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MAKE YOUR CHOICE AMERICA - SOCIALISM OR CAPITALISM - WORK YOUR A-- OFF PAY YOUR TAXES EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN VOTE DO ALL THE RIGHT THINGS AND THEN HAVE SOME GUY COME ALONG AND SAY YOUR NOT SMART ENOUGH TO DO THE RIGHT THING - ILL TAKE IT FROM HERE. IM SICK SICK SICK OF WHAT AMERICA HAS BECOME. WAKE UP PEOPLE WE ARE BEING CONTROLLED OR BRAINWASHED.

Sir;... This is just a side note to what ever point you were leading up to, but perhaps the contempt of Mrs. Palin is well deserved. And that is where she is, trying to prove untrue what she has already proved true.. Once you have dis-impressed everyone with what you don't know, it is hard to impress them with what you do know... Bad as they are; the press has either bought of bill of goods, or is being offered a bill of good for sale... There is no Her there... No one qualified for the Job... No one as moral as she lets on... Only some one willing to use office for spite or personal gain... Sorry... We've had that bill of goods already...Before she destroys the office to save it from the librals, she ought to consider that it is our office to give, and if she adds nothing to the respect we feel for each other as citizens; she does not deserve it... Don't we already have enough forces in this world trying to dismember us, and make us impotent???. She does that, and much of the press does that, And I ask you: Is she some how better for being from here, when she acts as our enemies act, sharing the goals of our enemies???....Thanks....Sweeney

A point of agreement. I would like to know why Senator Biden said what he said; and I agree both he and Senator Obama need to address whether it is an implied or known threat. Senator Biden has been receiving a free pass, for that matter, so has Senator McCain. Both men past their prime. As to your take on how the media treats VP nominee Sarah Palin, Mr. Sweeney pretty much summed up my feelings.

Sir - actually, unlike nearly every commentator out there, I think that the media are, by and large, neutral towards either political party. They live and work by very well-defined rules, and are all too easily managed by either campaign. Let's be honest, Karl Rove was a master at this art and did way better at it than the Obama campaign is ever doing right now. McCain's campaign should not be complaining about how "unfair" the media is to the Right, they should just be managing them more intelligently. Beating on the media for being inherently more "Liberal" (which I really doubt) doesn't help at all, either.

Oh, come on, Pat! Quit whining like a nattering nabob of negativity! We all know that the media is a tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one. We also know that without the money you've made via the media, you wouldn't be so worried about higher taxes on persons making >$250,000 per year. You've built your entire career out of dissing the so-called left.
Pat, I've got bad news for you: there is no viable ‘left' left. Alas, you have become a hopeless, hysterical hypochondriac of history.
As for you, Mr. James A, Sweeney, watch out! Surely you understand that if Barack Obama is elected president, we'll soon be wearing black pajamas and conical straw hats! We'll carry Little Red Books! Eating steak will be illegal! Church will be illegal! Everyone will be forced to spend their Sundays planting trees or distilling alternative fuels! Jews will fill Congress! Mexicans will drive gold-plated Cadillacs! Nappy-headed Washington insiders will turn the oval office into a sno-cone booth! Donald Trump will become a window washer in Times Square! We're all doomed!
Have a nice weekend.

Re: Marian;... Sir, No one is ever going to stand for more socialism in this country than they need to survive... Look at the facts... Primitive peoples were all socialist and democratic for that matter... Once they acquired some form of wealth, if that was in slaves or trade goods, the social/equality/democracy thing started to break down... Now, I would prefer that we accept some socialism and government over industry before it is forced upon us... If we keep burning through ressources like we are we will only survive at some point through the practice of a grim and colorless socialism... Who wants that really??? If we accept some socialism before our situation becomes dire we would have more to share, and have a softer landing...Putting off the inevitable does not mean it is not inevitable... Now here is the deal... There is some serious talk about a world wide depression with perhaps ten percent unemployment here... That is, if we leave the situation in the hands of our government, which is sitting on its hands, and the situation grows worse, it may suddenly become worser than worse...We should be making plans and reforming a new government as we speak, because the one we have has not got the nads to control the situation if that means actually redistributing wealth and resources... And no matter how bad it gets, the supreme court will want to defend law as it is, rather than law as it should be...If we don't want to see people starving, literally, in the streets, we might have to manage our own affairs, and govern ourselves in every local area, and leave national and state government out of the picture because they are incompetent sp... Think about it, and not idealistically... Socialism is the only form of economy that has ever been tried and found completely successful, but that does not mean it can be imposed as an ideology... Rather, people need to have what works always, and needs nothing of ideals that do not work... Think of functional as a substitue for perfection... We already have the ideal society... Too bad it does not work...Thanks...Sweeney

Buchanan, more and more you reveal yourself to be a sad little gremlin. Guess what industry you are part of? You are right about one thing: The media have failed us over and over again. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Your hallucinations about Viet Nam are a case in point. You and the other idiots exhorting us back then to fry that poor country along just about its entire environment kept hooting about your "domino" theory: If we let another country fall to the Communist monolith, that toxic jingo went, all of southeast Asia would fall to the control of the Soviet Union and China, the evil purveyors of the conspiracy to take control of Southeast Asia away from the West. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
But that didn't quite happen when Viet Nam finally kicked their invaders out, did it? Have we ever seen Russia or China running the show there since then? There is a good reason why we haven't. The Soviet Union and China hated each other more that they hated us, and Vietnamese men, women, and kids were not fighting so indomitably because they were good employees of the Chinese or the Soviets--they were fighting a war for their independence. Both China and the Soviet Union were competing for influence in the area, no doubt about it, so they were happy to fund Viet Nam's breakaway from Western domination. But doesn't that sound a little familiar? It should, because it's very similar to how the American revolutionaries used French support when we were trying to break away from domination by the English. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Your most sickening whitewash of this history, however, is your reference to the Cambodian holocaust. The preconditions for that were indeed set by the Viet Nam war, because it left the entire region so devastated thanks in large part to our bombing the living piss out of every target we could find, military or otherwise. To this day kids there are still at risk of getting their limbs blown off or worse by old mines that lie in wait underground. But the real rip off in your account is the fact that ONLY THE VIETNAMESE did anything to stop the Cambodians. Granted, the Vietnames had some self interest--they were next in line for the bloodletting if they could not put an end to the madness across the border. And that, sickeningly, is why the hooligans running U.S. foreign policy stood back and watched. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
The folks running the show then with your happy faced support were quite willing to let genocide spread to Viet Nam and take down the government who whipped them. The sad truth is that the Vietnamese on their own attacked Pol Pot and brought down his genocidal government while the U.S. stood back and hoped they would fail. (That's kind of consistent with our cynical and inept policy toward Iraq and Iran during that period, doesn't it?) The full extent of the genocide, of which U.S. intelligence was fully aware, was made known to the world not by us but by the Vietnamese. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
That period of history was one of our most disgraceful. We did nothing but get in the way of the Vietnamese trying to topple the Khmer Rouge and bring peace to their border. It is even alleged (and this chillingly has the ring of truth to it) that because of our insane fixation on getting even with Viet Nam, we tried to make deals with China and even the Khmer Rouge to keep the Vietnamese from controlling the Cambodian government (because we couldn't openly do it, for obvious reasons). With complete justification, the Vietnamese remained in control of Cambodia until the U.N. took over the reestablishment of its government in the early 90's.
And guess what. Russia doesn't control Southeast Asia and neither does China. The region consists entirely of countries that are probably still more dependent on the west than they are on those two countries, with the one exception of North Korea, which is by no means anybody's satellite. There were no dominoes. It was all a big bunch of hooey. ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Lesson: Phonies like you try to sell us whining and excuses each and every time you are wrong, wrong, wrong. If you had any true patriotism, you would admit your mistakes for the sake of the nation and the world and help us to learn from them. Your failure to do that in the case of Viet Nam is a big part of the misguided political support that enabled us to make the same kind of mistake all over again in Iraq, with bloody consequences that coincidentally enough, you and Bush and that hardened criminal squatting in the Vice Presidency will never personally have to confront.

Re: Linda Janie Broussard;... Ma'am, it does not matter what you call it if it works... It is great to have rich folks; and I have met a few, just a few; and I found them cultured and friendly... But if they asked, I would tell them what wealthy is... It is enough... Enough is the magic number, and if wealth buys security, enough is enough, because if your security which as an absolute will never be achieved, if your security means my insecurity, and our insecurity, then your security is not more certain but less so... We have had a contest to find out how much of the national wealth could be put into private hands... We have discovered how poor we could be made, how empty of general welfare, of perfect union and tranquility to make a handful of extremely rich people... The contest is over, and we are beat... If we are going to be a wealthy country, it will not be on the backs of too many poor... We all need enough, and there is enough wealth for everyone... WE can even afford a few rich if it does not warp the political process or become hereditary... Wealth is not the problem... The problem is the consquences of wealth... So it does not matter what you call it unless you are talking of scents, and what we got now stinks... Thanks...And best...Sweeney

Re: Masako; Sir... Let's pass the hat... What ever they right is paying Mr. Buchanan to spout his non sense we can double to make him shut up... It is funny that I can find some points of agreement with him in history, but he missreads near history so badly it is like he is from the moon... Like Mr. Mccain saying he knows how to win the war... Great... What war has he won??? I'll grant that the American people are pretty well beat, and the Army is played out; but what enemies has he brought to defeat... It is all just talk... Like Westmorland... Give me more men... Forget the men... Take some brains... The domino theory was a piece of garbage ideology... Sure, fighting those wars hurt them far worse than us... But how do you tell that to all those maimed for nothing, or the parents of those who died for no gain... That war was not about victory, but about a political solution... That is what this election is about too; A Political Solution.... It is sad, and amazing to see how much life, pain, and treasure can be thrown away only to buy a political solution that might have been had at any time for free... We have to get beyond letting ideologies do our thinking for us... Ideas make good servants and terrible masters... Ideaology is Mr. Buchanan's boss, and it has him acting like a fool for short pay... Thanks...Sweeney