In These Times

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• • 08 Jan 06
  • 1:34 pm

  Jay, Let me get this strait... Are you suggesting that the policies of our government are justifiable in any way? Are you suggesting that bombing sovereign nations into complacency on the whim of an ignorant redneck president is somehow correct behavior? Are you suggesting that we should give up any concept of the freedoms that this nation claims to have been founded on for the illusion of security provided by a government that could care less about the safety of its citizens (example: the levee's of New Orleans)? Hmmmm... I guess that intellect is truly not a requirement of participation in …

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• • 09 Jan 06
  • 5:41 pm

  Not really... It seems that the political machine of the Bush administration really capitalized on the apparent stupidity of the electorate. Or was it the fact that fear of gay marriage causes the brains of fundametalists to automatically shut down? I must admit that Carl Rove was quite masterfull in his strategy and taktics in the last presidential campaign. It's really too bad that he has the ethics of an imp. As a result, we have the situation where emotion was used to stampede the country into war, as we have been discussing here. I just hope the electorate has learnd …

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