tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post591156383013221911..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: The Bad Penny That Keeps On GivingJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-9035974516659439942011-05-14T13:07:16.645-04:002011-05-14T13:07:16.645-04:00The only thing better than Rudy Giuliani winning t...The <a href="http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2011/05/10/zombie-reagan-loves-traaaaaaiiins/" rel="nofollow">only thing better</a> than Rudy Giuliani winning the Ed Meese Award was Atlas Shrugged, The Movie, "Part 1," winning the Ronald Reagan Great Communicator Award.bjkeefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10967912817595826059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-36090148515546374542011-05-10T19:32:59.581-04:002011-05-10T19:32:59.581-04:00Why is it that the folks who scream the loudest ab...Why is it that the folks who scream the loudest about how exceptional we are tend to be the very same people who go out of their way to make sure we are unexceptional. Torture. Worship of wealth. A huge State Security apparatus. The list goes on and on.Pangborn Leonhartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-54714857013210257502011-05-09T17:27:23.449-04:002011-05-09T17:27:23.449-04:00I'm with Anonymous. I've never understood ...I'm with Anonymous. I've never understood how American Exceptionalism, were it to exist, devolves to the individual American. Because one is lucky, or "lucky" enough to be born in the USA, which is somehow exceptional, that somehow automatically makes you better than some other schmuck born in Iraq?<br /><br />I know I'm not that smart, but this concept boggles my mind.map106https://www.blogger.com/profile/04613387280188680760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-45548828085972373932011-05-09T15:41:53.161-04:002011-05-09T15:41:53.161-04:00Oh come on... Giuliani, Trump, Bachmann, and the F...Oh come on... Giuliani, Trump, Bachmann, and the FOX production of "Morons On Parade" are just the warmup act. By the time David Brooks, George F. Will, and David Gregory get done buffing and fluffing Mitch Daniels, we'll all be so brain fried that we won't be able to remember a time when he WASN'T just what this beleaguered republic needed.satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-19195198815640061742011-05-09T09:55:14.122-04:002011-05-09T09:55:14.122-04:00For thousands of years the peasants adored and eve...For thousands of years the peasants adored and even worshipped the Kings and Aristocrats who robbed them, starved them, forbade them to do anything other than farm, and killed them without fear of penalty. T-baggers seem to exist in that surf mentality, happy to tug their forelock or kowtow to the Rich Ones.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-11663002096192504432011-05-09T07:54:21.394-04:002011-05-09T07:54:21.394-04:00For them tea baggin' repubs: How can you be in...For them tea baggin' repubs: How can you be in two parties at once when you're not anywhere at all?heydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15509102502417886790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-32381254937846041462011-05-09T05:50:21.933-04:002011-05-09T05:50:21.933-04:00Our media have done a pretty thorough job, simulta...Our media have done a pretty thorough job, simultaneously with America's education (both in schools and at home), of convincing enough people that exceptionalism is good. And I am not isolating Fox as a media conduit. On MSNBC, Chris Mathews is interrupted for commercials by big oil. So from what people would an independent political party be derived? The unemployed autoworkers in Kokomo who marksmall2001https://www.blogger.com/profile/00244591510971033189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-77617529519868896822011-05-08T16:37:47.149-04:002011-05-08T16:37:47.149-04:00Re: American Exceptionalism, is there anything mor...Re: American Exceptionalism, is there anything more crass and self-indulgent than demanding that people recognize how special, perfect and wonderful you are not by virtue of any personal achievement but merely by being born in a political jurisdiction? Or demanding that your political leaders pander to your fantasy?<br /><br />Ironic that these are pretty much the same people who sneer at at the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-19809050953445661142011-05-08T14:07:47.338-04:002011-05-08T14:07:47.338-04:00Before Reagan was elected, Giuliani said, much had...<i>Before Reagan was elected, Giuliani said, much had been written about America’s decline and how it was a country of “limited possibilities” that had run its course.</i><br /><br />I was 27 the year St. Ron was elected. I grew up seeing America do good things, like passing the Civil Rights Act, and incredibly bad things, like the Viet Nam war. Much of what was written about America's Rugosanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-67262078591889467372011-05-08T13:51:18.117-04:002011-05-08T13:51:18.117-04:00Go ahead and tell me it's Trump, if you wish.....<i>Go ahead and tell me it's Trump, if you wish...</i><br /><br />I do!<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com