| rocketpig said: Akuma, I agree that her qualifications as questionable... Much like Obama IMO. I have no problem with people critisizing Palin for her experience or stance on the issues. Everyone should be critical of anyone who will potentially be that powerful. But things like this "Bush Doctrine" question, which was really just a request for clarification, are disgusting. I see the same posters who, quite vocally, lamented the right's feeble attempts to turn Obama into a closet Muslim champion attacks on Palin like this. Sickening. And hypocritical. |
I am less concerned with Palin talking about the "Bush Doctrine" than future leaders believing that the "Bush Doctrine" is one worth following. Many of our country's financial and social problems have a direct or indirect relationship to one thing, the Iraq War. Repeating the same mistake again would not only be stupid, but myopic.
The Middle East is like a beehive. You don't kill bees with a stick. You run at a beehive with a stick, and you are going to get stung over and over again until each individual sting slowly breaks you down.
Either leave the beehive alone so you don't piss the bees off or choose a more subtle weapon.
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
