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No, no, it was a real story.  She's nuttier than a fruitcake.

Still, right on the war, so point to redstar.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:01:45 PM EST
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Spin is not about truth, but the interpretation of truth.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:02:30 PM EST
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No, spin is the art of carefully selecting truths in order to create an attractive and saleable fiction

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:08:23 PM EST
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I think you're both right, depending on the case.  Sometimes spin is based upon outright lies that allow for a certain interpretation of the truth.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 03:28:25 PM EST
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No, I'm sorry - you're dismissing a candidate for US president because they're not sane enough?

Hello?

General Irony is in the building, and his dosimeter is reading 'fatal'.

We have McCain singing 'Bomb Iran', Romney playing Mr Evil Business Hair from central casting, Huckabee taking the gospels as gospel, Clinton-zilla pissing off her base with naked racism punctuated by bouts of strategic crying, and Obama being MLK without the MLK.

Meanwhile Bush squats in the White House like a drugged out toad with a brain tumour.

And McKinney is nuts? Because she whacked a cop?

Is she likely to bomb Russia? Is she going to nuke Iran? Does she believe God speaks to her? Does she think poor people are evil and should be punished? Does she believe in the magic market unicorn? Is she old, senile, narcissistic, or just plain delusional and mean?

Not so much insane, as not nearly insane enough to have a hope at the top job.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 04:32:26 PM EST
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I just said above that I might well vote for her and that my views of her were based upon actually listening to her (and, no, not about the cop incident).  Did you not read my comments?

You think I don't understand any of that?  I've given more time and money than most people could dream of to support candidates who vowed to end this God-damned war.  I'm one of the few in this shit-can country who's been sane the whole fucking time for the last seven years.  I'm one of the few who's been warning from Day One of Her Majesty's candidacy that this sack of white trash would sell us out on the war.  Many have been shouting about the blatant racism for months, only to see it ignored while this filth's sexist stunts are happily embraced by mouth-breathing pseudo-feminists.

And it's only the knowledge that Hillary Clinton is too much of a coward to do much more damage that makes me consider voting for her to guard against McCain.

Is McKinney as nuts as others in this race?  Nope.  You're probably right that she's far less so.  But don't think for a second that I don't see the insanity of this contest and what it means.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 05:02:11 PM EST
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Tell us how you really feel...

Myself, I'm getting more and more nervous - and I haven't been following the primaries that closely. If it will be Clinton vs McCain, a Dem president doesn't look guaranteed to me at all.

by Nomad on Wed Jan 30th, 2008 at 04:28:42 AM EST
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And is Clinton wins it will be a hawkish Dem presidency.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 30th, 2008 at 04:52:13 AM EST
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Well, you certainly have a point when you put it like that. {retires chuckling}

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jan 29th, 2008 at 05:14:52 PM EST
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left out Mr. 9/11...
by Nomad on Wed Jan 30th, 2008 at 04:23:51 AM EST
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