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[Kikomom]

[mises]

The FT piece. Excellent IMO.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f1984d88-7cd5-11dd-8d59-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

[Kuros]

Effete Liberals and the people they condescend to

[mises]

There is a fairly strong attitude of condescension among high profile liberals, thought not necessarily Dem leaders, towards Joe Sixpack. It is the same in Canada. It is really strong in Canada, actually.

The Crook piece may need more detail, as all short opinion farts do, but I think the main idea is correct. It surely has been exploited and built up by the right into a woe is me victim status, but it does exist. I don't know anything about the networks but it would be a hard case to say the media is overwhelmingly liberal. The doc "selling the war" I think proves that nicely.

[Kuros]

[mises]

[mises]

They will do anything:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/09/politics/horserace/entry4433099.shtml

[Gollywog]

In November, I'm voting for McCain-Palin, the liar and the lunatic.

Let me explain why.

It is becoming clear from polls that the majority of American voters have learned nothing from the last eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration. They see nothing wrong with America invading a soverign nation based on lies spoken by the President of the United States, who was motivated by personal interest. They do not see anything wrong with an administration that enriches the richest of the rich and powerful corporations with tax cuts, while leaving the American economy in shambles. They do not see anything wrong with a candidate who favors imposing her religious views upon all Americans, even if it means putting them in jail for violating her religious beliefs, including doctors and women who might be raped.

And it appears that all too many Americans have not really learned the lessons of the last 70 years of the civil rights movement, and are only paying it lip service. They do not see anything wrong with voting against a person because he is not white, though most have enough sense not to admit it publicly.

I thought when George Bush took office after essentially stealing the election with the help of conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court, despite losing the popular vote by a half-million votes, that Americans would at least understand after four years how dangerous a government controlled by a coalition of corporate lobbyists and evangelical Christians could be.

I was wrong.

When Bush was re-elected (or should we say, elected) after smearing a war hero, while he evaded service in Viet Nam, I thought surely the American people would finally learn their lesson after another four years of incompetency. And incompetency squared is what we got, with the Bush administration bungling every problem the country faced.

I was wrong again.

Now the United States and its economy is in such a shambles, and the country saddled with such massive debt, that there is no one, not even Superman, who could bring it back to solvency. And the American people are prepared to support a new president who vows to keep American troops in a futile war in a country where we are not welcome for another century, if necessary, just as the American public re-elected Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War.

If a child uses a baseball bat to main another child, you take away the baseball bat, right? The American people have shown they cannot be trusted to use their tanks and bombs and guns responsibly. And so they should be taken away. The only way to do this is if the United States is so bankrupted that it cannot afford to send a military abroad ever again.

America is already bankrupt, yet it keeps on spending billions of dollars a day on the war in Iraq, putting it on our national credit card. The world needs to take away America's credit card.

Who is providing the credit? The Arabs, to a large extent.

Let the Arabs fight their own wars. Let South Korea defend itself, or join North Korea or ally itself with China, as it wishes. It is apparent that many if not most Koreans do not want American troops here, except to the extent they spend money. Let's leave. And let's leave Japan, while we're at it. They can "protect" Korea if they want to, or go to war over Dokdo, if they want to. Why should the United States care? If North Korea wants to drop an atomic bomb or two on South Korea, why should we care?

By electing an evangelical Christian, and a president who will continue to enrich the rich and bankrupt the rest of us, we will help shred America's credit, and discredit the evangelical lunatics who own John McCain and Sarah Palin. Of course, McCain-Palin will shred the U.S. Constitution in the process, but most Americans have apparently never read it, so who cares.

The Republicans wrecked the United States; let the Republicans clean up the mess.

[Kikomom]

I never saw you as a Defeatist, Golly. But on that note... you've been warned, the Republicans are "the party that wrecked America."

I'm sure they'll be ecstatic to have you join in the destruction.

[The Bobster]

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