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Cetacea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 12:18 PM
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In defense of elected Democrats
Regarding Randi Rhode's statement that elected dems are "terrified of this administration" I would like to add: and who can blame them? Granted, some of our elected Dems are wolves in sheep's clothing. That being said, one should consider some sobering facts. Democrats seems to die in small airplane crashes and assassinations at a much higher rate than their republic colleagues. Dems were targeted with Anthrax scares. And if I am not mistaken, an editor or publisher from the National Enquirer was actually killed by Anthrax. He was about to publish an allegedly damning revelation about 9/11. In a senate in which the dems hold a majority by one single vote, a relatively young senator has a stroke. (ever notice how senators on average tend to stay healthy and live long lives?)
Accidents, "suicides" of journalists and other high profile types who oppose the regime, and...well, you get the picture.
I could go on, but at this point I will take off my tinfoil hat and ask you to disregard the facts I just lay ed out and just consider the fact that the major media is nothing more than a mouthpiece of the regime. Yrs, there are Keiths and others, but they are simply outnumbered.
I am a great fan of Bobby Kennedy and the other great leaders of the sixties and even the seventies. However, I can't help but to wonder how far they would have gotten in today's..changed climate.
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oldtimecanuk Donating Member (601 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 12:23 PM
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1. I personally don't think they are afraid of them... I just think...
they are getting their feet wet first, and then they are now starting the engines big time. One of the big problems for the Democrats is which damn broken law do you chase down first. There are so many things to go after, you gotta try and pick the most important to chase first. Many of the issues I think they will get allot of support from many Republicans on as well. Just a matter of wording things correctly and drawing the other side over. Allot of Republicans are starting to realize, just like the extreme religious did that Bush and Admin. were using them for their votes.

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Cetacea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 12:25 PM
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2. Thank you. That's true and very encouraging...
..we do need to be patient before judging them so soon.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 12:38 PM
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3. People forget that even Keith Olbermann held back for a LONG time before he REALLY
Edited on Sat Feb-10-07 12:55 PM by blm
ramped it up to hit at BushInc. His Special Comments became a staple for him in 2006. We could have used them before the 2002 aND 2004 election cycles.

He even admits that corpmedia let Bush have it too easy for too long - the Democrats fighting Bush throughout that time were ill-served by the corpmedia that muted them for the most part and ill-served by a too weak left media who just couldn't bring themselves to understand the import of a unified message in the way that the massive RW media understood it for so long.
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Cetacea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 12:42 PM
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4. so true. eom
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Edweird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 12:54 PM
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5. well, if they are so afraid why did they run?
If they don't have the cojones, why are they wasting our time? These crooks in charge are just bullies. If nobody stands up to them, they are going to keep doing what they want. Bush and crew have admitted, hell even bragged about, breaking laws. They are war criminals and deserve what they get. Any reps that don't stand up and fight are enabling and should be treated as accomplices. Just my .02.
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PhilipShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 01:06 PM
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6. I Agree.....
Liberal democrats such as JFK were shot, and now the world is a ticking time bomb. I actually think the 2006 elected Dems, are doing extraordinary things in light of these fear factors, that Dems have to face, which is years of Repuke corruption.

The upside to all this is that --- the Repukes built the foundation that created this hell --- more then 50 or more years ago --- so most of the real behind the scenes hit men (for the Repukes) are dying from old age.
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Cetacea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 01:14 PM
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7. in praise of the laws of karma. :) eom
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 01:19 PM
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8. right and wrong
yes, the cabal - call it BIG BROTHER - why the hell not - started forming in late fifties - it is what Ike warned us about. It has put its flunkies in the WH, with a few hiccups along the way. It has learned from missteps, is much more careful than in, say, watergate, and would not leave as much inconsistent evidence as with JFK were it to do another assassination. It learned it needed better control of media, and it got it. It learned it needed to enslave the congress, and it found a way, by driving up the cost of running and creating a quid-pro-quo means of channeling money to them. Just from listening to them for five minutes you can tell that most of the elected pugs are stepford wives. Same for some dems, but not nearly so many. They are selected for their maleability, low intelligence, and greed.

Where you are wrong is that it is dying off. BIG BROTHER plans to be around for a long, long time. World Domination, once achieved, will be a nice cushy setup, wherein the inner circle can be even more outrageously rich than they already are, and the rest of the world's population will be reduced to medieval serfdom.

I think many of our elected leaders grasp some of this. Where some may call them timid, others may rightfully call them prudent. After all, living to fight another day has its merits.

It must really frustrate them that they can't just go ahead and be done with it - I am sure they feel a nuke here and there would fast-forward the whole process. Let's hope THEY stay a little prudent. If they got just a LITTLE more aggressive, we might be facing annihilation.
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:12 PM
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9. they are afraid of the media (which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP mean machine)
Kerry botches a joke and he's over. Biden says what he thought were nice things about Obama...over. Heavy hitters in the GOP formed a group to impeach Clinton in November 1992. Think about that date. Within a couple of weeks of him being elected Prez they have unlimited funding and a group of heavy hitters with one goal in mind: a coup. (Yes, I know, Clinton gave them the final nail. But in some ways that is beside the point.)

Now the whole world thinks Nancy Pelosi wanted a luxury plane provided at government expense to taxi her friends around the country complete with bedroom etc. Not one word of that is true but the whole world thinks it because of the right wing noise machine.

It is a ruthless crowd. More like the Mafia than the Nazis. I wouldn't be afraid for my life, I'd be afraid of my reputation. Say you're a democrat in this country and you put a target on yourself. Some very strong people have stood up to them...for a time, but in the end, they have won time and time again.

You need someone else, or safety in numbers, to stand up to a bully. In the past the Supreme Court helped but not now. We need to stick together and when they say Biden is a racist we all need to say STFU you bully.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-10-07 02:13 PM
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10. I have supported Russ Feingold
I wished more were like him....
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