Richard Cohen of the WaPo Weighs in on Bolton

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Thursday April 14, 2005 · 6:35 AM PDT

2005/04/14 · 06:35

In today's Washington Post, Richard Cohen breaks his silence on the nomination of John Bolton for UN ambassador and he doesn't mince any words:

It is my impression -- gleaned from reviews -- that Malcolm Gladwell's book "Blink" posits that first impressions often are right on the nose. Nonetheless, for reasons having to do with caution, prudence and a debilitating sense of fair play, I have until now withheld my first -- and only -- impression of John Bolton, probably destined to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations: He's nuts.

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Cohen's first impression of Bolton is based not on Bolton's contempt for the UN, as if that's not reason enough to reject this nominee. No, it is based on watching Bolton in action abusing our allies ...

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Anti-AARP ad Lawsuit: A Connection Between GOPUSA and USA Next ?

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Friday March 11, 2005 · 11:16 AM PST

2005/03/11 · 11:16

It sure looks like it!

This diary reports yet another set of interrelationships involving GOPUSA. I do not imply that there is any direct relationship to Gannongate or collusion in that scheme. This is merely a suggestion that GOPUSA has far more tentacles than we knew. And it also provides another link, by one degree of separation, between GOPUSA and the Swifties.

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I adore Delaware Dem

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Saturday January 08, 2005 · 10:27 PM PST

2005/01/08 · 22:27

[Promoted from the comments.]

... He is so analytical, level-headed, and knowledgable on so may fronts. He has great insight and can be very sobering on many topics.

But ... I have a confession to make ... I am stalking RabidNation. There... I've said it! ... I expect the FBI to show up any moment. Read More

Dems and Libs are Victims of Domestic Violence!

Glinda

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Thursday November 18, 2004 · 9:57 AM PST

2004/11/18 · 09:57

... "Domestic" as opposed to "International".

Over in JamesB3's excellent new diary entry on the state of the DNC (Time to say 'fuck the national party'?), J from VJ posted a link that referenced an entry in Mathew Gross's blog that is a "meal for thought": The Politics of Victimization. This article is a must read. The first 3 paragraph are killers! But the first paragraph is too long for this main entry, so go below the fold ...
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Dean, a Flaming Liberal?

Glinda

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Tuesday November 16, 2004 · 8:06 AM PST

2004/11/16 · 08:06

I posted a comment yesterday in Kos's Story Memo to the world remarking about a statement that Kos posted that was not noticed by many in the thread at the time.

Okay ... can we set this all straight. Kos said:

We happily embrace centrists like NDN's Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama

Hello! Kos is right. Dean is less liberal than Kerry. Somehow he got labeled "liberal" because he wanted to reform the party. I wonder who might have done that! ;-)

This is what we mean by framing the language. When a buzzword is used and no one really remembers what the buzzword means only that that buzzword is somehow "bad", we all are yanked around by the shorthairs. It's manipulation darling!

I admit my post was very glib and not very eloquent but I was in a hurry.

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Okay this is anti-freeper territory ...

Glinda

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Saturday November 13, 2004 · 6:15 PM PST

2004/11/13 · 18:15

Anyone know how to create s URL called www.whencousinsmarry.com and redirect it to:

http://www.werenotsorry.com/

I'm just asking, of course!

This site is so pathetic it makes me depressed for America and our world image. I suppose the site was put up by ...uh ... people of limited worldview ... [you must admit I am really trying to make my message lean to the right! Just like some of the parties auditioning for the DNC Chair ... but I digress.] It doesn't even make me angry: they are their own argument against themselves. It's a MadTV sketch!

But I must know, what were the suburan drones thinking when they submitted their photos to appear next to the the tootheless wonders with the semi-automatic weapons?

The Phases of Grief and Moving Beyond It All

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Friday November 12, 2004 · 8:25 PM PST

2004/11/12 · 20:25

I'm fairly new to Kos (that is, as a poster and not just a "lurker") and this is a first attempt at a diary entry. Please be kind!

What I've been noting among posters since the horror of 10/2 is the stages of grief all of us have been going through. It appears, at the 10 day mark, that we're all at different stages:

denial: the the "Kerry really won" / "voting fraud everywhere" group

anger: the "fuck the South" / "fuck the Liberal elite" / "fuck the gays" / "fuck Carville/Clinton/Trippi/Shrum ad infinitum" groups

fear: N.B. EK Ross missed this one. Having gone through two cancer-related deaths of loved ones over the past year as well as more than a dozen deaths of gay friends in the '80s and '90s I've learned that fear takes many forms in grief.

bargaining: all the talk about moving to the right and softening core values

depression: I just confess that I've been stuck at this stage since 9/11 and I can't afford to stay here anymore

acceptance: well I haven't seen a lot of this yet but maybe those of us who are at this stage aren't posting here at the moment.

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