tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post4126420118453269184..comments2024-03-26T15:19:23.091-07:00Comments on false dichotomy by charles davis: A defense secretary of their ownCharles Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-53532021648436975822012-12-28T00:18:49.208-08:002012-12-28T00:18:49.208-08:00I think we had it right when we called it what it ...I think we had it right when we called it what it is. "The War Department." I don't care who becomes Secretary of War, because I don't like war. Let the warmongers appoint their functionary. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-86660526092713740502012-12-23T23:57:47.535-08:002012-12-23T23:57:47.535-08:00It's also possible that the decision was offer...It's also possible that the decision was offered. And any candidate who wanted to win, knew they had to play the belligerent racist card. So, Obama MAY be ultimately less likely to go war on Iran. So might what'sisnameagain have been.<br /><br />But it was the voters who wouldn't choose a peace candidate. And the candidates gave them what they wanted.snickeringdevilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-74285018490951014232012-12-23T10:16:06.026-08:002012-12-23T10:16:06.026-08:00Fact is, this was an election between obamney. And...Fact is, this was an election between obamney. And people voted for one clone, because they didn't like that <i><b>santorum</b></i> thinks porn is wrong.<br /><br />anti waht movement is being corrupted?snickeringdevilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-79870116092544862002012-12-23T10:10:07.752-08:002012-12-23T10:10:07.752-08:00Jeez am I slow.
You might also reduce everything ...Jeez am I slow.<br /><br />You might also reduce everything to usVthem and consider that the real point is that the antiwar movement is no different from anyone else in the usVthem model.<br />That quote, pared down just to<br /><br />"@barackobama did the job the GOP claimed they would #dnc2012"<br /><br />can be applied to anything these days. And guess who cheers.<br />For some reason, the lefty international affairs/civil liberties crowd seems to forget this completely, and thinks the democrats stick to their side only because of the far more immediate-to-them domestic agenda. Which is a hypothesis that would be plausible if the facts were completely different.snickeringdevilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-14654627930056828492012-12-22T21:38:29.800-08:002012-12-22T21:38:29.800-08:00Jeez,I mean to write "gay-lebrity" but m...Jeez,I mean to write "gay-lebrity" but my brain broke down.<br />That's not homophobic, in case any homophobes might quietly grin "yeah, stick it to Hollywood and their gay agends".snickeringdevilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-25342035610627543472012-12-22T21:31:49.328-08:002012-12-22T21:31:49.328-08:00Sir SKMSD, and chahles,
what if this is all besid...Sir SKMSD, and chahles,<br /><br />what if this is all besides the point.<br />You seem to be anticipating that people are, at their core, worthy of some idealized dignity known as 'human'.<br />What if they just keep busy and fear the other, period.<br />So that even among those who, under ideal freedom, you presume would do good, in fact would always just demonize opponents in order to justify their own pathetic failings.<br />That is, in a world where republicans were in fact less belligerent than democrats, the peace-democrats (so called) would in fact, rather than seize the wedge to create more peace on their own turf, where they had power, in fact just circled the wagons around a war mongering democrat party and decried the demon neocons as warmongers. <br /><br />Oh wait, we just had an election based on that. Lots of moments based on that. Who is a 'better' friend of Israel (that is, of the aggressive, conservative Israel, not "israel in general, a democratic state"), who is more aggressive in attacking countries.<br />And a personal favorite of mine,<br />the greatest tweet ever from a gay-lebuty lefty granola universal humanist:<br /><br />SandraBernhard that's right he rode into town and took him down #osamabinladin @barackobama did the job the GOP claimed they would #dnc2012 12:49 AM Sep 7th from web<br /><br />What a world indeed. Keep hoping for that 'wedge'.<br />Btw, @SandraBernhard hasn't had a word to say about peace or politics since the west was won. I guess, once you vote right, the world is alright.snickeringdevilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-76922726270765478082012-12-22T17:42:03.606-08:002012-12-22T17:42:03.606-08:00Mr. Davis,
Speaking as a member of the sclerotic o...Mr. Davis,<br />Speaking as a member of the sclerotic old white boy club I abhor the Neo-Conservatives and the Neo-Liberals, they are twins. I won't use the word evil because it's repugnant political theology. If anything Hegel represent the tiniest deviation of the norm of the Washington Consensus, of the moment. President Obama has no balls, he is Bobby Kennedy circa 1968, neither felt comfortable outside political respectability but very good at the rhetoric of ersatz progressivism.<br />I'm reading Ulrich Beck's 20 Observations On A World In Turmoil. In that books he posits the notion of 'international domestic politics'i.e. cosmopolitanism. Not utopian speculation but as our denied but actual political condition. So for me, in my advanced state of personal hope or even delusion, the defeat of the Neo-Cons functions as a clearing away of pathological impediment to a realization of that hope and or delusion. You have argued your case very succinctly, but to drive a wedge in that Washington Consensus is the beginning of the possibility of a larger breach.Gradualism, yes. I fight for that small breach, not for Obama or Hegel but for republican values writ large.<br />Best regards,<br />StephenKMackSD Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com