Here's a Washington Post article about how it's time to face facts, the Republicans are the problem. It was co-written by a conservative and a liberal, and I couldn't agree with it more (obviously).
Here's this story from deadspin, which I am completely obsessed with, yet have no idea what it's about or what is going on. And here's an update on the story. There's going to be a lot more to come on this, and hopefully I'll be able to figure out just what the hell it all means.
For all my fellow Laker fans, here's a pretty good story on Andrew Bynum.
Here are the bachelors Emily gets to choose from. They don't look promising.
It's impossible not to laugh at this.
And finally, how did you celebrate We Killed Bin Laden Day?
Mine wasn't as festive as last year, because the big story at the start of this week was that President Obama had the audacity to bring up the fact that he made the call to kill Bin Laden last year. Apparently, he's not allowed to make this a campaign issue. Conservatives, and even some liberals, are pissed that the
President would have the nerve to try and run on his record of
achievements.
What a jerk!
Can you
imagine if Bush had killed Bin Laden? Holy shit. That's probably the one
thing that could make southerners stop reenacting the Civil War,
because they'd reenact the Bin Laden killing. Bush would've landed a
helicopter on a stack of Muslims in Guantanamo Bay in front of a banner
that said "Osama Bin Gotten!"
It kills
the Republicans that Obama killed Osama. They can't handle it. You
mention it to them and they freak the fuck out. Sorry guys, but you
didn't do it. Bush didn't get it done. He even said "I really just don't
spend that much time thinking about him (Bin Laden), to be honest with
you".
In 2007, Romney said, “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person”.
How
in the hell, if you're Barack Obama, do you not bring this up every
second? You have to! It's called a Presidential campaign. Yeah, he's
politicizing it. You know why? Cause he's a politician. It's the job.
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I don't even know how McCain (GIULIANI!!!) could say that with a straight face. Shameless. The world has gone mad.
Not only did Bush say he wasn't that concerned about bin Laden, he called off the hunt for him ... Obama's the one who decided early in his Presidency to catch him, who put back together the team that eventually did it. Republicans sometimes claim that Obama only got him because of the intelligence work that happened under Bush ... this is plainly and clearly untrue ... Bush called off the hunt, Obama called it back on, made a gutsy call to go in (any and all research on this reveals that it could have gone very badly and not ended well, like when Carter sent a rescue into Iran that failed) and it worked. He deserves credit for this.
Republicans are profoundly dishonest on this, and it makes me wonder how anyone who treasures honesty and integrity can call themselves conservative. Many liberals didn't like Bush, but after the WTC attacks rallied behind him because he was OUR President. Conservatives can't do it, they just hate no matter what and invent shit to get mad about.
It'd be better if they were more honest and say, yeah, he did all that great stuff, I still ain't gonna support him because he's black and has a foreign name ... if they were upfront about their bigotry, it'd be more honest.
It really shows the difference between how Obama sees warfare and how the Republicans see it. Republicans still live in the past. That any conflict requires thousands of boots on the ground. Whereas Obama is much more about small tactical strikes and winning over the minds and hearts of the people (instead of labeling entire nations as terrorists).
IH -- I am shocked you didn't mention that one of the bachelors is from Moraga, CA. Nothing gets by you like that. Do we know him?
JE
Bin Laden died about ten years ago. WAKE UP!
but actually, he didn't.
je - i didn't cycle through all the bachelors to see that moraga guy. interesting. i've never heard of him, but i'll do some investigating.
Between the lies sent out on political emails, and the bias of Fox and talk show hosts, republicans are totally misinformed.
Example... a conservative friend told me yesterday that Obama will increase the capital gains tax to 39% if re-elected.
What he said is:
~ he will increase it, probably only to 20%, but never above 28%,
~ and only on household incomes above $250,000.
What continually amazes me is that with all the problems, they have to make shit up.
Almost comical, if it weren't so serious.
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