Letters to the Editor
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We all know it's coming
Once again Glenn hit my thoughts exactly. O'Reily digging up the truth, perhaps it's located under the bridge with the one Veteran??? My hope is that Barack, being a lawyer will be able to side step their mess and outwit the witless. Let's hope people are indeed ready for a change and realize all the crap that is spewed in order for the GOP to win their battles. Because they love their battles. Go Barack, keep up the positive thinking.
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@ thurman11
Here pass this on:
What is wrong with "It Takes a Village"? Seems to me a party (repubs) so concerned with the private activities of their neighbors would be understanding that all the people of a community contribute to the raising of the children of that community, either directly or indirectly.
Then point out, that the book was actually ghostwritten by someone else so its not HRC's fault.
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It's what they do
Shit-throwers
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Here's my answer --
"Personally, I despise any notion of an Obama Presidency. It would seem to me to be indistinguishable from a Ted Kennedy or an Al Sharpton Presidency. Why should anyone think any differently?"
Uh... they're not a drooling idiot?
Based on WHAT would you expect Obama's presidency to be indistinguishable from one with Kennedy or Sharpton?
Use specific examples from legislation or speeches.
If you must lazily resort to sweeping generalizations about "liberals", please take the time to explain why the Bush/McCain position is to be distinguished as "conservative" from the "liberal" Obama position.
-- prunes
I think Obama's approach to taxes and the size of government would be the same as Kennedy's -- they have both voted the same way.
I think Obama's approach to judicial appointments would be the same as Kennedy's, as would Hillary Clinton's. We know about Clinton from her partisan positions on the Judiciary Committee.
I think that Obama's approach to foreign policy and Iraq would be to the left of almost any other Presidential candidate from any party. That's based on what Obama has said. That he'd talk to Iran; that he'd begin pulling out of Iraq as soon as he took office; etc., etc.
I mean, that is why so many people at Salon support Obama, right? He's that far left. He's not bipartisan. If you wanted "bipartisan," you'd all be supporting Joe Leiberman, Arlen Spector, Chuck Hagel or John McCain. Those are bipartisan guys. Not Obama.
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The GOP/Media Complex
I've noticed the same thing that Glenn has written about in this post and wondered when and how it all began. I've never been impressed with the level of political discourse in this country but it's gotten so awful in the past couple of decades that I just decided to start ignoring it all. Is this recent development just a coincidence or has there been some conscious effort to get the entire media establishment to conduct itself this way?
It was planned by conservatives like William Simon as early as the 1970s: (http://www.consortiumnews.com/1999/080499a2.html)
Beset by growing public outrage over the Vietnam War, Nixon determined that Republicans needed a more compliant media to promote their points of view -- and to make his hardball political strategies work.
On Sept. 12, 1970, while at Camp David, Nixon arose late one morning and began barking orders. He "has several plots he wants hatched," wrote his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman in The Haldeman Diaries.
"One to infiltrate the John Gardner 'Common Cause' deal and needle them and try to push them to left. … Next, a front group that sounds like SDS to support the Democratic candidates and praise their liberal records, etc., publicize their 'bad' quotes in guise of praise."
Then, Nixon turned to his pet plan. Nixon was "pushing again on [his] project of building OUR establishment in [the] press, business, education, etc.," Haldeman wrote.
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But Nixon found the press corps harder to manipulate than it was during the early years of the Cold War. He lectured his staff on the need to bully journalists into line. Nixon believed "the press and TV don't change their attitude and approach unless you hurt them," Haldeman recounted on April 21, 1972. "The only way we can fight the whole press problem, [Nixon] feels, is through the [Charles] Colson operation, the nutcutters, forcing our news and in a brutal vicious attack on the opposition."
Two months later, Nixon's pugnacious politics would come a cropper in the Watergate scandal. As the scope of Nixon's criminality slowly emerged, The Washington Post and other major news outlets led the way in exposing the evidence and ultimately forcing Nixon's resignation on Aug. 9, 1974.
The disgraced president retreated to his estate in San Clemente, Calif. But Nixon's followers blamed the "liberal" news media for hounding Nixon from office and for "losing" the Vietnam War. They concluded that a more conservative press was vital to their success.
Taking the lead in this endeavor was Nixon's treasury secretary, William Simon, who was president of the John M. Olin Foundation. In the late 1970s, Simon began pulling together executives of other conservative foundations with the goal of building "OUR establishment."
How do we fight this?
By spreading the word.
By passing along pieces like this and Glenn's to your friends and family.
By not letting a lie go to bed unanswered.
By staying connected.
That's how you fight it.
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@ Elephantman
I don't consider anyone who has enabled the bush admin to get away with breaking the law as bi-partisan. I call it cowardly.
Still I find it interesting that after how the bush admin and for the most part a compliant repub congress has left the nation, anyone could object to far left presidency.
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Elephantman
Well, if the next two Supremes are appointed by the far left that makes the last 4 appointments taken as a whole, to be in the center or bi-partisan or whatever you want to call it.
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So many questions!
...a loyalist conservative Republican...
Explain what that means, specifically?
-- Kitt
No problem. It means that I am more of a Mitch McConnel/Jeff Flake/Duncan Hunter kind of a Republican than a John McCain/Chuck Hagel kind of Republican.
But I'll happily support McCain in the general. I think he'll win.