Will the next President bring in the head of Osama?
"Wanted Dead or Alive" said former president George W Bush once upon a time.Now we face the reality TV series where Osama's son, and his elder British wife camel-trek across North Africa in search of a...
View ArticleHow Democrats fail on foreign policy.
What was the Kerry phrase, "the most inept, the most ..... " . The list of possible adjectives was endless. Arrogant, incompetent, counter-productive....And wasn't John Kerry right?And since the 2004...
View ArticleOlbermann, Obama, Clinton, and some truths.
I have absorbed this amazing week, from the SOTU, to the Reagan library, to the Kodak moment and viewed an overdose worth of analysis and spin. Tonight's episodes of Bill Maher and Keith Olberman are...
View ArticleObama and The Urgent Necessity: A national popular mandate. Part 1 of 4....
The American Republic is, by design, capable of producing greater good for its citizens. Combined with its wealth, resources and and level of education it is capable of maintaining a position of world...
View ArticleAnd IF Hillary wins...and Treats John McCain..
And so Hillary's kitchen sink policy works, the idealistic gloss of the Obama bid worn thin by engaging in the day to day knife fight with Mark Penn, marginally modern white voters driven into corners...
View ArticleJ'accuse... all Vichy Democrats of complicity in all of it.
After I wrote an impassioned but historically defensible comment in a diary earlier, in which I posited that it takes a "good German" 1941 style to have a problem with Reverend Wright's remarks, that...
View ArticleThe Necessity of Truth Comes Home to Roost.
Disclaimer: This diary will posit no alternative explanation for the events of September 11, 2001. It does recognize the recent work of the NY Times reporter and his book on the 9/11 commission. This...
View ArticleThe Wright Story is Over. Now.
Diaries concerning Reverend Wright's sermons and how to interpret them, how much tape before or after the "damaging words" to view and the like continue to appear. Diaries concerning how much we can...
View ArticleWas Obama not describing "Lou Dobbs Democrats"?
Barrack's comments in the San Francisco soundbite are not his golden moment in political analysis. Sentences that don't know exactly where they are going are regular fare of discourse. The listener...
View ArticleDebate: ABC News Graphics Dept. I Saw What You Did!
The setting, camera angles and visual imagery built into tonights debate were an astonishingly blantant use of ABC-Disney's entertainment-artistic expertise. Art critics and professors could...
View ArticleObama, Bush, Media and the Question of Patriotism and Fairness
The dominant trends in "journalism" in the mainstream corporate media have, over the last eight years, logically produced one of these 3 things:re-inforced but not changed the best and worst of...
View ArticleStewart and Colbert: Seriously. America's Real TV News
Perhaps cynics, humorists and misguided youths of 2003 might have suggested that Comedy Central was hosting the most truthful news program even if disguised as a satire/comedy show. By 2004 there was...
View ArticleHow George W Bush Sanctioned Iranian Attacks on USA
Consider the theory of "pre-emptive attack" on a real threat mounting against your nation-state. America has converted this theory to policy for no real purpose and to poor effect in the invasion...
View ArticlePrice of Octane Collapses as Gas Prices Soar?
Ok, I am a liberal arts and humanities kind of guy. Mathematics of an order higher than arithmetic can trigger feelings of anxiety and inadequacy.However even my limited faculties have detected a 50%...
View ArticleDeaths Not Marked on TV Today
There were 5 military deaths reported in Iraq from last week.Members of their team will note their passing. Their team is not a network news team. Their loss will be felt away from the cameras and...
View ArticleApocalyptic Capitalism gets Cheery Fox Reception!
Once in a while one is privileged to catch for a micromoment, an epiphanous glimpse of stark ugly reality. The kinds of things that pass for normal and go unnoticed until you realize your moral...
View ArticleThe Incredible Lightness of Audacity.. 16 Month Withdrawal
People with solemn faces..like Brit Hume or Lou Dobbs or even David Gergen might give you that solemn look, one eyebrow slightly raised ..to suggest that Barack Obama might be just a bit "one bridge...
View ArticleBush Conspiracy Theory Diary Gets Rec'ed Up on Dkos!!??!!
As Friday August 15 dissolves into Saturday August 16th, you will note a ground breaking change of policy at Daily Kos. It is a startling reversal of policy. One is reminded of observing "glasnost"...
View ArticleGOP Meme... We're Shocked that it's this close!!!
How many guest commenters on Cable News programs trotted out this new talking point yesterday?To paraphrase; " In fact, we are quite delighted that the presidential race is as close as it is. We come...
View ArticleLet Palin Stories Rest.. the Country Gets It!
Reckless? Dangerous? You Bet!Dick Cheney is visiting Georgia and Ukraine to firm up their resistance to Russia. Unprecedented numbers of NATO ships are sailing around the Black Sea.Does this have...
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