August 29, 2008
Sarah Palin taking cues from Bill Clinton's...
...book of propriety... Of course, she didn't inhale either...
It reminds me of the tale of the "confirmed straight man;" you know, the one that tried sex with another man and confirmed that he wasn't gay because he didn't like it...
Sarah Palin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose hamburger, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[12][54] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[9]
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August 28, 2008
Soledad O'Brien's shoddy reporting of the DNC
I posted the comment below in Jack Cafferty's blog. I'll post it here, just in case the "moderation" works against me...
Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - What can Obama say to get your vote? - Blogs from CNN.com
August 28th, 2008 2:19 pm ET
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He already has my vote. He could say or do something stupid and lose it though. A strong possibility with any politician, mind you.
Now, I couldn't find a blog for Soledad O'brien so I'll post an opinion of her work as daytime host for the DNC coverage right here: Could somebody ask her to stop being tendentious and leading in her questioning of the panel commentators and field reporters? Seriously, at least with you, Jack, everybody knows you're a masterful cynic (cynic as in the M-W: 2: a faultfinding captious critic; especially : one who believes that human conduct is motivated wholly by self-interest) and with you is expected and oftentimes very cute. Soledad, on the other hand, is not there yet and needs to attend your school for at least another 30 years to graduate at your level. With her, the result is not the least funny, it is self-serving and, even most important, it is bad reporting.
Unless, of course, she's vouching for a seat right next to Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs. Sad prospect, IMO...
Update
Indeed, the comment was never approved. It is good I posted my opinion here.
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August 13, 2008
The other pieces on the board of Russia's thoughts...
As Russia shows Georgia its iron hand, a look at the love-hate relationship it shares with Soviet Union’s former ‘republics’ since USSR’s dissolution in 1991:
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August 12, 2008
Well, duh!!
One only has to hear McCain talk yesterday...
Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan
What is playing out in the Caucasus is being reported in the United States media in an alarmingly misleading light, making Moscow appear the lone aggressor after it sent troops into the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia following a Georgian offensive on that territory.
The question is whether President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are encouraging Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to force the next US president to back the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military agenda of the current Bush administration. Washington may have badly misjudged the possibilities, as it did in Iraq, and there are even possible nuclear consequences.
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August 11, 2008
Master chess players...
It is hard to fathom such an amount of stupidity on the part of a supposedly "Western leader" like Saakashvili. What was he thinking? There are very few random things that happen in geopolitics. This was a (mis)calculated move by the Georgian president to launch a "take control of the dogs in the backyard" to coincide with the opening of the Beijing Olympics, hoping the Russians would look the other way or at least wait until the games were over. By that time, it would have been very difficult to wrench the Georgians out of South Ossetia. Russia, on the other hand, which has a history of not giving a crap about what anybody thinks of their actions, launched a clean-up and punitive campaign against the Georgians. Was that unforseen by Saakashvili? Really? Now, what kind of gambit was Saakashvili playing? Was he promised an unconditional back-up by the U.S.? (yes, I see Dick Cheney's and Co. fingerprints in this)? Was he given the green light--not that he needed one, mind you--to launch such an attack on its own rebel provinces? Provinces which, by the way, have been bristling with Russian "Peacemakers" for, what?, at least 16 years. For crying out loud, what was the logic of it? What forced that hand?
Looking at the future, I agree with Debka's assessment of what's "next". The Russians, like it or not, do call the shots in the region. Bear no illusions about it being different. The Cold War never ended; it was paused. The thing is, there many hands itching to press the "Play" button. Perhaps it's being done already.
DEBKAfile - No Caucasian Ceasefire until Russia Achieves its Aims
After severing South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgia, four follow-up Russian steps may be postulated:
1. The two separatist provinces will proclaim their independence, just like Kosovo.
2. Russia will continue to exercise its overwhelming military and air might to reduce the pro-American Saakashvili to capitulation.
3. The Georgian president will not be able to face his own nation after losing two regions of his country and causing its humiliation. Moscow will then make Washington swallow a pro-Russian successor.
4. Moscow’s trampling of Georgia will serve as an object lesson for Russia’s own secessionist provinces, such as Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, and a warning not to risk defying Russian armed might.
5. Western plans to develop more oil and gas pipelines to bypass the Russian network to the West, in addition to the Caspian line which carries one million barrels a day from Baku through Georgia to Turkey and out to the West, will be held in abeyance pending an accommodation with the rulers of the Kremlin.
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