Karen Hughes Resigns With Legacy Of Unambitious, Misguided State Department Projects
Karen Hughes Resigns With Legacy Of Unambitious, Misguided State Department Projects
Karen Hughes, one of President Bush’s longest-serving advisers, resigned today as Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. According to the State Department’s website, Hughes’s role was to “marginalize the violent extremists” and “[f]oster a sense of common interests and common values between Americans and people of different countries.”
In remarks today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heaped praise upon Hughes and the “remarkable job” she’s done. “If I could put on one sheet all of the things that Karen has achieved, I would do so, but it would take me a quite long time to talk about her achievements,” said Rice.
But it’s actually unclear exactly what Hughes accomplished. As the AP notes:
Polls show no improvement in the world’s view of the U.S. since Hughes took over. A Pew Research Center survey earlier said the unpopular Iraq war is a persistent drag on the U.S. image and has helped push favorable opinion of the United States in Muslim Indonesia, for instance, from 75 percent in 2000 to 30 percent last year.
Some more highlights of her time at the State Department:
– In 2006, Hughes sent an internal memo called “Thinking ‘Bigger’” to National Security Council principals. Her recommendations for countering the insurgency though were “unambitious and disconnected from reality.” They included “reviving book publishing to support Iraq’s “hard-pressed intellectuals” and expanding a “Micro scholarship” program for “youth in key disadvantaged areas in Iraq.”
– In March 2006, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sharply criticized the diplomatic efforts of Rice and Hughes, stating, “If I were grading, I would say we probably deserve a D or a D-plus as a country as to how well we’re doing in the battle of ideas that’s taking place in the world today.”
– Arabs repeatedly criticized Hughes for her “lack of understanding of the region.” In 2005, for example, Hughes claimed that Saddam Hussein poisoned “hundreds of thousands” of his own citizens with “weapons of mass destruction.” Her comments came “just days after Saddam went on trial in Baghdad for the deaths of 148 people in a Shiite town in 1982.”
Rice also confirmed that Hughes will “continue to consult for us on a few projects.” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack today refused to promise that the White House would replace Hughes with a permanent Senate-confirmed nominee, but said that it is the administration’s “intent.”
While it’s so hard to say good bye, this may not be the end for Karen Hughes. After all, she also resigned in 2002, but then came back and joined the State Department in 2005.
UPDATE: The Seminal looks at the flight of Bush’s Texas inner circle.
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This woman is a total incompetent who had no business in the position she was filling. She’s a Bush airhead, butt-wipe and nothing more. Another criminal repuke bites the dust! Don’t let the door hit you in your cellulitous a$$ on the way out of town, Karen.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:47 pmWonder how much money Karen’s been able to stash away during her crime spree??
October 31st, 2007 at 3:48 pmCome on , condi - we dare you to show us just ONE, one, ONE single accomplishment of Karen Hughes - please….we double dog dare you!
October 31st, 2007 at 3:49 pmHughes can’t do anything right. Doesn’t she know she’s supposed to wait until Friday afternoon to jump ship?
October 31st, 2007 at 3:51 pmI see on C & L, Kucinich appeared on Wolf’s show today and questioned Bush’s mental health. I believe it’s about time for physicians all across this country to begin weighing in on something which has been hused up far too long.
Just read Justin Frank, M.D.’s account of Bush’s mental problems in BUSH ON THE COUCH and it begins to explain his erratic, psychologically deranged behavior. His mental disorder has been escalating of late and it’s beginning to become obvious even to the medically and psychologically uninitiated.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:52 pmBut, but, Condi says there are pages and pages of success stories….yeah, well name one. We all know they were there to suckseed. Guess it was time to take the “pallets of cash” and run back to Texas.
Buck Fush
October 31st, 2007 at 3:52 pmThis country needs to begin “beating the drum” for Bush to have a complete psychiatric workup before being permitted to serve another day in the highest office in this country.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:53 pm…expanding a “Micro scholarship†program for “youth in key disadvantaged areas in Iraq.â€
As long as it takes place outside of the US it’s OK for us to provide “socialistic” efforts? But to provide any to Americans on American soil? That’s just, uhm, uhm, UNAMERICAN! Let them eat cake! UGH!!
October 31st, 2007 at 3:53 pm“If I could put on one sheet all of the things that Karen has achieved, I would do so, but it would take me a quite long time to talk about her achievements,†said Rice.
It takes you quite awhile to finish a simple sentence, Condi…no sheet!
Condi, if you’re ‘looking up to Hughes’, it indicates you’ve done even less than her. Congratulations, you deserve it.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:53 pmBuckie Boy - we’re on the same page I see. Buckets of cash and running as far away from Toxic George as she can. And, since Condi failed to enumerate just ONE simple, small accomplishment of airhead Hughes, I think it’s safe to assume that there have been absolutely none.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:54 pmZimzone: I guess Condi’s showering accolades on Karen because she’s not accomplished anything during her reign either. What the heck has Condi accomplished?? Zilch. What has Hughes accomplished? Zilch. Both have been a supreme embarrassment to women because they permitted themselves to used as “tokens” in a patriarchial zenophobic empire. Shame on them.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:55 pm“marginalize the violent extremists�!?!
Uh Karen, why would you want to do that?
October 31st, 2007 at 3:56 pmYou were working for the violent extremists!
If one were to pick a ship, at random, and sink it; would the rats flee to Texas to “spend time with their families”?
October 31st, 2007 at 3:56 pmmisogynistic, too! :)
October 31st, 2007 at 3:57 pmI’m wondering how many of Bush’s inner circle of criminals are still left standing?
October 31st, 2007 at 3:58 pmBoth have been a supreme embarrassment to women because they permitted themselves to used as “tokens†in a patriarchial zenophobic empire.
Good to see you, Veritas. I just had to post that again; well said.
Can anyone out there in cyberspace name even two accomplishments between these two Bushies?
October 31st, 2007 at 3:58 pmIf one were to pick a ship, at random, and sink it; would the rats flee to Texas to “spend time with their families�
Comment by pete
Not so much their families. More like the mistresses and boy toys they have scattered around the various motels in Texas. It’s confusing for me: They go screw their botfriends after spending time with the husbands, then they all go to church and pray. The men go and screw other gay men, and declare their marriage is solemn and sanctioned by God himself.
Bush’s group is, by far, the most hypocritical crowd ever to breathe air. And then they all go to church and pray. It’s like they believe God can’t see them under the covers with the goat and the newsboy.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:03 pmHypocrisy? Perish the thought!
October 31st, 2007 at 4:08 pmRice also confirmed that Hughes will “continue to consult for us on a few projects.â€
Projects like potlucks and bake sales.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:11 pmOT - Lets celebrate a lady who’s a real American hero, Sibel Edmonds.
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds ‘I Will Tell All, and Name Names’
Former FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has promised to tell us everything she knows about treason at the highest level of the US government - with one proviso:
“Here’s my promise to the American Public: If anyone of the major networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX — promise to air the entire segment, without editing, I promise to tell them everything that I know.”
Edmonds, “the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America,” has been trying to expose criminal activity, treason, at the highest levels of the US Government - Congress, Pentagon and State Dept - since she became aware of the crimes in 2001 and 2002.
Edmonds has exhausted every conceivable channel in the courts, Congress, and elsewhere, and is now willing to risk criminal charges to ensure that the American people learn how their government really ‘works.’
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/29/83331/268
October 31st, 2007 at 4:14 pmNobody has snapped up Sibel Edmonds’ offer yet? Imagine that…
Liberal media, my ass.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:16 pmI think they are all coming back to Texas to get the
October 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pmcult ready to flee to Paraguay. You know, Bushtown.
Not the people’s temple but the ASSCLOWN temple.
“Here’s my promise to the American Public: If anyone of the major networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX — promise to air the entire segment, without editing, I promise to tell them everything that I know.â€
Comment by 2MillionLightYearsToAndromeda — October 31, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
They won’t. The networks know better than to bite the hand that feeds them. She should go on Democracy Now or just put her story up on YouTube or something if she actually wants to get the story out.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:19 pmOT but a Chomsky interview worth a look.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/66473/
I finally agree with him about something - it really is Halloween!
October 31st, 2007 at 4:23 pmAccording to State’s website, Hughes made 9 trips in 2007 and 8 in 2006.
Of those trips 5-6 could be considered to Muslim countries.
17 trips in 2 years. Maybe that’s why she failed so miserably at outreach.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:23 pmI have a signed copy of ‘Memoirs of an Amnesiac’. The first page is autographed, but the rest is all blank pages.
Is this the Karen Hughes’ list Condi refers to?
I submit all Neocons should practice abstinence. Forever. Just think, in 1 generation America would have it’s sanity back.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:23 pmunambitious? did you not see that picture? since when is ‘gettin jiggy wit it’ not ambitious?
October 31st, 2007 at 4:24 pmOne more ineffectual, criminal Bushtoady bites the dust.
Hope it knocks all her fangs out.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:25 pmMy guess is that the State Department told her to do a public relations makeover of the gun for hire company Blackwater USA and her unabashed response was;
October 31st, 2007 at 4:27 pmTake this job and shove it.
Members of the State Department saddled Karen and took turns trotting her around the grounds one last time before wishing her a fond farewell. Condi brought out her riding crop and black leather high-heel hip boots.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:32 pmThis stupid bimbo , the former Under Secretary of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs whose role was to “marginalize the violent extremists†and “foster a sense of common interests and common values between Americans and people of different countries†; with the glaring spectre of Chimpy’s illegal and idiotic invasion of Iraq being the NO#1 drag ofnthe US’ popularity(along with Chimpy’s uselessness) , has been to Iraq out of the 17 trips she’s taken in the last 2 years , how many times ?
October 31st, 2007 at 4:34 pmAnybody else have their ID’s hijacked? I found several posts today using my handle, and I didn’t post any of them. I sent TP a message, but it makes me believe that they somehow must have had their wordpress system hacked! It’s bizarre!
Please take note folks, and watch for your ID being hijacked! The trolls are coming and posting as regulars and stirring up sh!!!t!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 4:35 pmAh , the trolls are shit , just like their hero (zero) in the Oval Office……
October 31st, 2007 at 4:37 pmConservatives liked to say that Meryl Streep’s performance in “Manchurian Candidate” was based on Hillary. But Streep said it was based on Karen Hughes!
October 31st, 2007 at 4:47 pmCan anyone out there in cyberspace name even two accomplishments between these two Bushies?
Comment by Zimzone — October 31, 2007 @ 3:58 pm
I guess making it look like women in power are incompetent doesn’t really count as an “accomplishment” unless you’re a Republican.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:47 pmLegacy? Legacy of mulitiple failures in policy, effectivenss and end results because these people aren’t where they are to serve Americans! They’re where they are because they’re overly amibitious suck-ups who are unskilled and incompetent professional whores.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:48 pmYes RHF I was also namejacked. I think by Billy Hill. Have you been arguing with him too?
October 31st, 2007 at 4:52 pmKaren was the perfect representation of Bush foreign policy. Appoint a person with no background, education or experience in foreign affairs. Assign that person to an important mission (turn around public opinion in the middle east.) Have that person rarely travel to the area. Have that person focus on form over substance.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:53 pmKaren got paid for doing nothing but she did make a fool of herself when the woman of the Middle East asked her to leave. Now she’ll be paid to continue to do nothing at the taxpayers expense. I wonder if Libby’s still on the White House pay roll. We are paying alot of salaries of people who have left their jobs. It’s good to be a friend of the criminal GOP. Now we don’t have money for Children’s Health Care but we do continue to pay salaries of those who left their jobs and of course Iraq/Afghanistan. Look forward to taxes going to up pay the bill for the money that the White House has spent. It’s a bill big and we can all thank Bush/Cheney for the debt.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:54 pmIf Bush hired anybody who actually did their jobs he and his followers wouldn’t be able to prophesize about how government doesn’t work.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:57 pmJames Carville was just gushing with praise for her - what is with that guy? Is his wife, Mary Matalin, (asst to Cheney) the one calling all the shots in that family? He doesn’t seem to be able to think for himself any more.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:00 pmCondi Rice sings her praises because the incompetent Sec’y of State found a kindred fish out of water in Hughes.
Karen Hughes - a Texas soccer mom who loves GWB - that’s the extent of her qualifications in foreign matters. After a brief retirement, she went back to Bush&Co as a person to have a positive effect on women in the middle East.
What?!
karen Hughes next mission will be to take over Bush’s library, to make certain the lies keep standing. She and Dan Bartlett did a great job on the makeover of his military service. Most National Guard’s had to do 6 years and still were not eligible for any VA benefits.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:06 pmAnybody else have their ID’s hijacked? I found several posts today using my handle, and I didn’t post any of them. I sent TP a message, but it makes me believe that they somehow must have had their wordpress system hacked! It’s bizarre!
Please take note folks, and watch for your ID being hijacked! The trolls are coming and posting as regulars and stirring up sh!!!t!!!
Comment by republicans hate facts — October 31, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
Ha! I am vindicated! Check the early posts in the Think Fast thread and you will see who thought you were namejacked and who actually reported it to TP. Eventually, I got talked out of my opinion, which just means I am weak.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:30 pmI’m glad to hear you’re O.K. RHF. I was worried that you had been drugged or replaced by a pod.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:36 pmAonther snake slithers back into the weeds…
M apologies to the snakes.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:43 pmHa! I am vindicated! Check the early posts in the Think Fast thread and you will see who thought you were namejacked and who actually reported it to TP. Eventually, I got talked out of my opinion, which just means I am weak.
Comment by gummitch — October 31, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
Thanks! Yes I was name jacked, and I don’t understand how it could have happened unless TP’s site itself (or wordpress) was hijacked! It’s bizarre! I changed my password, and reported it to TP, but please if anyone sees posts from my ID that look like jacking - report it!!!!!!!!
Yes RHF I was also namejacked. I think by Billy Hill. Have you been arguing with him too?
Comment by Shayne — October 31, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
You were? I’m thinking brandy/michael or ExLax.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:03 pmI’m glad to hear you’re O.K. RHF. I was worried that you had been drugged or replaced by a pod.
Comment by pete — October 31, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
No, not me, just my ID was drugged and replaced! Now that I know that Shayne was also jacked, it sounds like the TP site itself was hacked! Wow, now that’s desperate, even by GOP hack standards!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:05 pmDesperation and dirty tricks rise in direct proportion. Seriously, our country may be facing the most dangerous year, or two, or more, in our history. I hope the “tricks” don’t get more damaging.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:18 pmActually, from what I know about wordpress, one can go to ‘User Profile’ and change the ‘Nickname’ while logged on. This might be the answer to your concerns, so there’s probably no “hacking†going on.
As well, I went back and had a look over these posts and they all read like the usual drivel a 14-year-old would write. In other words, it sounds just like you. So you could be using the “namejacking†excuse as an attempted backtrack from your inane postings.
Please quit whining. You’re spamming the thread.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
At least now we know who the hacker is - YOU!!
Sounds like me? Whining about the latinos all taking over? Wow, you’re a complete moron if you think that’s true! As gummitch pointed out, folks on the thinkfast thread people could tell it wasn’t me, despite your best effort to be me. You’re a fool you little GOP ‘tard!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:23 pmOops! We haven’t been giving Mr. Pus enough attention. I wonder, does it’s Mommy have to remove the knobs from doors to keep it from locking itself in?
October 31st, 2007 at 6:23 pmAt least now we know who the hacker is - YOU!!
Sounds like me? Whining about the latinos all taking over? Wow, you’re a complete moron if you think that’s true! As gummitch pointed out, folks on the thinkfast thread people could tell it wasn’t me, despite your best effort to be me. You’re a fool you little GOP ‘tard!
Comment by republicans hate facts — October 31, 2007 @ 6:23 pm
That particular troll has a history of doing exactly this: hijacking other people’s identities and posting truly juvenile and nasty comments and then crying like a little baby when other people turned around and namejacked him.
And it’s very interesting that he knows exactly how it’s done.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:25 pmComment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
Discredited. NEXT ALIASS PLEASE!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:29 pmLet me guess: She wants to spend more time with her Iraqi sex slaves, right?
October 31st, 2007 at 6:36 pmYour claim is unsubstantiated, again, because the “namejacked†posts don’t deviate from your usual rambling. It’s consistent, as you are a leftist moonbat.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
Sorry, but if that were true, why would ‘regulars’ know it was namejacked? Because it was full of what you WINGNUTS believe is consistent for ‘moonbats’, but none of had anything to do with my posts other than a weak attempt to copy my ’style’.
What’s CONSISTENT is you wingnuts always cheat, because you can’t win fair. And when you get caught, you lie and smear just like this!
Sorry, but TP can tell who posted those particular posts - should we ask them to divulge it was you - little wimp?
October 31st, 2007 at 6:41 pmYou’re losing your touch Mr. Pus. Generally it takes more than one post to make you own the name.
NEXT ALIASS PLEASE!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:42 pmI’ve taken time out of my day to point out what I know about the system, not that I had to. But don’t let the facts get in the way of your cutesy illusions, leftist crazy robot.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
Actually the posts match your rambling lunacy of ‘moonbatism’, and if your day is so ‘busy’, why are you here trolling - FOOL?
October 31st, 2007 at 6:42 pmActually the posts match your rambling lunacy of ‘moonbatism’, and if your day is so ‘busy’, why are you here trolling - FOOL?
Comment by republicans hate facts — October 31, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
I think what he really meant was that he’d escaped from the basement and finally gotten on mom’s PC while she was out picking up his meds.
Incidentally, your hijacked personality was very rude to me this morning; you owe me an apology!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:44 pmWhen it was young, Mr. Pus could fill it’s days, in rapturous bliss, with Mommy. Now that it is fat and ugly, and it’s adult republican personality is forming, it has turned to young boys for affection.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:49 pmAnd you’ve yet to return to the government all those funds that pay for your housing, where you’d be in mommy’s basement if you didn’t have them.
Apparently, you have no final say on the issue. You’re tripping over yourself, lefty…
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Mom’s not back with the meds, I guess.
I pay for my housing by having an actual JOB, Pee. And my mom doesn’t even have a basement, sorry.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:54 pmIncidentally, your hijacked personality was very rude to me this morning; you owe me an apology!
Comment by gummitch — October 31, 2007 @ 6:44 pm
Hehe, I’m sorry a GOP @sshole was rude to you in my name! If there was something I could have done to prevent it - I’m very sure I would have!!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:56 pmAnother leftist contradiction.
Out there in the real world, lefty, do you think labeling someone “fat†and “ugly†is any different than using a racial slur? Someone’s weight or facial contour fits in the same category as race — physical features.
Just sayin’…
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
Ah, Mr Puss is all insecure about being fat - poor little girlfriend!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:57 pmBecause my classes for the day are through.
Loser bum.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:56 pm
Then shouldn’t you be studying? It’s the only way you can cure the terminal-stupid that you currently enjoy!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:58 pmAnd you’ve yet to return to the government all those funds that pay for your housing, where you’d be in mommy’s basement if you didn’t have them. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Says the little ‘tard that has no idea how much those government funds are permitting his fat stupid little @ss an opportunity to fix the ‘terminal-stupid’ he currently suffers from!
Apparently, you have no final say on the issue. You’re tripping over yourself, lefty…
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
No, that was actually him kicking your fat stupid @ss, it just seemed like tripping to you because of your m@ss!
October 31st, 2007 at 6:59 pmOut there in the real world, lefty, do you think labeling someone “fat†and “ugly†is any different than using a racial slur? Someone’s weight or facial contour fits in the same category as race — physical features.
Just sayin’…
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:55 pm
You should pay more attention. Fat and ugly are personal responsibilities, not that you’d know anything about that. Stupid, on the other hand, is the way you were born, so you may have an excuse for your remarkable ignorance, although, it’s probably just the typical laziness of the wingnut.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:59 pmLike it or not, namejacking or not, it might as well been you. However, I doubt you were namejacked. Really, the posts weren’t anything different than the usual crap you spam the thread with.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
Really? No different than normal?
Yeah, since when have I ever talked about anyone REWARDING ME, dum bass?
You really are completely ‘tarded Mr Puss!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:00 pmReally, the posts weren’t anything different than the usual crap you spam the thread with.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
Being lectured on a progressive blog, by a wingnut troll about ’spamming’ - ah the irony! You’d think someone in College wouldn’t be this stupid, but I’m guessing ‘community’ college? Anyone else find the irony in a ‘College Republican Club’? That’s a complete OxyMORON idea!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:04 pmI’ll study when the time comes. You’re already doing a crappy job as a professional victim, so I don’t think you should be making an attempt as a counselor. It wouldn’t be of recommendation. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:04 pm
BAHAHAHA, the whiny little b!!tch that complains about ‘taxes’ and ‘welfare’ is whining about others ‘victimhood’!!!! Sorry, child, but no one does VICTIM like the GOP!!!
Leftist robotic bum. A comedic, robotic leftist kook.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:04 pm
A stupid rightist bum, that’s sucking on the teet of Government while whining about others doing so! And he’s too stupid to recognize how STUPID he looks!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:05 pmActually, it’s mister Pus, the fluid that drains from infected wounds. I rather like cats and puss.
I don’t think that studying is “one of it’s things”. It keeps burning the books that don’t support it’s preconceptions. It’s down to the Bible and the Young Republicans Handbook. Handjobbook? Whatever. It’s a very limited reading list.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:05 pmThanks for showing your bigotry towards member of society. I’ll remind you to shutup when you limit your tolerance to race (non-white, that is) and Islam.
Lefty Patriot = smafdy
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
So what you’re saying is that you don’t like SOME forms of bigotry, but that you like others?
Ah, the IRONY of you lecturing on HYPOCRISY! The GOP - ALWAYS THE SAME STUPID SH!!!T, just a new day!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:10 pmA fat head full of ugly thoughts.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:11 pmI attend a rising star college, ranked very well in U.S. News. And guess what, you couldn’t get it!
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:10 pm
Rising Star College is a euphemism for 3rd rate religious school!!!
Read your bible some time where it lists GLUTTONY as a SIN, the next time you want to WAIL away at others! Stupid little hypocrite!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:12 pmA fat head full of ugly thoughts.
Comment by pete — October 31, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
And even uglier BELIEFS!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:12 pmWell, I don’t remember when I’ve enjoyed troll bashing so much. Alas, I hae other things to do. Please note that any posts in my name, till sometime tomorrow, are cases of name jacking. G’night humans.
And you too Mr. Pus.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:16 pmkaren did what? As a bu$h toadie, she has probably done NOTHING productive and GOT PAID QUIET A BIT TO DO IT.
Conservanazi republikans are subly racist and overtly anti-feminist. Other than hating gays and everyone not with them, I guess you could say that are champion a..holes.
“When Fascism comes to American, it will be wrapped in a flag carrying a cross”. Sinclair Lewis
Buck fush
October 31st, 2007 at 7:22 pmYou don’t like community colleges? So, you don’t like the police officers, firefighters, nurses, tradesman, etc., etc., that serve your ungrateful, robotic slimy self? Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
They sure do, but they aren’t usually arrogant little pr*cks like yourself!
In other words, ‘republicans hate facts’ hates education and public servants.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
BAHAHA, ironic coming from a GOP hack!
republicans hate facts = MichaelIsRetarded = ValiantVenusfromuranus
Why run away from your past, shakey?
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
Ah, michael=jake=valiant venus=jake, sure!!!
Why are you running away from your past little fatso?
October 31st, 2007 at 7:27 pmI’m pointing out that you’re a leftist hypocrit with a very narrow definition of tolerance. That doesn’t backfire on me, lefty. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:15 pm
Sure it does, coming from the rightist definitions of ‘tolerance’ only means your ‘Xtian’ ‘values’!
The more you lefties preach “tolerance,†the more America ignores you.
Go the whole way, lefties, or shutup.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:15 pm
Sorry, but you don’t qualify for, speak for, or represent America or it’s values 24%er!
So please, GO AWAY, or STFU, since this is a PROGRESSIVE website, and you’re nothing but a fat stupid little troll!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:29 pmNahhh. I think we’re about done taking instructions from your “rightiesâ€, who preach murder.
I think you can just kiss our collective “assessâ€.
Comment by BARTLEBEE — October 31, 2007 @ 7:28 pm
Care for human being stops at the womb for the GOP hypocrites!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:29 pmThe poor little ‘tard doesn’t even know that JMU is a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY, while he WHINES and WHINES and WHINES about WELFARE, here he is, sucking off the TEET of MY TAXES!!!
Little CRIMINAL HYPOCRITE!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:31 pmJames Madison University is not a religious school, little girl.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
It’s not even a real school. It’s a storage bin for morons, just look at the “student” here, for example.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:33 pmsteve clemons on rachel maddow earlier commented that the one good thing he could think of, as far as any good karen hughes, and even karl rove, did, was keep dubby in some kind of line…
ugh…
that’s how i took what i think i heard… heh…
October 31st, 2007 at 7:33 pm…
Hughes is the perfect embodiment of the Bush Administration: the reliance on PR and Marketing (and incompetent PR and Marketing, needless to say) as the answer to all policy questions. Actual expertise and experience in a given field is dismissed as useless, if not dangerous.
What’s important, above all, is the ability to hold a microphone and gush mindless platitudes about George Bush and his $upporters, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
Of course, all the PR and Marketing in the world can’t keep reality out forever, and Hughes has just reached the limit of her ability to spin horseshit into gold. I smell another book coming…
October 31st, 2007 at 7:34 pm24% is G.W. Bush’s approval rating, who isn’t effective at fiscal conservatism. The poll is not a “who’s a republican, who’s a liberal†poll. Tell the difference, leftist scum robot. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
No, it’s WHO’S STILL STUPID enough to approve of anything GOP - that’s YOU SON!
“STFUâ€
Sorry, lefty, but the likes of you make up no majority. Go back to planning with Mexico to take over the southwest. Also, thinkprogress doesn’t want you here. Scrat. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
BAHAHA, sure Aphrodite, Mr. Puss, whatever you say! Except for the fact that the MAJORITY of Americans agree with us and disagree with you on EVERY ISSUE! The Majority of Americans even trust the Democrats more for dealing with terrorism - YOU ARE SCREWED and too stupid to know it!
So that’s STUPID!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:43 pmPublic education is different than bum welfare. I’m working towards putting tax dollars into the government. You’re just a professional victim who does none of that. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
BAHAHA, you’re actually stupid enough to argue that YOUR WELFARE is better than SOMEONE ELSE’S WELFARE? Considering that MOST WELFARE goes to feeding and clothing children - this just proves you’re 100% stupid or one sick little puppy!
If you’re a full-fledged adult spewing here on a regular basis, I almost feel sorry for you.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:36 pm
Feel sorry for yourself, you’re the one that needs it fool!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:44 pmYou’ve certified your moronic state of mind.
Please, smafdy, tell us what makes the school “not real.â€
I can’t wait for this one.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:41 pm
Pure projection!
You’re a KNOWN LIAR troll, STFU, OK?
October 31st, 2007 at 7:45 pmrepublicans hate facts… ah, that’s more like it…
however, i appears you and “newsflash” have hijacked this thread…
not only that, but it’s almost as if you are arguing with YOUR namejacker…
who could very well be the esteemed mr.p…
check this out, from the FAST thread:
…I, ON THE OTHER HAND, AM AN ADMITTED DOCTORAL CANDIDATE …
Comment by republicans hate facts — October 31, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
who knows…
October 31st, 2007 at 7:48 pmbut it’s too bad some are so obsessed to hack into a blog…
…
“STFUâ€
Having spewed that, leftist robot, you’ve only vindicated me. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
Having spewed that, rightist robot, you’ve only projected my vindication on you!
Why do you hate America’s poor children so much?
Don’t forget to have the government tuck you in tonight.. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
BAHAHA, says the little ‘tard living on the government dole!!!
All of responses tonight from you made, as usual, absolutely no sense, like any other night, so don’t trick yourself into believing anything to the contrary. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
Projection from the wingnut that delusionally believes his welfare is better than welfare for poor children!
Keep talking to yourself in caps.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
Keep talking to YOURSELF IN LIES - welfare boy, that hates poor children!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:59 pmthe dude in the picture above reminded me of something else i heard on
rachel maddow, yesterday:
The only heavy metal band in Iraq is fleeing. Now you know things are really bad.
http://www.myspace.com/wwwacrassicaudas5com
The Syrian government is threatening to send Iraqi refugees back to Iraq.
check out their story…
karen hughes should’ve been helping these guys out… not?
October 31st, 2007 at 8:03 pm.
“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”
October 31st, 2007 at 8:04 pmJames Madison
“In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.”
October 31st, 2007 at 8:04 pmJames Madison
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.”
James Madison
Boy that one describes Mr. Puss to a TEE!!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 8:05 pm“We don’t obsess over the name of the school, either.”
Comment by Newsflash
Doing that would only demonstrate how little you jerks understand history, or the Founding Fathers. Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt.
October 31st, 2007 at 8:34 pmWe’re a mostly white, conservative school. Gotta problem with that?
We don’t obsess over the name of the school, either.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 8:27 pm
So you ignore the legacy and history of the person it was named for, and act out in a disgrace to his name - yep, you’re GOP’s finest alright - welfare boy!
TripMaster Monkey doesn’t like you.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 8:29 pm
And no one likes you fatboy!
Still waiting for you to explain why YOUR WELFARE is better than feeding and clothing an innocent child? No answer?
I didn’t think so you stupid fat loser!
October 31st, 2007 at 8:38 pmStop making fun of my school. Your being mean.
Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 8:38 pm
BAHAHA, whiny little b!!tch, “You’re” being Brandy again michael!!!
You really are deranged Mr. Puss!
October 31st, 2007 at 8:39 pmJames Madison doesn’t get enough credit. He foresaw the threat that something like Bush&Co could do to a democracy.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:09 pmHi all. I found a few minutes. It’s really me. Not a smelly troll.
While I don’t believe that Mr. Pus attends James Madison, or any other institute of learning, I would heartily recommend that all Americans today should read up on our 4th President. Much of the WikiQuote entry is prophetic. We sure could use a James Madison today.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison
October 31st, 2007 at 9:09 pmJames Madison doesn’t get enough credit. He foresaw the threat that something like Bush&Co could do to a democracy.
Comment by Marie — October 31, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
Jinx!
October 31st, 2007 at 9:10 pmAnother good example of a Bush appointee, this one confirmed by default. Heckuvajob, Karen. Have nice time.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:40 pmThe thing that always fascinates me about these College Young Republican trolls is their hatred for ‘bum welfare.’ They have this thing about ‘MY Tax dollars’ and “EARNING my money.”
They’ve never lived off their earnings, let alone met a payroll, but they know all about virtue and vice, leeches and parasites.
I’ve worked for my folks,worked for large companies, worked for small companies, freelanced, run my own business and failed at starting up another–not necessarily in that order. And if I had gotten paid for every project I worked on I could retire.
About a half a dozen times I’ve been cheated out of middle-five-figure fees by that piece of corporate welfare, corporate bankruptcy. Work for a publisher,get the ‘what, you didn’t get the check?” story, go down to the offices and find padlocks on the doors. And the officers of the company get to keep their beachhouses and bank accounts. I’m out $75,000 out of which I was going to meet the aforementioned payroll, but can I get it from the wealth the officers pulled out of the company? Nope.
It’s made me hard as nails about getting paid–but, knowing how thin the ice is out there, I have never passed judgement on somebody getting welfare.
The fact of the matter is that an entry level job in most major cities won’t pay the rent on a studio apartment these days. And you’re just as likely to be let go in a ‘rightsizing’ as climb that corporate ladder. And go to work for a small startup and grow with the company? How can you do that if they don’t offer benefits?
If this were a country where working hard and improving yourself would guarantee you a decent life, then it might be different talking about ‘welfare bums.’ But if it ever was (may have been once, for white people) it certainly isn’t now.
But these little snots, still in love with the first 15 pages of their Econ 101 textbook and all of the Fountainhead, justsimply have no idea.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:43 pmKaren Hughes is leaving the State Dept because she doesn’t want to serve in Iraq as a diplomat. Condi Rice has stated all State Dept personel will be subject to serve in Iraq.
And Karen Hughes leaves. Serving her country isn’t so fun when she might put her own lufe at risk for country. If she had to serve in Iraq…
November 1st, 2007 at 2:48 amI read this on GlobalGrind.com…..the Bush administration is dropping like flies and I can’t say I’m sad to see them go!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:26 pm