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Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Robert Dreyfuss
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Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
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The poll is a little weak, offering only one choice -- when, the first three choices are about equal. In fact, there is a planet in a galaxy far, far away. The planet's name is Asylum; the occupants are called lunatics. For the past thirty years they have transported to planet earth. Here they have golden microphones, pulpits, opinion columns, podiums, Faux news television, mega-churches, a political party called Republicans, and many positions in leadership, both in corporations and in government.
Alas, woe is us, woe is us!!!!!!
Posted by chawinwords at 09/8/2009
Number 2 is correct, Obama is a racist and race baiter extraordinaire.
Posted by captainpat at 09/8/2009
Republicans and people who vote Republican are the swill of the nation. Luckily, they are a marginalized group and grow smaller with each of their deather, birther and equally ridiculous positions.
Posted by LarryB at 09/8/2009
Obama is a racist? Always a new twist from the "I'm rubber and you're glue" crowd.
The paranoia about letting Obama speak is testament to the dimwittedness that seems to overcome most of the conservative nation when it comes to change of any sort. Our schools are in sad enough shape as it is without clueless obstructionist actions such as these. Nobody would have been able to do this to GW, but the shrill and the delusional must have their day.
Posted by ficheye at 09/9/2009
Number 2 is correct, Obama is a racist and race baiter extraordinaire.
Posted by captainpat at 09/8/2009
So, explain to me the decision of the Arlington (TX) School District that did not show the President's speech, but is allowing several students to miss school to hear the former President Bush speak at the opening of the Cowboys' new stadium...Get a clue my friend....Wasn't it Karl Rove who implored the GOP to exploit racial anxiety (among whites, black have not choice but to me anxious) to the benefit of the (GOP) party...You might consider expanding your critical thinking skills...
Posted by mykaladrian at 09/9/2009
And they are Batsh#t Crazy!
Posted by Dennis1957 at 09/10/2009
Actually, I think there needs to be another answer.....the conservatives are still in shock and denial that a liberal, black man was elected president. They don't want to acknowledge any legitimacy to him in front of the children!
Maybe this is a sub-category of #2. Either way, it's a very sad state of affairs for the world's oldest modern democracy.
Posted by Desert Son at 09/10/2009
I don't think that children should be exposed to war criminals and politicians. They deserve better and we should protect them. Obama just wants them to consider joining the military so he can use them as cannon fodder in the mideast.
The opium trade is far more important than your children's lives.
Posted by Something_Stinks at 09/10/2009
Why didn't the right protest when Reagan gave a speech to schoolchildren or for when Bush actually was reading (didn't know he could) to kids when 911 happened and still kept trying to even when he was told it had happened !
Posted by realpatriot at 09/17/2009