American Extremists: "Pragmatic"

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American Extremists: "The kids aren't alright"

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Excellent Cindy Sheehan interview

Excellent wardrobe, too!

Cindy has strong words for MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart, and other enablers of Death By Democrats.

Conducted by Abby Martin for Media Roots.

Sanctions you can sanction

This is why Obama is at the top of the Democratic heap.

He has the taste to suggest that crippling sanctions against Iran are suffered only by its elites:

The regime is more isolated than ever before; its leaders are faced with crippling sanctions

Lesser Dems lack the subtlety that Lee Atwater famously counseled to his team. They ham-handedly admit their goal is to wreak vicious harm upon ordinary Iranians:

Listening to congressional supporters of sanctions, you’d think the sole reason is a sadistic urge to harm innocent Iranians. As one of the top supporters of sanctions, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), said, “Critics [of the sanctions] argued that these measures will hurt the Iranian people. Quite frankly, we need to do just that.” Or take Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY): “The goal … is to inflict crippling, unendurable economic pain over there. Iran’s banking sector — especially its central bank — needs to become the financial equivalent of Chernobyl: radioactive, dangerous and most of all, empty.”

American Extremists: "The dodge of war"

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Did Obama just say that attacking Iran is America's default course?

From the Greatest State of the Union Speech Ever:

Look at Iran. Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program now stands as one. The regime is more isolated than ever before; its leaders are faced with crippling sanctions, and as long as they shirk their responsibilities, this pressure will not relent.

Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal. (Applause.)

But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible, and far better, and if Iran changes course and meets its obligations, it can rejoin the community of nations.

Is not the direct implication of "a peaceful resolution... is still possible" that we're currently on track for a non-peaceful resolution?

Obama proves Arthur Silber's point on the irrelevancy of military intelligence... by threatening war on Iran and spearheading punishing sanctions on the Iranian people without even bothering to sex up the intelligence reports to claim that Iran seeks or is developing nuclear weapons.

Note also that the Man of Peace sees no need to explain why the existence of an Iranian nuke program would entitle us to starve and militarily murder Iranians. Given the pliability of the American media and public on such matters, why would he?

(h/t David Swanson)

American Extremists: "Ingrates"

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American Extremists: "You don't say"

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I'll gladly approve you next year for a reelection this year

Pardon those of us who don't think Obama's hitting the snooze button on Keystone XL makes him an environmental hero.

American Extremists: "Ballot question"

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