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The Bush Doctrine also violates the U.N. Charter. But that is not the worst part of it. The Bush Doctrine justifies 9/11 because Al Qaeda believed that the US was a danger to them, giving them the right to invade the US. In other words, the Bush Doctrine — if it were applied equally across the globe — would result in more war, not less. Russia probably used the Bush Doctrine in invading Georgia.

By Elizabeth Bennett on 09/13/2008 11:28 am

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/opinion/13herbert.html?ref=todayspaper Bob Herbert’s piece in today’s Times.

By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 09/13/2008 9:32 am

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Maybe they are !!

By Julie Runco on 09/13/2008 1:16 pm

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2pmBW1Xb0&feature=email http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srbX26vp57c&feature=email Hi, Frank, I thought you’d appreciate seeing these.

By Diana T on 09/13/2008 1:32 pm

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I wish he had rephrased the question, Susan, or not asked it at all. I am far more interested in what she knows and how she plans to engage China in trade negotiatoins. How much she knows about, not only the Pakistani/Afghan border disputes, but how they would deal with the Talaban and the new Pakistani government. I do think it is very telling that if she is unsure about an answer, she immediately kicks in to her campaign schtick about how a McCain will do this or that, that is why I joined McCain so we can be ….., in other words, a fixed set of words that will divert the subject and turn it onto the campaign. Another thing I am wondering, you may know….is she going around with him delivering the bridge to nowhere speech at every whistle stop with the same perky delivery and no substance at all?

By Diana T on 09/12/2008 7:28 pm

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As of yesterday, she was delivering that same stump speech. After last night, especially with the forum on service at Columbia with Obama and McCain, they may have done some revising. There has been ample criticism about the content — or lack thereof — of that stump speech. It would be unwise for her handlers to allow her to continue in the face of documented evidence to the contrary. I’m thinking, at some point, she may actually become a liability, once people have gotten over her and start actually listening to her. She strikes me as an intelligent, if not well-informed, person.

By Susan B on 09/12/2008 7:39 pm

But, that will get old, won’t it, Susan? The speech says nothing, it is cute and delightfully light-hearted, but totally without meat. I just don’t think this can go on for 60 days, especially since the press is starting to call the misrepresentations outright lies. Even David Brooks said the McCain folks are going to have to settle down and start playing nicer. If you notice, usually the president/vice-presidental candidates separate so they can cover twice as much ground and see more people. Their people are making sure they are joined at the hip. By the way, the person that is the head of her coaching/advising is Tucker Eskew, a former member of the Bush staff. They are agents of change, but her advisor is a Bush person, there are over 130 lobbyists on the campaign staff, and McCain voted to support Bush over 90% or the time. Hmmmm.

By Diana T on 09/12/2008 7:52 pm

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Somewhere, on some other thread here, I recall a recent comment that talked about the dumbing down of politics and how it’s embraced by many who are bored by the issues. There will continue to be people who love and prefer to hear that cute and delightfully light-hearted, but totally meatless, banter. It’s a personality type, more than a political leaning. For those people, Palin will never lose her appeal. And there are some of those on the Obama side, too, who are entranced more by him than his platform. By your post, I’m guessing you caught the Lehrer NewsHour tonight, as did I. This is definitely a presidential campaign like no other.

By Susan B on 09/12/2008 9:15 pm

Diana, beyond keeping a short leash on Palin so she doesn’t slip up, the other reason for the McCain-Palin siamese twin act is that she’s more popular than McCain. The more the two are linked at the hip, the more McCain’s likeability factor will go up, so the thinking goes, I’m sure. That act will grow stale once the bloom is off the Palin rose.

By James the Game on 09/13/2008 11:57 am

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Susan, She may appear bright and alert (not my impression) but it is impossible to be intelligent and also think seeing from a distance Russian equals any kind of relationship to it other than geographical; impossible to be intelligent when can deny science, not care about Iraq, bilk/lie about over 1/2 your days in office staying at home and putting in for travel per diem, impossible to be intelligent and believe in that insane extremist religion…..on and on. There is a vast difference between that beauty pagent exuding livliness and intelligence. I think she is a dolt.

By No Kill and Drill Palin on 09/12/2008 11:11 pm

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And very likely, those who are entranced by her are dolts as well. Talk about rolling off the turnip truck … That would explain why they love her, no?

By Susan B on 09/13/2008 1:40 am

Susan, Alternet had an article that 40-ish women grew up playing with Barbie and that Palin is the real life Barbie they want to be friends with. Great. http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/98608/sarah_palin_can_be_you…

By No Kill and Drill Palin on 09/13/2008 2:44 am

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Huh? I’ll admit, I played with Barbie, but I moved on after I developed “real life” friendships. Who writes this stuff? Who believes it? More dolts. Reads like a kind of conservative psycho-babble to me.

By Susan B on 09/13/2008 2:17 pm

Dear Suzanne and Diana T., Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being the voice of reason, sanity, clarity and wisdom here. All we can do is stay focused, stay on track and keep fighting back. All they can do is keep slinging their hateful, slick, pre-fab, irrelevant sound-bytes, ignorance and underhanded Rovian tactics, from the school of Fear & Smear. When you don’t have the facts, truth—and history on your side, I guess you grab at whatever you can, settle for smoke and mirrors and hope that the endless repetition of senseless moronic babble will dull the opposition into compliance. Just ask Valerie Plame. Or the Katrina victims, the real ones, not Julia Reed, posturing at us from her gilded cage. And then, of course there’s the war and the economy, thousands dead and thousands everywhere hurting, really hurting financially. And now these inept, destructive, dangerous fools, who have taken the glorious name of America and turned it into a hideous punch-line around the world, alienated our friends and fortified our enemies, want 8 more years to finish what they’ve started and make things even worse? No way. It’s time to throw THOSE toys back.

By Tick Pyne on 09/13/2008 7:58 pm

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Erica, I just discovered this on NYTimes a minute ago. I guess it is in the Sunday Times since it is past midnight where I am. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp

By Diana T on 09/13/2008 11:57 pm