Letters to the Editor
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fascist free for all
So nice to have RealLame and the other wingers here to show just who the 28% of morons are who still support Bushit. Driving a camry doesn't absolve you of being a Bushista apologist. And that whole rap about Democrats driving us into wars is so foolish it beggars description, but here's a shot: stump stoopid. Have a lovely evening. I hope your vaseline supply holds out.
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No taxes, blow up distant nations...
...don't kill the unborn babies, the world is ten thousand years old and will end real soon. Mexicans! Mexicans! Mexicans!
At least we know what the Republicans stand for.
Why? Because you don't actually offer anything to anyone apart from a soapbox for their own agenda items. There's no center there. There's no common core.
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Is Bill also destined for Congress?
I can't agree more.
We need Al Franken in the Senate, and I'm apt to think Bill should be there too, unless he has lifestyle concerns.
These guys aren't just funny, they're correct about creating a strong party and a nation we can be proud of once again.
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Carter should apologize????
Carter was a nuclear engineer on a submarine. Bush was AWOL after America spent a small fortune on flight training. Which one really owes America an apology.
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Foto-op Fascists
The Codpiece Kid on the MIssion Accomplished carrier deck was the all time low for whoring out the military for a photo op. The preppy prick blew off the last two years of his National Guard duty in the Texabammie Cocaine Raiders gig that Daddy Dearest set up for him, protecting Houston from the Vietnarians. Thunderpussy.
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Carter is OK
Take a breath people, Carter is probably apologizing for being so pissed off at the First Chimp that he descended into a rant. I'm pretty sure we can all relate. He has manners, so he apologised for the rant. Done. And when you decide to remember all the Carter ef ups also remember that he set aside the largest pristine refuge on the globe. For that he can talk about jesus and even bash my Israelis once in a while. Instead of barking at the vote to authorize more $$ and time for the First Chimp to ef up more IRAQ, stop and look at the potential for the ultimate destruction of the Republican machine if we have two more years of 100+ soldiers dying every month in monkeyboys war. This is not to suggest that I would want another 2400 kids mowed down in this Kafkaesque charade, but if it going to happen, it is going to happen. And better if it happens under GWB's watch. Anyone remember: Hey Hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?? Remember how good that war was for the future of the democrats? Anyway, I don't see any public groundswell to impeach monkeyboy, so he gets his way. If the dems get their heads out of their asses, photos of coffins and stories of crippled and scarred American boys and girls would be the place to start. Finally, GWB is without a doubt the worse president our nation has ever had to endure. History will whip his sorry ass. I hope I live long enough to see some of it. Good Memeorial Day to you too
Bill
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Backbone
While I am a fan of the former leader, his backdpwn was a true dispointment. What did he have to lose?
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quotes from Maher
"...and while other presidents have sucked in their own individual ways, Bush is like a smorgasbord of suck."
I am stealing his words and using them often! That is what we love about Maher, he makes us shake with laughter instead of rage. It's something to be grateful for because "Hard times ain't quit...".
Arby34950, and whizkid: You said it! It's ridiculous, but at least we can laugh about it along with Maher.
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Carter vs. Carter
This is a waste of time. We need competent in-depth reporting from Iraq, not marginal nonsense.
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Scare tactics
Carter was always a spineless worm of the first order, but his reversal was so swift and so, I don't know, FEARFUL, that I have seriously considered that the man may have been threatened. I wish I were kidding.
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Alert: Politicians soon to replace lawyers as the #1 butt of jokes
I expect little more from most of the spineless Democrats (or from the reaction of the Republicans). For the past few years whenever I hear from the Dems, I usually get a survey to rate numerous issues so basic or asking questions so slanted that responding is a farce. It does give them a cover to then ask for a big check. I never hear from the Reps.
I anticipated more from the post-Presidential Carter and, for awhile, thought I had gotten it. He has of late spoken his mind more openly and thankfully disregards the typical Democratic milquetoast mentality. Unfortunately, his reaction-retraction as a result of the fallout disappointed me. Given that people from Dennis Ross to Zbigniew Brzezinksi to Chalmers Johnson can comment in the same vein and more in depth (I recommend a recent review of their three books in the current New York Review of Books), Carter--and any other citizen--certainly has the right to speak his mind and not have to apologize; certainly the Republicans assume that right when speaking.
I hope the Democrats realize the people do sometimes want someone to speak strongly (even when wrong, it works-- don't the actions after September 11, show that?) and act to deserve both our future financial support and our future votes.
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Worst president
I think a very strong case can be made for President Bush being the worst president for a very long time. Nixon will always be a strong competitor, of course, but Nixon had substantial foreign policy victories. We can't exactly say the same thing about Bush.
One of the war crimes that was adjudicated at Nuremburg was that of "waging aggressive war." The act of invading a sovereign nation was considered to be a hideous, criminal act that resulted in the death penalty at Nuremburg for those convicted of perpetrating it. How can our invasion of Iraq be seen differently?
Then of course there is the bungled prosecution of the war itself. Four years on, and we seem to have to relearn every lesson of modern guerilla warfare, even though that field of study is a century old. Add to that the conflating of attacks on our soldiers with deliberate attacks on civilians, placing them all under the banner of "terrorism", and an ever-shifting rationale for the war in the first place, and you can see that the Bush administration has exponentially increased the intellectual confusion at the same time as the events on the ground explode into chaos.
And that's just foreign policy. How about the fact that Bush campaigned in 2004 on a promise to fix our massive entitlement system, scheduled to collapse in the next few administrations under the weight of "Baby Boomer", and has proceeded to achieve exactly nothing on that front? Good Lord, what ground have we gained in the last six plus years on any front?
But here's the problem. Carter was a bad president. Some time ago I posted the story of Herb Cohen, a professional negotiator consulted during the Iran hostage crisis by both President Carter and the Reagan campaign. Carter studiously ignored Cohen's advice, whereupon Cohen made his famous prediction (accurate to the hour) on the release date of the hostages. Carter seemed overmatched by circumstances, was in way over his head as president, and so becomes an easy mark to strike back at if he is bold enough to criticize another President.
So cut President Carter some slack - and President Bush none.