Comments on: Truth and Reconciliation

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:15:47 +0000

To Julio’s point above, the important distinction is not between liberals and conservatives. It’s between moderates and extremists.

My hope is that by shining a light on some of the things that have been done and said by Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Delay, Fox News, Coultier, Hannity, Robertson, Falwell et al that the moderate conservatives will recognize that their honourable (but misguided, IMO) ideology has been stolen by a bunch of charlatans and that they either need to reclaim their brand by evicting the miscreants or rebrand themselves.

The point of the TRC in South America was precisely NOT to seek revenge, it was to allow reconciliation between the more reasonable people on either side by exposing the extremists on either side.

By demonizing the whole republican party, you make it easier for the extremists to keep doing what they are doing as the party circles the wagons around them. It’s time for something different.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:23:44 +0000

That’s too easy. 1 and 2 are true. The rest are just silly.

#2 is an awkward one. It would be easy to misrepresent my position so I’ll spell it out. We went to war for a whole bunch of reasons (plus 3 phony reasons - one of which did double duty as a bureaucratic reason).

One of those reasons was to have a strategic foothold in the region that supplies the majority of the world’s oil.

By: Matt's Neighbor

Matt's Neighbor — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:19:32 +0000

Which of the following are true?

1. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld committed war crimes
2. We went to war for oil
3. In 2000, Bush stole the election
4. McCain wants war in Iraq for 100 years
5. Clinton was impeached for having an affair
6. Al Gore invented the Internet

It’s a credibility thing. If there’s one truth in there, it’s too hard to pick out of the rant stream. I’m torn between 1 and 6.

By: Jeffrey Fredrick

Jeffrey Fredrick — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:19:35 +0000

Fantastic idea! The kind of thing that might make me consider a major party candidate again.

By: julio

julio — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:03:09 +0000

If I had to pick one single difference between liberals and conservatives, this right here would be an illustration for it. Liberals keep thinking that there is a reconciliation possible, that the other side clearly will see the evil this administration was and give the libs a chance. Throughout the bush administration this was a common theme “clearly, they’re invading iraq on good faith. clearly this, clearly that.”. meanwhile they keep screwing the other side in the bottom, and the libs keep saying “yeah, but this is probably going to be the last time, no one is that evil”.

if I had to guess, I would say that your conservative friends, people who aren’t evil, still think this administration was not that bad. in fact they will probably order another round of more or the same.

I wish you were right but it’s unlikely. torture is not so bad, as long as taxes aren’t raised. when libs will offer the olive branch, they need need to prepared for being sodomized once again.