05-17-2007, 04:46 AM
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http://abcnews.go.com/politics/besee...OLL288=4000000
The 10 Republican candidates running for president jousted over the issues and with each other Tuesday night at the second debate of the primary season.
<b>Who won Tuesday night's debate?
Ron Paul
21,323
It doesn't matter who won. I wouldn't put America in another Republican's hands.
1,809
Mitt Romney
361</b>
Rudy Guiliani
344
None of them. I'm interested in the possibility of new candidates like Fred Thompson.
342
John McCain
169
Tom Tancredo
84
Mike Huckabee
47
Tommy Thompson
36
Duncan Hunter
32
Sam Brownback
24
James Gilmore
16
Total Vote: 24,587
Not a scientific survey.
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Ole "Ronnie" Paul destroys the only thing that republicans have in their arsenal of BS to attract votes beyond their 28 percent "base": <h3>FEAR of "the other"....</h3>
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http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary....?diaryId=16531
by: ed_encho
<b>Mon May 07, 2007</b>
<center><img src="http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/MyLeftWing/ed_encho/apropaganda.jpg"></center><br>
<h3>As the psychological operations blitz to resuscitate the failing fortunes of the 9/11 party</h3> by inundating the airwaves with fear and loathing continues unabated via the latest Al - CIAda video that <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/05/al.qaeda.tape/index.html">was just released</a>. A scroungy looking dude resembling Islamic fundamentalist extremist Ayman al-Zawahiri has fortuitously popped up at precisely the right time to knock George Tenet's blathering of the talk shows and to simultaneously (and I might add runs parallel to the latest RNC talking points) decry the Democrat's bill to start to put an end to the fucking Mesopotamian mess: "This bill reflects American failure and frustration" which will be launched into the right wing talk radio sewers and blogs for consumption by the rats on Monday. The MSM talk show darling that is the slimy little Ratso Rizzo lookalike Tom DeLay will no doubt have even more reason to invoke charges of treason and the squealing war swine will scramble squadrons of chickenhawks to fill the air with a cacophony of lies, spin and outright swill to paint the opponents to the fascist garrison on the Potomac as allies to the `terrorists'.
The masterful thing about really good propaganda is that it appeals to the subconscious weaknesses of target groups and individuals by invoking their greatest inner fears and insecurities. The `al-Zawahiri' video goes right at Le Enfant Terrible by using the vintage "CHICKEN" technique that Biff Tannen used to bait Marty McFly back in the hallowed golden years of Ronald Reagan's mythical America:
<b>"And lest Bush worry, I congratulate him on the success of his security plan and I invite him on the occasion for a glass of juice -- but in the cafeteria of the Iraqi parliament!"</b>
Translation: Bring Em On Motherfucker! And the line about the "glass of juice" must be especially tantalizing for a white knuckle dry drunk and I would implore Laura to lock the White House liquor cabinets because Wild Turkey 101, overgrown adolescent bravado and the nuclear launch codes are not a good recipe for the continued existence of the planet.
ed_encho :: The Great GOP Snake Oil Blowout Sale
And the most effective propaganda appeals to several groups at once and the most beautiful part of the Al CIA-da video is the most telling one of all - whenever the anger level desperately needs to be jacked up then cry JEW with a slight twist of fundamentalist Christianity stirred in for good measure:
<b>"We ask Allah that they only get out of it after losing 200 to 300 hundred thousand killed, in order that we give the spillers of blood in Washington and Europe an unforgettable lesson, which will motivate them to review their entire doctrinal and moral system which produced their historic criminal Crusader-Zionist entity"</b>.......
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Quote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...d=opinionsbox1
<i>Charles C. Krulak was commandant of the Marine Corps from 1995 to 1999. Joseph P. Hoar was commander in chief of U.S. Central Command from 1991 to 1994.</i>
It's Our Cage, Too
Torture Betrays Us and Breeds New Enemies
<b>By Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar</b>
Thursday, May 17, 2007; Page A17
......We have served in combat; we understand the reality of fear and the havoc it can wreak if left unchecked or fostered. Fear breeds panic, and it can lead people and nations to act in ways inconsistent with their character.
The American people are understandably fearful about another attack like the one we sustained on Sept. 11, 2001. <h3>But it is the duty of the commander in chief to lead the country away from the grip of fear, not into its grasp.</h3> Regrettably, at Tuesday night's presidential debate in South Carolina, several Republican candidates revealed a stunning failure to understand this most basic obligation. Indeed, among the candidates, only John McCain demonstrated that he understands the close connection between our security and our values as a nation......
.....These assertions that "torture works" may reassure a fearful public, but it is a false security. We don't know what's been gained through this fear-driven program. But we do know the consequences.......
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