Notes"The narrative about our presidential candidates being just regular folks is a tired myth that gets repeated each and every day. And their efforts to show that they are "just like us" are really pathetic." Nor *should* an "average" American be president.Unfurl
Notes"It is possible that we will have a President who not only will speak in full, complete sentences, but who will do so in a manner that is eloquent, and who will also be articulate and eloquent in delivering words he is intelligent enough to know, understaUnfurl
Notes"Not only is it seen by both Boswellist and Johnsonian interests as a crucial location for establishing territorial control in the kitchen-floor region, but it also makes a crumpling sound that both sides find irresistible."Unfurl
Notes"The whole package—music, message, meme, media—comes together nicely. Like the best cultural phenomena, this can be enjoyed at several levels of participation—at least one of which involves a dance floor."Unfurl
Notes"These developments would be disturbing enough, but what they point to is an interruption in this nation's most important public tradition - the movement from recognition of a problem to its attempted resolution."Unfurl
Notes"President Bush was hired to know more than the people, to be told all the deep inside intelligence, all the facts Americans are not told, and do the right and smart thing in response."Unfurl
Notes"pro-choicers tend to think that the abortion criminalization movement is motivated by a desire - perhaps an unconscious desire - to punish women for having sex."Unfurl
NotesIt really seems like this article wants me to cry for poor lil confused and misunderstood Bush. You know, it pisses me off how "serene and calm" the bastard is. I have no sympathy for him.Unfurl
Notes"Libby’s conviction was the one faint glimmer of accountability for White House efforts to manipulate intelligence and silence critics of the Iraq war. Now, even that small bit of justice has been undone."Unfurl
Notes"Elizabeth Edwards confronted right-wing pundit Ann Coulter during a live interview on MSNBC this afternoon, charging that Coulter’s “personal attacks” on former senator John Edwards and others were based on “the language of hate.”"Unfurl
Notes"Then, we might roll up our sleeves and start negotiating with each other like adults, using all the tools of science and art, finding ways to heal the world."Unfurl
Notes"t seems that, if Carter really was as "irrelevant" as the Bush White House would have us believe, the president's aides would not be attacking the former president in such immediate and aggressive terms."Unfurl
Notes"We've already got one that doesn't feel he needs to understand the region, whose response is fear-based politics and vengeance-based foreign policy, and we don't need another. "Unfurl
Notes"Gordon Brown is prepared to risk the future of the "special relationship" with the United States by reversing Tony Blair's support for the Iraq war, President George W Bush has been warned."Unfurl
Notes"Paul is right, of course -- and Blitzer is wrong. Paul is the only candidate of either party with the guts to cut through the nonsense and say what's obviously true. And Blitzer is the one that owes us an apology, for carrying the lies for so long. He'sUnfurl
Notes"The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called Reverend."FeedUnfurl
Notes"But what is apparent, is that George Bush has at his disposal none — none — of the tools presidents have used to turn bad situations around: public support, party support or skilled statecraft. He's a lame duck less than two years in to his second teUnfurl
Notes"The percussive march of these statements is so forceful, one after another after another, that it suggests Cheney wanted war no matter what."Unfurl
Notes"the idea that the national security adviser is subcontracting responsibility for the nation’s most pressing foreign policy crisis — and must recruit someone of stature to get the attention of the cabinet — is provoking criticism of Mr. Hadley himseUnfurl
Notes"Collectively, we need to start thinking about what the post-post-9/11 world looks like, a world where terrorism will certainly still exist. It can either be a world of arm-waving fear, or a world of informed resolve"Unfurl
Notes""I think anyone who's watched this would say we could do better for attorney general," Mr. Schumer said during a break. "He seems to be far less qualified than the U.S. attorneys that he's fired.""Unfurl
Notes"Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces. "Unfurl
Notes"In what could prove an embarrassing new setback for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the eve of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter to tUnfurl
Notes"But when the anti-elite crowd demonizes the elite, what they're actually doing is embracing incompetence. Now, I know what you're thinking: That doesn't sound like our president -- ignoring intelligence."Unfurl
Notes"Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage…particularly marriage between two passionate females.Unfurl
Notes"Stephen Colbert challenges the Democrats to impeach Bush now. He's just been taunting you all these years with the outing of Valerie Plame, WMD lies, Katrina tragedy, wiretapping, attorney firings, etc. etc. etc..."Unfurl
Notes"Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. "Unfurl
Notes"avoiding the kind of publicity that only “The Colbert Report” can confer on a lawmaker may be the only advice from Emanuel that freshman Democrats are ignoring."Unfurl
Notes"When you see her in such a context, you realize that she truly represents the heart and soul of contemporary conservative activism, especially among the young."Unfurl
Notes"It's too bad that the U.S. political system offers no way to take a vote of "no confidence," because that describes the state we're living in now"Unfurl
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