May 25, 2008 11:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
War and Piece: Interesting trail connecting McCain and his campaign manager Richard Davis to a Russian aluminum oligarch banned from the US for alleged organized crime ties and the pro-Kremlin side of Ukraine's Orange Revolution, through a Connecticut investment firm called Pegasus.
Connecting.the.Dots: A Starbucks/moonshine cocktail might be just the pickmeup Democrats need this year.
A Tiny Revolution: Sistani forbids long-term US basing agreement
Words of Power: The Crow Nation understands. So do some others. Get ready to strap it on people.
Happy Valley News Hour: Are John Hagee's statements really that offensive?
The Vanity Press: A takedown of the Tory rhetoric that's recently been imported into the American right.
Starbucks/Moonshine Cocktail. Cute.
The extreme and ridiculous vilification of HRC by Obama supporters has turned me from someone who thought very highly of Obama 7, 8 months ago to someone who just loathes him and his supporters today.
Words of Power - the more Joe Biden goes on the attack, the more I like him.
The extreme and ridiculous vilification of HRC by Obama supporters has turned me from someone who thought very highly of Obama 7, 8 months ago to someone who just loathes him and his supporters today.
What?! This conflation of Obama and his supporters doesn't make sense. Obama has consistently distanced himself from criticizing and smearing Clinton in anything like the ways and degrees to which she does it to him. In the latest instance, her mention (again) of a Kennedy's assassination, Obama specifically SAID he doesn't blame her for the remark, even though she didn't apologize to him and his family for it (only to the Kennedy family).
If Obama's supporters go too far in villifying Hillary, fine, blame them. But it doesn't make sense to blame Obama himself.
By the way Mike, thanks especially for the link to the "Words of Power" post. Very powerful!
Obama the FIRST Presidential candidate to visit the Crow Nation?
Democrat Barack Obama became an honorary member of an American Indian tribe ... and promised a proactive policy to help tribal people if he wins the White House in November.
Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, was "adopted" by Hartford and Mary Black Eagle and given a name which means "one who helps all people of this land." ... "I like my new name, Barack Black Eagle," he said. "That is a good name."
Many in the audience wore traditional feather headdresses and some banged drums ahead of Obama's visit, the first by a presidential candidate to the Crow Nation. Reuters, 5-19-08
How truly a pathetic statement on the Democratic Party. We should be visiting ALL Native American Nations (caps correct?), even if it is called pandering by the Rethugs. If ever there were groups of disenfranchized people deserving of our support, it is the remaining relatives of those this country slaughtered in the name of the US!
fastfeat @ 4:
Uh, we're kind of busy invading a different country and slaughtering their natives right at the moment. But the ones left standing are gonna get some democracy . . maybe.
L.A. Confidential @ 1:
sounds familiar....
fastfeat @ 4:
nothing Barack does will be satisfactory.
rather than take steps, he should be cursed for beginning the journey to healing.
no effort to begin the process of healing should ever be undertaken because we can sit in a fucking corner and complain.
great.
Blue Lensman @ 5:
you mean the ones left drinking their water from troughs full of shit and dead-people-parts.
then blackwater can return and take care of the domestic contingent of brown people.
CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 8:
Resettlement into safe zones "reserved" for the Iraqi natives will begin in 5, 4, 3, 2...
Those damned Obama supporters at WaPo. Who knew?
As a non-Obama supporter, but practicing Democrat, I'll thank Clinton who has also been filing some gargantuan numbers.
Its comical to watch, HRC running around in circles with an empty bag chasing after the cat.
The cat is now wiser and refuse to go back into the bag, so are the American public.
L.A. Confidential @ 1:
well said! its to bad voters dont hold thier politicians to a better standard but i guess its to be expected when the only thing that matters is makeing history , i see a memmorial day four yrs from today when the next president of the united states stands before the white marble grave stones at arlington and sniffels and sheds a small tear as bush did today , and the next president relates a story about the bravery of billy bob joe and how he died for our freedoms in iraq last week, oh and god bless ameica!
One thing to remember about British 'tories' is that they are of the moral fiber of such people as Craig, Vitter, B. Allen and Haggard.
They all have juicy newsworthy skeletons in their cupboards, its no coincidence that the past couple of years and the GOP party of family values so closely mirrors what happened to the Torys in the UK (95/96) when the said they were PoFV people, boom scandal after scandal erupted.
Something for your Memorial Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJVclw-rh5U
L.A. Confidential @ 1:
Well in that case...let me say something just as prejudicial.
The extreme and ridiculous vilification of non mainstream candidates such as Kucinich/Paul/Gravel, by Obama/Clinton supporters has turned me from someone who thought very highly of Obama/Clinton 8,9 months ago to someone who just loathes...
they and their supporters today.
tyree @ 14:
you hate people because you choose to. it has nothing to do with obama or any supposed sympathy for the troops
milquetoast @ 17:
understood. I also wonder why people don't bemoan the media banishment of Edwards from the campaign. but apparently nothing matters as much as the hatred.
McCain just looks worse the more you dig...
Batocchio @ 20:
He starts looking OK once you get the 6' of soil off the casket.
fastfeat @ 21:
He starts looking OK once you get the 6' of soil on the casket.
Fixed that for you.
L.A. Confidential @ 1:
Let me be the first member to welcome you to the...
..."wahhhh, my candidate aintgonnawin club"
we got a lot of members... (I joined) when the last of the anti-war candidates was "ousted" by mainstream media and the "loathesome" sheeple that watch it!
put on your american flag lapel pin and have a seat...take some potshots...(hint) Obama voted for the patriot act and keeps giving Bush money...Now bash away!
19 CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory
Edwards was my initial choice too once it became clear neither Gore nor Clarke were going to enter the fray.
The odd thing though was while I was supporting Edwards, I was place in the weird position of defending both Obama's and mccain's runs.
Some people were arguing he wasn't qualified, so I had to point out the only qualifications in Article II of the Constitution was that you be American born or a natural citizen, aged 35 or more which made Obama qualified.
It also qualified mccain, who some folks were saying wasn't qualified because he was born in another country, but of American parents which qualified him as a natural citizen.
Now excuse me, but I got the runs and have to run.
CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 18:
you hate people because you choose to. it has nothing to do with obama or any supposed sympathy for the troops
CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 18:
you hate people because you choose to. it has nothing to do with obama or any supposed sympathy for the troops
no i hate nobody , however i despise the so called inlightened obama elitests! you know !the ones who bemoan the fact your not thier equals because you misspell words , and run your sentences together and forget the commas the exclaimation points or what have you! its no wonder more lib lurkers stay in the shadows afraid to comment on here for fear that they will be attacked because of thier misspelling or that anyone other then obama supporters are allowed to have an oppinion on who they want for president, your going to lose in november , why? because your just as bad as the elitest pricks allready in washington, im used to your snide remarks and insults but others arent going to take a chance to buck your clique, dont bother thinking youll run me off ,or LA were here !weve allways been here , we,ll allways be here ! clinton 08!
CoIntelPro for Democratic Party Victory @ 18:
you hate people because you choose to. it has nothing to do with obama or any supposed sympathy for the troops
and one more thing , what do you know about sympathy for the troops? have you ever been shot at by an enemy ? have you ever crawled up a snow covered hill under enemy fire with other guys takeing out an enemy position ? ever hauled a wounded friend off to be treated for wounds? seen the blood the vomit the pain ? sympathy !buddy ive been there ! where were you????????
Blue Lensman @ 22:
I was actually hoping he was buried with a bunch of Cindy's cash...
ferrofluid @ 13:
Well put, though I was thinking of Pandora and her Box.
fastfeat @ 29:
You want Hillary playing with her box?
There are some severe misunderstandings in that blog post about British Tories. For instance: "Christopher Hitchens spewed the usual Tory loathing for the United States"
Hitchens is an ex-Trotskyist, and considers himself a disciple of George Orwell. Hardly a Tory in the British sense. If you think he is, look up "George Orwell" and "Trotskyist" on wikipedia.
I get the sense that the old US meaning of Tory has become confused with what is officially called "The Conservative Party" or "The Conservatives". From what I can make out the GOP has more in common with the US tories than the British Conservative Party of the 20th and 21st centuries do.
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