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"Appeasement": Guilt-By-Analogy... When Guilt-By-Association Isn't Enough

I find it odd that it is a staple of the right to make this chamberlain analogy yet it is virtually forbidden to compare the preemptive war doctrine of Bush to the conduct which Chamberlain was appeasing. The German preemptive wars and militarism did not lead to their safety. It led to their eventual invasion and conquest by a coalition of nations. posted 05/17/2008 at 11:55:43

Chris Matthews Eviscerates Right-Wing Host Kevin James Over Obama "Appeasement" Claims

But Rush knows better than to actually go on a show where this might happen. posted 05/17/2008 at 13:19:37
Monty Python could not have done it better. This guy is a dead parrot salesman. posted 05/17/2008 at 13:17:16
To his right wing audience? Look at what Scalia said on 60 minutes about the distinction between conduct intended to punish those convicted of crimes and the same conduct if used to pry information from someone not even charged. this is what is considered the crown of right wing constitutional scholarship and reasoning. so maybe they will find this "brilliant" posted 05/17/2008 at 13:15:21
And I would add-- from this conversation one would have to wonder what specifically Mr. James might actually mean by a "phone call" posted 05/17/2008 at 13:10:20
Except this demonstrates something much better than just making essentially a "he said" rebuttal. this lets the right wing noise merchant demonstrate how utterly hollow and parrot like his points are. pressing people like this for substance is exactly what we need instead of more " well on the other hand one might argue" stuff we usually see. Mr. Noise was not made to appear like an idiot , he was shown to be unconcerned about whether his sounds had any content. posted 05/17/2008 at 13:05:42
This is such a example of the noise strategy. He just keeps yelling and yelling and not letting anyone else talk without trying to shout over them. Full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. Just trying to pin a word, to be echoed and echoed and echoed, on Obama without even knowing what the word means but shouting it with a tone of the utmost conviction of its absolute truth. The noise strategy is itself a variant on the more general and universal technique of simply bullying used in all matters by the right. posted 05/17/2008 at 12:57:56

McCain Predicts The Iraq War Will Be "Won" By 2013

Wait maybe it is the tooth fairy who will come at night. posted 05/15/2008 at 16:45:48
I agree with McCain that the war will won by 2013 but he is wrong about the how and why. I have it on good authority that the Easter bunny will come and make all the boo boos go bye bye. posted 05/15/2008 at 16:44:17

John McCain and al Qaeda

At the risk of saying something unpopular like Bill Maher did I would also question the "civilian wholesale destruction" comment. the pentagon is not a civilian target. the WTC were financial/industrial centers and as such much like factories. maybe the 4th plane was targetting a day care center but the ones we know of were not civilian targets any more than a German factory in WWII was a civilian target. posted 05/15/2008 at 11:40:55

Shocking Corruption Is Given A Blind Eye by Our Government

Congress still has less than a veto proof majority in regard to anything to which veto applies, the President still has the power to pardon, when the right people ignore congressional subpoenas it is given far less coverage than Rev Wright and the coverage is he said she said stuff. That is why and I think blaming congress to an extent avoids blaming the wrong doers and the administration. posted 05/15/2008 at 17:09:15

Do Republicans Believe In Free Markets?

Property "rights" are always derived from government. Possession is different from rights. If you have the property rights to Blackacre, no matter how vast it may be, you can call on government to come and remove the person taking apples from the tree at the edge of the land, or trying to sleep under a tree in the corner of your vast estate. God does not grow apples with a name on them, governments put the name on these things. the way the laws govern such matters, the more property rights your have the more likely you are to effect by leverage transfers of other peoples rights to you. A free market is one where neither the buyer nor seller are under any compulsion to buy or sell. Under current definitions a free market is one where one is free to obtain monopolistic positions and then by definition the buyers are compelled to buy at your price. The free market has become one in which you are free to compel others or in which owners are free to compel the sale of labor at whatever conditions the leverage provided by government enforced property rights allows. Free market has become an Orwellian term meaning the opposite of what it suggests. posted 05/14/2008 at 14:18:08

Kerry Swiftboater: "We Will Attack Obama Viciously"

Swiftboaters are not the real issue it is the way the media covers it. Compare Wright and Haggee. Compare Bush's guard duty to Kerry's service. Dont be foolish. 90% of the people get 90 % of their information from the media which promotes conservatism but puts a liberal face on their image. posted 05/14/2008 at 14:32:41

You Broke It, You Own It -- Obama Style

But Hillary is immune???? What elections has she won outside of NY? Do you really think they have used up all their ammunition against her already? In politics some bullets can be fired over and over. Come on do not insult our intelligence. I do think Rush L. would not have urged ditto heads to vote for hillary unless he really would prefer to have her as the Demo. candidate. Maybe he is wrong or was using reverse psych but you act like she has some special immunity which is nuts. Read your own post. Anyone is vulnerable. posted 05/14/2008 at 17:11:39
Speaking realistically what is your realistic plan for winning the election with Hillary as of today. Ignoring the Obama votes and delegates? Have the party leaders just decide who is more electable? I think Biden or Dodd or one of the more conventional candidates might be more electable than either Clinton or Obama so would one of them be OK? You needed to make that point in January or February. Now is too late for any realistic scenario with Clinton winning the election. Any proposal giving Clinton the nomination now will leave the party in shambles. I was open to the idea in February but not now. Too too late. posted 05/14/2008 at 17:00:03

Bush Asked If He Feels Sorry For Clinton

I admit I would like to see the republicans out of office because I fear we(me included) who are not wealthy may not survive if they stay in office. I guess you believe we should sacrifice our selves for hillary? I think the only potential beneficiaries are the Clintons and the republicans. I would not have said that in January when she could have won without damaging the party's chances. Now.... posted 05/14/2008 at 10:36:10
but less absurd than her insistence she can win the nomination with any set of events that does not destroy the party. posted 05/14/2008 at 10:29:52
And WEMUSTCHANGE has every right to criticize her AND I suspect is doing far less damage by his/her choice than Hillary is doing by hers. posted 05/14/2008 at 10:28:18

McCain and the Courts

sorry the exclusionary rule did not exist until the 20th century. i take it from your defense of Scalia that the government is not restricted in any other way as to what it can do to you so long as it is not doing it to "punish" you for a crime you have been convicted of. I still think it is ABSURD and your defense is acrobatic and deceitful. posted 05/14/2008 at 10:59:30
You are about 150 years behind. the civil war amendments prohibit such under color of law which generally means with government (state or federal) involvement.. the exact meaning of the amendments is still being determined on case by case basis which is how statutes are interpreted-- by applying the law stated in general terms to specific facts while often describing the reasoning behind the particular application. After a number of reported applications one is more and more able to define what the statute means and predict its application to other specific situations. posted 05/13/2008 at 18:02:24
By definition isnt the electorate as a whole/by average or mean or median ---- at the Center. how else can you define the center? By your own subjective opinion as to where it belongs? posted 05/13/2008 at 17:52:45
Scalia's interview on 60 minutes is an example of what is really meant by strict constructionism. According to Scalia the founders prohibited cruel and unusual "punishment" of people who had been convicted of crimes but allowed the same conduct to be used by the government on people who the government suspects of having information. Although the authors of the bill of rights prohibited the government from forcing self incrimination they, per Scalia, permitted cruel and unusual conduct to pry loose information (which typically would have to be self incriminating or the interrogee would not have it.). this is the absurd argument that passes for intellectual prowess for the strict constructionists. there has always been a defense of justification available as a defense if you act to avert a significant catastrophe but you have to have been factually correct in your assumptions. Rather than show restraint in discussing such issues Scalia in advance approves the most far reaching extension of government powers i.e. the constitution does not prohibit cruel and unusual acts against people who have never been convicted of a crime only those who have been. Nothing could be more activist than that. Nothing. posted 05/13/2008 at 17:46:46
99+% of the time there is no need to consider the US constitution in interpreting statutes. It would be activism for the courts to do as you suggest. statutes are interpreted in accord with well established principals many of which existed in English law at the time of our revolution and were assumed as part of the fabric of our laws. Most people who talk about activists as judges do not know what they are talking about. Usually the judge is activist if and only if a result is reached with which one disagrees. the reasoning process is ignored. that in fact is activism. those who complain about activist judges almost always want a specific result reached period and are therefore actually insisting on activism on the bench. just give us the result we want = activism posted 05/13/2008 at 17:26:35

Iraq Remains an Unbalanced Policy Equation

Yeah the enslavement of blacks started with the war on poverty. Before that they had the freedom of Jim Crow segregation and before that the freedom of slavery. We should liberate the military complex by cutting off their welfare. Doublespeak much? posted 05/09/2008 at 18:18:48

Exit Polls: Indiana, North Carolina Latest Information

Exit polls are about the only way to tell if those Diebold machines are crooked. we need to quit being ostriches about election fraud. posted 05/06/2008 at 18:17:02
And that would usually raise a question about the honesty of the counting. We are being conditioned to accept statistically improbable shifts so the votes can be miscounted for McCain in Nov. posted 05/06/2008 at 18:12:24

Clinton Camp Expands Strategic Umbrella Of Stupidity In Their Global War On Economists

Just think about what you are saying. The price of gas will be the highest price at which the supply sells out. If that is $3.75 in July or $5.00 in July it is what consumers will pay fast enough to clear inventory quickly. Now if we tell them we are not going to impose the gas tax but another equal tax on profits, why would the gas companies not just keep the rates the same? They are going to pay the taxes from what they collect at the pump anyway. Will it change anything to call it one tax as opposed to another. This is just circular. McCain's plan just drops the tax entirely. Without the tax a few more suppliers might be willing to sell at a slightly lower price. But supply and demand will still put the rate where the supply clears. The market price of the gas itself necessarily increases about the same amount as the lost taxes. Net result the suppliers simply make more. The only way to make this work would be to set the price of the gas. posted 05/06/2008 at 19:03:19
you forget the part about calling the target group "elitists". this is a very important thing to remember. it is especially important to do so as to disguise your own flaming elitism before it is noticed. posted 05/06/2008 at 18:24:38

Carville: If Hillary Gave Obama "One Of Her Cojones, They'd Both Have Two"

God help us !! this is what a sizable portion of the US has reduced itself to. How often do we see post from the right claiming that anyone not intent on war is a coward. Carville too. Look it up--- it is the founding principal of this country. We left Great Britain because the King was not sufficiently manly in that over the top bully everyone sort of way. I think we should reconsider. Anyone who does not want to attack all other nations to show our balls is a traitor. Lets bomb Canada now. By not bombing canada we show we are too cowardly to risk retaliation. How about nuking all other nuclear powers to show we are tough. After 9-11 we should have nuked the rest of the world on 9-12. Would have insured no more foreign terrorists. Too bad dueling is illegal now. We could separate the true patriots from the cowards. Wake when the nightmare is over. posted 05/06/2008 at 17:11:17

Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

I found Scalia'a "argument" about torture truly amazing. this is supposedly the great intellect of the right. He claimed to honor the original meaning of the constitution. Somehow the original authors of the bill of rights intended that the government could do to people-- who are only suspected of having information -- acts which are prohibited if those people are actually convicted of a crime. No mention of the right against self incrimination in this context either!!!!! If this was the original intent of the bill of rights I'll eat his gavel. posted 05/05/2008 at 15:47:44

Joe Andrews: Clinton Destroying Party, Lacks Principle

A sure sign of a girly man is calling others girly men. posted 05/01/2008 at 14:35:50

Flashback: Read McCain's 'Mission Accomplished' Iraq Speech

you sir are an idiot posted 05/01/2008 at 14:02:30
what exactly about having troops there prevents say 19 al quaeda operatives slipping away and doing something here? How exactly does that work? Why hasnt this strategy been used in the past? Say defending a fort.-- take all your troops put them in field somewhere where the indians (say) can attack and no indians will ever attack the fort even if it is empty and vulnerable. Are you people idiots??? It only takes a small commando group to make a terrorist attack. posted 05/01/2008 at 13:59:54

Bush Semiotics: The 5th Anniversary of "Mission Accomplished"

they do not look as silly as you sound when you say that. Barney Fife as President is what Bush looks like. posted 05/01/2008 at 10:38:12

I'm Just Sayin': Open Letter to Superdelegates

the ONLY problem I have with letting the primary go on is that hillary is giving credibility in the general election to these attacks and saving McCain the negatives of raising them himself. People will remember that a Democrat with almost 50% support of the party admitted that these "problems" were significant. McCain would have trouble going after something like Wright without taking some negatives for it. Now Hillary gives him the benefit and she takes the negatives of the attacks. If as the article says she were either stressing McCain's problems or her own strengths I would agree with you. but that is not what is going on. posted 05/02/2008 at 11:20:38

40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University

I had a similar experience in 1969. I used to wear second hand military jackets partly as a symbol of empathy for the actual soldiers in Vietnam. When protesting the war I would be picked out and threatened by men in the crowd who thought that made me the worst of the protestors. I didnt avoid the draft but would have been 4F. I knew that if I just went along with the rest of society I would stay safe and comfortable but being openly against the war was in fact very dangerous. Easy Rider was not totally fictional. Deep down the conservative movement is largely that hatred of the civil rights movement and the counter culture and antiwar movements. It is and always has been based on hatred. posted 04/30/2008 at 18:53:14

Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?

While I support Obama I wonder to what extent his movement was in part a creation of the media as a set up. We now have Clinton with negatives out her pants suits, Obama who is vulnerable to the media pulling their own rug out from under him and a Democratic party in a civil war. Was the coverage designed to reach this result? posted 05/01/2008 at 17:11:31
specifically what step after the Supreme Court decision should Gore have taken to show his b*lls? Armed revolt? Holding his breath? What exactly? posted 05/01/2008 at 16:50:46
Sounds like you have taken a happy pill. There have been six times in American history where the exit polls where significantly different from the official vote count in a national election. Each time the discrepancy favored the Republican and five of those times the republican was named George Bush. I know it is much less stressful to ignore these unusual coincidences.... posted 05/01/2008 at 16:46:17

Expert Support For Gas Tax Holiday Appears Nonexistent

If supply demand curves mean something wouldnt a tax holiday increase the actual price of the oil itself? posted 04/30/2008 at 17:48:30

It's The War, Stupid

economy and the war are two sides of one coin. some people have an absolute entitlement to the "legitimate" government services-- those services that give government powers through private ownership. We have a new religion in this country. We worship the market. We have a new form of democracy. one dollar one vote. posted 04/30/2008 at 19:11:14

Wright is Telling the Truth about Obama

Leaving Wright out to dry? I dont think that Wright really needed to be brought inside. Wright is not really harmed by this in any substantial way as I see it. His bona fides as a preacher are enhanced in some eyes I am sure by the attention and his continued railing against the sins of his society. posted 05/02/2008 at 12:00:44

Fox News Lincoln-Douglas Graphic Shows Frederick Douglass

Fox's true motto is Anything to make them more ignorant. posted 04/30/2008 at 19:15:20

Excuse Me, But I Have Something To Say About the Reverend Wright Scandal

About 2 weeks ago I heard the news on the radio. the announcer said: the wright scandal continues to be covered in the news causing discomfort to Obama. So what was the news? seems like the news is we who bring you the news keep making this the news. posted 04/30/2008 at 17:54:42

Obama's Pivot

I am confused that all politicians have not been pressured to renounce the Judaeo
Christian tradition. those old testament prophets were always railing against the sins and shortcomings of Israel. Israel often killed the prophets for blaming Israel first. then we get Jesus who called an entire generation of his country "vipers". talk about spewing hate regarding your own country!!!!! Why dont we scream about McCain and Clinton staying in this tradition. Have they never read their bibles? posted 04/30/2008 at 15:58:56

Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate

YOU or your father are the ones who dishonor the flag. One dishonors the flag by repudiating the principals for which it stands. Freedom to criticize the government by using or abusing the flag is essential. if you allow the government to determine what can be said -done with that symbol you are denying the very premise of this country. We are the sovereign here. If one burns, multilates, defaces the flag as a statement one only affirms the principals for which it stands. Only by denying that right can you ever dishonor the flag. You place the symbol above the principal and make us subjects of a usurper. Interests in this country have spent along time confusing us about this fact and placing the "flag" above the constitution and the true sovereign. posted 04/30/2008 at 18:38:21
that is really a painting of the sun on the wall in the cave where you live. the underlying conventional wisdom assumed by the media serve the right wing. show me the left wing CONTENT any where ---except sometimes on PBS which covers both wings. posted 04/30/2008 at 18:18:18

Decide in Denver; That's What Conventions Are For

It might be even better to wait until December. Then we will know for sure which one gets the most votes in the GE. We can nominate the one who loses by the smallest margin. Great idea. posted 04/25/2008 at 15:53:01

Arianna on ABC's 20/20

I remember him arguing that the government should do zero to regulate fraudulent business practices like scams to steal money from little old ladies because the market would put the scammers out of business. Too bad for the little old ladies in the interim and he betrayed no inkling that such scammers can simply change their business names and corporate shells with a flick of the pen. he is either an idiot or a scam himself. I vote for scam. posted 04/25/2008 at 16:21:33

Fox News Finally Lands Obama Interview, "Obama Watch" To End

Buddhists are more like agnostic in the sense that Buddha would not comment on whether or not there was a God. You are supposed to figure that sort of thing on your own and not accept an answer that you have simply been given. My understanding in any event. posted 04/25/2008 at 16:04:53

Al-Sadr Considers Restarting Full-Scale Fight Against US-Led Forces

I am an american and live by the same philosophy you espouse for the US in my personal life-- i.e. that I will never consider the possibility that any thing I might ever do could be wrong. Next week I am moving into your neighborhood and will do as I see fit. Better keep your kids inside. posted 04/25/2008 at 16:36:02

The Self-Loathing Liberal Media

that is the last resort final spin of the right when caught in their misleading bull. Of course everyone puts the best facts forward. I can see a real difference in the degree and honorableness of the arguments. I am often embarrassed at the arguments made by the right. Truly embarrassed. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:24:32
I recently heard Rushbo go on for an hour about how oil is a crop that grows annually. He didnt exactly lie-- the earth probably produces a little new oil every year-- but one would certainly have an inaccurate view of how and how much oil is "grown" by the earth. What they really do is present and cultivate half truths. He was clearly trying to convince people that the oil supply was really unlimited no matter how much we use. posted 04/24/2008 at 17:16:36
Deaf are you tex??? posted 04/24/2008 at 17:03:32

TV's Response to Pentagon Propaganda? Never Happened

When the defacto policy is that government should do nothing but enforce the market outcomes, the bottom line eventually overwhelms every other consideration. What else can happen in a system that puts the market above all else? posted 04/24/2008 at 16:57:58

Lorrie Lynch, Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person" Columnist, Hits Back Calling Him A Hypocrite

Not just weak very frail. But this is the right wing idea of hypocrisy. Usually it is something like : Right winger says A is No good and should not be followed. Left winger says A is not that bad or such . Right winger caught doing A. Left winger points out the hypocrisy of the right re: A. the right then calls pointing it out "hypocrisy" because the left used to be ok with A. that is why we are up the creek without a paddle. posted 04/24/2008 at 12:47:38

McCain opposes equal pay bill in Senate

senator McCain-- I am all in favor of property rights but I think that by having laws that allow enforcement of those rights you are just increasing lawsuits. Probably 99% of all litigation is about property rights. So lets drop the enforcement of those rights. That will solve the litigation problem in one swoop. Also thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding -- I thought the issue about equal pay was the women with equivalent education were to receive equivalent pay. You have clarified that it is women without equivalent education or training who apparently want equivalent pay. How unfair!!! posted 04/24/2008 at 12:06:34

Destructive Primary? Gee, Who Woulda Thunk It

Yes lets all stop attacking each other. We need to attack what McCain represents period. 2012 may be too late. posted 04/24/2008 at 13:33:28
They both should be competing by attacking McCain. who can most effectively attack McCain. Instead we see them attacking each other. Lets say Obama is the nominee. It is one thing for Republicans to call him elitist, not ready for command etc. It more damaging for a democrat who has the support of 40% of the party to have called him those sort of things. How can her faction now credibly back off of those documented positions? posted 04/24/2008 at 13:24:49

End It Now

Maybe in 50 years he will have reached the point where he actually is viable. the 2 party system is a trap. I agree. We get a menu with only 2 real choices both approved by the ruling faction. You can have spam with lettuce or spam with onions. no other options. posted 04/24/2008 at 13:55:27
I have no problem with her running. I do have with her tactics. Go after McCain. She and Obama could be double teaming him now. Instead he is being given campaign ads for Nov. posted 04/24/2008 at 13:50:14

Why I Predicted the PA Results Exactly Right

And Nixon should have never run in 1968 he had already lost in 1960 and he should have known it was hopeless. posted 04/24/2008 at 15:16:57

Condoleezza Rice Mocks Al-Sadr As A Coward

More evidence that our country is run as if we are living in a grade B western. Condi should show her mettle and run State from Basra. posted 04/21/2008 at 11:33:32

Anti-US cleric al-Sadr threatens new uprising in Iraq

If that is the way you feel you are the one who needs to find another country. and obviously one should never trust you in a fox hole. posted 04/21/2008 at 15:42:42

90% Give US Economy Poor Rating... 56% Want Out Of Iraq

I can almost assure you the longer we stay the worse it will be when we are out. That possibility is never considered by the prowar crowd. Had we simply taken out Saddam and then left, the next strong man would have been reluctant to misbehave and there would have been much less destruction. There were and still are ulterior motives. posted 04/18/2008 at 18:18:09
I think we should encourage multiple pins like an arms race. Is there a lapel pin gap? posted 04/18/2008 at 18:06:28
If business can simply pass on costs it means the market is not free. if the consumers continue to buy just as much at the increased price- it means they are not free-- you dont even believe in supply demand An increase in price should mean a decrease in sales unless the buyer is compelled to buy. posted 04/18/2008 at 18:05:10
why do you care if they care? why does my neighbor care if I burn noxious materials in my yard? do you feel an absolute entitlement to put as much waste matter in the atmosphere as you want. do you care if I piss in your water source? posted 04/18/2008 at 18:01:19
except when it allows you to make life saving distinctions based on nuances. posted 04/18/2008 at 17:56:40
The constitution is clearly treasonous. It seems to give the people through congress the right to decide whether or not to be at war. this leads to debates during wars where one side gives comfort to the enemy. Treason. Burn it. posted 04/18/2008 at 17:54:55
So you admit you are killing for an illusion? Whenever I ciriticize the war I get the sophist's query: Isnt Iraq better off without Saddam than it was with him? Well Ok than if we leave right now ----arent we leaving Iraq better off than it was in Feb 2003? Lets quit while we and Iraq are ahead. posted 04/18/2008 at 17:51:42
Your incoherent proBush post explains a lot about why we are in a ever deepening hole. Maybe you have a solution here. Just send one soldeir to Iraq 150,000 times at once. Yeah that will work. Victory through incoherence. posted 04/18/2008 at 17:41:01
I insist the next president must wear 7 flag pins at a time. posted 04/18/2008 at 17:33:11
Pssssst under the constitution it is congress that declares war and not the cic. the propaganda is confusing you. posted 04/18/2008 at 17:31:12
Enlightenment in the Orwellian sense of course... posted 04/18/2008 at 17:26:08

Condi Must Go!

Torture is against the law. Now Michale if you run across a terrorist and you are sure that he has planted a nuclear weapon that is timed to go off and you wnat to find out where in time to save the world then you committ civil disobeidiance and torture him. If he tells you and you find the bomb in time you can probably get off scott free on a defense of justification BUT you have to be right in your assumptions. there has to be a bomb or other exigent and dire circumstances. If we do what you want, you dont have to be right. You can torture over and over and if no bomb too bad. that is the difference and you should know this. What you want is a police state. posted 04/16/2008 at 17:48:14
Michale has a hardon for torture. Also it seems for the manly denial of due process to those he knows are guilty. Probably never once arrested anyone who was innocent. One finds it baffling that our apparently intelligent founding fathers ever made the mistake of providing for due process when the police and CIA can conclusively determine guilt beyond a shadow of doubt. Then even if convicted by a jury after due process--- those idiot founders still prohibitted cruel punishments. We often fail to see how truly treasonous all the founders really were. posted 04/16/2008 at 17:40:09
I think Michale is a terrorist .... so if you see him feel free to torture him and accord him no due process. He exhibits that he has zero respect for the rule of law. posted 04/16/2008 at 17:33:00

The Obama Campaign: Consent of, or Contempt for, the People

The entire argument here bears no real relationship to the actual Obama quote which was about Hillary and not about the groups to which Mr Wilson refers. Bad faith argument. Very disappointing. posted 04/16/2008 at 18:27:51

The Man Who Would Be Bush

Yesterday the news on the came in with the story that the Obama campaign was still having to deal with the elitism accusation. that was the the "news" the McCain gaffes happen and are not reported over and over. Obama's "mistakes" have legs. who gives them the legs. news is largely what the news reports as news. at one time the news came from many independent sources and they all pretty much had to cover the actual news. now ???? any wonder why we see the public being dumbed down. posted 04/16/2008 at 19:02:11
I see nothing moderate about McCain and Obama seems very moderate to me. posted 04/16/2008 at 18:50:42
When I talk to these people they do not want to hear anything that does not reinforce a few dumb but emotional views. the arguments they spout are so lame one must wonder why they dont realize how lame they are. they are not stupid people but they seem to have formed judgments based on emotional manipulations. posted 04/16/2008 at 18:46:33

One Candidate Has Failed the Commander in Chief Test - Twice

Petraeus is the commander of Iraq. So if the situation in Afganistan deteriorated and the commander there said our troops were in severe danger and needed reinforcements it would be Petraeus's call and not the President's? In other words McCain goes in with Iraq as a priority over Afganistan regardless of the situation in Afganistan. posted 04/16/2008 at 11:54:04

Our "Home Alone" Government Helps No One

Any time one has voted for an appointment it has become the equivalent of waiving any future objections to anything that appointee may say or do in the future. I have heard it argued too often that e.g. the approval of Petraeus means you cannot criticize anything he says or wants ever or you should not have voted for his appointment. What do you expect in response. posted 04/14/2008 at 14:19:55

Cheney, Others OK'd Harsh Interrogations

Maybe she already has it. The body language is suggestive. posted 04/11/2008 at 15:03:50
While I have not seen anyone else on this post approving of the conduct of those Muslim countries, from your own comments I would have to conclude that you do approve. Otherwise your post makes no sense or exhibits your own double standard. posted 04/11/2008 at 14:47:13
They would not burn the constitution they would insist on its enforcement. posted 04/11/2008 at 14:19:13
I would gladly settle for Cheney being questioned under oath about the lack of any apparent defense on 911 and the exposure of Brewster Jennings.. and maybe the secret task force on energy. posted 04/11/2008 at 14:17:47
If you are correct that this is a serious game of hide and seek then why were Armitage,
rove, Libby et al all so careless as to expose the CIA front company Brewster Jennings without determining first if there was any sensitivity to the information they were giving out? Why would they act so carelessly with this information which any serious person would have known could be sensitive? Not one of the leakers ever claimed to have called the CIA first and received an assurance that disclosing the front company could not possibly be dangerous or a detriment to our intelligence networks. Why not if they are serious about the game of hide and seek? You believe in fairy tales. posted 04/11/2008 at 14:14:00

Pelosi Calls Out Petraeus For Parroting Bush Spin

they are using the troops as a human shield. Peeetraeus is the handle. posted 04/10/2008 at 18:05:41
If more democrats were elected - say a 2/3 majority in both houses that would be something and might actually end the war. I favor impeachment but she might have the approach that will be more effective. We do not know yet. Lets not act like the right wing and have a sense of humility in assessing other peoples differing opinions. Impeachment would not succeed in removing Bush - probably only a 10% chance of success and might backfire. She and Reed could probably pull the financial plug on the war but at what cost in the election. A little hocus pocus with the surge and opinion shifted. Same thing could be done by talk radio and the syncophantic media in the face of defunding. posted 04/10/2008 at 17:57:34

Bush's Troop Deployment Time Mirage

I think that if we are going to take the route of putting our boot to their necks and forcing them... we need to realize where that will lead. Insurrections and gorillas can not operate in a population unless there is some real sentiment that there is some justice to the cause. I dont think that we can ever be sure that more fighters will not emerge continuously from the population as a reaction to our use of force. So ... the Romans put Carthage to sword and sowed salt in the soil so no more enemies could arise. We are on the course to genocide if we rely on military solutions here. If you are willing to do that I feel sorry for you. posted 04/10/2008 at 18:39:10
I suppose that since we have nuclear weapons that could kill all life on earth we always have the military might to win any war. People suggested that in Vietnam. I suppose some think that if you act as a country you have no moral or ethical limits on your behavior. These wars are examples however of conflicts where one side has overwhelming firepower or advantage in pitched battles. Our revolution was another example.
we won virtually no pitched battles until the
french army was in the field, yet ...... posted 04/10/2008 at 18:29:25

Is Oliver Stone's "W" A Bunch Of "BS"?

The criticism of JFK was immediate and frantic. I think he idealized Garrison as a framing device to present the assassination. If judged by the standard of what is allowed in a closing argument to a jury every fact(about the assassination not Garrison) he presented had some research to support it. One may disagree with the validity of some of the facts but there was in each case someone who claimed to have seen or witnessed or there was a document or reason. I had read much on the evidence before seeing the film and found nothing that was without some source. He used a fictional character to stand in for Prouty and Ruth Paine's name was changed. I dont think he got the right solution but the criticisms were dishonest and misleading. Everyone picks and choses among the evidence when suggesting a solution including Posner. You can not depict any solution at all unless you pick and chose. posted 04/10/2008 at 19:01:06

Junk War and Petraeus: I, Robot

why do business interest pay millions for advertising if not that demand is subject to manipulation. We used to have DJ's on the radio who would get paid to play a song until it became a hit and that sort of thing worked. Supply can and does manipulate demand. Supply would be foolish to use money to increase supply when it can instead manipulate demand. The market is nothing but what people chose with the choice weighted according to wealth. posted 04/10/2008 at 14:51:01
But if what y0u are saying is true it would reflect negatively on the conservative America and therefore we are compelled to conclude you lie. posted 04/10/2008 at 14:38:08
Our representative do not cross exam. They make speeches. This is just an opportunity to make a speech and then the nonquestion can be avoided with a nonanswer. When congress censured citizens for criticizing the general we should have rioted. posted 04/10/2008 at 14:35:29

How Do You Get 100 Years in Iraq? Six Months at a Time.

and that is why the military is above any criticism. posted 04/10/2008 at 15:16:23

General Won't Promise More Iraq Pullouts

Its more like paying your credit card monthly amounts by borrowing on your other credit cards or shaving your chest hairs. the longer you do it the worse it will be. posted 04/08/2008 at 19:52:09
Not all that glitters is gold and you ignore the important element of intent. posted 04/08/2008 at 19:48:45

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