the muslim guy from MN is not senator. He’s a member of the house.

Lion-O was my first boyfriend.

I agree and what’s more nobody should let these events remove their hostility/suspicion of the powerful. The Democrats need to be scrutinised just as much as the Bush etc.

Me too, I’m sick of hearing that. As for Rummy, a big facking w00000t!

Did anyone see the ITV news lat night? It was an incredible, scathing report, even showed Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam and mentioning how the US and him were once allies (where was that reported during the run up to the war?)!? Amazing stuff…

Nice to see the Republican’s last hopes being dashed because of the one man who made a racist comment towards a South Asian.

Looks like the thundercats have control of the senate.
The first thing they should do is let Snarf become US state rep and replace all those borning Merc’s with over-sized thundertanks hand-built by Panthro.

Er… Rice and Powell were/are in pretty high up positions during the rule of this administration, and they are of color….

I don’t think the skin color matters so much as to whether a specific person’s politics are in line with those in power.

As for the presidential candidacy. I’m rooting for Obama. It’s about time that the right wing republicans get shown the equality of colour in the higher ranks.

I don’t know…. I mean, this administration has brazenly done things that normally one would think twice before doing. They were able to convince Americans (who are generally totally uninformed and/or misinformed about US foreign policy) that Iraq had WMD. When that pretense became discredited, they led Americans to believe the second justification about “bringing Democracy to the Mid East.” And guess what? I have heard a lot of Americans actually believe this and repeat it.

And his replacement has form – from the Iran-Contra affair.

What this result might do is make them think twice about invading Iran.

Or they might be paniced into doing just that – reshape the middle east in their own image while they still have time.

Or they might be just stupid to do it anyway – there are signs of stupidity of this magnitude in bits of the right wing press (Iraq is a ‘success’ because terrorism is a ‘product of order in the Middle East’).

“Did anyone notice how Jon Snow on C4 news wanted to do nothing but grill the 2 democrats on what they were now planning to do on Iraq, and all they seemed to want to do was to avoid the question?”

“I doubt things will change much in Iraq in the short term. It was more of a moral and symbolic victory than anything.”

Oh, you guys noticed too?

See, this is why I am cynical. And pessimistic. I know what the strategists for the Democratic campaign were thinking: “Don’t say anything too drastic; we can’t afford to lose votes to the Repubicans. Stay as harmless as possible.” Which translates as:

Stay in the middle. Don’t stray too, too far from the Repubicans’ platform.

That is why I think the Demos are a bunch of pathetic Repubican wannabes. They still can’t bring themselves to say the words, “BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW.” and put it into action. This despite the fact that opinion polls (can be flawed as an indicator of voter behavior, though) overwhelmingly demonstrate that the American public thinks that the war in Iraq was a big mistake and has become a disaster.

And a lot didn’t vote. I havent’ checked the percentage of voter turnout, but my two roommates told me frankly last night, “I didn’t vote. And really, why bother?” One said that after Bush got re-elected the second time around, she just felt that her vote didn’t count at all. She said “I know it’s the wrong thing to do– I should get out there and vote. But is it really going to make a difference?”

Granted, we are in California, which is a Demo stronghold.