LS @ 8

Hey Rovey, didn’t anyone tell you pride comes before a fall.

If what the Rs have been insinuating is true (all this talk about “THE math”), then the fix is in and it doesn’t matter what voters actually want, the Rs will make the elections turn out their way no matter what. If that’s the case, then all these campaign “geniuses” know nothing about actual politics, and are akin to guys who live in societies with arranged marriages bragging about what ladies men they are.

Yeah, that’s my read on Rove, too. It doesn’t take much talent to compose the P.R. for pre-ordained outcomes. You email Diebold/ES&S what percentage you want to win by (on a private server, of course), you get a anti-gay measure on the ballot, and then, after the stolen election, you say the reason you won was cuz people are for “family values” (hate gays). My favorite of all time was Rove or Cheney explaining how they won the 2004 election. It was their “invisible get-out-the-vote campaign.” Invisible, indeed. The Democrats blew the Republions away in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40.

Hey Rovey, didn’t anyone tell you pride comes before a fall.

If what the Rs have been insinuating is true (all this talk about “THE math”), then the fix is in and it doesn’t matter what voters actually want, the Rs will make the elections turn out their way no matter what. If that’s the case, then all these campaign “geniuses” know nothing about actual politics, and are akin to guys who live in societies with arranged marriages bragging about what ladies men they are.

Talk about ‘community theater’ — ye Gods!

In case you’re interested in how the people at Coptix lean politically, here is a snip from chattanoogan.com.

The name at the top is that of Jeffrey Cross, president of Coptix.

Coptix Employees Back Ann Coulter
posted April 8, 2005

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It is with a great deal of pleasure
that our company, Coptix, Inc., has come out in unanimous support of Ann Coulter for mayor.

As natives and residents of the historic St. Elmo neighborhood in
Chattanooga, we believe that Mrs. Coulter’s “Healthy Neighbors, Healthy
Neighborhoods” initiative will best support the mission and values of
our fair community for the coming four years. As members of Chattanooga’s young and thriving technology and entrepreneurial community, we believe that Mrs. Coulter is the candidate best positioned to support small business and high tech jobs in the area.

Our employees are a motley bunch: highly talented individuals whose
faiths, genders, experience and cultural commitments diverge and
intersect in a way that helps to make us uniquely competent of serve
customers needing custom software and web-based solutions. The fact that we are united on a political choice is remarkable, and speaks well for the remarkable Mrs. Coulter.

See you at the polls on Tuesday.

Jeffrey T. Cross
Josiah Q. Roe
Maurice Langhorn Martin III
Joseph Nichols
Andrew Montgomery
Alice O’Dea
Jennie Gritton
Stephen Beck
Mark Cooley
Brent Jackson
Ron Ott
Joshua Goodlett
Brent Johnson
Ben Weaver
of Coptix, Inc

Chattanoogan.com

BTW, Cross is apparently a bit of a punster since he named his company Coptix, which suggests the CROSS of the Coptic Christian sect.

There are apparently two Ann Coulters, though.

http://www.chattanoogapulse.co…..97bdb5f2e5

But this one may still be a hack for developers.

Oklahoma kiddo @
121

I want to know the front running Democratic presidential candidate’s ideas on exactly what constitutes a fair and just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

You won’t get one. They’ll hedge, repeat boilerplate about supporting Israel and being a ‘fair broker’ and all that gobbeltygook, but nothing you can bank on.

Why?

Because nobody knows the actual solution and nobody will say something they can’t back up.

This isn’t to say politicians are all smarmy liars. They’re not all that way. It’s just not a trivial problem to solve. Their desires are conflicting: both want the land Israel occupies and only one can have it.

So, we have to pick a side. We support Israel. But, to try and be a ‘fair broker’ would contradict that too and the Arabs call us on that contradiction all the time.

Personally, I like the ‘green line’ idea. It’s not so different from the demilitarized zone between N. and S. Korea and that has worked a long time.

Still, to be compassionate and respectful of religious needs there should be some kind of compromise on specific religious sites and cities where both sides share some interest. Aside from building a wall this is the really very very hard issue to resolve.

Make Jerusalem international with U.N. governance and security? Maybe.

U.N. Resolution 242 commands Israel’s withdrawal from ALL of the occupied territories.

“We have to pick a side”

On this I agree. We can pick the side of international law.

Or, we can support the forty years of Israel’s Occupation. While Israel bombs apartment buldings in Gaza cities, assassinates Palestinain elected officials, collectively punishes civilians with food scarcity/starvation (Gaza) by closing external points of entry, tortures,

… conducts repeated aerial bombardments of the U.S.S. Liberty (and strafes the lifeboats – dozens of US sailors deliberately kiled)

… sells US warplane secrets to China

And the threat to our national security increases with every year we support Israel’s murderous, barbaric campaign for lebenspraun on the Palestinians’ orchards, farms, and villages.

And the real prize – the aquifers.

Israel drains the aquifers under Palestinian lands.

Our “democratic” ally gets the water. We get the neighbors’ oil.

What’s not to like?

Well – America’s support for Israel’s human rights crimes.

And the national security risk to American civilians. If the Israeli voters decide to allow religious zealots cloaked as leaders to choose national destruction over international law, why do we have to join the suicide pact?

We have enough trouble surviving our home-grown religous zealots’ bloodlust and suicide pacts.

“We have to pick a side” –

Here’s a “side” to choose:

let’s pick international law and US national security.

We’ve had six years to see what choosing the opposite gets us.

Maybe/maybe not photoshopped or he has his arm pressed against his side holding the folder in place. But why would some one want to photoshop it?

After looking at the jokesters at Coptix on their website, it doesn’t seem unlikely that they did it themselves. That Aga Khan stuff is genuinely weird, though.