Comments on: “The President Is Not A Man Of His Word.”

By: ruby s. jones

ruby s. jones — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:09:16 +0000

YOU have GOT to be kidding! Please say that you are kidding. If you are not kidding, what are you doing?
Kurt @ 57

Guys, com’mon…the information and comments here are worse that normal.

A few things:

1) Valerie Plame has changed her story a few times since mess was uncovered. Why do people keep leaving this piece out of the story.

2) Valerie was not a covert agent, covert agents do not walk through the front doors of CIA headquarters. Having worked formerly with Military Intelligence, what she is refering to is you never confirm your job function to anyone. Anyone with a Top-Secret Government clearance is taught the same thing.

3) Valerie and Joe were well known democrats, they attended many democratic political functions while working for the CIA. Covert operatives do not do this.

Also, Couric is not a Republican sympathizer as many of you have suggested. Trust me, the Pubs don’t like her much either. Right now, she is trying to save her job (low ratings), so she is making controversial moves.

Also, to say that Joe and Valerie served their country with “grace, strength and conviction” is garbage. People with these qualities would have quietly tried to repair what was done, and moved on. You don’t start doing rounds on the political talk shows, and you certainly don’t start throwing bombs at your superiors.

You want to talk with people who have “grace, strength and conviction”, go talk with some of our injured soldiers from Iraq. Even though many are missing a leg/arm/eye (or worse), they still say they would have done it again. They do not throw blame around, and they continue to believe in what they were fighting for.

By: jihaddit uptahear

jihaddit uptahear — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:49:40 +0000

The resignations concerning our rapacious power-elite’s conquering of Iraq & Iran in order to make greater profits when we go to the gas station is dead-on. They will not stop…and yes, if you call them out on it, you will suffer in direct proportion to your level of perceived threat.
Now take that tactical objective and extend it into strategic consequence. Our earth is at a tipping-point ecologically. The folks on the Weather Channel can’t hide their befuddlement at the statistically undeniable trend towards a climate incapable of supporting our planet’s population. And still the pace of consumption grows, as it must, if all are to enjoy an “American-style” standard of living. But don’t worry, patriots! As the flood comes, and our coasts sink beneath the sea, our bold leadership of cannibalistic neo-cons have all but completed their temporary retrenchment. The area between Denver and Kansas City, MO (I-70 corridor) is almost completely secured in order to provide a suitably hardened bunker until Mars has been acceptably spruced up for their delicate constitutions…

By: MarkH

MarkH — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:04:19 +0000

Christy Hardin Smith @ 123

browny at 121 — They already are — before the interview even aired, right wing blogs were trying to portray it as a lovefest, softball interview and Couric as a tool of the left. It’s all about spin these days, isn’t it?

Personally I love to lob some real slow soft spit balls, so they can’t help but catch ‘em.

Spin…gotta love how somebody can twist lyin’ around and call it ’spin’.

By: mia

mia — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:03:46 +0000

I was directed to a commentary posted back in March. It was probably one of the best I read.

Here is the link if anyone is interested
http://joeleonardi.wordpress.c.....-big-deal/

By: SanderO

SanderO — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:43:00 +0000

That women is really scary.

What is appealing about her as a journalist or even as a human being?

By: unrelatedwaffle

unrelatedwaffle — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:42:16 +0000

Through every mind-numbingly disgusting political debacle I’ve had to live through in my short life, I can’t help but think of that montage in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington which shows wingnut chronies busting up a children’s newspaper, running little boys in a wagon off the road, and turning fire hoses on a community parade in support of the filibustering Senator.

This is the mentality of the Right. I’m going to get mine, and if I have to crush everyone else to do so, I will. That there isn’t enough popular opposition is not because people aren’t angry; it is because the same people who are running the show have made dissent equal to suicide. You question the lies of the administration and your career will be ruined, your family put in danger, your credibility forever questioned. For most people, that is too much to lose.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:41:17 +0000

dogmatta @ 8

And let’s not forget the Katie: “well, you’re pretty partisan now, aren’t you?” So I guess that makes it OK for the Republicans to out you. Unreal.

That seals it, Katie confirms Republicans think THE TRUTH is partisan.

By: SanderO

SanderO — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:20:06 +0000

So Kathleen… is the CIA good or bad?

How about the FBI? DOJ?

If the good ones there can’t do good stuff, the bad ones run the show and taint the entire organization.

All three have run amok. We need a clean sweep. Get them ALL out. ALL OF THEM

Let them all be re vetted.

By: SanderO

SanderO — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:17:55 +0000

I am mixed up…

I see lots of the bad guys getting away with criminal behavior.

But maybe I can’t see it for what it is?

By: kathleen

kathleen — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:17:23 +0000

Just read Larry Johnsons last piece. How f—ing shameless and criminal that the Bush administration nor the CIA stepped up to plate and protect Valerie Plame and her family. I guess one would expect that from the very same traitors who outed her. I am more than infuriated I am enraged for the Wilsons.

Impeach these cowards and traitors. Enough!