[Elphaba]

Originally Posted by bytor2112

I know Elphaba is a witch....but a mind reader too???

No, just a post reader.

I get it...you don't like Bush. He has very low approval ratings......not as low as the Democratic controlled Congress, but low.

I agree with those ratings, including those of the Democratic congress.

McClellan is an unemployed turncoat looking to make a buck

That's ridiculous. But let's look at it from a different perspective. What part of what he wrote is inaccurate? He said Bush rushed into war in Iraq, and that Scooter Libby and Karl Rove were involved in the Valerie Plame outing, just to name two incidents, and both are true. Actually, his book just reinforced what everyone was coming to realize anway.

Additionally, what about Tenet? O’Neill? Clarke? What’s your excuse for them?

and Abdullah al-Muhajir (Jose Padilla)

I agree with you that I should have given his Muslim name in my previous posts. It was irresponsible on my part. The truth is, I forgot about it, and yes, I know that is a HUGE omission. Thank you for adding it.

was convicted of conspiring to kill people in overseas jihad.

Yes he was, and everyone who is familiar with his case knows, or at the very least suspects, he was charged with conspiracy because there was no evidence he was guilty of the alleged “dirty bomb” crime, for which the government had already held him for THREE years.

Three years with no charges filed, no lawyers, no way to defend himself, and no due process, which was guaranteed to every American citizen at the time of his arrest. But then, the Constitution has been shredded and laid at the bottom of a birdcage, so no foul.

(Okay, the birdcage was hyperbole, but it was good.)

Additionally, al-Muhajir was tortured while in custody. Conveniently, however, the DVD recording of him being tortured, has disappeared.

Bottom line, the government imprisoned al-Muhajir for three years without filing any formal charges. And then suddenly when the Supreme Court was ready to address his case, mere days before this deadline, the government filed the conspiracy charges, and the dirty bomb accusation disappeared. And in doing so, the Supreme Court's plans became moot. It doesn‘t take a witch‘s magic ball to see what that was about.

Your comments sound like talking points for Air America or Bill Mah[e]r.

Thank you. I would say yours sound like Michael Savage but that gives him too much credit.

Sorry I disagree with you. I am ready for Bush to go, but I don't lay the blame for America' problems soley at his feet...it's not deserved

Neither do I, and I never said I did.

I’ve specifically talked about the so-called war on terror, including the colossal and obscene atrocity that is Iraq. And yes, they both can be laid at his feet, and his feet should be shredded in pieces like so many Iraqi children’s were.

I’m curious, though. Just whose feet do you think they should lay at? Bush is the leader of the free world, the “decider,” the big Kahuna. Isn’t that where the buck stops?

Actually, come to think of it, you’re right. Bush had no idea what was going on because his brain actually dwelled in Karl Rove’s head, thus Rove's nickname "Bush's Brain."

Wait, I meant Cheney’s head. No, I mean Rove. Yes, definitely Rove. Except for that one time it was in Wolfowitz's, who lost it.

and just because you think it ....doesn't make it so.

True. And just because you sound like a normal person, doesn’t make it so, right?

The “doesn’t make it so,“ is an obtuse phrase empty of any meaning, as you can apply it to anything.

but he wasn't the anti-Christ either

I never said he was.

and I would defend cliched attacks that are flung his way as well.

You better make sure Pale isn’t around if you do. He HATES Clinton.

As for the "intellectually dishonest" comment.....I will try to remember my side of the line.

Thank you.

Before we continue to get into a wee-weeing competition

Sorry, but we're already in one. Please try to aim the other way, ok?

Oh and am I right that Elphaba is a witch.....my wife is reading some book about witches and I scanned it a bit and found a character named Elphaba....thought I should mention that so you won't think I am hurling insults.

Well, duh. Why do you think I chose the name?

Elphaba