Comments on: Political Culture: Human Rights Someday! http://popdose.com/political-culture-human-rights-someday/ your daily dose of pop culture Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:40:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Pop Politico: “Greetings from Economy Class” | Popdose http://popdose.com/political-culture-human-rights-someday/comment-page-1/#comment-8828 Pop Politico: “Greetings from Economy Class” | Popdose Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:30:39 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=3461#comment-8828 [...] the feeling of powerlessness among those whose middle class status is a tenuous one.  My colleague Jon Cummings wrote an incisive post the other day chronicling the ongoing crimes committed by the Bush Administration.  He wanted to know where the [...] [...] the feeling of powerlessness among those whose middle class status is a tenuous one.  My colleague Jon Cummings wrote an incisive post the other day chronicling the ongoing crimes committed by the Bush Administration.  He wanted to know where the [...]

]]> By: JonCummings http://popdose.com/political-culture-human-rights-someday/comment-page-1/#comment-43050 JonCummings Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:36:37 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=3461#comment-43050 Hasn't Bush done worse than that already?<br><br>We live in a particularly disturbing political era, in which everything boils down to partisanship, even war crimes. The peculiar characters (or lack of character) of our two most recent presidents have certainly acted as catalysts; meanwhile, the Republicans have served first as judge and jury and then as enabler and accomplice, while the Democrats most recently have just looked the other way in blind pursuit of power.<br><br>Wouldn't it be refreshing to discover that the next president might get through four or eight years without actually doing something criminal (in the current case) or even reprehensible (in the previous case)? Is that too much to wish for? Hasn't Bush done worse than that already?

We live in a particularly disturbing political era, in which everything boils down to partisanship, even war crimes. The peculiar characters (or lack of character) of our two most recent presidents have certainly acted as catalysts; meanwhile, the Republicans have served first as judge and jury and then as enabler and accomplice, while the Democrats most recently have just looked the other way in blind pursuit of power.

Wouldn't it be refreshing to discover that the next president might get through four or eight years without actually doing something criminal (in the current case) or even reprehensible (in the previous case)? Is that too much to wish for?

]]> By: JonCummings http://popdose.com/political-culture-human-rights-someday/comment-page-1/#comment-19297 JonCummings Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:36:37 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=3461#comment-19297 Hasn't Bush done worse than that already?<br><br>We live in a particularly disturbing political era, in which everything boils down to partisanship, even war crimes. The peculiar characters (or lack of character) of our two most recent presidents have certainly acted as catalysts; meanwhile, the Republicans have served first as judge and jury and then as enabler and accomplice, while the Democrats most recently have just looked the other way in blind pursuit of power.<br><br>Wouldn't it be refreshing to discover that the next president might get through four or eight years without actually doing something criminal (in the current case) or even reprehensible (in the previous case)? Is that too much to wish for? Hasn't Bush done worse than that already?

We live in a particularly disturbing political era, in which everything boils down to partisanship, even war crimes. The peculiar characters (or lack of character) of our two most recent presidents have certainly acted as catalysts; meanwhile, the Republicans have served first as judge and jury and then as enabler and accomplice, while the Democrats most recently have just looked the other way in blind pursuit of power.

Wouldn't it be refreshing to discover that the next president might get through four or eight years without actually doing something criminal (in the current case) or even reprehensible (in the previous case)? Is that too much to wish for?

]]> By: Ted http://popdose.com/political-culture-human-rights-someday/comment-page-1/#comment-19296 Ted Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:15:59 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=3461#comment-19296 I don't know if you watch Current TV, but they had a news blurb on Suskind's book the other day. Part of Current's "News for the 20 somethings" approach is to include comments after the news blurb ends. One comment put Bush's crimes in perspective (and I'm paraphrasing from memory here): "Bush could go on national television and <i>eat babies</i>, and the press and Congress would <i>still<i> equivocate on the issue of whether his actions were criminal or not."</i></i> I don't know if you watch Current TV, but they had a news blurb on Suskind's book the other day. Part of Current's “News for the 20 somethings” approach is to include comments after the news blurb ends. One comment put Bush's crimes in perspective (and I'm paraphrasing from memory here): “Bush could go on national television and eat babies, and the press and Congress would still equivocate on the issue of whether his actions were criminal or not.”

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