PS. Senator Russ Feingold for Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (replacing Biden)

the dems have no spine
the rethugs have no shame
the bush admin has no soul

I remember when Shrub made that comment. My remark now, as then, is that if he really wants to be there, he is POTUS and should go there.

Chiming in probably way too late today, but remember this?

“I must say, I’m a little envious,” Bush said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.”

“It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You’re really making history, and thanks,” Bush said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/13/bush-envious-of-soldier_n_91455.html

My guess is that one is plenty in his mind. Therefore his statement was accurate.

See Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland (or it may have been Alice Through the Looking Glass) for an example of wordsmithing.

People like Bill Kristol treat the soldiers of Iraq like video game characters with infinite lives, no matter the carnage on screen. A soldier is just a brown bag that can be thrown away to jackasses like Bill.

Anthrax Attacks = Inside Job
911 = Inside Job

The kind of change you and I want to see in our media is something that can only come when corporations no longer control the agenda. We the consumers have to force that change – nobody else will do it for us.

The merchants of hate, Limbaugh, Beck, O’Liely, etc that have already crossed the line, such as when Limbaugh called for riots at the DNC Convention is something that should be addressed by LAW.

Incitement to hate and break the law should not be excused as “Freedom of the Press”, just as “Freedom of Speech” does not cover yelling fire in a crowd, when there is no fire. And Propaganda such as was practiced by the collusion of the Bush Administration and the corporate media is already against the law, yet was ignored by the JD and Congress.

Tax cuts for the wealthy during a time of war. No sacrifice asked of the American people, only the families of the soldiers. No media coverage of the death and chaos we’ve created. No photos of returning caskets of dead soldiers.

I’d say Darth Cheney learned a lot while sitting out the Vietnam war. He learned that by wrapping the war up in an American flag and questioning anyones patriotism who opposed the war and not allowing media coverage of dead and wounded American soldiers and Iraqi citizens wounded would be important in getting the American people will to blindly go along with and support war.

November 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
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What could he do about that, exactly? I mean, there’s a reason freedom of the press was written into the very Constitution of our country the first time it was amended. A President can’t dictate the press how to cover the news. Apart from perhaps rewriting FCC regulations on corporate media monopolies, there’s very little Obama can do.

And if the press corps decides to reverse its neocon tendencies and begin giving the Obama administration the kind of passes they gave Bush in the first five years of his term, I certainly don’t expect Obama to say “hey now, stop being so nice to me. You really need to scrutinize my decisions more.” The man is a politician, after all.

The kind of change you and I want to see in our media is something that can only come when corporations no longer control the agenda. We the consumers have to force that change – nobody else will do it for us.

….and guess who’s those would be….

I agree…….it’s criminal really.