Posted on 10/19/2006 11:14:12 AM PDT by tobyhill
We have lived as if in a trance.
We have lived as people in fear.
And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awake to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.
Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy.
For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:
A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
You know, I gave up 2/3 of the way through. It was just one melodramatic accusation after the next... nothing to back it up.
Truly, NOT trully.
Heavy fingers!
I see that name, I cannot read one more sentence past the excerpt.
Maybe (MS)NBC can see the connection:
Keith Olbermann, mainstream media death spiral, massive unrelenting layoffs, etc.
Well, if liberals and the media actually acted like citizens of their country of citizenship, then things would be different. But as long as they feel they can't be 'biased' in favor of the U.S., then I worry for our future.
I think he's channeling John Wilkes Booth.
I refuse to read what this man has to say.
They love this guy over at the DU.
Back in the early 1960s, the "far right" was where liberals are now. Call it an 'apocalyptic' frame of mind, where their ideas were so radically different from mainstream America that they sounded increasingly freakish. Their fractured agenda was utterly out of sync with current events, and they sounded caught in the previous decade, with no new ideas. Their emphasis was endless attack against not just their real opponents, but anyone outside of their extreme.
The far right lost the elections, and the democrats swept up in considerable majority back then, as what the republicans have done now.
So, following that pattern, the republican have done what the democrats did during LBJ's "Great Society"; splurged on all sorts of obscene largesse and become rudderless from their base's perspective.
The democrats were foolish enough to both run a weakling and allow the radicals to take charge of their party in 1968, so the republicans won the presidency.
Though the republicans show no signs of splitting, as with Bob Dole, there is always a concern that they may nominate a weakling candidate, which could cost them the White House. Hopefully the corrupting influence of power will not have degraded them that much, that fast.
There is a good chance that if the republicans win in the next two elections, that the democratic party will finally go through much needed reform, and eliminate much of their radicalism while moving back to the center and popular support.
"than is the enemy it claims to protect us from."
...than is the enemy from which it claims to protect us.
All fixed.
When tucking their kids into bed at night, or pondering as they drive the roads.....I believe....most people TRULY know what the problems are in the world....deep down they all fear another attack.....but, most just aren't going to say it.....
I say just give him a loaf of bread to eat and that will be the end of him.
I can't believe this is the same guy who was with Dan Patrick on "The Big Show" back on ESPN. At least when he did sports, he was tolerable.
Trivia about KO -slammed his head on The 7 Train...
Damaged depth perception in August 1980 by rushing to catch a subway car at New York City’s Shea Stadium and slamming his head into the top of the door frame.[38] Reportedly no longer drives because of it.
Has Coeliac disease (gluten intolerance).[39]
Is related to boxer Mike Tyson by marriage. Olbermann's paternal uncle married the niece of Tyson’s adoptive father Cus D’Amato, making Olbermann and Tyson first step-cousins in-law once removed. [2]
"The Simpsons" creator, Matt Groening, is a huge fan of Keith's show.[citation needed]
Maybe this will help....think PMSNBC as Rush calls the network.
MAHALO
I am curious as to where his nickname came from.
'Beginning of the end......of MSNBC"
That's pretty funny. It's like Mike Malloy - without the swearing.
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