Every so often, I test the theory--in a story so (eventually) completely removed from Bush as to defy belief. Over at Huffpost, Cory Lidle's death 600-some posts later, we join the discussion in full swing:
How about this as a possible October Surprise -
Bush/Rove let the situation in Baghdad deteriorate so badly that they 'engineer' the Seige of the Green Zone, a Christian Masada, a New Alamo?
Ramadan ends Oct. 23 - Seige of the Green Zone starts Oct. 24.
80,000 Troops trapped 300 miles inside hostile territory will make the whole country worry.
Who will we blame? Iran, of course, and the battle lines of Bush's Plan to Cleanse the ME of 'extremeists' will be drawn.
80,000 Troops surrounded? Draft? No problem!
Desire to nuke Iran and North Korea? Goes way up!
Invade the oil fields of Iran (geographically concentrated into a relatively small area)? Of course, to deny the 'extremeists' their source of funds.
Noodle on that and see if it makes sense.
Maybe that's why the FUNDIES haven't voiced outrage over FOLEY - Rove revealed to them a more glorious ending - a biblical scale event sure to sound the rapture call and initiate the fight against the Devil on earth - 'Radical' Islam, of course.
All of BUSH's MIC stakeholders 'win' with his New Alamo Plan.
Don't fall for it!
Take Back America!
Out with the BUSH Poodles!
Posts such as the above--plus (surprise!)more Mark Foley stuff--prompt the following, almost a pleading, from a fan who remembered Lidle from his Oakland days:
I'm sorry, I'm going to try this one more time, because I really think you mean well, but YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT.
I didn't come here looking for empathy (and sorry you have such a limited supply) and I didn't come here looking for sympathy.
I posted a comment about Cory Lidle; this is the "Yankees Pitcher Cory Lidle Killed...." thread, it seemed appropriate to share a memory and comment that he was a very nice man. Then all this crap comes pouring out of the spamming trolls.
This is not the foley thread - you can go find that - I, personally, am still wishing the Lidle family and the other passenger's family all the best tonight.
Which prompts this reply:
Look, no disrespect to families of anyone who has been hurt or killed in this terrible accident, but isn't it a little out of proportion that this is the number one story on a day that the Pentagon announced that the U.S. military, which probably loses more than a couple Americans a day, will be in Iraq until at least 2010?
The story about the military wasn't even on CNN.com's front page. And thousands of Americans have died. Is it really more newsworthy when the person who died was a celebrity?
Note to self: Okay. Time to shake off Yankee failure and wade back into politics.
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"Note to self: Okay. Time to shake off Yankee failure and wade back into politics." -TexasYank
Don't do it! It's just not safe anymore!
First we have Hilary Clinton telling Republicans that THEY are the ones to blame for the current N. Korea "arms race." At least this might have been the speech that finally jump starts McCain into attack mode. He had a beautiful follow-up to her "pot-kettle-black" speech.
Youtube, the most powerful video sharing site on the internet, blocks a video that mocks the Clinton administrations policy of handling N. Korea for no particular reason, other than they just didn't "like it."
I wake up and the Today show starts off the day with the N. Korean nuke bomb test. The second story? How the Bush administration's FAILED policy is to blame for the test!! It was a news story, not an editorial, a NEWS STORY. I can't make this stuff up.
So Texas Yank. As you wade into the minefield of current politics. bring you boots and hardhat. Because the Left does not take losing very well. They just blame "stupid Americans" for voting the "wrong way." And follow that up with lies and twisting of the truth.
Gotta run, I see that the Senate Minority leader just accepted another cool million for a "swmp" he used to "own" in Nevada. Oh you didn't hear about Ried? Don't worry, either did 45 million other Americans watching mainstream media.
I have to wade in here and report that the "Bush Hatred Detour" syndrome has leaked into sports columns. I'm sad to report that Mike "Lefty" Lupica has revertd to bashing Bush any chance he gets. I've also seen him do this on Sports Reporters. Recently he wrote a colunmn complaining about the jailing(or threatened jailing) of the reporters who wouldn't reveal sources regarding Balco. I have no strong opinion about that but Lupica went on to blame it on the "Bush Mentality or Culture" and repeated it a number of times as if Bush had a hand in convincing the Federal Judge (who is only following the law)to jail them. He also wrote a fawning article on Chris Dodd the substance of which escapes me.
Needless to say, I don't read Lupica anymore.
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