Carter is a patriot. You are not.

So, just because you're dumb, don't assume everyone is.

-- Maximus Decimus Meridius

Gee. What a zinger!

Stupid requisite Roman sounding handle... First, there's plenty of time between now and November to make everyone remember Jimmy Carter.

Yes, there is!

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the "moral equivalent of war," except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

-- President of the United States Jimmy Carter, address to the nation on the energy problem, April 18, 1977.

What we have now is a global economy that needs oil to grow. What we need are options to achieve that growth while, at the same time lessening, our dependence on fossil fuels and increasing our use of cleaner, more secure sources of energy. In short, we need to diversify. Doing so will not be cheap and will not be easy. But it is, most certainly, necessary. In fact, everything depends on it. So let’s get to it.

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, speech at Harvard Business School Global Leadership Forum, June 22, 2006.

DFHippies right again!

Drat! How do they do it?

Where do you get your revisionist history? Carter did not command nuclear submarines. He was the nuclear officer. There's a difference between being smart and being wise. That's why one gets to command the sub and the other takes orders from him.

I'm no defender of Bush, but his SAT scores and his GPA at Yale were higher than Kerry's. So much for the standard liberal narrative. But as I said, there's a difference between being smart and being wise.

And I want an unimpeachable source for this:

Iran was (invaluably) cooperating with us on the Afghan invasion and making clear signals that they wanted to normalize relations with us.

Since so much else of what you've spouted is just plain wrong, I'll just figure this is more of your usual make-it-up-as-you-go bullshit, especially since Iran has been working to thwart us on every front. Why would they cooperate with us on Afghanistan?

Nice try. I know most Salonistas are gullible, but you'll have to do better with me.

... no, don't you remember? I killed Commodus with his own knife.

Offer up McCain this year as a sacrificial lamb, watch the economy and the Iraq War and oil prices drag our country into the crapper with a Democrat in the White House, and sweep back into power in 2012 when people have forgotten who drove the bus off the cliff.

I seem to remember Commodus stabbing you before the fight in which you indeed killed Commodus and then died, being carried off by your adoring fans.

Only thing is, that was the Colosseum. I'm afraid you won't get a hero's burial here.

On and on it goes. Republican followers, saddled with a legacy of failure in which each President they foisted upon this country in this century, besides perhaps TR and Eisenhower, has been more destructive and despicable than the last, attempt to tarnish Democrats with a pathetically selective and lame recitation, repeated off their ticker tapes, of made up and tangential liberal treachery.

Anyone who can fog a mirror has heard, endlessly, such unmitigated bullshit about how the Clinton era prosperity was really a product of Reagan's genius, Sept. 11 was Clinton's fault, Reagan's deficits were really caused by Democrats in congress, and, of course, now stagflation had nothing to do with the mindless extension and wasteful spending on Vietnam under Nixon and typically delusional energy policies promoted by Republicans, but Carter's four years of something or other.

Funny how, in Rightieworld, all good things flow from the right, and all bad things flow from the left. First clue for the clueless... When your delusions start to all fit together so perfectly, have you ever considered that many of them might be, well, claptrap?

Those of us who live in the real world understand that even our heroes are flawed human beings and make mistakes, like any other human, but that doesn't make them all bad. Likewise, and more importantly, even our opponents might occasionally do something right that deserves our respect and applause.

Right-wingers are incapable of making such distinctions, and therefore have nothing to contribute to civilized discourse, so addled they are by propaganda and plugged ears against the cognitive dissonance that piles up all around them.

Like their bullshit.

Thanks for reminding us, Maximus.

Just a flesh wound!

And I want an unimpeachable source for this

http://www.hellblazer.com/media/bush-finger.jpg

All the best,

Digitus Impudicus

Stop the Presses!!!

McCain's a liar! -- omooex

Eh... cut Glenn some slack omooex. He just wants Obama elected so that he can go back to doing whatever it was he was doing (constitutional lawyering I believe) before he realized that Republicans were evil. Can't really blame him I suppose. I know I would love to go back to my blissful ignorance of a decade ago.

Anyway.. more from me about impeachment. A good rebel diary at Kos (not all of the Kossacks are idiots)...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/11/163046/692/769/534167

Karzai Praises Iran's Assistance to Afghanistan

2008-01-27

TEHRAN (FNA)- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is in Davos to participate in the World Economic Forum, has said Iran has been supporting his country since the ouster of the Taliban regime in 2001.

In an interview with the Washington Post published on Saturday, he said, "We have had a particularly good relationship with Iran in the past six years. It's a relationship that I hope will continue. We have opened our doors to them.

"They have been helping us in Afghanistan. The United States very wisely understood that it is our neighbor and encouraged that relationship."

Karzai added the United States supports good relationship between Iran and Afghanistan as two neighbors.

He said, "The United States has been very understanding and supportive that Afghanistan should have a relationship with Iran."

US officials have conceded that Iran has been very helpful in assisting Afghanistan establish security.

Iran has been a great contributor to Afghan reconstruction efforts and has hosted millions of Afghan refugees since the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8611070411

It's a Sunni/Shi'a thang. They don't get along. The Taliban ain't Shi'a and neither is al-Qaeda, you ignorant twit.

Are you John McCain?