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1. Stout Republican Says:
   
   October 26th, 2007 at 12:39 am

   Wow…look at Bubba, stepping all over free speech when someone is just trying to speak “truth to power” and “just ask questions”. Oh…wait…this is a Clinton…it’s all good.

   
   
2. Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » Mad Props For WJClinton Says:
   
   October 26th, 2007 at 2:24 am

   [...] Coleman–my favourite lawyer who isn’t related to me–is rather pleased with Bill Clinton today. I am deeply touched every time I watch this clip, and proud of his [...]

   
   
3. Ara Says:
   
   October 26th, 2007 at 5:45 am

   Bill Maher had those same crazies in his audience the other night on HBO. His response? It has to be seen to be appreciated. (Warning: Language NSFW).

   
   
4. Stout Republican Says:
   
   October 26th, 2007 at 10:13 am

   Ara, these crazies seem to know no party line either…the only time you’ll see Paulites having tea with the Kucinichers.

   
   
5. Ara Rubyan Says:
   
   October 26th, 2007 at 10:34 am

   Interesting thing about Paul and Kucinich — each party needs guys like that in order to adapt. They’re like human curb feelers.

   Oh wait. No one remembers curb feelers anymore…but you probably catch my drift, right?

   
   
6. Ara Rubyan Says:
   
   October 26th, 2007 at 10:35 am

   Curb feelers.

   
   
7. Ron Coleman Says:
   
   October 26th, 2007 at 10:46 am

   I remember curb feelers! I didn’t know they were called that, though.

   
   
8. Stout Republican Says:
   
   October 26th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

   Being born in 1981, all I can do is smile and nod…my good old days is when Microsoft Windows was named 3.x as opposed to the year it was released.

   
   
9. Bob Miller Says:
   
   October 29th, 2007 at 7:42 am

   Clinton’s own preoccupation with things other than his job prevented a proper response to Al Qaeda during his two terms.

   
   
10. Ara Rubyan Says:
    
    October 29th, 2007 at 8:42 am

    Really.

    This is a familiar refrain, most recently coming from Giuliani’s campaign. What Giuliani covers-up is that the people who bombed the WTC the first time (you know, when Giuliani was mayor) were caught, prosecuted and slammed in jail for their criminal acts. By the Clinton administration.

    And the USS Cole? If you’re so sure it was cut and dried who bombed the ship, then why didn’t Bush drop the hammer on them?

    And, oh by the way, where is Osama bin Laden these days? Free as a bird, that’s where.

    And as for Giuliani, after the 93 bombings, he did squat to protect NYC from another attack. He kept the wrong radios (after cutting a sweetheart deal with Motorola), put the EOC in the WTC (an example of mindlessness that will live in infamy) and on and on and on.

    
    
11. Ara Rubyan Says:
    
    October 29th, 2007 at 8:54 am

    Correction: Giuliani became mayor 10 months after the 93 bombing.

    
    
12. Ara Rubyan Says:
    
    October 29th, 2007 at 9:08 am

    From an interview Keith Olbermann did with Wayne Barrett, author of Grand Illusion:

    OLBERMANN: …Did [Giuliani] often mention terrorism before 9/11?

    BARRETT: He mentioned the ‘93 bombing once in the eight years that he was mayor, and that was in his inaugural address in 1994. And he used it as a metaphor for self-help, for personal responsibility as part of his welfare program.

    He certainly never talked about the World Trade Center bombing. Not only publicly, but in the course of the book, we interviewed everybody who was considered to be his first police commissioner, and this is within months of the attack in ‘93. The question never came up in the interviews that he conducted or that were conducted by the transition committee that he established.

    Look, what does it say that he never even had a multiagency drill in the World Trade Center in the eight years in between the incident? Not only did he put the command center there, the firefighters were carrying the same radios that malfunctioned on the day of the ‘93 bombing.

    It was something he had no consciousness about.

    He was the United States attorney in the Southern District before he became mayor, and every assistant United States attorney who prosecuted any one of the terrorist attacks…was hired by him in that office. We interviewed all of them, and he never discussed the ‘93 bombing or terrorism with any of them.

    The United States attorney for the Southern District had many meetings with him, but this question of terrorism never came up.

    Bottom line: Giuliani is going to be a very, very tough opponent if he gets the nomination because, well, “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

    You know it’s coming.

    
    
13. Bob Miller Says:
    
    October 29th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Regarding “Ara Rubyan Says: October 29th, 2007 at 8:42 am”

    I was not implying anything about Giuliani in this connection.

    All the same, the responsibility was primarily in Washington, and any city not doing its proper bit for security against terrorism should have received marching orders from Washington.

    
    
14. Ara Rubyan Says:
    
    October 29th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    Like in New Orleans, right?

    
    
15. Bob Miller Says:
    
    October 29th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    Oh, let’s see. Those thousands of buses that Ray Nagin failed to use for evacuation—that must be someone else’s fault; how could we blame him? NYC was in a far better state of order, before, during, and after its disaster, because a Republican mayor had dared to crack down on crime. In Nagin’s case, we even saw some looting by police.

    
    
16. Stout Republican Says:
    
    October 29th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

    Whoa there Bob…don’t you know the Federal government is to blame for everything? It’s Bush’s fault because he didn’t tell them how to do their jobs…I mean, getting Buses to evacuees…how was Nagin supposed to come up with that on his own?

    
    
17. Ara Says:
    
    October 30th, 2007 at 6:24 am

    Then there’s the levees. The way some people talk, you’d think the government should take care of those things forever. I say sell them back to the local government and let them be responsible for them.

    
    
18. Bob Miller Says:
    
    October 30th, 2007 at 6:58 am

    I did not get the impression that there was one agency at one level of government responsible for coordination and execution of funding, engineering, construction, maintenance, and repair of the levees. There’s blame there at multiple levels of government. The primary blame may be with the brilliant minds who originally zoned below-sea-level areas for residential and commercial building construction.

    
    
19. Ara Rubyan Says:
    
    October 30th, 2007 at 9:13 am

    I did not get the impression that there was one agency at one level of government responsible for coordination and execution of funding, engineering, construction, maintenance, and repair of the levees.

    It’s called the US Army Corps of Engineers. Check it out.

    
    
20. Ara Rubyan Says:
    
    October 30th, 2007 at 9:15 am

    And as far as not allowing construction in dangerous areas, we might as well evacuate most of Florida.

    
    
21. Bob Miller Says:
    
    October 30th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    Sorry, Ara, the Corps of Engineers has only part of the mission I outlined.

    
    
22. Bob Miller Says:
    
    October 30th, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    See:
    http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200509220817.asp
    http://www.asce.org/files/pdf/pressroom/hsgac12152005.pdf
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orleans_Levee_Board
    http://www.orleanslevee.com/Mission%20Statement.htm
    http://www.ejld.com/