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I think the former president would be embarassed and disgusted. Quite frankly I doubt he would recognize the current republican party just as JFK certainly would not recognize the current democrat party.
Posted by: Ryder | July 30, 2010 at 11:18 PM
And what would Nancy say if she knew?
Posted by: loadstar | July 30, 2010 at 11:57 PM
And why do you call it the "democrat" party, Ryder?
Posted by: joanie | July 31, 2010 at 01:01 PM
Yeah, Ryd...that's very republic of you...
Posted by: Fremont | July 31, 2010 at 01:27 PM
Probably so Ryder, but the Republicans (stupid) and Democratics (sneaky) are still so-called political parties. Both JFK and Reagan would have trouble recognizing their respective parties today.
Posted by: KS | July 31, 2010 at 01:41 PM
Joanie, I don't understand the question. Did I spell something wrong?
Posted by: Ryder | July 31, 2010 at 02:20 PM
You've always called the Democratic Party the "Democrat" Party? I hope not. "Democrat" labels a person; "democratic" describes the party. Cam up explain better, Fremont?
Hertzberg says it well in The New Yorker
You'll enjoy the read I think.
Posted by: joanie | July 31, 2010 at 04:38 PM
Per Hertzberger, for some reason people associate Rat and Democrat.
Go figure. Someone made a commercial out of it...LMAO!
Of course, for those of us who recall how Hong Tran was treated by the WA State Dem Party in the 2006 election it isn't that far of a leap. Cantwell 'hired' one opponent to quit his campaign against her and put him on salary at $8k a month. Tran refused the offers to quit being a principled anti-war candidate and was shut out of the Dem Party Voter Database by the state Chair if I recall correctly.
Posted by: Puget Sound | July 31, 2010 at 07:43 PM
Hey Coils-ee
Lucky for you in this upcoming Mid Term Election you'll have Pres Obama to come in to campaign for local candidates...err, on second thought you may not want to unpack the Teleprompter as that may not be a good idea. So much for the Dignity factor, eh?
Can't wait for November...how you feeling about it?
From NY Times today:
"As lunch was served in the Roosevelt Room of the White House one day last week, President Obama assured the nine Democratic members of Congress sitting around the table that he would do anything he could to help them survive their fall elections.
Representative Gerald E. Connolly hopes the Obama team will focus on the fall.
David Plouffe, an Obama adviser, says Democrats must close an “enthusiasm gap.”
Even, he said, if it meant staying away.
“You may not even want me to come to your district,” Mr. Obama said, according to guests, nearly all of whom hold seats that Republicans are aggressively seeking..."
Posted by: Puget Sound | July 31, 2010 at 08:33 PM
Any Howard Zinn fans here?
Got some news...
Posted by: Puget Sound | July 31, 2010 at 08:41 PM
Have Obama get inside that Trojan Horse and sign an executive order for amnesty for 12 million + Illegal aliens and that will be better than him staying away.
That maneuver will put the Republicans on their heels and in a state of shock and also cause a firestorm of protest and nut crushing that has not been witnessed since the Revolutionary War. The Capitol may even get carpet bombed that stunt is attempted.
Posted by: KS | July 31, 2010 at 10:35 PM
I just reread my post! Cam up explain better, Fremont? is supposed to say: Can you explain better, Fremont?
So much for careless revision!
Posted by: joanie | July 31, 2010 at 11:58 PM
I am guessing that the time for dramatic moves by the Dems has passed.
They HAD the votes/mandate and could have done a lot of things.
The 2008-2010 Congress/Obama Admin will go down in the annals of Democratic Lore as a -to use a Coiler term- 'nut crushingly' bitter time referred to as the 'Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Congress.'
The Dems will still have a lame duck session to pass stuff against the will of the people. The Wing Nut arm of the Party will demand it but the Rahm Emanual elements will stop it knowing that to do so pretty much ends any chance for a second term. And those Chicago Pols want a second term.
Posted by: Puget Sound | August 01, 2010 at 04:55 AM
I just reread my post! Cam up explain better, Fremont? is supposed to say: Can you explain better, Fremont?
So much for careless revision!
Posted by: joanie | July 31, 2010 at 11:58 PM
But the fact that no one pointed it out confirms that people just expect to get a 'WTF' moment when looking through your posts. You're Lucy to Chucks as Ricky Ricardo. Sparkles makes a great Ethel and you gotta love Duff as Fred.
Posted by: Puget Sound | August 01, 2010 at 05:03 AM
Not exactly a teachable moment. LMAO.
Posted by: KS | August 01, 2010 at 09:01 AM
The Usual Suspects are replete with teachable moments. Just not what they intend.
I feel a little sorry for Coils, somewhere under a rock knowing what is about to be crushed come November...
Posted by: Puget Sound | August 01, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Speaking of Howard Zinn...
Howard Zinn
FOIA Home
FBI homepage
On July 30, 2010, the FBI released one file with three sections totaling 423 pages on Howard Zinn, a best selling radical historian, teacher, playwright, and political activist.
Zinn was born in Brooklyn, New York and died at the age of 87 on January 27, 2010. As a young man he worked as a shipyard hand and served in the U. S. military as a bombardier during World War II. Returning from the war, he became involved in a number of left-wing political causes, some of them associated with the activities of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA).
In 1949, the FBI opened a domestic security investigation on Zinn (FBI File # 100-360217). The Bureau noted Zinn’s activities in what were called Communist Front Groups and received informant reports that Zinn was an active member of the CPUSA; Zinn denied ever being a member when he was questioned by agents in the 1950s. In the 1960s, the Bureau took another look at Zinn on account of his criticism of the FBI’s civil rights investigations. Further investigation was made when Zinn traveled to North Vietnam with Daniel Berrigan as an anti-war activist. The investigation ended in 1974, and no further investigation into Zinn or his activities was made by the FBI."
Posted by: KS | August 01, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Joanie was a big Zinn fan.
Amazingly, or damingly enough look at when Zinn joined:
"...after the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in which Stalin cruelly and cynically sacrificed Poland to the Nazis. Zinn was a card-carrying Commie who advocated Marxism-Leninism after the Red Army’s ”Iron Curtain” occupation of Eastern Europe, after the treachery of the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss had been revealed, and even during the height of Stalin’s anti-Semitic purges"
Kind of explains...
"Through Zinn’s looking-glass, Maoist China, site of history’s bloodiest state-sponsored killings, becomes “the closest thing, in the long history of that ancient country, to a people’s government, independent of outside control.” The authoritarian Nicaraguan Sandinistas were “welcomed” by their own people, while the opposition Contras, who backed the candidate that triumphed when free elections were finally held, were a “terrorist group” that “seemed to have no popular support inside Nicaragua.” Castro’s Cuba, readers learn, “had no bloody record of suppression.”
The usual suspects again found to be on the wrong side of history.
Posted by: Puget Sound | August 01, 2010 at 12:36 PM
I thought they were registered Democratics and not on the side of the Maoists or Marxists you know, like Sean Penn or Danny Glover are these days.
I'd bet that Obama's mother would have been a Facebook fan (if they had during her life) right along with the usual suspects (her high school nickname at Mercer Island HS was Anarchist Annie).
Posted by: KS | August 01, 2010 at 01:42 PM
i got'cha, following in the fine line of Penn, Glover, Fonda...'dupes' aka useful idiots...
Posted by: Puget Sound | August 01, 2010 at 01:55 PM
Yep, just checked and Facebook has just over 44,000 fans of Howard Zinn - a few more useful idiots in the world and Che Guvara has just short of 8,000. There's also an article from the Daily Beast about Zinn's communist ties on FB that has received a considerable number of hits.
Posted by: KS | August 01, 2010 at 02:08 PM
Well, I see the sputs-klueless mutual admiration society is meeting.
Yawn.
Posted by: joanie | August 01, 2010 at 02:14 PM
You might do more than yawn if you read the content of the above posts, but then again there are no surprises.
Posted by: KS | August 01, 2010 at 02:27 PM