Comments Posted By Todd
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INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATISM ISN'T DEAD: IT'S RESTING
Steve and Brad and some others' comments are encouraging to me as one on "the other side" as I think it will keep the GOP out of power. I'm on the side of a just and prosperous America which actually innovates and progresses (intelligence and intellectual strength indeed helps tremendously). Steve and Brad--good luck with your strategy of...whatever that is. It's kind of funny, actually, since your views and tactics are VERY similar to the Soviets' in the first half of the last century: They squelched any kind of internal dissent and actively dumbed down the population to maintain control (many intellectuals ended up in gulags for the crime of having ideas and actually expressing them).
Transplanted Lawyer, you're a sign of hope that a day will come when the GOP contributes toward problem solving instead of shrieking with hyperbole. I heard an interesting interview yesterday in which it was described that GOPers who have ideas (I assume conservative ideas) and want to work with Dems to try and add conservative views toward a joint solution for the mammoth problems facing us are treated as "treasonous collaborators." You see it clearly with Olympia Snow. I feel sorry for her.
Horowitz is, in my opinion, a radical whose alliance is with neocon ideology, not with America's progress. He jumped from one extreme ideology to the opposite. Alliance to an ideology on either side (R/L) is ALWAYS a recipe for failure, IMO, because ideologues (political, religious, etc.) view the world through a lens of how they think it should be rather than how it actually is.
Comment Posted By Todd On 5.10.2009 @ 20:01
VIRTUAL DEBATE OVER IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
C. Dale is ABSOLUTELY COMPLETELY 100% NO-DOUBT-ABOUT-IT CORRECT!!
I can understand why the religious extremists on the Right want to defend Israel since they need it for their macabre End of Days scenario (in which they believe the Jews all go to hell anyway--jeesh!), but I'm amazed at how the not-so-fanatical GOPers don't see how this "alliance" is toxic to our interests. The planet watches as time and time again we protect atrocities committed by one country while lambasting the SAME atrocities in others. I guess that's what happens when you have AIPAC more/less owning Congress.
Comment Posted By Todd On 4.10.2009 @ 19:32
WHERE ARE ALL THE 'GOOD GOVERNMENT' LIBERALS?
James Jordan said:
"I’m not sure I see the correlation between the failure of N-Obama to get the Olympics in his dear Chi-town and the failure of America. I believe that these Olympic Committee folks saw through the fact that all N-Obama wanted was the pat on the back he would have gotten here in America for getting the Olympics. Not to mention the audacity of a sitting American president to actually think that his mere presence would sway people who more than likely hate America anyway!"
Good grief! First of all, the Chicago 2016 bid was being put together LONG before Obama came along as Prez. The "Not to mention..." sentence is absolute nonsense. ALL of the heads of state were there--ALL OF THEM. Chicago didn't lose because of anti-Americanism either: Chicago lost because their bid was bad--the Olympics there would have been a disaster.
Comment Posted By Todd On 4.10.2009 @ 19:15
POST HOC CRITICISM OF OBAMA TRIP JUSTIFIED
Gunny, are you actually saying that the President shouldn't take his wife to dinner on their anniversary because there's a war in Afghanistan? Has it come to this?
Comment Posted By Todd On 4.10.2009 @ 19:22
Gunny, if you'd ever been to Chicago (maybe you have), you'd know that they IOC would have been nuts to award the games to them. I wrote to Obama and asked him not to support the bid because the local government and infrastructure issues were not conducive to holding the games.
Oprah and the Obamas didn't fail--sorry to burst your mean-spirited bubble. Rio won, and good on them for it--I hope they do a great job. I have yet to hear one nasty word from you all about the King of Spain or Prime Minister of Japan. Also, I'd think twice about making weight jokes about Oprah (who I don't watch) when your heroes are Rush, Beck, Hannity, etc.
Comment Posted By Todd On 3.10.2009 @ 20:58
Sorry, 29 was my comment.
Comment Posted By Todd On 3.10.2009 @ 10:14
I'll repeat my question from earlier: Is everyone cheering and jeering at the King of Spain and Prime Minister of Japan? I've checked some international news and they've gotten wind of this nastiness and it's become news in their countries: not the loss (after all, only 1 of the 4 could get it), but the cheering of the loss.
Thanks, Surabaya Stew, for the nice comment--was fun to learn about this "defense." :-)
Comment Posted By Todd On 3.10.2009 @ 05:44
Nagarajan Sivakumar, you don't know me or anything about me, so save your ignorant garbage. You don't know what I may or may not have said about Harry Reid, Iraq, or anyone else. So, did the leaders of Japan and Spain fail and make fools of themselves? Is this the bar now? If you hate America so much, go back to India.
Comment Posted By Todd On 2.10.2009 @ 23:54
This is not a failure of Obama, it's a failure of Chicago. I lived in Chicago for 22 years--the mayor and his administration suck terribly and the transport infrastructure is in dire condition. My hope is that this is a blow to Daley and his henchmen and that Chicago can get a better city government--the b.s. from Daley and the disgraceful infrastructure issues are actually part of the reason I left.
The GOP cheering this as an Obama defeat is gross, and this article is, in my opinion, way way off base in most respects. Unfortunately I don't have time this minute to get into it. I will say this though--Obama has helped the US in the most tremendous way internationally. We were among the most hated countries on the planet a year ago and we're still up there. His attempts to repair relationships abroad have been measurably successful and not a single conservative will give credit for that. I know the GOP doesn't think that the rest of the world's views matter at all--after all, we're 4% of the world's population, why shouldn't we rule the place? Well, the 96% of non-America cares about their interests. I'm really disgusted right now with this rhetoric from the Right. I loathed Bush like no other, but even I wouldn't have criticized Bush for supporting America's bid for the Olympics (although I would have thought he was a liability).
Comment Posted By Todd On 2.10.2009 @ 20:45
OF LOUTS, BRUTES, AND BOORS IN PUBLIC LIFE
All of this mess needs to end. Even more than the childish Senators and Reps, I blame the media. These are the people who get the press while respectful members who present intelligent arguments get a teeny tiny blurb in the local news if they're lucky. Grayson was out of line (and I wrote to him and told him so), but he's doing it to make this very point (i.e., the method to the madness/poor behavior). We're all talking about him and his views now, are we not? Let's face it, Americans love rudeness and outlandishness and scandal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That development has been among the most painful for me over the 4+ decades I've been around, and I think it's eating our country alive.
Comment Posted By Todd On 4.10.2009 @ 19:41
