Comments on: The more things change

By: Lucas

Lucas — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:37:02 +0000

Dana: I think you may have gotten the Democratic Republicans confused with the republican part. According to Wikipedia, The D-R’s of Hamilton’s day had nothing to do with modern republicans (which I believe were founded to oppose slavery). The Republicans were founded on good principles, which the democrats were opposed to (the elimination of slavery). Obviously not everything stays the same.

By: Dana Hunter

Dana Hunter — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:25:00 +0000

They’ve always had a rather difficult time with the truth, too. In reading about Alexander Hamilton, I’m discovering that the Republicans from their very inception were fond of spewing partisian lies in the press.

The more things change…

By: George

George — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:14:12 +0000

I forget; is there oil in Kosovo?

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:06:36 +0000

not all scripts are equal

Given—so what are the Republicans doing? A monologue?

“Democrats start war to pander to Republican crossover vote and avoid being soft on guerrilla/communist/terrorist, Republican wants more! war”

Which of these is the Kosovo intervention? On that one, the justification was moral grounds, 100,000 dead (we were told) and ethnic cleansing*. The Republicans objected strenuously.

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* An exercise for the idle: Which constituents of the FY are the most ethnically diverse? Which the least?

By: webs05

webs05 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:19:23 +0000

How depressing!

By: George

George — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:23:54 +0000

Not all scripts are equal. I have no illusions that the Democratic party has always been on the side of the “great power is a correspondingly great moral responsibility” script but it gets dusted off fairly often. Usually by the party that didn’t start the war. It seems to me that the pendulum swings from
“Republicans start war, Democrats want to stop war”
- to -
“Democrats start war to pander to Republican crossover vote and avoid being soft on guerrilla/communist/terrorist, Republican wants more! war”

and it’s gotten much worse since Reagan, who finally cured me of voting Republican.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:10:07 +0000

yes, but I get the impression that both sides are using a script.

If only Republicans were party to repeating a predetermined script, it would seem pretty absurd. But, like most dramas, once you get the script down, and the audience likes the show, the show can make a lot of money.