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Let's see that ***** try to pull this off.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Virginia lawmaker criticized for writing an "Islamophobic" letter to his constituents would be wise to learn more about Islam, the first Muslim elected to Congress said Thursday.
Minnesota Rep.-elect Keith Ellison told CNN that he is not angry about a letter Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode wrote that said Ellison should not be allowed to place his hand on the Quran during his unofficial swearing in ceremony. "I think the diversity of our country is a great strength," Ellison told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "It's a good thing that we have people from all faiths and all cultures to come here." (Watch Ellison play down Quran flap) Goode wrote that to "preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States," an immigration overhaul was necessary to avoid "many more Muslims elected to office demanding the use of the Quran."
Defending his statements Thursday, Goode, a Republican, told Fox News he wants to limit legal immigration. He also said he wants to do away with "diversity visas," which he said allowed people into America "not from European countries" and "some terrorist states." Ellison responded to Goode's sentiments by saying that he would like to meet with Goode to talk about Islam and find some "common ground." "We all support one Constitution, one Constitution that upholds our right to equal protection, one Constitution that guarantees us due process under the law, one Constitution which says there is no religious test for elective office in America," Ellison said.
Blitzer asked the new lawmaker-elect directly if thought Goode is a "bigot." "I don't know the fellow and I'd rather just say he has a lot to learn about Islam," Ellison said.
In his letter, Goode wrote that strict immigration polices are necessary "to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America." "The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Quran," he wrote.
Virginia's senior senator, Republican John Warner, said in a statement Thursday that he respects the right of congressional members to freely "exercise the religion of their choice, including those of the Islamic faith utilizing the Quran."
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois Democrat who is Jewish, said Thursday that he hoped Goode would meet with Ellison. Emanuel said he would "see what I saw: a good American with good values of a different faith who's trying to do right by the people he represents."
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Jewish congresswoman Shultz used the Jewish holy book for her swearing in and it seems no one had a problem with that, what gives? Is it really becoming acceptable in the US to be a racist just as long as it is socially acceptable racism?
Badboy
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Yesterday on Fox News, talk radio host Mike Gallagher said the U. S. Government should "round up" actor Matt Damon, "The View" host Joy Behar, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and "put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they're a bunch of traitors."
Gallagher was upset over Behar's comment that Time magazine should have chosen a controversial "Hitler-type" like Donald Rumsfeld as its Person of the Year. Gallagher said Damon should also be incarcerated because he "attacked George Bush and Dick Cheney"; he didn't explain why he wanted to imprison Olbermann. Watch it:
GALLAGHER: You know, it's a little bit ridiculous that we continue to watch these TV stars and movie stars who smear our leaders. I just wonder, Rob, if you'll think for a moment what our enemies think of seeing TV personalities compare the outgoing defense secretary to Adolph Hitler. I mean, you know, conservatives never get a pass. Strom Thurmond is wished a happy birthday by Trent Lott and the sky falls in on Trent Lott. But Joy Behar goes on national TV and compares a good man like Rumsfeld to the evilest man in the world and nobody, you know, there's no repercussions for Joy Behar. I think we should round up all of these folks. Round up Joy Behar. Round up Matt Damon, who last night on MSNBC attacked George Bush and Dick Cheney. Round up Olbermann. Take the whole bunch of them and put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they're a bunch of traitors.
THOMPSON: They're not traitors, they're Americans. And you know what the great thing about America is you get to say what you like and you don't get thrown into detention camps.
GALLAGHER: No, you don't.
THOMPSON: And that's what the rest of the world sees. They see free Americans say what they like without having any fear of going to jail. So, if I wanted to compare someone to Hitler or anybody else, Pol Pot, whatever it might be, I have no fear of going to jail because that is what an America is.
GALLAGHER: There's such a thing as treason, Rob.
THOMPSON: That's not treason. That's just political talk and satire and it might be funny at the best, at the least.
[url]http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/20/gallagher-damon-olbermann/[/url]
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Hillary is a Mother all right. A Mother*&^% ing *$#@
I have had women bosses in my career! Mostly idiots who can't make decisions but sure can Monday Morning Quaterback.
What a fucking disaster for the country if this know-it-all gets in.
Of course, Christina will be running things down here in a couple of years as well.
End of the neo-con dream.
By Paul Reynolds.
World Affairs correspondent.
The neo-conservative dream faded in 2006.
Iraq was meant to be the showcase for a New American Century. The ambitions proclaimed when the neo-cons' mission statement "The Project for the New American Century" was declared in 1997 have turned into disappointment and recriminations as the crisis in Iraq has grown. "The Project for the New American Century" has been reduced to a voice-mail box and a ghostly website. A single employee has been left to wrap things up. The idea of the "Project" was to project American power and influence around the world. The 1997 statement (written during the administration of President Bill Clinton) said:
"We seem to have forgotten the essential elements of the Reagan Administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities." Among the signatories were many of the senior officials who would later determine policy under President George W Bush - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams and Lewis Libby - as well as thinkers including Francis Fukuyama, Norman Podheretz and Frank Gaffney.
The neo-conservatives were called that because they sought to re-establish what they felt were true conservative values in the Republican Party and the United States. They wanted to stop what they felt were the isolationist tendencies that had developed under President Clinton, and even under the pragmatic President George Bush senior.
They saw the war in Iraq as their big chance of showing how the "New American Century" might work. They predicted the development of democratic values in a region lacking in them and, in that way, the removal of any threat to the United States just as the democratisation of Germany and Japan after World War II had transformed Europe and the Pacific. "Neo-conservatism has gone for a generation, if in fact it ever returns," says one of the movement's critics, David Rothkopf, currently at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, and a former official in the Clinton administration.
"Their signal enterprise was the invasion of Iraq and their failure to produce results is clear. Precisely the opposite has happened," he says. "The US use of force has been seen as doing wrong and as inflaming a region that has been less than susceptible to democracy. "Their plan has fallen on hard times. There were flaws in the conception and horrendously bad execution. The neo-cons have been undone by their own ideas and the incompetence of the Bush administration. "George Bush is about the last neo-conservative standing, Cheney as well maybe. Bush is not an analytical person so he just adopted the neo-cons' philosophy.
"It fitted into his Manichean, his black and white view of the world. After all, he gave up his dissolute youth and was born again as a new man, so it appealed to his character." In particular, two leading neo-conservatives, Richard Perle and Kenneth Adelman, attacked the Bush team in Vanity Fair magazine. Both had been on a Pentagon advisory board. Both had argued for war in Iraq.
In an article called "Neo Culpa", Richard Perle declared that had he known how it would turn out, he would have been against it: "I think now I probably would have said: 'No, let's consider other strategies'." Kenneth Adelman said: "They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era. "Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional." Donald Rumsfeld "fooled me", he said. He declared of neo-conservatism after Iraq: "It's not going to sell."
How a moron like Bush was elected leader of the world's most powerful nation.
Well, here is the answer. LOL.
[url]http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c9b427a37b[/url]
Dec. 28, 1:16 PM EST.
Edwards Making Another White House Bid.
By NEDRA PICKLER.
Associated Press Writer.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Former vice presidential nominee John Edwards declared his candidacy Thursday for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, saying the United States needs a new spirit of activism and leadership for an unstable, chaotic world. Clad in blue jeans, an open-necked shirt and with his sleeves rolled up, Edwards chose the backyard of a victim of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward for his unorthodox announcement.
"We want people in this campaign to actually take action now, not later, not after the next election," the former North Carolina senator said, sounding as much like a recruiter as a presidential campaigner. Edwards, 53, is calling for an increase in community service and cuts in poverty, global warming and troops in Iraq. He said he made a mistake in voting for a resolution to go to war with Iraq, but also noted that he didn't conduct the war. He said the Bush administration's leadership in Iraq has been a disaster and that it would be a mistake to send in more troops.
"The biggest responsibility of the next president of the United States is to re-establish America's leadership role in the world, starting with Iraq," Edwards said. "We need to make it clear that we intend to leave Iraq and turn over the responsibility of Iraq to the Iraqi people," Edwards said. "The best way to make that clear is to actually start leaving."
Edwards said it's not just Iraq that is in chaos and in need of moral leadership from the United States. He said the United States should be leading an end to genocide in Sudan and to atrocities in northern Uganda. He also said the country should provide universal health care for all and end its dependence on foreign oil. He said he would tax oil company profits and eliminate President Bush's tax cuts to pay for his priorities.
"We need to ask Americans to be willing to be patriotic about something beyond war," he said. He said that will include a National Call to Action Day on Jan. 27 where Americans can contribute their time to help enroll children in government health care programs, fight for an increase in the minimum wage or other efforts. Edwards also criticized Bush for not doing more to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "If I'd been president, I would have had somebody coming into my office every morning, and I would say to him, 'What did you do in New Orleans yesterday?'" Edwards said.
In his message to supporters, Edwards listed his priorities to change America. Among them: "Guaranteeing health care for every single American," "Strengthening our middle class and ending the shame of poverty," "Leading the fight against global warming," and "Getting America and the world to break our addiction to oil." Asked about how he will compete with Clinton and Obama, Edwards simply encouraged others to run if they want to serve like he does. "I want the best human beings possible to run for president of the United States," Edwards said. "We need a great president in 2009 because of all the problems and the challenges that we face."
Edwards has positioned himself as a serious contender. He's been strengthening his ties to labor and other Democratic activists behind the scenes, rebuilding a top-notch campaign staff and honing his skills. The efforts have made him the leading candidate in early polls of Iowa Democrats who will get the first say in the nomination fight. Edwards' advisers scheduled a six-state announcement tour between Christmas and New Year's Day with the hopes that news would be slow and he could dominate media coverage. Over three days, Edwards also planned to travel to Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina and his home state of North Carolina.
Edwards kicked off his campaign at the home of Orelia Tyler, 54, who has been living in a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer in her yard while her home was rebuilt. Edwards' challenge over the next year will be to show that he can keep up with front-runners Clinton and Obama, should they get in the race, in terms of fundraising and support. Unlike officeholders who may run, Edwards does not have a federal campaign account and will have to start raising money from scratch.
In 1998, in his first bid for public office, Edwards defeated incumbent Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N. C. A leading advocate for impeachment of President Clinton. Edwards launched a bid for the Democratic nomination in 2003 and quickly caught the eye of Democratic strategists. Although he won only the South Carolina primary, his skills on the trail, his cheerful demeanor, and his message of "two Americas" - one composed of the wealthy and privileged, and the other of the hardworking common man - excited voters, especially independents and moderate-leaning Democrats.
As America heads to the polls again.
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Too much. LOL
[QUOTE=Thomaso276]I have had women bosses in my career! Mostly idiots who can't make decisions but sure can Monday Morning Quaterback.
What a fucking disaster for the country if this know-it-all gets in.
Of course, Christina will be running things down here in a couple of years as well.[/QUOTE]I don't have anything against a woman president in theory. Margaret Thatcher was the best Prime Minister the UK has had in the last 60 years. But just as I wouldn't vote for a candidate just because he's a man, neither do I see any serious woman presidential candidates who would attract my vote - especially not just because they don't have Y chromosomes.
[QUOTE=Papa Benito]I consider him the best President of my lifetime! A tragic loss.[/QUOTE]We all gotta go sometime. The death of a 93 year old isn't a "tragic loss." He was blessed to live as long as he did and to retain his faculties to the end.
As president, he was a forgettable historical footnote whose principal achievement was his much-attacked pardon of Richard Nixon, which was the political equivalent of hara-kiri, but which was absolutely necessary.