tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121731.post1484086203100032515..comments2023-12-08T02:29:07.687-06:00Comments on Pushing Back the Frontiers of Ignorance: How did it come to this?RobertDWoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12468867977431697913noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121731.post-1693489077813018772008-03-22T09:42:00.000-05:002008-03-22T09:42:00.000-05:00I wasn't a guest with StratFor long enough to see ...I wasn't a guest with StratFor long enough to see them go wrong, but sounds good to me.<BR/><BR/>I'm pretty sure you'd be stonewalled an have your question remain unanswered.RobertDWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468867977431697913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121731.post-86174186733441016222008-03-21T08:23:00.000-05:002008-03-21T08:23:00.000-05:00Yes, Stratfor is a good intelligence analysis orga...Yes, Stratfor is a good intelligence analysis organization. They even admit when they're wrong, LOL. <BR/><BR/>As for the "Reverend" flap, I sometimes have dreams about being able to walk up to guys like Wright (or better yet, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson) with a microphone and ask . . . "Have you ever preached a genuine, evangelistic, Gospel sermon in your life? And after you answer that question, define "Gospel" for me." <BR/><BR/>Snicker, chortle, guffaw.Solameaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869424956571944997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121731.post-43509136350109861792008-03-19T21:41:00.000-05:002008-03-19T21:41:00.000-05:00Lil, thanks.And I like StratFor too. And I know Jo...Lil, thanks.<BR/>And I like StratFor too. <BR/>And I know Joel does too. :D<BR/><BR/>I'm torn on this Rev. Wright thing, I personally couldn't care less, but it seems to have gathered quite a bit of steam. <BR/><BR/>KA, I agree.RobertDWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468867977431697913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121731.post-84738688882024269302008-03-19T16:37:00.000-05:002008-03-19T16:37:00.000-05:00Under normal circumstances, I think that John Edwa...Under normal circumstances, I think that John Edwards might be a good compromise for the Democrats at a brokered the convention. The problem is, the Democrats would look so terrible, settling on a white man while snubbing a black man and a woman. <BR/><BR/>I think that's one of the reasons Edwards didn't go anywhere in the primaries. He was the most popular white male (over Dodd, Kucinich, Biden), but he was competing against the first major female candidate and the first major black candidate.Kingdom Advancerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02599920276578327720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121731.post-19127448845577133432008-03-18T21:14:00.000-05:002008-03-18T21:14:00.000-05:00The little kerfuffle with Obama and Rev. Jeremiah ...The little kerfuffle with Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright could have long legs. <BR/><BR/>Hillary is just sitting back enjoying it.Solameaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869424956571944997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121731.post-6754661772602172722008-03-18T20:08:00.000-05:002008-03-18T20:08:00.000-05:00You are certainly right on the money. The only th...You are certainly right on the money. The only thing keeping the word "Iraq" in the news is the election. There has been a shift over the course of my lifetime that has affected television and print news. Rather than let people find entertainment one place and news another, they have combined the two into a beast so foul to look directly at it is to mortally wound your soul. They pander to whatever can possibly get more ratings.<BR/><BR/>I have heard a lot of people blaming the public but the public has always been stupid. We have this idea that former generations marveled at world news and current events. The truth is that unless we were at war most people didn't care. But the difference was that journalism meant something to some people. And you didn't have to spend a lot of time looking for those people. They were on national radio and television and they wrote for the largest newspapers.<BR/><BR/>Now you have to search very hard to find reputable news and your best bet is the internet (insert plug for Stratfor.com). <BR/><BR/>As for the democrats, there was never enough common ground between these two for the campaigns to merge. I think Obama is cutting his own throat with his rhetoric on Iraq. Even though his policy clearly allows for a lengthy withdrawal from Iraq his repetition of the words "as soon as possible" are rubbing democrat voters the wrong way. It is one thing to get a bunch of people to jump on the band wagon that the Iraq war was a mistake. Enough mistakes were made during the course of it. But the average democrat voter does not want to leave that country in ruins. They have been chanting all along that this war has brought more hatred than piece and they know that leaving now would magnify that effect.<BR/><BR/>Aside from that the success of the current operations isn't really helping his position and the beating of a "dead horse" that the war was entered under false pretenses is starting to sound old.<BR/><BR/>The problem with the race is that it is so long. They expect to win early and rest up before November and now they have to fight the whole year. It is getting old already. They are not likely to come up with anything else interesting to say. So we [meaning the news] focus on a weirdo pastor and who made the last racist comment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com