Question Posed

by Mike Wallace, in a world in which the president faces his critics:

"What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world?"

"In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious, you didn't want to travel, you knew very little about the military; the governor of Texas doesn't have the kind of power that some governors have. Why do you think they nominated you?"

"Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so [expletive] up?"

posted by some guy name Atrios.

Ho Ho Ho!

Merry Christmas! We all love Christmas, Democrats or Republicans, or Independents, or Greens. But you might be a Republican if...........

You think "proletariat" is a type of cheese.

You've named your kids "Deduction one" and "Deduction two"

You've tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if people were just allowed to keep more of their minimum wage.

You've ever referred to someone as "my (insert racial or ethnic minority here) friend"

You believe Clinton raped an intern.

You've ever tried to prove Jesus was a capitalist and opposed to welfare.

You're a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty.

You think Huey Newton is a cookie.

You believe Clinton had Bin Laden on a platter.

The only union you support is the Baseball Players, because heck, they're richer than you.

You think you might remember laughing once as a kid.

You once broke loose at a party and removed your neck tie.

You call mall rent-a-cops "jack-booted thugs."

You've ever referred to the moral fiber of something.

You've ever uttered the phrase, "Why don't we just bomb the sons of bitches."

You've ever called a secretary or waitress "Tootsie."

You answer to "The Man."

You don't think "The Simpsons" is all that funny, but you watch it because that Flanders fellow makes a lot of sense.

You fax the FBI a list of "Commies in my Neighborhood."

You don't let your kids watch Sesame Street because you accuse Bert and Ernie of "sexual deviance."

You scream "Dit-dit-ditto" while making love.

You've argued that art has a "moral foundation set in Western values."

When people say "Marx," you think "Groucho."

You've ever yelled, "Hey hippie, get a haircut."

You think Birkenstock was that radical rock concert in 1969.

You argue that you need 300 handguns, in case a bear ever attacks your home.

Vietnam makes a lot of sense to you.

You point to Hootie and the Blowfish as evidence of the end of racism in America.

You've ever said civil liberties, schmivil schmiberties.

You've ever said "Clean air? Looks clean to me."

You've ever called education a luxury.

You wonder if donations to the Pentagon are tax-deductable.

You came of age in the '60s and don't remember Bob Dylan.

You own a vehicle with an "Ollie North: American Hero" sticker.

You're afraid of the liberal media."

You ever based an argument on the phrase, "Well, tradition dictates...."

You ever told a child that Oscar the Grouch "lives in a trash can because he is lazy and doesn't want to contribute to society."

You've ever urged someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, when they don't even have shoes.

You confuse Lenin with Lennon.

How man here in Colorado Springs fit those descriptions?

Second Thoughts

Ya think someone in the Bush Administration is finally having second thoughts about their frivolous war, their support for torture, their failure to get Osama and Zawahiri when they could have been killed in a cave in Afghanistan?

Word Up *

Word - as if it could be said any better.

* - see Cameo, musical group, hits, orig. ref.

A Despicable Betrayal Committed by George W. Bush

I couldn't even read the whole thing -- too sad, too predictable.

This is truly where the divide exists between the moral and conscientious Americans that are complaining about this horrible mistake George Bush has made - among his thousands - and those, including he himself, who can admit no wrong, allow no dissent, dismiss any and all criticisms. The divide was caused by blind allegiance to a failure as a human. They caused it. They will never breach it. They will never rectify what they guaranteed would occur.

They will have to live with themselves, but I don't think they will ever realize the full extent of the moral vacuum they created. Nor admit their failure. Only history will tell the full story, and then it may be too late.

It is those who questioned the war, who said "don't do it", who invoked the Pottery Barn rule, who will be cleaning this disgusting mess up for years to come -- if it can ever be cleaned up.

And yet we will still be blamed for the incompetence that killed our soldiers, for the desicsions that broke our Army, for the conditions that turned military service into a risk too great.

Republicans do one thing very well, and only one thing: blame everyone else for their failures.

George W. Bush has VACATED our moral clarity.

George W. Bush has DECIMATED our military.

George W. Bush has FAILED our best and brightest in public service.

George W. Bush has COMPROMISED each and every one of our high-minded principles.

And George W. Bush has LIED about it each and every step of the way.

9/11 didn't change everything, it didn't change all that much actually. But when someone says "the rules have changed" and they are in charge of the rules - watch your wallet.


"I came to serve honorably and feel dishonored. Death before being dishonored any more."

-- From a note found near Ted Westhusing’s body

"He could not shift his mind-set from the military notion of completing a mission irrespective of cost, nor could he change his belief that doing the right thing because it was the right thing to do should be the sole motivator for businesses."

-- Lt. Col. Lisa Breitenbach, psychologist who reviewed Westhusing's e-mails and interviewed his colleagues

Which one of those persons would you want working for you, representing us around the world? The good one killed himself, the snake lives on, will be promoted, will be praised to high Heaven by Donald Rumsfeld. That is the choice George W. Bush made. That is the betrayel of our highest ideals and our best and brightest.

Jeopardy

• He has taken the country into an unwinnable war and alienated friend and foe alike in the process;
• He is bankrupting the country with a combination of aggressive military spending and reduced taxation of the rich;
• He has deliberately and dangerously attacked separation of church and state;
• He has repeatedly "misled," to use a kind word, the American people on affairs domestic and foreign;
• He has proved to be incompetent in affairs domestic (New Orleans) and foreign (Iraq and the battle against al-Qaida);
• He has sacrificed American employment (including the toleration of pension and benefit elimination) to increase overall productivity;
• He is ignorantly hostile to science and technological progress;
• He has tolerated or ignored one of the republic's oldest problems, corporate cheating in supplying the military in wartime.

Who is the worst president ever, Alex?

Quote of the Century

Quote of the day week month year decade century millenium aw, hell, this may be the dumbest thing ever said by anyone, speaking of John Murtha:

John MCCAIN: I think he has become too emotional and

understandably so.

He goes to funerals. He goes, as many of us do, out to Walter Reed, and he sees the price of war.

And I think that that has had some effect on him.

I would hope seeing the price of war has had some effect on him. It's obviously had no effect on George Bush. It is understandable that Murtha is emotional about this: it's his country falling on its face, his military becoming decimated, his constituents getting their legs blown off that has shaken his belief in the war. (Wow, that's a loaded frickin' phrase, innit?)

How many contradictions can there be in a simple sentence? Whatever it is, McCain just topped it. Call the Guinness people! This, finally, should disqualify McCain from ever being voted to anything again, even Dog Catcher.

Cuz I love dogs too much to have this nimrod in charge of even them!