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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You can almost hear the guitar chords:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivnbf0vbTo
The miracles are falling like rain.
Strangely enough, Mr. Klein, of all people, seems to be having a "Come to Jesus" moment.
Calling all Podhoretzs!
Anyone else hear pigs squealing?
WTH is an 'empretzled ideologue'? Inquiring minds and all that...
Then he felt compelled to sort of 'wipe his feet' of everything he'd written up to that point...
I don't want to give currency to this sewage, so it will remain below the fold.
Isn't that like saying, "I have shat myself, but I will keep my pants pulled up so as not to expose you to the stain."?
It was a valiant attempt and many kudos for finally saying what needs to be said, but really, can't he just step in it and then wear it with pride?
Or at least a little humility.
Anything but embarrassment.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/oped/chi-oped0504chapmanmay04,0,3136852.column
Glenn -
I posted this on Joe Klein's blog, but I think he gave up reading his comments long ago. It thought it might be something to speak to in this Ayers b.s.
I wrote:
I think Ayers is a self-serving media whore and loving every minute of his renewed exposure in the national spotlight - the NY Times article itself pointed out how interested he was in a movie being produced about him and Dohrn. I agree with Mike Davis' pronouncement on the Weather People - instead of playing at revolutionary, they should have been in the communities organizing people.
However, you might want to point out the reason Ayers, Dohrn and others were never indicted or served jail time for their crimes. I know this is ancient history, but the US government, particularly the FBI under Hoover, used blatantly illegal tactics to combat "subversion" in America that included illegal evidence gathering activities, police brutality, bribery, extortion, agent provacateur tactics and, if some sources are to be believed, extra-judicial killings. The collective program was known as COINTELPRO and exposed by the Church Commission.
It might be worth using this as an object lesson for our own time. Just as several 1960's radicals got off scott-free because the government tainted the evidence and used illegal means to extract and gather information, so there is a decent chance that several unsavory characters might escape justice today because the Bush Administration - with John McCain's support - has approved unethical and illegal tactics for "War of Terror" prisoners, including torture, illegal wiretapping, tainted evidence, denial of habeas corpus rights, and other shameful methods.
Just as Ayers avoided justice for his crimes because the government screwed up, so too might members of the Taliban and perhaps even Al-Qaeda.
Worth thinking about.
I just received an e-mail from a friend in Israel who worked for Israeli prime minister Rabin in 1995 and witnessed his assassination. He watched the McCain and Palin incendiary speeches as well as their crowd's reaction with great alarm. He mentioned that their speeches were eerily similar to the inciting speeches Right Wingers such as Netanyahu, Sharon(before he became a centrist) and others used against Rabin and other Labor leaders. To him McCain is a fascist who isn't going to except defeat and he's extremely concerned about Obama's safety and about election day.
G-a-n-d-h-i. Gandhi.
I am not that poster, but I wonder, how does that 'h' jump three letters backwards so often? "Martin Luter King" would definitely earn some corrections from concerned posters.
Excuse the non sequitur.
Don't get too your hopes up too much. As we've seen, nothing is too low and these guys are really good at what they do. Yes, they're grasping, but they just might find the right button to push and we'll be S.O.L.
I would say to anyone who wants to see someone other than McCain in to not take anything for granted at this point. I'm not sure really what protection "staying vigilant" can provide, but that would be my advice - stay vigilant. Nothing is clearly below these S.O.B.s...
Unhinged hate on steroids, coming soon to a yard sign near you?
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/oh-canada-by-digby-conservative.html
At least we get to see the GOP unmasked. Starting with the
Southern Strategy it has always been about hate and lies. Once they
headed down this path, someone either has to stop them, or fascism
would be the result.
We have come far too close this time. They will either be back or
their party will have to be rebuilt. Let's hope for the latter.
You just made me donate $30 to Obama. Thanks for the "motivation".
More to come I'm sure too.
There was a time I would have voted for you John, but you sold your soul to win this thing, almost literally I think. When a presidential candidate and his proxies start race bating, you know they've pretty much gone off the tracks.
Is it worth winning this way? Before you go to bed do you say to yourself, "I'm being a bad human being now, but when I win I'll be better?" Or were you never a good human being and only a better actor?
You and Sarah have become unfortunately, and I mean this with no exaggeration, evil>/b>.
Glenn wrote:
"What we're seeing explode in front of us are both the devastating fruits of eight years of unchallenged right-wing rule under the Bush/Cheney administration and the tactics of a desperate, dying, rotted movement descending further and further into the sewer in order to cling to power."
All too true, Glenn. The problem with cornered rats and sewer dwellers like the theocratic-inclined Reps., is when cornered, they can strike out (and back) in ugly, unpredictable ways. Given the vile history of Rovian electoral tactics, would any sane person not contemplate they're capable of vote fraud on a massive scale... or worse!
Yes, McCain's entire demeanor is ugly and very, very wrong.
Obama supported the bailout and wants to continue war spending in Afghanistan, two of the most ugly and very, very wrong seminal positions in, of, and about America.
Vote Independent.
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
