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Online Video Features Remark By Democratic Candidate's Wife On Not Being "Proud" Of U.S.
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MATTHEWS: Well, just look at the way people are basically exterminated or tried to be exterminated. Bill Maher makes a comment %u2013which may not have been the right comment%u2013but he was making a point he was trying to make, about stand back weaponry compared to people killing themselves. You can argue about the niceties of that. The Dixie Chicks say something about the war%u2014and they shouldn%u2019t have said it overseas, but they said it. The shutting up of opposition is critical to running a country in an undemocratic way, let%u2019s put it that way. And so you have buzzwords like %u2018appeasers%u2019 or %u2018cut and run%u2019 and they%u2019re used over and over again by the most mindless people. The trouble with them is they tend to work. The dittoheads can use them. Anyone can use them and they seem to have the same effect. They cause people to run from criticism. - Reply to this comment
- "This is a shameful attempt to attack a woman who has repeatedly said she wouldn''t be here without the opportunities and blessings of this nation," spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement.
lol, It was a shamful attempt by Michelle Obama to put her racist view foremost in the public eye, and think people were just going to sit back and take it. You can''t come out with the gas bag opinions of your preacher of 20 years, and your whack job associates and think people are going to stand up and applaud! - Reply to this comment
- truthyness:
Can you prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks?
Alright already! Repeating something over and over does not make it more credible. - Reply to this comment
- Moyers: ''Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck''
By Bill Moyers, Doubleday. Posted May 17, 2008.
For all of America''s shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works." Now all bets are off.
The following is an excerpt from Bill Moyers'' new book, "Moyers on Democracy" (Doubleday, 2008).
Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may be running out of luck. The reigning presumption about the American experience, as the historian Lawrence Goodwyn has written, is grounded in the idea of progress, the conviction that the present is "better" than the past and the future will bring even more improvement. For all of its shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works."
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Now all bets are off. We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power -and to the claims of empire, with its ravenous demands and stuporous distractions. A sense of political impotence pervades the country -- a mass resignation defined by Goodwyn as "believing the dogma of ''democracy'' on a superficial public level but not believing it privately." We hold elections, knowing they are unlikely to bring the corporate state under popular control. There is considerable vigor at local levels, but it has not been translated into new vistas of social possibility or the political will to address our most intractable challenges. Hope no longer seems the operative dynamic of America, and without hope we lose the talent and drive to cooperate in the shaping of our destiny.
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The earth we share as our common gift, to be passed on in good condition to our children''s children, is being despoiled. Private wealth is growing as public needs increase apace. Our Constitution is perilously close to being consigned to the valley of the shadow of death, betrayed by a powerful cabal of secrecy-obsessed authoritarians. Terms like "liberty" and "individual freedom" invoked by generations of Americans who battled to widen the 1787 promise to "promote the general welfare" have been perverted to create a government primarily dedicated to the welfare of the state and the political class that runs it. Yes, Virginia, there is a class war and ordinary people are losing it. It isn''t necessary to be a Jeremiah crying aloud to a sinful Jerusalem that the Lord is about to afflict them for their sins of idolatry, or Cassandra, making a nuisance of herself as she wanders around King Priam''s palace grounds wailing "The Greeks are coming." Or Socrates, the gadfly, stinging the rump of power with jabs of truth. Or even Paul Revere, if horses were still in fashion. You need only be a reporter with your eyes open to see what''s happening to our democracy. I have been lucky enough to spend my adult life as a journalist, acquiring a priceless education in the ways of the world, actually getting paid to practice one of my craft''s essential imperatives: connect the dots. - Reply to this comment
- The Republicans are showing themselves for what they are, which is a party devoid of policies important to Americans. After the Bush administration last 8 years of ineptitude, it would be political suicide for any Republican to talk about real issues. Thus they will resort to lying, untruths, race baiting, sleaze and any other means to stay in power. Attacking Mrs Obama could seriously backfire on McCain, considering Mrs McCains business/financial dealings,drug abuse etc. Politicians wives should be off limits in a political campaign.
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- Pretty soon Michelle will have a REAL reason to dislike us crackers!!!
And it won''t be some BS fairy tale junk she makes up.
This little lady will find out just how nice she really has had it all these years.
Come to find out the Obama''s are getting most of their money from rich white folks. Ain''t that a hoot!! - Reply to this comment
- Pretty soon Michelle will have a REAL reason to dislike us crackers!!!
And it won''t be some BS fairy tale junk she makes up.
This little lady will find out just how nice she really has had it all these years.
Come to find out the Obama''s are getting most of their money from rich white folks. Ain''t that a hoot!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.
The stuff that Obama admitted to in the two books he
wrote is enough to lose him the election. But has
anyone heard anything about either of these writings
by a major National Television Station????
NO! Because they are setting on it until Hillary is
out of the picture and Obama will lose the Presidency
by the largest margine yet. And anyone who can''''''''t
see that and continues to believe otherwise after
reading those two books are being FOOLISH!!!! - Reply to this comment
