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Running Wild with Mike Gravel(continued)
ALTER EGO Newsweek's Jonathan Alter "I don't personalize it," Gravel replies. "But if there's something wrong with attacking people on the issues, then there's something wrong with our democracy." "Something like, 'You people scare me'—where does that fit in?" "You tell me," Gravel fires back. "If you're prepared to use nukes against Iran when they haven't done anything to us—no threat to us—that could trigger a third world war." Alter replies that it's generally considered imprudent for a president to take any option off the table, including the use of nuclear weapons. "If there's something wrong with attacking people on the issues, then there's something wrong with our democracy""I will! I don't understand it. They're pointing to Iran and saying, 'By God, those people are dangerous.' Christ, we're dangerous! You're very familiar, I'm sure, with the neo-con plan. It was in writing a few years before Bush even got elected: first Iraq, Iran, Syria, then Saudi Arabia," says Gravel, a reference to a 1996 paper entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, by Richard Perle and several other prominent neo-cons. "Wolfowitz and Perle and all those guys—they're crazy as loons! Not one of 'em has even seen a gun fired in anger. Dammit, it just galls me no end! Why should Jessica Lynch go over there and get all shot up—why not have Bush's daughters do it?" While Gravel says this, the pundit looks down impassively into his salad as though peering into a bottomless pool. "I need to get going," he announces. One-liners about sending Barbara and Jenna off to get shot at are going to be a bit too pungent for the gatekeepers of mainstream media culture. And the Today show segment probably won't shed any light on whether Gravel's media honeymoon will last—either as a curiosity or, flocked by legions of flying pigs, a contender. "It's going to be a typical hokey piece," Alter tells Gravel. Viewers will likely learn more about the candidate's days as a cab driver than about his ambition to re-make American democracy.
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He has my vote. He is against the drug war and our endless occupation of Iraq. The so-called war on drugs cannot be won. Who is going to surrender and sign the peace treaty? Our occupation of Iraq cannot be won. Who is going to surrender and sign the peace treaty? Posted by: drugwarfighter on May 8, 2007 10:47 AM "Driving skills are apparently irrelevant in a dark-horse populist." Oh please. You just described that how the car's brakes had failed. You're going to slag the driving skills of someone who'd once been an NYC cabbie? He drives an antique car through NYC traffic with no brakes, presumably on the hand brake only, then manages to park the car on the sidewalk while surrounded by crowds of people and cameras pointing in his face without hitting anyone. He wants it parked in a proper position, so he takes three tries. Did I mention the car had no brakes, handbrake only? You think that's so easy? If you're going to snark and slag someone for something irrelevant, at least know what you're talking about. Whatever else you want to say about him, the guy CAN drive. Sheesh. Alter's comment was annoying. If someone points to a problem, and the problem is ignored by everyone else, and yet that someone continues to point at it, then they run the risk of sounding like a broken record? Only if "media guys" like him say so, and they do. Changing one's mind is always flip-flopping. Remaining consistent is always a broken record. With this admin, one could talk about a different criminal act or scandal or betrayal of American principles every day without sounding "like a broken record" because there's just that many different things worthy of outrage. It sounds like the Clinton Rules at play, even from Alter, fercryinoutloud. IOKYAR. Posted by: RobW on May 10, 2007 2:05 PM Jebediah, I take your word as holy writ which means a lot considering I'm an atheist. In short, I conclude you're a f*g which is the way I mispronounce gay. If you know Christopher Marlowe as the man who couldn't hold Shakespeare's jockstrap, you also know his critics could _prove_ he mispronounced the name of _love_. Getting stabbed to death in the head and misremembered as a traitor is all the proof a sane man needs in this life. I ain't out to prove nuthin' so I advise you not to read the Pentagon Papers which can only but piss off the Military-Industrial Complex. Instead, report to the masses on Tucker Carlson as Big Brother's Little Brother Who Wants To Tag Along so they give him an hour on MSNBC. Is Tucker a first name, a last name or a nickname? Explain his bad hair and how when he gets a haircut it ALWAYS looks like a haircut and Oh Those Clothes! Talk about what not to wear! Explain how his talk style and image undercut his position. In short, stick to what you know---- Dancing with The Stars. Posted by: 5150 on May 10, 2007 8:31 PM Radar you should know that his plan to withdraw from Iraq has over 8000 hits today on tbe blog today. Posted by: anniepema on May 14, 2007 10:04 PM Advertisement < BACK TO Features |
    
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