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The Clark "qualification" comment storm sure began to develop that distinctive Rove Rat smell.

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All correct accept the Howard Dean scream. If that wasn't a scream, what was it?

eLwood I think it had that distinctive MSM smell. The MSM is responsible for reporting what clearly is not the facts just so they can make the news more interesting and increase ratings.

In light of the condition of our country, I can't say Happy 4t of July, so I'll just say welcome to the awareness of the 4th of July. This year we have next to nothing to celebrate. Like a fireman turned arsonist, our country has become a dark force for everything that is unbecoming to downright dangerous about human beings. Can we unring this bell? It's impossible to tell at this time.

Republicans are Republicans for a reason, same for Democrats. A few of us are loyal to our party because daddy was a Democrat, so was granddaddy, and his dad and his dad and so on. But straight ticket voting families also produce kids who take 180 degree turns just as often. My point is that most of us align with a political party because they think and feel more like we do than the other party. Republican brain wiring tells them to organize into a group with one brain and one heart. To be suspicious of all others and hoard as much of the treasure as possible. A Republican says NO first and sometimes, though not every time, thinks later. They agree on one message and all get behind it. They are born to goose-step and love the authoritarian model.

Karl Rove is the Einstein of Republican politics. No one has ever figured out the workings of the Republican mind like Karl. He also knows that Democrats can be scattered like a flock of birds if you make a big enough noise when their backs are turned. This is how the Republican Party has managed to elect the most unelectable people on earth. Joe McCarthy, Nixon, Reagan, Bush & Bush. Reagan was an empty suit who gave an Academy Award winning performance for 8 years. The rest of them mere crooks, the kind that rob from little kids and old ladies. Not fit to be your city sewer plant manager.

Jesse Helms is dead. Good! I'm sorry he died on the 4th of July, a day he helped besmirch as much as any villain in American history. To feel any sadness at his passing would be like mourning the death of Mr. Gonor, the inventor of Gonorrhea. No one and nothing has infected the American public with hate and savagery like Jesse Helms in his 52 year political career. He is the perfect example of a bad American. He is John McCain's role model though McCain successfully hides that side of his persona. The differences in the 2 men's voting record are nil. Yet Karl Rove in his mastery has covered up that difference and projected the myth that John McCain is a straight-talking, straight-shooting, maverick...the opposite of the truth.

Today we're faced with the possibility of the myth of John McCain winning the White House. If he does not only will it be a 3rd term for Bush & Cheney & Rove, it will start the 53rd year of Jesse Helms political career...even from the grave. America and the bombed out rest of the world has suffered enough at the hands of the Republican Party. It is past time to bury Bush, Cheney, Rove, Jesse Helms, and their enablers like Mark Pryor.

On this anniversary of the birth of American Freedom, we must make a commitment to never again live with the jackboot of the Republican Party on our neck. We have to banish those who hate, lie, steal, rob, torture and kill, bashing people with our Bible in the name of America under our flag of red, white, & blue. Good riddance Jesse! Maybe we'll have something to celebrate 1 year from now.

In 2002 and 2004, Republicans were so successful at playing the patriotism card thanks to a combination of compliant media and cowering Democrats.<<<NYT

Thanks to Karl Rove who learned to manipulate the media so well and to FOX News Corp for initiating Faux stories and keeping them alive, forcing other networks to cover stuff they wouldn't otherwise. Ain't the ratings game fun! But that's the small stuff.

They played the patriotism card because they scared the American public into believing there was present danger and FAUX NEWS helped them every turn of the fear screwing.

Now let's wager on it once again. When will the Orange Alerts begin?
I've posted my guess on my bluename

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In 2002 Rove set up the phony "war authorization" vote. Most of those stupid enough to vote against it (as was the Karl Rove plan) were defeated by Republicans. Those who were smart enough to vote for the meaningless resolution (like Clinton) were defeated by Democrats.

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So had it not been for Karl Rove's plan, Hillary Clinton might very well be the Democratic nominee today. That unexpected outcome of course was just icing on the cake for Rove.

On DBI...But we do have much to celebrate today..
We are still free, we can come and go at will, we can go to the church of our choice [or not] we can express any damn opinion we have here and just about eny where else we please.
We, most of us have a full belly and the love of family and friends..
Most of us have jobs or a way to support our families. most of us probably have a college education
[here in Blogland] we can thank our parents, our own gumption, government backed loans. but mostly we can remember to thank all of those who have gone before us for so many of the blesssings we enjoy this 4th of July.

Jazzy's foward the other night about the Normandy Memorial, the cemetary.... all of that just made me think again...What If? What If? What if our parents and grandparens had not stepped up
to serve in what ever capacity in "that good war".

Would any of us be here today on July 4 doing what ever it is we all all doing.
I don't think so.
So today I am thankful to live in the good 'ol US of A.
There are many, many problems, all is not well on many fronts.
We must elect a President in November that has a vision and some leadership, a Democrat of course.

All those problems will be there tomorrow, today i am going to be thankful and happy!

Happy 4th of July to all of you!!

Nanc,
My good friend, and mentor died two day ago. Ron Rockwell was a retired Naval commander. He retired to pursue two more professions. He was a newspaper editor and a etymologist-species collector for the
Smithsonian museum in D.C. He traveled the nation. He was wounded in Viet Nam, had a drawer full of medals to prove that he was protecting what you espouse. His corpse is now laying at the local funeral home awaiting cremation.

He commanded destroyers enough in the Middle East that he was my resident expert on what could happen there and how. He told his grandchildren that Bush was the only president to start a U.S. war.
All others were responses to wars started by others. But the real war has not started. Realized that nations deteriorate inside. He could cite numerous civilizations which did so.

On my bluename you will find Ron's very last writings. In it he remarks:

"Now I am also a retired navy officer and a historian. In all these capacities, I studied warfare, not just wars as listed and maybe elaborated in the books from which most historians teach and students learn. The difference is that warfare deals with the causes, including those in the human psyche, the propensities of society from the most basic family and extended-family groups to the most complex toward war, the repercussions and recovery procedures of war.

The situation in Iraq IS NOT, and NEVER HAS BEEN, a war. It began as an assault, morphed quickly into an invasion and within a matter of no more than a few weeks became an occupation, its status to this day. None of these terms has the political or romantic appeal of the more glamorous, seemingly more important and urgent, term 'war.' "

Rest in peace my good friend.

Nanc, I understand your feelings on this day and I wouldn't dare make fun. My problem is that today we're not the good ole USA. Those heroes who died at Normandy did so that we might continue to be free. It is because of their sacrifice and the sacrifices of people like eLwood's friend Ron Rockwell that I am mad and sad today. These gallant men and women didn't give their lives so America could invade other countries to steal oil. They didn't give their lives for no-bid contracts. They died never thinking one day the Purple Heart would be made into the sure sign of a coward by the likes of Karl Rove. They didn't die for Enron, or stolen elections or governmental spying on our phones, mail and Internet searches.

Because I grew up at a time when America seemed good and my future was bright, I can't light a sparkler and celebrate the loss of our freedoms, the loss of our good name and the dim prospects for a good life for my children. Good for all of you who can put your anger away on this day, I envy your ability to forget. At best I can today celebrate what once was, but looks to be no more. The thought of which only makes me sadder and angrier. But tomorrow is another day, but it also another day for the Rovian Dark Forces who never take a holiday. Good luck to us all.....we're sure gonna need it.

john doe, if you will listen to the copy of the scream from another placement of the fic you will hear another different sound. faux immediately hyped the sound to the original and the sound was enhanced. i have heard several versions of that speech and it wa not energizing. he was loud but not not at the levels that have been shown by faux. i have only heard the major scream in one place and if i were from that media i would be ashamen of putting it on the airwaves. but i am not a right wing company with limitless pockets to back the play. therefore his scream reamains so he trots out his horse and pony show of tired hack announcers each year and we continue to watch them. we will continue to watch the other sides attempt to try to bring up the competition. it is an expensive way to go but slowly faux is losing its credibility. the ratings are going down and the young people are becoming educated to factsf.

it's mic not fic, sorry.

Imagine......if we were finishing up the 4th year of President Dean's first term in office.....think of how many fewer screams there would have been. I'm talking about the kind of scream you hear when a mother or wife learns that their son or husband has been blown to bits in Iraq. Those are the screams that haunt my dreams.....not Howard Dean's.