Join me, Matt Stoller, and Joan “McJoan” McCarter, on Meet the Bloggers with host Cenk Uygur and special guest Darcy Burner today at 10 AM Pacific time, where we’ll be discussing the Responsible Plan to end the war in Iraq.
Watch the live stream in the embedded player above (I think) or go to the meetthebloggers.org where you can join the conversation in the comment thread.
One of Bush’s coalition partners in Iraq, the Republic of Georgia, is recalling its troops from Iraq following this morning’s Russian invasion of Georgia. The Georgian government announced that Georgia and Russia are “at war” and there are reports of airstrikes, shelling of cities and villages by artillery and tanks, and civilian casualties in the Georgian-Russian border region.
My guess is the withdrawal of Georgia’s forces from Iraq, who are being redeployed to the fighting in their home country, will impact Bush’s troop reduction timetable and extend the rotations of some U.S. soldiers.
Well, if anybody watched it, I had intermittent audio problems throughout, so I missed out on quite a bit of the conversation. Ah well.
From the Denver Post, news that 30,000 tickets to Obama’s convention speech sold in one day:
The last presidential candidate to deliver his acceptance speech in a stadium only managed to fill half the venue, and his name was John F. Kennedy.
How many people have seen John McCain speak this entire year? maybe 100?
When George W. Bush took office, unemployment was at 4.2%. Now it’s at 5.7% and rising. And John McCain’s only answer is more tax cuts for the rich. That’s not an answer.
The LA Times has a piece today about David Zucker, who’s been resposible for bring us such brilliant examples of good taste and enlightenment as Airplane! and The Naked Gun (where as I recall, Leslie Nielson fellates a granite statue), and has now Seen The Light of conservatism and is nibbling at the hands that have so amply fed him.
Zucker is now working on right-wing satire pieces (think Ann Coulter humor in Cinemascope) and pronouncing that Hollywood is full of “weak, foreign-policy appeaseniks”. Presumably this means that we need a red-blooded Amurrikan president who’ll continue to keep our military at work killing people. Who? Where? Probably doesn’t matter.
#5. Good. We can finally find out what conservatives find to be funny, and if it sells to a wider audience.
@4 The only trickle-down effect of tax cuts for the rich is more trickling of jobs and money to Taiwan and Chinese yacht builders.