glesslib's Comments (119)

“This is like watching Frankenstein duke it out with Dracula. It's hard to find anyone to root for. My heart tells me that John McCain deserves anything that comes his way after Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber and the total dumbing down of all things in politics. He's responsible for a lot of this. However, the thought of some opportunist who gets in bed with the teabaggers actually going to Congress gives me the chills. Like I said Dracula and Frankenstein.”

“Just asking about all the child murders in this country where a parent kills a child. Just asking about the Christian cult in Ohio that killed an entire family a few years back as a sacrifice to the Savior. Tim McViegh was a Catholic altar boy, for heaven's sake....

Just sayin'”

“And because this IS America, you are entitled to your views. I am sure that during the Vietnam War you would have had an America...­Love It or Leave It sticker on your car. It wasn't a pretty view then, and it isn't now. Hyphenated Americans are as American as you are and have a right to call themselves by any name they wish. Just because that doesn't suit your particular sensiblilites doesn't make it wrong.”

“May I point out that the major was wounded in the act? It is extremely difficult to pronounce someone innocent until proven guilty when that person was shot in the act of a mass murder. I agree that there may be an extenuating mental condition, but he did the crime. This is not a smear, anymore than it's a smear when any person of any religion is shot under similar circumstances.”

“Well, apparently, you aren't an old enough guy dude, if you don't remember when the GOP was all about the fairness doctrine. They wanted equal time on everything­....yes, the GOP. Until the right took over talk radio completely, the GOP loved them some fairness doctrine. You could look it up.”

“It's called poor journalism. You've been on the internet too long. Reporting news as news is one thing. Reporting baseless facts as news is not. Remeber, Paul McCartney wasn't really dead, that was a rumor. The thousand percent increase in cases of leprosy in this country that Dobbs reported as fact, turned out to be an urban myth. He's a newsman...­.he's suposed to report news, not internet rumors. He once knew this, and I, along with a lot of people I respect, watched him. Now, his time is up....unle­ss he wants to get back to doing real journalism.

You know, not everything is about the left and the right in this country. Sometimes it's about someone doing a really lousy job.”

“I certainly hope they don't picket this guy. All it does is give him more press coverage. The best thing anyone could do is just wait for the eventual self-implosion of this man. His behavior is so abnormal that it can only be a metter of time before the total meltdown.”

“And that number doesn't count much of the cost of the war. A lot of it was off the books.”

“Amen.”

“The concept of both sides having good ideas that need to be discussed and common ground between all parties nurtured died in 1994 when the Gingrich branch of the Republican Party came to power in Congress. Senator Robert Byrd wrote a book in the nineties in which he stated that it was a shock to try to work with these people. In all his years in Congress there had always been bipartisanship until then. He declared the new Congressmen and Senators who came at that time, uncivil. It was their way, or no way. Very little of any importance has been accomplished through compormise since that time. We can't even get budgets. They just pass resolutions.

The Democrats just don't want to run the joint the way the GOP had for all that time. I don't know if they are ever going to be able to work with these obstructionists.”

“Arianna should have asked him how long he had that tee-shirt. I would guess at least 7 years. The Constitution died about 2 years into the Bush presidency.”

“The fact that Obama's father was not an American citizen, rather an African gives these people hope that they can prove that he has no right to be president. They already felt he had no right....h­e's black and a Dem. That's 2 strikes in their book. THey are merely looking for strike three.”

“What research would that be? Hawaii, where Obama WAS born, got rid of paper records a decade ago and went to the Certificate of Live Birth. He presented that form. There are newspapers with his birth announced in them, as was common 47 years ago when he was born. Now, I don't think that the newspapers went back and inserted his name, and all that is available is the CLB. What more could they, or you, for that matter want?


My grandmother was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. The courhouse where her birth certificate was stored, burned and many birth certificates were lost. Does that mean she isn't who she claims to be?

The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge on this matter brought before the election by some rightist conspiracy group. That should tell you all you need to know. These folks are mad that a black man won, that the Dems are in office and just mad in general. If it wasn't this matter, it would be some other.”

“Well, let's see. He hates foreigners, thinks they bring leprosy. He thinks Obama isn't a legal citizen. He doesn't seem to be a big fan of home grown minorities either. Now there's a word for that....ca­n't think what it is....oh, you ended your post with it.”

“I just wrote something very similar on a different spot here at HuffPo. It's true. 20 percent of the people in America believe the way Fox presents the world. They have to watch Fox to keep their fantasy intact. The rest of the sane people here in America have many news outlets to choose from. So we watch many different channels for the news. Fox looks like it has more viewers. It just has a huge percentage of the 20 percent who see the world through 1972 glasses.”

“Well said......­.”

“You, sir, are truly, truly wrong. We need to be angry at the lobbyists and legilslators who removed all the oversight that kept an AIG from getting so large and unwieldy, underwriting such a large percentage of the world's insurance that it couldn't be allowed to fail. And how did that happen? Because the fabulous folks at AIG spent millions of dollars lobbying those legislators for the freedom to wreck their industry. It's sort of a moebius strip, as it were. They started it, they enabled their own downfall, they made themselves too big to fail, then used that to further enrich and protect themselves. I'm guessing you are not all that familiar with the process. Ask any Wall Streeter how this all works. He can tell you.”

“He is definitely right about the news for profit deal, whatever you think of the rest of his premise. The news divisions of networks were independent and brought us news, real news. They didn't feel the need to balance every disagreement, regardless of whether it was a subject that needed balance or not. Now, every possible discussion has to have two sides....P­at Buchanan for the offense, some poor schlep of a Dem for the defense. If it's Michael Jackson's death, there's a pro and a con. If it's Intelligent Design, it's discussed as if there is a right and wrong. If it's racial taunts at the POTUS, there's someone on calling it free speech and someone calling it vile racism. Some things just are what they seem to be and shouldn't be balanced out just to make viewers happy, increase Nielsen points, and increase advertising revenues. And to quote someone from years back, "That's the way it was."”

“Anthony, I live in Missouri. Franklin and Jefferson Counties in our state are meth capitals for the country. Very few other states have as many meth labs as this area. Washington Missouri is a lovely little town 50 miles from St. Louis, and the people there want it to stay that way. The cost of hunting down and closing up these meth labs may be largely federal, but local law enforcement has to spend a great deal of time and money on it as well. When you can come up with a better plan, let the people of Washington Missouri, and a lot of other little towns struggling with this problem know how to fix it.

I have no idea how having to sign for a patent medicine, or get a prescription from a doctor for a real medication "erodes" civil liberties. I just picked up something like this for my husband recently and had to sign for it in St. Louis County. Seemed perfectly ok to me. It would also work fine for others, if it weren't for the meth heads who insist on making a dangerous substance with it and nearly blowing everyone else to kingdom come.”

“I don't know. Ask Arnold Swarzenegger if he wishers that he had done a little "sub-gov" work before taking on the job of running the 8th largest economy in the world. Seems to be having a few glitches there, even though he and his party had the Gray Davis run out of office for no particular reason. That community organzer you mention was also a member of his state legislature for a couple of years. My argument, which you take entirely out of context, is that most people don't start at or near the top in any profession. They learn the basics before aiming for the top positions. There would be no need for schools if we didn't need to be prepared for jobs. There would be no majors in colleges. Doctors would be able to treat patients even if they majored in art history in college. I stand by my observation.”

“Alec, most of the country knows that NYU is a great school. It certainly beats the University of Idaho and several other schools, that Palin attended. However, your skin seems a little thin this week. You are wildlly successful in your career and could probably add a lot to public life. My personal gripe with celebrities who go into politics is that they always seem to want to start from a position of real prominence. You seldom hear of their service on the zoning board of the city where they live. They don't run for the local school board of the board of alderman. Most celebs want to be a senator, congressman, governor. Let's hear it for paying your dues. I am sure you did so in your present profession.”

“Bush also went to Yale....bo­th spots from the finest in affirmative action....­Dad & family money.”

“.....Wait for it........­it's coming.”

“This is what happens when poor and middle class folks try to aspire to hang out with the movers and shakers of the GOP. The real money people tolerated her for a while because of her looks. She tried to keep up, but didn't have the funds. It looks as if she used her elected positions to enrich her family, then didn't do the work she was elected to do. Plenty of blame to go around here, though. She didn't seem smart enough to be doing any of the jobs she was elected to, yet all the nice old 50+ year olds voted for her because she was cute and spunky. Takes more than that to do the job. She didn't have it to give, so she decided to make as much money as she could off the state of Alaska. I am not exactly crying a river for any of the people involved.”

“Apparently, there is little to do in Alaska during the coldest weather, so you go to court to sue someone. That's about all I can figure. There's the brother-in-law, news people, just all sorts of folks who've been mean to Sarah. So, why not sue? I mean, it whiles away the hours.”