Hey DICK: A million people DEFIED AL QAEDA and went ahead with life as planned.

[kpete]

NYTimes is reporting that despite cold rain and heightened security, a million people went out and partied in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. Yo, Petes King and Hoekstra, are you paying attention? A million people DEFIED AL QAEDA and went ahead with life as planned.



One of the ways we beat Al Q is by ending national policies that cast us as “ugly Americans” and winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world. The other way we win? If we stop giving Al Q mad props every time they try to scare us. You see terrorism doesn’t work if nobody is afraid of you anymore.

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Really, you guys have got to give up the Cheneyite notion of “exceptionalism”. Cheney uses the idea that the US is exceptional to try to justify the destruction of all the best features of the US — like separation of powers, adherence to the rule of law, belief in civil rights – that might give our nation a claim to being exceptional.

Cheney the draft dodging coward also spread the false notion that Al Q is somehow exceptional, different from all the other ragtag groups of disaffected malcontents who cannot hack it in civil society – the loners, the guys who don’t have friends and can’t get a date, the guys who twist beautiful religious ideas into something dark and unholy, the fuckups in life who need to take revenge for their own failures by trying to literally blow up and destroy regular folk solely to punish them for leading normal, happy productive lives – are somehow elevated into comic book arch villains that no regular law enforcement effort could possibly deal with. Got the Joker? We need Batman!

more:
http://firedoglake.com/2010/01/01/new-yorkers-brave-cold-rain-and-dick-cheneys-fears-to-rock-in-the-new-year/

[Bitwit1234]

1. Did you all see where CNN gave Rove another platform

to try to tell the President what to do. Since he had so so much success with setting national security when bush was in office, what makes him an expert. I think that rove and cheney just can't get it thru their heads that the office they stole for George Bush doesn't exist for George W. Bush anymore. That it belongs to the democrats.

[Vincardog]

2. well it is held by the "leader" of the democratic party.

[Land Shark]

3. And the million plus enjoying themselves happens more than once a blue moon... n/t