Political Quotes of the Day

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"I see shorter skirts on the women of Fox News than prostitutes arrested on cop shows." -- Mark Dice

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"Our country has abandoned the basic principle of human rights. We've said that the Geneva Convention
does not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we’ve said we can torture
prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused."
-- Jimmy Carter, asked if Bush commits torture

"Our position is clear. We don't torture. It's just sad to hear a former president speak like that."
-- A senior White House whore responding to Carter

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/]link

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Fresh Limbaugh:

"The Nobel committee has officially rendered themselves a pure, 100 percent joke."

"Had I won the Nobel Peace Prize, I would have awarded it to either the Bush administration or General Petraeus and the United States military."

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"They say Mike Huckabee is going to have trouble getting elected 'cause his last name is Huckabee.
The only way it could be worse is if his name was George W. Huckabee."
-- Conan O'Brien

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"I was never really willing to pay the price that I knew had to be paid. I would really have
to strain hard to come up with something I wanted to say ten times a day for the next year
of my life when I knew that talking about the really important stuff would not get me anywhere.
You have to have a great desire to be President, and I never had the desire to do that.'"
-- Fraud Thompson, 2003 Link

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RUDY, today:
Speaking before the Republican Jewish Coalition this morning, Rudy Giuliani, R-NY, wasted no time in fighting back criticism from his GOP rivals.

“Am I real Republican?” Giuliani asked the crowd while not naming his critics by name. “I gave my blood for the Republican Party in New York.”

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RUDY, yesterday:
"In 1996, Giuliani told a national television audience that he really wasn’t a Republican mayor. “Well, I’m a Republican mayor, but I’m really not,” Giuliani said. “I’m the mayor of New York City. I ran as a Republican, I ran as a Liberal — which really confuses all kinds of people — and I ran as an Independent…. So I’m not the most partisan of Republicans.”

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Let's see what was that old saw they played in '04.

............FLIP FLOP..............

But to the dismay of Religio-wacknut Repthuglicans they will not support
Rudy and may form a 3rd Party. I say go for it.
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“The people of Iraq, the Parliament, the Council of Representative and the government of Iraq, all say no, big fat no, N, O, No military bases for Iraq because we believe that is in direct encroachment to our sovereignty, and we don’t need it.” --Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, Iraq’s National Security Advisor
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"The US is losing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the very same reasons it lost all of its earlier conflicts. It has the manpower and firepower advantage, as always, but these are ultimately irrelevant in the medium- and long-run. ...

Wars are more determined by socio-economic and political factors than any other, and this was true long before the US attempted to regulate the world's affairs. Political conflicts are not solved by military interventions, and that they are often incapable of being resolved by political or peaceful means does not alter the fact that force is dysfunctional. This is truer today than ever with the spread of weapons technology."

Der Spiegel

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"I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today." --Glenn Beck

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Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria (Iraq war cheerleader) responding to Cheney's threats against Iran:

"Here is the reality. Iran has an economy the size of Finland’s and an annual defense budget of around $4.8 billion. It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are quietly or actively allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?

When the relatively moderate Mohammed Khatami was elected president in Iran, American conservatives pointed out that he was just a figurehead. Real power, they said (correctly), especially control of the military and police, was wielded by the unelected “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Now that Ahmadinejad is president, they claim his finger is on the button."

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Was the Iraq war about the oil?

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, in his recent memoir:

"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

When asked, Gen. John Abizaid, former CENTCOM commander who oversaw three and a half years of the American occupation of Iraq, agreed. "Of course it's about oil, we can't really deny that," (response during a roundtable discussion at Stanford University). These confessions validated the suspicions of foreign observers too numerous to count."

Endgame for Iraqi Oil?

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"[T]here isn’t actually any such thing as Islamofascism — it’s not an ideology; it’s a figment of the neocon imagination. The term came into vogue only because it was a way for Iraq hawks to gloss over the awkward transition from pursuing Osama bin Laden, who attacked America, to Saddam Hussein, who didn’t. And Iran had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11 — in fact, the Iranian regime was quite helpful to the United States when it went after Al Qaeda and its Taliban allies in Afghanistan.

Beyond that, the claim that Iran is on the path to global domination is beyond ludicrous. Yes, the Iranian regime is a nasty piece of work in many ways, and it would be a bad thing if that regime acquired nuclear weapons. But let’s have some perspective, please: we’re talking about a country with roughly the G.D.P. of Connecticut, and a government whose military budget is roughly the same as Sweden’s. […]

Mike Huckabee, whom reporters like to portray as a nice, reasonable guy, says that if Hillary Clinton is elected, “I’m not sure we’ll have the courage and the will and the resolve to fight the greatest threat this country’s ever faced in Islamofascism.” Yep, a bunch of lightly armed terrorists and a fourth-rate military power — which aren’t even allies — pose a greater danger than Hitler’s panzers or the Soviet nuclear arsenal ever did.

All of this would be funny if it weren’t so serious."

Paul Krugman

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"If you kill people to achieve a political objective or to advance an ideology ... you are nothing but evil." -- Bush

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Last week:

JOHN McCAIN UPDATE....From David Freddoso at The Corner:

I'm told that "Bitch-Gate" has caused McCain's campaign to have one of its best Internet fund-raising days so far. I'm sure he must be very proud."

Washington Monthy

This week:

“I think people want a respectful debate and a respectful discussion. And if they don’t, then obviously, I’m not the person to be their candidate,” McCain told reporters in response to questions about criticism of Clinton by Republican rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.

“Legitimate policy differences, those should be debated and discussed,” McCain said. “But I don’t think you should take shots at people….”

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Anecdote:

"Bart, one of the pilots that flys for me was driving in a wal-mart parkng lot not long ago, when this guy
in a big black SUV cut him off and parked in the spot that he wanted. On the back of the SUV was a
W-04 bumper sticker. My guy slowed and rolled down his window, as the "dick" got out of his SUV,
my pilot said " Hey dude, some ASSHOLE put a dubwa sticker on the back of your truck!"

What could he say? I laughed my ass off when he came back to the airport and told me."

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The very conservative "Weekly Standard" on the recent GOP debate on CNN:

"So, a good night for for the lowest denominator, a bad night for the GOP. America got to see a vaguely threatening parade of gun fetishists, flat worlders, Mars Explorers, Confederate flag lovers and zombie-eyed-Bible-wavers as well as various one issue activists hammering their pet causes. My cheers went to a listless Fred Thompson who easily qualified himself to be president in my book by looking all night like he would cheerfully trade his left arm for an early exit off the stage to a waiting Scotch and good Cuban cigar. The media will probably award a win to Mike Huckabee, the easy listening music candidate at home in any crowd, fluent in simpleton speak and the one man on the stage tonight who led the audience to roaring cheers by boasting that he had a special qualification to be president that none of the second-raters on the stage could match: A degree in Bible Studies from Ouachita Baptist University of Arkadelphia, Arkansas."

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