B. Frank and Nancy Pelosi.
What's the difference between Truman and a neocon?
For starters, the latter is an invertebrate.
I'm afraid King Steam is dead, but the Acela is at least interesting, as you get to see all kinda volk and lissen to 'em tawk and stuff. It's good enough for me, my Pullman days are long gone. However, I'll probably do you one better and ride the Underground Railroad we call Metro around here. At any rate, I'll be there, for real, and I'm starting to feel fairly confident I'll be able to holler out for you (or you could wear one of those airport signs with "Calhoun?" scrawled on it).
As for that virus, no question. And we have turned it loose on the planet so there is virtually no square foot of dirt anywhere that one can't find some bit of detritus that had its origins here, where we no longer "make stuff" (Bill Maher), we simply make people make crap, which someone eventually unwraps so the sort of thing that happened to you can happen to someone rafting up the Upper Baboonsasshole, while fishing for pirhana with his own finger. It's really that widespread. I just hope it isn't fatal.
Now just as the piece-o'-crap virus is peaking we can start to export the stoopid virus. Wonder how Palin will play in West Xixtachaupl. I can hardly wait to hear them guys trying to imitate her fake Minnesotan accent.
Dear lord we're screwed up. Nevertheless, I look forward to lifting a few with you on that Great Gettin' Up Mawnin'. Make mine a Guiness, thanks.
This is a good question. I am not sure how to categorize myself but I have libertarian tendancies, especially on social issues (marriage, drug use, abortion, religion orlack thereof) with some acknowledgment that government is needed for certain functions like defense, roads and transportation infrastructure and on a local level, zoning. I also do not oppose certain government programs if the large majority of people seem to be in favor, such as some sort of universal health insurance. Neither of the major party really fulfills my needs. However the catering to ignorance and prejudice, and the scorn for reasoning, knowledge and expertise (in the name of anti-elitism) that that has been encouraged by the Republican party for the last 20 years, culminating in the last 8, is a lot more than i can stomach. When the editor of the National Review a few days ago said that Palin's performance and presence at the debate made him and probably a whole lot of men sit up straight and take notice I thought William Buckley must have turned in his grave in disgust.
He's doing a lot of the Boston -NYC Acela route. With all the security, the shuttle is not happening. And I must admit to a certain fondness to Guiness as well, the fresher the better.
I'll make out that sign.
I hide under the bed everyntime I see news clips of Palin's "rock star' reception by her ultra-conservative, lobotomized following. Her candidacy is not only an insult to women and pit bulls, it demeans rock stars. Her smiley-winky performance oposite Senator Biden last week was like watching a Barbie doll who'd been dropped onto a crash-test track.
I'm also infuriated by accusations of sexism & misogyny hurled against members of the media & any males who publicly dare to mention Palin's extremely flimsy - dubious, to suggest objectivity - qualiifications : If you're going to play politics with the big boys & political hacks, you can't play girls rules, so shut up and pull up your socks. And this goes for those retro-feminists who shrilled that Hillary had been the victim of sexism & was shown no love by the Obama camp after her badly run campaign for the presidency. If you want love, get a dog.
Shoving tastefulness & protocol aside - and hoping the item was correct - I do think Hugh Heffner got it right when he reportedly invited Palin to pose for a PLAYBOY centerfold. She does possess the robotic, programmed congeneality of a Bunny.
...maybe you can help us find out who the real Obama really is besides what we already know about him finding out how to hate America from Ayers' knee and Wrights' knee and other joints.
The US elections would not matter to the rest of the world if....
it was some tiny Ruritanian remnant tucked away in the EU, or some emergent former Soviet Far Eastern republic
its financial system had no impact or influence or meaning outside of its own borders
it was not in reality as much an imperial nation state as Ancient Rome or Napoleonic France were
Therefore the fact that one of its major parties wanted to position a Manchurian Candidate as a running mate for its elderly and chronically ill Presidential candidate would rate no more than a filler paragraph in one of the tabloids. Something of the same moment as some tribal patriarch's fifteenth wife, or a Borat moment under the windswept skies of Central Asia.
However the US is not some quaint minor state on the fringes of world affairs. And Sarah Palin coupled with the Wall Street crisis has dominated the headlines in all of the Anglophone and most of the democratic European and Asian press. Both stories have engendered the same concern in these countries, irrespective of the political leanings of their governments, because the outcomes of both are inextricably linked to an increasing view that America has either truly lost the plot, or that a darker, deeper game is afoot.
A Mattel Main Street Momma manufactured and presented with the pudgy pawprints of Karl Rove all over as a credible backstop Head of State might warm the hearts of neocons and foaming fundamentalist Foetus Firsters.
It fills the rest of the world, particularly America's closest allies, with bafflement, incredulity and dread.
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
Salon headlines in your mailbox
