I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
primero?
alright...I'll go read the links now.
and call sheets.
mer?
you knew what was going on all along as was di of us.
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Okay, I'm not first, but I'm reasonably early.
So I'm cool.
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Nancy Willing | Homepage | 09.01.07 - 3:11 pm | #
Sure! Upset about something?
I can't absorb stains like Condi. Where DOES she shop?
For the record, I'm glad to see Michigan losing.
Michigan State (my alum) is stomping their opponent.
more owls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it's Saturday, I'm allowed to Hillary bash.
Have I mentioned that she's become the Hubert Humphrey of 2008? The official Not Completely Against the War candidate?
What a tactical masterstroke. Way to win the presidency, babe!!!!
ANother sheetz above?????
Short-sheeted:
Condi's other greatest hits for her legacy: She was head of the NSC when she and Bush ignored the Osama bin Laden warning. When the going got tough in NOLA she went shopping for shoes not emergency supplies.
Sheets, again? Geez, I was just getting comfortable.
Condi trying to clean up her image yet a year before the Bushie is done must mean that she is next to jump ship.
(I needed a hug just to live to see another day, BG. THANKS!!!!!)
Well..we 'amateur' voters 'not getting' it we could, if we were honest with ourselves, start dismantling...
Military Keynesianism: What is that and why should I care?
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Although Nader is an asshole extraordinnaire, he was right that the two parties do not differ much.
As for amateurs not getting what was going on
Amateur what?
Pundits? Foreign policy strategists? Think-tank subsidized morons?
We've had plenty of those for a while, allegedly professional ones, too, and their self-aggrandizing idiocy is one of the primary reasons we're in this mess now.
As far as I'm concerned, the "pros" have fucked things up quite enough now. They need to sit down and let the sane people fix things.
And I think it's fair to point out that many of us amateurs demonstrated more more awareness and prescience about what would emerge from this disastrous invasion.
Cubs won again...looks like this is their year.
The most frustrating thing for me is when I hear how the Dems have been "outplayed".
While true, it's rare that we ever have a discussion of why.
To me there are two reasons.
First, it's debatable that the Dems differ much in their opinions from the Republicans. We've been going idly along thinking that if we got the majority things would change, when in reality the numbers don't matter - the people do. Until we focus on replacing current "bad" Dems in addition to gaining more overall seats we're not going to get the traction we need on the issues.
Second, and perhaps more important, is that it's easy to get played if all you're doing is reacting to the other guy.
The Republicans are the party of ideas. They're almost universally bad ideas, and have been that way since Eisenhower (you could make an argument that it's more like since Lincoln). But if they're the only ones pushing ideas they're the only ones that are going to be listened to.
Sure the media is partly to blame, but we have two options: sit around and bitch about it or fight back. Be as obnoxious as they are.
Until we get the right people in Congress and push our ideas (assuming we have any) this is going to continue to get worse.
Hillary Clinton is just about as irresponsible as George Bush is. In addition, she's bought and paid for by megacorporate interests including Rupert Murdoch--so she's just another right wing shill.
I don't know about Obama other than that he's inexperienced and way, WAY too slick.
I take a very pessimistic view of the immediate (next 10 years) future.
They have a prominent platform and a large megaphone which they could use not simply to inspire voters but to browbeat their colleagues, plot a course of action, enlist their supporters into helping push through a legislative agenda, etc.
If memory serves, when Howard Dean used his position as the "front runner" to advocate a position that was in opposition to Bush/Cheney, the entire Democratic Party power elite united to destroy him and his candidacy.
All of the current candidates are carrying that "lesson" in their minds and have, no doubt, made it an important part of their planning. Not one of them is going to stick his or her neck out on any issue unless and until it is clear that the will not win the nomination.
This "equivocate forever" strategy has been poison to the Democratic Party for years. Yet they seem unwilling to abandon it.
(Obama and Clinton) They could, you know, lead instead of campaign.
I doubt the word leader is appropriate for any of our major political figures, not only Obama and Clinton, but Reid, Pelosi, Bush, Cheney, etc. Real leaders, those with vision who are willing to fight against the status quo to make things better are Kucinich, Gavel, and Ron Paul who the power elite and corporations are trying hard to discredit as being impractical, unreal and unworkable. The real leaders terrify the corporations and moneyed elite.
I think the leading candidates do try to lead with agenda and action.
It's just that the only thing the media is reporting is when they sling mud at each other.
Remember that, to be generous, the media likes a good fight and will seek to find one even if none exists.
If you are left of center you may find the media a just little right wing. The media seems to be ignoring the dem's policy proposals while focusing on any mud fights between democrats. On the other hand the media is trumpeting any slight hope of a positive story from the republicans, yet ignoring their blunders.
How many national news papers have come out for withdrawing from the war and instead installing national health care? I think that would be none.
It is not that the candidates do not have leadership plans for health care and education. It's just that their light and brilliance cast a shadow on the present administrations failures. Therefore they are ignored as if they were blasphemous. Better to report on a mud wrestling match.
Big difference between enough Dems in Congress deciding to wait out the Bush Presidency on Iraq (because they realize Bush will never leave no matter what Congress does, and they disagree that symbolic action is worth the political risk-for the record I think they are wrong on that) and a Dem President and Congress deciding to continue the war another 5 years. On the contrary, the same political calculations that have the Dems waiting until W. is gone will cause them to pull out of Iraq in 2009. (That is, if enough progressives, sulking over their unrealistic expectations of what the 2006 election meant, don't stay at home in Nov. 2008, thus giving us another Republican President.)
as usual drum is a tool of the cult of republicanism selling the counterproductive view that serves the purposes of his cult. The only people that have jumped on General Betrayus' band wagon are the dullards that have been on board all along or were itching to get on. NO ONE WITH A BRAIN, and that includes kevin drum the imbecile, has yet to agree with General Betrayus on anything. In other words, Betrayus has been preaching to the choir, which has been the pretty standard rovian approach along. And like rove, Betrayus has gotten the same results: the sycophants and me-tooers are doing their jobs being easily manipulated, anti-American fools as they are given the stage by the ever willing to helpout US corporate media.
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Do you want to turn Petraeus’s BS around? It’s time to start pointing out the fact that Petraeus is a lying sack of excrement.
I think we should deluge the MSM, and start writing ‘letters to the Editor’ pointing out the fact that Petraeus has a history of lying and playing politics. Calling your local Congressperson and Senator and pointing out the following won’t hurt either.
Six weeks before the 2004 election, Petraeus wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post in which he lied and said that there had been “tangible progress” in Iraq, and that “momentum has gathered in recent months.”
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