Here's some outrage - from a historian who became apoplectic at the first time BushCo tried to use appeasement and comparison to Churchill. This is an interview clip from the BBC in August, 2002, eicht months before the war. It is the perfect answer to Bush's Knesset remarks of yesterday:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060812225501/www.er2004.com/HistoFreakout.mp3

Posted at May 16, 2008 11:54 PM in response to Obama Hits Back: Debate With McCain And Bush Over Foreign Policy Is One "I Will Win"

The argument will be lost on Karl, but he is one great figure in the Reagan/Bush/Gingrich era, responsible for leading us to our New American Century - the one where the USA tries its hand at being a rogue state, overextends its military and bankrupts its treasury.

What would "turning the page" on this stain in our history be like?

This "back to the future" moment is courtesy of FDR - first inaugural address:

"...our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for... Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live. "

Posted at February 27, 2008 12:54 AM in response to An Evening with Karl Rove

When the Republican Senate - in a rare response to public pressure - voted to repeal the media ownership concentration cap relaxation which Michael Powell's FCC approved on June 2, 2002, Sen. McCain voted against the repeal. This - despite two million comments submitted to the FCC by folks opposed to the ownership deregulation.

I think this is an ideal time for former SCC Chairman McCain to answer questions about the corruption of our corporate media outlets - the MSM - enabled by his actions in the Senate. I thought the "services rendered" to the GOP for this deregulatory largesse were limited to the softball, dumbed-down news we get from the corporate outlets. Perhaps not.

Posted at February 21, 2008 9:58 PM in response to What Did McCain Actually Do for Iseman's Clients?