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The Re-Branding Of Bush

Rude Pundit lays into the former president: 5. Fuck you. Fuck your bullshit justifications. We were there. Some of us know what really happened. So fuck your impenetrable clusterfuck rationalizing, your tautology of excuses. You're pissed that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, but you doesn't regret the war. You actually come across convinced of your lies, and now your former employees are out there making sure that you are remembered as the guy who took tough, decisive action when it was necessary. And even if that's true, taking action doesn't mean that you did the right thing. You can firmly say, "Here's the road we're traveling on." Doesn't mean that it ain't the road to the mine field and sodomy pit. The failure to admit that is the damnation we all have to deal with. But your lackeys want us all to just get over it and move on. Yesterday, Dr. William Petit, whose family was tortured and murdered, spoke quite movingly to the media...

A Spot of Change

Rude Pundit : Here's how you know the way things have changed. In his September 14, 2001 speech at a prayer service for 9/11 victims, George W. Bush said that America's "responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil." And today, Barack Obama, in contrast, offered a less utopian view of the future: "We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth that we will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes." In the second half of the speech, Obama laid out his ideas for he called "a just peace." Elimination of nuclear weapons, support of human rights, and social development, good, clear liberal goals all, are the basis of this peace. And what he did in this section was to subtly curve the speech towards America as equal partner with other nations, not as arrogant spreader of wealth and democracy. Indeed, the sense of this part was that America ain't what it once was, and it needs to work with the res...

Get Your Dunkin Wednesday

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I am excited it is Wednesday. It is Memorial day weekend (which is particularly tough for me) and I will be hopefully spending some time on a boat! With a scarf, shorts and Sperry loafers and selling the f out. Not really, but I will be a on boat most likely and can't wait. I am almost certain getting away from the Mao of Chicago is good for me right now, I swear I was being followed all last night, granted it turned out to be my cousin on his way to the house for dinner, but still Mayor Mao is after me... Here are your highlights: CHU WINS, CHU WINS! Damnit, there has to be run off....I smell Norm Coleman's stank According to TIME, the Middle East is a game and Obama has a new playbook Gitmo Detainess, What we should really fear : Rude Pundit always entertaining and spot on New Mortgage Loan Recast Chart HELLLOO Pre New song by the Dear Hunter ...one word EPIC The banks seems to be doing better at reporting fraud , it just doesn't make sense to report that you have ...