“”I must say, I do really appreciate that I live in a country where if you interrupt the president you don’t get beaten and tortured and thrown inside a prison for a year,” she added.”

This requires a stretch of the imagination. Chicago Politics are ruthless. Oilbomber is one ruthless dude.

Likely pure Theatre as you imply.

Recall the college kit who got tased in front of Horseface Kerry.

The kids – Occupy – who get beaten, by cops. Other college kids getting hosed with pepper spray.

Agents Provocateurs setting up those kids in Chicago.

The MJ raids.

Please. Waht a stupid remark by MB.

Can’t really hurt anything to impeach O. Might be the only cure to get the law and the constitution back in order.

Course, you impeach him for the wrong reasons and the egg he laid is good for Tom Cruz.

The US government is controlled by Big Oil, Finance, Pharma, and other big business. The GWOT is an excuse for resource extraction. The Military serves at the pleasure of Big Oil and subsidiary business interests.

Nobody can stop it.

As you imply. the MSM will likely let it pass. They support it like they support the troops.

Glen Greenwald will make a lot of hay with it.

In the next few days the internet tubes will be clogging.

Here’s where the Teabaggers will jump on a liberal issue.

Rand Paul is making some noize already.

Perhaps I’m getting taken in by the drama, the absurd theatre, the kabuki.

Distractions which feed both sides and the middle.

Meanwhile, the machine – American Empire, The MIC, Worldbank, Wolfowitz’s holy socks notwithstanding, Bilderberg, rolls on.

Benghazi, the IRS, and now this rope a dope speech.

All signs point to JEB as the next president.

Oilbomber and his handlers and his masters have ordained it.

Are you implying that the Repuglicans are going to ratfuck him over the admissions he made in this speech?

Hypocrisy notwithstanding, I don’t see any reason why they would not commence to ratfuck Oilbomber over this.

The R’s will do whatever it takes to take this clown down.

Phoenix Woman may be ingratiating herself with TBogg & Co (I take no issue with it – other than to recognize it) as they are both still waiting for Obama’s Progressive Bonafides to come to fruition. Any day now. You know, his hands have been tied. Mean ol’ Republicans have him stymied, etc. Also Drones are patriotic.

Meanwhile I seek Sparkle Ponies and Purity.

In Group, Out Group. Tribal Identity. Can’t we hold opinions that differ or must you always gargle with Tbogg’s bongwater?

Society in general suffers from a lack of knowledge. Most do not recognize that the PTB endeavor to loot the economy. Americans still believe in the institutions that have been looting them.

For example, they believe that the collapse of the Real Estate market was accidental and/or that it was an aberration. In reality, it was a classic Pump and Dump scheme – albeit on a grand scale.

I think what ecahn is saying is that it doesn’t matter whether people or publics have the knowledge or not. The PTB are going to roll on no matter what the people know or think.

She points to Greece, et al, as examples of societies which have been rolled. They continue to be looted in spite of the fact that these are countries with better-engaged and more knowledgable citizenry.

Where in the world is Matt Lauer, JEBBY!?

I just love the chubby cheeks and “Aw, Shucks!” deameanor of our next President Kommander In Chief.

Please, let me see him every week on teevee! JEB’s the smart Bush that will save us from Obama.

First, we must consider that people who enlist in the Military are young and they are significantly lacking life experience.

The opinions of young people are therefore sophomoric.

Second, at nearly every juncture, their opinions were formed, developed and influenced by a massive institutionalized propaganda juggernaut.

It is nearly inescapable. Practically impossible for an 18 year old to have been fed otherwise. The 18 year old who considers joining the Military, will be thusly indoctrinated. (My Country – right or wrong! Fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here, etc.)

If you joined, you joined with your sophomoric opinion, indoctrinated. If you can educate yourself, your opinion may “evolve” like Obama said his did.

…gays in uniform hold a strongly different view.

Sure they do. If you work in the Meat Grinder, you must justify it for yourself. The simplest method is via groupthink which feeds and maintains the illusion that you are righteous – and patriotic. (The self-perpetuating GWOT serves two main purposes, Resource extraction for Corporations and the creation of an endless supply of anti-American terrorists.)

…and when they pointed that out, the members of the committee stepped back. End of story.

The members of the committee surrendered their principles.

We have devolved into a discussion about the arbitrary rules (disagreement equates to stinking up the place). Cute.

Thanks to You and TBogg and to the Troops for preserving our freedom.

Were they not the lowest level secret (not top secret) docs?

Which ones were damaging to Nat’l Security?

Or is that a secret, too?

Didn’t Ellsberg state that his own doings were far more damaging to the State?

IMHO, Manning represents among other things, a strong (perhaps the strongest) anti-war (anti-MIC) symbol.

Dumping Manning is representative of caving to the mainstream corporate political pressure (which is ubiquitous).

…It does seem a bit much to make that the symbol of Pride in the year where so much has been accomplished in terms of gains in both the military and civilian settings…

Don’t want to get greedy. Can’t go for Equality AND Anti-War.

The Corporations will get really pissed and take away the gains!

…intellectually lazy dispenser of witless snark on her site. He’s an embarrassment, and his conservadem views are completely antithetical to everything the site stands for. Perhaps he generates revenue that serves as a subsidy…

Now Ackerman’s got a gig at The Guardian. Conservadem views could get TBogg to The Big Show, too. There’s no place for real liberals on the pseudo-left end of the MSM.

I know. Tee Hee. Jill Stein is so stupid. And Those goddamned principles. Doesn’t she realize that half a loaf is better than no loaf at all?

Stand on principle or back down because you fear the opposition.

The latter portion of this statement has become the platform of the Democratic Party.

Atty Holder represented United Fruit Company aka Chiquita Banana in Columbia. The company poisoned workers with chemicals and when the employees went on strike, they were gunned down and murdered.

This is the kind of shitbird that is Oilbomber’s AG Eric Holder.