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quinnox
(20,600 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)That's like expecting a snake to become vegetarian.
calimary
(81,261 posts)One and the Same!
I see no difference between those two terms. They're synonymous.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)If not, well...
wandy
(3,539 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Maybe if Chuck had worn a wig, hooker shoes, skirt and winked his way across the stage, McCain would have been impressed? Does not take much to excite ol' Johnny. He seems to see himself as a "wise elder statesman" when he is not.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)this heartless political party.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)and again...they are insane.
Ms Ayotte sure is a piece of work.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)they're the equivalent of Borg, they have a hive mind, once instructions come down from up top on how and what to think, they all march to the same tune.
Thanks for the thread, napkinz.
calimary
(81,261 posts)Hive mind. Couldn't have nailed it better!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Andrew H. Card, Jr.
White House Chief of Staff
New York Times - September 7, 2002
President George W Bush had a serious problem. In 2002, he was trying to sell the American people a war against Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein. But despite a wide selection of rationales offered to justify the thing, very few people were buying. When none of his advertising slogans seemed to be working, Bush had no choice but to employ a little old-fashioned puffery.
So the President and his lackeys tweaked the message. They started promoting the idea that Saddam currently possessed significant weapons of mass destruction, poised to strike the United States and Britain. That certainly got people's attention. In fact, it scared the shit out of them. Public opinion quickly swayed in favor of military intervention, and the rest is history.
Since the war, however, millions of Americans have concluded that they are victims of false advertising. None of the fabled WMDs has actually shown up, despite months of intensive searching. Understandably, people feel they were lied to.
Much more of the sales campaign at the link, but the hosting website is really bad:
http://www.rotten.com/library/history/war/wmd/saddam/
The GOP sold the war using WMD with Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein as the bogeymen. They sold the need to continue in Afghanistan and Iraq when Obama was working to get elected in 2008. They continued with the Israeli security issue, sanctioning Egypt and all the countries the Arab Spring were happening in.
They sold the need for bombing Libya after Benghazi, the need to put boots on the ground in Syria to protect us from Al Queda. Their friends in CT-land have sold another version for them, to fight Obama.
They sold the Bergdahl POW story first to get votes and blame Obama. They've sold birther, oath of office disclaimers to this man being in the White House.
Then after all the lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan ostensibly going after Bin Laden, when Obama got him, it didn't matter anymore. But then Bush said the same once the war was in full swing, but he'd been a great marketing tool.
They protested ending the wars in the middle east on one side of their mouth then said he kept it going too long. They denied funding for embassy security, then sold their alternative reality on Benghazi. They've sold the veterans of their wars out time and again in appropriations, with the rest of Americans.
They are nothing but one big disgusting con job. And they've got a lot of people on all sides convinced to buy it. We see it every single day, as they control virtually all venues of media.
What could go wrong for them?
Only people hearing the facts who still have a sense of fair play and decency stand against their lies and con jobs. Only Americans who have not jumped in the cesspool with them and enjoyed it.
Will those who don't buy it go out to vote?
Because their target audience will. This year is crucial to what world we want to live in.
barbtries
(28,793 posts)as banal as it is coming from republicans, i still find breathtaking and hard to swallow. outrageous and sickening.
smallcat88
(426 posts)and guilt for that matter require a heart and a conscience. Has anyone seen any evidence of either in the GOP? Those Republicans who do have a conscience have been squelched by their own party, I know a few who have left the party.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)Their hypocrisy is maddening.
spanone
(135,831 posts)not their job to carry the truth.....our media is equally shameless
napkinz
(17,199 posts)By David Ferguson
Thursday, June 5, 2014
On Wednesday night, MSNBCs Rachel Maddow announced that she has discovered the Rosetta Stone, the secret decoder ring by which all of U.S. politics in the Obama administration can be interpreted.
She began by pointing to a Charlie Rose Show appearance by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) from some weeks ago in which the senator gave his prescription for how President Barack Obama should handle the Russian incursion into Ukraine.
I think first I would try the Magnitsky, which as you know, targets individuals and their bank accounts and their ability to travel, said McCain. I would try that first. Then, obviously, I would look at other areas, throw them out of the G8, of course, it should be the G7.
Then, when President Obama did exactly those things, McCain went on Imus in the Morning to bash him, joking that Putin must be reduced to tears not to be included in the G8 anymore.
See? Maddow said. This is the Rosetta Stone, this is the magic decoder ring that tells you how Washington works right now. Say that President Obama should do something, then pray that he doesnt actually do it, because if he does actually do it, youre going to have to come out against the thing that you have been recommending all along.
read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/05/maddow-jabs-mccain-hypocrisy-on-bergdahl-the-rosetta-stone-of-whats-wrong-in-d-c/
spanone
(135,831 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)spanone
(135,831 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)They are craven opportunists. Nothing is beneath them if they think they can score political points.
They disgust me on every level.
Quasimodem
(441 posts)They support the military-political-industrial complex that makes war and gets all their backers fat government contracts. The actual troops are replaceable cogs in a deadly machine that they didn't have to join. Cogs which they abandon immediately after said troops have finished filling a military function.
"Supporting the Troops," the way Republicans insist you do, only wins you huge deficits from money poured into their corporate buddies' weapons manufacturing, and private mercenary armies like Academi, alias Xe Services, alias Blackwater.
Either that or it loses you a couple more civil rights.
Failing those benefits, Republicans "support" the troops or ignore, defund, and even attack troops depending upon political expediency.
Cha
(297,211 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)as another member said, the GOP's shameless hypocrisy should be the TIME cover story
Cha
(297,211 posts)sheshe2
(83,757 posts)and it sure as hell is not pretty!
Lying fricking hypocrites!
Thanks for another great OP, napkinz!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)DESPICABLE!
IronLionZion
(45,441 posts)since President Obama had him killed.
If Obama comes out against punching puppies, some of them will definitely share with us the merits of our proud American tradition of punching puppies as an essential freedom.
Oldtimeralso
(1,937 posts)Proud to be k&r #100
narnian60
(3,510 posts)demigoddess
(6,640 posts)of John Mccain's pontificating. He should resign as signs of dementia are being seen quite clearly.
mwb970
(11,358 posts)The level of deceit, delusion, denial, and sheer DUMBNESS on the right is simply amazing. Sometimes I can't believe people like this could possibly exist. Then I see something like this.
Appalling. Just appalling.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)posted by DonViejo
Fox host Chris Wallace asks if death penalty for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl should be on the table
see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025066960
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)I will be disappointed if Democratic candidates dont take full advantage.