Comments on: The problem

By: bobbo

bobbo — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:46:17 +0000

Just BTW, Sully’s Dear Reader can’t construct an English sentence. “The struggle we face is as much between A and B” should be followed by “as it is between C and D.” So, Dear Reader, the suspense is killing me: what is the struggle as much between? Skins and shirts? Great taste and less filling? Peanut butter and chocolate?

By: woody, tokin librul

woody, tokin librul — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:22:47 +0000

Oh, by the way, since there is a tinge of religiousity evident here, consider: Knowledge get’s you fed; faith gets you eaten…

By: woody, tokin librul

woody, tokin librul — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:21:12 +0000

Imho, many of the people disillusioned with the ICORP in Iraq are what I call ‘technical dissenters.’ Like both Hillary and Obama (and Bombin’ Johnnie, too), they are not so much opposed to the intervention in Iraq as the outcome of it, which they now see as disastrous, but only because the ‘tactics,’ have been mis-handled and we seem to be ‘losing.’ None of ‘em would be opposed now had things played out like the delusional morons thought it should have…

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:12:30 +0000

“A religion that permits – indeed requires – the murder of gays and women who go against the principles of a barbaric code is not a religion and it is time we all deal with this “elephant in the room.””

Has this guy even read the Old Testament?

By: Grace Nearing

Grace Nearing — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:58:53 +0000

The point at which I stopped reading:

President Bush is a good man….

By: Essjay

Essjay — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:52:05 +0000

I wrote: “here the answers”

For you English speakers, that’s: “hear the answers”

By: Essjay

Essjay — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:49:25 +0000

Hey, what is it with that illustration of Sully over at the Atlantic? Does he have two basset hounds and a wife/girlfriend or longhaired boyfriend?

I dunno. But if hundreds of people emailed him, asking those questions, I would love to here the answers.

By: Dr. BDH

Dr. BDH — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:12:51 +0000

Hey, what is it with that illustration of Sully over at the Atlantic? Does he have two basset hounds and a wife/girlfriend or longhaired boyfriend? Did someone confuse him with TBogg?

By: Lazynative

Lazynative — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:25:28 +0000

And it’s this base, and those attracted by the self-serving simplicity of this vision, who John McCain is counting on in November.

Alarmingly, this base is not small. the real problem with views displayed by Sullivan though, is the sheer unwillingness to accept any evidence that challenges a priori assumptions here. I know plenty of people who were nice liberals and who either supported the war or went along with it. Not being completel dumbasses, they have all now agreed they were wrong and are upset with the leadership of the US/UK for the conduct both leading up to and during the war. Anybody who doesn’t take this position, as you say, has wondered from the realms of sensible discourse into the holy lands of the true beleivers.

Just makes you think, at what point will these people actually admit they got it wrong? Disturbingly, I can’t see such a point being reached.

By: The Editors

The Editors — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:44:34 +0000

I can see you through the computer screen.