WaPost Columnist Compares Obama to Louis Farrakhan, Hitler

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Tuesday January 15, 2008 · 3:48 AM PST

2008/01/15 · 03:48

Richard Cohen's column in today's WaPost should become a classic journalism school staple of journalistic malfeasance. It is what academics call mnemonic slander. (Mnemonic slander would be to say in a business or academic circle "Did somebody say he is sleeping with . . . ?" He probably in not and there is no specific slander, but the poison has been injected and the thought is associated from then on as a shadow which attaches itself to the person.)

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Sunday January 13, 2008 · 5:51 AM PST

2008/01/13 · 05:51

Kid, to run a crew like that you have to be completely rotten. Ben Wade, 3:10 to Yuma

Although it is obvious that the machine-counted votes in the heavily-populated industrial regions of the state will yield results different than those of more independent-minded voters here in northern NH where they are counted by hand, Dennis Kucinich’s call for a recount in New Hampshire should nevertheless be heeded.

We are seeing the same corrupt practices growing again today in the Democratic Party here in the Northeast that we saw in Boston in the '30s and '40s and in New York's ethnic neighborhoods during the Tammany Hall scandal. And we are seeing the same machine politicians.

Bernie Quigley

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Sunday January 06, 2008 · 4:05 AM PST

2008/01/06 · 04:05

I’s a free nigra, just the same I follow Massa Frank. Pomp, the Free Negro side kick of Frank Reade, Jr., pulp fiction adventurer of the 1870s

We are people who were formally Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America. Our forefathers weren’t the pilgrims. They didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us. Malcolm X

One of the most interesting aspects of the Iowa caucus is the surprise and enthusiasm of conservative commentators – David Brooks and even Rush Limbaugh – for Barack Obama. Perhaps they are not old enough to experience an authentic political awakening like that which occurred with the rise of John F. Kennedy.

Bernie Quigley

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Wednesday January 02, 2008 · 6:40 AM PST

2008/01/02 · 06:40

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives, Black Elk.

Of all the garden variety secession movements springing up today in North America, from Quebec Nation to the Republic of Texas and up to the Bear Republic of California then back again to Vermont and the Free State initiative here in New Hampshire, Lakota Nation is perhaps the most interesting.

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Wednesday December 26, 2007 · 3:24 AM PST

2007/12/26 · 03:24

The NYTs and other major newspapers have opened on their op-ed pages a congenial and brotherly discussion of torture. Like the discussion of the use of nuclear weapons in terrorist situations at last summer’s Daily Kos conference, in which several of the Democratic candidates for President brought forth positions which would have been considered madness two decades ago, this kind of public discussion acclimates the culture to ideas previously unthought and unheard and spirals to a further descent into political and historical degeneracy. As Emerson said at the beginning of our arc of power: We see ourselves ascending a stairs. But today we see ourselves descending that same set of stairs.

Bernie Quigley

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Saturday December 08, 2007 · 2:08 PM PST

2007/12/08 · 14:08

"Is it not written in your law you are gods?" John 10:34

John Lennon was gunned down and killed 27 years ago today in New York City. This event goes largely unnoticed in the press today, but in 1969, at the peak of the war in Vietnam, John Lennon was the most important man in the world.

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Friday November 30, 2007 · 8:47 AM PST

2007/11/30 · 08:47

The invasion of Iraq was fully enabled by the weak leadership, benign attention and implicit support of the most important and influential Democrats, especially President Clinton and Senator Clinton, who then and now had the greatest impact on public opinion among Democrats.

Today President Clinton says in the WaPost that he ". . . opposed Iraq from the beginning."

The issue is well reported on at Raising Kaine. Among quotes to the contrary, these from June 23, 2004 (CNN):

I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over.

That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for.

Here in northern New Hampshire I've been working as a volunteer for Barack Obama who, like Jim Webb, the new Senator from Virginia, and Robert C. Byrd, the old one from West Virginia, opposed the invasion of Iraq from the start. But I was disappointed to read this morning in the Time magazine piece that Obama would consider including President Clinton in his cabinet. That makes two of the leading Democrats who would include President Clinton in their cabinets. Might have to go back to John Edwards and Mudcat Saunders.

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Wednesday November 07, 2007 · 3:57 AM PST

2007/11/07 · 03:57

As the Congress of Appeasers, Accommodators and Enablers readies to hear France’s new leader, they might prep with a showing of Casablanca. At no time have the Peeps more resembled the vacillating and ineffectual crowd at Rick’s Cafe Americain. Yesterday Charles Schumer, the Senator for New York, took out an op-ed in the NYT’s to claim his credibility on voting for Michael B. Mukasey for attorney general, who doesn’t think that half drowning a woman or man with a bag over her head constitutes torture. That is, he isn’t sure. Schumer follows in the footsteps of his Weak Sister from California, Diane Feinstein, who this week also cast her vote for torture with resolute conviction.

Bernie Quigley

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 5:25 AM PDT

2007/10/04 · 05:25

The Russians have planted their flag at the North Pole in recent days; in that singular place where the earth seems to align itself with the North Star. I seem to live not far away; in any case, as near to the North Pole as one can possibly live and still be an American. In the Border Lands in Wisconsin thereabouts, agrarian visionaries say there is nothing north of them but "a bunch of fences." I’ve been there: There are no fences. It is starting to get crowded up here in New Hampshire and last I was there, the traffic flow was even greater north from Chicago to the border line.

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Sunday June 17, 2007 · 9:08 AM PDT

2007/06/17 · 09:08

cross-posted on Raising Kaine

Senator Clinton's negatives are now to 52% according to Gallup, the highest of any candidate in the human history of the Democratic Party. Up from 46% about nine months ago. The more money she spends the more her negatives go up. And with all due respect, John Edwards, who recently cited Paris Hilton as poster-child for his "two Americas" pitch is drifting into Triple A. A few of the other Democrats who want to be President are so forgettable that most can’t even remember their names.

In contrast, Mitt Romney is beginning to boom and will continue to do. Romney is smart as paint, is a masterful administrator and is very rich. Any of these Democratic contenders against Romney will fail. But this time we approach a catastrophic failure. It will be the Democrats fourth total failure since Eisenhower.

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Monday June 04, 2007 · 8:41 AM PDT

2007/06/04 · 08:41

Last night in the part of New Hampshire we call Massachusetts North, Wolf Blitzer actually asked the baby ducks to raise their hands on different hypothetical issues just like in school. But it makes no difference what the little ducks say or do, it is all about Wolf Blitzer. The ducklings are only the partial and secondary aspects of Wolf Blitzer and the Mother Ducks who dominate the political process.

The only purpose of these early primary debates is to advance and control the agenda of the brooding and dominating Mother Ducks who dominate the political culture. Al Gore, in his recent comments on Charlie Rose recalls the idea that by asking the questions, you control the debate. This is how Mother Duck controls her ducklings.

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Sunday May 27, 2007 · 7:24 AM PDT

2007/05/27 · 07:24

They come in twos. But which is the Emperor? Which is the Sith? – Star Wars tradition

We are reaching the end of things now . . . best for Congress to hold quiet. The culture is about to flip. And when that happens everything gets different. The poles reverse their electrical pull. The Emperor becomes the Sith, the Sith the Emperor.

I’ve seen it flip before. Practically in my high school football field in Newport, RI. From Eisenhower Optimism & the Positive Face. Then a little known and undernourished Magical Animal came out of the borderland forest and lake lands of Minnesota. It is said in hindsight that the Sixties started in a minute, when Bob Dylan switched from a wooden guitar to an electric one in Newport, in the summer of ’65. Then everything was different.

And now it is flipping again. In September it will flip.

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