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It is such a sad fvcking story that somebody will make millions when a movie is finally made about it.

Posted at May 15, 2008 9:04 PM in response to Today's Must Read

There was the old assertion that the "CIA arabists" and the "DOS arabists" just didn't get Chalabi by an interesting crowd of people.

I cannot fathom the frustration of DOJ in wanting to discuss Chalabi's involvement with Tehran and being told by those in charge of DOD at the time that they could not.

It is too bad that Chalabi didn't get the opportunity to swap CDO's in exotic schemes on Wall Street, he might have had an opportunity to have made an honest living and caused much less harm.

It was the statement: "We are heros in error" that galled me.

Why would anyone considering the facts, and not allowing the facts to stand in the way of their opinions, to be surprised if Chalabi yet again had another political opportunity and political epiphany with Iran considering his former behavior?

A man was walking through the woods when he came upon a snake stuck under a fallen log. They snake asked him to pull him out but he said, "no, you will bite me". The snake promised not to bite the guy but he still wouldn't free the snake. After much pleading, the man finally let the snake free, who immediately bit him. He couldn't believe it. He said to the snake, "You promised not to bite me!! How could you do such a thing?" The snake replied, "Hey, you knew I was a snake."

Posted at May 15, 2008 8:46 PM in response to Today's Must Read

You can be objective about accounting and chemistry, but intel is an art and not a science, which leaves me wondering why the degree political science is not a humanities degree.

Yawn.. there ya go again politicizing dat der inteligence, as if that had never happened before, or more concisely the ramifications of doing so not so clearly and acutely observed.

Head of analysis for all U.S. spy agencies Thomas Fingar spent years compiling an intelligence report on Iran and the country's nuclear goals. Just before his report was to be released last summer, new intelligence offered a view different from Fingar's, that Iran was no longer seeking a nuclear program, undermining the Bush administration's hard line on Tehran and underscoring the murky lines that separate politics and intelligence. (LA Times)

Posted at May 15, 2008 8:31 PM in response to The Daily Muck

I don't think you get the story unless you see the guy in the speech ridiculing the audience about earmarks.

It is as if he lost touch with reality.

Posted at May 15, 2008 8:23 PM in response to Young's Defense Fund Nets $0

Didn't Jesse Jackson win North Carolina?

And how many rural white uneducated lower imcome male voters are in that state? Of course the litmus of sound governance being decided by "rural white uneducated lower imcome male voters"

This is becoming a farce, Olbermann has called the race, he called it a farce. Only the endless talking heads are still pretending this is a race as that is easier than actually creating content to fill the drone of the 24x7 cycle.

Posted at May 6, 2008 8:58 PM in response to Sizing Up the Night

I think that the statements on C-span today calling last night's attacks on Obama as "rape" were off the mark, I think ABC took an anricipated event by the public and did a poor job at handling it.

Was it an electronic lynching? No, Rape? No, beneath network TV? No.

As I watched the video of the crowd heckling during the commercials I was impressed that at least the audience was considerate of the viewer and that speaks volumes about PA and not the moderators or the candidates.

Posted at April 17, 2008 9:34 PM in response to George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate

The debate started off crisp, and I thought to dispel the BS issues so that the debate could move on to real issues, say like: Everbody wants green jobs, how specifically does your plan differ on energy?

But no... we witnessed something more akin to an argument of if raising taxes produced more revenue from the moderator, in lieu of asking the question, should we be fighting a war without war bonds, and how weak can a dollar go and NOT affect fixed income segments of the population.

I thought Charle's whinning about a tax increase was pathetic, I also wondered if ABC could have found another moderator besides a former Clinton official in the Whitehouse? I think that between George and Charles the public got one of the lesser to average debates, not softball questions, but not issues.

I was disappointed.

The lapel question, really was the scoundrel moment of the evening, I would like to post a rogues gallery of pedophiles, theifs, and the such with a flag as a lapel.

The debate degenerated and anybody objective could make that observation.

I mean even the Hillary Bosnia thing.. I mean honestly who doesn't know that she lied? It would have been better to have had the differences in detail again, between MANDATORY national healthcare for all US citizens and Obama's plan for targeted enrollment.

The public got cheated on issues.

Posted at April 17, 2008 7:28 AM in response to Post Debate Roundup, Philly Edition

Look at least the Freepers at FreeRepublic enjoyed the debacle, 1000 posts.. most humorous.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002643/posts

Posted at April 16, 2008 10:07 PM in response to ABC's Ignominy Continues

Get some video and that's tomorrows story, Charlie Gibson didn't do a good job.. best comment, we miss Russert.

Posted at April 16, 2008 10:02 PM in response to Charlie Gibson heckled?

What you need a poll to know what you think about what you saw?

Lead, follow, or get out of the way...

let me spell it out.. the debate was drowned out by Charlie Gibson.

Not the best debate not the worst for either candidate.

Crowd was well behaved and that is a credit to PA not the moderators, they didn't hijack the debate, Charlie did.

Posted at April 16, 2008 9:58 PM in response to ABC's Ignominy Continues