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Give to Them As They Do, Not as They Say

In our second great WTF moment of this week, the Republican Party just called me asking for money to buy ad space to condemn Barack Obama’s weak Jimmy Carter-style foreign policy.

Set aside the fact that the major premise of the pitch just doesn’t square with the truth.  How the hell can anyone make that claim with a straight face in light of George W. Bush’s North Korea legacy?  Did these people, in the name of a strong foreign policy, just seriously ask me to help them turn the keys to our foreign policy back over to … Colin Powell and Condi Rice?  And for that matter, who can name a major political party that isn’t sure to install Chris Hill to “manage” some spectacularly dangerous foreign policy crisis by feeding whatever beast growls at us, slipping the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a rufie, and sodomizing its entire membership live and unpixelated on C-Span 2?

Fuck these people.

Is it any wonder that the Republicans are a minority?  There are precious few politicians in either party worthy of our support today, and I can easily count them on my digits — Brownback, Royce, Lieberman, Bayh sometimes, Ros-Lehtinen, Frank Wolf, McCain, and … and that’s about it.  That leaves 14 more digits to count with, including the finger I’m holding up now.

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  3. Meh McCain lost a lot of my support from the Presidential election. He switched his opinion to the right far too much times to be considered a “moderate.” I guess all politicians do this…..so meh.

  11. Concur. Those links are pretty damning for Nodutdol, and kudos to the NYT for actually giving us a sample of Nodutdol’s rhetoric to judge for ourselves. On the other hand, absolutely no information “reader” has presented connects Adrian Hong to Nodutdol or John Choe.

  12. adrian hong was an extra in the new transformers movie and is now attending seminary school

  13. You despicable reactionary, we will mercilessly crush you with the weapon of singlehearted unity! Your bourgeois accusation against the DPRK is no more than barking at the moon!

  16. I heard Adrian Hong is a computer programmer by day and a hacker by night. He was recently contacted by a legendary computer hacker and is now trying to figure out if life on Earth is just an elaborate facade created by malevolent cyber intelligence.

  19. Adrian Hong is the reason Superman & Batman wear their underwear outside their pants.

  20. I heard John Choe and Adrian Hong co-wrote and produced the song “Foolish Games” for Jewel in 1995.

  21. Adrian Hong and John Choe were rival backdancers for late 90’s Korean pop singer Yoo Seung Jun.

  22. Reader’s flunkyist rhetoric is like that of the thief who cries “stop, thief!”