all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation.
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
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Oh, it's a bit crazy, but was the 2008 election "given" to Obama by running Princess Halfwit of the Northwoods and that freak from Arizona?
What would McCain have done differently?
What could he have done differently?
Nothing.
But he and Bush and the GOP would have had that millstone hung around their necks forever.
Now Obama takes the blame, especially from "Idiot America."
This is going to be a weird time for the US.
As Drifty points out, they would rather make war than let the country survive.
Hm. Your Twitter button thingy doesn't seem to work.
TUL- I've heard the theory expressed before, and I don't think it's a bit crazy. The thinking is "we've really fucked it up, can't fix it in four years, let's let the Dems fail at repairing what we've wrecked. Then the Dems will be unelectable in 2012..." Something like that.
So there was a (secret) GOP meeting. So what? Immediately after it, and daily, they publicly and proudly trumpeted their plan.
What did Obama do? He insisted on deferring to and coddling these fucks - instead of working to show that elections have consequences, instead of building an impenetrable wall around the political trash heap on which Bush/Cheney had dumped them.
In brief, Obama acted like a Republican and got his political ass handed to him in the 2010 midterms. Obama did the VERY same thing that Drift Glass rails on about the media: validated and accepted "American conservatism" as a legitimate political theory for running the country.
As a famous commenter once said: "Obsessive bipartisanship is NOT an effective strategy to address the tsunami of resurgent American fascism."
John Puma
Well, John ^ is right about the public pronouncement of the "Seekrit meeting agenda." We're all still waiting for that kind of disclosure from THE DICK (Cheney's) energy task force, eleven years later. The truly amusing thing about this angle is the sap they've pinned their hopes to - Willard the Incapable. Perhaps the Seekrit plan derailed because Newtie didn't get the nom . . .
The Republican party and Conservatives in general are enemies of the United States and the American people.
Let's not start banning guns quite yet.
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