Comments on: ABC’s “Man in the Middle” isn’t. http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:49:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: paulbeard http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140755 paulbeard Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:33:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140755 <p>The middle or centrist position is wherever you are, since no reasonable person can be an extremist. It’s a rhetorical game: you call your position centrist and point to your opponent as extremists, even if you are on the hard right and they are in the center-right . . . </p> <p>The political spectrum here in the US runs from A to B, by the standards of the rest of the world, or it did before the authoritarian coup of 2000. </p> <p>And mercenary is a great descriptor for Dowd.</p> The middle or centrist position is wherever you are, since no reasonable person can be an extremist. It’s a rhetorical game: you call your position centrist and point to your opponent as extremists, even if you are on the hard right and they are in the center-right . . .

The political spectrum here in the US runs from A to B, by the standards of the rest of the world, or it did before the authoritarian coup of 2000.

And mercenary is a great descriptor for Dowd.

]]> By: KevinHayden http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140418 KevinHayden Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:17:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140418 <p>I definitely preferred Al Gore’s <em>Love Story</em>. </p> <p>Dowd’s has too many salt pillars and drunken cowboy poetry.</p> I definitely preferred Al Gore’s Love Story.

Dowd’s has too many salt pillars and drunken cowboy poetry.

]]> By: arcadesproject http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140337 arcadesproject Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:21:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140337 <p>Moving the ‘middle’ to the right is one of the oldest tricks in the conservatives’ bag thereof. When they get way lucky, the ‘cons can even convince the left, such as it is, that the middle has moved. This ‘Man in the Middle’post is important because it exposes that particular skulduggery.</p> Moving the ‘middle’ to the right is one of the oldest tricks in the conservatives’ bag thereof. When they get way lucky, the ‘cons can even convince the left, such as it is, that the middle has moved. This ‘Man in the Middle’post is important because it exposes that particular skulduggery.

]]> By: applelight11 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140327 applelight11 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:16:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140327 <p>Who knows, maybe God knows!</p> Who knows, maybe God knows!

]]> By: Veritas78 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140271 Veritas78 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:16:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140271 <p>I’ll take the last post: Matthew Dowd is never to be trusted, ever. </p> <p>He has no core, just an ample ego — always delighted to discover that what’s good for him at the moment is what’s right for the world.</p> I’ll take the last post: Matthew Dowd is never to be trusted, ever.

He has no core, just an ample ego — always delighted to discover that what’s good for him at the moment is what’s right for the world.

]]> By: newtonusr http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140129 newtonusr Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:06:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140129 <p>Book Salon upstairs! Jon Chait.<br /> <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/fdl-book-salon-jon-chait-and-the-big-con/">The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics.</a></p> Book Salon upstairs! Jon Chait.
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics.

]]> By: kiddo http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140124 kiddo Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:00:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140124 <p>Merry Christmas from Lahoma and me.</p> Merry Christmas from Lahoma and me.

]]> By: PeteCO http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140122 PeteCO Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:51:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140122 <p>When a man is running from his boss<br /> Who hold a gun that fires “cost”<br /> And people die from being cold<br /> Or left alone because they’re old<br /> And bombs are dropped on fighting cats<br /> And children’s dreams are run with rats<br /> If you complain you disappear<br /> Just like the lesbians and queers<br /> No one can love without the grace<br /> Of some unseen and distant face<br /> And you get beaten up by blacks<br /> Who though they worked still got the sack<br /> And when your soul tells you to hide<br /> Your very right to die denied<br /> And in the battle on the streets<br /> You fight computers and receipts<br /> And when a man is trying to change<br /> But only causes further pain<br /> You realize that all along<br /> Something in us going wrong…</p> <p>You stop dancing.</p> <p>It’s from the Who’s “Quadrophenia” album.</p> When a man is running from his boss
Who hold a gun that fires “cost”
And people die from being cold
Or left alone because they’re old
And bombs are dropped on fighting cats
And children’s dreams are run with rats
If you complain you disappear
Just like the lesbians and queers
No one can love without the grace
Of some unseen and distant face
And you get beaten up by blacks
Who though they worked still got the sack
And when your soul tells you to hide
Your very right to die denied
And in the battle on the streets
You fight computers and receipts
And when a man is trying to change
But only causes further pain
You realize that all along
Something in us going wrong…

You stop dancing.

It’s from the Who’s “Quadrophenia” album.

]]> By: noen http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140121 noen Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:51:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140121 <blockquote><p>And this guy’s [Bush’s] personality — he cared about education and taking a different stand on immigration.”</p> <p>…</p> <p>Mr. Dowd said, in retrospect, he was in denial.</p> </blockquote> <p>He believed that Bush gave a fuck about education?? After what Bush did to public education in Texas?? Denial doesn’t seem big enough to describe it what he was in to me.</p>

And this guy’s [Bush’s] personality — he cared about education and taking a different stand on immigration.”

…

Mr. Dowd said, in retrospect, he was in denial.

He believed that Bush gave a fuck about education?? After what Bush did to public education in Texas?? Denial doesn’t seem big enough to describe it what he was in to me.

]]> By: SanderO http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140120 SanderO Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:43:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2007/12/09/abcs-man-in-the-middle-isnt/#comment-1140120 <p>These type of people PUSH themselves. They market themselves as “experts”/ suck ups / insiders.</p> <p>Pulease.</p> <p>Can we have someone who has some distance and intelligence instead of these self promoters?</p> These type of people PUSH themselves. They market themselves as “experts”/ suck ups / insiders.

Pulease.

Can we have someone who has some distance and intelligence instead of these self promoters?

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