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Embattled AG now accused in teen sex scandal ‘cover-up’

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/n…..E_ID=54861

Yes, but what about the global south?

“The Cold War alliance was a golden era,” observed one former diplomat shaking his head ruefully. “What we have got now is much harder, the uncertainty of grey.”

He was speaking at a recent conference in Washington that brought together eminent policy makers and academics from both the United States and Europe. Their task was to explore how much the US and Europe still have in common.

And discussion had not gone very far before the prevailing American view was dumped into the European collective lap like a bucket of cold water.

“The West is an outdated concept,” declared one supremely self-confident senior American official at a dinner where he was the guest of honour.

“And if there is still a West, then it includes Australia, Japan and South Korea. We have a global vision now,” he continued, waving his mike like a daytime talk show host, as he roved between the immaculately set dinner tables.

(snip)

Is this a credible account? Are we really that tone-deaf diplomatically? Was John Bolton the honoree of that dinner? Have I gone insane? Have I lost the ability to make a declarative statement?

Sorry – just got back to the thread now, after dodging some lightening storms.

Yes. Thank you for your helpful comments. I know you’re right – sci. background here too, so that was a gratuitous cheap shot. I’m just in such a foul mood today because of dumbya, he makes a big tempting target, #&*@ll that he is.

Even his live statement on Tony Snow sounded hollow & utterly phoney, -uh-, like Katie does… harumph!

*blush* you guys make me feel better already.
thanks. ;->

can’t help it. gotta say it. I still miss Molly horribly, & I always will. *sniffle*

Gosh, Katie?

Katie Couric:
Can you understand their concern, though, Senator Edwards, that gosh, at a time when we’re living in a world that is so complicated and so dangerous that the president cannot be distracted by, rightly so, caring about his wife’s situation?

John Edwards:
I care about her situation. I love her. And I’m gonna always care about her situation. But I understand that I have a responsibility to this country. It’s why we’re doing this.

And that responsibility includes the ability to focus and have clarity when hard judgments have to be made. I am completely convinced that I can do that. And it’s for the country to determine whether they agree.

Katie, please, no more.

I know this is already EPU’d, but just had to say something. This tone-deafness to other people’s pain is nothing new for Katie. Anyone else remember her personal one-on-one interviews with grieving parents, only 2 days after the massacre at Columbine High School? Disgusting! The “lady”s a pure ambulance-chaser with a very cold heart indeed. imo.

David Brooks (yes, indeed) made a good point in a recent column that while the US Attorney position is “political,” it should ONLY be so insofar as the cases they choose to prosecute tend to support the major policy initiatives and focus of an administration. That is, if an administration wants to focus on terrorism, so should and can its prosecutors.

But that political-as-in-policy bias should NOT extend to protecting the political party behind it.

I think Fitzgerald is a great prosecutor, but thank you for citing Lam’s work, for the reminder that the other attorneys really did lose jobs, and don’t have the PR machine.

Maybe a good post for FDL or any high traffic bloggers would be a detailed and interesting post about the strengths and past successes of the individual fired US Attorneys. I’ve read something on each one, but could stand to learn more.

Do the math: for a woman to have been breastfed by her mother in the 1960’s, she would be 2007-1960= 47, well below “baby-boomer age” I think you meant the 40′ and 50’s, when most baby boomers were bottle fed thanks to nestle and the fear of society to see a breast in public.

If anything, the 60’s were a revolution in bare breasts and breastfeeding.

But even for the liberated 50’s mom, as my husband’s mother tells it, she had a cigarette in one hand and martini in the other while she breast fed her children. (none have cancer yet, all boomers)