Well said, Senator Kerry. Please join your colleagues in making sure that you don't allow this to drop out of the news after one news cycle.

Secretary Gates said that we have no leverage on Iran, and that they have all kinds of leverage on us.

In other words -- he's implying that the US is at Iran's mercy.

There is a huge distinction between Iran, a sovereign nation, and a terrorist group like Hamas or Al Queda. Obama has said he wouldn't negotiate with terrorists. Direct negotiation with Iran, given pre-conditions have been met, can promote progress with regard to our intrests in protecting Israel and discouraging nuclear development.

Iran hasn't invaded another country in 300 years and has made no direct threat to do so. It's hardly a comparison to Hitler. This is pure fear mongering conjuring up the image of the most despised regime of history for the purpose of political smear.

I watched part of the speech the Iranian leader gave at Columbia University last year. The behavior of those present was extremely indicative of the respective willingness of the two sides to communicate.

I think it might be better for Obama to respond to Bush's attacks against him instead of having the person who lost the supposedly unlose-able 2004 race.

The responsibility of the Democratic Party in the results of its various defeats is considerable. Care must be taken to pick a "winner".

When oh when is this going to end. Just when you think he can't say anything more moronic and/or ignorant he opens his mouth and stupid rolls out. At least in this respect he has exceeded expectation. Mission Accomplished. Waiting for that bonehead to leave office is going to be the longest seven months of my entire life

"As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.'

As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland, Prescott Bush Sr. was heavily invested in Hitler's military industry. The Polish death camp named Auschwitz was built near coal deposits so that slave labor could be used in one of Prescott Bush's holdings, the Silesian American Corporation. And even after the US declared war on Germany in December of 1941, Prescott Bush continued violating the Trading With the Enemy Act until the government finally shut him down late in 1942. But not before making him rich and establishing the Bush family fortune, which would enable future generations of this family of Nazi collaborators to enter politics, and eventually to occupy and defile the highest office in the land.

Funny how quickly Republicans gloss over the fact that the Senator, who so wanted to talk with Hitle, was William Borah, Republican of Idaho. By the way, Bush stole the line from a Charles Krauthammer column from 2006.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/10/AR2006081001334.html

Sure seems like the GOP has launched the smear machine a little early this time around. Don't they usually wait until the fall for this crap? Methinks it's a sign that they realize they're losers on pretty much all issues. Each time W opens his mouth, 10,000 people switch to Democrat.

Thank you, Senator Kerry. The attacks will be vicious, and they will be directed at swaying the votes of the most gullible Americans. What Bush fails to acknowledge is something that everyone already knows: Iran is quickly becoming an ally of Iraq. If anyone in this administration believes that we will NOT be talking with one of Iraq's allies, I'd say they are seriously and dangerously naive.

Senator Kerry,

I think you need to have a talk with Senator Reid about Holy Joe.

I'm just sayin, he's not much of a democrat anymore and it seems silly to me that he should get to keep his committee chair and his seniority while undermining the democratic party and the party's nominee.

Very few people outside the US think Bush has any credibility. He's embarrassing himself and our nation, but I doubt it's gonna hurt Obama much.

I'm watching John Kerry on CNN, he's addressing Bush's speech. I wish I could sense anger in Kerry's voice. Bush needs to be taken to task, not by polite analysis, he needs to be attacked, excoriated, by name for what he is.

I think the Dems in the House and Senate should take to the floor tomorrow and attack Bush for his comparing those who oppose him as appeasers
and liken them to the Nazi invasion of Poland.

When cretins like Bush compare political opposites to the Nazis he's taking away from the suffering the Jews experienced under that regime.
I'm sorry I didn't hear any Knesset member boo Bush when he made this reference.

"To have the grandson of someone who DID appease the Nazis in Germany say something like this would be laughable,"

No it was despicable...

Bush broke every rule this time, even the few he still considers valuable.

Smart Jews won't fall for any of this crap.

Too many American Jews have gone over to "the dark side" to Bush's realm, for reasons that have nothing to do with their religion or their bloodlines or the nation of Israel.

They use Minijabs stupid islamic evangelisms as an excuse to blame a whole, ancient and diverse culture for what it's most desperate members say and do.

Do we Americans like being judged around the world by the stupid words Bush spits out? Do you consider Bush a symbol of YOUR ideology?

Then why do so many people lay the whole guilt at the feet of "Iran" as if they all agree completely with their little wannabe despot?

Even in Iran there are millions of people who just want to forge a future of peace for their children and grandchildren.

If we can't negotioate with them, how can they change from within?

Thank you, Sen. Kerry.

I not only voted for you in 2004, I worked for you.

George W. Bush is easily the single most contemptible human refuse pile ever to hold the office of President. That the remarks he delivered were uttered by the grandson of a man who colluded with Adolf Hitler, and profited by the Nazi regime even into 1942, when the US was actively at war with Nazi Germany, is almost beyond imagination.

I do look forward to President Obama, on lowering his hand after taking the oath of office in January, pointing at Bush and Cheney and ordering their arrest, followed shortly by their transport to The Hague for war crimes trials.

I wonder if Spandau still stands. Ironic justice and all that...

Thank you Senator Kerry. I know it must feel great to not have to hold back against comments so silly and dispicable. I personallly hope JR keeps this up. I would like to say that I was alive when we had a president who hit the teens in the approval polls.

Senator I write from your Blue State, with a message for you to forward to the BO campaign.

Many believe that the "American Senator" was Wm. Borah, but the Knesset was supposed to think of Sen. Obama. Borah is well known to historians of antisemitism for another quote.

"I'm like *Hitler* when it comes to the *Jews*" (Leonard Dinnerstein, /Antisemitism in America,/ 1994, p. 119.)

So Bush was calling BO an appeaser and an anti-Semite, to a mainly Jewish audience.

We're not finished. Borah's quote may be spurious, the only source for it is hearsay, according to an online conversation between historians.

I have sourced this information and sent it to a member of the NE Coordinating Committee for BO, but if you could pass the word along, I, and the historical record, would be much obliged.

Thanks, Senator Kerry. My WWII veteran father was impressed with your campaign in Iowa, particularly how you understood the plight of the Iowa National Guard and its substantial losses in Iraq.

@John Kerry

"The Middle East is more unstable than it has been in decades. Our stalwart ally Israel is surrounded by emboldened enemies who talk of wiping it off the face of the earth"

Nonsense. The Middle East has been unstable since the time of Moses and the emboldened enemies have been talking that way since the state was founded. There have been ups and downs, momentary respites, nothing more.

"I also said in that speech that the Bush/McCain policy in the Middle East has threatened the security of Israel."

Now this is the tricky part. How would you know that? Israel has been under mortal threat since its founding.

Either you mean that blacks and white progressives, who form the core of Obama support at home, are friendlier to Israel than evangelicals and conservatives, which is questionable to say the least.

Or, if not, that Obama would act contrary to their wishes. Please.

Or that evangelicals and Christians and the Israeli government itself, do not know how to properly defend Israel, that they are acting contrary to their own stated goals, and that Obama and his supporters know better and can do better.

From "Head of State"

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/change-that-you-deserve.html


Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Change That You Deserve

From the Chicago Tribune:

"The slogan unveiled this week by House Republicans - "Change you deserve" - is already a trademark used by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to market its antidepressant Effexor XR."

Black Screen.

Fade into:

Scene of a thin grey haired man standing in a green field. Behind him we can see the sun is rising.

"I got the change I deserved with GOP."

Cut to a small child, in a sun dress, who looks up at him and smiles.

"I was tired, listless. I had lost interest in my usual activities--creating false attacks, acting as if I had been unfairly attacked about issues created out of whole cloth, drawing specious historical parallels, fawning over ideologically bankrupt manufactured father figures. Sure, I sent emails claiming that Obama was a Muslim, but somehow...it had lost the spark, the enjoyment of everyday life."

Cut to a child who rides by on a bicycle, and throws a newspaper on the front porch.

"That's when I found GOP."

Cut to man rowing in a scull across a still river. He turns to the camera, smiles.

"In clinical studies, GOP has been found to increase aggressiveness in the absence of actual provocation in 8 out of 10 users. In most users, the desire to gleefully attack returns in 1 week. Full enthusiasm for invented ideas in two. "

Cut to image of porch swing.

"With GOP, my attention to minor distractions fully returned, until I was again building them into major accusations of flawed character. Once again, my intense focus on pins, buttons, sentences fragments and remote relationships as absolute indications of personal virtue and ability was at its peak. For an entire weekend, I could one again choose the right moment to accuse a candidate of treason without cause--when I was ready, when the time felt right".

Cut to a series of blurred images: long, stringy haired teens in torn jeans and ironic 80's t-shirts lounging by the Washington Monument; picture of John Kerry in a Swift Boat during Vietnam;
Eiffel Tower. Arugula on plate. During these images, rapid voiceover in female voice:

"GOP may cause monosyllabism, inability to consider two differing concepts at the same time, memory loss or inaccurate recall of recently and repeatedly presented intelligence information, focus on size of automobiles or koro, sequential nicknaming, knowing mischaracterization, hooting. If you have a desire to read the collected works of Ann Coulter that lasts longer than four hours, this may be a sign of a dangerous condition and you should contact your physician immediately."

Cut back to man standing in field. American flag waving in the distance behind him, below a risen sun. A woman walks up beside him, puts her arm around him, and smiles.

Man:

"So get the change that you deserve. Talk to your Doctor about GOP. Soon, you'll be walking by the homeless on the street again and saying "Let them get a job!"

Or better yet--let them get GOP."

Woman smiles.

Fade.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/change-that-you-deserve.html

It sounds like Bush thinks Reagan blew it by talking with the Soviet Union and that we should be breaking off diplomatic relations with China.

By the way, the Guardian's article about Prescott Bush, W's Nazi appeasing grandfather, is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

I'm sorry - calling W's grandfather, Prescott Bush, a Nazi appeaser is a bit misleading. Prescott Bush helped Hitler rise to power.

Democrats, especially those advised Senator Obama, should realize Bush and McCain are using a strategy from Newt Gingrich. Blast your opponents for your own faults, and do it before he attacks you.

President Bush has a lot of accomplishments, and it's hard to choose the most significant one. Was it ignoring Richard Clarke and the other experts about the dangers of bin Laden, thereby paving the way for 9/11? Was it going to war in Iraq, dramatically helping bin Laden's recruiting efforts, killing tens of thousands Iraqis and turning many more into refugees? Is it the deaths of over 4,000 U.S. soldiers? It is getting rid of career Federal employees, allowing disasters like the Hurricane Katrina debacle, so the R's could give donors and volunteers jobs they weren't qualified for?

Bush has done a great job of running a kleptocracy, stealing from America and the world to help his cronies. Not a Christian attitude, nor a patriotic one at that. As long as the D's are soft on Bush and McCain, the R's will go as low as they can keep their kleptocratic government in power.

We should never have appeased Bush in his march to war by allowing passage of the AUMF or ceding the airwaves to Rumsfeld's PR blitz.

Bush wants to confuse and conflate 'negotiation' with 'appeasement' ? Fine, let's talk about the real appeasement that's done stunk up the joint: that of our Congress, that of our Fourth Estate, that of a whole bunch of us too scared to call bullshit as Bush readied to roll.