Unholy Alliance:Radical Islam and the American Left.  I'm not gonna be able to get to it till late January.  Has anyone else read it?

Bought it; intend to read it.  But it's on a pile of such intentions.

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It's called David Horowitz and his Radical Rants with no Redeeming Value.

Since the "American Left" (for David) includes anybody in the Democratic Party who did not vote for Joe Lieberman.  I guess that kicks a lot of people in the US under Radical Islamic control.  

Why don't you read a book by someone with politics different than yours occasionally?  It will keep your mind sharp and it's good for the soul.

We Geezers have to exercise our minds all the time to keep us from going into Senility.  Find something better than David.

Harry

not a chance, ever....Liberman, though certainly not as extreme as Zell Miller, was a turnoff to many deomcrats, & he wouldn't have won 5 states....Actually, he would never win the democratic nomination to begin with.......Kerry was a good candiate, but successful application of the politics of spin by the RNC enabled GW to win.....They convinced people that Kerry was for gay marriage- he wasn't, they said Kerry will ban guns & take away bibles - which was absurd, & they convinced people that Kerry will raise taxes across the board - which he had no intentions to do......I expect the RNC to be nominated for a "special effects" oscar this year for their work of being able to create that great illusion of fear....

I said it before & I'll say it again, most if not all democrats are never going to carry the Daktota's, Texas, Montana, etc. & similarily, few republicans will ever carry CA, NY, Illnois, etc....The next election will come down to couple states (AGAIN) where all the campaigns will be focued on.....

special interests; enviromentalists, Jesse Jackson, PETA, Hollywood radicals, radical gays etc.

I, as a conservative Republican, could have tolerated Joe Lieberman as POTUS.  Not so with Mass-Lib John Kerry or Dean, the Gov of the town of Vermont.  In fact, the Dem that I am anxious to learn more about is Obama.  I watched and enjoyed his speech at the Dem convention.  What a sharp young man!  He sounded much more like Bill Cosby than Jesse Jackson.  The only down side is that if he matures into a conservative Dem, Independant or maybe a switch to the Repubs, he will be billed as a houseni**er just like Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell and Condi Rice.  Sad but true.

... The term "heartland" tries to make part of the US special and more American than other parts of the country -- it isn't.  The special interests you mention are also Americans -- just like the people in your heartland.  Many of the people in those special interests you mention are more frightened of the people in your heartland than the people in your heartland are of them.  In some ways, they have good reason to be -- large parts of the country think they have "political capital" to spend in ways that trample on the protections we give minorities / clean air and water /Free Speech /  Privacy Rights / ...  in this society.  

I think that the freedom in any society is intimately connected with the respect and courtesy we extend to the people we disagree with and disklke the most.  Anyone can respect the people they agree with.  

I too will follow Obama's political career with interest.

Marovingian, you're right on!

He's on the short list and would make an excellent choice.

There goes another one of your obnoxious race baiting bullshit comments!  Or will Lieberman now be called a "House Jew"?

Considering the quanity and quality of minorities in Bush's Cabinet, your racial comments are pretty lame, and empty.

... I agree he would be motivated to do a good job.  I don't think he will be offered the position:  why give a potential presidential  democratic candidate national security credentials for the next election?

Reo you think he will take it if offered??? ...

Harry, Joe Lieberman could never win the Democrat Parties nomination.  Lieberman is way too centrist to garner the support of the radical left who have control of the party.

On the other hand, Joe could jump parties, (ala Jumpin Jim Jeffords) and possibly win the nomination on the Republican ticket - a stretch sure, but allot  more probable than receiving the backing of the neo-socialist who hold the purse strings at the DNC.

Personally I would prefer Rudy, but I brought it up because of the anti-Semite tone of the post I was responding to.

Would Bush give Lieberman the nod?  I think that if Bush is convinced that Liberman is the best candidate, sure.  2000 election rhetoric aside, Liberman's record on National Security is outstanding.  I might ad, quite unlike Kerry who had all the rhetoric, but a dismal record supporting it.

-on special interests

 I'm white.  Should I be subject to arrest if I were to point to or approach a black person and begin dialogue with "Hey Ni**er"?  If so, should a black person be held accountable for referring to a white person as a cracker or whitey?

If I were to kill a white person because I wanted his wallet or tennis shoes, should I recieve a lesser sentence than if I would have killed a black person or gay person because because of their color or sexuality?  To be clear, nobody should take the life of another person, however, is the life of a minority group of more value than that of the majority group?

I haven't researched the data available, but I did have a conversation with an M.D. the other night where we discussed the amounts of money being thrown at various diseases.  His statement was that if you take away voluntary contribution (red cross, american heart assoc etc), federal funding for HIV/AIDS outpaces all other federal funding at a rate of $3/$2.  That's $3 for HIV/AIDS vs. $2 for cancer, parkinsons, diabetes, cardio disease, blindness etc. combined.  Is that because we have these other diseases under control?  Hell no, it's in part because HIV/AIDS damn near has it's own set of civil rights.  Perhaps his info is wrong and someone here can shed some light on it.