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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3105693">Can we stop with the Kennedy love please?  His most notable foreign policy moves were a failed invasion, nearly starting WW3 and helping to keep Vietnam going until LBJ could really screw it up.  He was about as good as Bush abroad.  He also told the Germans he was a jelly donut, but I can let that slide.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4060464">fine - I\'ll stick myself out there then - they didn\'t mean well, THEY MEANT HARM!  THEY CAUSED HARM!  THEY ALLOWED HARM!<br />');
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document.write('They weren\'t just indifferent they purposely set out to cause strife, division, hate and harm AND they were never coy about it.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_2825162">It\'s pretty clear that Bush and some of the GOP in Congress support the immigration bill to provide cheap labor for big business, undermining wages and hurting unions... all Republicans would be for it if the base wasn\'t so against it...<br />');
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document.write('TheDoomed- the post doesn\'t even mention Kennedy.  With Ford at the top of the list, it\'s possible your complaints have been factored into the rankings. </div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4016527">Amen bro\'. The problem is that in this country, a lot of white, comfortable suburbanites associate the common good with programs for minorities, especially African Americans. It is fairly easy to appeal to their egoism and say: "hey, don\'t feel guilty about your privileges. Every man for himself."<br />');
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document.write('As former U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."<br />');
document.write('President Kennedy wisley resisted the hawkish military chiefs from second-guessing him into WWIII; he knew any U.S. attack on Cuba would goad the Soviets into taking Berlin--thereby trigging general nuclear war.<br />');
document.write('Good for the U.S. military, too, because Khrushchev had designated command authority of battlefield nuclear weapons ("frogs") to local commanders on the ground in Cuba to repel an American invasion. Kind of an ugly scenario to picture all those soldiers, sailors, and marines (not to mention millions of Americans in major cities) fried in a nuclear exchange.<br />');
document.write('Yes, the Bay of Pigs was a serious miscalculation--one that haunted JFK and was the impetus for more serious misdeeds (ever heard of Operation Mongoose?).<br />');
document.write('To say JFK "was about as good as Bush abroad" is not only inconsistent with the facts--it is irresponsible and wholly ignorant.</div>');
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document.write('What you may not know is that in the rural hinterlands the only news, ONLY NEWS, from radio, TV, newspapers is RIGHT-WING or RELIGIOUS news. Nothing else. In the urban areas, we have a few slivers of truth from Air America, or Ed Schultz, or Stephanie Miller, and some progressive newspapers, but not the main-stream ones. Conservative/religious news, in all of America, crushes progressive news 9 to 1, NINE TO ONE, in most markets. They have stolen our public airwaves, is what they have done.  It\'s criminal and scandalous.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_2616390">For all their well-justified outrage at the evil done by people in power, my fellow progressives by and large share a big blind spot. They just can\'t bring themselves to believe that everybody isn\'t, somewhere deep down inside, decent and well-meaning, just like them. <br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4067720">I heard a journalist once say that Dick Cheney\'s only reason for returning to politics (after Ford and Halliburton) was so he could fuckover all his enemies (i.e. everyone who disagrees with him).<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4075360">Give Bush credit. Even with a Democratic congress he still gets mostly what he wants. When Clinton had a 65% approval rating he never even bothered to fight for anything liberal [we got welfare reform, and escalation of the Drug War, and numerous pro business policies which favor the rich and screw the poor such as no minimum wage increase; Even Regan at the height of his popularity could only dream about these accomplishments]. It doesn\'t matter how low his approval rating is Bush will get what he wants. Did Bush lose any power in Washington due to the complete destruction of an American city {new orleans]? No one even talks about it anymore. Despite a White House scandal of week he still gets away with whatever the administration no matter what his approval rating is. When the judicial system lays the smackdown or when congress passes a law he doesn\'t like the administration just ignores it. All the scandals eventually go away. Come Sept. he\'ll get more funding for Iraq too. Plus becasue the Dems secretly want the war to proceed because the Bob Shurms of the world think its the best way to win the Presidency. </div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_9291869">Democrats want to win the presidency? I can\'t see how they\'ve wanted it since 2000, and they sure aren\'t doing much to convince anyone they want it in 2008 either.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3844351">this is the most corrupt bunch of crooks and liers and anti-American politicans in Our history. i\'m dumbfounded that all but the wealthy can\'t see these criminals for what they are. i\'m affraid even the Democrats have sold us out or fear for thier lives if they don\'t toe the mark. i\'m also affraid the Democrats may be in trouble in 08 and if WE The People don\'t get rid of the rest of the rethugs we will lose Our Country to coroperate America, if it\'s not too late already? every one of them (DEMO-repug) who votes for this Amnesty should be voted out of office. we as a Country are broke and in so much debt we can\'t afford another fifty million people, counting the dependents right now. unless we change things now, being a Proud American will lose it\'s meaning.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4057977">Why do people talk of the Democratic and Republican parties as two seperate entities? I would like to know. Whether it is Republican Corporate Elites or Democratic Social Elites, they are one party.<br />');
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document.write('Does Bush mean well? Yes, he does. But not for the common American Citizen. Bush does not understand what it means to be poor. He grew up with a silver-spoon in his mouth. Graduated college because of who is father is. Did not take the red Studabaker to Texas, but was flown there on a private jet. Failed at everything in his life he has ever done, but was rescued by money and friends. He owes his rich puppet-masters. He is repaying them.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_9291045">right!  You\'ve got the American political tiger in your sights!</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4087058">As the infrastructure of the U.S. comes apart, the country is trillions of dollars in the red.  Corporate America is getting richer, paying less taxes.  The Federal govt. has less inspectors to watch the corporations, the rules get changed so no one has to watch them.  Deregulate was the watch word in the 80s and 90s, business will watch over themselves.  (And import inferior poisonous products from China)The key to this administration is money, take it from the poor and elderly and give it to the rich and richer.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3867339">well put. this is something that has been apparent since this bunch of goons took power. they did achieve what they intended---it just had nothing to do with the good of the country and the rest of the world. it\'s not even about comparison with other administrations. the u.s. has a constitution and laws and this is a lawless, arrogant ill-meaning bunch that have shown not just disregard but derision and disrespect--from the get go.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3211277">Bush never was and never wanted to be a public servant. He always was the kid who wanted the lead in the play or he would not play. In contrast Gore grew up to be a public servant and still is a public servant.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4086494">Oh, I think Bush means well, but his is more of a "trickle-down" altruism, i.e., he believes what\'s good for big biz, the wealthy, etc., ultimately benefits everyone.  It\'s part of the Bush MO -- simplistic approaches to complex problems, forged by a disastrous mix of ignorance and born-again zealotry that is unleavened by curiosity, introspection or doubt.<br />');
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document.write('With all due respect, Mr. Mehlman, you\'re using Immigration Reform as one possible example of a humanitarian action on the part of President Bush is somewhat offensive to me. <br />');
document.write('The DNC has positioned itself on this issue as the champion of the Latino cause celeb; standing up for the poor immigrant who simply wants to improve the quality of life for himself and his family.<br />');
document.write('Now, that is certainly part of this very complex picture; a part, I might add, that needs addressing. Perhaps it is partially caused by the fact that American companies have been allowed to go across the border and set up sweat shops paying employees .38 and .64 cents per hour (in, I might add, the wealthiest Central American country). <br />');
document.write('We can thank the Bush policies for that, but let\'s not forget that Mr. Clinton set the whole thing up with NAFTA. While, I might add, his wife had a great deal of stock in Wal-Mart (she was after all on there board of directors).<br />');
document.write('But, back to the "cause celeb". You see, every single Republican that mentions jumping ship and signing onto this bill always, and I mean always, mentions one thing; staying competitive in the "global market".<br />');
document.write('And that means cheap labor. Period. That means lower wages for ALL Americans (immigrants as well), and decades of interest rates climbing faster than wages.<br />');
document.write('Also, look into who will get the big contracts for the "virtual fence" and the "Real Id" and the new verifiable id cards for the millions of new workers. You might find some interesting connections with AEI owned businesses.<br />');
document.write('Your article is right on time and you are right on target, with this one exception. It may be hard for you to see the connection of this immigration reform bill. But I promise; After you spend 60k to send your kid to college and she gets out and flips burgers because the new H1-B Visa Program has brought in 70k more workers from India, you might think differently about this being the one thing Bush has done for "humanitarian reasons".	<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4025259">Bravo! I agree with those who say Bush is the worst president we\'ve had, and here\'s why: Unless things radically change, he\'ll go down in history as the President who lost New Orleans.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3398273">I know you mean well, but aren\'t you concerned that you are putting a human face on this administration?  Let\'s save the human faces for the humans.<br />');
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document.write('Given that Bush has gone over on allowable farm subsidies (per a UN agreement) almost every single year he\'s been in power can you blame these simple people. 20 billion a year to people who are stuck in a time warp and in general probably still don\'t know what the internet is."<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4041755">Mr. Mehlman; I too am often surprized to hear someone who should be smarter say that they just don\'t understand how they (administration) "could have gotton it so wrong" (refering to the lead up to the war.)  Can they not see Rice is clearly lying when she tries to pass it off as a "mistake" or that they "forgot to take the bad intelligence out of the SUA"? <br />');
document.write('How can any American not know that this was the plan, all along?<br />');
document.write('Bush 41 said in \'98 (when Rumy and Wolfy and Cheney tried to get him to invade Iraq) that to remove Saddam would cause decades of civil war and great instability in the region?<br />');
document.write('The troops were set up to fail, by this administration. They knew that if they went in undermaned, then they would be able to use a myriad of "contractors" to go in to help prop them up.<br />');
document.write('They (Cheney) "plotted and planned" the new layouts of the oil fields and which companies would get which fields. He did this months before going into Iraq with the heads of certain oil companies.<br />');
document.write('They broke-up the Iraqi Army that would have remained together and helped to quell any of the "insurgancies" right off the bat. They did this because they didn\'t want any resistance in-country once the Iraqis found out what we were really doing there.<br />');
document.write('Then "shock and awe" targeted and destroyed infrastructure critical to a stable Iraq becasue they wanted contractors to profit from rebuilding.<br />');
document.write('And the list goes on.<br />');
document.write('But I don\'t think Chimpy planned this from the campaign days. It started, in my humble opinion, when he was dumb enough to let Cheney pick his Vice Presidential running mate. <br />');
document.write('I think, in time, that will prove to be the worst choice any President has ever made. And Chimpy will have nightmares about it for the rest of his pathetic life.<br />');
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document.write('Bravo! I agree with those who say Bush is the worst president we\'ve had, and here\'s why: Unless things radically change, he\'ll go down in history as the President who lost New Orleans<br />');
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document.write('My fear is that he\'ll go down in history as the president who lost much, much more than that. Yes, losing an entire city through gross negligence is extremely bad, but losing the Constitution, the guarantor of American liberty,  through outright malice and corruption is far worse.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3529410">Here\'s the problem: the democrats allow the republicans to frame the issues in their favor.  For example: before the 2004 election by brother-in-law told me he was voting for bush because John Kerry was \'for the gays\'.  My head almost exploded.  He was casting his vote base on that logic?  unbelievable.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3910514">SO TRUE!  I live in Kansas and my husband is a farmer.  He\'s from a fifth generation Kansas farm family.  We all vote and no one in the extended family has ever voted for any Bush.  We all actively campaigned against Bush/Cheney twice but were afraid to put a Gore or Kerry sticker on our car or sign in our yard for fear of vandalism.  What I hear around here now is a bunch of silence.  No one is proud they voted for Bush but they feel another Republican is their savior.  The mantra around here in 2004 was "Don\'t much like Bush, but you wouldn\'t vote for Kerry would you"?  Mostly they hate Hillary, gays, and anyone who isn\'t exactly like them due to race, creed, religion or color, and God Forbid anyone they fear might take their gun away.  They are like ostriches with their heads in the sand.  And yes, if you care to listen to the radio around here, your choices are Limbaugh or Paul Harvey.  We do have cable, even out here in the sticks (and flushing toilets too!), but step into any doctor\'s waiting room or sit down at a lunch counter or bar and Fox News is blaring from the TV.  I\'m from out west and to me living here is like living in a foreign country.  My husband says if the voters don\'t take back this country in \'08, we\'re moving to New Zealand.  New Zealand would probably feel more like home than Kansas.        </div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4068179">George Bush who claimed to be a "compassionate conservative" who loves Jesus...  I guess that is Republican speak for a war criminal who should be impeached and sent to The Hague for crimes against humanity.  I can\'t imagine how anyone could ever vote Republican again because George is not alone in his lies and crimes.  Don\'t forget his creepy V.P., his devil\'s spawn cabinet members and his rubber stamp Republican Congress who are equally guilty and just as bad.  I\'m not religious but I would think that even Jesus couldn\'t forgive these people for their sins.  The people who voted to re elect this scum should give the world a break and sit out the next election.  They have proven themselves to ignorant to vote.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3801060">The reason these people hang on to power is the same reason that has existed for centuries.  It\'s the God reason.  It doesn\'t matter what these people do, if they can convince the population that they\'re on a mission from God, the masses will follow them, keep re-electing them, and justify their actions as a "moral imperative". <br />');
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document.write('What you may not know is that in the rural hinterlands the only news, ONLY NEWS, from radio, TV, newspapers is RIGHT-WING or RELIGIOUS news. Nothing else. In the urban areas, we have a few slivers of truth from Air America, or Ed Schultz, or Stephanie Miller, and some progressive newspapers, but not the main-stream ones. Conservative/religious news, in all of America, crushes progressive news 9 to 1, NINE TO ONE, in most markets. They have stolen our public airwaves, is what they have done. It\'s criminal and scandalous.<br />');
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document.write('The bottom paragraph of this article is most relevant to your post.  I suppose you will say that people in the "rural hinterlands" don\'t have access to the MSM.  I love this, the vast majority of media people contribute to liberal causes and they are still perceived as too right wing.  Fall in line with the far left talking point or be "reformed".  Sliver of truth indeed....</div>');
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document.write(' The only way out of the quagmire would be that the American public wakes up. What are the chances of that? <br />');
document.write('I always compare the situation with Aldous Huxley\'s "Brave, New World".<br />');
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document.write('With a population successfully drugged, in debts up to their eyeballs and working 15 hours a day chances of them taking to the streets to protest are slim. <br />');
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document.write('A few - like the ones on Huffpo- have still the strength left to type their discontent into the computer. <br />');
document.write('For some strange reason Americans glorify their past presidents, though in reality there were quite a lot of bad ones in the past too. Politics has never been a business attracting men with any other goals than accumulating power.And most of the American presidents were strawmen for business moguls. <br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4041758">41. Ludwiga; "The only way out of the quagmire would be that the American public wakes up. What are the chances of that?"<br />');
document.write('I don\'t know. I feel that it is happening every time a clichéd dismissive comment from a "progressive" candidate is booed or when I read about the current presidents speaking fees are pretty much down to dinner and an open bar.<br />');
document.write('I am hopeful that things will be different until I see the MSM prepping the same tired story-lines for a pre-emptive move on Iran.<br />');
document.write('But consider this; in the past 5 years, I feel I have learned a great deal about our nations history, both good and not so good. I am, by no means, an intellectual. Not a college grad. Just a simple carpenter, looking for work. But I, like millions of others I am sure, have been inspired to delve into areas of historical investigation in order to better understand the situation at hand and what brought us here.<br />');
document.write('"A Brave New World" is a fine literary comparison to the current state of the union. I daresay that as many people would have agreed with the comparison 2 years ago as they most certainly do now. <br />');
document.write('In a strange way, as a nation, we are being forced to address a persistent flaw within our government\'s floor plan, at an accelerated pace. <br />');
document.write('The exponentially quickening pace of over-reaching greed has called attention to itself and that may be it\'s undoing, in the end. We see it now clearly, for what it is. Even us lowly Epsilons. And I pray that we may take action before the next "Pearle Harbor" puts us to sleep forever.</div>');
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document.write('The wife and I had a similar discussion last weekend. In short, Bush\'s Presidency--given that he only meant to make his ultra rich base richer--has been a success.</div>');
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document.write('I mean, ... wow. Nice.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3234990">Which Democratic candidates, Peter, do you suggest will stop selling out our jobs, consumer protections, infrastructures, and civil liberties while they, too, collude with the same bipartisan corporate executives? Why, just today it was news that Google is opening up shop in DC. The tech lobby and the beltway are crafting bills to replace our educated white collar professionals while the bipartisan Congress and Senate follow along to the trough.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3738134">For the Kennedy bashers - the Bay of Pigs was planned by Eisenhower who strongly urged Kennedy to execute the plan. This doesn\'t absolve Kennedy from blame, but Eisenhower is also culpable.<br />');
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document.write('That\'s how they operate. Find ways around the laws and the checks and balances created by the founding fathers to ensure we have a fair representation of the people and that the common good is served. The bigger mystery is why no one holds their feet to the fire, neither the dems or the MSM. How many signing statements so far? Unbelievable.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_442872">Watching the Bush administration operate reminds me of the old story about W.C. Fields. Fields spent his final weeks in a hospital, where a friend stopped by for a visit and caught Fields reading the Bible. When asked why, Fields replied, "I\'m checking for loopholes."  <br />');
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document.write('I don\'t know. I feel that it is happening every time a clichéd dismissive comment from a "progressive" candidate is booed or when I read about the current presidents speaking fees are pretty much down to dinner and an open bar.<br />');
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document.write('I attend as many political rallies of presidential candidates coming to my town as I can.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4078433">Veri, no they aren\'t the same.  Try reading the Congressional Record once in a while and seeing who votes how.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4041761">50. Ludwiga; I agree that almost all of what we see that is presented as "spontanious" is in fact, carefully staged theatre (of the absurd). But I have a hard time believing that someone told their plants to boo a candidate. Remember last years conference this candidate was nearly booed off the stage. It seems strange that they would tell them to boo less this time when the race is so close. Rather, I feel some people being labeled as "radical liberals" or "far left" are letting their dissatisfaction be heard when someone parrots the same kind of "talking points" that the pro-occupationists employ to justify remaining in Iraq. At least, I am hopeful that that is the case.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3479742">Great post. The interesting thing about the immigration bill debacle is that a good number of former Bushbots are FINALLY waking up to the fact that he doesn\'t give a damn about any of them. <br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3965342">Gerald Ford continues to be the most atheletic president in our history.  All American in football at University of Michigan he had no trouble chewing gum and walking.  He did have problems with a knee injury from that sport but the media never gave him credit for past accomplishments, only the easy Chevy Chase jokes about falling down airplane stairways and having to sit while chewing gum...</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3911338">I share your disappointment about the illogical rationale given by rural voters for supporting bush and really any republican. Unfortunately, the real reasons can be summed up in 2 words: "ignorance and fear" which, come to think of it, is the republican rallying cry.  </div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3766271">It is true, chicagoan, one can find instances that demontrate the extremity of this article.  However, the author\'s point didn\'t seem to be as much a challange against Bush\'s true believers to find a single instance of compassion.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4072486">How about the latest from the FCC!  They want to create more openings for low powered FM stations to open up radio to more diverse input...Is it diverse or is it Christian.  The FM radio waves are slowly being taken over by the "Christian" broadcasters.  Are they taxed?  Can they buy spectrum?<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_3108321">"As much as Democrats loathed Nixon, there was no denying he had some noble goals. He tried for universal health care and... I\'m pretty sure there were other things."<br />');
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document.write('"You could argue that even the world\'s worst fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, etc."<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_4078511">To ensure the GOP retains the Presidency, nominate the candidates their base hate the most:  Clinton and Obama.  We are giving Karl Rove a wet dream.</div>');
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document.write('Not only did the Bushies not mean well, they actually meant to harm our country.<br />');
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document.write('They have worked mightily to replace the democratic republic created by our founders with a grotesque mockery of it---an imperial presidential dictatorship in which the Congress is only empowered to agree with Bush and the courts are just the enforcement arm of the Republican Party.<br />');
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document.write('BTW, I agree with those who say the immigration bill has nothing to do with altruism. It\'s all about providing big business with quasi-slave labor<br />');
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document.write('It is not only big business. There are the gardeners, housekeepers, nannies, busboys or maids, the carwash people and landscape asstistants used by home owners and small business owners. Why pay somebody a livable wage if you can get away with pennies?<br />');
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document.write('Over twenty years ago when I moved to California I saw the movie "El Norte". Then I felt sorry for the illegal immigrants. I still feel sorry for many of them, but I also feel that we have to find a solution to solve the problem. With globalization the ultimate goal has to be livable wages for everybody everywhere.<br />');
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document.write('The European Union was successful in changing the situation in many of the poorer countries . I am convinced that an intelligent economical union on the North-American continent will do the same thing for Mexico and the maybe the Middle-American states. </div>');
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document.write('...Democratic and Republican two seperate entities? <br />');
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document.write('I disagree. I\'ve heard this argument for years and it never held water for me.  Is there anybody who thinks with Gore as president we would have ended up in Iraq, or that he would have created the largest deficit in history or completely trashed the environmental and shredded the constitution?  That there is no difference between Clinton (while flawed) or Gore, and the current abomination now sitting in office?  Really?  It doesn\'t fly.  <br />');
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document.write('Are the dems in the pockets of corporate America?  Sure, but they still have a semblance of a moral compass.  They seem to have at least some genuine concern for the public, as opposed to Bush, who clearly could give a shit how much suffering he causes around the globe, just so a small handful of his friends can make an obscene amount of money.  <br />');
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document.write('I\'ve come to think that that whole "dems/repubs-no difference" argument has become an excuse for liberal apathy, a tool serving the republicans in general and the current administration in particular.  It was that argument (and the supreme court) that handed Bush the election in 2000: "Bush/Gore--no difference. Go Nader!" and led to  our fascistic swing to the right.  <br />');
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document.write('Now granted, the dems have proven themselves to be spineless wimps, but really, no difference?  Kerry or Bush--no difference? In this country where the public is so easily duped or just plain dumb, small wonder a bad guy like W. can get elected. In 2000 and 2004 a new crop of voters hit the pop-political scene.  They called themselves "independents," but really they were anything but.  They too largely bought into the argument that democrat/republican--no difference. Somehow being indecisive and foolish became a badge of honor.  They were egoic and idiotic, and used their fence sitting as a badge of honor.     <br />');
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document.write('Why do people talk of the Democratic and Republican parties as two seperate entities? I would like to know. Whether it is Republican Corporate Elites or Democratic Social Elites, they are one party."<br />');
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document.write('Why do people talk of the Democratic and Republican parties as two seperate entities? I would like to know. Whether it is Republican Corporate Elites or Democratic Social Elites, they are one party."<br />');
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document.write('Hillary Rodham Clinton or John Kerry should have never voted for the Iraq war.  I do not accept any excuses. There are no excuses.  If I knew that it would end up in a disaster, why wouldn\'t they know? It is all political positioning and financial backing, what counts. It is sad.</div>');
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document.write('And the irony of it all remains lost on many of those \'Red Staters\' that voted for him more than once.  As a former resident (but not native) of Kansas, I can strongly reccomend that anyone of big-city ilk read "What\'s the Matter with Kansas".  <br />');
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document.write('Hillary Rodham Clinton or John Kerry should have never voted for the Iraq war. I do not accept any excuses. There are no excuses. If I knew that it would end up in a disaster, why wouldn\'t they know? It is all political positioning and financial backing, what counts. It is sad."<br />');
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document.write('  Subject - Not much different which major Party is in power.<br />');
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document.write('I too am discusted with both Partys. Yes, the Democrats are the lesser of evils, but not by much as far as benefiting the average American.<br />');
document.write('  History has shown that Democrats start unnecessary wars also. They can\'t be shown weaker than Republicans on national security. <br />');
document.write('  Just one example of Democratic mindset - When Madelaine Albright was Secretary of State, she said, perhaps not in these exact words, but the meaning was obvious - "What\'s the use of having the most pwerful military in the world if we don\'t use it?" <br />');
document.write('  Whose to know if Al Gore was president, that he couldn\'t be cajoled into war with iraq oover oil also. After all the mindset and goal of empire -again as history has shown, is not much different between the two Partys. <br />');
document.write('  I am a very discruntled life-long Democrat who believes the differnce between the two Partys has become the difference of two peas in the same pod.<br />');
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document.write('I feel compelled to state my own opinions.  I believe the Bushies had an agenda when they propped Bush up as \'candidate\'.  No one really questioned his \'resume\' but electing a fool you\'d like to have a beer with gets you exactly what we got.  <br />');
document.write('9/11 played right into their hands.  It made it easier for them to pursue their agenda and \'manage\' the true believers and the willing.<br />');
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document.write('Playing the \'G, G, G\' card works well with folks who have limited information and less inclination to follow news.  Fear ultimately creates dis-eaze and that\'s how you get their votes.  <br />');
document.write('Anyone who doesn\'t see a difference between Dems and Repugs isn\'t paying attention.  We may not be able to tolerate a president who cheats on his wife versus a president without a brain, ability to reason or even ad lib more than a frat joke or two sentences but Dems hearts are often in the right place.  They are often victimized by their own hesitancy and yes, I believe they care for people and their welfare and can\'t believe that all are not like that.<br />');
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document.write('We would not be in this war if Gore had been able to take office.  We would like ourselves better and we\'d have respect in the world.<br />');
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document.write('I cannot think of any reason to ever elect a Republican again unless these \'clowns\' go over a cliff in a bus and are instantly replaced by true Republicans again, like Ford who was worth more than the whole busload of them.<br />');
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document.write('I grew up outside of D.C.  I can tell you that whoever these Bushies and their minions are they do not represent Republican values...and I\'m a Dem!<br />');
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document.write('So, we know Iraq was about the oil.  Once the oil rights are secured we will be done. That\'s why Bush wants to send Blair to the Middle East.  We know corporations have more power.  We know the agencies that have oversight to human rights and values, to environmental issues, and the Constitution have been gutted. <br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_9291328">Well put, Mr. Mehlmen.  Even as I live through this nightmare, there are stil facets of evil to be sussed out of the Bush Admin.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_9291468">  Michael Lind wrote in all up in his landmark book "Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politcs" which I nominate as the most important book of this century.  Lind  explains how the modern radical-right agenda (of which Bush-Cheney is a near perfect expression) is ripped out of the pages of the ante-bellum slave owners society, with rigid social castes, bible-thumping morality, militaristic hierarchy with landowners at the top, and a cruel demand for cheap labor (slaves).  Lind calls this the "neo-Confederate" agenda, and explains how even poor whites, who owned no slaves and were treated ruthlessly by the system, still identified with the myth of their superiority.  <br />');
document.write('Lind doesn\'t shy from pointing out the AIPAC/Likudnik alliance with the Southern neo-Confederates, which of course we see at the top tiers of American government, with the AIPAC neo-cons dominating both the planning for war (Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Abrams, et al) and also the media cheerleaders for the war (Kristol, Krauthammer, Kurtz, Sulzberger, Safire, Judith Miller, etc.)    <br />');
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document.write('  What is still "forbidden" is to mention the Democrat\'s subservience to that AIPAC/Likud/neo-con/neo-Confederate alliance.  <br />');
document.write('  Here is HuffPost\'s Brent Budowsky on how Dem consultants love the war -  <a href="http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/05/30/why-democratic-political-consultants-love-the-iraq-war/  <br />" target="_blank">http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/05/30/why-democratic-political-consultants-love-the-iraq-war/  <br /></a><br />');
document.write('and more to the point, here is another article that details how Dem Michigan Senator Carl Levine, as Chairman Armed Services Committee, is the latest tag-team Democrat to effectively BOLSTER the adminsitration\'s war!  <br />');
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document.write('d  Lieberman three times - in 2000 urging Al Gore to throw in the recount towel; in 2002  stifling the Enron investigation in his committee; now fundraising for Republicans and supporting the indefinite extension of the war), Karl Levin, Dianne Feinstein (charter member California\'s huge defense lobby), even John Kerry and Hillary Clinton - every time the Democrats get an opportunity to stand up to the Bush-Cheney war, the Democratic \'leadership\' gets its marching orders from AIPAC, media CW, and MIC, and Dem opposition folds.</div>');
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document.write('The New York Times Book Review today, in an article on yet another history of the Holocaust, had as its subhead, "The Jews Were Regarded Not As Inferiors but As Powerful Enemies Who Threatened the German Race." It paralleled the insight I\'ve had about Republicans (at least W\'s kind) lately, that they are warriors (the business mindset, increasingly cutthroat of late) stamped with an "us/them" mentality. A Democratic idealist may think, "How can we solve the health care crisis?" but the Republican is thinking, "How can I beat this bastard?"  The Bushies, like the German Christians before them, have thought of themselves, and their privileges, as somehow under attack, never mind the real balance of power being so far in their favor as to make such aggressiveness grotesque.  Without the same mentality, or at least acknowledging these Republican Neocons\', liberals are almost predestined to lose.  If I\'m playing a gentleman\'s game, and you\'ve built me into a foe so theatening that I must be destroyed, who\'s most likely to win?  </div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_9291633">Talk radio over 15 years brought an estimated 20-50 million ignorant rednecks into the political process, which dumbed this country down to a Shrub.  The prestigious Annenberg School at Penn (funded by the conservo TV Guide fortune) studied talk radio for a dozen years and was stunned to find that listeners hold "false certainty" on almost every issue - meaning they are as strong in their beliefs as they are utterly wrong.  These dupes of the biggest disinformation empire in world history (AM radio vs. Hitler\'s beer halls) will vote against their own economic interest because the words are too big, and just to stick it to the LIBBURRALS.  Welcome to Redneck Nation, where Nascar is king and morbid obesity is norm.</div>');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_9291761">The Republican Party\'s definition of a successful government is winning the election, that is their end game. Of course, this is only the start of good governance and what the Democrats base their election ideals on. After getting elected Bush didn\'t even pretend that he meant well. The Democrats need to understand the Republican Party\'s dynamics and counter it by not being wimps.Ronald Reagoon was able to articulate that he was going to make government bad and spent 8 years proving it so that he would be right. He just did it with a smile, claiming his optimism. This was the Democrat in Reagoon he kissed us before he fucked us, Clinton did the same. That\'s what makes Democrats different they kiss us first.Just good sales training. It even worked the last years when Reagoon governed with Alzheimer\'s, the public so gullible they didn\'t even know it although it was obvious since he couldn\'t remember anything and said so.He was truthful. </div>');
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document.write('Molly explained that amongst Texas politicians, it is completely and utterly agreed upon that the highest priority of government is to help business.  That\'s right. Not "the people" or any of their concerns, and certainly not the people if their concerns conflict with the stated first priority.<br />');
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document.write('Bush could not care less about "the public good."  All that matters is making the rich richer while the poor get their heads blown off in Iraq for a pack of lies.<br />');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_9292843">why is everyone mad at bush. he promised in so many words that if elected...that he would skin rednecks living in trailor parks alive by cutting their benifits and giving the money to the rich in tax cuts..and that he would institute national and international unilateral policys that would hasten the destruction of the environment...and the demise of the poor and helpless world wide and give us endless wars in a bid to commandeer the remainder of the worlds oil supply for his rich friends no matter what the human cost. he and cheney have done this. they have kept their word.one of al gores brilliant daughters gave a speech shortly before the election was stolen in 2000 in florida, where she outlined what this country and the world would be like if her father did not win. i recommend all of you go back and read it.</div>');
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document.write('			| posted 9:16 pm on 06/24/2007');
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document.write('		<div id="cmt_txt_wrap_9292872">Good piece, but if you\'re gonna quote LBJ, at least get it right: "Ford\'s so dumb he can\'t fart and chew gum at the same time."  </div>');
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document.write('			| posted 9:28 pm on 06/24/2007');
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