[Tolik]

Orson Scott Card - PING  [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Orson Scott Card political articles]

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[Vicomte13]

I was hoping Bush would do something like that too, but there is no reason to believe he will. We've lionized him as "strong", but that was more wishful thinking than based on the evidence. A strong, bold President would have asked Congress for a full Declaration of War after 9/11. Bush settled for a more political solution, which just bit us in the ass last Tuesday.

[redgolum]

Don't think we will do anything about Iran now. The new congress would never allow it, and even limited strikes would set off a land war with Iran. We don't have the men or supplies in theater for that.

[RKBA Democrat]

"If they're really serious about becoming the majority party, what rich Republicans need to do is stop paying for thousand-dollar-a-plate fundraising dinners and start buying up newspapers and networks. "

Buying up networks? Heck, I'd be happy if conservatives simply started engaging in practical politics. Owning the media would be icing on the cake.

As it stands, conservatives haven't really won a national election since at least 1994.

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

pingaringading

[KarlInOhio]

I have had the opinion from the start of the Iraq invasion that the real reason for it was to surround Iran (conqured Iraq on the west, Turkey in the northwest, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east) to be able to put a lot of pressure on it. Iran knew this, thus they are fighting back by supplying the insurgents and terrorists in Iraq to get us to give up the fight.

If we pull out, Iran will have won and will soon have de facto control over the Shiite areas of Iraq.

[Quix]

SOCK IT TO EM IN TRIPLICATE!

GOOD POST.

THX

[George W. Bush]

If they're really serious about becoming the majority party, what rich Republicans need to do is stop paying for thousand-dollar-a-plate fundraising dinners and start buying up newspapers and networks. The Democrats already own almost all of them, and we have seen in this election how a prosperous economy can be concealed and a successful war can be turned into a "disaster" when you own the public's primary sources of information.

Big Big Truth!

[Cicero]

Iran is a major problem, but we could have cut the Syrian regime off at the knees a couple of years ago, without breaking into a sweat. Now the window of opportunity appears to have closed.

It's a real suggestion to buy some of the news media. Just about the only media that gave clinton any problems during his reign in office were the supermarket tabloids. He responded by having one of his stooges buy all of them up, and since then they've been under Democrat control too.

[denydenydeny]

what rich Republicans need to do is stop paying for thousand-dollar-a-plate fundraising dinners and start buying up newspapers and networks. The Democrats already own almost all of them, and we have seen in this election how a prosperous economy can be concealed and a successful war can be turned into a "disaster" when you own the public's primary sources of information.

Nails it, nails it, nails it.

As I have always said here, we proclaim the death of the MSM at our peril.

And Orson Scott Card is the best.

[Cymbaline]

Thanks for posting this. I like Orson Scott Card, even though I disagree with him sometimes. If more Democrats were like him, the country would be a much better place.