9 posts tagged “politics”
- I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.
- Statement about his North Vietnamese prison guards, in response to a question asked by reporters aboard his campaign bus. (17 February 2000) He later refused to apologize for using a racial slur, stating: "I was referring to my prison guards, and I will continue to refer to them in language that might offend some people because of the beating and torture of my friends." San Francisco Chronicle (18 February 2000)
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Do we really want this guy to be our next president?
Here in the States our largest industrial exports are no longer cars, but weapons. In my state of Michigan we are in an economic depression. I wish that scientists and the auto makers were given the money used to fund weapons to produce eco-friendly cars instead or, better yet, high speed trains. They could be made in factories that are more efficient (and thus more environmentally friendly).
People pay money to the government in exchange for supposed protection. The Mafia does the same thing. Besides the fact that one is legal and the other is not, is there any difference?
George Packer wrote in the New Yorker:
"The Bush Administration has come close to perfecting the art of
unaccountability. Tenet’s memoir shows just one of several styles of
evasion lately on display: last month, Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales’s admission that mistakes were made in the firing of eight
United States attorneys had the air of a schoolboy hoping that bogus
contrition would get him off the hook. “I accept full responsibility,”
he told the Senate Judiciary Committee, meaning only that he was sorry
he had allowed the matter to become such a nuisance. He spent the next
five hours explaining—through repeated memory failure and a steady
refusal to acknowledge the contradictions and lies in which he kept
entangling himself—why he bore no responsibility for anything else.
Afterward, the President praised Gonzales for his “very candid
assessment” and said that it “increased my confidence in his ability to
do the job.” This is unaccountability as pure chutzpah, and so far it
seems to be working."
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