Comments on: Panetta Was Half-Right http://acandidworld.com/2009/07/01/panetta-was-half-right/ Democracy in America Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:47:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Friday Link Dump – Blog Week Edition « Dead Homer Society http://acandidworld.com/2009/07/01/panetta-was-half-right/#comment-12050 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:47:46 +0000 http://acandidworld.net/?p=9525#comment-12050 [...] Panetta Was Half-Right – I very rarely give a shit when someone says something “controversial”.  I figure that people have been saying dumb shit since the dawn of time and the only difference now is that we have cameras and microphones everywhere and so the dumb shit is more likely to get recorded and thus allow other people to comment on it.  That said, anyone who wants to make fun of Glenn Beck and Michael Scheuer for fantasizing about nuclear terrorism by using the Simpsons is okay with me.  Excellent usage. [...]

]]> By: James F http://acandidworld.com/2009/07/01/panetta-was-half-right/#comment-11993 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:35:36 +0000 http://acandidworld.net/?p=9525#comment-11993 Speaking of comics, A., have you ever read the graphic novel Give Me Liberty? It wields allegory like a blunt instrument, but it has its moments. At one point, the beleaguered President gets a maniacal gleam in his eye and tells his cabinet, “We need a war, ladies and gentlemen…the big kind.”

]]> By: Oneiroi http://acandidworld.com/2009/07/01/panetta-was-half-right/#comment-11992 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:18:44 +0000 http://acandidworld.net/?p=9525#comment-11992 It’s all ego.

Some people on the right are so angered that Democrats won, and want so badly for their controversial policies to be vindicated, that they’re willing to sacrifice life and country for it.

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