Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman is in jail for being a popular Democrat in a corrupt Republican state.

If Bush wishes to avoid those who jail their political opponents, he needs to avoid Gov. Riley. And Karl Rove. And himself.

Or like that dumb twat Jack Kingston (R-GA) accusing Obama of not wearing a flag lapel pin ...while not wearing a flag lapel pin himself.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/180661.php

If he were a French politician, Kingston's name would be Pepe le Pwned.

He seems absolutely giddy about walking with Putin... like a child. Sheesh.

I've got him with a few.

I hope Obama comes out and hammers Bush on this today. Just like he slammed Hillary yesterday about the experience card. It was awesome. I think the campaign event was yesterday, but Obama, when addressing the experience thing, pointed out that if Washington, D.C., experience was all that mattered then they shouldn't have bothered with any of the campaign events and just made Joe Biden the nominee. Talk about hitting that out of the park.

Was this foto the inspiration for that Jimmy Kimmel video ?

Barack Obama: "Capitalist Hating Demagogue."

Not making it up.

Would one of you big blogger guys take on the latest NYT / Economist crap about how dangerous it seems that Obama might actually turn out to be a Democrat on his economic policies?

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February 29, 2008, 9:57 am
Populists of Yore
By Chris Suellentrop

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/populists-of-yore/#comment-52836

Noam Scheiber of The New Republic may think Barack Obama’s economic policy would be non-ideological, but The Economist isn’t so confident. “Mr. Obama advertises himself as something fresh, hopeful and new,” an editorial in the magazine states. “But on economic matters at least he, like Mrs. Clinton, has begun to look a rather ordinary old-style Democrat.” The editorial also says:

The man who claims to be a “post-partisan” centrist seems to be channelling the spirit of William Jennings Bryan, the original American populist, who thunderously demanded to know, “Upon which side shall the Democratic Party fight—upon the side of ‘the idle holders of idle capital’ or upon the side of ‘the struggling masses’?

There is no denying that for some middle-class Americans, the past few years have indeed been a struggle. What is missing from Mr. Obama’s speeches is any hint that this is not the whole story: that globalisation brings down prices and increases consumer choice; that unemployment is low by historical standards; that American companies are still the world’s most dynamic and creative; and that Americans still, on the whole, live lives of astonishing affluence.

The editorial expresses optimism that Obama does not believe his own rhetoric: “So although it might seem odd to advise suspicious voters to ignore the rhetoric of a man whose principal appeal rests on his speeches, Mr. Obama in office would surely seek to be something other than the capitalist-hating demagogue he has recently sounded like.”

But The Economist’s editorial also gives a reason to fear that Obama would actually tack further to the left on economics if he reaches the Oval Office. “Both John McCain and the Democratic nominee will then be chasing swing voters who are, typically, white working men—the type already prone to pessimism about their prospects,” the editorial explains. “This group is not a natural part of Mr. Obama’s constituency and, if he were the nominee, he might well be tempted to keep the populism turned up high. If he were elected president, backed by a Democratic Congress with enhanced majorities, Mr. Obama might well feel obliged to deliver on some of his promises. At the very least, the prospects for freer trade would then be dim.”
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Right. Unless we keep committed to Reaganism & Third Way crap forever and ever and ever 'til the country collapses around our ears, we're all a bunch of cravy raving populist dangerous leftist capitalist-hating demagogues, unlike the sage people at The Economist and the New York Times manage to keep things going in all of our best interests.

God I hate these people.

So, maybe Bush shouldn't meet with either Putin *or* Ahmadinejad. Is that so ridiculous?

So, maybe Bush shouldn't meet with either Putin *or* Ahmadinejad. Is that so ridiculous?

Yes. Talking to George Bush isn't a reward to be handed out to people the US likes. It's diplomacy - statecraft. It's how nations get stuff done.

So let's see: Obama (who is half Luo) wears a traditional Kenyan outfit and he's unfit to serve as President. But GWB dresses up as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, and this doesn't disqualify him?

Hunh?

I went after this yesterday.

http://littlethomsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/bush-rips-obama-on-castro-comments.html

Obama is far more dangerous than the suit he wears.

http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/obama-plans-to-disarm-america/

Ajay--Please give me some examples where you think diplomacy with threatening dictators has actually yielded beneficial results for us.

Please give me some examples where you think diplomacy with threatening dictators has actually yielded beneficial results for us.

Is a "threatening dictator" like an obscenity (you know one when you see one)? Or is a "threatening dictator" just a foreign leader who you don't want to talk to because talking delays the bombing?

Let's see now.

Roosevelt and Churchill meeting with not-just-threatening but actually murderous dictator Josef Stalin to plan collaboration in WWII against Adolf Hitler.

Naah, nothing good could possibly have come of that.

Ajay-
Nixon-Mao; Reagan-Gorbachev; Reagan-Suharto; reagan-Pinochet, etc
Read your history!

It was awesome. I think the campaign event was yesterday, but Obama, when addressing the experience thing, pointed out that if Washington, D.C., experience was all that mattered then they shouldn't have bothered with any of the campaign events and just made Joe Biden the nominee.

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