If this continues, it looks like Kerry will have been my last democrat. I don't think I could be any more disgusted with Obama.

Posted at June 30, 2008 10:30 PM in response to Fake Left, Cut Right

i don't judge you. i've done the same thing. three times (does that make you want to judge me?) . . .

i just find it so ironic that republicans, in general, seem to have zero ability to put themselves in the shoes of another. it's a failure of imagination that allows them to exclude and judge and condemn others, while legislating away so much of what could make life bearable for human beings (define human beings as "those who screw up in life and those whose lives sometimes suck for reasons beyond their control).

that you had to put on those shoes ~ the shoes of the Other ~ to find the truth is tragic. if i could, i'd order a brand spanking new pair of shoes of humanity for every republican in the country. maybe then we could get out of the right wing and off high center on so many of these social issues that distract us from the disasters that are threatening our very lives.

and thank you for sharing. not judging you. as a former child abuse investigator, i am well acquainted with people who had children they should not have had. congratulations to you for being grown up enough to recognize reality.

hugs. lynette

Posted at June 9, 2008 2:20 PM in response to Roe V Wade and Obama V McCain and My Choice

out in the streets screaming my head off, one ordinary citizen with no public platform, no public voice, made invisible by what was essentially a media blackout on the antiwar demonstrations.

the demonstrations against iraq were some of the biggest in history. did the average american hear about it? hardly.

these "confessions," which seem to be taking place with greater frequency as we near the end of bush's disastrous presidency, make me so angry i can hardly bear it.

dissent is patriotic. to stand up and defend this nation is the height of patriotism. you people in the press tripped over yourselves to see who could be the first to lick bush's boots and to slurp up every lie that spewed from his lips.

you all disgust me. how can you live with yourselves?

Posted at June 6, 2008 11:43 PM in response to Tales From Inside the Editorial Board Room

blood on your hands.

blood on their hands.

blood on the hands of every one of you who did not scream it from the rooftops, who sat silently by, who did not take to the streets to shout it out.

i expect that those who sit now with their bloody paws crossed on their lovely desks in the beautiful media headquarters buildings around the nation are shaking their heads at the tragedy of it all.

i expect that those same smug folk, now crying boo hoo hoo, no one would listen, have denigrated and downplayed the efforts of the american citizens who DID take to the streets ~ in record numbers ~ to protest this travesty.

there was no media attention and still, to this day, those who oppose the war receive little public exposure from our "liberal" media.

i'm sick of the mea culpas at this point. to hell with all of you.

Posted at June 6, 2008 4:26 PM in response to Tales From Inside the Editorial Board Room

blood on your hands.

blood on their hands.

blood on the hands of every one of you who did not scream it from the rooftops, who sat silently by, who did not take to the streets to shout it out.

i expect that those who sit now with their bloody paws crossed on their lovely desks in the beautiful media headquarters buildings around the nation are shaking their heads at the tragedy of it all.

i expect that those same smug folk, now crying boo hoo hoo, no one would listen, have denigrated and downplayed the efforts of the american citizens who DID take to the streets ~ in record numbers ~ to protest this travesty.

there was no media attention and still, to this day, those who oppose the war receive little public exposure from our "liberal" media.

i'm sick of the mea culpas at this pointo hell with all of you.

Posted at June 6, 2008 4:25 PM in response to Tales From Inside the Editorial Board Room

one nasty ass slimy conscienceless man makes a mockery of the legislative branch. how utterly humiliating for them. spines, anyone? arrest and prosecute this jackass.

Posted at May 13, 2008 3:53 PM in response to Rove to Congress: Let's Be Pen Pals

why do you persist in promoting the ridiculous fallacy that the wealthy cannot act in behalf of those less blessed?

saying the only embarassing thing in them would be how much money the Heroine of the Single Middle Aged Waitresses and Rust Belt Working Guys has made since 2000.

why is that embarrassing? it ought to be admirable in this new gilded age.

it is only democrats who seem to insist that populist politics should be practiced only by the poor and working class. it is a meme that's picked up by the right wing lunatics and used as supposed evidence of hypocrisy.

it's ridiculous. it's a fallacy. she's not my candidate, but i could not care any less how much money she makes if her politics are right.

stop. please.

Posted at April 6, 2008 11:35 AM in response to Last Night's Tax Return Comments: Dumbest Foodfight Ever?