For Brack?

Another Lamont Vacation Apologist.

Yes. We. Can. (rock)

Thank you Reaper REC

really TexasDarlin' or Rick Davis?

Don't forget they both went to Harvard.

the dog is due for her monthly tick medicine.

Nice.

Rec'd.

yeah I am in a car on the way to new hampshire posting from a smartphone.  glad u guys liked it.  

He only APPEARS carbon-based.  

I guess it really is the silly season!

Some people haven't got the carbon-based message yet.

Diary recced.

I knew you couldn't stay away. REC'D.

getting real goddamned tired of being in the car.  are we there yet?

trust is earned over time, of course we can't simply trust anyone.  Can we trust that he hasn't got a 'bomb' in his background, a la Edwards, I trust that he's discreet and if he's had an affair it's been with someone he trusts. Can we trust that he'll get us out of Iraq - on, we have to keep his feet to the fire.  Can we trust that he'll be a uniter and he's really for consensus, on that I'm waiting to see who he picks for VP. I trust that he'll pick the one that won the other half of the votes, but it's more like potential trust, I'll like it better when it's happened.  

to get votes! There's nothing worse than an hypocrite passing himself as someone who has no intentions of being what he professes to be and worse, accusing his rivals of his own sins!

www.counterpunch.com/walsh08142008.html
Buyers' remorse over Obama

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"withdrawal from Iraq on a fixed timetable" as one of the positions that Obama "embraced" during the primary.

When others have raised such criticisms, Obama has responded that they have not been listening to him.  On this one, I am with Obama.  How can one take this guy seriously as an "antiwar" candidate when he has voted for hundreds of billions of dollars to fund the Iraq war and to slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis? Neither Ron Paul nor Dennis Kucinich, both presidential candidates, nor Barbara Lee voted for these funds for a "war of aggression," as Ralph Nader has properly called it.  On this score Obama's voting record is no different from McCain's or Hillary Clinton's.  

And Obama made it clear long ago in one of his few clear statements on the war that he does not oppose all wars and in fact supports "smart" ones.  Iraq is thus not  a criminal war, a war of aggression, but merely a "dumb" war.  Presumably the war in Afghanistan that Obama so loves is to be a "smart" war.  When you come right down to it, how different is Obama's position that the war is not "smart" from McCain's that, until the surge, the war was not "smartly" waged?  I would say that the difference is less than a dime.

The letter is also frankly dishonest when it says that Obama is simply moving to a more "centrist stance" In what sense "centrist"? The war is wildly unpopular and close to 70% of Americans want the U.S. out of Iraq asap.  What is "centrist" about moving away from a landslide majoritarian position?  And what is the "peace"candidate doing when he calls for 100,000 more active duty army and marines, when he calls for more military spending, when he calls for stepping up the war on Afghanistan, when he talks belligerently about Iran, and when he equivocates on how many tens of thousands of troops are to be left in Iraq?  All these are positions that the "peace"candidate took during the primary.  They are not new.

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