Comments on: I (heart) the 90s

By: Celia

Celia — Tue, 17 May 2005 22:47:57 +0000

Clinton never let his donors drive a US submarine into a Japanese fishing boat.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 17 May 2005 05:12:05 +0000

“And we still don’t have all Kerry’s military records.”

Yes we do. He went to Vietnam. Bush, on the other hand, didn’t.

How dare you?

By: Man Ho

Man Ho — Mon, 16 May 2005 22:17:01 +0000

Bush probably didn’t let guest use the Lincoln bedroom.

He probably saved it for his appointments with Jeff Gannon.

“Alright, Jeff. This time I’LL be the surrendering Iraqi and you be the Abu Ghraib guard.”

By: bill

bill — Sat, 14 May 2005 14:46:17 +0000

Shave your head and wink at George. They may have a room ready for you already.

By: Stephen Kriz

Stephen Kriz — Sat, 14 May 2005 14:24:06 +0000

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the mainstream media encouraged and abetted a thirteen year smear campaign against Bill and Hillary Clinton that goes on to this very day.

While the Bush family, three generations of war profiteers, who have connections to Nazis and brutal fascist regimes around the globe including Hussein in Iraq, Lumamba in the Congo, Allende in Chile and Noriega in Panama, are treated like morally pure demi-gods.

George W. Bush’s lengthy list of personal failings including multiple arrests, alcoholism, cocaine abuse, statutory rape of a minor, reputed extramarital affairs and higly questionable and unethical business dealings is ignored by the press and he is hailed as a great moral leader. While Bill Clinton, who has never been arrested and has no credible history of substance abuse, is reviled as a moral degenerate for having a consensual affair with an adult female.

We live in incredible times.

By: jimp1947

jimp1947 — Sat, 14 May 2005 12:12:27 +0000

Don’t know why anyone is surprised by anything this administration does. Fact is that the US government was taken over by a criminal cabal in 2001 and we are all probably toast for a long time to come. Welcome to 1984.

By: razor

razor — Sat, 14 May 2005 04:59:51 +0000

Thomas
You assume facts as you please, to serve a reflexive partisan purpose, than are indignant at being misinterpreted.

Here’s the fact: while none of us know the facts, you automatically know the suggested interpretation is wrong. All are free to draw their own conclusions from this fact.

By: boonie

boonie — Sat, 14 May 2005 02:39:54 +0000

Brett Bellmore:

I’ll see your Monicagate and raise you an Iran/Contra and a Watergate. Republicans: lowering the bar since 1972.

By: swarty

swarty — Sat, 14 May 2005 01:52:41 +0000

I’m impressed that you brought the term “Trapper Keeper” out of the deepest recesses of my brain.

As for the behavior of the press, they suck and continue to suck.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 14 May 2005 01:34:20 +0000

razor—I don’t mean to suggest that the press has made a faulty comparison. So far as I can tell, the press hasn’t made a comparison at all. I meant to suggest—and I’ll say it plainly—that the Ted screwed up in his comparison. That hasn’t anything to do with media bias or relativity or the rest of it, but it may—and only just may—have something to do with partisanship. It may also be that Ted posted quickly, without thinking much about the comparison, or some other such scenario. I don’t really care why. And I don’t like being misinterpreted.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 14 May 2005 00:25:42 +0000

“They just didn’t seem to grasp that the lowered standards they were defending for Clinton would stay lowered when a Republican took office.”

I don’t get it. What did Clinton get away with? What lower standards were the democrats arguing for? I think that it has been cited many times that Bush Senior and Ronny RayGun did stuff that Clinton got reamed for. Off the top of my head, donors in the White House, pardoning questionable people. The only thing I can say that they got Clinton for was the “Blowjob.” He didn’t trade arms for hostages, he didn’t illegaly support terrorists, he didn’t lie to the country about WMD and reasons for attacking another country, he didn’t do so many things those the last three republican presidents have done that are wrong.

By: Sweetie

Sweetie — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:51:20 +0000

Steve Labonne,

Are you really saying that everyone on that list had cloture votes that failed to get 60 votes? That’s the definition of a fillibuster after all. If you have a link that can cite the votes it would be most appreciated.

Some guy,

“force their wives to visit swingers clubs…The liberal media just won’t touch any of it”

Ummm, exactly how did you find out about this? Heard it on the street or something? I heard about it as a result of a suit by, I believe, the Chicago Tribune. They sued to get Ryan’s(?) divorce records opened up. Kerry was divorced too, of course. And his divorce file is still closed. And we still don’t have all Kerry’s military records. So who’s getting a pass from the press?

By: Uncle Kvetch

Uncle Kvetch — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:06:06 +0000

Just be thankful he hasn’t stooped to emulate ALL of Clinton’s abuses

You say “blowjob,” I say “100,000 dead Iraqis.” Let’s call the whole thing off.

By: Brett Bellmore

Brett Bellmore — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:00:25 +0000

I continually pointed out to Democrats, during the last administration, that what each President gets away with, the next can do as a matter of course. They just didn’t seem to grasp that the lowered standards they were defending for Clinton would stay lowered when a Republican took office.

Well, here we are, and Bush can get away with anything you demanded that Clinton be allowed to do. Just be thankful he hasn’t stooped to emulate ALL of Clinton’s abuses; Those perpetual tax audits were a real pain.

By: razor

razor — Fri, 13 May 2005 20:05:14 +0000

Interesting. The suggestion is the press does not call it the same both ways, not that one side is better than the other, yet Thomas automatically knows the numbers are rigged against the Republicans, following, the rule of partisan symmetry, which is, of course, against Republican values, moral realitivity and all being THE threat to Christendom of both the popish and American Southern evangelical variety.

By which I mean, the knee jerk defense is intellectually corrupt.