My dad will often say that the most frightening President was Reagan - during the escalation in tensions of the Cold War years.ATG wrote:
She kind of frightens me.
Nope I think we should ignore the threats, ya know like we did in the 90's. No "scaremongering" during the blessed 90's, but of course, the decades BEFORE 911, had nothing to do with 911 itself. It came straight outta left field. I am sure WTC'93 was nothing, after all only like 4 people were killed, so yeah, it is all scaremongering. Lets all just continue our blissful content little lives and pretend no one wants to destroy America, and everyone loves us. I will start, CUMBIYAH MY LORD, CUMBIYAH........Now EVERYBODY.CUMBIY............yer not singing..Uzique wrote:
She seemed rather incompetent in several areas in her responses:
Russia / Eastern Europe;
Support of Israel;
Support of preventive (and illegal) warfare (aka Bush Doctrine; National Security Council documents);
General sense of narrowmindedness and downright scary attitudes/approaches.
Some of the statements she made almost seemed like something straight out of Leo Strauss' book of neoconservatism. Far too much blind-patriotism with all this "stop the terrorists that will destroy America!" rhetoric and all the rest of this tiresome bullshit. I know it's (just after) the anniversary of September 11th but do we honestly need to be constantly patronised with this utterly contemptible and risible bullshit all the time? Do the American public really willingly swallow and agree with all this scaremongering now, after seeing what has developed over the last few years?
I despair.
QFT.lowing wrote:
Nope I think we should ignore the threats, ya know like we did in the 90's. No "scaremongering" during the blessed 90's, but of course, the decades BEFORE 911, had nothing to do with 911 itself. It came straight outta left field. I am sure WTC'93 was nothing, after all only like 4 people were killed, so yeah, it is all scaremongering. Lets all just continue our blissful content little lives and pretend no one wants to destroy America, and everyone loves us. I will start, CUMBIYAH MY LORD, CUMBIYAH........Now EVERYBODY.CUMBIY............yer not singing..Uzique wrote:
She seemed rather incompetent in several areas in her responses:
Russia / Eastern Europe;
Support of Israel;
Support of preventive (and illegal) warfare (aka Bush Doctrine; National Security Council documents);
General sense of narrowmindedness and downright scary attitudes/approaches.
Some of the statements she made almost seemed like something straight out of Leo Strauss' book of neoconservatism. Far too much blind-patriotism with all this "stop the terrorists that will destroy America!" rhetoric and all the rest of this tiresome bullshit. I know it's (just after) the anniversary of September 11th but do we honestly need to be constantly patronised with this utterly contemptible and risible bullshit all the time? Do the American public really willingly swallow and agree with all this scaremongering now, after seeing what has developed over the last few years?
I despair.
Don't look now Lowing, but I think there might be a history lesson headed your way if you think America had no enemies before 2001. And I don't just mean terrorists either... lollowing wrote:
Nope I think we should ignore the threats, ya know like we did in the 90's. No "scaremongering" during the blessed 90's, but of course, the decades BEFORE 911, had nothing to do with 911 itself. It came straight outta left field. I am sure WTC'93 was nothing, after all only like 4 people were killed, so yeah, it is all scaremongering. Lets all just continue our blissful content little lives and pretend no one wants to destroy America, and everyone loves us. I will start, CUMBIYAH MY LORD, CUMBIYAH........Now EVERYBODY.CUMBIY............yer not singing..
Gee, I thought I just said that, but anyway, thanks for the info. Now back to ignoring those that hate AmericaTheAussieReaper wrote:
Don't look now Lowing, but I think there might be a history lesson headed your way if you think America had no enemies before 2001. And I don't just mean terrorists either... lollowing wrote:
Nope I think we should ignore the threats, ya know like we did in the 90's. No "scaremongering" during the blessed 90's, but of course, the decades BEFORE 911, had nothing to do with 911 itself. It came straight outta left field. I am sure WTC'93 was nothing, after all only like 4 people were killed, so yeah, it is all scaremongering. Lets all just continue our blissful content little lives and pretend no one wants to destroy America, and everyone loves us. I will start, CUMBIYAH MY LORD, CUMBIYAH........Now EVERYBODY.CUMBIY............yer not singing..
Negative. Repeated her scripted answers over and over when pressed.Uzique wrote:
She seemed rather incompetent in several areas in her responses:
That's right lowing, because I hate America.... Your such an imbecile.lowing wrote:
Now back to ignoring those that hate America
Actually, I didn't say you....I was referring to the attitude of the other poster, who says it is all just scaremongering......Man for a peace loving bunch you guys sure are rude.TheAussieReaper wrote:
That's right lowing, because I hate America.... Your such an imbecile.lowing wrote:
Now back to ignoring those that hate America
yer welcomeghettoperson wrote:
I can be peace loving and rude, thank you very much!
Big difference, first of all, in the 90's, we ACTUALLY caught the guy responsible. Far more than we've done now, in your blessed 21st century, where we've ignored who attacked us, and turned our sights on our president's father's enemy, and then had the audacity to claim victory of any kind. All those lives lost in the towers, are probably spinning in their graves over our willingness to forget who really attacked us.lowing wrote:
Nope I think we should ignore the threats, ya know like we did in the 90's. No "scaremongering" during the blessed 90's, but of course, the decades BEFORE 911, had nothing to do with 911 itself. It came straight outta left field. I am sure WTC'93 was nothing, after all only like 4 people were killed, so yeah, it is all scaremongering. Lets all just continue our blissful content little lives and pretend no one wants to destroy America, and everyone loves us. I will start, CUMBIYAH MY LORD, CUMBIYAH........Now EVERYBODY.CUMBIY............yer not singing..Uzique wrote:
She seemed rather incompetent in several areas in her responses:
Russia / Eastern Europe;
Support of Israel;
Support of preventive (and illegal) warfare (aka Bush Doctrine; National Security Council documents);
General sense of narrowmindedness and downright scary attitudes/approaches.
Some of the statements she made almost seemed like something straight out of Leo Strauss' book of neoconservatism. Far too much blind-patriotism with all this "stop the terrorists that will destroy America!" rhetoric and all the rest of this tiresome bullshit. I know it's (just after) the anniversary of September 11th but do we honestly need to be constantly patronised with this utterly contemptible and risible bullshit all the time? Do the American public really willingly swallow and agree with all this scaremongering now, after seeing what has developed over the last few years?
I despair.
And there's a discernable difference between reading an autocue and being politically/publically incompetent? Riiight...Mason4Assassin444 wrote:
Negative. Repeated her scripted answers over and over when pressed.
An experienced politician or TV speaker wouldn't be so foolishly lured in by leading-questions.Lotta_Drool wrote:
He should have been less specific with his question so it could be more obvious that he would rather make the news than report it.
I thought she looked hot.Uzique wrote:
An experienced politician or TV speaker wouldn't be so foolishly lured in by leading-questions.Lotta_Drool wrote:
He should have been less specific with his question so it could be more obvious that he would rather make the news than report it.
Her own amateur approach let her down, not his predatory reporting style.
OK Matt Damon.ATG wrote:
She kind of frightens me.
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