Hillary's Hacktacularness

It took me a while to confirm what I heard on the Ed Schultz Show, but Sunday's Washington Post reports:

Clinton does not support cutting funding for American troops, but does favor that step for Iraqi forces if the Baghdad government fails to meet certain conditions.

Ed was unimpressed, and I have to agree.

This really seems like candy-coated tuna, specifically designed to be tasty as long you don't lick it more than once -- or try to find out what smells so fishy.

Yep, Hillary, I'm glad you are able to think through the full consequences of an issue as important as war and peace.  Great idea, fabulous.  We defund the Maliki government if they don't get the militias, insurgents, foreign fighters and terrorists under control, right?  So, once the Iraqi security forces are proven not to be any more competent than they've been to date, we cut their ability to even make the attempt.

Great plan.  No, really.  You've wrapped up the support of every semi-literate voter who lacks the strategic sense to win a game of tick-tack-toe.

Can I ask a question, Madame Frontrunner?  Just how does this help stabilize the country, let alone allow us to bring one soldier home?  In fairness, it does have the benefit of being original.  It's brilliantly stupid.  Different, but still stupid.

How about this Hillary?  Bite the bullet that every rational actor who voted the wrong way on the war (notable exception, "Zell" Lieberman) and come out fully in favor of getting our troops out of this civil war and double, hell triple our funding to the Iraqi government.

Let them hire the 100.000 mercenaries that are the second largest military force in the country behind the U.S.A.  Let Haliburton and BP pay for it instead of us.  When you really get down to it, the tax breaks and royalty waivers the GOP has granted the Exxon is chump change compared to the subsidies we've paid them by fighting a war on behalf of Wall Street and the Sheiks of the Gulf.

Gawd, this is the most bone-headed, pandering B.S. I've heard outside of a Fox News studio.  It actually makes John McCain look like a military genius and Dick Cheney sound credible.

Please keep making jokes about your husband being a jerk to you.  Leave the real policy suggestions to serious leaders and stick to hackery, triangulation, and pandering to low-information voters.  Just don't forget to hire every single one of your rivals for the Democratic nomination and put them in your cabinet when this sad Madison Avenue strategery wins.  Yes, including Kucinich (please), because every single one of them can articulate what the consequences of their decisions will be beyond simply saying what they think everyone wants to hear.

Shame

I've evolved in my reaction to cases like Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen the U.S. Government abducted and sent to Syria to be tortured -- a man completely innocent of any crimes or terrorist connections whatsoever and to whom the Canadian (but not the U.S.) government just offered an apology.

I've gone through anger and outrage at my government's behavior.  I now am consumed by shame for the things done in my name, the atrocities alleged to be committed to protect me, the crimes for which we all share a degree of guilt.

... Canadian report specifically recommended that the Canadian Goverment "review their policies governing the circumstances in which they supply information to foreign governments with questionable human rights records," and specifically urged that "information should never be provided to a foreign country where there is a credible risk that it will cause or contribute to the use of torture."

One of the most infuriating apsects of the Bush presidency and all of the complicity that has enabled it is that a rational person with pride in the history and values of the U.S. no longer has any basis for objecting to characterizaions like this of our country.  Those descriptions aren't the by-product of some sort of reflexive anti-American sentiment or overwrought internationalist righteousness.  They are just undeniably and objectively true characterizations of what our government has done. And it is infuriating to have to accept that.

This evil cabal which has taken over the United States' government has destroyed my country in an effort to create an empire.  There used to be something noble about how Americans honored individual liberty and treated all with dignity, tolerance and respect.

Those ideals, those singularly American values are a thing of the past, a naive fairy tale we tell our children as was told to us.  We are no longer a "country of laws, not men."  From the moment that the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore without even an acknowledgment of the existence of "precedent, consistency, rules of construction, political question doctrine, etc.," we headed down the oil-slicked slope towards being ruled by an undemocratic, power-mad freak.

With all my heart, I look forward to the day when this shameful black stain on our reputation is cleansed, that these usurpers will be banished from the halls of power.  My greatest fear is that their illegitimate arguments will somehow live on; that when the dust settles they will renew their efforts and again, like they regrouped after Watergate and again after Iran-Contra, and will buy our government from another unsuspecting and distracted public.

Unfortunately, as long as they possess the power of the pardon, as long as they remain free -- and use their freedom as some kind of "proof" that they have a legitimate place in deciding public policy -- we will have to renew with each generation the true meaning of a free society.

ADDENDUM:
Let me second the sentiments of The Left Coaster and apologise to our good friends and allies to the North.

Canada, to all of you, I'm sorry for the shameful way my government has behaved.

So Dumb, It Has To Work

This "plan" kill two birds. The wingnuts will be happy with it because we'll stop seeing the daily doom-n-gloom of a hundred funerals a day -- because the media will stop reporting all the "bad news" from Iraq.

The media will have no choice, because the other "bird" in the plan is to evacuate all American personnel from the country.

You see, the media is only hammering us with the daily death toll because American troops are in harms way. They'll stop if there are no more U.S. targets to worry about. Mmm, Kay?

Besides guys, you've got other problems, and other enemies you can be terrified of.

Allahpundit:  Is Hillary the best we can hope for among the Democratic nominees? Obama talks bipartisanship but votes a deep, rich blue. Edwards is running on a platform of class warfare. Of Gore let us say no more. Who’s left? Unless Mark Warner jumps in and figures out a way to beat all of them by running to their right, Hillary’s probably the most “conservative” (i.e., nominally hawkish) candidate in the pack. Terrifying.

Mind you, leaving does absolutely nothing to affect the violence in Iraq, but we'll be gone -- which makes the dirty, leftist hippies happy. (We'll try to keep our glee down to a dull roar as we try to care for our wounded service people the Bush Administration just abandoned.)

Defense Department officials have laid off most of their case workers who help severely injured service members, sources said.

The case workers for the Military Severely Injured Center serve as advocates for wounded service members who have questions or issues related to benefits, financial resources and their successful return to duty or reintegration into civilian life — all forms of support other than medical care.

Yes, I know this program has been designated as redundant, that the Wounded Warrior Project covers a lot of what the MSIC does did.  I have my doubts...

“They did a fabulous job for these families,” Buckley said. “The kind of work they do for these families who are hanging by a thread ... no other organization helped service members and their families like they did.”

The MSIC case workers provided the wounded service members with contacts and referrals to other organizations and agencies, ranging from the Department of Veterans Affairs to the Social Security Administration, depending on their individual needs. Operation Homefront often helps with the families’ emergency financial needs.

This is a far cry from what Wounded Warriors do -- which "provides hundreds of veterans who have lost limbs or their eyesight in Iraq and Afghanistan a chance to rebuild their lives through sports."

Yeah, sports.  Sports?  Cutting through red tape and providing cash to save the homestead just can't compare to learning how to ski with that prosthetic leg, can it?

I kinda "get it."  It's very much in keeping with the anti-welfare mentality that is worshiped by conservatives everywhere.  Wounded Warriors stresses rehab and retraining -- which is awesome!  There just is no room for social workers and hand-outs to the needy in their philosophy.  Even when the one in need has made the greatest possible sacrifice for this nation.

Feh!

Tell you what Wingnuttystan, I gotta deal for you guys.  Let us pull out of Iraq with no crap about anybody being cowards or surrendering, and you'll stop hearing about all the "bad news" from Iraq.

The only reason you keep hearing about it so much that your ears start bleeding before finishing your morning paper is because there are so many Americans in harms way there.  See?  If they're gone, so are all those nasty subversives with cameras and word-processors.

I know it's kinda ostrich like, but the American media doesn't care about death and destruction unless Americans are involved.  As Exhibit "A" I cite Powerline's bitching about the lack of Darfur coverage.

It's not like our presence or absence will affect the killing.  We just won't hear so much about it.  The wingnuts won't be awash in their own hypocrisy anymore, their cognitive dissonance will dissipate and their guilt will be abated.

Of course, 30 years from now, our insistence on an evacuation will be blamed for the entire mess, for our malaise and lack of will, etc., yadda, yadda.  But by then we should all be burning "switchgrass" to heat our homes and run our hybrids and won't care who is sitting on the empty oil-wells in the Middle East.

(H.T. Randi Rhodes)

Untwist Yer Knickers

Al ain't out and Hillary ain't pissed, despite what otherwise sober voices think.

My advice, consistent with the five basic principles of the Progressive Netroots, is not to play Hillary's game. Don't be defensive and apologetic, insisting that no offense was intended, but ask rather what size shoe the former First Lady wears, because her lack of an affirmative, absolute rejection of the escalation of the war seems like a perfect fit to John Edwards' call to stop the madness.

Any apologetic response, a "hey, I didn't mean you personally," defense, will come off weak and mitigate the importance of Edward's message.


The play the Royal Family watches is called, The Mouse Trap...

HAMLET
Madam, how like you this play?

QUEEN GERTRUDE
The lady protests too much, methinks.

HAMLET
O, but she'll keep her word. (Act III, Scene 2)

Will she now? Shakespeare's Sister agrees.

Actually, instead of the Danish Monarchy, "Me" thinks that Hillary is actually channeling another woman of wealth and power penned by the Bard. Much like the Lady MacBeth, her demons haunt her subconscious, that damned blemish on her record -- her vote on the war -- that filthy spot...

LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot! out, I say!

That's of course the one liner -- the quote we all know by heart from Act V, Scene I. But the lady dost go on with her unconscious lament...

LADY MACBETH
Here's the smell of the blood still: all the
perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
hand. Oh, oh, oh!

Sorry your Ladyship (or as I like to refer to the Junior Senator from New York, Ms. Moneybags), no amount of perfume, especially when mixed with the stench of oil and blood eminating from the Middle Eastern Catastrophuck, will clean your dirty hands.

Her continued indefensible defense of her Lieberesque stance up until, oh . . . about ten minutes after she focus-group tested the reaction to John Edwards' unambiguous anti-war position, spotlighted her lack of courage or convictions -- let alone the ability to speak them.

Much like the Player-King in Hamlet's play-within-a-play, she's set an attractive Mouse Trap. She takes faux-umbridge with an imagined personal affront by Edwards, through surrogates (in the continued attempt to keep those hands clean), and attempts to re-frame the very character and reputation of the non-offender.

HuffPost: To celebrate Reverend Martin Luther King this week, John Edwards delivered a stern anti-war speech a Harlem's Riverside Church, where King famously spoke out against the Vietnam war. Edwards cited Rev King's anti-war legacy, clasped hands with his son, Martin Luther King III, and called on Congress to sto funding the war

"If you're in Congress and you know this war is going in the wrong direction, it is no longer enough to study your options and keep your own counsel. Silence is betrayal. Speak out, and stop this escalation now," said Edwards.

Was that a shot at Hillary Clinton?

Her advisers sure thought so. Howard Wolfson replied with this complaint: "In 2004, John Edwards used to constantly brag about running a positive campaign. Today, he has unfortunately chosen to open his campaign with political attacks on Democrats who are fighting the Bush administration's Iraq policy."

Is Hillary really so egotistical to believe that out of 535 legislators, in front of 1,200 spectators, sitting next to MLK, III, standing at the same pulpit and invoking the memory of the Reverand King when he called upon us to rise up and protests another meaningless war 40 years ago -- that she thought John Edwards was speaking to her personally?

Certainly her self-perception qualifies her to be president. Her ego rivals "W's."

Two questions unravel the absurdity of Wolfson's comment. Didn't a boat-load of Republicans vote for the war, and have failed to recant? And... Just how, pray-tell, has Hillary been "fighting the Bush Adminstration's Iraq policy?" She still won't just come out and say it.

I messed up. I trusted them.

Is that really so hard?

No Madame Senator, you not only own your vote, you own the fact that you never, ever, not even once considered admitting that you were wrong. Silence IS Betrayal, and Hillary's silence is deafening.

JRE Echos MLK, Tomorrow Is Today

The General directs us to remember the wisdom of MLK. I believe that there is no coincidence that the theme, the three-word slogan that launched John Edwards' candidacy for president last month can be found in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech at Manhattan's Riverside Church.

TOMORROW BEGINS TODAY

MLK, 1967:

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The "tide in the affairs of men" does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out deperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on..." We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world -- a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter -- but beautiful -- struggle for a new world. This is the callling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message, of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.

John Edwards, recalling MLK's message of resistence to war:
2007:

As he put it then, there comes a time when silence is a betrayal -- not only of one's personal convictions, or even of one's country alone, but also of our deeper obligations to one another and to the brotherhood of man.

That's the thing I find the most important about the sermon Dr. King delivered here that day. He did not direct his demands to the government of the United States, which was escalating the war. He issued a direct appeal to the people of the United States, calling on us to break our own silence, and to take responsibility for bringing about what he called a revolution of values.

A revolution whose starting point is personal responsibility, of course, but whose animating force is the belief that we cannot stand idly by and wait for others to right the wrongs of the world.

And this, in my view, is at the heart of what we should remember and celebrate on this day. This is the dream we must commit ourselves to realizing.

Dr. King's powerful theme that day forty years ago, exactly one year before he was assasinated, was that Silence is Betrayal. He taught us not only how to protest, effectively, peacefully, and inspired us not to hesitate, but to act now -- that now matters. He also taught us why we must take a stand:

It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken -- the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Too Young To Know Better

So lemme get this straight. The loss of 50,000 US soldiers, the specter of the looming draft threatening to force us to join fighting we didn't understand nor believe in, a bigger threat of nuclear war ever-present whether we went to war or not. That is the emotional background of us aging hippies whose formative years were scarred by Watergate and Vietnam -- disillusioning us about what our government is as opposed to what we were told it stood for.

Our smug opposition, movement conservatives now in their 30s or early 40s, don't look back at the Cold War struggles and wars in South East Asia as our definitive foreign policy challenges. They don't recall anything about how Johnson and Nixon deceived us and divided us.

No. They came of age remembering Carter and the Iranian hostages. They don't mind the war or understand our visceral opposition to Bush because they know nothing of wasting lives in senseless wars -- as long as America doesn't get embarrassed again. As long as nobody can get the idea that we're weak, they care less who dies for what -- as long as it's not them.

Maha has more along this line of thought:

Because they’re too young to remember When Things Were Different, they don’t recognize that the way mass media has handled politics for the past thirty or so years is abnormal. What passes for our national political discourse — as presented on radio, television, and much print media — is scripted in right-wing think tanks and media paid for by the likes of Joseph Coors, Richard Mellon Scaife, and more recently by Sun Myung Moon. What looks like “debate” is just puppet theater, presented to manipulate public opinion in favor of the Right.

It's Friday

Go have some fun!

Give a republican a wedgie.

If You Only Had One Question

to ask the White House Press Secretary, would you waste it by lobbing a softball like this?

Why, are you allowing the U.S. press and the international press downplay all the good things that have happened in Iraq?

Rosemary Esmay

(Full audio here. Rose is the last questioner at 42 minutes in.)

Rose, since you were at the end of the questioners, you might have been at a loss for a fresh questions, and you were between diapers. I wish I had got this article by the very conservative Max Boot to you before you embarassed yourself.

The media aren't the enemy in Iraq
Blaming the press for the problems in Iraq deflects the blame from where it belongs.

IF WE WIND UP losing the war in Iraq, as now appears likely (though not inevitable), many conservatives know who to blame: the press, or, in blogger-speak, the MSM (mainstream news media). Just as it did during the Vietnam War, a myth is likely to develop in which America's valiant fighting men and women were stabbed in the back by unpatriotic, even treasonous, reporters.

[snip]

Whatever the shortcomings of some reporting, there has been a lot of first-rate coverage by a heroic corps of correspondents that has persevered in the face of terrible danger. (At least 109 journalists have been killed and many others wounded or kidnapped, making this the deadliest conflict on record for the Fourth Estate.) I am thinking of reporters such as John Burns, Dexter Filkins and Michael Gordon of the New York Times; Greg Jaffe and Michael Philips of the Wall Street Journal; Tom Ricks of the Washington Post; Tony Perry of the Los Angeles Times and former Times reporter John Daniszewski; Sean Naylor of Army Times; Bing West and Robert Kaplan of the Atlantic Monthly; and George Packer of the New Yorker. They've risked their necks to get the truth — and not, as Rumsfeld suggested, by flying over Iraq.

If you wanted to figure out what was happening over the last four years, you would have been infinitely better off paying attention to their writing than to what the president or his top generals were saying. If we fail to achieve our goals in Iraq — which the administration defines as a "unified, stable, democratic and secure nation" — it won't be the fault of the ink-stained wretches or even their blow-dried TV counterparts. To argue otherwise deflects blame from those who deserve it, in the upper echelons of the administration and the armed forces. Perhaps that's the point.

Nice softball Rose. I shouldn't have expected better.

And don't forget, Weekly Standard contributor Max Boot is no lib and has supported the administration from the get-go, a real neo-con's neo con.

Bottom line Rose my dear, is that there's not one damn thing Tony or the White House can to stop the international press, US press, or anyone else, from "downplaying all the good things happening in Iraq." They are writing, reporting, and opining what they see, hear and think.

Nothing, NOT. ONE. THING. can mitigate the daily carnage except the end of the carnage. I don't know what it will take for you to understand that. The Administration loves to pound security here, that it trumps everything here, and yet you want to try and gloss over the complete absence of security there with stories of new schools being built? A new hospital wing dedication? (It better be a Shi'ite hospital because the Sunni ones don't get any supplies from the Shi'ite run Ministry of Health and the others are run by the Mehdi Army Militia.)

You're side is completely unserious about this world, and don't even know it. Five years after the 9/11 commission, and it took the dems to pass the Anti-Terrorism bill.

What Snow could to, what he can control and is ultimately responsible for, is the series of Snow jobs, delusional fantasies, and non-credible official statements that they've issued as official statements of the administration.

No, instead of asking why their credibility is so low, you give him yet another way to blame the living hell we created on anyone else but the Decider.

Nice. You should get a medal.

Tuck This One Away

Depending on how the GOP field shakes out, this description of Governor Mitt Romney's various stances on abortion could come in handy.

He had moved back and forth on the choice issue. I said he isn't pro-choice or anti-choice. He's multiple choice. ~~Ted Kennedy

What a nasty thing to say about a Mormon.

How Democrats Should React To The Denial Of Habeas Corpus

"That's Bullshit!"

John Edwards, never afraid to speak his mind, or truth to power.

Speaking Douple-Plus, In? Out? Up? Down?

It's official, the administration is completely out of cute ways to imitate Orwellian Double-speak, and are now just outright plagiarizing the master -- without even the attempt at subtle subterfuge.

From today's PressSpeak:

Q Let me follow up on David's question, then, I think -- and that is this is the number one problem, according to your commanders -- sectarian violence. So does the President want -- does the President feel that's a main mission of the U.S. troops now, to --

MR. SNOW: Well, as I said, I understand that, but to answer that then gets people on the train of, does this mean you're going to plus up, you're going to plus down, you're going to move in, you're going to move out --

Q I don't mean plus in, plus down.

MR. SNOW: -- and I'm not going to get into any of these --

(Hat Tip: KOS Diarist, Walt Starr: We won't surge, we're gonna "Double Plus Up")

Pelosi '07?

Here's your sign:



(Hat Tip: Cindy)

Hillary's Friends Playing Dirty Tricks

In the sphere of juvenile internet tricks, this one ranks near the bottom. It's silly, transparent, and of course . . . THIS MEANS WAR!

Huff Post: Click On edwards08.com And You Go To hillaryclinton.com...

John Edwards' '08 website is johnedwards.com. But the campaign didn't buy edwards08.com. Hillary Clinton did. Click on edwards08.com and you end with Hillary Clinton.

Ok folks, we need a mature, non-whiney, appropriate response to this outrage. Might I humbly suggest we sign her up for free samples of male enhancement products, or a subscription to FHM?

UPDATE: They changed it to re-direct you to the Democratic Party.

I guess she couldn't take the heat.....she never was good in the kitchen. Her cookie recipe blew.
(HT: Joe4Gov at Digg.) and LisaRenee at AOG.)

Maybe I should send her some flowers, or a nice fruit basket....or some anti-aging cream.

Well Blow Me Down

I used to think that the wind blowing on Lake Erie was only good for sailing and making that notorious lake-effect snow in Cleveland and Buffalo.

BruceMcF explains how wrong I was, and why we in Ohio and the other Great Lake States are lucky not only live next to the greatest source of fresh water in the world, but also one of the most accessible clean energy resources one can imagine.

Just take a look, and tell me it doesn't make you think about John Edwards' "Apollo Program for Energy Independence" in a whole new light -- that there are amazing possibilities -- and those possibilities will change the world.

As soon as we take the country back from the corporatists, neo-cons and big-oil men.

Choosing Your Asscheek

A war of choice cannot rest on one asscheek alone. ~~ Atrios

Here's my dilemma. Is the inestimable Digby right? Must we get/stay ugly, mad, and fight the Republicans with every ounce of our being -- and play as dirty as them?

I realize it is churlish of us liberals to attempt to defend ourselves from this kind of bad faith and even worse for us to lose our Gary Cooper cool. But, you know, when you push people far enough and hard enough they start to fight for their survival. The level of vitriol and hate emanating from the right --- and encouraged by Republicans leaders of all stripes --- has been overwhelming. These past twelve years alone have been characterized by smears, toxic rhetoric, impeachments, abuse of power, stolen elections, power mad governance, corruption and ineptitude. So yes, we're angry --- but more importantly, we are fearful for our country.

Until Republicans admit what they have wrought and recognize that their trash talking and boot-to-the-throat mode of fetid politics are responsible for our state today, then for the good of the country, I hope the left remains angry and battles them back with everything they've got.

Or do we listen to our inner Gary Cooper, wearing a Duncan Black Hat, taking aim at wanker de jure, Dean Barnett, at Hugh Hewitt's?

[Barnett's] Conclusion: We Need to Bomb the Everliving Shit out of These Ungrateful Little Ill-Mannered Foreign Peckerheads.

No, he really says that. The only answer, as it has always been, is to stamp out that ferocious, pitiless savagery ferociously and savagely, without pity.

At the end of this war, Iraq must necessarily be composed of people who always wanted to live in peace and the one-time enemies of peace who have come to realize they have no other choice but to live in peace. How much killing will this take? That will depend on how many enemies of peace there are and how determined they are to live in a state of war.

Though he does add, 'One thing's for certain - the more resolute we are, the less killing there will be.' Indeed. The more people we kill, the fewer people we will, uh, have to kill.

The reason this whole Iraqi adventure was always doomed was precisely this inability to decide if we were out for retribution or justice, revenge or charity, occupation or liberation. A war of choice cannot rest on one asscheek alone.

Is wrong simply wrong? Reading Atrios' critique of the wingnut tactics which got us into the Iraq mess tends to support the idea that such bahavior is exactly the opposite of what we are, what we believe. Fighting barbarism with barbarism is anathama to civilized behavior.

This is what the GOP warmongers have reduced us to, our basest animal instincts, fighting them here, so we don't have to send our children to fight for them over there.

John Edwards 'Round the 'Sphere

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And for laughs, learn from your superiors. To confront the groundswell of support they see coming Edwards' way, especially since he's gained such acclaim for coining the term McCain Doctrine in a fabulous framing of the administration's surge/push/escalation of more troops into the shooting gallery in Iraq, the intellectual giants at Powerline are deferring to their readership to explain why its us, and not them, that are deluded twits (despite all that book-learnin') and us Edwards supporters are victims of an anti-American, communist conspiracy.

Hillary also displays her keen political instincts...duh.

Virginia Is For Lovers

Class