The Clinton administration: 8 years of non-accomplishment…but Albright’s failures go back through her time at the UN to her part in the disaster that was the Carter Administration.

Turns out that the second half which is claimed by RW bloggers to be so “damaging to Bush” is not.

But what about the famous Aug. 6, 2001 “PDB” that warned the president about bin Laden’s determination to strike within the U.S.? We see Secretary Rice reading it in private and looking concerned, but we never see the president’s reaction.

However, on Sept. 4, 2001, Rice tells officials that thanks to the warnings in the PDB, the president is convinced al-Qaeda is a “real threat … the president is tired of swatting flies.” She seems to advocate taking some strong action and Clarke agrees, but Tenet argues against it. So in this telling, it appears that President Bush is in the vigilant/aggressive camp, perhaps thwarted by Clinton holdover Tenet.

truthy enough for you?

that would be a KICK!

Which is a bad, bad thing, given that the Democratic Party is currently the only possible bulwark against what I personally think is a disastrous trend towards corporate theocracy in America.

The country needs a viable, effective opposition. Emphasis on the effective part.

Well, that commentary is a bit better than your previous. *g*

A couple of observations:

1. The old adage of “lead, follow or get the feck out of the way” is always applicable.
2. Pissing on a friend’s shoes may get the friend’s attention, but tain’t likely to do much for the friendship. *g*

What I’m trying to say is telling folks they’re clueless disorganized idiots (which may or may not be true, but is certainly beside the point *g*), and then expecting them to be receptive to your “great” ideas is nowhere found in any treatise on leadership that I’ve encountered.

If you have an idea on how to be successful, by all means, present it as effectively as you can!

marquer @ 239

If I were a Republican…

Hmmm…you’re not? Could’ve fooled some folks.

Perhaps the easily fooled. There are a lot of those in the world.

Am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I did volunteer for Kerry in ‘04, as a charter member of Kerry-Haters For Kerry.

But what I took away from that experience, and from having watched Democrats close up as they canvassed and campaigned, was that I wouldn’t trust the majority of them to organize the proverbial piss-up in a brewery. Weak and stumbling and disorganized. And not near mean enough.

Which is a bad, bad thing, given that the Democratic Party is currently the only possible bulwark against what I personally think is a disastrous trend towards corporate theocracy in America.

The country needs a viable, effective opposition. Emphasis on the effective part.

Hint: calling up big-time money managers, almost all of them Republican stalwarts, and then complaining about Republican bias by media companies in their portfolio, is almost the literal definition of a fool’s errand.

If you want to genuinely scare the bastards, so much so that they will never again think about such a propaganda piece, hit them in the pocketbook with as much force as you can muster. That means going after the Disney franchises with a serious boycott push. If you have the will for it. And the organizational capacity to make it happen.