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August 03, 2007 05:54 PM UTC
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when the accomplishments of the greatest American drug-free cyclist ever, Greg LeMond, are overshadowed by the accomplishments of a science experiment ?
I can see this coming back again, and again, and again to hurt Romney.
“Why don’t they try living in our shoes?”
http://blog.washingt…
I’m glad she spoke up, and was so blunt with her questions. Her situation is pretty representative of the robbery that is taking place with health care in America.
Romney is not the first candidate to hear of Griffin’s plight. [waitress who confronted R about health care] Griffin described her situation to Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, a Democrat, when he was last in the diner, according to Joe Klein of Time Magazine. Biden touched his forehead to hers, Klein wrote, “an awkward but touching gesture, and she shuddered into deep sobs. He hugged her.”
Can you picture HRC hugging that woman? Giuliani?
picture HRC hugging that woman.
Hillary hugged a friend of mine. Very warmly; very caringly.
In fact, my friend, a teacher who won the Teacher of the Year award from her state and was at a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Clinton when Bill was in office, hugged many there. My friend described her as a very warm and friendly person.
Only the MSM wants people to believe otherwise.
I could imagine Guilani doing it only if you were a guy dressed in drag. That seems to be his thing.
The woman specifically critized Hillary for failing to follow through on healthcare reform after ’93.
Hillary might have wanted to hug her, but I think the woman would have decked her.
What’s up with the wife hit pieces coming out? First it was Judy Giuliani in Vanity Fair?
http://www.telegraph…
Apparently Mrs. Thompson is making all of the strategic decisions for Fred Thompson’s run.
She’s clearly the smarter and more motivated half of the couple.
The topic is Right Wing Spin, aka, RWS. The sub-topic is dishonesty by not reporting all the facts. The site is Drudge. Whatever you think of him or his lack of MSM credentials, the site is VERY influential. He mostly just links to other’s stories, but the spin is in the headlines.
To wit, today at the top in gazillion point font and a nice picture, he screams “EDWARDS TOOK $800K IN MURDOCH MONEY!”
Click to the link, which is from Murdoch’s oh-so-objective New York Post, and we read, “Edwards…..earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul’s companies.”
http://www.nypost.co…
So a guy writes a book, submits it to and is published by Harper Collins, an old line, major publishing house, and he is guilty of “taking” money from Murdoch. Who just happens to own the Post, which is, handily, not mentioned in the story.
Good ole left wing liberal media bias, right?
God save the WSJ…….
I’ve been reading the Finnacial Times for years for my business news. Better format. Less bullshit.
The editorial content puts Grover Norquitst to shame.
The general stories about people, places, trends, and society are the best in journalism.
I’m not too worried about Murdoch changing the editorial content, there isn’t much room rightward to move. He’ll probably start cutting staff and stories, the non-economic guts of the WSJ.
I once attended a panel discussion including the foreign news editor of WSJ on the panel. When the questions turned toward biased reporting and what was done to prevent it, I posed the following question: Since news outlets strive for objectivity (when they strive for objectivity) largely by trying to offend equally both ends of the political spectrum, how can foreign news departments avoid reinforcing national biases, since they will seek the middle ground of the national ideological spectrum (their primary market), not the middle ground of the international spectrum? Her response was that it was a stupid question, that that’s not how stories are selected or developed, and then later, in answer to another audience member’s question, admitted that she approaches stories with a pro-American bias! Up until then, in spite of having done a Master’s Thesis on media bias, I had considerable faith in the American media’s commitment to at least attempting, perhaps even anxiously, to report objectively. She dispelled that confidense completely.
give me USA Today or give me boredom!!! ugh…
Say it ain’t so!
I saw a Dem talking head agreeing that Edwards was indeed being a hypocrite in this instance, but maybe she’s secretly paid by the RWS machine.
wih their talking heads jammed far up their cartoon Eddie Murphies (ten points to anyone who figures that one out. Hint: start with the obvious answer, and work backwards).
People overidentify hypocricy, and the left, I would say, does so more often than the right (perhaps because the right makes less of an issue of the real thing). For instance, I believe in a gas tax to reduce carbon emissions, but do not go out of my way to drive less than is convenient for me. Most people consider this hypocricy; I consider it a levels-of-analysis issue. It is one thing for me to fight for a social institutional solution to a social institutional problem, and quite another for me to unilaterally impose a cost upon myself which makes no significant contribution to the solution of the problem (how much cleaner will the air be if I, and I alone, drive less? And how much impact does my choice have on the choice others makes?). People hate this argument, and habitually answer, “what if everyone thought that way?” To which I would respond (if it were worth the effort), “that would be a good start. Then we’d start addressing problems at the level on which they need to be addressed.”
Having said that, Edwards is in a different position: He is in the spotlight, and is vying for a leadership role. His example DOES count. But, from the sound of it, he accepted the money for a book, and is being held, even by at least one talking head in his own party, to an unreasonable standard. Just another case of seeing hypocricy where there is none.
you are too damned objective and smart.
I agree with your thoughts 100%.
As a very active member in my faith body, I have often been overwhelmed when dealing in an issue where some folks are loaded with cliches, but (for instance)totally ignorant of science. All the science they knew was cliche snippets. Very frustrating.
There was one time when someone was trying to make a case for finding the lost outer storm window for a door…in order to save energy. We are talking one door here, one small window. She got very upset at me when I insisted that it wouldn’t make a dime’s worth of difference on our gas bill.
And so, people ask “What if everyone felt as you do?” You are right, your sacrifice wouldn’t do squat, just like that storm window.
High Education head David Skaggs today came out for in state tuition for undocumented college students.
Did Governor Ritter know about this in advance?
How long will it take Governor Ritter to back track when the Republicans attack him on this issue?
do you have a source or link? Not that I don’t believe you, I’d just like to read what he said and where he said it. Very interesting.
Just in case you hadn’t seen it yet…
http://www.rockymoun…
who are children of UNDOCUMENTED parents. Big difference.
That doesn’t make for a good talking point, easy to remember one-liner, for neo-cons shrills to chant repeatedly until it loses all meaning and the real issue at hand is forgotten. Get with the program!
We have a real crisis in this country where children are going to school! Stop teaching kids now!
Lets go with the fear mongering and general hysteria then. Shifting gears here:
Hit the panic button ! The aliens are invading our Universities ! How dare they !Batten down the hatches, we’re under siege ! David Skaggs is surreptitiuosly creating rogue universities before our very eyes!
Better ?
Have you ever thought of going into campaign marketing? The Colorado GOP needs some help, and that last script would make an incredible 30 second ad that could be aired all across this great state (and heavily in Congressional Districts 4-6).
But then again, the GOP can’t afford to build a website (http://www.cologop.o… ) let alone pay anyone for descent propaganda this days.
Now where the hell is that goddamn Dobby kid ? He said he’d have our site up by now !
The last thing I want is young people going to school and making something of their lives. One of these Mexican kids might find a cure for cancer and then the Social Security system will be in even bigger trouble. Besides, if the next generation is better educated than this one, who’s going to be left to vote for Tom Tancredo?
Does not matter I bet the Governor back tracks by the end of next week
You could be right but it will not matter
Governor Ritter will reverse course on this issue
We’re worried about immigrants truly becoming Americans? The higher their education the more likely that is.
We’re worried about competiting with China, India, etc? The more college graduates, the better we do.
What’s to disagree with this?
But mark my words Bill Ritter will back track on this issue
In 1983 I was backpacking with my girlfriend (now spouse) in SW New Mexico Gila Wilderness. We came out of the woods after a week and had to walk up a dirt road to return to our vehicle. In the middle of nowhere, 75-100 miles from the Mexican border and far from any town or major highway, we heard noise behind us and 3 hispanic dudes emerged from the bushes and followed us up the road. We were loaded with yuppie backpacking gear; they had the shirts on their backs, a net bag, and a water jug each. My gf and I were scared about being robbed and murdered but there was no way we could out-walk these guys. They overtook us with a mumbled hello and kept going up the road, probably as nervous about us as we were about them.
When I hear the debate about illegal immigrants I think of those 3 guys walking up that road. That is the kind of grit that the pioneers had to walk across the Great Plains, that built our cities, the kind of grit my grandparents had to raise a family on a sharecropper’s farm in the Depression. When people say we should deport all illegals, I think of those 3 dudes and I say we should be importing that stuff—people like that made this country. When people say illegals are doing work that Americans won’t do, I say what’s wrong with this picture—when did Americans quit wanting to work?
I don’t know the answers to the immigration policy debate but to me it fundamentally comes down to recognizing and respecting a fellow human being and their desire to better life for themselves and their family, and their willingness to contribute to this country.
Thanks for letting me share this (long-winded) experience.
Nothing speaks like the weight of experience.
when a young Hispanic man showed up at my door panting heavily. In broken English he asked for water. He looked scared and gaunt and had a real sense of urgency about him. I grabbed a gallon of water and threw some food into a sack and handed it to him. He tore out the door and ran down a back alley. I looked out my back door in time to see him on top of a slow moving train victoriously showing three others the goods he’d acquired. I remember thinking what a hard life these guys must have and hoping the best for them.
I don’t have all the answers either, but don’t expect any anger from me when they cross the border. I have a roof over my head and a fridge full of food.
Why did you assume that the Hispanic “dudes” were Mexican and American citizens who were also citizens of New Mexico? Why? Tell me why? Did I miss something? How did you know that they were not New Mexicans?
That is a real big issue…..because one of the difficulties of identifying the “undocumented” is that we have millions of American Citizens who look just like the “undocumented Mexicans” and may speak English with an accent…and who, along with their parents and grandparents and greatgrandparents, were subjected to incredible discrimination….so tell me HOW…oh great white RavenDawg you KNEW that these were undocumented mexicans…
to be about 60-70% correct.
Anyone who is under the age of, oh, 40, and can’t speak decent English – I’m not talking accent, but vocabulary and grammar – and is Hispanic is to me, immediately suspect. Said individual might be legal, perhaps by the 1986 amnesty, but with 12 million coming over the border in the last ten years, let’s talk probability.
Yes, we used to have large monolingual Spanish speaking populations, but those Americans are largely elderly or have passed on. Their kids and grandkids have grown up in a media world and know English. No American Hispanic kid in the San Luis Valley is growing up monolingual.
BTW, the new neighbors I have are probably illegal. They are wonderful people, one man speaks pretty good English, his wife a bit. I say “Hola!”, they respond with “Hello!” Beautiful.
The other couple not so much. They have improved the old house a lot, water and cut the weeds. The white folks who lived there for awhile were trash. But that doesn’t negate their (probable) illegality. I would never harm them, but if they got caught in some labor raid, so be it.
We will have to have another vigorous “agree to disagree.” The incident described by Ravendawg happened in 1983, a quarter century ago. I don’t recall he (?) even mention what language was spoken, let alone made the assumption that they were monolingual…..Look at the sterotypes and the assumptions you made. At least admit, that looking at Hispanics in New Mexico, twenty-five years ago, “gringos” automaticaly assumed that they were illegal…and therein is one big damm problem. I was the only one to question that assumption and what I get is, quite frankly, a pompous “I know” response from you. How much Spanish do you speak, PR?
Now, maybe a hundred years ago, we had a large monolingual Spanish speaking population…but, my experience is that for the last three or four generations, all Hispanics born in this country speak English….many speak it as a first language; many speak it as a second language and thus are not as comfortable in English as they are in Spanish. I lived in New Mexico and the chances of finding people, twenty five years ago, in rural New Mexico, who only spoke broken English were excellent.
Language became incredibly political before the most recent waves of illegal immigration. It was a factor in the “Chicano” civil rights movement. Many English speaking Hispanics learned Spanish and fought to create a Bilingual or Dual Language community. These were Hispanics who lived in urban and suburban areas,
Your “guesstimates” about your neighbors TODAY might well be true, I don’t know. My experience in the last year, since illegal immigration became front and center, is that workers who used to respond to me in Spanish when I would speak to them in Spanish, now speak first and say hello or good morning and do not engage me in conversation. Chicanos who did not know me never “understood” me when I tried to speak Spanish with them….
If you do understand Spanish, get on an RTD going up 38th avenue or down Federal and listen. You will begin to get a sense of our real world. If you don’t understand Spanish, then do not make wild assumptions about languages people speak or chose to speak.
Somos de acuerdo? Amigos?
I had no way of knowing–I sure wasn’t checking ID. But their behavior and the setting were strongly suggestive. And as I tried to communicate, my feeling toward them was sympathetic rather than putting them down because of their immigration status.
Besides which, we have all seen folks like these around us everyday–working landscaping, restaurants, construction–they may not all be illegal, but some of them are. And again, my feeling is that they are people doing what we would want to do in the same situation–trade our labor to better ourselves and our families.
Sorry I didn’t respond for a long time, didn’t know these posts had gone on after the fact.
Can the mere mention of President Bush’s name become enough to tip the scales of justice? Apparently, President George W. Bush has become so unpopular, some lawyers do believe the mere mention of his name in front of a jury could lose a case.
In a civil rights lawsuit by a doctor, who claims he was falsely arrested for displaying an anti-war sign at a Bush campaign event, defense lawyers recently asked the judge to prohibit the plaintiff from saying Bush’s name. Bush’s identity, they argued, “in and of itself, presents the danger that the jury will favor plaintiff.” Read more here.
…or lawyer’s overactive brains.
What’s next? Can’t ID the parties? No one can testify?
Absurd.
if you spend any time at all in South America….you will realize that there are millions and millions of poor and that we could not accommodate them all…..
what happens with mexican illegal immigration is that we are the escape value…and los mexican ricos protect their land, their money, their priviledge because they can ship their poor to us……you want to see the other side of mexcio…vayase donde Vail…some winter day…and catch a look at the filthy rich mexcians who, for the price of a drink, will tell you everything that is wrong with america….
now my grandparents, as I am quick to mention, got the hell out of eastern europe when it was still the Austro=hungarian Empire…they did not stay to make their countries better…they did not revolt…..they got the hell out along with millions of others …and in so doing probably saved the Empire for a dozen more years….so I acknowledge that my family did exactly what the illegals are doing….that probably makes me a hypocrite…so be it….I have no answers…..but let us not romantize what is happening and who it is we are really helping….
Nice to see you back, LB