CatfishJohn

:"C'est le vie said the liberal old folks,
Goes to show you vote Republican
And unleash this avoidable Bushco. hell"....
...C'est le vie said the liberal old folks
Too bad they didnt listen to the things about Bush
in 2000 we had to tell".... posted 07/04/2008 at 13:05:14

. This is an excellent, informative essay..the internecine betrayals and rivalries within iraqi govt. elements will not yield a blossoming . modern democracy in the desert anytime soon... ..... .The "Surge" i truly think we will be soon referring to is the slowly building tidal wave of severe PTSD cases inundating the VA system beginning in a year or two.... posted 06/24/2008 at 20:43:03

....the quiche and brie wing of the democratic party doesnt want to so to speak muss up their hairdoes or dirty their fingernails in anything smacking of real confrontation.... spineless is as spineless does....wine tastinge events and hor d'ouevres are not " off the table" you see....priorities being such...doesn't this congressional cowadice and inertia set the table for obama wanting to sing kumbaya across the aisle and winding up like jimmy carter in 2-3 years???? posted 06/24/2008 at 10:50:30

....that groaning sound you are hearing in the distance are the initial pangs of desperation from these Republican higher-ups..they'll keep a smiley faced optimism publically, but they are in near panic mode already..resultingly, they wil throw all kinds of delusional distortions and fearmongering out there in the next few months along with the de rigeur slimeball gutter tactics of their proxies like floyd brown. These gargoyle Republican tactics will only get uglier...the core racism of the modern Republican party only more obvious...and in this election they are going to finally fail.. posted 06/20/2008 at 11:39:36

...Paul, i am responding to this GREAT NEWS at this very moment from a homeless veterans trainign program where i consult as a V.A.. doc . later this morning i will have the opportunity to inform about 50 vets in a class i teach of this important , very positive news and will ask them to remember your name and your organization for your relentless efforts on their behalf. these young returnees from Iraq and Afghanistan just recieved a well-deserved life opportunity thanks to you sir. in this era of hypercompetitiveness in many career tracks , its good to know they will have access to intensive education at out many fine pulbic univeristies without having to work full time to afford the 1 or 2 classes a semester they would otherwise be taking and barely affording. this level playing field with civilian students will allow them to focus on their studies and propel themselves forward successfully in this fiercely competitve job market, which would not otherwise have likely been the case for so many of them. posted 06/20/2008 at 08:32:09

...."and though Cindy was never ill, there were these little "feel good" pills...what a drag it is getting old"...
hard to imagine that a mutimillionaire heiress couldnt find a "dr. feelgood" like elvis' dr nichopopolous out there in her desert fiefdom to keep things more discrete...but in all seriousness, bringing in the wife vs. wife sideshow is a distraction form obama's gravitas, charisma and real momentum....mccain is gonna get the "republican stepford wife" vote anyway... posted 06/19/2008 at 15:07:22

..i type my posts in between patients at breakneck speed at work...its my way of preparing for the next session and its always invigorating simply to access to like minded humanist types such as yourself and many of the good souls who regularly post here...btw- and i am not patronizing you in the least- i could never muster the day to day energy and simple tenacity and durability to teach high school....i have commented this to several people of recent.....i do coach basketball at the high school level and agree there is a goodness of will and kind spirit among today's under 21's that is very promising for the future... posted 06/19/2008 at 18:43:48

...lordy Birdie.;..please spare me your hypersensitivity about psychiatric nomenclature accurately applied to a sociological context....i am a psychiatry professor at a major medical school so my empathy runs i am certain far deeper than yours in this domain...also, if you lack the intellectual gravitas to engage in debate so in fact instead are reduced to criticizing my fully cogent sentence structures which may be too complex for your aviarian frontal cortex, go read "People Magazine" instead... posted 06/19/2008 at 17:49:44

...ah yes, the pleasant, mildly intellectually autistic generation's representative has just spoketh from within his solipsistic, tech-addled bubble of certainty...read a few good books there sonny....the real world and the real human experience is NOT at the end of your fingertips... posted 06/19/2008 at 14:51:09

.....being technically facile at getting access to factual information is not synonymous with knowledge, intelleectual depth or in fact intellectual sophistication...find me any high i.q. college student now majoring in the social science who has any kind of informed perspective on or a factual knowlelge of majro historical events ( e.g. civil war, WWii, cold war history) and i will be amazed...this tech generation unquivocally exhibits a pleasant indiiference and willful obliviousness to american history that borders on a collective mild autism....and communicating and devloping social bonds through frenzied gadgetry and computer screen messaging is in and of itself fundamentally schizoid and shallow... posted 06/19/2008 at 11:31:25

... The thought of a man with an astonomical I. Q. and brilliant rhetorical skills like Obama toying with McCain, a man of slightly above average I.Q. , with PTSD and evidencing to the discerning eye early signs of dementia initially comes across as a bit cruel...but i say 'GO FOR IT"!!!....it could indeed initiate an electoral landslide and increase Dem majorities in both houses...a little "payback" perhaps too for the disgusting treatment max cleland recieved from the slimeball republican ads in his 2002 senate campaign.... posted 06/17/2008 at 16:41:44

.... Thats an excellent depiction, replete with rich sarcasm, about the inadequate guys who fear successful wives ...i am proud to say that i have brought up my 22 and 19 year olds daughters wityh an atitude similar to yours in a very successful 2 high-powred career marriage...REAL DADS COOK FAMILY DINNERS.... posted 06/16/2008 at 21:15:51

...great essay...yes, indeed "ward cleaver came home from the office, started dinner, helped with homework and ran a laundry"..and was still ward cleaver...any man who doesnt/hasnt taken opportunity to grow closer and more day to day affectionate with his children as a result of a career mom in their midst is a fool...any dad not quickly won over by the obligation turned enduring joy of beign involved in the day to day and hour to hour minutia of childrearing/shared household duties needs himself to grow up...feminist liberation has broken down the rigid , cliched roles and barriers for loving dads as well...and i for one am a better man for it... posted 06/16/2008 at 08:02:55

...Senator Boxer, with all due respect to the vicissitudes, nuances and grinding minutia of the the legislative process you endure, one does not have to be a PhD in macroeconomics to see that america has been racing down the track towards a corporate plutocracy these past 28 yeards with Republican politicos and the corporate media as the engine and "moderate" democrats as hardly any form of detour....Big Oil , along with Big Pharma, the grotesquely bloated Military Industrial Complex and a few corpulent others, are both the engineers and riding in the first class car replete with the leather seats and dutiful porters... posted 06/12/2008 at 14:58:12

...exactly , and this trending is early before mccains self-evident dottering and failing neuronal synapses are more widely seen....not only wil the dems have the money advantage and the "new ideas" advantage over the spent and failed repub Bush III agenda that is essentiallya ll mccian is about, but they will be able to mobilize a literal all star cast of edwards, gore, strickland, biden, richardson, rendell and yes, hillary to get out there and score votes across demographics and issues....realistically, the entire upper midwest, witht he additon of ohio alone in conjucntion with new engalnd and the blue norteast will seal the deal with rlelable calif, oregon, and washignton...states like colorado and new mexico appear givens , whcih means missoouri, arkansas, and even virginia turning blue will prove extraneous icing on the cake...i for one am beginning to count these unhatched electoral chickens with confidence...hooray!!! posted 06/12/2008 at 15:52:25

.....once michigan comes into the Dem fold, which it will, pa. and wins in ohio, colorado, iowa and new mexico will seal the deal...virginia is in play and the rest of the blue map will stay in place .. the coming campiagn's .juxtaposing mccain's clearly slipping cognitive and verbal acumen against obama's brilliant rhetorical talents will remain a lingering embarassment for Repubs for decades to come at the magnitude of the Dukakis in the tank photo...or worse..... posted 06/10/2008 at 15:49:28

...with the carcasses of dozens of steroid-hag, pain pill abusing athletes strewn all about vince mcmahons wrestling ring culture for 2 decades, all of a sudden he is a white knight in your book????!!!... ask any of dozens physically wrecked, prematurely decrepit wrestlers from the 1980's and 1990's disgarded by mcmahon what they think of this guy???...talk to owen hart's family about negligence....vince mcmahon has a monopoly now on his sport...he can afford to be benevolent for public relations sake.... but what can the families of so many dead wrestlers who chemically pushed themselves beyond their limits over the past decades in response to mcmahons widely- known expectation they be juiced and perform through the pain of major orthopedic injuries to fill the arenas for him afford???? posted 06/10/2008 at 11:31:32

...in physical appearance and ability to geenrate excitement and enthusiasm as a campaigner, Johnny Bush III resembels a bolw od cottage cheese- the difference being that even a stale bowl of cottage cheese doesnt show signs of early dementia..... the rhetoricaly brilliiant Obama should take McBush up on his challenge of "10 town hall meetings"...it would amount to an enduring embarassment for the republicans of enormous magnitude and could catalyze a landslide.... posted 06/06/2008 at 12:01:24

...Mr. Hayden, the words of a wise 'elder' such as yourself are reinforcing my own view on what may be profoundly afoot this election season. always feeling myself to be an anachronistic kindred of those such as yourself in unyieding and unreconstructed liberal outlook and activism ( i am 11 years younger than you) , i too sense right now the potential for a sea change coalescing around this candidacy, in spite of a subtlely resistant corporate media . fwiw- driving to work sleeplessly the grimmorning after '04 election night ( and those very strange vote tally machinaitons in Ohio), i saw a tattered kerry/edwards sign at a stop light forlornly sitting at the edge of a cornfield. in that moment the thought incongrously came to me that our battle was not lost but something, somehow would arise form this disasterous re-election of bush that would correct the warped, mypoic rightwing path we were on...i thought it could be edwards...but perhaps if it is to be, who better than an oratorically brilliant and chrasimatic black man rising form community organization roots to lead us out of this 8 year nightmare... posted 06/05/2008 at 11:26:08

...This is an exellent essay on the sociopolitics of electioons. Obama so impresses me in his playing his cards close to his vestr. Not jsut a new kind of Amewrican politicsa in this election,. but an agenda that explicitly - and audaciously- hopes to fairly rebalance the pie portions across economic class in this plutocratic trending nation.Could it be that we have presidential candidate of brilliant and moving oratorical skils rallying America around the prioritization of "from the bottom up" economics, explicit, systemic effects to improve health care and education for poor americans, healing our great "southern " strategy rift of Republicans manipulatively pittign angry working class whites against against minorities, recognizing the urgent need to applyiour very best scientific know-how as the basis for healing this damaged planet...how awesome upon reflection is this man's candidacy after these past 8 years of Bushco.?...Am i dreaming?...Yes, some of us have been dreaming for 45 years.... posted 06/04/2008 at 22:02:59

....stipulating the fact that you are a brilliant writer , i'd urge you to give up the projective narcissism here for the sake of your own intrapsychic equanimity. i was willing to give up mine after my "hero" with similar to me blue collar roots, and public university education credentials and worn on one's sleeve compassion for the underclass john edwards lost...did you ever consider that hillary has morphed from the brightest and best of the liberal 60's generation into a lowell weickerish , corporatist middle of the roader --and that was why she lost???...it may have well been about policy not nail polish this dem race ......obama sucked up all edwards "left of clinton" oxygen and won over my hero...i am over it...Obama '08. posted 06/04/2008 at 13:09:09

...This is a very practical tactical roadmap to victory sir...i wil question the viability of texas and stars and bars georgia and missisippi as "in play" states vis a vis more moderate boarder southern states like tennessee and kentucky, but i think your essay, if these points are implemented, is an excellent illustration of a quiet optimism we should have right now over the outcome in november...if i may add a critical point #11 sir...the democrats have a literal all- star cast of skilled, broadly well respected and charismatic politicos at their disposal to work as spoekepersons for this campaign whereas the spent republicans have next to no one ( e.g. you think they really want "shoot rform the hip" reverend huckabee campigning anywhere outside the south?). a "lineup" of al gore, john edwards, ed rendell, mark warner, bill richardson , jim webb and yes hillary clinton as active campigners for the dem ticket is pretty darned impressive and can definitley add momentum and regional clout ( e.g. richardson among the hispanics in nevada, new mexico and colorado). these are all serious and seasoned people who will coalesce around obama sooner than later. get them active and out there active right away! posted 06/04/2008 at 12:32:07

..the corprate media has ALREADY framed the vapid trajectory of this election in terms of a juvenile "People Pagazine/personality " contest between obama and clinton and will adroitly extrapolate that to banalize the general election. they will airbursh away mccains obvious mental and policy flaws much like they did bush in 2000 whiel the corporate aganda of the TV media will come into play attacking the Dem. just yesterday, Fox did an extneded tv feature with smirking warmomnger bill kristol engaged in a thinly veiled racist dialogue about whether Obama was " too cocky for his own good". i couldnt help but imagine the implication was of course the 'uppity" black man..too cocky..too smooth...this is just a start of what will be a hardly subtle but relentless flank attack agaisnt obama on anything but policy and bush's failures.. for obama being black, being of a foreign- born father and representing "sinsiter", shadowy left wing forces and radical causes...i wouldnt be surprised to see him beign morphed in an ad this fall into an incendiary stokely carmichael circa 1968 just like they morphed max cleland into hussein in the 2002 election...oabma needs to be preemptive about the impending slime attack now... posted 04/02/2008 at 10:17:11

.....someone once asked mahatma ghandi what he thought of american culture and he concisely said said, "what culture?"..well, whereas i dont think that was a fair appraisal of America and its wonderful , swirling cultural heterogeneity in the 20th century--today, his answer would accurately and concisely be, " compulsive consumerism"..a mindless spiral to nowhere...adding in the observation that the expected free thinking/.maverick mentality of todays youth has been further tamed and caged by tech gadgetry and their own mindless consumerist ethic..its all becoming as homogenized and lifeless as your nearest suburban mall...a tech-addled, credit card carrying vacuous herd.... posted 04/02/2008 at 13:37:17

.... Sir- some superb sarcasm in this essay about bumbling incompetence and the true intellectual featherweight that she is...and i will always wonder how a woman who claims her political/social awareness was the result of the Birmingham church bombing chose to side with the Reaganistas, those same hateful reactionary wink and nod racists who began their campaign in philadelphia mississippi, site of brutal civil rights slayings, speaking of states rights, welfare queens and undeniably rode to power on the force of the racist white southerner backlash from where the Birmingham bombing originated and maintained that power through cruel , racially focused slashings of the social safety net, willie horton and katherine harris and jeb's machinations on behalf of her curent boss denying 58,000 of rice's fellow black southerners the right to vote in 2000... posted 04/01/2008 at 12:45:15

...mr. waldman, as you directly aluded to in your book on Bush ('Fraud"), the modern corporate media will ALWAYS favor the pro corprate candidate (i.e. the conxservative) who champions the corproate/plutocratic zeitgeist. this will be the case over the next 7 motnhs even in the context of this abomnaiton of bushco. and its endless array of corruption, failures and incompetencies. the reduction of this campaign to a vapid "people Magazine" contest ALREADY has set the table to allow them to promote mccain by obfuscating the uterly failed and corrupt bushco. domestic and hegemonioius war agenda that he is clearly intending to continue. The MSM will not be talking about Iraq/the dwindling middle class/ the dacaying infrastructure/ the national debt and myriad other bushco. failures in any kind of issue-driven campiagn, but rather mccain will be airbrushed and promulgated by the corporate media as "GI Joe meets Jimmy stewart" in their intention to keep a republican in office and have the voters overlook the obvious bush III aganda of the repubs .....look at how they eviscerated john edwards during th e winter in favor of corporatist clinton and kumbaya obama....edwards threatening candidacy, defined and then scorned as inexplicably "too liberal" for america by the corporate media, would have been fully mainstream circa 1964 or 1968....how rightwards and plutocratic we have drifted , as the media relentlessly dumbs down and steers rightward the democratic process.... posted 03/28/2008 at 09:26:41

..a stuttering, twitching Condoliar testified that this memo Bin Laden determined to attack US" was "considered to be a historical document"...you see, he used to be detemined to strike in the u.s.-- before 9-11......get it???...utterly illogical perjury gets to walk away freely..impeachment and substantive investigations are of course off the able you see......then, in 2002 she became the gap-toothed mouthpiece of the mushroom cloud fearmongering, this historian actually having the lying audacity tocompare 3rd rate miltiary power hussein to the soviet unions 10,000 nuke cold war arsenal.....incompetence and lies rewarded, she then as secretary of state has accomplished nothing...exactly nada...in any form of substantive progeress in middle east negotiations...so her grinding incompetence and willful, transparent dishonesty maybe gets rewarded with a VP nod on the racist repub party ticket?????...this is just too comedically absurd for any writer to make this kind of scenario up... posted 03/26/2008 at 12:52:34

.... near epidemic levels of asthma and obesity in the u.s. is the REAL reason the iraqis didnt greet us with "flowers and sweets' as Chalabi and Cheney predicted, as the Iraqi's are a thoughtful and considerate people...and if you consider bushco. allowed over 1,000,000,000 pounds of explosives and ands wepaonery to be whisked away form huseein's many open weapons depots right after bagdhad fell in broad daylight- our miltiary genuiuses chose not to secure even one of these weapons/explosives depots....you see the reality that both the sunnis and shias posssess a nearly endless supply of explosives and weaponery for the months and years ahead..."you did a heckuva job there tommy franks!'"... posted 03/26/2008 at 09:06:07

.....The acquiescence by the corporate media to the Orwellianism of the administration makes todays mainstream journalism look more and more like a collective Pravda. Katie couric giggles and does a story on spring fashion while the Iraq war is reduced to 3% of media coverage in the past month, according to Iraq war vet and expert ontthe matter paul rieckoff ( which was about 7% less than the amount of coverage on MSM dedicated to anna nicole smith's drug-addled corpse a year or so ago)....then the corporate media quickly segues into a sympathetic story about the woes of the multimillionaire investment class, then acts befuddled in explaining gasoline prices, willfully ignoring exxon/mobil's $40,000,000,000 in profits as have anything to do with it...on and on it goes.... posted 03/25/2008 at 07:59:36

.on the day intellectual heavyweight william buckey died, CBS network news had katie couric use a very rarely used 6 syllable word to describe buckey....in perfect form, she mispronounced the word, giggling like a dim-witted high school cheerleader practicing for her s.a.t.'s...it was a simple , yet pefect reflection of the willful dumbing down of this naiton that is the agenda and impact of the corporate media....intellectuial depth and gravitas is a non-starter in the corporate zeitgeist and their control of what they define as "news" for 75% of the pablum-fed public. posted 03/24/2008 at 15:19:07