Making fun of both sides
I can usually count on the phone to ring these days when Jim Borgman skewers the Republicans with one of his cartoons. The calls invariably go something like this: "I'm tired of that LIBERAL Borgman always picking on the administration. How come he never did anything like this when Clinton was in the White House?"
They never believe me when I explain that Borgman, like the rest of us opinioneers, goes after whoever happens to be stepping in it at the moment. I love the fact that he took the opportunity on his BorgBlog to push this particular fact in everybody's face. My personal favorite is "Live from the President's shorts."
Who says elephants have long memories?
posted by David Wells at 11:53 AM
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at 10:28 AM, October 08, 2006 
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Post a Comment*Depends on which side of the fence you're on, eh?
I co-moderate a non-partisan voting reform group. Since Republicans in (not all, but) most states have been the beneficiary of voting irregularities in recent years, you would be correct to assume most our members are liberal or progressive.
Yet, if I moderate someone's post for being partisan I get called a fascist or worse. Go figure.
Well, well. What have we here? Gee, an almost subtle attempt to turn the conversation to... yawn... Bill Clinton.
I guess when it's about 30 days to an important election and you've already covered menopause, the Ohio River, and how to recognize religious holidays that you may or may not even know about, then sure - what else is there for an editorial board to write about?
Wow. Mark Foley, Bob Woodward's "State of Denial," the end of habeus corpus, the Iraq war. I'm glad your editorial page focused on none of that here and instead decided to take a light-hearted look at some Bill Clinton sex cartoons.
After all, we know that Bill is really behind the Mark Foley sex scandal. In addition to his being the reason we didn't get Osama bin Laden. And causing Hurricane Katrina. I mean what can the Republican leadership do about Clinton's legacy? After all, they only control all three branches of government. There's only so much they can do without voting President Bush some more powers. The President would really like the ability to be invisible, for example. He's been asking for this one for a long time and it's about time the liberals in Congress just give it to him. He would also like a death ray for members of the media who disagree with him. Both of these are necessary for the war on terror. Also, some new caps for his cap gun.
What's wrong with you liberal editorialists? Would you hurry up and write about how important the death ray and cloak of invisibility are to the war on terror and stop focusing on your liberal causes of resurrecting Bill Clinton?
Endorseing Rs simply because they are not Ds is the Enquirer's MO.
A total of 43 papers which had endorsed Bush for the 2000 election switched to endorse Kerry for 2004, whereas 8 papers which had endorsed Al Gore in 2000 switched to endorse Bush for 2004.
I would like to ask the editorial board to blog about their 2004 endorsement of Bush with the facts they now know, Michael Brown as head of FEMA, explosive spending and earmarks, rampant corruption and a miserably bungled Iraq War, whould they do it over again knowing what they know now.
Sometimes you have to do what is right for the country regardless of howw many white men call you up to complain about the dreaded "liberalsm."
And just when we thought our miltary actions couldn't be any less counterproductive we find out our military has been leveling Iraqi farmer's livelihoods. Way to win hearts and minds.
Why We Are Still Getting It So Wrong in the 'War on Terror'
The ill-conceived and badly executed campaign in Iraq is directly responsible for spawning a new generation of terrorists
by Henry Porter
When Alexander the Great swept through Asia Minor in 337BC, he came to the impregnable mountain fortress of Termessos, not far from the modern-day Turkish city of Antalya. Termessos possessed a network of huge underground reservoirs and storerooms and, realising he would not bring the city to submission in a short time, Alexander ordered that the olive groves which provided Termessos with much of its income be levelled. It was an unusually spiteful act that was remembered for centuries afterwards.
I was reminded of the story when reading Patrick Cockburn's The Occupation, a vivid account of war and resistance in Iraq which is published by Verso this week. Cockburn describes a visit to Dhuluaya, a fruit-growing region 50 miles north of Baghdad, where, early on in the occupation, the American military cut down ancient date palms and orange and lemon trees as part of a collective punishment for farmers who had failed to inform them about guerrilla attacks. This vandalism will be remembered for generations because it was senseless and to the Iraqi mind powerfully symbolises the malice of the occupiers.
'At times,' Cockburn says of the period just after the invasion, 'it seemed as if the American military was determined to provoke an uprising.' Well, now they've got it, a ferocious war that in the last three months alone has cost 10,000 lives, most of them Iraqi. There seems no end to it and as Cockburn writes in his conclusion, instead of asserting America's position as the sole superpower, the occupation has amply demonstrated the limits of US power.
Back in the late '40's and early 50's when the US government was regularly testing nukes in NM, it seems a couple of Indians/native Amurikuns also of NM were sending smoke signals.
One looked over, saw the mushroom cloud, and said to the other smoke-signaller, "I wish I'd said that."
Those are my sentiments after reading: 12:53 PM Hebron27
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