McClellan’s book on Bush’s “culture of deception” roars to #1 on Amazon
What a great Fathers Day gift!
Unfortunately, due to huge demand, the book is backordered for 3 weeks until June 19. Dad will love this book, even if it’s late.
Here are some other excellent books on politics:
It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush by Joe Conason
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges
Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law by Marjorie Cohn
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy by Charlie Savage
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End by Ambassador Peter Galbraith
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald
Conservatives without Conscience by John Dean
The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn’t by Cliff Schecter
…and if you read these books you will know everything you need to know about anything in politics ever. They have absolutely no agenda to push, and it’s easy to see from the titles.
Here are a couple of other good reads:
-International Relations (8th Edition) by Joshua S. Goldstein and Jon C. Pevehouse
-International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy, Identity (2nd Edition) by Paul R. Viotti
-The Globalization of World Politics by John Baylis
-Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) by Alexander Wendt
You’ll have to put your big boy pants on to read those, Bill. They are used in actual classrooms and possess little or no political agenda. If you can’t do that, here are a couple of reads that suit your proven skill set and debate style:
-The Complete Idiot’s Guide To American Government by Mary Shaffrey and Melanie Fonder
-The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Economics (Complete Idiot’s Guide to) by Craig Hovey
-Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss
-Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Also….the guy who wrote the article you so detested from a week ago (Alan Gable) has another one coming out about the tax structure and economics. It’s not going to have much to do with President Bush or the Iraq Occupation. We’ll see if you can actually discuss something not related to the parroting of others you have done to date.
I look forward to it.
BTW Cameron, If you want to swiftboat any of these authors of books on my list, I should mention authors of these books include several constitutional lawyers, (a president of the American Lawyers Guild), a US Ambassador, and award winning journalists (including the Pulitzer winner for journalism). Some of the authors on your list I’m sure are excellently qualified but are dated, some haven’t published in the last several yrs. But, as I suggested, YOU and your views tend to be dated. heh
I don’t think you know what my views are there, William. You read a fraction of what iI have written and interpret it the way you want. The only conclusion is either you are unwilling or incapable of understanding it.
I’m not “swiftboating” anything. My criticisms of McClellan and the situation are valid. My criticisms of your idiotic commentary are right on, and you have nothing left but to assert that I posses an authoritarian, Bush-backing agenda.
Here’s a tip, Billy: Remove head from rectum, then type. It will make your commentary much, much, much more valid.
Here, I’ll make my views simple for you, William:
“I don’t necessarily disbelieve McClellan, but calling him a “hero” because he landed a six figure book deal to talk about what he saw is over-the-top.”
That’s not a criticism of Mr. McClellan, but of you and those like you.
“I’m no fan of Dubya, but you need to be careful if you’re an Obama supporter when you start talking about drugs, etc.”
especially after you said, “I’d be embarrassed too, voting for a president twice that lied and used cocaine”.
I can readily acknowledge that your writing is very, very bad but the structure of that sentence is dividing the lying and using cocaine into separate problems.
“I don’t doubt the veracity of some of his claims, but a former press secretary selling a book can’t be considered the most reliable of sources.”
You’re gonna have a hard time painting me in a neo-con, authoritarian corner you effete, insolent, over-repetitive under-educated prick.
Give a read to the full set of thoughts by themselves. You’ll definitely learn something.
Play it again, William.
By the way, suggesting recent academic books on international relations and economics are “outdated” proves how irrelevant and uneducated your opinion on politics actually is.
Stick to the harpsichord on guitar. It belies to your obscure and moot skill set that has nothing to do with the realm you write about on here so passionately, yet in such baroque and unintelligent form. You give liberalism a bad name. It has its merits, you sir, have none.
BTW, I have no problem reading those books and accepting Bush sucks. I also accept that you are a thoroughly worthless, ignorant individual whose very existence I disapprove of.
heh, I see your google is working for ya today…
Bush is just a figurehead. He’s a PR guy. He couldn’t find Afghanistan on a map. We are talking about the alleged criminalization of the State, I don’t think “sucks” quite covers it.
The idea of disapproving of the existence of a human being that is guilty of nothing but writing words is disturbing; as is insinuating that there is a moral inconsistency with someone opposing war but supporting humanitarian aid simply because the two actions share the characteristic of violating national sovereignty.
I hope you don’t learn this stuff in church.
Also, if you the fine arts are obsure and moot you are not as educated as you think.
User profile for Clark says he’s involved in a ministry ..oh gawd….. how could we have guessed that? I think the judgement of anyone who spends considerable time devoted to evangelizing, forming pursuits and indoctrination based on faith rather than evidence tells a lot of where this person is coming from… a psuedo intellectual. Obviously culturally deprived as well. Heh … southern to boot.
William is not talking about the criminalization of the state. He won’t turn his attention from Bush. Your topic, Keats is another conversation.
When I said “obscure and moot” it is when talking about politics, not life in general. Big difference. Just because you and William are allies in liberalism doesn’t mean you also need to stop reading the entirety of what is written to come rushing to his defense. I don’t really care what you find disturbing. I hold as little respect for you as you do for me.
Also, I didn’t say anything about moral inconsistency, but inconsistent philosophies at work. You put words in my mouth that aren’t there. You should probably shut yours.
As for church, yeah, I’m human. I don’t like William because he represents something in society I despise. I’m certain I represent something in society you despise, Keats. But make no mistake, this is not a Jesus thing. I will work on keeping my emotion out of this, but your cheap summations and associations keep your life’s journey bogged-down in mire of the irrelevant and faux-conclusions based upon faulty reasoning.
By the way, William, it’s not google: it’s a lifetime of reading books. Maybe you should crack one open that has doesn’t have facts/opinions with which you already agree. You too, Keats.
throw it out the window, William. Everything I said is not backed up by facts because I spend my time sending clothes to churches and orphanages in developing nations. What do you with your liberalism in your free time, William? A hoard of good I’m sure.
I don’t need a government to make me be charitable through taxes, I find it elsewhere.
I make mistakes, but putting them all on religion as a whole cuts off your thinking at a critical point. Especially when I have not mentioned a word about my faith on this blog, just asking for citation. You will never go past a certain point with your conclusions, and it makes them all invalid, William….which brings me full circle.
I was also a teacher and a coach. My wife is a pediatric neurologist. Do you want to make a comment on that too?
Stick to your music, William. It’s what you’re good at.
pseudo intellectual according to William is any one with facts who disagrees with him. I’ve been challenging you to do nothing other than debate, William. You refuse. I think that’s all we need to know about you.
If you want to debate, bring it. I can stay on topic.
pseudo intellectual according to William is any one with facts who disagrees with him. I’ve been challenging you to do nothing other than debate, William. You refuse. I think that’s all we need to know about you.
I find it most entertaining to see the amount of time you spend trying to goad this “know-nothing” into citation-related pissing matches. It’s obvious you care nothing about what he thinks of you. Carry on, sir!
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William, you have no idea what you are talking about quite frankly. Everyone here is human and has his flaws but my God man…your inferiority complex reeks. Seriously, you have no frame of reference at all of which to judge Cameron’s faith, intellect, etc…yet you continually barrage his heritage, mind, and faith?
…and before you lump Cameron and I into one easy category, call us “Bushies” and look down your nose upon us allow me to say that there are things of which he and I would very much disagree. However, there is no way on God’s green Earth that I would make assumptions about him, or anyone with whom I disagree in the way you do. I wouldn’t say things the way he does sometimes, but good grief get out of the third grade. You are obsessed with Conservatism.
You may continue now to berate and belittle all with whom you disagree. If you are the best that liberalism has to offer, may I be the first to offer you the microphone. Every venemous breath that you utter discredits any platform upon which you would hope to stand. If being “Southern” is so bad, then you are the antithesis?
Appealing, lemme tell ya.
I believe very much that if you let someone so eager to speak to do so, you’ll learn much about them, good and bad.
Southern to boot eh?
Awww. Jeffraham wrote a post without using vulgar language and staying close to topic. Good for you.
I’m here to debate, kid. William is the one littering the site with his redundancies. Even when I’ve tried to engage respectfully, he blows us off and dismisses all of us as authoritarian Bushophiles.
Anyone want to debate on the subject without talking past each other? I’m all ears.
He may not agree with what I’ve written, but where’s a sensible one like tgirsch when you need him?
i think we all know the stereotype of people who put this country in the situation it is now. the religious rednecks that cocaine george counted on for votes, and they we stupid enough to give him power. william was kind in refering to these people as southern. i think what he meant to say was residents of ‘dumbfuckistan’ also known as ‘jesusland’
Cameron,
I never said I despised you, you’ve got issues.
As far as not respecting you, I admitted that I have no patience for militaristic bombast, but that does not necessarily mean that I have lost sight of your humanity.
I don’t think that by-and-large people are thinking about philosophy when they make judgments about war and humanitarian aid.
ah, the truth of the war between the ideals comes forth. There’s no way to gauge the heat with which the right hates the left; and there’s no way to weigh the total tonnage of disrespect the left has for the right.
Those of us in between get the ire from both sides. Conservatives think we’re a bunch of communist hippies, and liberals think we all own bass boats, have no education outside of Bible class, and have never been outside of The South.
I’ve been looking for a site on which to debate during the day because I have some free time for a couple of weeks. Last Friday showed some promise. This week, the hinges came off after having patience with it.
Can’t some of you just own up to this thought process: “No matter what you say, or how you say it, I’m going to hone in on one sentence or idea and ignore the rest of your statements because there are some points in the writing for which I cannot answer or do not fit my pigeon-hole idea of politics all the while thinking the person dumber than my enlightened self.”
You’re sad men, and you have my pity. At least it was entertaining.
Cameron:
If you take a look at some of your statements, you should realize that you are guilty of the same things of which you accuse others.
For example, what exactly was the point of your first comment here?
To me it appeared to be an unwarranted assumption followed by a vitriolic ad hominem attack on William, with no point of debate referenced.
Your assessment of a so-called “thought process” is skewed. I present my arguments as I see fit, and I decide on what terms I choose to engage any given topic. No, I do not honor hysterical demands to comply with arbitrary terms, especially when they are revealed to be subject to change at any given moment. I do not intentionally attempt to misrepresent others’ positions, and if I misunderstand a point then upon clarification I am willing to revise my response accordingly.
If the choice is between having my right to exist questioned and pity, I’ll take the pity, thank you.
Ever thine humble servant,
H.B. Keats
i think dr. clark’s statements show his frustration with talking to people less capable than he. i too grow weary of william’s comments when i have time to read this site. ‘littering’ the page was a balls-on statement. i’m pretty sure dr. clark is going on to live his life “devoted to evangelizing” and “forming pursuits…based on faith”. he makes peoples lives better. i’ve seen it. can any of you boast the same? william and h.b. keats have their little war on religion. they have tried to discredit everyone in opposition who holds faith, and purely for that reason. i think cam was right to extend you only his pity and no more of his time. he acknowledged truths and reasonable statements in your debate. he agreed or disagreed, then moved on to the next logical step. calling his questioning of your ineptitudes ‘hysterical’ proves you don’t understand logic or pure reason. here’s something cam is too nice to say h.b.—-blow it out your well laid ass. you don’t have my pity, and if you ever met me, you wouldn’t have my mercy either.
the prestonians and jtfs are little whiny bitches, determined to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that darwinism does not hold true. if they spoke like that to people in real life they would not live to see the next day. their stupidity and rudeness is shameful, but they are playing their part in this world of the good for nothing liberal who has a bigger mouth than brain. they need to shut the fuck up. william’s shit for brains has already been pretty well underscored by cam, he doesn’t need to be addressed here ever again. anyone, conservative, liberal, or other would be a fuckin moron to respond to anything he says from now on.
lastly, if you don’t like the south or people in it, i am pretty sure you can find a road heading north and pancake your yankee asses the hell out of there. no one gives a flyin’ fuck, except that you have the decency to leave a place and people you seem to hate so much. in the mean time, i’ll go back to protecting this nation, your vote, and the right to be such little faggot ass bitches by killing one terrorist piece of shit at a time over here, so you don’t have to worry about it back home. and if you don’t believe that just ask yourselves how many terror attacks we have had in america since 9/11. none. the evidence speaks for itself. you can argue about sending us home all you want, but me and my brigade, we want to stay until there’s no more of them left to kill. let us off our leash, and we’ll subdue the crowd. also, as pointed out already by people who see the obvious, we’ve already conquered two countries. it’s not a fuckin war, but an occupation. get your terminology right assholes.
Cpt. Matthew James Cooper- United States Army, 1st Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division- Bagram, Afghanistan
This isn’t really a post though. It’s more like an advertisement for Joe Conason and renowned Constitutional Scholar ™ Gregg Glenfield.
Though I think I’m following the Comment of The Year on this one.
SOCK PUPPET ALERT
“mj cooper” IS Cameron Clark.
Identical IP addresses for both
The guy really needs reinforcement and tells us what he really thinks … buying that fear BULLSHIT … ” we haven’t been attacked since 9/11″
That comment was a doozie, no doubt.
Calls himself ‘dr. clark’
hahaha …whata chump
So smrat, he ratted hims out! Uh… sUckpuppet?
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Wait! Laughing too hard!
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Cpt. Matthew James Cooper
You’ve been promoted: MAJOR FAIL!
:lol: 
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There may be an opening on the Andover cheerleading squad for MAJOR FAIL…
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Okay, let’s let “cam” start over as “American Eagle,” or some such Chinese ribbon magnet asshatted name.
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Calls himself Dr. Clark and spends three comments belittling my doctorate degree because it happens to be in music. Now, he portrays himself as a military man in Afghanistan when the IP location clearly shows he’s in the US.
i’ll go back to protecting this nation, your vote, and the right to be such little faggot ass bitches by killing one terrorist piece of shit at a time over here,
Not only is he a pseudo intellectual, he’s a pseudo person, and now a proven liar and impersonator.
Now we know how dumb he really is.
Odds are this chickenhawk FAIL came from 6MB. What a fuckin’ sewer.
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I’m pretty sure I’d be among the very first to know what I did and did not post.
My thoughts on the same subject/s have been thoroughly laid out my thoughts before. I do not hide my views behind anything, that’s why I put my full name beside everything I write. I don’t want us to be in a conflict anymore unless we need to be.
The thoughts of a former player of mine have their own weight, those are his opinions. I have already voiced mine. But thanks anyway!
The thoughts of a former player of mine have their own weight, those are his opinions.
You boys havin’ a pajama party, mid-week?
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You boys havin’ a pajama party, mid-week?
No! Wait!
The good Captain IS in Afghanistan, and he e-mailed you after reading all the comments here at TennesseeFree.com, and asked and authorized you to impersonate him from your home computer, just to tell the lefties off! Yeah! That’s the ticket!
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….from the same computer and the same browser and OS… I’m surprised he has the balls to even come here anymore.
I’m surprised he has the balls to even come anymore.
Chickenhawkin’ requires NO balls, at all.
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I’m tempted to make an example of him and do an entire blog post on him as a sock puppeteer. But fortunately, I’m not that cruel. Whataya think Jeff..?
Naw. He’ll be back with a new pseudonym, and give himself away, providing even more entertainment than he has the last few days. I wouldn’t wanna scare him off and deny him the chance to make me laugh as hard as I did, tonight.
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Ok…. this brings us full circle to the title of this post - ” a culture of deception” - Thankyou Dr. Clark for participating.
I will recommend his next pseudonym: Wile E. Coyote.
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So, is he a wannabe Dr. or a wannabe soldier … or both?
So, is he a wannabe Dr. or a wannabe soldier … or both?
Armchair warrior, fighting the Jihad on the Internet. Probably worships Jonah Goldberg. That’s my guess.
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So Glen, I see Cameron has been emailing you. My name come up by chance?
Kansas….hmmmm
We’ve come full circle to the fact that William is self-parody.
Is there any need to ever read your posts again, William? Because a broken record is just annoying. And you’ve been broken since you
leftwere thrown out of NIT. You brought the same sort of sophomoric porcelain floaters here. I’m just waiting for another good flush.Why don’t you get a diary on KOS and spew your drivel there? You obviously play well to the echo chamber-pots like JP and jtf.
OH!
JP, I think I found out what’s wrong with you…an infestation of Toxoplasma gondii.
Explains much. Get yourself…fixed.
;D
“Some scientists believe that Toxoplasma changes the personality of its human hosts, bringing different shifts to men and women. Parasitologist Jaroslav Flegr of Charles University in Prague administered psychological questionnaires to people infected with Toxoplasma and controls. Those infected, he found, show a small, but statistically significant, tendency to be more self-reproaching and insecure. Paradoxically, infected women, on average, tend to be more outgoing and warmhearted than controls, while infected men tend to be more jealous and suspicious.”
William, too, obviously.
Ha! You two been sharing the litter?
You don’t really need to see each other anymore.
There’s help, for both of you.
SHown here is classic conservative denial…. belittling the fact that the president admitted treason, yet he feels it “insignificant”…. yet Sharon Stone ramblings are import. Classic!
Wow! mjcooper, I applaud you! That comment was a masterpiece!
Wow! mjcooper, I applaud you!
Unfortunately for him, he is actually the same person that posts as “Cameron Clark,” otherwise known as MAJOR FAIL. Impersonating an active duty officer to score chickenhawk points: Lower than snail shit.
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If they’re not using the “F” word, then they’re whinEing and puleing, aren’t they? Predictable, Christian-hating, conservative-despising, nasely, Bush-obsessed whiners. Never quite clever enough to realize when they’ve been bested, the leftoids — who never change from decade to decade (and I’ve seen a few) — degenerate into a gaggle of “he’s probably wearing a mu-mu” or the old myth-lie of “we can tell where you’ve posted from — and we’ll find you” or ” she’s just an ignorant southern girl.” Just when you think a couple of these leftoids might actually be liberals (and thus possibly be able to exchange intelligent dialogue) in disguise, they disprove the notion by joining the pre-pubescent semantics of “lower than snail shit” or (my personal favorite) “porcelain floaters.” When we finally come to a possible point of real idea exchange, it never fails — leftoids pick a point of superfluous inanity, tell lies and go kindergarten on ya. Now one of these nitwits is talking about hacking a website’s email — a federal felony — a gargantuan, Patriot Actesque moral failure in comparison with some possibly-interesting chitter-chatter about how Bush may have committed a crime. So what? “TREASON! TREASON!” we’ve heard it for two White House terms now. Nobody’s buying it. And what if they did? Who cares? I never tire of reminding those who are having fetid pettiraptures about the endless number of alleged and real Bush gaffs and bad judgments — NOBODY CARES if a president commits a crime. It’s part of the landscape now. Remember? You Willie Jeff Clinton bunnies made it so by screaming from the top of your adolescent uvulas “it’s just about sex!” therefore putting paid to any notion that committing perjury TO A FEDERAL JUDGE and losing your law license for years even matters; and is just because of petty “right wing conspiracies.” You bought it — remember? Too late to change faces now, confederacy of dunderasses. Ann Coulter — whom I really, really dislike — was right when she said that leftoids (actually she said “liberals,” but I distinguish the two) are mentally and morally inferior. They just don’t know it. “He who argues with fools, is a fool.” The Brothers are right. Why waste our time?
LOL
I am not “arguing”.
I am using colorful metaphors to highlight the self-evident idiocy in your inchoerent ramblings.
Quite delusional, probably Cameron again.
Having spent some time looking at the suggestions for reading from Cameron, I have a somewhat mild observation: the fact that some academic classrooms use a book doesn’t necessarily mean it has merit. For instance, when I was teaching first grade, ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ was used by classroom instructors to convey the idea that being nonsensical is fun when, in fact, it isn’t. It was all a big lie. It leads to posting idiotic and pointless rants about obsessions — the “green eggs and ham” of Bushie haters — instead of discussing the compelling ideas of others. For the love of God, don’t encourage the dolts.
And then there was ‘The Giving Tree’, which should have been entitled, ‘A Child’s First Look at Socialism.’ I regret now that I ever provided my class — and my son — with a copy of that thing. While I don’t espouse book burning, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to bury the damn thing and watch it for signs of sprouting into wooden signs that scream “IT TAKES A VILLAGE.” Kind of like filching taxes from the productive — you know “taxes,” those things that the leftist democrats believe are their due to increase the stranglehold of government — that “giving tree” was milked by the egotistical laziness of others into passive oblivion, fearful of being called a “selfish conservative” I reckon. Back in the day when I was a delusional Democrat, that book would have made some sense. But then I grew up. Now, I’m just a delusional Southern independent, harboring the idea that there is actually a future for the independent thinker.
Don’t encourage the dolts?
Here’s a clue, hold you’re rants up to mirror and you should realize that you don’t have a point to make at all.
Guy raised in the south:
Your demonizing and marginalization of the over 40% of Americans that are doing everything in their power to remove the criminal regime in Washington as some sort of “leftoids” reveals you as the fascist whore you are.
Further, ignorance is at least a reason if not an excuse, but you have all but acknowledged the criminalization of the executive branch, therefore your de facto defense of their actions makes you tacitly complicit. This reflects on your moral character.
In short, you are a sick, twisted fuck.
True GRITS. Bite down hard, GRITS!
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