Obliterator1700 said:
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Its pretty inconceivable that Obama would choose to prolong the war when over 80% of the Democratic party wants it to end it as quickly as possible. A candidate rarely lets his vice president change one of his core policies, especially to one not held by the rest of his party.
George Bush is an exception, but that is just because he was surrounded by people who were much smarter than him, like Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Karl Rove, for instance, had a lot to do with Bush supporting the gay marriage amendment because he knew it would gratify the evangelical base. It was pretty much destined for failure even among Republicans who were fine with letting states decide the issue on their own.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
