zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 06 2008 | politics, bush, people
though i don't think that campaign rhetoric necessarily has any bearing on the policy realities of the candidate (should they be nominated and eventually elected into office), the source of the categories a nominee weaves into their rhetoric is nonetheless decisive (just look at edwards' mimicry of bush's faith-based militarism and with its articulate, slightly more diplomatic spin and you'll see what i mean). i think this article rightly points out that there is a difference between a campaign that deploys a rhetoric of hope and one that mobilizes a rhetoric of fear and security. while i wouldn't put my chips down on hope at the end of the day, it definitely doesn't mechanistically cause the bowel-spasms effected by the discourse of national security. hopefully, if obama is elected, that difference consisting of the attitude and cosmopolitanism of hope can be translated into concrete policies. (at least contemporary state politics would lessen its anachronisticity by stepping up to the level of Kant). but for now, i agree with the author here that clinton has already done the worst thing she could do, which is to couch the debate on leadership in terms of national security.
zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 05 2007 | news, politics, bush, people, congress, Surveillance of Citizens by Government, spying, cheney
Here's a nice breakdown of the House's changes to the eavesdropping program.
Quoted: For one thing, as TPMmuckraker reported earlier today, under the bill, the primary role for the FISA Court is in issuing generalized surveillance warrants for "persons reasonably believed to be outside the United States."
ShareViewed: 9 Times- zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 04 2007 | news, obama, bush, people, war, pakistan, imperialism
Of course, Bush has wanted to say this all along, but that demonstrates why Obama isn't in any way above succumbing to the imperialist terms of U.S. political discourse. And neither is Hilary for that matter.
Quoted: A politics blog by the staff of The New York Times. The Caucus analyzes the latest political news from Washington and around the country and looks ahead to the 2008 presidential election.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 21 2007 | bush, cheney, people
And what a reclaim it was...
Quoted: CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) -- Doctors removed five small growths from President Bush's colon Saturday after he temporarily transferred the powers of his office to Vice President Dick Cheney under the rarely invoked 25th Amendment.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 17 2007 | people, iraq, bush
Quoted: It is, I believe, a positive development that The New York Times today has a front-page article documenting how active the debate is inside the Bush administration over whether to attack Iran. Perhaps the article will elevate the attention level paid to this very real and very dangerous possibility.
The essence of the article is this:
The debate has pitted Ms. Rice and her deputies, who appear to be winning so far, against the few remaining hawks inside the administration, especially those in Vice President Dick Cheney's office who, according to some people familiar with the discussions, are pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - May 12 2007 | bush, people, pentagon
a slightly perverse joy in watching gonzales getting his ass handed to him....check out the youtube vids and the backstory behind each one....
oh, and, by the way, i am beginning my infinite redoting of my last redots for TPM Muckraker, if you haven't noticed....
ShareViewed: 2 Times - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 29 2007 | iraq, people, bush
Quoted: Either a car bomb killed people or a car hit a roadside bomb, killing people.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 17 2007 | people, bush, news
Quoted: Police officials would not identify the gunman, who killed himself, or say whether one person was behind two shootings on the sprawling campus.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 13 2007 | people, news, bush
two things:
1) joshua micah marchall is a hottie.
2) if you haven't been following the US attorneys scandal, it's gotten a LOT juicier in the last couple of days--and the Talking Points Memo has started posting video analysis.
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