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		<title>end of an unfortunate era</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night on The Late Show with David Letterman, they presented the ending montage of Great Moments in Presidential Speeches, here it is. And here is the least reported moment in Bush&#8217;s tenure, one that has never been fully reported &#8230; <a href="http://rowast.com/2009/01/17/end-of-an-unfortunate-era/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last night on <a href="http://lateshow.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/">The Late Show with David Letterman</a>, they presented the ending montage of Great Moments in Presidential Speeches, here it is.</p>
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<p>And here is the least reported moment in Bush&#8217;s tenure, one that has never been fully reported on for some reason.  </p>
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<p>Funny, I don&#8217;t find hundreds of thousands of dead Americans/Iraqi&#8217;s something to joke about&#8230;</p>
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		<title>state of the union &#8217;08</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[6:00 PM Hey it&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s black friend! 6:05 PM Hey it&#8217;s the son a bush! Give it up, one final time GWB in the hizzle! 6:07 PM Hey did he just shake Ted Turners hand? Since when is he in &#8230; <a href="http://rowast.com/2008/01/28/state-of-the-union-08/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>6:00 PM Hey it&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s black friend!</p>
<p>6:05 PM Hey it&#8217;s the son a bush!</p>
<p>Give it up, one final time GWB in the hizzle!</p>
<p>6:07 PM Hey did he just shake Ted Turners hand?  Since when is he in congress?</p>
<p>6:08 PM W with the hand jokes, give it up!</p>
<p>6:09 PM Isn&#8217;t it a bit early for an encore Mrs. Speaker?</p>
<p>6:10 PM President Dumbass is speaking, where&#8217;s my drink?</p>
<p>6:13  PM Hey it&#8217;s Charles Rangel he looks as full of it as ever</p>
<p>6:15 PM Funny man GWB!</p>
<p>Let the Bush tax cuts lapse, it&#8217;s not a tax increase.</p>
<p>Spend tax dollars wisely?  You&#8217;re gonna wait until the end of your presidency to do that?</p>
<p>6:16   A surplus by 2012?  Damn if only we could have done that sooner, oh wait&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;d applaud your anti earmarks rhetoric if I thought you meant it.</p>
<p>6:17 PM   tax free bonds?  hell no mr. president I&#8217;m done with you borrowing my kids money.</p>
<p>6:18 PM   Decisions about my medical treatment done in a doctors office and not in congress?  I think those decisions will be made in office towers by CEO sir.</p>
<p>6:20 PM  No Child Left Behind teaching students how to take test since 2002. (I think that&#8217;s the year)</p>
<p>6:22 PM No more public funding of private schools, especially religious ones, fix what we have.</p>
<p>6:23 PM  Just say no, to expansion of free trade, fillibuster if you have to.</p>
<p>The president should care more about the finest workers in the USA not the world.</p>
<p>6:24 PM  Hillary looks like she&#8217;s about to fall asleep</p>
<p>6:25 PM Yes let&#8217;s take the next step in conservation and allow California to establish its own clean air standards.</p>
<p>6:27 PM  Wait in 2008 he&#8217;s gonna ratify Kyoto?  Oh wait just kidding, only if China does.</p>
<p>6:28 PM He&#8217;s gonna allow scientists to perform their work?  Does that mean stem cell research finally gets the okay?</p>
<p>6:30 PM So no embryonic stem cell research even if it can help people who are dying?  Thanks Mr. Bush</p>
<p>The rule of law Mr. Bush? When you start upholding it we will approve your judges.</p>
<p>6:31 PM No more faith based initiative, it&#8217;s wrong.  The church isn&#8217;t wrong but it is still the church.</p>
<p>6:34 PM Hey Boehner can you applaud a little less vigorously?</p>
<p>6:35 PM When he mentions liberty in place of freedom I get the chills.</p>
<p>6:36 PM Half an hour in we have our first discussion of 9/11, I am impressed.</p>
<p>6:37 PM Laura gives an almost standing ovation.</p>
<p>The word is terror sir, not terruh.</p>
<p>6:38 PM I think this is the only time each year that Condi isn&#8217;t giving someone the stink eye.</p>
<p>6:39 Give it up for Congressman Sleepy!  Either that or he&#8217;s dead.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not a surge sir, it&#8217;s an escalation.</p>
<p>6:41 PM Cheney really does resemble Darth Vader doesn&#8217;t he</p>
<p>6:42 He&#8217;s invented an Iraqi &#8220;surge&#8221;  are you kidding me?&#8217;</p>
<p>6:43 PM The surge wasn&#8217;t meant to simply quell the violence Mr. President, without the Iraqi government taking action we will never leave.</p>
<p>6:44 PM Return on Success has such a soothing title doesn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>6:45 Hey is that Betray Us er Patreus?</p>
<p>6:46 By fully funding the troops he means allowing them to go off and die for a lie, doesn&#8217;t he?</p>
<p>6:48 PM  Is he still talking?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s all clap for stating the obvious!  woooo.</p>
<p>6:49 PM  Whenever he says &#8220;homeland&#8221; I hear hitler in my mind speaking of the &#8220;fatherland&#8221;</p>
<p>6:50 PM No sir you will rest, comfortably, it is the men and women of our armed forces who will not.</p>
<p>6:52 PM Is this the we&#8217;re going to war with Iran portion of the speech?</p>
<p>6:53 PM I still fail to comprehend how our having nuclear weapons means no one else can?  If we can have these weapons why can&#8217;t everyone?</p>
<p>6:54 PM He isn&#8217;t gonna throw his weight behind the FISA bill is he?  Oh yes he is.</p>
<p>6:55 PM No sir if multinational companies broke the law they must be held accountable in a court of law.</p>
<p>6:56 PM We have consensus no one wants genocide</p>
<p>6:59 PM Bob Dole!!!</p>
<p>7:02 PM GWB Ladies and gentleman, let him hear it!</p>
<p>7:04 PM and we finish this where we started with Bush&#8217;s black friend</p>
<p>Good Night!</p>
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		<title>olbermann&#8217;s special comment:  the president of hypocrisy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the President, behaving a little bit more than usual, like we would all interrupt him while he was watching his favorite cartoons on the DVR, stepped before the press conference microphone and after side-stepping most of the substantive issues &#8230; <a href="http://rowast.com/2007/09/21/olbermanns-special-comment-the-president-of-hypocrisy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>So the President, behaving a little bit more than usual, like we would all interrupt him while he was watching his favorite cartoons on the DVR, stepped before the press conference microphone and after side-stepping most of the substantive issues like the Israeli raid on Syria, in condescending and infuriating fashion, produced a big political finish that indicates, certainly, that if it wasn’t already – the annual Republican witch-hunting season is underway.</p>
<p>“I thought the ad was disgusting. I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the U.S. Military.”</p>
<p>“And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad.</p>
<p>“And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like Moveon.org or more afraid of irritating them, than they are of irritating the United States military.”</p>
<p>“That was a sorry deal.”</p>
<p>First off, it’s “Democrat-ic” party.</p>
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<p>You keep pretending you’re not a politician, so stop using words your party made up. Show a little respect.</p>
<p>Secondly, you could say this seriously after the advertising/mugging of Senator Max Cleland? After the swift-boating of John Kerry?</p>
<p>But most importantly, making that the last question?</p>
<p>So that there was no chance at a follow-up?</p>
<p>So nobody could point out, as Chris Matthews so incisively did, a week ago tonight, that you were the one who inappropriately interjected General Petraeus into the political dialogue of this nation in the first place!</p>
<p>Deliberately, premeditatedly, and virtually without precedent, you shanghaied a military man as your personal spokesman and now you’re complaining about the outcome, and then running away from the microphone?</p>
<p>Eleven months ago the President’s own party, the Republican National Committee, introduced this very different kind of advertisement, just nineteen days before the mid-term elections.</p>
<p>Bin Laden.</p>
<p>Al-Zawahiri’s rumored quote of six years ago about having bought “suitcase bombs.”</p>
<p>All set against a ticking clock, and finally a blinding explosion and the dire announcement:</p>
<p>“These are the stakes &#8211; vote, November 7th.”</p>
<p>That one was ok, Mr. Bush?</p>
<p>Terrorizing your own people in hopes of getting them to vote for your own party has never brought as much as a public comment from you?</p>
<p>The Republican Hamstringing of Captain Max Cleland and lying about Lieutenant John Kerry met with your approval?</p>
<p>But a shot at General Petraeus, about whom you conveniently ignore it, was you who reduced him from four-star hero to a political hack, merits this pissy juvenile blast at the Democrats on national television?</p>
<p>Your hypocrisy is so vast that if we could somehow use it to fill the ranks in Iraq you could realize your dream and keep us fighting there until the year 3000.</p>
<p>The line between the military and the civilian government is not to be crossed.</p>
<p>When Douglas MacArthur attempted to make policy for the United States in Korea half a century ago, President Truman moved quickly to fire him, even though Truman knew it meant his own political suicide, and the deification of a General who history suggests had begun to lose his mind.</p>
<p>When George McClellan tried to make policy for the Union in the Civil War, President Lincoln finally fired his chief General, even though he knew McClellan could galvanize political opposition which he did when McClellan ran as Lincoln’s presidential opponent in 1864, nearly defeating our greatest president.</p>
<p>Even when the conduit flowed the other way and Senator Joseph McCarthy tried to smear the Army because it wouldn’t defer the service of one of McCarthy’s staff aides, the entire civilian and Defense Department structures, after four years of fearful servitude, rose up against McCarthy and said “enough” and buried him.</p>
<p>The list is not endless but it is instructive.</p>
<p>Air Force General LeMay—who broke with Kennedy over the Cuban Missile Crisis and was retired.</p>
<p>Army General Edwin Anderson Walker—who started passing out John Birch Society leaflets to his soldiers.</p>
<p>Marine General Smedley Butler—who revealed to Congress the makings of a plot to remove FDR as President and for merely being approached by the plotters, was phased out of the military hierarchy.</p>
<p>These careers were ended because the line between the military and the civilian is not to be crossed!</p>
<p>Mr. Bush, you had no right to order General Petraeus to become your front man.</p>
<p>And he obviously should have refused that order and resigned rather than ruin his military career.</p>
<p>The upshot is and contrary it is, to the MoveOn advertisement he betrayed himself more than he did us.</p>
<p>But there has been in his actions a sort of reflexive courage, some twisted vision of duty at a time of crisis. That the man doesn’t understand that serving officers cannot double as serving political ops, is not so much his fault as it is your good, exploitable, fortune.</p>
<p>But Mr. Bush, you have hidden behind the General’s skirts, and today you have hidden behind the skirts of ‘the planted last question’ at a news conference, to indicate once again that your presidency has been about the tilted playing field, about no rules for your party in terms of character assassination and changing the fabric of our nation, and no right for your opponents or critics to as much as respond.</p>
<p>That is not only un-American but it is dictatorial.</p>
<p>And in pimping General David Petraeus and in the  violation of everything this country has been assiduously and vigilantly against for 220 years, you have tried to blur the gleaming radioactive demarcation between the military and the political, and to portray your party as the one associated with the military, and your opponents as the ones somehow antithetical to it.</p>
<p>You did it again today and you need to know how history will judge the line you just crossed.</p>
<p>It is a line thankfully only the first of a series that makes the military political, and the political, military.</p>
<p>It is a line which history shows is always the first one crossed when a democratic government in some other country has started down the long, slippery, suicidal slope towards a Military Junta.</p>
<p>Get back behind that line, Mr. Bush, before some of your supporters mistake your dangerous transgression, for a call to further politicize our military.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20896378/">Olbermann to Bush: ‘Your hypocrisy is so vast’</a> msnbc.com</p>
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