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The Man Who Guards Clinton's Wikipedia Entry
Timothy found a profile in The New Republic of Jonathan Schilling, a 53-year-old software developer from New Jersey who works to keep Hillary Clinton's Wikipedia entry clean and fair throughout the election season. "After he started editing her page in June 2005, Schilling became consumed with trying to capture her uncomfortable place in American culture, researching and writing a whole section on how she polarizes the public... [T]he attacks on Hillary's page mainly take the form of crude vandalism... It's different on Obama's page, where the fans — no surprise — are more enthusiastic, the haters are more intelligent, and the arguments reflect the fact that Obama himself is still a work under construction... The bitterness of the fights on Obama's page could be taken as a bad sign for the candidate. But it may actually be Hillary's page that contains the more troubling omens. Few, if any, Hillary defenders are standing watch besides Schilling. In recent days, the vaguely deserted air of a de-gentrifying neighborhood has settled over her page..."
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
It is indeed The Onion. Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence. Founding Fathers, Patriots, Mr. T. Honored
The campaign page has a few more of the criticisms, but you're right that her biography page is carefully missing anything negative.
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Notice he didn't say that he WANTED to be in Iraq for 100 years. He said he would do what it takes to protect America.
He then went on to note that we've had soldiers in Germany, Italy, Britain, Japan, South Korea and other places for over 50 years. If you are going to bitch about American soldiers being station over seas, you should start with these places where US forces have been stationed over 10X longer.
So please, stop lying about McCain. I didn't even finish the rest of your McCain rant. If you can't be honest about what he said in the first two sentences, you've lost all credibility over the rest.
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According to the story, Cain was a farmer, not a shepherd.
As for the SBVT thing, I didn't actually pay attention, because, IMHO, John Kerry's military service record was really irrelevant to his presidential candidacy. If something that happened that long ago really mattered, many U.S. presidents, including Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush would never have been elected. (Reagan once did porn, Clinton smoked pot and dodged the draft, Bush snorted coke).
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Which ones are you talking to? When I was in Korea I didn't see any hostility towards our troops and the few people that I talked to were either supportive of us or neutral about it. I didn't meet anybody that seemed anxious for us to leave.
The Japanese don't want us in OkinawaMaybe that's why we are planning on leaving Okinawa and moving our forces there to Guam? We aren't occupying them -- it was a basing agreement that they signed willingly back in the day.
soldiers habitually raping 12 year-old girls might have something to do with that"Habitually"? I can think of three cases in the last 15 years. That's "habitually"?
I imagine the Germans would like us to leave straight awayThink again. Our forces in Germany are a great economic benefit for those areas where they are stationed. A lot of Germans (in and out of Government) were disappointed when we announced that we'd be pulling upwards of 50% of them out of the country.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Nothing gets rid of the mud quicker than an intellectual "car wash". The more people become aware of sites like Media Matters and Fact Check, the less likely they'll be to buy into the bullshit.
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
* "The old bat will probably steal everything in the hospital room."
* "I feel no pity for the b---- who took delight in watching thousands die of a horrible disease and watching the poor having to eat out of dumpsters because of her husband's political beliefs." They are speaking of Nancy Reagan when she was in the hospital.
You don't see me carrying signs calling for the forced sterilization of Democrats.
You don't see me comparing Democrats to Nazis.
Or calling for war against the US.
Other quotes from Huffington Post:
(talking about Dick Cheney) I'm embarrased that this guy hasn't had a heart-attack yet. The kind that end's life.
Get a rope for Dick..
hang cheney for war crimes this week.
hang cheney for treason against america this week.
hang cheney. And that is just page 1.
And that is just after about 2 minutes research....
Nope, sorry. I never called Clinton Hitler. I never called for the overthrow of our government when a Democrat was in office. I never accused our soldiers in Bosnia of war crimes. I've never hoped for the miserable death of anyone on the left side of the aisle (or their families!). Sorry, but I'm nothing like these people. Maybe you should remove your partisan colored glasses when you read Huffpo or any of the other left wing sites to see what I'm talking about. What I've offered here is just an sampling of the hate coming from the left. All of it is over the line and none of it is justified.
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As for the foreign fighter, WTF is your point? There are domestic insurgents as well, as there have been from the beginning. Not counting on foreign fighters coming in as well as al-Qaeda (another American product since we set them up, armed them, and trained them to fight the Soviets) who were not even in Iraq or had anything to do with Iraq before the war is just another of many examples of Cheney et al sticking their heads in the sand (or trying to get us to) and insisting that we would be greeted as liberators. Anyone, including myself, who had been paying any attention to what was going on in Iraq before the war knew already that WMDs and "greeted as liberators" was a load of horse shit. How can a country that we keep bombing the fuck out of for over 10 years possibly have a WMD program and why would they greet us as liberators?
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But the 15th Amendment refers to the voting as a "right".
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
So the Constitution basically says that it is a right and it can be taken away, just not for the reasons listed.
"I planned within my means and got a fixed rate mortgage, so where's MY bailout?" -cafepress
And don't forget that you don't have a right to vote to determine your state's electors - unless your state legislature gives you that right. It is up to the state legislatures to designate electors, and there need not (by Federal law) be any voting involved in its doing so.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
This is true. Note, however, that in 1945 this was not the expected result. The Army fully expected that Germans and Japanese would be killing American soldiers for years to come.
And we occupied them anyway. And based on what my father has said on the subject, the only reason we're having problems that way in Iraq is that the Rules of Engagement we're operating under give every advantage to the enemy.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
(I was going to link to another story at Kos where the writer was hoping for America to be invaded, conquered and occupied, just so we'd know what it felt like and would become peace loving hippies. I figure, that has worked so well in Israel and the Palestinian territories that it has to be worth a shot. However, the story "can't be found", however, it has tags and 102 comments! I guess some things are too vile for Kos... Oh wait! It's an election year!)
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