Open Thread
By bluegal Monday May 19, 2008 10:30pmat The Aristocrats, here's an excerpt:
Republicans, when confronted with a 'problem' choose several activities from the list below:
ignore it, deny it
borrow a mountain of money for you know, whatever
talk to your prostitute about it
email Wright "goddamn America" youtube
blame it on Dems 'San Francisco values'
capitalize it collateralize it securitize it and sell it to the world
call it al Qaeda in (wherever it is)
cover it with a big flag
pretend you've already solved it in the future
Open thread below...and we've also got the Oregon/Kentucky Primaries Open Thread going at the same time...
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Heh. they seem to be fond of this one on the list:
"try gay sex with strangers again"
The GOP Can Also ‘Spin’ its New ‘Dog Food Brand’
Tell the voters that they have a new and better plan for the future of our country.
Only problem with the list is covering it with a flag.
These are the most un-American people we'll hopefully ever meet.
Don Davis @ 2:
Tell the voters how the chinese dog food is new and improved. Fit for human consumption.
If your grocery bills are too high, try the new and improved chinese dog food. Now fit for human consumption and will lower your grocery bill.
Anyone know the news on the Steve Norvick race in Oregon?
Ron @ 6:
This ought to work for reframing their message..
Speaking of #3, "talk to your prostitute about it"
I wonder what the prostitutes overheard Duke Cunningham, Dusty Fargo, and Jack Abramoff etc. talking about during their poker/hooker parties aboard The Dukester?
Maybe we could ask the D.C. Madam, oh wait, nevermind, she got suicided a couple of weeks ago and the MSM, including Blogs like C&L are doing their best to ignore the story.
This list leaves out the criminal choices, such as suiciding and Wellstoning the opposition.
Ron @ 6:
One of these days the Alpo is going to hit the fan!
this is what goes on on pro-hillary sites:
Didn't Oregon go with McCarthy over RFK in a democratic Primary?
I thought I read something like that today. Oregon also supported Kucinich to the tune of 16% in a past primary.
Oregon is partly known as the anti-america, lunatic fringe of the dem party. IMHO.
votehillary08 | 05.20.2008 - 11:29 pm | #
the good times will be over soon for the corporate/government royalty. i sense that the corporate livestock are about to stampede.
Go Obama!
tr @ 12:
The battle is not over. GOBAMA!
Beat out message of sorrow in morse code with foot in washroom.
"Protecting the Homeland" while Shredding the Constitution ..
May 19 2008 : Lieberman Calls on Google to Take Down Terrorist Content
The YouTube Team : Dialogue with Sen. Lieberman on terrorism videos
May 20, 2008 : Lieberman Responds to Google
Stay tuned ..
Republican Problem solving handbook, page one:
Blame Democrats or terrorists unless you can predict some kind of success anywhere from six to twelve months later.
The End.
I just have to say this even though it is a bit off topic. When 20- 25% of white Appalachian democrats (the party that should understand diversity) "admits" to not voting for Obama because he's black just proves the theory that prejudice = ignorance and that these hillbillies need to open a book or two.
As what was brought up on CNN tonight, Hillary needs to start standing up to her racist voters and reject their votes for those reasons. She cries sexism, but racism has proved to
run deeper in rural America. (The Bible Belt) It also proves that religion = ignorance.
The new and improve chinese dog food makes a great hash or pizza topping. Now fit for human consumption.
They forgot the tried and true: "blame Bill Clinton"
"Have a pretty girl deny it" and "outsource it" and "democrats tax and spend."
Ron @ 19:
Just avoid the shit made out of 'byproducts'
miss_kitty @ 22:
The new chinese dog food has more of the mininum daily requirements than a take out pizza. Now fit for human consumption (AND YOU CAN SHARE IT WITH YOUR PET.)
Ron @ 19:
A whole brick of Velvetta cheese makes anything edible.
When your kids flash that cheeeese smile and gives you the thumbs, what can you say but.....Velvetta!
Radically Moderate @ 24:
One large can of the new and improved chinese dog food and a brick of Velveeta can feed your family for days. Now fit for human consumption. Warning labels on the Velveeta.
MountainMan23 @ 16.....Maybe that should be 'Fatherland' instead of 'Homeland' - it is the same thing.
The censorship begins. These bastards have been shredding and wiping their feet on the Constitution for so long that people have become immune to what is happening. The sheer volume of crimes that have been committed at the highest levels, and not prosecuted or investigated, leaves many in a state of bewilderment. The repubs are masters of deception. They know they are doomed and they will do anything to further their agenda.
Don't let them divide the Democratic party. Hand them their asses big-time. Starting with some arrests.
Ron @ 23:
Hey...if you don't mind hooves snouts beaks guts feet and shit, go for the byproducts.
miss_kitty @ 27:
Hey O.K. You don't have to share it with your pet.
As usual, Bush took too long to apologize-this time for the Quran shooting. A McCain campaign staffer prefers Obama. A court struck down Virginia's late-term abortion ban. The House blames OPEC, rather than American oil companies, for collusion. Stocks continue to fall. McCain throws the Carter card.
they forgot, "if it's in restroom stall next to you, exercise your widestance."
Ron @ 25:
Mmmmmm, V is for Velveeta!
BTW I hope the Chinese are not making Peanut Butter.
With gas a $4.00gl PB is my only source of protein.
OK, my serious rant is over now. Wow, one can also get great recipes here - who knew?
C&L is the bestest, evah.
"pretend you’ve already solved it in the future"
That's the money one, IMHO.
StirFry @ 30:
II is releasing an workout game mode. I wonder if they have that one on it.
famous aristocrats who were rather startled to discover they were up $#!+ creek (part 213):
czar nicholas 2 of russia
louie 14 of france
mad king george 3 of england
it's like the good gal alice said, "you're all just a pack of cards."
Chairman Mao's Puppy Chow
You loved it then! Try it now!
Fry it! Bake it! Barbeque!
You can bread it if you're squeamish, too!
Chairman Mao's Puppy Chow!
It's what the world is eating now!
Serve with a salad; garnish with some dill;
And if still you can't eat it?
It's safe when your pets will.
"Gallup notices that Sen. Barack Obama is surging precisely among those voting groups who had resisted his charms to date. Obama's now beating Clinton among Hispanics, for example."
and the beat goes on....
Ron @ 34:
WII
Surprise in this stealth Kennedy threat: 'Days when Democrats worried that an assassin might try to remove the last Kennedy brother have long since receded, and Ted Kennedy carries a new image as the Senate's indefatigable warrior. So it was a surprise that something as ordinary as cancer would be what slows down Kennedy's relentless drive to promote liberal causes, build coalitions, and pass legislation.' 5/21
We are going to hold you to this, George: 'The White House on Tuesday flatly denied an Army Radio report that claimed U.S. President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term.' 5/21
Obama Wins Most Pledged Delegates, Returns To Iowa For Speech (VIDEO)
what more can I say!
bullfrog @ 35:
How doth the little crocodile improve his shinning tail, and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale.
How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neately spreads his claws, and welcomes little fishes in with greatly smiling jaws.
Your new and improved chinese dog food can be served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's so good you might even consider it for that midnight snack. Now fit for human consumption.
"You have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination," he told cheering supporters in Iowa, the overwhelmingly white state that launched him, a black, first-term senator from Illinois, on his improbable path to victory last January.
Obama lavished praise on Clinton, his rival in a race unlike any other, and accused Republican John McCain of a campaign run by lobbyists.
"You are Democrats who are tired of being divided, Republicans who no longer recognize the party that runs Washington, independents who are hungry for change," he said, speaking to a crowd on the grounds of the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines as well as the millions around the country who will elect the nation's 44th president in November.
CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 67:
Good find on the last McFailuretoCommunicate thread, CIP...might havta play withem a little, eheh ;-}
calgarylady @ 32:
I would send you the recipe to my wifes Mung Pie Surprise Casserole generously ladled with Velveeta, but the "Surprise" part changes too often.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein @ 45:
Good find on the last McFailuretoCommunicate thread, CIP...might havta play withem a little, eheh ;-}
just don't let them entice you. show them the list. ROTFLMBBAO!!!!
I just saw the REdford movie with cruise and streep and it's quite good. I was surprised.
my eyes are shot!
good night all.
please be well, stay safe and unafraid.
tonight is a corner in american history.
remember where you were and what you were doing.
mostly, remember how long it took to get here.
for me it is a lifetime.
So did anyone happen to see that the US house of representatives passed a bill allowing the justice department to sue opec. Apparently I guess congress thinks they can sue opec to make them lower the price of oil
nite CIP
;-}
CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 48:
Excellent
SEE THE OBAMA VIDEO, PLEASE!
and good night again.
Ooh, Mung Pie Surprise Casserole. Think I'll pass on that one. Never been fond of casseroles or Velveeta. But thanks anyway !
CoIntelPro, good night and thank you. This chick signing off as well.
Nitey nite all
Hittin’ the road, Jack,”and I ain’t comin’ back no more no more no more no more”…
“Last word, freak.” - Melvin Udall
out
;-}
How Republican intelligence [sic] springs into existence
Liberty(appeaser)Lover @ 20:
"blame Bill Clinton's penis" edited for you *g*
I think you've got the order wrong. Covering it with the flag ALWAYS comes at the top of the list.
Pericles @ 58:
Are you sure it's not cowering behind the flag?
Just for you, Calg., here's the recipe for Vegetarian Schwantzetti -
http://thesequencers.us/SchwantzLefantz/schwantzworldnews/l86oct.jpg
Ron @ 34:
Hahaha! I was really wondering what you ment by "II" ..I just saw your correction.
Yes! With widestancing mode, republicans could emulate their sexual desires without pesky undercover agents and would firm up those doughy pasty inner thighs and glutenous maximii !!
testing
GNA!
ferrofluid @ 56:
oh man, that's nasty! What is it with worms tonight? I saw this show on Animal planet about parasites. They showed a re-enactment of a lady dropping worms out of her "lower orifice" because of a parasite she caught in South America.
Let's take it one more step. Republicanism is a parasite.
Michael Savage keeping it classy about Ted Kennedy why is he still on the air?
Nick Gallias @ 4:
Couldn't have said it better myself. It is these atrocious monsters parading as Americans are who I rant about all the time. Of course to add to this list are all three current presidential candidates and I use this term loosely!
And people wonder why true Americans like us are so damn pissed off!
Eww, worms. Eww, parasites. Eww, repubs.
In regards to the recipe, when Ron (the fine food connoisseur @ 63) says GNA, you know it's gotta be bad.
Widestancing mode does do wonders for the inner thigh muscles and derriere region, however.
Ron @ 6:
Ex: Toll House Cracker were $2.00 one week the next week $2.77.
McCain is the largest Flip - Flop.
Just twelve years ago, when McCain was politically recuperating from his involvement in the Keating Five scandal, he introduced legislation that would, if implemented today, cripple his presidential campaign.
In March 1996 and again the following year, McCain offered a bill that, in his own words, "would ban a candidate or a candidate's authorized committee from paying registered lobbyists."
In order to root out the moneyed influences, McCain continued, Congress had to unequivocally cut off the flow of campaign cash.
"Registered lobbyists who work for campaigns as fundraisers clearly represent a conflict of interest," he added. "When a campaign employs an individual who also lobbies that Member, the perception of undue and unfair influence is raised."
The legislation never passed.
Fast-forward a dozen years and the political dynamics have clearly changed. Now the GOP standard bearer, McCain has 115 lobbyists either working or raising money on his behalf. Many of these individuals have taken a leave of absence from these positions in order to help with the campaign. But others have held, simultaneously, fundraising and lobbyists positions.
In addition, the Senator has 70 registered lobbyists who have bundled money on his behalf - raising at least $100,000. On top of this, the Center for Responsive Politics reports that the Arizona Republican has received more than $610,000 in direct donations - not bundled cash - from lobbyists.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/20/mccains-97-lobbyist-bill_n_1026...
McCain is a Washington insider acting like a Maverick! Can you really trust a guy like McCain? Vote the bum out!
> Michael Savage keeping it classy about Ted Kennedy why is he still on the air?
This won't answer your question, but it's my obvservation that at least Kennedy has a brain to have a tumor on (as compared to Bush.)
#3, that's called a "vision." You know, Vision 2008. Vision 2005, 2008 Vision of Excellence, etc. Not to be confused with "night vision" or "low vision." The new "2009 Milk Prices Vision of Excellence." The new "2012 Gas Prices Vision of Excellence." The PNAC Vision of excellence.
"Tell the voters we have a new and better "VISION" for the country." see how it works. Like a clean css file.
I think Vision works because people relate it to light. Light work, light weight, light bright, light seeker, light bearer, light beer, lite beer, enlightened, lightning flash, light and clean, clean and light, pure white light, etc.
Never mind that the vision could be skewed. That all the wires ain't hooked up in the brain, that only half a mind has a vision, or the vision is just plain frigging wrong. Planning and Scheduling sucks, while Visions rock! All the Glory from the vision, wishful thinking, subliminal symbolism.
In the end, it's all empty crap, in the end you look back, have a vision and realize, "wow I sure wasted a lot of time on that crap." What we need is HONEST leadership that ain't swayed by corporate fascism, power grabs, and race hatred.
the only fucking vision you should have is when you meditate to fix these insurmountable problems.
Peace. and nn
Phil, sometime's "vision" is when to know not to go to bed. ;-)
"I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles" - the Who
An anti-Bush judge gets treated like the Dixie Chicks.
The republican cure for all things is TAX CUTS
> The republican cure for all things is TAX CUTS
I didn't come up with this obvservation, but it's like when all you own is a hammer. When all you own is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail to you.
Ahmadinejad DID NOT threaten to “wipe Israel off the map.” and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said, “We have no problem with the world. We are not a threat whatsoever to the world, and the world knows it. We will never start a war. We have no intention of going to war with any state.” Please see this video and pass it on.
oil tops $130 per barrel world-wide, gas topping $4.00 a gallon across the nation...
bushies...heckuvajob there.
calgarylady @ 26:
Remember, the Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilence;
FIRST THEY CAME…
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemöller
remember the past, or be condemned to repeat it.
I got a few more.
Repeat as needed, that the surge is working.
Compare yourself to Reagan.
Take a pundit job at FoxNews.
Take a columnist job at the New York Times.
Call John Edwards a faggot.
Go quail hunting.
Load up on Oxycontin and incite riots.
Tell your listeners to vote for Hillary.
Now tell them to vote for Obama.
Remind everyone that you've been an independent or libertarian all along.
Remind everyone that McCain was the best choice all along.
Make a joke about a hypothetical attempt on Obama's life.
Give everyone a six hundred dollar pacifier.
Bash the presumptive Democratic nominee while overseas
Now say you weren't really talking about him, and that he must have a guilty conscience
Expose his plan to limit how much food you can eat and when you're allowed to adjust your thermostat.
Use middle names whenever possible.
hill's goal post is on wheels.
Tom @ 81:
Yeah I could have told you that.
It's oil chimpy wants, at all our cost, if it weren't chimpy would have invading NK. The rat bastid.
…Pick the most incompetent person you know, give them a funny nickname and send them in.
…Never forget the sneak attack back message to impress foreign leaders.
…If Ahmed takes a swing, beat the snot out of Abdul.
...If your dad's freinds meet to try and bail you out do the opposite of what they tell you.
"pretend you’ve already solved it in the future"
McSame already has. See his 2013 ad: a nation where it rains down sparkles on an endless parade of everyone-owning pink ponies. The Tem Commandments appear on every street corner, right above Blackwater Civil Obedience goons, who will be patrolling the streets-- for the safety of the children.
FreedomOfInformationAct @ 83:
They've already begun the campaign against gays and "dirty hippies" (which means LIBRULS to them.)
yes yes try the chinese dog food and in the near future a new product will hit the shelves soylent green and you can't forget this moldie oldie catsup is now a vegatable just save on your food bill by going to your nearest fast food place and stock up now
MountainMan23 @ 16:
google appears to be the same cowards that yahoo is, caving to political pressure.
at least they haven't(yet) turned in someone to be charged with sedition. but then again, Google is incorporated now, eh?
Does Oregon Put Obama's White Working Class Problem To Rest?
May 20, 2008 11:55 PM
Since much ink has been spent on Sen. Barack Obama's troubles with the white work class vote - "[it has been] painted as a fatal flaw in his campaign," as Keith Olberman noted - it is important to note that the Senator had big time success among that very constituency in Oregon's primary on Tuesday.
White voters - the only ones in the exit polls because the state is so homogeneous - went to the Senator in overwhelming numbers. In fact, every age group, except those older than 60, preferred Obama to Sen. Hillary Clinton. Obama, in addition, won the majority of voters whose total family incomes where less than $50,000 as well as all income groups, save for the smallest: $15,000 to $29,999. Union households, moreover, went to Obama by a margin of 60 percent to 37 percent.
Clinton, as has traditionally proven the case, bested Obama among those Oregon voters whose highest level of education was a high school degree, by a margin of 53 to 44 percent. But among Catholics, which have proven to be, perhaps, Clinton's largest and most sturdy contingent of supporters, Obama actually did better: 49 to 48 percent.
Edwin Hussein the Appeaser @ 88:
don't leave blacks off that list. (NOLa is a perfect example)
the DLC even tried to marginalize blacks(clintons/begala/ferraro).
and the "southern strategy" is still in full effect(tennessee/WVa/Kentucky).
Throw piles of bullshit in random directions via the Right Wing Propaganda Machine aka... the msm. Eventually, some of it will stick somewhere.
This is the 'hope' that the GOP has to offer.
Pathetic.
The irony of ironies. Where was bush when he made his appeasement statement?
Israel admits secret peace talks with Syria. Will bush and McCain call them appeasers now?
Daily Reading pt 1...
Obama wins Oregon, Clinton wins big in Kentucky, Obama inching ever closer to nomination - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/primary_rdp;_ylt=Avn7DCLDPbPGZ_fDYe3KMmms0NUE
Obama has an overall total of 1,956 delegates, including endorsements from party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Clinton has 1,776, including superdelegates, according the latest tally by the AP.
Thoughts, hopes, prayers, best wishes to Ted Kennedy & Family: Sen. Edward Kennedy has malignant brain tumor - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/kennedy;_ylt=AqcWCUNCy2bxKcv6gN9VSNys0NUE
The kind of cancer that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is fighting is a common, highly lethal form of brain tumor that is very difficult to treat, experts said yesterday.
CNN Tracking Poll: Obama opens up biggest lead ever over Clinton - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/19/tracking-poll-obama-open...
Obama 55% vs Clinton 39% in national survey...
BuzzFlash honored Keith Olbermann, the sane, lacerating beachhead of democracy on cable television, with its Wings of Justice award on August 30, 2006. Now we learn that even Rupert Murdoch, the Darth Vader of the corporate mainstream media, is trying to muscle General Electric and MSNBC to muzzle Olbermann. So when a BuzzFlash reader nominated Olbermann once again for a Wings Award, we took the rare step of presenting it to him for a second time. Olbermann is the BuzzFlash.com Wings of Justice Award Winner.
- http://wingsofjustice.com/08/05/woj08021.html
Hey, when Olbermann reads his "J'accuse" special comment and tells Bush to "shut the Hell up," you kind of feel that someone on television can match your personal outrage.
Stupid con-servative right wingnut idiots....can't take it, so they try to silence it....wow, do they hate democracy...its incredible how much they loathe freedom...why don't they just move to Saudi Arabia and be done with themselves?
America's Senator: Senator Bernie Sanders: An expanding military budget taxpayers can't afford - http://www.sanders.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=298042
At a time when this country has a $9.3 trillion national debt, a declining economy, and enormous unmet needs, the time is long overdue for Congress to stop rubber-stamping White House requests for military spending and to address the Pentagon's needs within the context of our overall national priorities.
Funny how Grover (pedophile) Norquist never gets upset about this: An expanding military budget taxpayers can't afford - http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/0...
Corporate Media headline: 'McCain's lobbyist ties pose threat to reformer image' His "reformer" image was something he made up, it never was real.
- http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/20/mccains_lobbyist_t...
Daily Reading pt 2...
Glenn Greenwald: Growing Responsibility For The Bush Torture Regime - http://blog.aclu.org/2008/05/20/glenn-greenwald-growing-responsibility-f...
Long Time Bush Family Confidante, James Baker: Talking To An Enemy Is Not Appeasement - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/20/james-baker-talking-to-an_n_102...
James Baker is not exactly what I would call a progressive. He's a lifetime Republican, heir to the biggest and baddest of all oil industry legal firms, advisor and cabinet member to Republican presidents, spkesman for Bush during the 2000 election fiasco, and a ruthless ba*d.
James Baker is contradicting McCain (R-Idiot) on the issue of diplomacy, "Diplomacy involves talking to your enemies. You don't reward your enemies necessarily by talking to them if you are tough and you know what you are doing. You don't appease them. Talking to an enemy is not in my view appeasement."
How will Barack Obama get to 270? - http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/16/270/print.html
This November, a Democratic victory will probably hinge on the Electoral College votes of a handful of swing states. Howard Dean's pollster examines 17 fall battlegrounds, one by one.
The Going nowhere fast Oil-based economy: Oil close to $130 after buying surge - http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/20/commodities.globaleconomy
"Gallup notices that Sen. Barack Obama is surging precisely among those voting groups who had resisted his charms to date. Obama's now beating Clinton among Hispanics, for example."
- http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/the_party_coalesces...
The Party Coalesces Around Obama
Surprise in this stealth Kennedy threat: 'Days when Democrats worried that an assassin might try to remove the last Kennedy brother have long since receded, and Ted Kennedy carries a new image as the Senate's indefatigable warrior. So it was a surprise that something as ordinary as cancer would be what slows down Kennedy's relentless drive to promote liberal causes, build coalitions, and pass legislation.'
- http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/05/20/surpris...
"I think you can argue that I would not be sitting here as a presidential candidate had it not been for some of the battles that Ted Kennedy has fought," said Obama, appearing on CNN. "So not only is he a personal friend, not only has been one of my most important supporters during the course of this campaign. But he is somebody who battled for voting rights and civil rights when I was a child.
"I stand on his shoulders."
Honda to Introduce an “Entry Level” Hybrid in 2009 - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/honda-to-make-affordable-hybrid.php
Looks really nice and will cheaper than the Civic Hybrid...also expect a Honda Fit Hybrid shortly thereafter
sue the bastards, but make sure no one else can like, say John Boehner.
Republican Problem Solving Handbook only needs one page
To hold one sentence
"Kill them all, let God sort them out."
Today's must-read
Democrats and Our Enemies
By Joseph Lieberman
WSJ Opinion/Ed
How did the Democratic Party get here? How did the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core of its identity and its purpose?
Beginning in the 1940s, the Democratic Party was forced to confront two of the most dangerous enemies our nation has ever faced: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In response, Democrats under Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy forged and conducted a foreign policy that was principled, internationalist, strong and successful.
This was the Democratic Party that I grew up in – a party that was unhesitatingly and proudly pro-American, a party that was unafraid to make moral judgments about the world beyond our borders. It was a party that understood that either the American people stood united with free nations and freedom fighters against the forces of totalitarianism, or that we would fall divided........
Mr. Obama has said that in proposing this, he is following in the footsteps of Reagan and JFK. But Kennedy never met with Castro, and Reagan never met with Khomeini. And can anyone imagine Presidents Kennedy or Reagan sitting down unconditionally with Ahmadinejad or Chavez? I certainly cannot.
If a president ever embraced our worst enemies in this way, he would strengthen them and undermine our most steadfast allies.
A great Democratic secretary of state, Dean Acheson, once warned "no people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies." This is a lesson that today's Democratic Party leaders need to relearn.
And then there's Iran. Hmmmm. Need a good slogan. How about:
Nuke 'em till they glow and shoot them in the dark!
Today's must-read will be tonight's Worst Person in the World.
"republican problem solving handbook"
OMG that is brilliant. I want to write it on the bathroom walls! (all over the country).
Hillary is really pissing me off. Dowd is right on the money in a superb op-ed piece in the NYT today. Why should we put Hillary's feelings over the good of the country? Why should we pussy foot around not offending her ego when we know that she does not give a sh** about Democratic party unity? Her sensitivity is more important than not defeating McCain? Pullease!! It's obvious that she would rather have McCain than let a black man rule this country. It's clear that Hillary IS going onto the Convention, and mark me: This unseemingly ungracious low class stunt of hers is being pushed and manipulated by BILL CLINTON, who would also rather have a fascist McCain/Lieberman ticket than see a black man in office. So now we know where we stand and it ain't pretty. It's pure ugly racism that is driving trhem both.
"I can't take rejection," you can see Bill say wagging his infamous index lying index finger that introduced the world to Monica. When he became apoplectic that someone suggested we reopen an unbiased investigation into 9/11, you could see that he has gone over to "their side", the fascist dark side. They don't care about the country. So now they tell us. We're on our own. If the country elects McCain it'll be Bill Clinton who prefers it that way. End of story.
Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" is dead right. It's happening before our eyes. And we are allowing it to happen, just like we allowed torture, the crematoria and everything else.
dennis @ 99:
How convenient for Joe to omit the fact that Reagan did sit down with the Soviet Union many times, while they had missiles pointing at us. Without any preconditions. And what about Nixon going tom China witrhout any preconditions?Explain that Mr Lieberman. And we brought the Soviet Union down without any bombs, diplomatically and peacefully. Try to justify your intent to murder thousands of Iranians knowing that. "But the Talmud says it's OK to murder non-Jews", you say.
Yeah, right.
Scream, "Clinton did it!" or claim Executive Privilege.
Hate to tell you this, but WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch now, o he of the FAUX news.
Blame it on the liberal media.
Figure out the most anti-progressive solution, and do that.
Pretend that you too have a plan for change, knowing that at least a third of the people will be conned.
Staple confederate flag pins to your chest...
OUCH!
The Republican guide sounds like the approach some trolls on the internet take to different views.
Life After Ted: Who Picks Up The Liberal Mantle?
Take a firm stand on the problem using a wide stance to be sure to cover it completely.
The list should include at least one more way that Republicans "solve" problems: "Rehash the same old solution that has failed to work again and again in the past, e.g. tax cuts."
Hey guys 52 states is some kind of occult number, so being as it may, the congress will never add one more colony or rather control grid to the number, so let us push one state to succeed and see if they don't declare marshall law. I am ready, this has been going on to long. We need a Gen. Maybe Jessi anyone else have a strategy?
Now I know I just arrived. And that I haven't read the comments This may have already been suggested.
But I think you left off:
They blame it on Clinton.
It should be labeled "The Neo-Con Problem Solving Handbook". Not all Republicans are shit - most are Neo-Cons and Neo-Cons are shit. Just wait until some "Neo-Lib" group comes in and spoils the Democrats.
"Republicans, when confronted with a ‘problem’ choose several activities from the list below:"
Yes, it's much better to be a pious, finger-wagging liberal know-it-all who couldn't gain office even if they had photos of Bush fucking a dog.
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