Dan Froomkin - A Ludicrous Attempt at Spin - washingtonpost.com

Dan Froomkin - A Ludicrous Attempt at Spin - washingtonpost.com:
"Remember how Bush once ascribed Vice President Cheney's unsupported assertions of progress in Iraq to Cheney's 'half-glass-full' mentality? Cheney and others are watching as water is pouring out of the glass, and saying the glass is getting fuller."

Dan Froomkin - A Ludicrous Attempt at Spin - washingtonpost.com

Dan Froomkin - A Ludicrous Attempt at Spin - washingtonpost.com:
"Remember how Bush once ascribed Vice President Cheney's unsupported assertions of progress in Iraq to Cheney's 'half-glass-full' mentality? Cheney and others are watching as water is pouring out of the glass, and saying the glass is getting fuller."

No Kidding?

Protesters, prime minister greet Cheney in Australia - CNN.com: "Opinion polls show the Iraq conflict is deeply unpopular among Australians."

Is there ANY country in the world where the people's opinion FAVORS the "Iraq conflict?" Does ANYBODY want this war to continue other than the war and oil profiteers?

At least Blair is beginning to listen to the clammer in the streets. The PM in Australia sounds like another Cheney. Since we didn't really elect Bush and Cheney here, what's up with the Aussies?

Not Planning To Attack Iran?

BBC NEWS | Middle East | US 'Iran attack plans' revealed

US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the BBC has learned.

Sure you're not, BushCo, sure you're not.

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Andrea Marcotte Makes Some Points

Blogging populism and the political establishment | TPMCafe

Read the entry at the link above and see for yourself how this woman thinks and writes and why so many of us love and respect her for it.

In the mainstream media right now, politics is a long, drawn-outgame of "gotcha", and the result is that everyone who wants to be in politics is scared to ever say anything interesting or thoughtful for fear that it will be taken out of context and used relentlessly to discredit them. The result is that ordinary people are routinely turned off to politics, to the point where getting more than half of registered voters to vote in any one election is considered some sort of amazing victory.

This is where blogs step in, at least on the left. Blogging is a real counterpoint to the thoughtless, elitist, soundbite-driven mainstream media, where we're supposed to absorb an endless stream of soundbites and photo ops and our participation is limited mostly to a vote every couple of years. Blogs are bringing back the 19th century debate culture, where people would attend real debates and political rallies and listen to speeches for hours at a time. The irony about the vulgar people is that the vulgar people crave analysis, debate and participation, because these things validate our intelligence and our right to be citizens. The blogs are still appealing only to a small segment of society right now, but they're still relatively new and have the potential to reach a much larger audience over time.

She nails both the MSM for its complicity in the current state of politics and blogging on the left for attempting reparation of the same. Of couse, this is exactly why the MSM wants to squelch the bloggers and why they cooperated with the wingnuts in presenting a skewed story that really had nothing at all to do with bigotry or religion and everything to do with power and politics.

Good on you, Andrea. Keep up the good fight!

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TP Calls Admin On Duplicity, Again

Think Progress » Bush Administration Condemns Iraq Resolution, Then Uses It As A Diplomatic Strategy

And it's really all about putting pressure on the Iraqi government to sign the "oil law" agreement which will sew up most of the oil profits for the multinationals instead of giving it to the Iraqis. Could this be the real and final motive for invading a weak, oil-baring nation without provocation? Hmmmm. Let me think...YES!

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