Comments on: GRITtv Live at Noon: What Would a Continuation of the Last Eight Years Look Like?

By: rap24tor

rap24tor — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:42:51 +0000

Most people won’t notice the consequences of McCain/Barracuda.
Unless McCain blows up the world many of our religious zombies will keep on purchasing.
However, If you have a functioning brain life will be literally unbearable.

By: raven333

raven333 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:19:24 +0000

PraedorAtrebates @ 10: well, yes and no. It’s not going to be friendly to the USA, that’s for sure. And Latin American liberation movements are notorious for failure due to corruption and anti-native bigotry–Hugo Chavez seems to be going down the corruption track. They are in dire need of more figures like Juarez and Allende and no-one of that stature has emerged in this generation, so far as I know.

By: PraedorAtrebates

PraedorAtrebates — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:40:35 +0000

raven333:

South America continues its drift towards Latin American socialism.

Nothing wrong with that. It corrects years of criminal abuse by US Chicago School thieves. It places the focus of their governments where it belongs: on the regular people rather than corporations.

WE need some of that Latin American socialism right here.

By: raven333

raven333 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:25:18 +0000

No time to watch–sorry–but here are a few notes.

I hear a giant sucking sound. A depression to begin with. Probably including high levels of inflation. Probably goes global and probably the world dumps its dollars. The wars would end because we couldn’t afford them any more. As things go bad, I’d expect the nascent police state to tighten its grip–it might even get hard to leave. Internationally, I think increasing isolation. The new global powers–Russia, China, India, the EU–would accelerate their emergence. Al-Qaeda becomes a legitimate political party in Arabia, and an enemy with a real army. South America continues its drift towards Latin American socialism.

Livin’ up to my user name, caw!

By: Badwater

Badwater — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:26:09 +0000

Trying to imagine but keep seeing the Democrats roll over for Grampy McCain.

By: oldtree

oldtree — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:17:17 +0000

Mushroom soup, mushroom burgers. Mushroom oceans and Mushroom clouds.

By: Leen

Leen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:17:16 +0000

the McCain/Palin would pre-emptively attack Iran and continue to ignore one of the main root causes of the disaster in the middle east. The Israeli Palestinian conflict. We would continue to implode…

By: dosido

dosido — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:16:44 +0000

Imagine, a US leader thinking like a responsible world citizen vs a brat.

By: dosido

dosido — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:14:33 +0000

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By: GRITtv

GRITtv — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:35:45 +0000

Chris Hayes at the Nation:

There was a time when Republicans all wanted to talk about “the way forward” in Iraq and a lot of Democrats basically said “we shouldn’t be there in the first place!” I was one of them, and I think it was a legitimate sentiment. The answer to “what next?” was and is: leave.

But now, the Democrats, and the party’s nominee have a vision for the way forward: begin withdrawal. They talk about it all the time.

And the GOP has….what? That the surge was awesome. That we’re now winning. That we can’t withdraw because that would be an admission of defeat or an insult to our honor or something. But what next? I sat through four days of the RNC and didn’t hear anyone even pretend to answer this question.