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February 8, 2007 at 02:04:10

The Kool-Aid Society Strikes Back

by Bennet Kelley     Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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SAFE IN THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BUNKER and oblivious to the fact that their dream of a conservative epoch collapsed under the weight of its dogmatic excesses, cronyism and corruption, the right wing media's true believers have lashed out with increased ferocity, recklessness and venom. Nothing illustrates this more than the completely fabricated story that Senator Obama "spent at least four years in a so-called Madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia" and Dinesh D'Souza's latest polemic "The Enemy at Home" blaming the American left for 9/11 - both of which may be a preview of what is to come over the next two years.

The Obama story reminds me of the fact that before launching his presidential campaign in late 1991, Bill Clinton received a call from the White House warning him not to run. "You're the only one who might cause us some trouble and so, if you do run, we're going to have to knock you out early." Sixteen years later, the story is the same except the targets have changed.



Within weeks of New Republic writer Jason Zengerle's prediction that conservatives would "launch a savage and despicable whispering campaign against the guy (Barack Hussein Obama, etc.) and then blame it all on Hillary," the conservative Washington Times' online magazine cited "anonymous sources" to launch its two-part smear that Senator Obama attended a Madrassa and that the Clinton campaign was leaking the story. For the next week, the right wing media was in frenzy over the story even though basic fact checking revealed that it was a double hoax.

Now comes D'Souza's "The Enemy at Home," which blames the "cultural left" for 9/11 and claims that only by winning the "political struggle against the left and its pernicious political and moral influence in America and around the globe," can we win the war on terror. D'Souza, who gained notoriety as editor of the Dartmouth Review and his subsequent books and apparently is now the chief dispenser of Kool-Aid at the Hoover Institute, has never let facts, or even decency, interfere with the expressions of his intolerance and myopia. As editor of the Dartmouth Review, D'Souza reportedly published correspondence from the Gay Student Alliance stolen by the paper to "out" several gay students; in "The End of Racism" he denounced the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and claimed that American slaves were treated "pretty well" and in his current book he claims Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay are "comparable to midlevel Middle Eastern hotels."

In the "The Enemy at Home" D'Souza, in essence, embraces the statement of his friend Jerry Falwell that "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU [and] People for the American Way" are to blame for 9/11. The thrust of his argument is that 9/11 is the result of the export of "abortion rights and same-sex marriage and the entire social liberal agenda in the United States" and that since 9/11 the Democrats have formed an unholy alliance with bin Laden in opposing Bush's Iraq policies.

D'Souza wants us to believe that suicide bombers are motivated by opposition to same sex marriage and not the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia or alliance with Israel when bin Laden's fatwa against the United States contains nearly 70 references to the latter but never mentions homosexuality or same sex marriage. (Even assuming D'Souza is correct, are we to embrace fundamentalist intolerance in exchange for our security?)

D'Souza's allegation of a treasonous alliance between the Democrats and bin Laden is laughable since that would mean that seventy percent of Americans and many Congressional Republicans were also guilty of treason. D'Souza also chooses to ignore the fact many of those opposing Bush's Iraq policies are far from being allied with bin Laden as they want to devote our resources to fighting al Qaeda instead of pursuing the neo-con's Iraq fantasies.

When 9/11 Commission staffer Warren Bass reviewed D'Souza's book, he criticized D'Souza's publisher, agent, editors and publicist for "going along for the ride" for such a "dim, dishonorable" and calculated "incendiary polemic" designed to create controversy and sell books. D'Souza's book and the Obama hoax demonstrate that the right wing media is eager to go along for the ride for any attack regardless of its credibility.

It is a guaranty that D'Souza, Ann Coulter, the Washington Times and the rest of the Kool-Aid Society will continue to lash out like wounded bears, but they will be increasingly marginalized as political circus acts by the ridiculousness of their arguments. Who will be willing to go along for the ride then?

The Obama hoax suggests that there are many in the right wing media eager to do so, but the jury is still out on the question of whether they too will be marginalized by pedaling such sewage or if the public will continue to respond to the right's insidious smear campaigns. Sadly, history favors the latter result, but we can always hope for the former.

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The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Bob FitzgeraldThe only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Who's cornered the market on Kool-Aid?

First, the media, according to Harvard and many other reputable and for the most part "liberal" schools have found the media to be slanted to the left. To believe the Right has cornered the market on corruption and over the top propaganda is insane.

The left are those who created political correctness. Political correctness was needed so the left did not seem so racist coming from the plantation culture. The leaders were filled with racial slurs and changed their terminology in order to curb their speech in order to not sound so prejudice.

The left is beginning to show their true colors and chances are the Dems are going to be twice as vicious amongst themselves as the Reps will be. It's amazing to see so many out there who believe you can look into someone' soul by their political party.

We will all need to wait till you die if we were to want any Kool Aid. You seem to have stockpiled it all.

by Bob Fitzgerald (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 62 comments) on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 4:31:33 PM
 


Don'pigeon hole me or sterotype me
pratliff94Don'pigeon hole me or sterotype me

Republicans=No Conscience, No Morals

Draygin2004,

You live in a dream world. There is no comparison to sleaze put out by the Republican Party and anyone else in American politics. Bennet Kelly has written an outstanding article and the truth is self-evident which he presents.

Three cases prove my point.
1. The Clinton Chronicles put out by Jerry Falwell and Melon Scaithe. Among a host of other things, Clinton is accused on evidence that he murdered at least twenty-two people while governor of Arkansas and was the head of a heroin ring coming out of Mexico. Can you get any sleazier? The Republicans can.

2. Max Clellan's unit was hit in an open field by artillery fire. He ran to cover with one man on his back; he went back for another, brought him to safety; was bringing the third man back when he was hit again killing the other soldier and blowing off both legs and an arm. He was attacked by the Republicans for being unpatriotic with the lie that he was jugging hand grenades blowing off both legs and his arm. I guess that is more sleazy; especially when his opponent for US Senate evaded the draft, never was in the military and never refuted those who attacked Senator Clellan.

3. Remember "THE SWIFT BOATERS FOR TRUTH" during Senator John Kerry's bid for President of the United States. John Kerry was awarded THREE PURPLE HEARTS, ONE BRONZE STAR, and ONE SILVER START while getting his buttock shot (literally shot off in Vietnam). To the everlasting shame of all Viet Veterans who did not speak out against the liars of an American hero, John Kerry who was wounded three times in three different skirmishes and still has shrapnel in his butt to prove it. We know how President George W. Bush spent his years evading Vietnam. What a coward.

The trouble with those who belong to the Republican Party they have no conscience and no morals.

by pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 969 comments) on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 6:35:13 PM
 


The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Bob FitzgeraldThe only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

You live in a dream world.

When people switch parties do they change their good evil alignment? Nixon ended Vietnam. He became evil for that. Clinton has scandal after scandal, he's perfect. The swift boaters were contradicted by Kerry and ONE other man. Kerry had 5 deferments and called Bush a draft dodger after 3. Parties have nothing to do with morals.

Al Gore supported POST BIRTH ABORTION. Literaly giving birth to a child and killing it after it has left the birth canal. What is more evil than that? Keep drinkin the Kool-Aid. Forget about Ted Kennedy. Barbra Boxer doesn't believe in the vote and Clinton thought American's had far too many rights and didn't think we should have freedom of speach. The Clintons do have a trail of dead witnesses in their past. I live in the real world. You should join it. Kerrry is in the VC hall of heros. FACT.

As far as Clinton goes.....

WJC MTV 1994


"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."

wjc usa tODAY 1993

"""We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve
the rights of ordinary Americans..." ""

WJC MTV 1993

"The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people."

WJC

"African-Americans watch the same news
at night that ordinary Americans do."

"I've said I've never broken the drug laws of my country,
and that is the absolute truth."

Posesion is a crime. He confessed to that.

"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country?
Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."

The quotes don't end.

Clinton Body Count.

Susan Coleman: Rumors were circulating in Arkansas of an affair with Bill Clinton. She was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at 7 1/2 months pregnant. Death was an apparent suicide.

Larry Guerrin: Was killed in February 1987 while investigating the INSLAW case.

Kevin Ives & Don Henry: Initial cause of death was reported to be the result of falling asleep on a railroad track in Arkansas on August 23, 1987. This ruling was reported by the State medical examiner Fahmy Malak. Later it was determined that Kevin died from a crushed skull prior to being placed on the tracks. Don had been stabbed in the back. Rumors indicate that they might have stumbled upon a Mena drug operation.

Keith Coney: Keith had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. Died in a motorcycle accident in July 1988 with unconfirmed reports of a high speed car chase.

Keith McKaskle: McKaskle has information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He was stabbed to death in November 1988.

Gregory Collins: Greg had information on the Ives/Henry deaths. He died from a gunshot wound to the face in January 1989.

Jeff Rhodes: He had information on the deaths of Ives, Henry & McKaskle. His burned body was found in a trash dump in April 1989. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and there was some body mutilation, leading to the probably speculation that he was tortured prior to being killed.

James Milam: Milam had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was decapitated. The state Medical examiner, Fahmy Malak, initially ruled death due to natural causes.

Richard Winters: Winters was a suspect in the deaths of Ives & Henry. He was killed in a "robbery" in July 1989 which was subsequently proven to be a setup.

Jordan Kettleson: Kettleson had information on the Ives & Henry deaths. He was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup in June 1990.

Alan Standorf: An employee of the National Security Agency in electronic intelligence. Standorf was a source of information for Danny Casalaro who was investigating INSLAW, BCCI, etc. Standorf's body was found in the backseat of a car at Washington National Airport on Jan 31, 1991.

Dennis Eisman: An attorney with information on INSLAW. Eisman was found shot to death on April 5, 1991.

Danny Casalaro: Danny was a free-lance reporter and writer who was investigating the "October Surprise", INSLAW and BCCI. Danny was found dead in a bathtub in a Sheraton Hotel room in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Danny was staying at the hotel while keeping appointments in the DC area pertinent to his investigation. He was found with his wrists slashed. At least one, and possibly both of his wrists were cut 10 times. All of his research materials were missing and have never been recovered.

Victor Raiser: The National Finance Co-Chair for "Clinton for President." He died in a airplane crash on July 30, 1992.

R. Montgomery Raiser: Also involved in the Clinton presidential campaign. He died in the same plane crash as Victor.

Paul Tully: Tulley was on the Democratic National Committee. He was found dead of unknown causes in his hotel room on September 24, 1992. No autopsy was ever allowed.

Ian Spiro: Spiro had supporting documentation for grand jury proceedings on the INSLAW case. His wife and 3 children were found murdered on November 1, 1992 in their home. They all died of gunshot wounds to the head. Ian's body was found several days later in a parked car in the Borego Desert. Cause of death? The ingestion of cyanide. FBI report indicated that Ian had murdered his family and then committed suicide.

Paula Gober: A Clinton speech writer. She died in a car accident on December 9, 1992 with no known witnesses.

Jim Wilhite: Wilhite was an associate of Mack McClarty's former firm. Wilhite died in a skiing accident on December 21, 1992. He also had extensive ties to Clinton with whom he visited by telephone just hours before his death.

Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Todd McKeahan & Conway LeBleu: Died Feburary 28, 1993 by gunfire at Waco. All four were examined by a pathologist and died from identical wounds to the left temple. All four had been body guards for Bill Clinton, three while campaigning for President and when he was Governor of Arkansas.They also were the ONLY 4 BATF agents killed at Waco.

Sgt. Brian Haney, Sgt. Tim Sabel, Maj. William Barkley, Capt. Scott Reynolds: Died: May 19, 1993 - All four men died when their helicopter crashed in the woods near Quantico, Va. - Reporters were barred from the site, and the head of the fire department responding to the crash described it by saying, "Security was tight," with "lots of Marines with guns." A videotape made by a firefighter was seized by the Marines. All four men had escorted Clinton on his flight to the carrier Roosevelt shortly before their deaths.

John Crawford: An attorney with information on INSLAW. He died from a heart attack in Tacoma in April of 1993.

John Wilson: Found dead from an apparent hanging suicide on May 18, 1993. He was a former Washington DC council member and claimed to have info on Whitewater.

Paul Wilcher: A lawyer who was investigating drug running out of Mena, Arkansas and who also sought to expose the "October Surprise", BCCI and INSLAW. He was found in his Washington DC apartment dead of unknown causes on June 22, 1993.

Vincent Foster: A White House deputy counsel and long-time personal friend of Bill and Hillary's. Found on July 20, 1993, dead of a gunshot wound to the mouth -- a death ruled suicide. Many different theories on this case! Readers are encouraged to read our report in Strange Deaths.

Jon Parnell Walker: An investigator for the RTC who was looking into the linkage between the Whitewater and Madison S&L bankruptcy. Walker "fell" from the top of the Lincoln Towers Building.

Stanley Heard & Steven Dickson: They were members of the Clinton health care advisory committee. They died in a plane crash on September 10, 1993.

Jerry Luther Parks: Parks was the Chief of Security for Clinton's national campaign headquarters in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car on September 26, 1993 near the intersection of Chenal Parkway and Highway 10 west of Little Rock. Parks was shot through the rear window of his car. The assailant then pulled around to the driver's side of Park's car and shot him three more times with a 9mm pistol. His family reported that shortly before his death, they were being followed by unknown persons, and their home had been broken into (despite a top quality alarm system). Parks had been compiling a dossier on Clinton's illicit activities. The dossier was stolen.

Ed Willey: A Clinton fundraiser. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on November 30, 1993. His death came the same day his wife, Kathleen, was sexually assaulted in the White House by Bill Clinton.

Gandy Baugh: Baugh was Lasater's attorney and committed suicide on January 8, 1994. Baugh's partner committed suicide exactly one month later on February 8, 1994.

Herschell Friday: A member of the presidential campaign finance committee. He died in an airplane explosion on March 1, 1994.

Ronald Rogers: Rogers died on March 3, 1994 just prior to releasing sensitive information to a London newspaper. Cause of death? Undetermined.

Kathy Furguson: A 38 year old hospital worker whose ex-husband is a co- defendant in the Paula Jones sexual harassment law suit. She had information supporting Paula Jone's allegations. She died of an apparent suicide on May 11, 1994 from a gunshot wound to the head.

Bill Shelton: Shelton was an Arkansas police officer and was found dead as an apparent suicide on kathy Ferguson's grave (Kathy was his girl friend), on June 12, 1994. This "suicide" was the result of a gunshot wound to the back of the head.

Stanley Huggins: Huggins, 46, was a principal in a Memphis law firm which headed a 1987 investigation into the loan practices of Madison Guaranty S&L. Stanley died in Delaware in July 1994 -- reported cause of death was viral pneumonia.

Paul Olson: A Federal witness in investigations to drug money corruption in Chicago politics, Paul had just finished 2 days of FBI interviews when his plane ride home crashed, killing Paul and 130 others on Sept 8 1994. The Sept. 15, 1994 Tempe Tribune newspaper reported that the FBI suspected that a bomb had brought down the airplane.

Calvin Walraven: 24 year on Walraven was a key witness against Jocelyn Elder's son's drug case. Walraven was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head. Tim Hover, a Little Rock police spokesman says no foul play is suspected.

Alan G. Whicher: Oversaw Clinton's Secret Service detail. In October 1994 Whicher was transferred to the Secret Service field office in the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. Whatever warning was given to the BATF agents in that building did not reach Alan Whicher, who died in the bomb blast of April 19th 1995.

Duane Garrett: Died July 26, 1995-A lawyer and a talk show host for KGO-AM in San Fransisco, Duane was the campaign finance chairman for Diane Fienstien's run for the senate, and was a friend and fundraiser for Al Gore. Garrett was under investigation for defrauding investors in Garrett's failed sports memorabilia venture. There was talk of a deal to evade prosecution. On July 26th, Garrett canceled an afternoon meeting with his lawyer because he had to meet some people at the San Fransisco airport. Three hours later he was found floating in the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Ron Brown:. The Commerce Secretary died on April 3, 1996, in an Air Force jet carrying Brown and 34 others, including 14 business executives on a trade mission to Croatia, crashed into a mountainside. The Air Force, in a 22-volume report issued in June of 1996, confirmed its initial judgment that the crash resulted from pilot errors and faulty navigation equipment At the time of Brown's death, Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson was seeking to determine whether Brown had engaged in several sham financial transactions with longtime business partner Nolanda Hill shortly before he became secretary of commerce.

Charles Meissner: died: UNK - Following Ron Brown's death, John Huang was placed on a Commerce Department contract that allowed him to retain his security clearance
by Charles Meissner. Shortly thereafter, Meissner died in the crash of a small plane. He was an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy.

William Colby: Retired CIA director was found dead on May 6,1996 after his wife reported him missing on April 27,1996. Apparently, Colby decided to go on a impromptu canoeing excursion and never returned. Colby who had just started writing for Strategic Investment newsletter, worried many in the intelligent community. Colby's past history of divulging CIA secrets in the past were well known. Strategic Investor had covered the Vince Foster suicide and had hired handwriting experts to review Foster's suicide note.

Admiral Jeremy Boorda: Died on May 16,1996 after he went home for lunch and decided to shoot himself in the chest (by one report, twice) rather than be interviewed by Newsweek magazine that afternoon. Explanations for Boorda's suicide focused on a claim that he was embarrassed over two "Valor" pins he was not authorized to wear.

Lance Herndon: Herndon a 41 year old computer specialist and a prominent entrepreneur who received a presidential appointment in 1995 died August 10, 1996 under suspicious circumstances. He appeared to have died from a blow to the head. Police said no weapons were found at his mansion, adding that Mr. Herndon had not been shot or stabbed and there was no evidence of forced entry or theft.

Neil Moody: Died -August 25, 1996 Following Vincent Foster's murder, Lisa Foster married James Moody, a judge in Arkansas, on Jan 1, 1996. Near the time Susan McDougal first went to jail for contempt, Judge Moor's son, Neil died in a car crash. There were other reports that Neil Moody had discovered something very unsettling among his stepmother's private papers and was threatening to go public with it just prior to the beginning of the Democratic National Convention. He was alleged to have been talking to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post about a blockbuster story. Witnesses said they saw Neil Moody sitting in his car arguing with another person just prior to His car suddenly speeding off out of control and hitting a brick wall.

Barbara Wise: Wise a 14-year Commerce Department employee found dead and partially naked in her office following a long weekend. She worked in the same section as John Huang. Officially, she is said to have died of natural causes.

Doug Adams: Died January 7, 1997- A lawyer in Arkansas who got involved trying to help the people who were being swindled out of their life savings. Adams was found in his vehicle with a gunshot wound to his head in a Springfield Mo. hospital parking lot.

Mary C. Mahoney: 25, murdered at the Georgetown Starbuck's coffee bar over the 4th of July '97 weekend. She was a former White House intern who worked with John Huang. Apparently she knew Monica Lewinsky and her sexual encounters with Bill Clinton. Although not verified, it has been said that Lewinsky told Linda Tripp that she did not want to end up like Mahoney.

Ronald Miller: Suddenly took ill on October 3rd,1997 and steadily worsened until his death 9 days later. (This pattern fits Ricin poisoning.) Owing to the strangeness of the illness, doctors at the Integris Baptist Medical Center referred the matter to the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office. The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office promptly ran tests on samples of Ron Miller's blood, but has refused to release the results or even to confirm that the tests were ever completed.

Had been investigated by authorities over the sale of his company, Gage Corp. to Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. was the man who tape recorded Gene and Nora Lum and turned those tapes (and other records) over to congressional oversight investigators. The Lums were sentenced to prison for campaign finance violations, using "straw donors" to conceal the size of their contributions to various candidates. Indeed, Dynamic Energy Resources, Inc. had hired Ron Brown's son Michael solely for the purpose of funneling $60,000 through him to the Commerce Secretary, according to Nolanda Hill's testimony.

Sandy Hume: On Sunday, February 22nd, 1998, Sandy Hume, the 28 year old son of journalist Britt Hume, was reportedly found dead in his Arlington, Virginia home. Aside from the statement that this was an "apparent" suicide, there remains in place a total media blackout on this story, possibly out of concern that the actual facts will not withstand public scrutiny. Worked for Hill magazine, about Congress for Congress.

Jim McDougal: Bill and Hillary Clinton friend, banker, and political ally, sent to prison for eighteen felony convictions. A key whitewater witness, dies of a heart attack on March, 8 1998. As of this writing allegations that he was given an injection of the diuretic lasix has not been denied or confirmed.
Died on March 8, 1998

Johnny Lawhon: 29, died March 29, 1998- The Arkansas transmission specialist who discovered a pile of Whitewater documents in the trunk of an abandoned car on his property and turned them over to Starr, was killed in a car wreck two weeks after the McDougal death.. Details of the "accident" have been sketchy -- even from the local Little Rock newspaper.

Charles Wilbourne Miller: 63, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on November 17, 1998 in a shallow pit about 300 yards from his ranch house near Little Rock. Police found a .410 gauge shotgun near Miller's body and a Ruger .357-caliber revolver submerged in water. Investigators concluded the Ruger was the weapon used by Miller to kill himself. Yet, two rounds in the handgun's cylinder had been spent.

He had long served as executive vice president and member of the board of directors for a company called Alltel and was deeply involved in his own software engineering company until the day he died. Alltel is the successor to Jackson Stephens' Systematics, the company that provided the software for the White House's "Big Brother" data base system and that was behind the administration's plan to develop the secret computer "Clipper" chip to bug every phone, fax and email transmission in America.

Carlos Ghigliotti: 42, was found dead in his home just outside of Washington D.C. on April 28, 2000. There was no sign of a break-in or struggle at the firm of Infrared Technology where the badly decomposed body of Ghigliotti was found. Ghigliotti had not been seen for several weeks.

Ghigliotti, a thermal imaging analyst hired by the House Government Reform Committee to review tape of the siege, said he determined the FBI fired shots on April 19, 1993. The FBI has explained the light bursts on infrared footage as reflections of sun rays on shards of glass or other debris that littered the scene.

"I conclude this based on the groundview videotapes taken from several different angles simultaneously and based on the overhead thermal tape," Ghigliotti told The Washington Post last October. "The gunfire from the ground is there, without a doubt."

Ghigliotti said the tapes also confirm the Davidians fired repeatedly at FBI agents during the assault, which ended when flames raced through the compound. About 80 Branch Davidians perished that day, some from the fire, others from gunshot wounds.

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for the congressional committee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., said that police found the business card of a committee investigator in Ghigliotti's office. Corallo said Ghigliotti's work for the committee ended some time ago.

Tony Moser: 41, was killed as he crossed a street in Pine Bluff, Ark on on June 10, 2000. Killed 10 days after being named a columnist for the Democrat-Gazette newspaper and two days after penning a stinging indictment of political corruption in Little Rock.

Police have concluded that no charges will be filed against the unnamed driver of a 1995 Chevrolet pickup, which hit Moser as he was walking alone in the middle of unlit Rhinehart Road about 10:10 p.m

Police say they have ruled out foul play and will file no charges against the driver because he was not intoxicated and there was no sign of excessive speed.


The Dems have a far worse record. Idiots like you just make excuses for them. The Reps cast out the unsavory. You re-elect.

Almost forgot Murtha and abscam. You're probably only 12 though so you may not remember that.

by Bob Fitzgerald (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 62 comments) on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 11:01:02 PM
 


The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Bob FitzgeraldThe only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

kerry was far from a hero.

Nough said.

by Bob Fitzgerald (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 62 comments) on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 11:02:59 PM
 


Don'pigeon hole me or sterotype me
pratliff94Don'pigeon hole me or sterotype me

More Lies. When Do You Stop?

You have said too much for you are completely wrong about Clinon.

Reverend Jerry Falwell admitted on the Larry King Show that the Clinton Chronicles were lies. The same Clinton Chronicles that Jerry Falwell and Melon Scaithe produced and tried to have shown in 40,000 Southern Baptist Churches. If anyone should know about them being lies, it is Jerry Falwell.

"Kerry was hero. Nough said."

It will be "nough said" when you get the Swift Boaters to admit their lies and undo the death of 600,000 Iraqi men women and children not counting over 3,000 American soldiers which Bush and his henchmen have murdered with the blessings of the religious right wing.

How vulgar!

by pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 969 comments) on Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 2:36:12 PM
 


The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Bob FitzgeraldThe only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

You lie.

Where is the proof the Swifties lied. All those HEROs and John Kerry who you can here calling our men Baby killers. Sorry if you don't like the truth, but please don't go looking for a bell tower. Oh yeah, 911 commision report, page 140, Clinton dropped the ball. More than enough to bury Clinton. Let it lay.

by Bob Fitzgerald (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 62 comments) on Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 11:05:52 PM
 


The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Bob FitzgeraldThe only way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Sorry, just realized...

don't tell your dad. You went on a political site and I forgot you were the same kid. I was a kid once too and we called everyone fascists and what not, but the Chritians didn't take out the twin towers son. Sadam was not a Christian either, and Christians founded this country and gave your mommy and daddy freedom of speach, yes with war. You see, when someone wants to end you, they don't care what you believe. When you show your weakness, like Clinton did, the cowards who want to kill you will. Ask mommy. How do you reason with a rapist. terrorist are cut from the same mold.

Your hate consumes you.

by Bob Fitzgerald (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 62 comments) on Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 11:17:07 PM
 

 

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