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AMERICAblog: Sunday Talk Shows Open Thread

  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    Here is an interesting video which was posted on FireDogLake. This is from Grit tv. It is about vets in Vermont who have turned their uniforms into paper and then art. Interesting dialogue with some of them. You get a glimpse of the terrible mental confusion they have after going to Iraq, killing, coming home and having to reconcile what they have done and how they are going to live with it the rest of their lives.

    http://grittv.blip.tv/file/910363/

    worth watching. disheartening and frightening. These are the people who have actually sacrificed Mr. Bush, giving up golf only meant you don't participate in something you were at best mediocre at.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    lynchie, and what about this soldier? I'm no fan of any religion, but it really does showcase the lack of training in the culture of a country you've invaded. I think we're going to have more victims of the present insanity that we would like. The fact also remains that the military does not want to have the extent of mental problems facing returning soldiers diagnosed and treated and that does not bode well for them, their families and society in general.

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/17/btsc....
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    Just had the most serendipitous moment...an adult doe walking along the road in front of our house, and down the driveway of the next door neighbor, looking for cover in the woods behind us...quite beautiful she was, and I hope she survives.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    John Boner will get sunless tanning lotion all over the desk
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    O&W: Dead on. we don't prepare our troops for foreign culture. We are an occupying army in Iraq and know nothing about them, their history, their historical tribal disputes. No one in Washington knows. Hell half of the Congress don't have passports and can't travel outside the country so what do they know.
    The fact remains as you pointed out that our men and women, some of them still children, are returning home, just as they did from Vietnam having survived physically but damaged mentally. Talk to the 55 to 65 year old Vietnam Vets and see how many of them have sleepless nights, who still haven't resolved their issues from the war. We have cycled 300,000 troops through Iraq and Afghanistan and this horror is walking around on our streets. We know of the high suicide rates, the wife and child abuse and now with the VA being told not to diagnose PTSD so they can get treatment these men and women will be time bombs ready to explode.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Good morning,

    Another good NY Times piece by Frank Rich:

    McCain Can Run, but Bush Won’t Hide

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18ric...
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
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    CBS' "Face the Nation" — Gov. Charlie Crist, R-Fla.; Republican strategist Ed Rollins; former Govs. Mario Cuomo, D-N.Y., and Roy Romer, D-Colo.

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    NBC's "Meet the Press" — Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.; former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; Republican strategist Mike Murphy; Democratic strategist Bob Shrum.
    your kiddin me,right?
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Dick Morris....another right wing bigoted idiot:

    From today's Washington Post:

    "To sum it up: A candidate who cannot get elected is being nominated by a party that cannot be defeated, while a candidate who is eminently electable is running as the nominee of a party doomed to defeat."

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    O0MG!,OMG!...the UN mentionable has been said ,bravo Mr. Rich
    Just 36 hours after the Mississippi debacle, Mr. McCain tried to distance himself from the administration by flip-flopping on his signature issue, Iraq, suddenly endorsing just the kind of timetable for withdrawal he has characterized as “surrender” when proposed by Democrats or Mitt Romney. (When Mr. McCain proposes it, he labels it “victory.”) But hardly had Mr. McCain spoken than his message was upstaged by Mr. Bush’s partisan political speech in Israel. The president implied that Mr. Obama would have enabled the Nazis even more foolishly than his own grandfather, Prescott Bush, did in the 1930s when he maintained “investment relationships with Hitler’s Germany,” as Kevin Phillips delicately describes it in “American Dynasty.”
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    I wonder if Timmeh will ask Huckleberry about his suggestion of assassination for Barack at the NRA convention that's a purely rhetorical question, of course...).; ironically, the NRA banned guns carried by the general public into that meeting.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Not sure what's gotten into Friedman lately, but there's a lot of BS being thrown about about Obama's lack of committment to Israel--mainly by Hillary, Bush and McCain--and I'm glad Freidman's trying to set the record straight.

    Obama and the Jews

    By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
    Published: May 18, 2008

    Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama once said there has to be “an end” to the Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank “that began in 1967.” Yikes!

    Skip to next paragraph

    Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
    Thomas L. Friedman

    Go to Columnist Page » Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama said that not only must Israel be secure, but that any peace agreement “must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people.” Yikes!

    Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama once said “the establishment of the state of Palestine is long overdue. The Palestinian people deserve it.” Yikes! Yikes! Yikes!

    Those are the kind of rumors one can hear circulating among American Jews these days about whether Barack Obama harbors secret pro-Palestinian leanings. I confess: All of the above phrases are accurate. I did not make them up.

    There’s just one thing: None of them were uttered by Barack Obama. They are all direct quotes from President George W. Bush in the last two years. Mr. Bush, long hailed as a true friend of Israel, said all those things.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18fri...
  • ccokz · 1 year ago
  • Gorgonzola · 1 year ago
    Listening to John Boehner is as pleasant as having your teeth drilled. What a perfect choice to steer the stinking carcass of the GOP into oblivion.
  • Lilly · 1 year ago
    Any show with Huckabee on it should be boycotted!!!!! The guy is a right-wing lunatic and should not be tolerated. David Shuster was suspended for a far less offensive remark than that one made by Huckabee. So why is Huckabee on Meet the Press?
  • DCinDC · 1 year ago
    Corruption runs like a river over at McCain's Camp:

    Former Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler, a Texan who is among the McCain campaign’s most important advisers and fundraisers, has resigned as a national co-chair over lobbying entanglements, a Republican source told Politico on Sunday.

    It’s at least the fifth lobbying-related departure from the campaign in a week.

    McCain will not release the real reasons these guys had to go. Corruption!

    Ask McCain to release his wife's tax returns and connect the dots!