Cross-posted at DailyKos

I am a 30-year old US born (I don't know how many generations, but if I had to identify my ethnicity, it would be Oklahoman - my dad's side of the family is from the country and my mom's side is from the city).  I graduate (Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering) from a university this semester.

My wife and I got married just a couple of months before our first son was born, just over 7 years ago (1999).  She is from Venezuela.

Oh no!  The Worst President Ever is the commencement speaker at my graduation.  I have been working towrd this event for 4 years, and now this asshole wants to co-opt it for political points.

This fucker, who is gutting education, is speaking at my college like he is a decent person instead of a fucking monster!!

What an asshole.  I hate this man.  He is ruining my graduation.  The worst part... everyone around here is like, "How did they get him?" and I always have the same reply... "Why did the get him?"

George Bush Go Home!  Better yet, GO AWAY!

Just heard on CNN that the police in DC are saying that the reason for her arrest was that her T-shirt constituted a protest in and of itself.

Dick Cheney has chutzpah, I'll give him that.  At a Heritage Foundation speech on CSPAN-2 today Cheney went off, and my jaw hit the floor.  I shouldn't be surprised to hear "War Is Peace!" from this man, but WTF?

Lately our forces in Iraq have been receiving some mixed signals out of Washington, and they might have been wondering whether America has what it takes to stay in the fight. I assured them that the American people do not support a policy of passivity, resignation, or defeatism in the face of terror. If we have learned anything in the last 25 years -- from Beirut, to Somalia, to the USS Cole -- it is that terrorist attacks are not caused by the projection of force; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And this nation made a decision: We will never go back to the false comforts of the world before September 11th, 2001. We will engage these enemies with the goal of victory. And with the American military in the fight, that victory is certain. (Applause.)

Huh?  No, sorry Dick, the there are only ways to draw that conclusion from 9/11: to he hit in the head with a blunt object, or to be willfully wrong because you already know which concusion you want to draw.  Clearly 9/11 had more to do with the projection of force than the perception of weakness.  Al Quaeda has stated as much, and there is no reason for them to lie about that.  It is a matter of record... the projection of force by the U.S.S.R. into Afghanistan and the projection of U.S. force in Saudi Arabia and the gulf region are the two main triggers.  The Caliphate is simply their 'solution' to the problem... their proposed solution(an extreme fundamaentalist trans-national government) is clearly much worse as our presence, but clearly that is not what is getting them recruits, and it certainly is not a preception of weakness among the Arab world poulation.

There are no Muslim youths sitting around looking at countries to commit suicide via some sort of engagement(bomb, hijacking, gunfire, boat, whatever) with some generic country , saying "who is the weakest?"  That's stupid.  Something prompts them to kill themselves, and whether it is Spain, Israel, or the US... there is something that justifies that in their mind.  And it isn't percieved weakness, it is percieved injustice or unholiness, or whatever ticked them off, rational or not.  But a ton of it is justifiable outrage, and we DO excercise immense power in that region to the detriment of the population for utterly amorl interests.

Cheney has ZERO cause to even look at, much less take, the moral highground here.  In fact, the Secret Sevice should wash his mouth out with soap for even bringing the subject up.

This is like some perverted Pinnochio where every time he lies his balls get bigger!