So who's part of the 29%? (2 Viewers)

[tenordas]

How soon we forget...

PBS
Nixon Tries Price Controls
Excerpt from The Commanding Heights by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, 1997 ed., pp. 60-64

[Following the Kennedy-Johnson administration in the United States, there was a massive effort to manage the marketplace, in part by controlling wages.] This initiative was not the handiwork of left-wing liberals but of the administration of Richard Nixon, a moderately conservative Republican who was a critic of government intervention in the economy.

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/ess_nixongold.html

Let's also remember that it was Nixon, a "conservative", who removed the gold standard, which IMHO was what accelerated the financial mess of the late 70s that was blamed on Carter. I'm not saying Carter was a great President (but he wasn't the worst by far), just that he gets an unfair rap for the economic mess that was largely the fault of Nixon's moves.

 

[TPS]

>>Originally Posted by Saint Anthony
You would age like that to if you had to wake up and look at Hillary every morning

Pretty lame there, IMHO. Unless you can prove you're waking up to something better looking, you probably shouldn't be dissing on a woman who turns 60 this year. I agree she's not all that great (overbite and such), but it's pretty cheesy that the VRWC is still getting play nearly 6 and a half years after Clinton left office. Correct me if I'm wrong, but certainly Hillary > Barbara. And Laura isn't any kind of take-home prize either (though clearly people aren't cheap-shotting her on her looks).

100% lame bra.

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[Saint Anthony]

Wow, you must really LOVE Hillary to have your feelings hurt on a joke.

100% square

....And yes my wife is way more beautiful and will be way more beautiful at the age of sixty. So there, Mr no fun.

 

[TPS]

>>Wow, you must really LOVE Hillary to have your feelings hurt on a joke.

Actually I think she's a lightning rod. I didn't vote for her husband and only would vote for her if she was running against W or his equivalent.

>>100% square

Nice. But you don't know.

>>....And yes my wife is way more beautiful and will be way more beautiful at the age of sixty. So there, Mr no fun.

Congratulations.

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[philipkw]

The “wait until the classified information is released” argument that seems to be in vogue for some of the Dubya supporters is unfortunately nothing but wishful thinking. At some point reason and logic must trump fantasy. As a rhetorical device it’s clever because it allows them to escape engaging in a rigorous defense of the administrations dubious decisions vis-a-vis foreign policy. One thing is for darn sure and that’s that there will be no declassified information to explain Dubya and Rummy ignoring the advice of the military brass about initial troop numbers. Nor will there be any classified information that justifies the numerous breaches of the Constitution (cue the lame FDR and Lincoln arguments) in prosecuting the war. I venture to say there’ll be no classified information that’s released that exonerates the administration for not sufficiently equipping the troops. There’s an even smaller chance that super secret info is released that validates the negligent oversight of troop health/welfare after they’ve returned. The list is endless.

One must be a realist and look at the number and magnitude of the missteps. It’s really quite an achievement to be so consistently wrong. We’ve got military and political leaders who are saying out loud that this was a bad idea. Those who propagate “the future will vindicate them” hogwash are unfortunately deluding themselves. I aspire to that level of delusion. Think I’ll get started right now.

:beeer:

 

[DadsDream]

You already have.

 

[RebSaint]

unfortunately nothing but wishful thinking. At some point reason and logic must trump fantasy. As a rhetorical device it’s clever because it allows them to escape engaging in a rigorous defense of the administrations dubious decisions vis-a-vis foreign policy.
We’ve got military and political leaders who are saying out loud that this was a bad idea.

I completely agree with you here, especially what we've seen in Iraq and out of Pentagon/military sources over the past few weeks. It's as screwed up more than Hogan's goat. But the administration itself seems to have failed on so many fronts after 2004 that you're right--the list is endless. The liklihood for at least a partial vindication is nil.

 

[DadsDream]

The error here lies in assuming that anyone is seeking to vindicate the administration.

Sounding a note of caution and providing examples based on experiences within one's own lifetime when other posters request it is not delusional.

A realist would look at the examples provided in the past eight pages of the thread and see that.

 

[dapperdan]

I've been trying to figure if I should post this on a separate thread, or just tack it on here. Here is as good as any...I thought that Tony Blair's parting shot was quite interesting.

"It is so comforting to people to say there was an error made in the planning. Someone didn't spot what was going to go on," he told the House of Commons liaison committee, made up of all the chiefs the lower chamber's scrutiny bodies.

"That is not what has created the problem. What has created the problem is that the people we are fighting have decided to give us a problem.

"What they have decided is that if they can hang on long enough in Iraq, or in Afghanistan, or anywhere else, then we will lose the will."

"If we end up saying that because these people are committing these acts of terrorism in Iraq or Afghanistan, that we shouldn't have done the removal of Saddam or the removal of the Taliban, then we are making a fundamental mistake about our own future, about security, about the values we should be defending in the world."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070618135430.yww0es69&show_article=1

 

[dapperdan]

Reading what Tony Blair says, I truly yearn for a President who can speak as elogantly as Mr. Blair, or John Majors for that matter. It is a flaw in our system, a failure to find a President who can speak eloquently yet directly as Tony Blair.

 

[billinms]

I count myself among the 29, but mostly out of pig-headedness. As a republican, I'm disappointed in GW, he'snot the president I'd hoped he'd be. As a conservative, I'm disappointed in the republican party. They've forgotten what conservativism is all about.

 

[DadsDream]

A thousand years ago everybody knew as a fact, that the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- Agent K, Men In Black

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I'm disappointed in the republican party. They've forgotten what conservativism is all about.

- True Story.

 

[Saint Anthony]

Congratulations.

TPS

Thanks

 

[champ76]

Reading what Tony Blair says, I truly yearn for a President who can speak as elogantly as Mr. Blair, or John Majors for that matter. It is a flaw in our system, a failure to find a President who can speak eloquently yet directly as Tony Blair.

While I agree that speaking with eloquence helps, PM Blair finds himself with failing poll numbers also. Thanks for the link. I will always remember Blair's eloquent address to Congress in 2003, and his explanation for why us, why now:

"As Britain knows, all predominant power seems for a time invincible, but, in fact, it is transient.

The question is: What do you leave behind?

And what you can bequeath to this anxious world is the light of liberty.

That is what this struggle against terrorist groups or states is about. We're not fighting for domination. We're not fighting for an American world, though we want a world in which America is at ease. We're not fighting for Christianity, but against religious fanaticism of all kinds.

And this is not a war of civilizations, because each civilization has a unique capacity to enrich the stock of human heritage.

We are fighting for the inalienable right of humankind--black or white, Christian or not, left, right or a million different--to be free, free to raise a family in love and hope, free to earn a living and be rewarded by your efforts, free not to bend your knee to any man in fear, free to be you so long as being you does not impair the freedom of others.

That's what we're fighting for. And it's a battle worth fighting.

And I know it's hard on America, and in some small corner of this vast country, out in Nevada or Idaho or these places I've never been to, but always wanted to go...

I know out there there's a guy getting on with his life, perfectly happily, minding his own business, saying to you, the political leaders of this country, "Why me? And why us? And why America?"

And the only answer is, "Because destiny put you in this place in history, in this moment in time, and the task is yours to do."

And our job, my nation that watched you grow, that you fought alongside and now fights alongside you, that takes enormous pride in our alliance and great affection in our common bond, our job is to be there with you.

You are not going to be alone. We will be with you in this fight for liberty.

We will be with you in this fight for liberty. And if our spirit is right and our courage firm, the world will be with us."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/07/17/blair.transcript/