Letters to the Editor
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@ Elephantman
"I like President Bush's insistence on tax cuts that have produced good results for the economy, I like the aggressive war on terrorism."
You are aware the economy is in the crapper and every major financial outlet is saying we're in a depression or we're going to be one soon?
You are aware that compared to how the war against terrorism was packaged and sold to us, it has been an utter disaster?
Iraq had no ties to terrorism at all, now we're trying to get terrorists out of Iraq.
Pakistan is our BFF ally and we've given them many billions of dollars in support, yet for some reason Pakistan is al-queda's homebase? WTF? And whenever the Pakistani govt does decide to go after some al-queda, they just cross the border into our other 'victory' Afghanistan. Which brings us to...
The Taliban is still very active in Afghanistan. I can't believe I even have to see the word 'taliban' in the paper. I thought they were defeated? Hello?
These are the things you think Bush is good on? *shudder*
If you'd answered supreme court nominations, I might have understood, but the economy and the war?!?
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@ Elephantdung
And compare the reporting of that issue to the mighty kerfuffle over the sighting of a Confederate flag hung in an out-building by an unknown worker, at a private hunting club in upstate New York, where Vice President Cheney, as a visitor only, went hunting...
Eeek. A Commie! Under "Elephantdung"'s bed!
But, yes, it is interesting to see who Darth Cheney's friends are. Cheney chose to go there....
But I thought you RWers were 100% behind the right to show your heritage and express your sentiments vis a vis the Stars'n'Bars....
Cheers,
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Mmmm Prunes
No, just heard the quote twice and still had to go looking for a virgin copy of the original clip to find that yes, she did indeed say "really". The scary part about the fact that so many media vehicles went out of their way to edit the clip. BUT!!! Its hardly a smoking gun. It sounds the same to me either way. My point is what the hell is wrong with saying that? For christ's sake the problem of democrats has been not confronting our past as a nation--giving McCain a pass on all the bombs he dropped on Vietnam before he was shot down, excising Jim Crow from our proud tradition.
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FHarry
"I didn't have anything to do with that aspect of Bill's presidency" shuffle, she's going to look really bad. imo.
-- FilthyHarry
I understand your point. But just like most of the trifles and more than trifles she would be hit with if she becomes the nominee that one might be a minefield of sorts, but I don't see it holding much air beyond the hopeless 19%ers. It will get old awfully fast trying to equate everything to Bill Clinton when a debate commentator, or whomever, is playing the big gotcha game.
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@ Kitt
Ya, I guess you're right. All it would do is maybe blow some holes in her 'experience' argument and that would be kinda moot against McCain anyway right?
I mean McCain can say he WAS ready to lead ON day 1 of the dawn of time.
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Re: Wake me when it's over
We've already got Larry Sinclair on YouTube saying that he gave Obama a blow job (or maybe it was the other way around) and they did cocaine.
Jeanette D.
And what about Buster McDermott falsely smearing my candidate!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_wRb8J_bjM&NR=1
And what's up with this Dr. Weird and why are so many powerful people grafting antlers to their groins to stand out from the herd?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SROWx8ROTsY&feature=related
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Hey, don't tell it to me...
Bipartisanship, shmipartisanship
Chances are the dems are going to increase their majorities in the house and the senate (buh-bye Lieberman!) so hopefully the idiots who support what bush has done to the country and have called anyone who disagrees a traitor or terrorist can be ignored when they suddenly begin crying for bipartisanship.
-- FilthyHarry
First, Joe Lieberman is not up for reelection for another four years. His Senate term is 6 years.
Next, Republicans don't call anyone who disagrees with us a "terrorist." But we are willing to call terrorists "terrorists." The ACLU wants to call terrorists "defendants."
Finally, I have little doubt about the outcome of the next general election. One side, yours or mine, is bound to be extremely disappointed. I just hope and expect that it will be your side that is so disappointed. If moderates and bipartisan-minded independents know their issues, they will vote for McCain, and not Clinton or Obama.
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"Elephantdung" is hard of reading....
[Elephantdung]:Barack as the "Magic Negro" was not invented by Rush Limbaugh, and if you paid any attention at all, you'd have known that.
So here is your remedial education in the literary notion of "the magic negro" courtesy of Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro
Um-hmmmm. And if you actually click over and read the page, you see:
The magical negro is typically "in some way outwardly or inwardly disabled, either by discrimination, disability or social constraint," often a janitor or prisoner. He has no past; he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist. He is the black stereotype, "prone to criminality and laziness." To counterbalance this, he has some sort of magical power, "rather vaguely defined but not the sort of thing one typically encounters."
No, nothing disparaging in His Emanence Rush's song. He was complimenting Barack....
And no one here credited El Pilonidal Cyst as having "invented" that. He's too stoopid for that; he's just the big mouth...piece.
Now FOAD, "Elephantdung"....
Cheers,
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two kinds of hope
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Obama talks about the audacity of hope but in fact he, himself, is the Republican's last hope.They're hoping those southern whites who've kept the Democrats out of the white house so many times will do it again: there's no other form of hope for the Republicans than that racism, sexism and ignorance will win for them again. That won't stop the imbeciles who work for the mainstream media from displaying their own crazy beliefs and attacking Obama, but the people pulling the strings from behind the Republican party prefer anyone to Hillary Clinton, because they believe that letting a woman become President is sacrilege AND they hate her guts AND they're terrified she might actually win and do terrible things. Like fixing the health care debacle, for example. SOCIALISM, they scream. For these fanatics,still happily living in the 19th century, the only thing worse than an uppity black man is an uppity woman- but they're equal opportunity bigots and hate both equally, in spite of their phoney praise of Obama. However, their real calculation is that like-minded fanatics in the south also believe that women and blacks can never be President. That it would defile the office. The stuff that's being written so far is nothing compared to what will start to be rolled out once the run for the white house begins in earnest. Watch the mud fly! No candidate can win without the south and the Republicans are betting their last throw of the dice on the fact that Obama won't win the south. Hillary on the other hand could still pick up the working class/female vote in the south. All in all, the Republicans face a Musharraf moment, when the electorate is so angry and disgusted that they stand a good chance of being annihilated electorally whoever gets the nomination. What's so disappointing about the campaigns for the party nominations and the media commentary is that the candidates don't really talk about concrete policy and if they do the media isn't interested and just plays its sexist, racist games. The standard of commentary is lower than a snake's duodenum. Obama should be scrutinized: over things such as his support for free trade agreements and his endorsement of Joe Lieberman, but the only analysis anyone's likely to get from the media consists of lies, bigotry and gossip, as if Obama was just another media figure, or worse, another media creation like Paris Hilton. Obama himself plays into this with his catchcries, setpiece moments (with Oprah for example) and speeches that are all about belief in the future rather than learning from the last appalling eight years. Most of the media just want to see Obama give Hillary a bloody nose. For them politics is just another sport and they live in a sound byte where the past doesn't matter, all of which means they're now so irresponsible and ignorant that they've actually become a danger to democracy.