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tobergill commented on the blog post Large Generational Divide Among White Voters
It bothers me tremendously that democrats can’t figure out how to get white people to vote for them – not everybody is a southern racist plutocrat. They need to increase their white vote rather than lazily rely on non-whites. As soon as Republicans realise that the road to office runs through non-white territory they will switch tactics on a dime. You can already see them beginning to criticise Dems for using Republican policy like lax regulation.
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tobergill commented on the diary post Saturday Art: Thomas Kinkade “Painter of Light,” Kitsch, Dead at 54 by Lisa Derrick.
I first encountered Kincade’s work while wandering round a mall in Tampa – one of his signature galleries no doubt. I remember trying to find some art in the place and being accosted by a salesman glowingly describing a Kincade painting on an easel. I kept expecting Ashton Kutcher to pop out or something. After [...]
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tobergill commented on the blog post The Incredible Shrinking Congressional Assertion of Authority in War Powers
Well, Paul showed his colors when he went after a Democrat over the AUMF, when he knows very well that the AUMF authorized Bush to go after the perpetrators of 9/11, not any Tom, Dick or Harry oil-producing nation he felt like, so, yeah, Clinton was absolutely right that she didn’t authorize the Iraq fiasco.
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tobergill commented on the diary post Radical Supremes Deny Justice to Man Falsely Convicted by DA Misconduct by Scarecrow.
IANAL thank God, but I don’t think this decision is as simply bad described here. As I read it the point on which it turned was not that bad things were or weren’t done, but whether or not the DA knowingly failed to train his prosecutors in handling Brady situations, and whether or not that [...]
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tobergill commented on the blog post This Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning
Perhaps at least the torture of Manning will be used to beat Obama over the head with when he tries to extradite Assange. Assange’s assertions that he could end up in Guantanamo were laughed off, but having seen that Obama doesn’t need to send you to Gitmo to get the same results – even without a trial – have to make an successful extradition iffy, no? The US is fast leaving the orbit of civilised nations, and they can’t turn a blind eye to it forever.
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tobergill commented on the blog post The State of Pima: New, Smaller, Fairer States as a Path to a More Representative Democracy
Balkanization is exactly what is is, and it results from people being totally ignored by their representatives, so maybe it’s a good thing.
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tobergill commented on the blog post Peter “Material Support for Terrorism” King
My, how time flies. I remember debating US support for “terrorists” heatedly on the old Virtual Irish Pub with many freedom-fighter loving Americans. Imagine, I said, that you had:
- a third of the population that refused to recognise the nation, indeed worked militarily to subvert it and damn the other two thirds who thought different , and
- a neighboring nation that looked on their cause favorably enough to give them support and safe haven
- a “rich-uncle” nation that lavished money from afar on the dissenters enabling them to carry on their “military” campaign ad infinitumThen I said you might find the US committing some of the human rights violations that the Brits had.
What, us? They said. No way – we have a constitution. You wouldn’t catch us detaining people without trial, or torturing them or heaven forbid killing them without due process.
That all seems so quaint now……
