tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post1217819868111950797..comments2008-02-05T21:40:30.541-05:00Flophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04677185628909814152noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-43111872093764879862008-02-05T21:40:00.000-05:002008-02-05T21:40:00.000-05:00I'm not lying; Brazzaville really is a hotbed for that kind of activity. And I shudder to think of a world in which the notoriously non-tough, non-evil-staredownable Jimmy Carter would have allowed the Cold War to continue.flophttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-16034748258726544212008-02-05T18:43:00.000-05:002008-02-05T18:43:00.000-05:00Holy ghouls, Batman, Bay Buchanan is on MSNBC.Oops Pow Surprisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534623548107383465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-55211501472284953202008-02-05T16:43:00.000-05:002008-02-05T16:43:00.000-05:00cock d-<BR/>I'm sorry, what?dmbmeghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066785220947109829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-78289833685626671702008-02-05T16:24:00.000-05:002008-02-05T16:24:00.000-05:00<I>"like the vast majority of the political press, who care only about process and not about policy at all"</I><BR/><BR/>fuck you both. policy is boring.evil girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00535257865759778894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-18679205378380409622008-02-05T15:07:00.000-05:002008-02-05T15:07:00.000-05:00Luckily, I dont have to worry about that. She found herself a nice Michigan PHD candidate in nuclear engineering and married him.<BR/><BR/>She wanted no part of mormonism.<BR/><BR/>Also none of this shocked me when she told me as I found her three foot bong and skimpy bikini in the attic years ago.Cock Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-7525507561619448992008-02-05T14:59:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:59:00.000-05:00That's it, we're calling you "Tagg D" from now on...Crunk Raconteurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-83957123133411512752008-02-05T14:53:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:53:00.000-05:00How horrible would it be to learn that you're part R_____?CrimeNoteshttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-8043788846645101372008-02-05T14:42:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:42:00.000-05:00well - as mom put it: "it was Ann Arbor in the 60s and anything could, and usually did, happen"<BR/><BR/>The things we don't know about our parents...Cock Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-59576461016702970762008-02-05T14:39:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:39:00.000-05:00No, you're missing the whole point. If Reagan were in Casablanca, he probably never would have been president and wouldn't have had a thing to do with Erich Honecker. So stop making shit up.<BR/><BR/>Cock d: That is the worst thing I've ever heard. Except that rumor about Eli and Payton getting gangbanged by the Romney Brothers.CrimeNoteshttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-83218016653195499482008-02-05T14:26:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:26:00.000-05:00Brazzaville is notorious for virus-carrying Belgian whores. Rick Blaine, not knowing of penicillin and subject to substandard condoms due to wartime shortages, would never have a chance. <BR/><BR/>I bet Renault already had the clap anyway, so he could pork to his heart's content before nobly dying in a raid on German facilities in Dar Es Salaam.flophttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-21735392293525398392008-02-05T14:24:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:24:00.000-05:00I know somebody who has kissed Mitt Romney... No, its not his wife, and no, it was not one of those political kisses, but more along the lines of a hook-up kiss.Cock Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-28924190402838242682008-02-05T14:23:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:23:00.000-05:00That previous comment sounded much more contentious than I meant it, which is totally not how Dutch would have done it. Because his sunny optimism brought the freedom I am using to mock him, mostly by making Erich Honecker learn to like cowboy movies, thus collapsing the Berlin Wall.flophttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-1239537405172013292008-02-05T14:18:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:18:00.000-05:00Sunny optimism in <I>Casablanca</I> would be excellent, and prove that Rick can bounce back and find a new girl in Brazzaville, preferably played by Lana Turner.CrimeNoteshttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-71150527158170834982008-02-05T14:12:00.000-05:002008-02-05T14:12:00.000-05:00Yes, sunny optimism is just what I think about when I think "heartbroken alcoholic attempting to live out his remaining years in God-forsaken north African city without ever having to see or think about that girl ever, ever again."<BR/><BR/>I shudder to think of Reagan in that role. It'd be like having Adam Sandler play Charles Kane. <BR/><BR/>I kind of like Bob Knight. I can't help it.flophttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-44297679512685269002008-02-05T13:57:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:57:00.000-05:00Bob Knight press conference on MSNBC. He's endorsing Obama, says he resigned so that he could campaign for him full-time.CrimeNoteshttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-18753448711093733592008-02-05T13:54:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:54:00.000-05:00The coverage is vapid, no question. But I don't think election results would be much different if the press ditched the horse race stuff and did straight policy.<BR/><BR/>Voters are inherently irrational -- even the ones who insist they are voting on the issues and can back it up with specific examples (just listen to the rationalizations of a conservative Romney voter). <BR/><BR/>One of the first comprehensive excursions into polling came in 1968, back when there were only 3 TV channels and they each played extended (as in 2-3 minute) excerpts from candidate speeches on their nightly news. The poll was conducted door-to-door in the Jacksonville area, and voter after voter was asked which presidential candidate he/she would support: The majority said they were undecided -- between Robert F. Kennedy and George Wallace.<BR/><BR/>Their judgments, even in the era of responsible news coverage, were irrational and personality-driven. They saw RFK, the integrationist, and Wallace, the arch-segregationist, as honest, genuine, and independent. And that trumped anything you'll find on a position paper.<BR/><BR/>And the pattern has persisted. How many independent voters say they would be torn between McCain -- Mr. 100-year occupation and ofrced democratization -- and Obama, who wants to "change the thinking that got us into this war in the first place." On policy, they couldn't be farther apart. But most people just see style -- and that's all they'd see even if the media wasn't populated with clueless and lazy hacks.J. Busingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455184689178579405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-65806406895985165242008-02-05T13:48:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:48:00.000-05:00M___ R_____ has no rights.CrimeNoteshttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-7860078592692233932008-02-05T13:45:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:45:00.000-05:00Mitt Romney really shouldn't criticize Britain's welfare system or high-mounted brake lights, either, but if he wants to be an idiot, he has the right.flophttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-77074051562794051292008-02-05T13:40:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:40:00.000-05:00<I>Reagan's unique brand of sunny optimism would never have worked for Rick Blaine.</I><BR/><BR/>We only say that because the actor defined the role. Maybe more sunny optimism would've taken that movie to the next level.CrimeNoteshttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-14075555928000569972008-02-05T13:38:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:38:00.000-05:00Well, the policy debates between Clinton and Obama are rather tedious, but that's largely because they are so close together on things (leaving aside the fact that the health care mandate issue is the highest-ranking reason on my list of reasons why I support Clinton over Obama in the non-Barry-aping-GOP-talking-points division).<BR/><BR/>Come general election time, the policy differences will be extreme and very meaningful. And, speaking as a Democrat, I want to do everything in my power (as tiny a bit as that is) to keep the focus on policy, because that's the turf on which a Democrat can't lose in 2008. Once the whole narrative starts boiling down to who's a hopeaholic changemonger and who's the most maverickish maverick that ever was so different from George Bush...that's when things get dicey...Crunk Raconteurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-16165275329811706492008-02-05T13:37:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:37:00.000-05:00Crimenotes: Reagan's unique brand of sunny optimism would never have worked for Rick Blaine. <BR/><BR/>J-Bus: That essay relied way too much on cliches and shaky assertions, but I think it might have some truth to it anyway. If I stipulate that Schmitt is right, and most Americans can't be bothered to do much critical thinking in these situations, is it possible that the problem might lie with the generally vapid coverage of politics?flophttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-63621794038702878562008-02-05T13:36:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:36:00.000-05:00I share John McCain's disgust over M___ R_____ attacking Bob Dole. M___ R_____ may not criticize Bob Dole, Elizabeth Dole, Dole Pineapple, Chiquita Banana, banana splits, split national championships, National Rent-A-Car, Hot Wheels, Sally Kellerman, Sam Kineson, Samuel Pepys, Peppy LePew, the Pew Foundation, puke or David Schwimmer, since all of them outrank M___ R_____ in moral authority, life experience and fitness to serve. Shame on M___ R_____ and bully to John McCain for chastising him.CrimeNoteshttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-276299690257938452008-02-05T13:26:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:26:00.000-05:00Crunk: I don't disagree with much of that. But I find policy debates like the Clinton-Obama exchange over health insurance mandates to be exasperating and pointless.<BR/><BR/>Sure, we can all pretend that we're exemplars of Jeffersonian democracy, making rational, informed choices based on meaningful policy points. But the argument is artificial: Plans introduced in campaigns are meaningless. <BR/><BR/>This essay from Mark Schmitt, an otherwise wonkish liberal, says it a whole lot better than I can:<BR/><BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/24/opinion/24schmitt.htmlJ. Busingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455184689178579405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-26001889672487727532008-02-05T13:22:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:22:00.000-05:00Hey, remember how Warner Brothers issued that press release saying that Ronald Reagan would play the lead in Casablanca? But they knew that was false because Reagan was going into the army? Ever wonder what would have happened if Reagan <I>actually</I> had that role and went on to a successful acting career? He probably never would have been president. Maybe Humphrey Bogart would've been president instead.CrimeNoteshttp://coleslawblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11661639.post-23964917106828807702008-02-05T13:18:00.000-05:002008-02-05T13:18:00.000-05:00I certainly wasn't suggesting that you'd be a better president than him. Although I'm guessing you would have been less tolerant of anyone raping and murdering Kitty Dukakis.J. Busingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07455184689178579405noreply@blogger.com