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He's perfect for those that will surround him in office. Reagan and both Bushes had the neocons running policy. Romney will have the neo-neocons, otherwise known as the Tea Party, running his policy.

I don't think Romney has dug himself a hole so much as solidified his base from all those that have been saying he "spoke the truth" in those comments. I'd be surprised if it moved the bar one way or the other.

As to the bolded: 1.) Please feel free to post as much of your bigoted vitriol as you like. I firmly believe in shining as much light on ignorance as possible. BTW, The "Army of God" is always looking for a few good soldiers. I hear you can get a good deal on a Paul Hill or Scott Roeder FatHead if you visit their website. Army of God. Has an ironic ring to it, no? 2.) Yes, a teacher at Brevard Community College speaks for all of academia and we should remove all of our impressionable young hearts and minds from schools across the country immediately. All except Robert Jones University and Liberty University of course. It doesn't matter AT ALL what any Christian does or doesn't do in reaction to having his faith insulted. It is not germane to ANYTHING going on in the world ANYWHERE. Just because I don't shoot doctors and blow up clinics doesn't make me a nice person.

Same old accuracy issues. Not the same old pass delivery issues. He's been late on throws this season and not just because he has a long wind-up. When you triple-hitch an out pass, you're thinking way too much. I've never seen that in him before. I agree that the less we ask Fitz to win games vs. managing them, we're in far better shape. GO BILLS!!!

Good point. I've been arguing this on TSW as well. It's obvious to me that Fitz is preoccupied with mechanics. The out to SJ that got picked by Revis last week is the best example. He triple-hitched a pass that is required to be released before the receiver makes his break. Triple-hitched! This is as routine a pass play as there is and one Fitz has made successfully countless times since high school. I am willing to bet that he's never triple-hitched that pass before. There is only one explanation that I can think of: he's doing too much thinking out there. And the pass to a wide-open Chandler yesterday verifies that. The Chiefs' preoccupation with Mario Williams allowed both tackles to see far more one on one battles yesterday than the week before. Whoever is seeing the single coverage has to make the other team pay and they did yesterday. I hope it continues. I can't say enough good things about Glenn. Every time he's been beaten with speed, whether Orapko or Jared Allen in preseason, or Coples and Hali the first two games, that Condor-like wing span of his just neutralized it. And to see him get his massive frame down field to block was great. LBs and DBs especially didn't want any part of him after a while. And it's infectious. GO BILLS!!!

Was Saylor the same judge that pulled out his Pennsylvania State Surpreme Court Judge I.D. during the hearing and said that even though he could use that ID to open up every locked door in the state Supreme Court building, he wouldn't be able to use it as a voter ID?

While our invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan haven't helped, I don't think this is the issue that tips things. We've been there for over 10 years. In a nutshell, these protests are about the embarrassing lack of opportunity in some of the world's richest lands. And it has been for as long as I've been interested in the region. Look at the people doing the protesting. By and large they are disaffected young men, under the age of 30. Easy targets for manipulation by fringe militant groups and religious fanatics. Just look at the unemployment rates in some of these countries. In Saudi Arabia, certainly one of the richest countries in the region, 90% of their work force is comprised of foreign nationals to begin with and the unemployment rate for men between 20-24 is over 40%. Is it any wonder it was such a fertile ground to recruit the 911 terrorists. Or how about Libya, another rich OPEC oil nation emerging from under the yoke of a dictator? Unemployment over 20% with a whopping 50% for those under the age of 20. In Egypt, where Mubarek was largely ousted due to the severe economic problems in his country, unemployment actually rose in the year and half since his ouster. I could go on and on. But to me it isn't a mystery at all. Ever since oil was first discovered in the region over a hundred years ago, monarchies, dictatorships, and puppet regimes were allowed to grow rich while their own people never got a fair stake in the profits in most of those countries. Throw in the advent of modern communications and the internet and social media and you have the perfect storm. The Arab Spring is still in its infancy. What we're witnessing is an illustration of that. We need to remember the vast, vast majority of its peoples are not part of a fringe group. If an insult to Islam was the real impetus behind all these protests, we'd see people by the millions taking to the streets worldwide vs. the thousands we are seeing now. This is about lack of economic opportunity more than anything. And it will be until those governments are stabilized democracies and they are open for investment. I submit it starts with an investment in their own people. They certainly have the resources.

Do we really believe these protests are about religion? Popular anger is sparked by many things. Sustained popular anger, as we've seen for generations in the region, is always about many things. I submit an insult to Islam is the least of the reasons.

Easy for you to say. GO SABRES!!!

I learned in school a long time ago that the Civil War was indeed about state's rights. Of course it was. But just what specific state's rights do you think the confederates were talking about? None of the ancillary reasons put forth by the leaders of the south is not related to the issue of slavery. Lincoln was looking to preserve the Union and slavery was the political carrot he offered the South. The issue of slavery was the hot issue of the day and had been for quite a while. The founders knew full well that slavery was going to be the powder keg issue moving forward as well. I don't think the Emancipation Proclamation has been deleted from school curiculums. It's one of the most important pieces of legislation in this country's history afterall. I'm not sure what level of nuance you would have elementary and middle school students dig into the subject though. We teach our kids that 1+1 equals 2. It wasn't until college that I was asked to express and prove that theory in a mathematical formula.

My point is that both Republican governors, who came into office two years after Obama and whose tenures coincide, are trumpeting the fact that their state economies have turned around and the prospects are great while at the same time Romney is telling the same people that the economy is in ruins and will get even worse if Obama is re-elected. I find that interesting.

I refuse to spend one second lamenting the loss of something we never had. But I would like to thank him for saving us from the cesspool. GO SABRES!!!

Maybe so, but in this case, the word bigot fits. Eric Allen Bell is the very essence of the word itself. Saying it gets tossed around without merit doesn't mean that it's never merited. I've never read any of the periodicals you mention. As to what else you're supposed to post, I don't know. That's not in my control. I'd just like to know what your seeming agenda is given what links you provide to embellish your arguments in this thread. Is it to let us all know we're going to burn in hell for all eternity if we don't get saved? Or is it something else? Not sure why you needed to qualify your status as a nonsupporter of Romney. I fully respect your right to support whomever you wish. Doesn't make a bit of difference to me at all.

You always seem to link to sites with pronounced fundamentalist Christian philosophies. This particular link was a big step down. Using the mindless rhetoric of a bigot isn't going to win the hearts and minds of anyone who isn't already a like minded bigot. Oh, and it's Obama's foreign policy which has brought the strife in the Middle East? That's a stretch even for the most ardent republican partisan. Unless, of course , Obama started shaping Middle East foreign policy a couple thousand years ago. My word of advice is for Romney and his campaign leaders to drop the subject entirely at the moment. The foot in Romney's mouth doesn't need any more company.

When South Carolina fired upon Fort Sumter, a federal military installation of the United States, how was Lincoln supposed to respond? What were his Constitutional mandates as President of the United States and Commander in Chief?

I'll concede they had the right to do so. And the use of the term "treason" in context of how the Constitution was interpreted is a bit strong. But it was a hotly debated topic at the time. And Lincoln certainly had a Constitutional responsibility to preserve the Union and keep the CSA from expanding it's territories and laws into US held territories. Not sure why you felt the need to qualify the racial status of a pastor in Houston. Nice to know he's figured out that we're all "one human race" though. Actually, I do know why you felt the need to qualify it and it's shameful.

Great point. Amazing how much unanimity $1m and a loss of draft picks will bring. GO SABRES!!!

Speaking of battleground states, can someone explain to me how Romney can stump in Ohio and Virginia on his platform of how Obama has screwed the pooch on the economy and will surely lead us to economic ruin while at the same time the Republican governors of those states go around touting how well the economies on those states are doing?

Yes. But I'm not sure what your point is. Every one of the signers of that letter to King George knew he was committing treason as soon as they put pen to paper and all of them knew the inherent risks to their lives as a result. But they broke no US laws in doing so. Jefferson Davis and co? Not so much.

While nothing more than an attempt to further your ongoing agenda, I none the less found your link to be complete and utter bullsh*t! As much as the Civil War has been romanticized over the years, it's no wonder that some people feel the need to whitewash it to the point of absurdity. If you think of ANY reason for the South's secession as a spoke on a wheel, you'll find slavery is the hub. It ALL came back to the slavery issue. The states rights issue was just one spoke. Bottom line: the south needed cheep labor to feed their economic engine at the time and moving forward. And it never comes cheaper than being free. You want better insight into the whole thing? I suggest you read what Jefferson Davis and those that started the Confederacy had to say on the subject. I don't disagree. I'm not making it a 'side vs. side' issue. It's a 'danger of mass media shaping, framing, and delivering the message over and over and over again' issue.

Same exact thing that Colin Powell warned GW about before invading Iraq. There is a difference between individuals doing such labeling on the internet in a public forum and a mass medium doing it by broadcasting to an audience of millions nationwide. Over and over and over again. The former is just banter. The latter can be harmful.

Well, Dwight. That about clinches it. I always would have been happy to buy you a beer or two. But now I'm gonna have to insist we get drunk together. And I would also insist that DeLuca come along for the ride. And I say that fully knowing that the next thing you post will most likely piss me off. But somehow I feel it's coming from a more honest place. A better understood place, perhaps. Peace. GO BILLS!!!

Isn't that another way of compensating for an inferiority complex? Goebbels was like 5'4" with a clubbed foot, afterall.

Because it's as old as mass media itself. Goebbels would be so proud. Always know and study the three points of the communications triangle: the messenger, the receiver, and the message.

Ya know, Drane. I've probably been your harshest critic around here but I've always respected your intelligence and well thought out positions on things. Regardless of how condescending they can be at times. And then I read gems like this and I wonder, "Why can't he see the same potential on the Sabre side of things." And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. GO BILLS!!!