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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
November 06, 2008
Just Foreign Policy Letter To Obama
Just Foreign Policy has a useful sign-on letter to Obama, telling him to withdraw from Iraq and establish diplomacy with Iran. There are also an assortment of other issues you can add, including our relations with Venezuela and Cuba.
—Jonathan Schwarz
Posted at November 6, 2008 03:27 PMI fear the evil boyars will twist and divert kind czar's good efforts anyway. It always happens.
Posted by: abb1 at November 6, 2008 04:06 PMObama doesn't care what the plebeians think about his warmongering anymore than he cared what you thought about his support of the Bailout. The slaves were overwhelmingly against the Bailout, were ignored, and still voted for for the two stooges who pushed it through. Obomba will bomb and Liberate whomever his paymasters tell him to.
Posted by: Marcus at November 7, 2008 03:54 AMI signed about 4 petitions today mostly related to prior contributions and mailing lists, including yours.
Why not? It's literally the least I could do. :-)
It is disappointing about Rahm and Larry Summers, but I'm willing to give it a chance for at least 100 days into the administration to see what it's about.
Posted by: Labiche at November 7, 2008 08:16 AMhv: No, he'll be ABSOLUTLY no more dangerous to anybody or any special group than ANY run of the mill Democratic Sellout.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at November 7, 2008 11:32 AMhv: No, he'll be ABSOLUTLY no more dangerous to anybody or any special group than ANY run of the mill Democratic Sellout.
Posted by Mike Meyer at November 7, 2008 11:32 AM
Well, I guess I'm convinced now! Thanks Mike Meyer, for that substantive and convincing rebuttal to my argument!
Seriously.. did you even try to read that article by Adolph Reed and try to understand the points I was making about why I think Obama is possibly even more dangerous than some run-of-the-mill corporatist Democrat?
Posted by: hv at November 8, 2008 12:44 AMhv: The problems YOU describe in this and other posts are DEMOCRATIC PARTY problems, to which Obama is tied by his party affilations. He's a TEAM player and the TEAM got him this election, he didn't do it by himself. His ideology is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY LINE, nothing he himself came up with. Every word, every angle long discussed, critiqued to the nth degree, Madison Avenue applied to politics to garner those votes, TEAM WORK. Just because he is black doesn't mean he can't be on the beam with the TEAM.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at November 8, 2008 09:54 AMYes, Democrats like John Kerry, who are unpersuasive and uncharismatic, are much less of a danger to us. Of course, Democrats like John Kerry don't win, leaving us with the Republicans, who are more of a danger to us.
What's needed is a Democrat who's just charismatic enough to win an election, but not so charismatic that he can persuade people to do things they shouldn't do.
When you find one of those, please let me know.
Posted by: SteveB at November 8, 2008 10:29 AM
