Still, I really do care as much as anyone else. I think that the current situation is particularly deplorable. Al Sadr was our big folk hero just one month ago when his cease-fire gave traction to the story that the surge was working. Now, behind walls, his people are be aerially bombarded. He is the new imagined enemy. It has to be someone for God’s sake! We’ve already routed and destroyed Baghdad and Fallujah. It’s time to annihilate Sadr City. The truth is that there are no enemies of the U.S. inside Iraq with the exception of those we have created. The Baathist party is certainly no longer a viable political or military entity.

Oh yeah, and supposedly McCain is a dumbshit because he would check with Petraeus first about what way to proceed in Iraq. He’s no dumber or any more senile than any other Republican I know. Sunni, Shiite? Who cares? If they oppose the U.S., they are Al Qaeda or terrorists. That’s the first thing they teach you.

Dallas - A group of U.S. evangelical leaders called on Wednesday for a pullback from party politics so that followers would not become “useful idiots” exploited for partisan gain.

One in four U.S. adults count themselves as evangelical Protestants, giving them serious clout in a country where religion and politics often mix. Conservative evangelicals have become a key support base for the Republican Party.

But the movement has had growing pains and the statement issued on Wednesday, called an “Evangelical Manifesto,” is the latest sign of emerging fractures as some activists seek to broaden its agenda beyond hot-button social issues such as opposition to abortion and gay rights.

“Christians from both sides of the political spectrum, left as well as right, have made the mistake of politicizing faith,” the manifesto declares.

“That way faith loses its independence, the church becomes ‘the regime at prayer,’ Christians become ‘useful idiots’ for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology in its purest form,” it said.

Likely, Obama is not egghead enough to know this—despite his Ivy League degree and any law background—but the word “negotiate” (as with the enemy) is derived from Latin ‘ne-‘ “not” + ‘otium’ “leisure” of engaged in business and hard knuckle confrontation.

Negotiating is not simply talking to the enemy—like the pinheads would like us to believe. It is been more effective and sincere than the likes of John Bolton, the State Department, and the likes NeoCons, who do not want to maintain enemy status with much of the rest of the world. But what would American laywers and the media know nowdays–let alone the public?

Eric Egcentric

The insect class that specialize in writing political attacks (and we should never under-estimate insects) of late seem to take their methods from William “Safire’s Political Dictionary”. Fore it is there that we learn that “egghead” is what the mud-slinger refers to derogatively as an effete, bookish person with intellectual pretensions.

William Safire’s multi-paragraph chat (as his dictionary is chatty that by the way misses many important definitions of a more serious nature) goes on to discuss Stewart Alsop’s syndicated column on September of 1952 of Adlai Stevenson’s serious and rather difficult atomic energy speech.

Safire, supposedly the great, gives us some clues as to what this propaganda is likely insinuating and leading to, but I am not about to retype the long lexical entry (I assume those that care can easily find a copy of Safire’s dictionary for five bucks on the Internet). Nevertheless the hacks are merely copying the old anti-intellectualism of the past—nothing original.

Egg-head is something simplistic people can understand since the concept has no reference beyond the eccentricty of an external surface.

My feeling is that Barack ought better start an emotional attack of the stupidity of the right-wing fascism pretty soon or these weasel neocons will get their presumptuous way again. It is time to articulate what the hell America really stands for—liberty or a NeoCon-Artist form of supercilious and elitist fascism that laughs at a culture it presumes to be no more aware than the 1950s.

Knifemaster, Believe me I will support the nominee. It is just my opinion that Hillary will play better with the swing voters in the swing states that will determine the outcome of the general election. It is not simply because Obama is black. McGovern was white but that didn’t stop him from losing in a huge landslide to Nixon.

Lorelei, I’m sorry that you will miss the convention. That would have been a very exciting thing to do.

Take care all.