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McCain caught in pic hanging,

jollyroger — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:04:32 +0000

In reply to If John McCain thinks it's a good idea...

McCain caught in pic hanging, around with kidnappers...That didn't take long, did it? .meanwhile he is fucking up the possibilities of a peace conference .

I was planning on nominating

Verified Atheist — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:50:35 +0000

In reply to what a relief! having

I was planning on nominating him to run in 2016 until I read AA's article, but now? Fuggedaboutit.

what a relief! having

jollyroger — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:07:53 +0000

In reply to Link still works for me,

what a relief! having somehow forgotten that Prez briefly taught Con Law, I thought the Prof in question might be your humble interlocutor who was an asst professor of history...

Link still works for me,

artappraiser — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:18:46 +0000

In reply to dead link. more broadly

Link still works for me, sorry. (Maybe it's because I've become a subscriber?) It's a GOP "shadow opposition" column. so we'll just ignore the summary takeaway; here's the applicable excerpt that's spot on, mho:

Why Professors Don't Make Good Presidents -- and Why Congress Should Support Obama on Syria Anyway
Posted By Will Inboden, ForeignPolicy.com, Sept. 2, 2013

The unfolding fiasco of President Barack Obama's Syria policy shows why professors rarely make good presidents. With Obama having previously been a law professor for many years, some of his most debilitating characteristics come out when he lapses back into professorial mode. (As a professor myself, I recognize these things all too well.) This has been on painful display over the past few weeks, as the president seems to have been arguing with himself over his own Middle East policy, especially on Egypt and Syria. The vacillations, the hand-wringing, the endless second-guessing, the sanctimonious lecturing, the odd detachment from decisions of tremendous consequence --- all of these are worthy more of the faculty lounge than the commander in chief. (Note in contrast that one of Obama's signature successes came when he abandoned professor mode and acted decisively in ordering the bin Laden raid.)

Just in the last two weeks we've seen Obama take both sides of multiple issues, including whether the United States will continue staying out of the Syrian conflict or will intervene; whether an attack needs to take place imminently or not; whether an attack needs U.N. Security Council endorsement or not; whether an attack needs the support of allied nations or not; whether an attack needs congressional support or not; whether American credibility is at stake in Syria or not, and so on.

Graduate school seminars are appropriate places to talk endlessly about all sides of an issue while never making and implementing a decision; the Oval Office is not [....]

Wrote good stories to use to

artappraiser — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:17:11 +0000

In reply to Lemme get this straight...

Wrote good stories to use to teach children the difference between right and wrong, all depends on how you define perjorative, I guess.

dead link. more broadly

jollyroger — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:12:06 +0000

In reply to Under "it takes one to know

dead link. more broadly feckless may be operationally defined as one who casually inserts the concept of red lines to justify otherwise eschewing intervention thereby proviiding interested parties with a roadmap to boxing oneself in.

Lemme get this straight...

jollyroger — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:05:28 +0000

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Lemme get this straight... you are using Howard Zinn as a perjorative??!! The sainted Howard Zinn?

Under "it takes one to know

artappraiser — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:47:35 +0000

In reply to “He is seen as feckless and

Under "it takes one to know one," that's "Professor Feckless Putz".

West Indiain Day

artappraiser — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:28:08 +0000

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West Indiain Day Parade

Thanks for inviting a large number of the neighbors over for the day, it waz quiet round here.

are we simply accepting without further peradventure, the stated origin of the chemical attack at issue here?

I actually don't believe that is the case at all. I see lots of evidence of congresscritters and just 'mercan people saying they want more data. If they don't get it, or don't like what they get, they are going to say no. But the admin seems willing to play some with that so far.

As to Pepe, I stopped being a fan around 2005, too much ranting, not enough sticking to what he actually knows--and I will admit that he sometimes has a line to good factuals-- but always has to embellish it with rant and a much bigger narrative of grandiose Howard Zinn stylistics.

Ya know,it's really hitting me of late, don't the guys that do that, don't they realize that they are doing exactly the same thing that bothers them so much about the gummint war sales team? Can we just all cut all the agitprop on all sides like 50%? Is that possible?

As they used to say on

artappraiser — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:13:52 +0000

In reply to “He is seen as feckless and

As they used to say on American Bandstand, I would rate either name a 2, I'm sorry.