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Posted on Aug 10, 2007

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By VietnamVet, August 12, 2007 at 6:54 am Link to this comment

No president, nor other governmental body for that matter, should have unchecked power, period! But, if it EVER become necessary, given a choice I would prefer Hillary having that power over Dick “Halliburton” Cheney any day. The man is evil incarnate, a crook, and has been the prime mover in leading this nation into a war of choice. Moreover, he is dangerous and a disgrace for this great nation.

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By Douglas Chalmers, August 11, 2007 at 10:20 pm Link to this comment

#94052 by LC on 8/11 at 3:18 pm: “...the enormous and unconstitutional expansion of Presidential powers under Cheney-Bush, aided and abetted by Republican apologists, pundits and neocons because they are exercised by a Republican President will inevitably be passed along to the next President - who just might be the Right’s most hated Dem. candidate….”

Yes, Hillary Clinton as a “Big Sister” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo


Quote: “1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell’s prophetic nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. “1984” is still the great modern classic of Negative Utopia — a startingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny this novel’s power, its hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time….....”

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By LC, August 11, 2007 at 4:18 pm Link to this comment
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Ummmm, you seemed to have completely missed the point of this cartoon:that the enormous and unconstitutional expansion of Presidential powers under Cheney-Bush, aided and abetted by Republican apologists, pundits and neocons because they are exercised by a Republican President will inevitably be passed along to the next President - who just might be the Right’s most hated Dem. candidate.

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By Douglas Chalmers, August 11, 2007 at 12:53 am Link to this comment

93880 by Manila Ryce on 8/10 at 10:15 pm: “...I fail to see how Hillary with unchecked power is a good thing. If she wins, say goodbye to liberalism….”

Oh, they do have their own very exclusive brand of “liberalism”, Manila Ryce. What else are you going to do, though - stay with the Bush GOP?

The lessons of the coming weeks will change all that anyway. And one more Katrina or Kansas twister and it will be over…....

Even the existing establishment has to realise that the financial system they have tacked together is now working in reverse and is unsustainable. The imperatives of climate change are both their greatest risk and their greatest chance - to change!

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By Manila Ryce, August 10, 2007 at 11:15 pm Link to this comment
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Um, yeah. I fail to see how Hillary with unchecked power is a good thing. If she wins, say goodbye to liberalism.

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By Douglas Chalmers, August 10, 2007 at 6:10 pm Link to this comment

Ha ha! Bill had Monica - and Hillary is now going to have the whole goddamn world!!!

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