Republicans say the darndest things!Follow

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He even manages to include a butchered Princess Bride line.

Ahh, God bless you, funnyman.

Been keeping an eye on this thread waiting for the inevitable Gbaji/Virus double team to invent some off-the-wall rationalization for how those comments might be semi-factually almost correct. Gotta say I'm shocked at the silence. I guess some things are too stupid for even them to address...

I granted them that yesterday. Today's mostly just a free holiday here. The celebration ended for most people yesterday.

Most of the more prolific posters seem to post from work, the place they aren't at today.

I realized that this thread will probably remain dormant till the work week starts on Tuesday.

You're British and thus, retarded in a different way.

Start small - get the numbers back.

The RNC takes on a black guy to fill AA quotas and makes him leader?

ur doin it wrong.

You're just a never ending downward spiral of stupid, aren't ya?

I thought you all were against affirmative action?

Hypocrisy at it's Finest. Should be the GOP slogan.

Close.

It's actually,

Democrats: ****** America, one rich citizen at a time.

Republicans: ****** every citizen (especially them brown ones) and non-citizen (especially them brown ones) everytime.

Jophed,




Of course the pool for liberals primarily include gangsta rappers, athletes, and welfare recipients.

Do you really want to compare Steele to Roland Burris or how about Charles Rangel?

Well gee... Surprised to see a thread about this. Not!

The statements which bothered me more weren't the ones quoted in the OP though. It was his whole "don't engage in a land war in Afghanistan" bit that made me kinda go "huh?". It was pretty obvious to me, even before listening to anything other than the statements he made, that he wasn't saying that Obama made us go to war in Afghanistan, or that Bush didn't. He was saying that Obama choose to make the focus of our foreign policy in that region, and specifically with regard to the war on terror, about Afghanistan. He pretty badly bungled the delivery of that message though.


I can even see what he was trying to do politically, and it wasn't a bad idea. He was attempting to head off at the pass a potential future move by the Obama administration if things don't go well in Afghanistan. The fear/assumption among some on the right is that Obama will use the same "we inherited X" strategy towards Afghanistan if things go wrong. Some even suspect, especially in light of how McCrystal was treated initially (nothing to do with recent events, this was a year ago) and then the lack of full support for troop deployment to Afghanistan, that the Obama administration might even deliberately make Afghanistan into a Vietnam style disaster, just so that they can blame it on Bush and Republicans.


If Iraq was "Bush's war", and Obama attacked him for doing so at the expense of focus on Afghanistan, it does make Afghanistan "Obama's war". He may not have started it, but he publicly stated that it was more important to him and to the country than Iraq was. I don't really care that much about what Steele says, or whether he put his foot in his mouth saying it. To me, this is the more important point to remember.