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The enemy of my enemy

I was kind of lukewarm about Susan Rice as the next Secretary of State -- she has high qualifications, but she'd been around for a while a now -- but that's all changed.

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The enemy of my enemy

POSTED: Monday, November 26, 2012, 9:49 PM

I was kind of lukewarm about Susan Rice as the next Secretary of State -- she has high qualifications, but she'd been around for a while a now -- but that's all changed. The McCarthyism-style smearing of her -- with about as much evidence as Joe McCarthy had on that laundry list in Wheeling -- by Sen. John McCain & Co. has been one of the more disgraceful episodes in modern politics. Which is saying quite a lot when you think of it. That makes her nomination and confirmation no longer an option -- but a necessity. We'll be getting a solid cabinet member -- and putting an end to swift-boating in our time.

Will Bunch @ 9:49 PM Permalink | 93 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:47 PM, 11/27/2012

Monty, after re-reading your post I'm reminded of the same reaction I have when the left hurls accusations of racism.

— michael_b

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:38 PM, 11/27/2012

"one of the more disgraceful episodes in modern politics"...second to electing an unqualified Empty Suit to the Oval Office. On second thought, it's third, re-electing the dullard is first.

— 2ndNlong

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:56 PM, 11/27/2012

That's what I thought in 2004 too.

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:00 PM, 11/27/2012

"...On second thought, it's third, re-electing the dullard is first."

Add horribly out-of-touch to wing-nut...

— Hamlet

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:21 PM, 11/27/2012

Speaking of "lord and savior", it's amazing you can still find gems like these with a quick google:

http://bushfish.org/
http://boingboing.net/2006/08/01/george-w-bush-messia.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/6362.html

Nope, it wasn't really treason to question Bush, it was just blasphemy after all. For right-wingers, I can understand the confusion.

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:28 PM, 11/27/2012

I get it. The posters that use these terms are just making juvenile noise.

— philly2flag

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:51 PM, 11/27/2012

BTW, what's a left-winger?

— philly2flag

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:54 PM, 11/27/2012

One driven by emotion - not reason.

— michael_b

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:33 PM, 11/27/2012

As opposed to a right-winger who is one driven by lies and mythology - not truth and fact.

— CommonSense in Philly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:07 PM, 11/27/2012

see what I mean???

— michael_b

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:37 PM, 11/27/2012

The implication being that right-wingers are driven by reason like, for instance, the belief that Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia or Mecca (depending on whom you talk to) or the belief that a woman's body shuts down a rape pregnancy or that a child conceived in a rape (when the magic shut-down system doesn't work) is God's will or that giving rich people a 5 trillion dollar tax cut will shrink the deficit or the fact that the glaciers are disappearing before our eyes means climate change is a hoax or that Obama is a socialist even though he appointed Wall Street lackeys like Tim Geithner to Treasury and the stock market and corporate profits have soared in his first administration or that Obama is a Muslim-sympathizer (maybe even an Al Qaeda plant) even though he had bin Laden offed and has a tendency for good or bad to authorize a drone strike every time 12 Muslims are standing near each other in Pakistan. Is that the kind of reason you're talking about?

— abendteuer

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:20 PM, 11/27/2012

Though there are many snarky nicknames for those on (in) the Right only one moniker is needed to show the utter logic fail of the Left...liberal.

— 2ndNlong

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:14 PM, 11/27/2012

by definition of the word, Jesus Christ was a liberal. as a matter of fact, the whole country was a liberal in 1936 when roosevelt won all but one state until liberals past the civil rights act then the racists became republicans.

— high water

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:27 PM, 11/27/2012

Personally, I prefer the term "goober" to "wingnut". Although wingnut can and is used in the plural, nothing describes the trained seal audience, who mimick the talking heads on Fox "News", better than Goober Nation.

— wokmaster

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:36 PM, 11/27/2012

Goober is too kind. Foxes tend to lure sheep to their unwitting demise, and sure enough, FoxNews has been known to use the "fox" and "sheep" analogy on its own holiday greeting cards.

— montani semper liberi

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