Ergon's Comments (4021)

“I would support a constitutional monarchy. Zahir Shah was one of the best things that happened to Afghanistan. Unfortunately he did not return to his position. Now the Afghan people suffer under the rotten idiot Hamid Karzai. So I guess we are on the same side on this.”

“You scared? Or trying to scare?”

“Your statement makes me wonder whether you're familiar with the case.

Why would a prosecutor back off from the other charges? Does this not reflect his lack of confidence he could prove the other charges? Or, maybe you think the prosecutor wanted to be Polanski's friend?Or, maybe he didn't want to offend a great artist?

If the prosecutor could have proved the charges, he would have not made a deal.”

“The original six charges, not the one picayune plea bargained for which he fled sentencing. And now with all the furor, if extradited, he'll spend time in jail. Good.”

“I think that what your fellow revengeaholic was inferring was that if Polanski could somehow be re-tried, it might be on more charges than what he was convicted of originally. The stuff of dreams, isn't it?”

“We don't need to retry him - he pled guilty!”

“I am not a "faux feminist". I do think that their treatment of 50 % of the population says something about them. Would you want to live under the wonderful Taliban? Why is the left in the US so tolerant of the Taliban? I am sick of PC on the left. Somethings are flat out wrong and Taliban are one of them.”

“I second that

Also, I was unaware that Jimmy Carter installed the Shah of Iran and caused the revolution there. Wow, I learn something new every day.”

“If we were fighting for their abortion "rights" every lib in this country would be supporting the war.”

“Boo!”

“We have a lot of them, a few of which I've already listed in this thread. Stability is the big one. We don't want Pakistani nuclear weapons falling into the hands of black-market arms traders. We don't want conditions in Afghanistan to contribute to instability in Tajikistan, Iran, or Turkmenistan.”

“Germany and Israel are both advanced democracies with advanced technologies and superior socialized welfare for their citizens. So....
The true irony is that other Middle Eastern states gorging on trillions of petro-dollars, cannot achieve even a tenth of prosperity and welfare of either of Israel or Germany.
That's true irony.”

“Ain't you glad Rahm Emmanuel is more important to Obama than Dean?”

“The worst of it is, not only are they supporting a provably failed policy, they're telling us that we have to support it too, and if we voted for Obama, we apparently have no right to dissent or express a different opinion. (We know who they are on this board, I think....)”

“The locals certainly are resisting our occupation, but not out of nationalism. It's less of a nation than the United States were before the Civil War, when the United States "were", in the plural.

I never claimed there wasn't a war of ethnic/tri­bal/factio­nal/whatev­er resistance going on. My point is that there's no reason to think it's irreconcilable. There isn't any powerful and committed external force supporting hostility toward us. If we offer to go away on terms more favorable to our interests and compatible with our ideals than what's likely to shake out if we just withdraw immediately and unconditionally, there's no compelling reason for them not to take us up on it. We achieve some limited objectives, and they get to have us out of there. It should be a deal, unless we screw it up. I would expect that the groundwork for some such deal has been underway for a few months.”

“Israel has learned that lsson well with their attacks on Palestinians.”

“Ergon,

Is it possible for you reactionary liberals to get even BASIC facts right?

First, Lieberman was up for election in 2006, not 2008.

Second, HOWARD DEAN, the guy who is saying that Lieberman should be removed from his chairmanship in this very article, was the CHAIRMAN of the DNC in 2006. So the DNC had NOTHING to do with Lieberman surviving. Not a single thing. If anything, they worked tirelessly to support Ned Lamont.

Yet, you have no problem attacking the apparatus that supports candidates from your own party to win election based literally on NO INFORMATION whatsoever.

FYI, the reason Lieberman won was because he won 48% of the Democratic primary, and while many of those people ended up supporting Lamont, Lieberman convinced about one-third of the CT Democratic party to support his "independent candidacy.­" Ironically, Lieberman ran that election on the platform of ending the war in iraq and supporting the public option. He reneged on both almost immediately. The Republicans abandonned their own candidate and voted for Lieberman too. This was enough to win.

If you reactionary liberals have decided that you are going to offer nothing but attacks against your own party, then at the very least you could educate yourself and get simple facts straight.

You message board liberals are starting to remind me of teabaggers, I swear. I don't know when you people became so enthralled with such idiotic tactics (that aren't even effective), but there you have it.”

“For the 3rd time (chill mods there's no TOS violation to see here so let me speak!): CK got attacked by the NY-press for her u-knows. They used them to portray her as someone who was jumping to the front of the line because of who she was. It wasn't her l.i.b.eral­ism as other candidates had l1beral views. The NY-press is n0t0riously v.icio.us and CK's verbal t1ck provided them fodder.”

“Not sure why my post got vaporized but the short version is: CK got beat up by a notoriously cruel NY Press. Her "you knows" were used to sink her and portray her as just an entitlement candidate jumping ahead of the line. Other candidates were just as liberal if not more so. If she'd had more time to prepare and quell her nervous verbal tick (the you knows which are comparable to ummm and ahhs) she'd have had a better chance.”

“By who, the press? That's who attacked her and the NY press is pretty notorious for eating pols for lunch and doing so with unvarnished cruelty. See: Dowd, Maureen.

Caroline made the mistake of not getting rid of her nervous verbal ticks (the "you knows") before she spoke unscripted. It's unfortunate that her's were so obvious (most of us have them to some degree like Obama's ummms and uhhhs) that reporters seized on them. But the NY press isn't kind and they're especially unkind to those perceived as being less than self-made. It wasn't her liberalism, others had more liberal cred, but the lack of polish and the way it looked as though she were jumping into a top spot without having to run.”

“Caroline is such a private person ~ understandably so. She'd be wonderful in a position with the Arts (NEA, etc.) which would better suit her temperament and talents.”

“Polanski isn't a pedophile and hasn't been convicted of statutory rape. I hope none of that dilutes your indignation.”