Who leads the world in terrorist financing?
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:30am Pat Cunningham
Surprise, surprise! It’s the SAUDIS.
Yeah, you know the Saudis, right? They’re the guys with whom President Bush likes to hold hands when they come calling in America.
Sometimes Bush likes to kiss them, too:
POSTSCRIPT: By the way, you’d better not tell any Fox News junkies that 15 of the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11 were Saudis. That’ll just confuse them. They still think the Iraqis were behind 9/11. (They also think Barack Obama is a Muslim.)
Entry Filed under: Saudi Arabia, President Bush
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1. Chuck | April 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 am
Did it torque you when Bill Clinton was friendly with the House of Saud too, or was it OK then? Face it, no one with a chance of being elected is going to do anything to seriously change US relations with Saudi Arabia. In the pictures above W is just following Saudi customs, just as Obama was when the Clinton campaign released pictures of him in traditional Somali garb. Perhaps you should change the name of your blog to ‘I Just Don’t Like Goerge Bush’?
2. Pat Cunningham | April 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
Hmmm. “I just don’t like George Bush.” That’s a pretty good idea. Let me cogitate on it a while. I’d have to get new business cards. On the other hand, it would ingratiate me with the majority of Americans. I don’t know. Maybe.
3. Chuck | April 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
If popularity is what you’re aiming for, you could name it “I just don’t like Congress,” and you’d be statistically ingratiated with even a greater majority of Americans.
4. Pat Cunningham | April 3rd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
In fact, I don’t like Congress. Like most other liberals, I don’t like how the Democratic majority has so frequently rolled over for the Bush administration. But I still prefer the Democratic Party, as does a sizable plurality of Americans in general. A Pew poll issued a few weeks ago reported the following:
The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles.
In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of 2008, 36% identify themselves as Democrats, and just 27% as Republicans.
The share of voters who call themselves Republicans has declined by six points since 2004, and represents, on an annualized basis, the lowest percentage of self-identified Republican voters in 16 years of polling by the Center.
The Democratic Party has also built a substantial edge among independent voters. Of the 37% who claim no party identification, 15% lean Democratic, 10% lean Republican, and 12% have no leaning either way.
By comparison, in 2004 about equal numbers of independents leaned toward both parties. When “leaners” are combined with partisans, however, the Democratic Party now holds a 14-point advantage among voters nationwide (51% Dem/lean-Dem to 37% Rep/lean-Rep), up from a three-point advantage four years ago.
5. Chuck | April 3rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Pat,
Well, as I said in another post, liberal and Democrat don’t always mean the same thing. In fact, IMO, more and more they don’t. More Democrat doesn’t mean more liberal. If it did, then candidates would falling over each other to prove who is most liberal, and the fact is they just don’t do that.
So far as your preference for Democrats, that’s fine, but I wonder if you’re not more of a Truman-style Democrat than what the party currently offers. I mean, IMO, the Dems can no longer claim to be “the party of the little guy”. They get as much Wall St. money as Republicans ever did. They’re doing nothing to stem the flow of jobs out of our country, and neither of their leading candidates has a plan to. If you’re comforted just by having one in office, then I guess that’s what you need, but if you’re looking for big differences, then I just don’t think you’re going to get what you want.
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