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Dobson (R-Focus on the Handjob) said, “Isn’t Thompson the candidate who is opposed to a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage, believes there should be 50 different definitions of marriage in the U.S., favors McCain-Feingold, won’t talk at all about what he believes, and can’t speak his way out of a paper bag on the campaign trail?”

“He has no passion, no zeal, and no apparent ‘want to.’ And yet he is apparently the
Great Hope that burns in the breasts of many conservative Christians?
Well, not for me, my brothers. Not for me!”

Bart says: See how much trouble they’re in? 

We might be 25 points ahead of the bastards right now .
Democrats need to stop attacking each other and start
jockeying for cabinet slots in the new administraion. 

We could solve a LOT of problems if our next president, whoever that may be,  
had a veto-proof and jilibuster-proof majority to fastrak some needed repairs.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson told The Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday night he doubted a flare-up over a remark attributed to him about White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “acting like he’s white” would harm the campaign. He called discussions about the blackness or whiteness of the biracial Obama “absurd.”

Jackson, who has endorsed Obama, on Tuesday was conducting a voter registration drive in South Carolina, a crucial early primary state with a substantial African-American vote. A big black voter turnout would help Obama.

The Wednesday edition of the State, a South Carolina newspaper, said that Tuesday, “Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for “acting like he’s white” in what Jackson said has been a tepid response to the arrest of six black juveniles on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La.”

Jackson said he did not recall making the racially charged remark.

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In interviews, Damon said “After Iraq, the Bush Administration disgusts me…”
Damon also criticized the President’s handling of Katrina.

And he took aim at Hollywood as well, implying that Tinseltown’s one-track mind was too depressing for him to stomach.

“I refuse to live there because the only subject of conversation is movies, and it’s sad to only have that to talk about that.”

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On September 11 George Bush contrived with Democratic assistance to send David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker to tell Congress how the Iraq war is going.

Bush wanted the date not because he thought it would be, in Lincoln’s words, an altogether fitting and proper way to honor the fallen, but because he thought it a clever way to reinforce a lie he has been caught in many times — that his war was an answer to that attack.

While Petraeus and Crocker pitched Congress, General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, used a Pentagon memorial service to peddle the same line: we avenge the innocent by waging war in a country unconnected to their tragedy. It’s all in keeping with a long held administration belief that it is unpatriotic for anyone else to politicize 9/11.

Petraeus, Crocker and Pace took a page from Karl Rove’s White House Iraq Group playbook: Craft sentences that imply more than they say. Deliver them with conviction. When found out, reveal the artful parsing that proves you never said what everyone heard.

It always worked better than it should.

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From the point of view of a corpse, Thursday’s die-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was overwhelming and diminishing.  I was one of twenty some corpses lying dead in a river of blood in front of police and tourists and a color guard of Iraq veterans.  I was one of a pile of corpses.  You could have added or taken away a corpse or two, and nobody would have noticed.  Thirty or forty other corpses were picked up inside the Capitol and taken to jail, and nobody noticed.  And as I lay dead on the concrete, someone said the name of a dead Iraqi. 

U.S. soldier.  Then someone said the name of a dead Iraqi.  And they kept saying them.  New names.  Unique names.  Unknown names.  “Son of….” or “Woman and baby.”  And as my flesh began to slowly rot in the sun, they read name after name after name, and they never stopped, and I understood that I was one corpse in a very large pile of corpses.  And my mind would drift off, until the woman’s corpse beside me, which was crying, would say through its tears “We remember.”

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The six teens were charged shortly after the local prosecutor declined to charge three white teens who hung nooses in a tree on their high school grounds. Five of the black teens were initially charged with attempted murder, but that charge was reduced to battery for all but one, who has yet to be arraigned; the sixth was charged as a juvenile.

    “This is the most blatant example of disparity in the justice system that we’ve seen,” Sharpton told CBS’s “The Early Show” before arriving in Jena. “You can’t have two standards of justice.”

    “We didn’t bring race into it,” he said. “Those that hung the nooses brought the race into it.”

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Greenspan should know. It was oil all along. The former head of the Federal Reserve writes in his memoir, “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,” “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” Greenspan even advised Bush that “taking Saddam Hussein out was essential” to protect oil supplies.

    Yes, we suspected it. In a deep sense, many of us knew it, just as those in Washington did. But now it’s in our face. Greenspan put the mother of all facts in front of our noses. And we can no longer be in denial. The US invaded Iraq for the oil.

    Think about what it means for our troops and for the people of Iraq. Our troops were told, and believed because they trusted their president, they were in Iraq to protect America, to protect their families, their homes, their friends and neighbors, our democracy. But they were betrayed. Those troops fought and died and were maimed and had their marriages break up for oil company profits. An utter betrayal of our men and women in uniform and their families, a betrayal of their sacrifices, day after day, month after month, year after year – and for some, forever! Children growing up fatherless or motherless. Men and women without legs or arms or faces – for oil company profits.

    And hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, more maimed, and millions made refugees. For oil profits.

I was just flipping channels and came upon an episode of Law and Order with Fred Thompson on it. I had thought that episodes featuring the Republican candidate would have to go off the air if announced he was running. Anyone know what the deal is? It would be great if TNT fucked up and was forced to give equal time to all presidential candidates great and small.

Bart,

John Kerry proved the Swift Boaters correct again.  He is a coward!!!
Just let that kid get tasered in Florida and did nothing to stop it when he clearly could have. Just as in 04 when he let is Skull and Bones butt buddy steal the election without any fight! Skull and Bones for life Baby!!

The police in this country are way out of control.
You can’t even talk or they are ready to tackle you and taser your ass for non-conformity.
Why does one need to be tased when six punk ass cops are on top of the kid?
I’d like to take one of them one on one and after I whip that ass I would taser that pig.

The boys in Iraq are fighting for our free speech while Punk Ass cops run around here
in the US preventing it without ramification?  Seems the cops have the Blackwater immunity in this country and nobody gives a shit, Kerry just stood there and said nothing.
Keep Hammerin!!!!
 California Dave
Bart says: That’s so creepy.
It sounds like he got tasered with no air in his lungs, and before he could scream,
first he had to inhale and it must’ve been the longest second of that man’s life.

I remember watching an old U2 bootleg, way back, maybe from the 1992 US tour.
Mid-song, Bono saw some security guards wailing on some dude with their sticks,
probably in Philly if I remember correctly..

He stopped the song cold dead and screamed into the mic for those cops to quit
beating the man. Bono said,  “That’s not going to happen at a U2 concert.”

One thing’s for sure, John Kerry ain’t no Bono.