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The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
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I'm surprised to see so much pissing and whining here in the comments.  I'm with Booman and Glenn Greenwald.  Changing a political culture is a long and difficult process, and the only way to get it done is to keep chipping away at the job.  I don't understand the cynical attitude from some folks here.
by eagleye on Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 at 02:06:48 PM EST
Tired of being told, "Hey give money to this guy, I'm going to be covering him and I need money for my expenses, can someone put me up?". Nevermind that people, like myself, will say, "Uh, this guy is only slightly left of Trent Lott."  Then months after said guy gets elected it's, "I can't believe he betrayed us (me and my random purist ideals)!, IWe need more money to primary him!  He's gonna learn he can't cross the (self-important) liberal blogsphere! Money! Money! Money! GRRRR".

~~~THIS SPACE FOR RENT~~~
by fabooj (fabooj [at} mail [dot} com) on Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 at 02:15:16 PM EST
[ Parent ]
... Did you miss the part in the diary above where Booman makes a distinction between those that are Democratic partisans and those that are progressive idealists? Chances are that this perceived double perspective could be resolved quite sensibly by concluding that there are, in fact, at least two groups of people at work here, with very different objectives and perspectives, but posting on the same sites.

Kill because somebody was killed. Get killed because he killed. Do you think peace will ever come like that?
by Egarwaen on Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 at 02:24:29 PM EST
[ Parent ]
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not evolution. Bush ruined the civil rights of the American people in a single term and managed to consolidate his policy on Iraq, FISA, SC judges, foreign policy, et al during the following four years. Change needs to happen, or the Democrats will lose the younger generation forthwith. The politicians in Washington are clueless as to ME policy and Israel, even more to the right than the Israeli people.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 at 02:28:50 PM EST
[ Parent ]
The reason there is so much pissing and whinning is because that is what some do best.  Glenn very eloquently stated the obvious when he said, "telling Obama that you'll cheer for him no matter what he does, that you'll vest in him Blind Faith that anything he does is done with the purest of motives, ensures that he will continue to ignore you and your political interests."

Obama has a reported 1.4 million online donors.  Imagine if during the month of July, a large portion of those donors kicked in a small contribution (we'll make it a small contribution since most of them will not have a balance sheet as substantial as some contributors here) instead of sending a few bucks to Obama.  Let's see, $25 times 1 million.  My guess is Obama and Pelosi would want to talk.

by MummyWind on Sun Jun 22nd, 2008 at 05:28:45 PM EST
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