Rachel Maddow and Richard Wolf discuss Obama's brilliant response to Bush

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Liked Rachel's comments in this one.

...that '08 is NOTHING like '04, and that Obama is FAR better at immediately countering this BS from the right then Kerry ever was in '04.

Besides, we now know what the true definition of appeasement is. And as per usual, the Republicans seem to have a major problem when it comes to actually understanding the meaning behind the word.

:woohoo:

Rachel Maddow needs her own show on MSNBC though.

Perfect analysis by Richard Wolf and THE reason why Hillary CANNOT be our nominee.

so competent she is.

competent, articulate, her comments have substance

was right on the money as far as I'm concerned. And she would make a really good Press Secretary.

I'd listen to her comments on just about anything. And I think she secretly supports Obama.:evilgrin:

I think it was her guest - Richard Wolffe of Newsweek magazine.

Maddow would make a great real-life CJ Cregg, but maybe she needs more space to express herself?

I am sure that Rachel does support Barack Obama. She is always ready to defend him.

But I'm not saying that's a bad thing. B-)

nt

...stopped in 1942 under the "Trading With The Enemy Act". Those actions were much more than appeasement, they were treason!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

Sometimes appeasement is good - if Chamberlin had goaded Hitler, saying, "Go ahead - bring it on!" like some powerful doofus' might, and then Hitler had begun assaulting Great Britain with aerial warfare - Britain would have been one big heap of rubble.

Far better for a nation like Britain, that had little in the way of anti airforce guns and few planes of its own, to temporarily appease the Big Power, and during the months of appeasement get its war machinery up and running than for it to encourage a war it couldn't yet fight.

But I remember reading an article a few years back that pretty much stated just that. England was in NO shape to stand up to Hitler...they had something like 8 war planes and their army, having been stretched by their imperialism (India, etc)was in no shape to take on such an enemy. Our congress (according to this article) actually threatened FDR with impeachment when he attempted to sell planes to England. In the year that Chamberlain bought for England by signing that non-interference/aggression pact with Hitler, they were able to gear up and build up to the point they could at least keep Hitler out of England until we got our butts into the war.

If this theory is right (and it sounds pretty reasonable) Chamberlain's "treason" may have saved the world from Hitler's complete domination. Imagine what would have happened if Hitler ran over England like he did the rest of Europe. Where would we have been able to stage from? Prepare our troops? Get our supplies into and out? D-Day? It would have never happened. The world would have been screwed, folks.

The U.S. of course, didn't win the war by ourselves...we never have given the Russians enough credit for making Hitler fight a war on two fronts. And while the bravery of the British is legendary, we also tend to overlook just how dangerous it was to truly be part of the underground in those days.

This transformation of the American way of life has been slow and insidious. It really started at the end of WWII, when we got some of those bastards out of Germany and set them up in our fledgling "national security/military industrial complex". It hasn't just been since Bush the Stupid stole office in 2000. He has managed to speed it right along tho. He's been able to do more damage than Nixon, Reagan, and Bush the Elder combined.

It's been a long time comin'. It's just picked up steam since 9/11.:tinfoilhat:

...the quagmire of Vietnam and the Southeast Asian war, that last gasp struggle of British, Dutch and French imperialism.

Iraq and the middle east with Palestine and Lebanon and Afghanistan and Iran have their root causes in British and French Imperialism as well.

There seems to be a pattern here! :wtf: