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Via Salon:

The latest Steele gaffe, you might have heard by now, involves the war in Afghanistan. In an amateur video posted on YouTube, the RNC chairman calls it "a war of Obama's choosing" and "not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in." (Apparently, Steele wasn't paying attention to the news back in, say, October 2001.) He also says that history has shown that "the one thing you don't do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan."

And now Kristol has posted a plea at the Weekly Standard for Steele to step down:

Perfectly normal. Perfectly healthy. They meant to do that. Really.

Honestly: it's not like this was an off the cuff comment. This was a fairly length statement that doesn't much leeway to say it's being misinterpreted. And it's well off message.


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on Jul 07, 2010

Yes. that's you. the Admiral Of JoeUser!

No, this is the "Army" and the general is Brad.

It had a nice ring Doc, but I concur with you. Brad can scold me if he feels I'm taking out the garbage unfairly.

on Jul 10, 2010

I mock you for my own amusement.

That is a good way to show off your maturity and intellectual superiority, and it also convinces people that you must be right and they must be wrong. And it most certainly does not make you seem sad and pathetic.

on Jul 10, 2010

Unless you are just "mocking" the other commenter's here for your amusement, you probably would find more like-minded folks over on DU, the Huffington Post, or the Daily Kos that can "appreciate" your demeanor better.

Another sneaky attempt at getting everyone who doesn't agree with you to leave.

Fuck your political correctness.

on Jul 10, 2010

Oh, please stay & mock.  Makes it easier.  Don't need a program that way.

on Jul 10, 2010

Unless you are just "mocking" the other commenter's here for your amusement, you probably would find more like-minded folks over on DU, the Huffington Post, or the Daily Kos that can "appreciate" your demeanor better.

Another sneaky attempt at getting everyone who doesn't agree with you to leave. Fuck your political correctness.

Sneaky attempt to make everyone leave? No fooling you, Sherlock LOL. Maybe I should be flattered at the perceived influence you give away easily to me. No, more like a suggestion where to find people with similar views, maybe share his more inflammatory ideas on the Tea Party and non-urban folk he's so fond of, but it's hardly a request for him to leave JU, the reality is quite the opposite. Unlike yourself, who has been here awhile, their is still a chance he can add something insightful, the printer link was good. Anyway, it would be sad indeed if you were the only screwed up liberal here (as opposed to a rational one, and they are here) commenting. Gawd knows we need more anal-retentive's to critique spelling, spew nonsensical short paragraphs, and rudely chime in on the only portion of a comment, out of a series of comments, that suits them.

You say "another" like I've asked someone to leave in the past (when I haven't even asked this one). What's with all the personal deception (lying is probably more appropriate, but I'll be nice) that the vocal far left seem to overuse here on JU? It doesn't help you make a point. But hey, thanks a bunch for adding nothing to the conversation.

BTW Do you kiss... well... anybody with that mouth? Your class precedes you once again. Nice. 

on Jul 11, 2010

Where does this bullshit idea that we all have to explain ourselves and defend ourselves to each other come from?

on Jul 11, 2010

Don't fucking tell me how to blog or how to speak, asshole.

on Jul 11, 2010

if one has to resort to cursing or insults one has already lost the discussion

on Jul 11, 2010

Do you kiss... well... anybody with that mouth?

Yeah. Your wife.

on Jul 11, 2010

Brad can scold me if he feels I'm taking out the garbage unfairly.

 

YEAH YEAH EVERYBODY WANTS ME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH AND TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS CUZ I WAZ IN THE MILITARY AND I'M A LEADER!  WE DONT WANT NONE OF THEM LIB-RUHLS HERE CUZ WE'RE REAL 'MERICANS!!!

 

 

I only wonder how it managers to hit the spacebar without having opposable thumbs. 

on Jul 11, 2010

Where does this bullshit idea that we all have to explain ourselves and defend ourselves to each other come from?

True, you never have, why start now, right?

Don't fucking tell me how to blog or how to speak, asshole.

Apparently neither did your parents or poor education. Ah more wasted taxpayer money.

Do you kiss... well... anybody with that mouth?

Yeah. Your wife.

A woman, or any human for that matter, would be a big change for you wouldn't it?

 

on Jul 11, 2010

YEAH YEAH EVERYBODY WANTS ME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH AND TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS CUZ I WAZ IN THE MILITARY AND I'M A LEADER! WE DONT WANT NONE OF THEM LIB-RUHLS HERE CUZ WE'RE REAL 'MERICANS!!!

Poor sad little boy.

only wonder how it managers to hit the spacebar without having opposable thumbs.

Come on that should be an easy one for you to figure out, since you seem to operate quite well with one thumb in your mouth and the other up your butt.

on Jul 12, 2010

Come on that should be an easy one for you to figure out, since you seem to operate quite well with one thumb in your mouth and the other up your butt.


YEAH YEAH "BRAD" LIKE IS WHEN ME AND THE REAL 'MERICANS MAKE MEATBALL JOKES FROM THE 1970's!

 

So not funny.  Again, maybe it's because it's really really old it says these things. 

 

 

 

on Jul 12, 2010

Infidel

Unless you are just "mocking" the other commenter's here for your amusement, you probably would find more like-minded folks over on DU, the Huffington Post, or the Daily Kos that can "appreciate" your demeanor better.
Another sneaky attempt at getting everyone who doesn't agree with you to leave.

Fuck your political correctness.

Just Curious - do you say fuck you to all the political correctness you encounter, or just that which you do not agree with?

on Jul 12, 2010

Infidel
Where does this bullshit idea that we all have to explain ourselves and defend ourselves to each other come from?

Well, in the real world (i.e. outside of the DNC talking points) it is called debate.  And is a requirement for anyone discussing or debating issues (merely regurgitating talking points is neither).  But JU has no rules against regurgitating talking points.  As Humbordt indicated, it does not indicate a level of intelligence as even monkeys can do it.

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