Reply #112: The working man's Democratic Party, you know, with unions and stuff

[arendt]

What's left after we get rid of the DLC is the only party in the U.S. that wants to fight
for the ordinary middle class guy, instead of the corporations. We get a party that will
oppose off-shoring and union busting and bans on government negotiating drug prices.
If there really were such a party, it might attract Republicans who vote for Bloomberg and
Schwarzenegger. It might attract country club Republicans who are sick of the fundamentalist
lunatics running their party.

You see only loss in telling the truth. I see possibility.

And Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl? Oh, please!

These guys are "spooked up"(intelligence connection). Pearl was doing some work for the CIA
and Nick Berg was another guy whose story is just too suspicious to believe (he came to set up
a phone network just when there was this land rush to cash in on the U.S. monopoly on contracts.
And phone networks are a strategic communications technology that the spooks monitor all the time.
But, no, he's just an honest businessman who believes in Democracy.) Give me a break.

And these two questionable characters from four years ago stick in your mind, while the
hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis don't? Do you understand that this is exactly the
caricature that the rest of the world has about Americans? They would say "When did you
decide that one American life is worth more than one hundred thousand Arab lives?"

Your rhetoric is hermetically sealed. This is becoming tedious.

arendt