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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
but those royals are all the same to me, an anachronistic cluster of parasites.
according to al gore, election 2k if my memory seves me:
if call friendman :
a little sh*t,
that's a possible crime
If i kick him the cajones:
that's okay...
if freidman is a mentally il:
i am to respect him [in my civics class that means i don't murder him]
tho acording to kern county California:
if he is a constitutional idiot and court room imbecile,
i can jail him!
[john deans comments aside in his book: broken goverment]
if freidman deems me a threat he can w/o due cause continue the pentagoons "EM" assualts on my body?
nice to know imbeciles get all the airtime...supposably to get americans to think..
[okay there wa ethics classes and discussion about the various inqustions: calvins, luthers, popes, spanish, english, american et al in the 'good old days"]
barfs
Do you lemmings really believe you matter...Obama"s advisors reflect his script not the shallow musings of bloggers and cultural underdeveloped folks in the chatter class..
-- badnegro
Which is it, "cultural," or "underdeveloped?" Make up your mind.
Hear, hear, HEAR! Another excellent column by Mr Greenwald, this one should be emailed to every Obamaphile and Obamaniac (start with Obama Girl). I had my full of the stand he rightly denounces from reading the Huffington Post, and I'm even seeing it up here in Canuckistan. As the saying goes, there is nothing so uncommon as common sense and Glenn Greenwald is an exemplar of it.
Not sure if this has been raised, but Israel has engaged in collective punishment practices, for example house demolitions and deportations of relatives of terrorists. It's obviously not on the same level as killing people but the "deterrent" principle is the same.
See: http://www.btselem.org/english/Deportation/Deportation_to_Gaza.asp or
http://www.btselem.org/english/Punitive_Demolitions/20080703_Letter_to_Mazuz.asp
Worked so well they had to build a giant wall.
Personally, I would recommend Friedman travel to Gaza with Marty and Michael as his bodyguards and ask Palestinians if they feel like making nice with Israel now. Something tells me the problem in the Middle East is not a shortage of violence, but I'm no expert like Friedman.
From the first part of your post -
"....and they underscore the reasons why it is so vital to express criticism of Obama when he deserves it.""If those who want fundamental reform in these areas adopt the view that they will not criticize Barack Obama because to do so is to "help Republicans," or because he deserves more time, or because criticisms are unnecessary because we can trust in him to do the right thing, or because criticizing him is to "tear him down" or "create a circular firing squad" or "be a Naderite purist" or any of those other empty platitudes, then they are ceding the field to the very powerful factions who are going to fight vehemently against any changes."
"It's critical that Obama -- and the rest of the political establishment -- hear loud objections, not reverential silence, when he flirts with ideas like the ones he suggested on Sunday. This dynamic prevails with all political issues. Where political pressure comes only from one side, that is the side that wins -- period."
Thank you for posting exactly what I and I think many other liberals and progressives are thinking. These have been my thoughts precisely!!
Very well said!
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
