Wait, what about the trail of bodies, broken lives, and financial swindles the Clintons left in their wake in their evil pursuit of power? (Cackles fiendishly, Muhahahahaha!!!)
I should ask the same question of you I just asked of styleguy, but I think I'll forebear because I already know the answer.
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance.
This is a very current thought on talk radio. I've heard it over and over.
Do you have anything intellectually substantive to say in support of your own positions or in rebuttal to those you disagree with?
Gaz, call Dr Who...we've got a MAJOR problem with the Irony quotient in this thread. Engaging overrides might not be enough to save the Spacetime continuum!
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
Coggins7 wrote:I should ask the same question of you I just asked of styleguy, but I think I'll forebear because I already know the answer.
Well, let's see, since you have been off-topic for some time now, I see no reason to oblige you in derailing the thread further. You see, Coggins, we weren't really talking about Carter in the first place, so, uh, why should we start? Just to give you a place to spew more bile? I don't think so.
moksha wrote:What I don't understand is why the Democrats are mistaking intelligence and being well spoken with winability, by backing Hillary. The electorate is willing to elect a numbskull, like you know who. Hillary is way too vulnerable to the Republican PR machine.
Edwards would be a sure winner for the Democrats. What gives?
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I wish I felt Mitt wouldn't say just about anything for votes. Of course, I also wish he didn't represent a retread of failing policies as well.
Edwards has the problem that he's such a fake that even Kerry noticed it. (if we believe the recent book by Bob Shrum) I love the angle of the populist who just built a 28,000 square foot house for himself. And charging $50K+ to make speeches on poverty is just outstanding. And his setting up a dummy corporation in 1995 to avoid paying $290K in Medicare taxes shows that there really are two Americas.
Not to engage in simplistic generalizations (ok, I'll do it anyway), show me an economic populist, and I'll show you a hypocrite using populism as a means to manipulate the masses so as to achieve his/her real ends; power and money (and throw sex in for good measure).
I don't buy populism doled out by persons wearing $2,000 suits, driving BMWs, and living in mansions.
Then again there's the populist in military fatigues. They aren't so hot either.
Then there's just the transparently power-grabbing populists who make no effort to hide their real agendas (a la Hugo Chavez).
God . . . "who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, . . . and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him ..."
guy sajer wrote:Not to engage in simplistic generalizations (ok, I'll do it anyway), show me an economic populist, and I'll show you a hypocrite using populism as a means to manipulate the masses so as to achieve his/her real ends; power and money (and throw sex in for good measure).
I don't buy populism doled out by persons wearing $2,000 suits, driving BMWs, and living in mansions.
Then again there's the populist in military fatigues. They aren't so hot either.
Then there's just the transparently power-grabbing populists who make no effort to hide their real agendas (a la Hugo Chavez).
But what about that sincere idealist and man of the people Julius Caesar? Oh yeah.
guy sajer wrote:Not to engage in simplistic generalizations (ok, I'll do it anyway), show me an economic populist, and I'll show you a hypocrite using populism as a means to manipulate the masses so as to achieve his/her real ends; power and money (and throw sex in for good measure).
I don't buy populism doled out by persons wearing $2,000 suits, driving BMWs, and living in mansions.
Then again there's the populist in military fatigues. They aren't so hot either.
Then there's just the transparently power-grabbing populists who make no effort to hide their real agendas (a la Hugo Chavez).
But what about that sincere idealist and man of the people Julius Caesar? Oh yeah.
Filthy patricians.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning