[kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?

[Karen Weil]

Actually, yes.

Because what he actually said was, "I am a jelly donut." Please don't throw any JFK at me. I'm not an admirer.

k.w.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jpwhkj at aol.com 
  To: gathering at misera.net 
  Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 12:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?


  Presumably you think JFK's "ich bin ein Berliner" was also stupid?


  -----Original Message-----
  From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>
  To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net>
  Sent: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:20
  Subject: Re: [kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds?


  McCain's comment was one of the most stupid things I've ever heard uttered by a pol. And that's saying something. 
   
  No, McCain -- I'm an AMERICAN, thank you very much. 
   
  K.W. 
  ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> 
  To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net> 
  Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:01 AM 
  Subject: Re: [kj] (OT)Why haven't the Left got Georgia on their minds? 
   
  > And here is yet another one, a piece in the Washington Post written in > response to John McCain's preposterous statement that "We are all > Georgians." 
  > 
  > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401360.html 
  > 
  > Some people consider the Washington Post to have a liberal bias. 
  > 
  > SO: That is one 1) article from an avowed conservative that says, wait a > minute, the Georgians are the ones that fucked up; one 2) from Gary > Brecher, author of _The War Nerd_, who claims he is a classical American > conservative (not a Bush-style neo-con); and 3) a liberal paper. Three > different ideological backgrounds, all claiming rightly that Georgia > instigated this conflict, and really fucked up in invading Ossetia, half > of which is attached like a set of testicles beneath Russian and into > Georgia's borders, and the upper half of which is in Russia, but all of > whom consider themselves to be ethnic Russians, not Georgians. 
  > 
  > States generally have a mandate to protect their citizens and peoples when > they are attacked. Indeed, that is a large part of the justification for > the existence of nation-states to begin with. The hysterical > Western/American reaction is absurd -- as if the old Cold War USSR has > landed the Red Army in Pennsylvania circa 1965 or something. What the hel. > In the meantime, Condi Rice signed a deal to put US missiles in Poland, > Russia's border. Imagine if Russia did that with Canada. But they didn't; > they went into a part o Ossetia and staunched a Georgian assault on ethnic > Russians. 
  > 
  > -Oliver 
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