Ah election time, the
things that happen. Via
wolfkit.
Arnie seems to
carry some weight with Californians.
What one
can learn from post-election comment. Via
razerwolf.
Actually, compared to those other 'programmatic North-East liberals', McGovern in 72, Mondale in 84 and Dukakis in 88, Kerry did relatively well, as one can see from this
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Because Nixon thought it was funny, it shouldn't be taken seriously?
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I don't think anyone is going to claim that these are nice people. Kamm's point is more that Chomsky wants to take something at face value which fairly clearly shouldn't be and then equates it with the Nazi equivalent.
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I prefer to look at the results, rather than engage in what is the equivalent of literary interpretation. :/
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There is actually a large number of people on the American right who are not Kissinger fans by any means. I don't means the 'detente was soft on communism' criticism (though there is ovelap), more the folk who object deeply to his amoralism.
I have a neoconservative academic acquaintance who thinks the European admiration of Nixon is a major black mark against the contemporary European elite on precisely those grounds.
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what's smug and condescending about that? what am i missing?
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a representative collection of the stupid, ignorant and frighteningly arrogant voters who had just decided the identity of the most powerful man in the world
the British people international collaborators in George Bush’s re-election to the White House.
And the entire argument that the Republicans needed a Brit (Blair) to put them over the line
The complete lack of any possibility that there might have been good reasons to prefer Dubya over Kerry.
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And Australia is still better than the U.S.... We're not just randomly locking up foreign nationals without charge. Yet.
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What about detention for asylum-seekers? I suppose it is not 'random', and one can get out if one agrees to leave, but I am not sure the US is being 'random' either.
I don't know that, in a spectrum of rights and legal processes, we would come out notably ahead. The provisions of the Patriot Act people were getting so worked up about are mostly already Australian law.
Mind you, both countries are lily-livered softies compared to the French: France has a strikingly harsh anti-terrorism policy. It has had no qualms in making the most of laws allowing the detention of terrorist suspects without trial for months on end. All four of its nationals repatriated from Guantánamo Bay were detained on a judge's instruction on their return to France. Dominique de Villepin, Mr Sarkozy's successor as interior minister, has been unyielding in his determination to expel imams guilty of hate crimes. When an expulsion order against Abdelkader Bouziane, an Algerian cleric based ( ... )
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Here, they are just a prerogative of the Executive. Mind you, Howard has been a pretty cautious appointer of judges. He goes for judicial conservatives (i.e. those who are likely to be pretty restrained in their judgements, and not change the law much), though of notable quality.
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