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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 1:37 AM PDT

2008/08/05 · 01:37

The Gods and Goddesses of apathy are speaking to me here in the wee fucking hours, They are making great sense.

Politics is a strange interest to have in a Democracy that celebrates individualism. You really shouldn't care a worm's ass what other people think as you pursue happiness. Eat what you want. Who cares what the restaurant reviews say. Get strength or amusement out of whatever entertainment you choose. You really shouldn't take comfort in being in synch with the masses. They loved Milli Vanilli for chrissakes. So why in a two party system where the policy interests of each party are as defined as the differences in a fast food hamburger stand and a vegetarian cafe, as well defined as the difference between a heavy metal band and a string quartet, should we give a shit about the wishy-washy assholes who take us from an Obama 4 point lead to a McCain 1 point lead?

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Wednesday June 18, 2008 · 9:30 AM PDT

2008/06/18 · 09:30

Christopher Beam put this together in Slate. His intro...

The Barack Obama presidential campaign introduced a new site last week, FightTheSmears.com, that it hopes will debunk persistent myths about the senator: that he's a Muslim, that he won't say the Pledge of Allegiance, etc. As we have argued before, restating the myths often reinforces them, no matter how persuasively they've been refuted.

Rather than restate untruths about Obama, the campaign would do better to start some rumors of its own. Here's a template e-mail the Obama campaign might consider disseminating.

I've taken his advice and began forwarding it and forwarding it and forwarding it. It is below the fold.

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Does this e-mail make you...

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Does this e-mail make you...

More likely to vote for Obama

51 votes

Less likely to vote for Obama

3 votes

Long for the days of Grover Cleveland when smears rhymed

90 votes

Obama Must Renounce And Deject Kissing Enemy Leaders

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Tuesday May 20, 2008 · 11:22 AM PDT

2008/05/20 · 11:22

McCain had to rummage through his 71 year old brain to come up with a classic early example of what Atrios calls "the stupid" in our political discourse. McCain in Miami:

"Roosevelt didn't talk with (Adolf) Hitler, Reagan didn't talk with (Soviet leader Leonid) Brezhnev or his two successors until (Mikhail) Gorbachev was ready to change his position. Reagan didn't do what Jimmy Carter did. Carter went over and kissed Brezhnev, remember?" he said.

Obama must renounce, deject kissing enemy leaders so the Democrats do not lose ground on national security issues. Republican President might hold hands with foreign leaders but it stops right there. We all remember Nixon holding off a passionate Kruschev during the famous "bedroom debate" of 1959.

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 1:52 PM PDT

2007/10/04 · 13:52

So I head out to the driveway this morning to get the news the old fashioned way. Picking up the paper in the driveway. I expect the Bush veto of the SCHIP bill will be a top story. You would think you would see a headline reflecting how Bush is going against the will of the public with the veto. That presents a problem for the "balanced" Los Angeles Times. As Stephen Colbert has said, sometimes facts have a liberal bias. So the headline for the Times top story about the veto reads...

Child Health Veto Risky To Both Parties

The story (which really didn't reflect the headline that was in the paper edition) jumped to another page. The headline there...

Bush's Veto Poses Risks To Both Parties

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Tuesday September 04, 2007 · 4:47 AM PDT

2007/09/04 · 04:47

Bush's trip to Anbar was not just a photo-op start to the September PR blitz in support of the surge. According to Fred Kagan, proud author of the surge, it was somehow akin to Lincoln at Gettysburg. Even if he has to say so himself.

The Gettysburg Of This War: The Bush Visit Could Well Mark A Key Turning Point In The War In Iraq And The War On Terror.

The wingnuts are loving it. So forget comparing this to Vietnam. It has nothing to do with a major power bogged down in the quagmire of an insurgency. It's like ~~Normandy~~. No. It's like the ~~Battle Of The Bulge~~. No. It's like fucking Gettysburg. And we can compare Bush's visit to the ~~Sermon On The Mount~~. No. We can make it seem reminiscent of the Gettysburg Address. After 4 1/2 years of "Mission Accomplished" and "The Last Throes" there is little that can be done to resell this war to the vast majority. So they are going to go completely over the top in trying to sell it.

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Anbar Is To Gettysburg As Baghdad Is To...

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Anbar Is To Gettysburg As Baghdad Is To...

Saigon

12 votes

Sodom & Gommorah

3 votes

Atlanta

3 votes

The Emerald City

16 votes

The Hotel California

22 votes

Paul Wolfowitz = Tonya Harding

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Wednesday May 16, 2007 · 5:20 AM PDT

2007/05/16 · 05:20

Tonya Harding won the award for the Most Pathetic Plea For Fairness in the 20th Century when, after being accused of hiring a thug to break the leg of her rival Nancy Kerrigan, she begged for fairness from judges after a lace broke during an olympic skating competition (Youtube link of grand moment of hypocrisy). It looks like Paul Wolfowitz, who played a major role in lying us into a disastrous war and who used his power to get his girlfriend (and others - see after the fold) cushy jobs at the World Bank, is looking for fairness and mercy from the World Bank board, putting an early claim in for the 21st Century Award for the Most Pathetic Plea For Fairness.

Paul Wolfowitz made an emotional appeal to stay on as World Bank president in a last pitch before the bank's board decides whether he has the credibility to lead the poverty-fighting institution.

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Sunday May 06, 2007 · 1:35 PM PDT

2007/05/06 · 13:35

Lucille Bluth: I'll be in the hospital bar.
Michael Bluth: Uhh, you know, there isn't a hospital bar, mother.
Lucille Bluth: Well, this is why people hate hospitals.
- Arrested Development

A tenant of the conservative approach to health care is that the insured tend to overuse medical services, driving up medical costs. Always struck me as a talking point that really doesn't hold up under the examination of common experience. Who are these people that love doctor and hospital visits? Via Ian Welsh at The Agonist, Wageworks has a study that has this interesting finding.

The survey found that more and more insured Americans are behaving just like the uninsured and simply ignoring their health needs as a way of coping with rising health care costs.

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Wednesday April 25, 2007 · 2:21 AM PDT

2007/04/25 · 02:21

After the testimony of Kevin Tillman and Jessica Lynch yesterday, the public will not have a hard time believing that the Iraq civilian death toll is being manipulated for political reasons.

UN Raps Iraq For Holding Back Death Toll Figures

The United Nations rebuked Iraq's government on Wednesday for refusing to disclose politically sensitive civilian casualty figures in what it described as a "rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis".

We are suppose to believe that even though US military deaths are rising and car bomb attacks are rising, somehow simultaneously we are seeing a reduction in civilian deaths in Baghdad. The UN reported a continued high level of attacks on academics, making the reduction in civilian Baghdad deaths seem like quite the anomaly.

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Wednesday April 11, 2007 · 5:37 AM PDT

2007/04/11 · 05:37

Issue is the lack of al-Maliki support for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
From the AP.

Iraqi Cabinet ministers allied to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened Wednesday to quit the government to protest the prime minister's lack of support for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal, according to a statement.

Such a pullout by the very bloc that put Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in office could collapse his already perilously weak government. The threat comes two months into a U.S. effort to pacify Baghdad in order to give al-Maliki's government room to function.

Al-Sadr's political committee issued the statement a day after al-Maliki rejected an immediate U.S. troop withdrawal.

"We see no need for a withdrawal timetable. We are working as fast as we can," al-Maliki told reporters during his four-day trip to Japan, where he signed loan agreements for redevelopment projects in Iraq.

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Monday January 29, 2007 · 12:39 AM PST

2007/01/29 · 00:39

TPM has a great post about the secrecy of the the Office Of Vice President. He cites a Laura Rosen piece in the Washington Monthly that mentions the secrecy of the OVP regarding employees. Public servants all.

Laura Rozen has a piece in the current Washington Monthly titled "Cheney's Dead-Enders" that is worth a read. But I wanted to hone in on this parenthetical:

(When I inquired about a staffer’s rumored move to the Veep’s office, a Cheney press officer answered sweetly, "If we have a personnel announcement we’d like you to know about, we’ll tell you.")

This is not the first time I've seen a reporter denied information about who even works in the Office of the Vice President

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Is Cheney's Belief In Executive Secrecy Justified?

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Is Cheney's Belief In Executive Secrecy Justified?

Yes. If you knew the details about Superman's Fortress Of Solitude, It would be like kryptonite to him.

15 votes

No. Transparency for the joy of it. What the hell? It is a Democracy.

91 votes

Would You Believe Iranians Arrested Are Linked To Revolutionary Guard?

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Sunday January 14, 2007 · 2:25 AM PST

2007/01/14 · 02:25

According to the trustworthy US Military

"Preliminary results revealed the five detainees are connected to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard - Qods Force (IRGC-QF), an organization known for providing funds, weapons, improvised explosive device technology and training to extremist groups attempting to destabilize the Government of Iraq and attack Coalition forces," the U.S. military said in a statement.

No evidence produced, but just in time to have Sunday talk show hosts solicit bipartisan support for our next miltary misadventure in Iran.

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Wednesday December 06, 2006 · 4:38 AM PST

2006/12/06 · 04:38

Maybe I missed this in the exit polls from the November election. Did the voters want Democrats to do this:
From Newsweek, ‘We Can’t Afford to Leave’

In a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a stepped up effort to "dismantle the militias."

This does not seem particularly helpful to have Reyes line up with the McCain-Leiberman forces as Democrats try to pressure Bush to change his policy. His position here (especially after being billed as someone who was against the War from the start) is definitely from the department of WTF?.

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