<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Snow: Bush Isn&#8217;t &#8216;Big On YouTube Debates&#8217;</title>
	<atom:link href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:04:02 -0500</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: William Travis</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-4041420</link>
		<dc:creator>William Travis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-4041420</guid>
		<description>Do we have a king now? Or, do we have a president?  I might go to jail for asking this question.  Is that your idea of America? Under current law, questioning Dear Leader&#039;s authority could make me an enemy of the state.  Is that what you voted for?   Below, there is some really scary stuff, read it and YOU could become an enemy of freedom and the United States.

Camps?...Haliburton and KBR have already been paid to build them.  Should I go first, or should you pick someone to go before me?  Germany and Japan started the same way.  Are you happy with that thought? Under Republican, one party rule, we&#039;ve already paid for them.  The Democrats did not rescind the Republican camps.


The Republicans care nothing for you.   They have a few economic policies that they want to preserve...no taxes for the rich and nothing for the poor. That plays right into your religious dogma, screw the poor and help the rich. Isn&#039;t that what Jesus preached? To be religiously correct they added hate the gays and hate abortion...just to make sure you would stay with the party line...did it work?


I thank God that Jesus and the Republican party have finally put America on the right path!  The poor should die and the rich should live forever and never pay taxes!  Your home is inviolate...unless some 20something in the Justice Department doesn&#039;t like you...then YOU could become an enemy of the state!  Like that?  Cool!  Judges should NEVER be involved in politics, like they are now.  Vote Republican! You could also vote Democrat and delay the process for 2-3 years.

In CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature&#039;s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. â€” That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, â€” That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. â€” Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty &amp; Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. â€” And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

If you really believe in our Declaration of Independence, do not vote for ANY office holder next year.  If you love our constitution, DO NOT VOTE for an incumbent next year. We need to save our republic!

If you got this far, you should read the last sentence of the above. Dump incumbents next year Let&#039;s try to start a new republic that actually cares for WE THE PEOPLE.

I could bring up something that&#039;s really scary but I dont&#039;t want to traumatize you with our constitution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do we have a king now? Or, do we have a president?  I might go to jail for asking this question.  Is that your idea of America? Under current law, questioning Dear Leader&#8217;s authority could make me an enemy of the state.  Is that what you voted for?   Below, there is some really scary stuff, read it and YOU could become an enemy of freedom and the United States.</p>
<p>Camps?&#8230;Haliburton and KBR have already been paid to build them.  Should I go first, or should you pick someone to go before me?  Germany and Japan started the same way.  Are you happy with that thought? Under Republican, one party rule, we&#8217;ve already paid for them.  The Democrats did not rescind the Republican camps.</p>
<p>The Republicans care nothing for you.   They have a few economic policies that they want to preserve&#8230;no taxes for the rich and nothing for the poor. That plays right into your religious dogma, screw the poor and help the rich. Isn&#8217;t that what Jesus preached? To be religiously correct they added hate the gays and hate abortion&#8230;just to make sure you would stay with the party line&#8230;did it work?</p>
<p>I thank God that Jesus and the Republican party have finally put America on the right path!  The poor should die and the rich should live forever and never pay taxes!  Your home is inviolate&#8230;unless some 20something in the Justice Department doesn&#8217;t like you&#8230;then YOU could become an enemy of the state!  Like that?  Cool!  Judges should NEVER be involved in politics, like they are now.  Vote Republican! You could also vote Democrat and delay the process for 2-3 years.</p>
<p>In CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776<br />
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America</p>
<p>When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature&#8217;s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</p>
<p>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. â€” That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, â€” That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. â€” Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.</p>
<p>He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.</p>
<p>He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.</p>
<p>He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.</p>
<p>He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.</p>
<p>He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.</p>
<p>He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.</p>
<p>He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.</p>
<p>He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.</p>
<p>He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.</p>
<p>He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.</p>
<p>He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.</p>
<p>He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.</p>
<p>He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:</p>
<p>For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:</p>
<p>For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:</p>
<p>For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:</p>
<p>For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:</p>
<p>For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:</p>
<p>For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:</p>
<p>For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies</p>
<p>For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:</p>
<p>For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.</p>
<p>He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.</p>
<p>He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.</p>
<p>He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty &amp; Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.</p>
<p>He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.</p>
<p>He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.</p>
<p>In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.</p>
<p>Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.</p>
<p>We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. â€” And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.</p>
<p>If you really believe in our Declaration of Independence, do not vote for ANY office holder next year.  If you love our constitution, DO NOT VOTE for an incumbent next year. We need to save our republic!</p>
<p>If you got this far, you should read the last sentence of the above. Dump incumbents next year Let&#8217;s try to start a new republic that actually cares for WE THE PEOPLE.</p>
<p>I could bring up something that&#8217;s really scary but I dont&#8217;t want to traumatize you with our constitution.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4041420', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: PJ Pohly</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3981316</link>
		<dc:creator>PJ Pohly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3981316</guid>
		<description>My concern about the YouTube debates was the gender gap.

I want to know who picked the questions.... were candidate reps involved, or was CNN the main picker, or YouTube/Google.

Women make up 54 percent of the population, 55 percent of registered voters and 60 percent of the electorate.  So I want to know why only 24% of the YouTube questions chosen were posed by women!

For more on my thoughts about this, check out my recent blog:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/07/88_million_more_women_than_men.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Almost 9 Million More Women - YouTube Blew It?&lt;/a&gt; at www.EverydayCitizen.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My concern about the YouTube debates was the gender gap.</p>
<p>I want to know who picked the questions&#8230;. were candidate reps involved, or was CNN the main picker, or YouTube/Google.</p>
<p>Women make up 54 percent of the population, 55 percent of registered voters and 60 percent of the electorate.  So I want to know why only 24% of the YouTube questions chosen were posed by women!</p>
<p>For more on my thoughts about this, check out my recent blog:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/07/88_million_more_women_than_men.html" rel="nofollow">Almost 9 Million More Women &#8211; YouTube Blew It?</a> at <a href="http://www.EverydayCitizen.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.EverydayCitizen.com</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3981316', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3963158</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3963158</guid>
		<description>scary.... Bush just quoted hitler.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>scary&#8230;. Bush just quoted hitler.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3963158', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: ladyactivist</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3962604</link>
		<dc:creator>ladyactivist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3962604</guid>
		<description>Itâ€™s great that so many young people got online for these debates.  Another cool thing thatâ€™s happening is the Whatâ€™s Your Plan? campaignâ€”where young people are hitting the campaign trail to talk face to face with all of the Presidential candidates about issues that are important to them.  Young people are asking one simple question: Whatâ€™s Your Plan? To stop global warming. To make a college education affordable. To provide effective, affordable health care. To address financial security for Americans.  Already theyâ€™ve had 35 face to face conversations with the candidates in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and South Carolinaâ€”including: Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Duncan Hunter, John Cox, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, John McCain, Tommy Thompson, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Clinton, Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Joe Biden. For more information go to www.whats-your-plan.org. Whatâ€™s Your Plan? is a project of the Student PIRGsâ€™ New Voters Project and affiliated youth organizations.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Itâ€™s great that so many young people got online for these debates.  Another cool thing thatâ€™s happening is the Whatâ€™s Your Plan? campaignâ€”where young people are hitting the campaign trail to talk face to face with all of the Presidential candidates about issues that are important to them.  Young people are asking one simple question: Whatâ€™s Your Plan? To stop global warming. To make a college education affordable. To provide effective, affordable health care. To address financial security for Americans.  Already theyâ€™ve had 35 face to face conversations with the candidates in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and South Carolinaâ€”including: Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Duncan Hunter, John Cox, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, John McCain, Tommy Thompson, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Hillary Clinton, Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Joe Biden. For more information go to <a href="http://www.whats-your-plan.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.whats-your-plan.org</a>. Whatâ€™s Your Plan? is a project of the Student PIRGsâ€™ New Voters Project and affiliated youth organizations.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3962604', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: m12</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3962071</link>
		<dc:creator>m12</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3962071</guid>
		<description>&lt;i&gt;And Iâ€™ve never seen any hypocritical preacher (or any one else) provide proof that he is cured.

&lt;/i&gt;

Please explain what you want to be shown to prove that a cure for homosexuality exists.

How can we prove it to you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>And Iâ€™ve never seen any hypocritical preacher (or any one else) provide proof that he is cured.</p>
<p></i></p>
<p>Please explain what you want to be shown to prove that a cure for homosexuality exists.</p>
<p>How can we prove it to you?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3962071', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: David</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3961799</link>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3961799</guid>
		<description>â€œthe filter that mainstream establishment media plays in presidential races â€” â€˜we ask the questions, we are the exalted panelâ€™ â€” that was broken down.â€? ... &quot;Thirty-nine videos were chosen from the 2,989 submitted.&quot; So, where exactly is this lack of filter?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>â€œthe filter that mainstream establishment media plays in presidential races â€” â€˜we ask the questions, we are the exalted panelâ€™ â€” that was broken down.â€? &#8230; &#8220;Thirty-nine videos were chosen from the 2,989 submitted.&#8221; So, where exactly is this lack of filter?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3961799', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: azz-E-9</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3961698</link>
		<dc:creator>azz-E-9</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3961698</guid>
		<description>Maybe he&#039;s being coy. It might explain why all comments on YouTube are retarded to the point of absurdity if George W. Bush was the one that actually made them.

I mean, I watch him on the news and that&#039;s what I&#039;ve come to expect from him. But I have much higher standards for the internet. What is the deal with Youtube comments?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe he&#8217;s being coy. It might explain why all comments on YouTube are retarded to the point of absurdity if George W. Bush was the one that actually made them.</p>
<p>I mean, I watch him on the news and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve come to expect from him. But I have much higher standards for the internet. What is the deal with Youtube comments?!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3961698', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: tony</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3961617</link>
		<dc:creator>tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3961617</guid>
		<description>One thing about the debates that was misleading.  One woman who says she has breast cancer who was around 30 yrs old says she was not able to get preventative treatment for breast cancer due to lack of available insurance.  Let me ask all of you, Is there a pill or some other thing that will prevent breast cancer?  Most women are told to get a baseline mammogram done at age 40. Women in their late 20&#039;s or early 30&#039;s are told to so self exams and only get a mammogram before 40 if there is a family hx of breast ca.  You dont need insurance to get a mammogram as there are many places that will do one for 75$. This whole idea that socialized medicine will be better care, ask any Canadian if there system works.  She would have to wait soo long for any treatment up there its pathetic-  I know because I do many mri&#039;s on pts from canada who dont want to die waiting for health care.  Look at what consequences socialized medicine will have-- Huge increase in taxes to pay for this, many workers leaving the job market due to high taxes,  much longer waiting times for any exam,  some government beaurocrat making decision on whether the goverment will pay for it.  no incentive for a healthcare institutions to be efficient.  How do I know this, I ask the Canadian pts I see and this is what they tell me.  Also they pay 40 and 50% income tax rates plus other taxes for a system that doesnt work.  Just think, it would be cheaper to buy insurance than have the government take 1/2 of my income.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing about the debates that was misleading.  One woman who says she has breast cancer who was around 30 yrs old says she was not able to get preventative treatment for breast cancer due to lack of available insurance.  Let me ask all of you, Is there a pill or some other thing that will prevent breast cancer?  Most women are told to get a baseline mammogram done at age 40. Women in their late 20&#8217;s or early 30&#8217;s are told to so self exams and only get a mammogram before 40 if there is a family hx of breast ca.  You dont need insurance to get a mammogram as there are many places that will do one for 75$. This whole idea that socialized medicine will be better care, ask any Canadian if there system works.  She would have to wait soo long for any treatment up there its pathetic-  I know because I do many mri&#8217;s on pts from canada who dont want to die waiting for health care.  Look at what consequences socialized medicine will have&#8211; Huge increase in taxes to pay for this, many workers leaving the job market due to high taxes,  much longer waiting times for any exam,  some government beaurocrat making decision on whether the goverment will pay for it.  no incentive for a healthcare institutions to be efficient.  How do I know this, I ask the Canadian pts I see and this is what they tell me.  Also they pay 40 and 50% income tax rates plus other taxes for a system that doesnt work.  Just think, it would be cheaper to buy insurance than have the government take 1/2 of my income.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3961617', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Badger</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3961138</link>
		<dc:creator>Badger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3961138</guid>
		<description>Do you really think the YouTube questions in the Democratice debate were not screened for appropriate content before they were allowed to be displayed to the candidates?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you really think the YouTube questions in the Democratice debate were not screened for appropriate content before they were allowed to be displayed to the candidates?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3961138', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: shrug</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-4/#comment-3961059</link>
		<dc:creator>shrug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3961059</guid>
		<description>39 out of 2989.  So CNN&#039;s panel picked questions from a youtube pool instead of having their &quot;journalists&quot; make them up.  It would have been the very same questions anyway, just phrased by a talking head instead of a sock puppet on a video wall.  No matter how much CNN would like to spin it as &quot;democratic&quot; or different, I just don&#039;t see any difference.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>39 out of 2989.  So CNN&#8217;s panel picked questions from a youtube pool instead of having their &#8220;journalists&#8221; make them up.  It would have been the very same questions anyway, just phrased by a talking head instead of a sock puppet on a video wall.  No matter how much CNN would like to spin it as &#8220;democratic&#8221; or different, I just don&#8217;t see any difference.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3961059', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: upright left</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3960396</link>
		<dc:creator>upright left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3960396</guid>
		<description>I am amazed by the hatred/anger on this site. The cussing and name calling aimed at republicans is sickening. 
Comment by me â€” July 24, 2007 @ 8:51 pm

Must be the higher level of discourse Elizabeth Edwards was hoping for.  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am amazed by the hatred/anger on this site. The cussing and name calling aimed at republicans is sickening.<br />
Comment by me â€” July 24, 2007 @ 8:51 pm</p>
<p>Must be the higher level of discourse Elizabeth Edwards was hoping for.  ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3960396', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: upright left</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3960390</link>
		<dc:creator>upright left</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3960390</guid>
		<description>Of course â€œBush isnâ€™t bigâ€!
His weenie is unimaginably small.
Comment by ddarker â€” July 24, 2007 @ 11:44 pm

An unusual bit of info ya got there, bud!  ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course â€œBush isnâ€™t bigâ€!<br />
His weenie is unimaginably small.<br />
Comment by ddarker â€” July 24, 2007 @ 11:44 pm</p>
<p>An unusual bit of info ya got there, bud!  ;)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3960390', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: ddarker</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3960337</link>
		<dc:creator>ddarker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3960337</guid>
		<description>Of course &quot;Bush isn&#039;t big&quot;!
His weenie is unimaginably small.
It&#039;s why he overcompensates so much by
pumping up his macho-ness. 
 
Bush is a professional Macho-Nessie!

Alas, that has Bush launching Iraq INVASION,
killing US Troops in FOR-PROFIT wars
to enrich his pals in Big Oil, war-industry corporations,
no-bid corrupt contractors, constantly SHOVELING TAX DOLLARS out of USTreasury into their pockets.

The only way they&#039;ll ever impeach Bush is to stick a peach up his arse.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course &#8220;Bush isn&#8217;t big&#8221;!<br />
His weenie is unimaginably small.<br />
It&#8217;s why he overcompensates so much by<br />
pumping up his macho-ness. </p>
<p>Bush is a professional Macho-Nessie!</p>
<p>Alas, that has Bush launching Iraq INVASION,<br />
killing US Troops in FOR-PROFIT wars<br />
to enrich his pals in Big Oil, war-industry corporations,<br />
no-bid corrupt contractors, constantly SHOVELING TAX DOLLARS out of USTreasury into their pockets.</p>
<p>The only way they&#8217;ll ever impeach Bush is to stick a peach up his arse.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3960337', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Ball</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3960014</link>
		<dc:creator>Ball</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3960014</guid>
		<description>I love Bush.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love Bush.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3960014', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Alejandro</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3959979</link>
		<dc:creator>Alejandro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3959979</guid>
		<description>Uh, in what way was the MSM filter not in operation here?

There were 3000 questions submitted. CNN filtered them and left out all the really hard questions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uh, in what way was the MSM filter not in operation here?</p>
<p>There were 3000 questions submitted. CNN filtered them and left out all the really hard questions.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3959979', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: me</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3959945</link>
		<dc:creator>me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3959945</guid>
		<description>I am amazed by the hatred/anger on this site.  The cussing and name calling aimed at republicans is sickening. Why can&#039;t you make your points with facts rather than slandering the party you don&#039;t agree with? 
Oh, and have any of you ever even watched Fox News? There sure are a lot of kool-aid drinkers around here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am amazed by the hatred/anger on this site.  The cussing and name calling aimed at republicans is sickening. Why can&#8217;t you make your points with facts rather than slandering the party you don&#8217;t agree with?<br />
Oh, and have any of you ever even watched Fox News? There sure are a lot of kool-aid drinkers around here.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3959945', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: 24yrregisterdGOB</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3959866</link>
		<dc:creator>24yrregisterdGOB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3959866</guid>
		<description>Bu$h is an idiot, so are his supporters.  It is so obvious to anyone with any brains that nothing else needs to be said.  Even those who raised their fingers in triumph during the iraq elections are now raising their middle fingers to the unilateral US troops, as democracy marches the death march in the middle east.  Those who support shrub now will support anything and everthing he says, unwavering and forever, without understanding or reason.  These people are the faithful to their anti-christ leader.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bu$h is an idiot, so are his supporters.  It is so obvious to anyone with any brains that nothing else needs to be said.  Even those who raised their fingers in triumph during the iraq elections are now raising their middle fingers to the unilateral US troops, as democracy marches the death march in the middle east.  Those who support shrub now will support anything and everthing he says, unwavering and forever, without understanding or reason.  These people are the faithful to their anti-christ leader.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3959866', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Merlin</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3959654</link>
		<dc:creator>Merlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3959654</guid>
		<description>#141 Comment by m12 â€” July 24, 2007 @ 7:05 pm

&lt;em&gt;Absolutely. He is cured, and I have never seen liberals provide any proof to say otherwise!&lt;/em&gt;

And I&#039;ve never seen any hypocritical preacher (or any one else) provide proof that he is cured.

But then you are a believer. A man who uses the &quot;big crutch of religion&quot; to avoid reality. If Dobson says it it must be true cause he is a god fearing man and a big shot preacher. And you believe Bush, because he says god supports him, when he stands in the bully pulpit and preaches hate and killing. 

Fool, you&#039;d believe that men could give birth, if some phony with his collar turned around said it from the pulpit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#141 Comment by m12 â€” July 24, 2007 @ 7:05 pm</p>
<p><em>Absolutely. He is cured, and I have never seen liberals provide any proof to say otherwise!</em></p>
<p>And I&#8217;ve never seen any hypocritical preacher (or any one else) provide proof that he is cured.</p>
<p>But then you are a believer. A man who uses the &#8220;big crutch of religion&#8221; to avoid reality. If Dobson says it it must be true cause he is a god fearing man and a big shot preacher. And you believe Bush, because he says god supports him, when he stands in the bully pulpit and preaches hate and killing. </p>
<p>Fool, you&#8217;d believe that men could give birth, if some phony with his collar turned around said it from the pulpit.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3959654', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: m12</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3959609</link>
		<dc:creator>m12</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3959609</guid>
		<description>&lt;i&gt;He didnâ€™t go to shock therapy. He consulted with the very same people he lied to for years and they declared him cured. Would you fall asleep with Haggard in the same room with you, since heâ€™s cured and all?&lt;/i&gt;

Absolutely. He is cured, and I have never seen liberals provide any proof to say otherwise!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>He didnâ€™t go to shock therapy. He consulted with the very same people he lied to for years and they declared him cured. Would you fall asleep with Haggard in the same room with you, since heâ€™s cured and all?</i></p>
<p>Absolutely. He is cured, and I have never seen liberals provide any proof to say otherwise!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3959609', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Merlin</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/comment-page-3/#comment-3959608</link>
		<dc:creator>Merlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/24/bush-youtube/#comment-3959608</guid>
		<description>#135 Comment by m12 â€” July 24, 2007 @ 6:49 pm

&lt;em&gt;No, we wanted to (and are) kill the TERRORISTS, and free the people from the regime of Saddam Hussein, who is now suffering in whatever religious hellhole he believed in!&lt;/em&gt;

You are nuttier than a fruitcake! You live in a fantasy world of superheros who wear capes and slay the Evil ones with their super power. Meanwhile, you scream in envy to be let in on all the excitement you hear from the neocons. And when you put the superhero comic book down, the fear and loneliness must hit you like a ton of bricks.

How does it feel to be totally impotent?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#135 Comment by m12 â€” July 24, 2007 @ 6:49 pm</p>
<p><em>No, we wanted to (and are) kill the TERRORISTS, and free the people from the regime of Saddam Hussein, who is now suffering in whatever religious hellhole he believed in!</em></p>
<p>You are nuttier than a fruitcake! You live in a fantasy world of superheros who wear capes and slay the Evil ones with their super power. Meanwhile, you scream in envy to be let in on all the excitement you hear from the neocons. And when you put the superhero comic book down, the fear and loneliness must hit you like a ton of bricks.</p>
<p>How does it feel to be totally impotent?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=3959608', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
