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The Lord knows that I was dreadfully wrong about my 2012 prediction that Obama would lose in Ohio and other swing states. I really doubted Max Brantley's prediction of an Obama win and I had to come back and give him credit afterwards for the good prediction.

I ran across a funny carton from Dan Mitchell's blog on President Obama concerning Obamacare that I thought I would share. He is talking it over with Thomas Jefferson. http://thedailyhatch.org/2013/02/06/carton…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:12:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by TM]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:59:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:57:24 -0600 Arkansas Times
Democrats horrify me at least as much as republicans.. maybe more since republicans at least admit their own love for violence. Democrats deny it while often perpetuating it even more so.

What horrible people this neoliberal D vs R nation competes to advance.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:34:18 -0600 Arkansas Times
The countries of the world where people have the best shot at all of those things are democracies, radcen. As I said before, the story is still playing out. It sounds like you think we should have supported our old bought-and-paid-for pal, Mubarak.
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:32:15 -0600 Arkansas Times
In fact, it is you who promotes the so-called white man's burden with your demands for Western-style democracy in the Middle East. And let's recall your prediction that the Islamic Brotherhood could not win the elections in the first place, so you have a credibility problem on foreign policy matters.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:21:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:58:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:54:09 -0600 Arkansas Times
The likely result of your idea of imposing "democracy" in Egypt will be repression of civil liberties - especially for women and religious minorities - and abrogation of the Camp David Accords.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:48:41 -0600 Arkansas Times
The story of Egypt and the rest of North Africa is still being played out, radcen. It's too soon to call them a disaster. We may not know for years. At least the Egyptian people have a shot at democracy now---something that didn't exist under Mubarak.

Also, the Iranians are making noises about talks with the U.S. and other nations which must drive the war-loving neocons nuts.
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:14:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
Here are a couple of quotes.

"Talking to the disgruntled Tea People here, I’m starting to think they’re LESS radical than the GOP. They thought it was about reducing the size of government, but it isn’t. It’s about re-directing public funds OUT and then UP.


"I think the GOP ends up with several corporate-type entities, huge salaries at the tippy-top and then 10 dollar an hour temps. I think caucuses and such, Party chairs, people who are ELECTED matter less and less. They’re “hollowing out” that Party, as an entity."

"I don’t think their big donors have any attachment to the GOP as a Party. The Koch’s don’t care about the organization that is the GOP. They want what they want. They want to end organized labor and environmental regs. The same is true of Adelson. Adelson has actually said as much. He wants to buy one issue, Israel. Whoever and whatever gets him there.

"I heard complaints from local GOP’ers, “Party people”, at the county level about “Boston”. They said Romney’s corporate team had contempt for them.

"I don’t have any sympathy for the Tea Party, but I see the objection. They thought they could change the GOP thru elections, both running for positions within the Party and getting people elected. I’m not sure the GOP believes in those anymore. Much easier to have an opaque and private appointed “board” model. Quiet rooms."

Echoing Kay, I don't think the Kochs and Adelson and the Waltons give a damn about silly little people like Jason Rapert, Bryan King and Missy Irvin, etc. They will be allowed to strut around and introduce their silly little bills as long as they play the game on the things big money really cares about---busting unions, busting environmental regulations and busting the public school system because there is money to be made in privatization.

Oligarchs don't care about gun laws---they can afford private security. Oligarchs don't care about abortion---they can jet off to a fancy clinic somewhere if the need should arise. Oligarchs don't care about public education---their children are already in high dollar private schools. The fact that they don't care about the environment is evidence of their sociopathy---in the end, they still have to breathe and many of them own coastal properties.

Rapert and King and others are just useful tools for the oligarchs and they are too stupid to see how they are being used.
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:03:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by TX-Travler]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:02:38 -0600 Arkansas Times
But she has led us to many avoidable foreign policy disasters - especially handing Egypt to the emerging salafist dictatorship, and blasting open the gates of Gaddafi's arsenals. Now North Africa is flooded with heavy weapons - including surface-to-air missiles - and they were used in the subsequent terrorist attack in Algeria.

A couple of years ago, she announced that she'd reached an agreement with North Korea to end their nuclear weapons program. Oops.

She hasn't really accomplished much at State that would help her in a presidential campaign.

I hope she retires from retail politics and devotes herself to public service in other ways. That would be best for everyone.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:00:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by LinCo_Progressive]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:28:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/up…

They will hound her, just like they hounded her husband, and just like they hound Barack Obama.

Don't you see? Bill Clinton was never legitimate in their eyes because in their eyes he was just this white trash up-start from Arkansas. He was smarter than they were and better at their game. He's still standing while their party is not just in disarray, but in the process of imploding.

Barack Obama can never be legitimate in their eyes because, if you haven't noticed, he is a black man. He is also smarter than they are and better at their game. Ditto, for Hillary.
Posted by the outlier]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:15:35 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:11:17 -0600 Arkansas Times