Frankenstein's back, with a resounding endorsement of Barack Obama. I refer, of course, to the reemergence in public of former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Albright chastized Bush and defended Obama's statement that he would be happy to talk to Iran and other enemies of the United States. Albright blasted the current approach to the Middle East and made the anodyne point that it is just as important to converse with one's adversaries as it is to converse with one's friends.
The problem, of course, is not with talking with folks like Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. The problem is: who is going to do the talking? Certainly a President McCain has the experience and resolve to sit across the table with the bad guys and not fall for their deceptions or give in to their pressures. With an unseasoned guy like Obama, whose global experience may be confined to an occasional visit to the International House of Pancakes, who knows?
With Albright too it is credibility that becomes an issue. On May 11, 1996 this woman was asked by a television interviewer for "60 Minutes" whether she was troubled by the fact that Clinton-supported sanctions had resulted in the death of 500,000 Iraqi children. "It's a hard choice," she replied, "but we think it's worth it."
Leftists should keep Albright's response in mind when they wail about civilian casualties as a consequence of Bush's war in Iraq. Iraq Body Count keeps track of these casualties, and they are less than one-fifth the number of innocent civilians (mostly children) killed in the aftermath of sanctions. Sanctions had no effect on Saddam or his henchmen, who didn't miss a meal. Rather, they hurt the most vulnerable members of Iraqi society.
These facts remind us not only of the shortcomings of sanctions, which are not likely to work better with Iran than they did with Iraq. They also remind us that bad things in the world must be measured not against utopia but against what came before. Bush's Iraq war has resulted in a steep reduction of Iraqi deaths compared to the 300,000 people Saddam deposited in the mass graves and compared to the even greater number of deaths that Clinton's policies seem to have produced.
Still, I come back to Albright's original dismissal of half a million deaths with the calm affirmation: it's worth it. Can you recall another secretary of state making a remark more shockingly callous than Albright's? How this Frankenstein became the first female secretary of state remains a mystery.
And it is this same person who would presume to lecture us on what we should now be doing with Iran. I don't think we need more advice from Albright. Rather, what we need from her is an apology, followed by an overdue withdrawal from public life.
Reader Comments ( Page 14 of 14)
196. Since you might not have had pussy since pussy had you, here's a little tip to sort shit out:
If you like girls, you're hetero.
If you have to pray about it, you ain't.
Clif Kuplen at 8:40PM on Jul 2nd 2008
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LOLOL!!! I just DIED here, Cliff! So simple, and yet so true!
I loved the first part about pussy... Too funny. My sides hurt now, thanks a lot.
Godless Heathen Brian at 8:56PM on Jul 3rd 2008
197. >>>34. I still don't get it. Why use the slur "Frankenstein" when others would be more fitting. I think it's a backhanded way of calling her ugly. >>>
GBH,
I read about 30 of these posts & you talk a lot.
The characterization of "Frankenstein" depicts someone as "inhuman" in step with Albright's comment.
Maybe if you'd shut your yap long enough to understand what you're reading your comprehension skills would catch up a bit...
Damn man!!
Bobby at 12:23PM on Jul 4th 2008
198. Obama tried to hide his 3 week stay in Pakinstan from the public..
While he was a college student. That's why he didn't want his passport
information to get out.. Wonder what other surprizes can be found by looking at his passport..
Wonder what Obama learned while staying with these People..
It all sounds very innocent, "a college trip to Pakistan".
Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and ruled of martial law. Millions of
Afghan refugees were living in Pakistan, while the Afghan Mujahedeen
operated from bases inside Pakistan in their war with the Soviets.
One of the leaders that based his operation in Quetta, Pakistan was
Usama Bin Laden (The Sheik).
Pakistan was on the banned travel list for US Citizens at the time
and all non-Muslim visitors were not welcome unless sponsored by
their embassy for official business.
There would be only a few reasons a young Westerner of the Muslim
faith would travel to Pakistan in 1981:
To Participate in Jihad, which is the duty of every "True Believer".
For religious education in a Wahabbi sect, Saudi funded, Madrassa.
In order to purchase drugs from the drug marketplace.
Pakistan was not a tourist stop nor the place to hang out with
someone's family in 1981.
Now lets get into something else here..
WHAT OBAMA DOESN'T WANT VOTERS TO KNOW ABOUT HIS UNCLE
WRIGHT..
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
Wrights Own Words..
Most of our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the
University of Chicago’s Divinity School was in the area of Islam in
West Africa during the 19th Century — when the trans-Atlantic Slav
Trade was at its zenith. Islam has as many manifestations as
Christianity and Judaism.
Rev Wright teacher of Islam was a DR Fazlur Rahman..
Wright accompanied Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam on a trip to Libya to visit the dictator Moammar Khadafy.
In Wright, it was reported, Obama "had found both a spiritual mentor and a role model.
Ten years after first stepping foot in Wright's church, in October 1995 Obama accompanied Wright to Farrakhan's "Million Man March."
Once the election was underway, Barack Hussein Obama was very careful
to promote himself as a Christian and the keystone of his Christian
identity was Trinity Church, a Church shaped around a former Muslim
whose Divinity School Masters Degree was on Islam and who used the
Church to preach hatred for America and support for terrorism. That
man of course is Jeremiah Wright.
With the revelations that Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim and
received his Masters degree from the University of Chicago’s
Divinity School on Islam in Africa– Obama’s affiliation with
Wright’s Trinity Church takes on a whole new meaning.
When Obama attended Wright’s Trinity Church, was he really
attending a Church or a Mosque that Wright had built with a Christian
facade over it.
Wright has admitted to incorporating ideas from Black Muslims into
Trinity. He himself is a former Muslim who promotes an Islam centered
view of America and Israel as demon states. There are Synagogues that
are actually Churches dedicated to targeting Jews. Muslims have been
covertly imitating some of this. There is a Jews for Allah and
Muslims have been trained to lead religious discussions with
Christians by equating Christianity with Islam , proclaiming that
they too believe in Jesus. If there are Messianic Christian
synagogues, why not a Prophetic Christian mosque?
Either way, conspiracy theories aside, the Church that Obama was
attending had more in common with a Mosque than with a conventional
Church. It was led by a former Muslim whose specialty was and is
Islam. A former Muslim who hates America and Israel and who preaches
ideas that are basically Black Muslim ideas. So Obama’s claim that
Trinity Church normalizes him as a Christian goes out the window,
because Trinity Church is no mainstream Christian Church. It’s as
close as anyone can come to attending a Mosque without actually
attending a Mosque.
Consider Obama’s “I’m not a Muslim” defense reverted back to
square one. Or is that Mosque one.
Also Obama’s Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that
defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the
right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group’s official
charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s
Declaration of Independence.
copy of manifesto.... Guess Obama didn't see this one either...
...http://www.bizzyblog.com/wp-images/TUCChamasColumn072207.jpg
There’s a common and often repeated lie that “Islam” means peace”, it doesn’t, it translates as “submission” (to Allah).
This is how Obama learned to lie so well..
http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm
Methods used by them..
The word "Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing, precaution, guarding.” It is employed in disguising one's beliefs, intentions, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions or strategies. In practical terms it is manifested as dissimulation, lying, deceiving, vexing and confounding with the intention of deflecting attention, foiling or pre-emptive blocking.
Outwitting: (Obama is a master at this )
Islamic spokesmen commonly use taqiyya as a form of 'outwitting'. The skilled taqiyya-tactician doesn’t want the matter at hand to be debated or discussed; so his opponent must be outwitted or preemptively outflanked by the use of taqiyya. The objective is to divert attention away from the subject through duplicity and obfuscation.
Role playing as the victim: ( notice how Obama plays a victim in his speeches)
When placed under scrutiny or criminal investigation, (even when there is overwhelming, irrefutable evidence of guilt or complicity), the taqiyya-tactician will quickly attempt to counter the allegation by resorting to the claim that it is, in fact, the accused who are the 'the victims'. Victims of Islamophobia, racism, religious discrimination and intolerance. Currently, this is the most commonly encountered form of distraction and 'outwitting'….. Defence by offence.
Manipulative ambiguity and Semantics:
Go on public record as (a) 'condemning' the 9/11 attacks, in ambiguous terms, to the Western media and (b) praising suicide bombings, or “ martyrdom operations”, to their Arabic speaking audiences . (behind the doors of his church along with Louis Farrahkan and Rev Wright this takes place)
Islamic spokesmen will rarely unequivocally condemn a specific act of terrorism and direct questions will be skillfully evaded.
(NB: because Muslims regard Islamic attacks as “jihad”, and not terrorism, their spokesmen can truthfully deny any support for terrorism.)
However, a direct question requiring a simple "YES" or "NO" reply is rarely forthcoming and is usually deflected by responding with a tangentially irrelevant rejoinder or, in an attempt to neutralise the original question, counter-challenging with another question such as “are you in favor of killing children in Iraq?”…..Touché and Checkmate!
Diversion, deflection and "tu quoque”:
Questions relating to the 9/11 terrorist attacks will usually be diverted by either making outrageously wild conspiracy claims “the CIA did it to give the U.S. an excuse to attack Muslims,… Mossad was the perpetrator… No Jews came to work at the World Trade Centre on September 11” etc. or by making an irrelevant counter reference to “the plight of the Palestinians”,.. Iraqis,.. colonialism,.. the crusades, or US foreign policy’s support for Israel” as the 'root causes' of terrorism.
Then, of course, there’s the ever popular, specious allegation that George Bush is a bigger terrorist than Osama bin Laden.
Diversionary “tu quoque” response ploys usually start with the words “but” or “what about…?” in an attempt to turn, and transfer an equal culpability back on their interlocutor.
Tactical denial: ( notice how Obama does this)
Rather than admitting that a proposition concerning a subject under discussion can be partly true, an Islamic spokesman will flatly deny a claim or proposition in absolute terms.
here is how taqiyya is used in america..
Exploiting cognitive dissonance:
Islamic spokesmen regularly perplex and baffle interviewers and their audiences as they resort to double talk, 'clichés and platitudes' concerning Islam.
The Islamic 'defence' script:
Islamic spokesmen repeat the same predictable duplicitous clichés concerning Islam in Europe, as do their counterparts in Australia and America. They appear to follow a well prepared script as they repeat "Islam is tolerant and peace loving”.
There’s a common and often repeated lie that “Islam” means peace”, it doesn’t, it translates as “submission” (to Allah).
Taqiyya and the Deceptive definition of Jihad:
The study of taqiyya is crucial to an understanding of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism.
The Arabs have a story which exemplifies subtle, semantic dissimulation (taqiyya) perfectly. Legend has it that Mohammed’s nephew, son-in-law and future Caliph, Ali, was sitting on a stool outside his dwelling when one of his allies ran red-faced and gasping into the village and hid in Ali’s home. Perceiving that the man was being pursued, Ali promptly got up and sat on another nearby stool. A few minutes later, a group of angry pursuers ran into the encampment and asked Ali if he had seen the man they were pursuing. Ali responded with the statement “AS LONG AS I HAVE BEEN SITTING ON THIS STOOL I HAVE SEEN NO ONE”
This story demonstrates why nothing an Islamist says can be taken at face value. Every statement and utterance needs to be thoroughly analysed, or “unpacked.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9730604_ITM
Go back and review al of Obama's rallies and debates, and you
waitness a highly skilled taqiyya-tactican in each and every one...
http://bp1.blogger.com/_gO3ai_bAh-s/R93MDtVAJTI/AAAAAAAAAOE/UprkqEWVBRA/s1600-h/obama_wright.jpg
WAKE UP PEOPLE...
Jim2u at 6:12PM on Jul 4th 2008
199. WAKE UP PEOPLE...
Jim2u at 6:12PM on Jul 4th 2008
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the american public is wide awake and voting for barack hussein obama. A major reason is to keep people like you out of power.
Who's sane '08?
Clif Kuplen at 9:06PM on Jul 4th 2008
200. GBH,
I read about 30 of these posts & you talk a lot.
The characterization of "Frankenstein" depicts someone as "inhuman" in step with Albright's comment.
Maybe if you'd shut your yap long enough to understand what you're reading your comprehension skills would catch up a bit...
Damn man!!
Bobby at 12:23PM on Jul 4th 2008
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Bobby, what are you, twelve?
Frankenstein's MONSTER was inhuman. Frankenstein was a man, a doctor, remember? It's a poor choice of epithets, unless you're trying to call her ugly. Also, a frankenstein's monster more commonly refers to a creation run amok, or to a thing made from many scavenged parts.
I suppose to a dunce like you, it means inhuman. You probably only saw it in cartoon form.
Then again, since you're such a dunce, who cares? You may continue now to touch yourself in an impure manner whilst posting inanities and glossolaliating.
Godless Heathen Brian at 1:32PM on Jul 5th 2008
201. Here's MY kind of Frankenstein!!!
Edgar Winter
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo
Godless Heathen Brian at 1:36PM on Jul 5th 2008
202. GHB,
DD's article references "Frankenstein" twice.
It's far more widely known the monster created by "Dr. Frankenstein" was his "inhuman" creation you seem to be so confused about. I didn't see DD mention the name of the mad doctor, did you mr. brainiac?
My "inhuman" description that mirrors DD's thoughts in the article bearing out her outlandish remark far outweighs your small minded concept of madam secretary's "ugliness".
If your confusion over that simple mention leads you away from the depth of his article then I suggest it is you who should sit in the corner.
Question though bright boy, even if DD's meaning was about Albright's looks which you seem to defend, are you saying she's soothing to the eyes?
You're too deep for me, I couldn't make Albright pretty on my best party night....
Bobby at 3:56PM on Jul 5th 2008
203. Edgar Winter
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo
Godless Heathen Brian at 1:36PM on Jul 5th 2008
xxx
cool tune. You ever hear his album 'Entrance'? some of those licks were lifted from stuff there - it's one of my favorite rock albums - a lot of mose allison and cannonball but it's still rock and some of my favorite stuff - art rock with a little gris gris.
Clif Kuplen at 6:53PM on Jul 5th 2008
204. what bothers me, is people are so dogmatic in their left and right views; that they are not open to reason or logic. the bible clearly states come let's reason together. it's sad how we forget we are believers in Christ and allow the worlds views to compromise what is actually correct and truth.
Marcia J at 11:40PM on Jul 5th 2008
205. I didn't see DD mention the name of the mad doctor, did you mr. brainiac?
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Frankenstein IS the name of the mad doctor, dickhead.
Godless Heathen Brian at 12:30PM on Jul 6th 2008