In the news....
Condy Rice is beginning to irritate me. Ok I know.. "Beginning?" you say. Actually I almost like her on the talking heads Sunday shows. Anyway this attempt to play semantic games with definitions of war really irks me. It's bad enough that the Shrub Administration has no clue what they are doing "post war", but now they are demeaning the deaths of our young men and women by splitting semantic hairs. "Major combat operations have not resumed in Iraq by really any stretch of the imagination," is the line that caught my eye. Well first of all, I don't actually think it ever began, the memory is hazy but I don't remember really any major pitched battles on the way to Baghdad. It seems to have been "insurgency" since day one. Listen you Shrubbers....., if soldiers are dying, then its a war. Doesn't matter what you call it. Not too hard to understand. And to marginalize via semantic hair splitting the effort of our soldiers the day before Veterans Day is equally offensive.
A possible blow against the "Aliens and Seditions Act Redux" (the Patriot act)?? Finally a suit has been brought against the "Justice" department regarding the dangling in the wind of the people locked up at Guantanomo Bay. Now don't get me wrong, I want real justice for anyone whom we have captured. But I want clear and visible Justice. This Star Camber method of dealing with these people held is horridly two faced by the Shrub Administration. We are all for Truth, Justice and the American Way of Democracy, but only for Americans. Not available for the "other guys".
A true leader in the world sets human rights above all else; including it's so called "National Security". (This excuse bothers me deeply - what exactly do these so called terrorists know that is so secret that the American People cannot know?) A true leader in democracy and human rights would publicly and openly try these people. But then again I cannot expect this particular brand of Republican in the White House today to understand this. Silly Me.
Appealing to old interest groups and not finding new ones is a major difference between the Democrats and the Republicans and why the Dems seemed doomed to the minority role for the foreseeable future. The AFL-CIO announced that it would wait to back the "strongest Democrat" in their view. How nice. Who Cares??? While the Republicans continue to make inroads in the South, with Soccer Moms, with the Latino's etc and continue to gather in more and more right wing Christians, the Dem's dither over the labor unions. Now don't get me wrong, the Dem's need the Labor Unions, but the effort put into them is not indicitive of their actual impact on a National Election anymore.
Union membership shrinks yearly. The impact of said unions on the Presidential Vote is reduced more and more. So what’s up with this? It's called lack of leadership in the DNC. I'm in marketing. The Voting Populace is a "zero sum game", what one party gets the other cannot have. So why is the DNC not out MARKETING their product? Lack of leadership is why. The only one out there truly Marketing the product is Howard Dean.
Condy Rice is beginning to irritate me. Ok I know.. "Beginning?" you say. Actually I almost like her on the talking heads Sunday shows. Anyway this attempt to play semantic games with definitions of war really irks me. It's bad enough that the Shrub Administration has no clue what they are doing "post war", but now they are demeaning the deaths of our young men and women by splitting semantic hairs. "Major combat operations have not resumed in Iraq by really any stretch of the imagination," is the line that caught my eye. Well first of all, I don't actually think it ever began, the memory is hazy but I don't remember really any major pitched battles on the way to Baghdad. It seems to have been "insurgency" since day one. Listen you Shrubbers....., if soldiers are dying, then its a war. Doesn't matter what you call it. Not too hard to understand. And to marginalize via semantic hair splitting the effort of our soldiers the day before Veterans Day is equally offensive.
A possible blow against the "Aliens and Seditions Act Redux" (the Patriot act)?? Finally a suit has been brought against the "Justice" department regarding the dangling in the wind of the people locked up at Guantanomo Bay. Now don't get me wrong, I want real justice for anyone whom we have captured. But I want clear and visible Justice. This Star Camber method of dealing with these people held is horridly two faced by the Shrub Administration. We are all for Truth, Justice and the American Way of Democracy, but only for Americans. Not available for the "other guys".
A true leader in the world sets human rights above all else; including it's so called "National Security". (This excuse bothers me deeply - what exactly do these so called terrorists know that is so secret that the American People cannot know?) A true leader in democracy and human rights would publicly and openly try these people. But then again I cannot expect this particular brand of Republican in the White House today to understand this. Silly Me.
Appealing to old interest groups and not finding new ones is a major difference between the Democrats and the Republicans and why the Dems seemed doomed to the minority role for the foreseeable future. The AFL-CIO announced that it would wait to back the "strongest Democrat" in their view. How nice. Who Cares??? While the Republicans continue to make inroads in the South, with Soccer Moms, with the Latino's etc and continue to gather in more and more right wing Christians, the Dem's dither over the labor unions. Now don't get me wrong, the Dem's need the Labor Unions, but the effort put into them is not indicitive of their actual impact on a National Election anymore.
Union membership shrinks yearly. The impact of said unions on the Presidential Vote is reduced more and more. So what’s up with this? It's called lack of leadership in the DNC. I'm in marketing. The Voting Populace is a "zero sum game", what one party gets the other cannot have. So why is the DNC not out MARKETING their product? Lack of leadership is why. The only one out there truly Marketing the product is Howard Dean.
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