Comments on: Presidential Election — Live Blogging

By: No2Liberals

No2Liberals — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:18:52 +0000

I see your insecurities are showing again, Pat.
It’s okay to be a physical coward…embrace it, revel in it, and own it.
Just be honest about it, and perhaps one day, you too will overcome your failings, and learn that peace isn’t a cause, it’s an effect.
Best wishes for you, in this regard.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:58:34 +0000

You guys can’t wait to break out the flags and yellow ribbons again can you? Please Osama, come and save the wingnuts from extinction!!

By: No2Liberals

No2Liberals — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:36:44 +0000

You couldn’t be, and couldn’t have been before, more clear, Colin.
The one you are addressing will never get it…or admit he does.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:33:01 +0000

If George W. Bush was responsible for 9/11, then Bill Clinton was responsible for the first WTC bombing, the Khobar Towers, the embassy bombings, and the USS Cole.

My original point was that we will be attacked again shortly after Obama is inaugurated, because the terrorists are going to test Obama the same way they tested Bush and Clinton. If Obama does nothing, like Clinton, we will get a lot more attacks. If Obama responds forcefully enough, like Bush, we will not (as much).

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:17:50 +0000

Colin

1/21/2001 – GW Bush sworn in as 43rd President

8/6/2001 – Bush receives PDB entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.”

4/14/2004 – 9/11 Commission hearings: – Roemer then asked Tenet if he mentioned Moussaoui to President Bush at one of their frequent morning briefings. Tenet replied, “I was not in briefings at this time.” Bush, he noted, “was on vacation.” He added that he didn’t see the president at all in August 2001. During the entire month, Bush was at his ranch in Texas. “You never talked with him?” Roemer asked. “No,” Tenet replied. By the way, for much of August, Tenet too was, as he put it, “on leave.”

9/11/2001 – you know the rest

Can’t you at least admit the guy was flat asleep at the switch? The Cole was bombed in October 2000 right before he was elected. Terrorism was way down his priority list, right when it was at the boiling point all over the Middle East. It’s common knowledge that he was focused on cooking up a scheme for ousting Saddam and getting more Republican congressmen elected, and that’s it. That we haven’t been attacked since, well, we were attacked, doesn’t excuse him from being the one in charge when we WERE actually attacked.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:41:59 +0000

Pat

9/11/01 – WTC/Pentagon attack
9/18/01 – First anthrax letter mailed
10/7/01 – OEF begins
10/9/01 – Last anthrax letter mailed
3/20/03 – OIF begins

The assertion that Bush’s response to 9/11 was insufficient to prevent the anthrax attacks is misleading, since Bush’s response had not yet happened at that time.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:38:26 +0000

Early in the Bush administration the U.S. was attacked by terrorists

Right.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:31:39 +0000

There have been no further terrorist attacks on the U.S. since.

Wrong.

By: Concerned

Concerned — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:37:14 +0000

Early in the Bush administration the U.S. was attacked by terrorists, and the President responded with overwhelming force. There have been no further terrorist attacks on the U.S. since.

I must agree with Colin…

By: John Jarzemsky

John Jarzemsky — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:52:02 +0000

I’m definitely slightly left of center on a lot of issues: separation of church and state, legalizing drug use, gay marriage being chief among them.

I’m pretty right of center on other issues: gun control for example.

I’m in what I think is in reality a “center” position but often gets painted as left or right: anti-censorship, for example.