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post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 25 July 2008 08:45:39 PM. © My Left Wing - Front Page
Appearing at The Jaundiced Eye, the Independent Bloggers' Alliance, and My Left Wing.
Separted at Birth?
Well, this was fairly inevitable. Batman is our new neocon hero. Wall Street Journal's Andrew Klavan has gone so far as to insist that the caped crusader is none other than George W. Bush.
A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds . . .Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."
There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.
I had little doubt that the moral ambivalence depicted in "The Dark Knight" would set off alarm bells for civil libertarians and give fodder to fans of the extra-legal. But Klavan (and yes, I find it hilarious that his name evokes that other pseudo-intellectual Cliffie Clavin of "Cheers" fame) has put forth a very shoddy analysis to back his claim.
Let's start with the obvious. Batman does not become a vigilante because of the nature of the criminals he's pursuing, however much like terrorists Klavan imagines them to be. He becomes a vigilante because of a broken system of government and jurisprudence. One which is in bed with the crime families it is supposed to be arresting and prosecuting. All of Gotham is a well-known cesspool of criminality, in which it is an open secret that institutions like the bank the Joker robs in the opening sequence, are owned by the mob. The crime in Gotham is not anomalous or unexpected, like terrorism. It's institutionalized into the very fabric of Batman's universe. Gotham is a city in which nearly every public and private institution is enmeshed in a culture of criminality. The handful of honest pols, police, and prosecutors, are hamstrung by the corruption in their own midst. Now that sounds like the Bush Administration. Batman, for his part, longs for a trustworthy gatekeeper of the public trust, and sincerely hopes that the apparently scrupulous Harvey Dent will make his tactics unnecessary.
Also, unlike Bush, et al., Batman is quite aware that he is breaking some laws. He's not insisting that everything he does is legal and enlisting attorneys to reinterpret the Constitution. He is beset by moral qualms that have never been expressed by that poster child for wrong-headed certitude, George W. Bush.
Batman also fights his own battles. He doesn't send thousands of men and women off to fight and die, after carefully avoiding war in a champagne unit of the National Guard. Bush is more like the wealthy, playboy persona Bruce Wayne adopts to throw people off the trail of his superhero identity.
Although Klavan doesn't specifically address it, the issue of torture has been raised, because of the brutal and sadistic tactics employed by Batman, and in some cases, undertakes under the imprimatur of the Police Dept. It has even been suggested, in some quarters, as testimony to the efficacy of torture. The propensity amongst Republican weenies to confuse movies and television with reality, has been well covered. But more to the point, if we are using "The Dark Knight" as an elucidation of the merits of torture, it would behoove us to recognize that torturing that "terrorist," the Joker, didn't work. In fact it played right into his hands. He used Batman's little chair smashing exercise to do what real interrogation experts have long warned any terrorist would in the event of the "ticking-time-bomb" scenario: Run out the clock.
There is no question that "The Dark Knight" tests the boundaries of major civil liberties questions. But the film, in addition to being set in a virtually lawless environment, also wrestles with those questions, rather than offer pat answers. It does not portray anything like the moral clarity Klavan suggests. Quite the contrary.
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Cuz Hes A Regular Guy
post from Firedoglake on 25 July 2008 08:45:12 PM. © Firedoglake
Brooks attacks Obama's Berlin speech for being too full of fluffy rhetoric. But then, it doesn't seem to cross his radar that a "drift far from reality" is even more pronounced in the John McCain camp.[...]
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post from TalkLeft on 25 July 2008 08:29:00 PM. © TalkLeft
Dennis Kucinich didn't get the impeachment hearing he wanted, but he did get a hearing on "Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations." That gave former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson the opportunity to tell Congress that
there's a "compelling case" for the impeachment of President Bush, but that short of that, it should appoint a special commission to investigate egregious abuses of power. Anderson, testifying Friday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing looking at the constitutional limits of the executive branch, detailed a litany of what he said were "heinous" human rights abuses, unprecedented power grabs and denials of due process.
Illness kept John Dean from testifying, but in this article Dean compares President Bush's abuses of power to those of Richard Nixon.
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post from Jesus' General on 25 July 2008 08:25:00 PM. © Jesus' General
The First Rule of Fight Club is a Sacred Rule: You Do Not Talk About Fight Club.
Apparently, some people just don't understand this very simple rule.
When we, as Americans, begin to talk about Fight Club as if we are worthy of entering the discussion among our betters, well, the jig will be up and everything you have ever cared about in this life will be ruined.
Praise the Lord, and good luck with your body fat melting into the vinyl seats.
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transition plans are unusual or unprecedented -- but Presidents Bush, Clinton, Reagan, and Carter also planned ahead
post from Media Matters for America on 25 July 2008 08:24:07 PM. © Media Matters for America
On the July 24 editionof Fox News' Your World with NeilCavuto, guest host David Asman falsely claimed of Sen. Barack Obama's reported plans for aWhite House transition months before the November election:"It's never been done before." After Temple Universityassistant professor Marc Lamont Hillsaid, "I'm not convinced that it's never been donebefore," Asman replied: "Well, I can't think of an example, and youcan't think of an example. ... That's two out of two people."Similarly, during the July[...]
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Rationale For His Entire Campaign
post from Firedoglake on 25 July 2008 08:17:20 PM. © Firedoglake
So let me make sure I understand. The reason to vote for McCain is because he has more foreign policy know-how than Obama, right? I mean, he's admitted that he doesn't know anything about the economy so foreign affairs is obviously where he's making his[...]
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post from Docudharma - Front Page on 25 July 2008 08:15:00 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page
This essay speaks of the political scientist and philosopher Hannah Arendt.All quotes are from Elisabeth Young-Bruel's wonderful biography of Arendt, For Love of the World.And my method in writing on this difficult (at least to me!) subject are taken[...]
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post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 25 July 2008 08:15:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
Great. The free-market phonies strike again. The only thing "free" is "free money" at about half the rate of inflation for everyone else. Remember, when the tables are turned these organizations would not and do not lift a finger to help so why are we giving them such an easy free ride? Just because the Phil Gramm's of the world are paid handsomely to negotiate such handouts, it doesn't mean it's in our best interest.
Banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms didn't draw such loans.
A Fed report released Thursday said commercial banks averaged $16.4 billion in daily borrowing over the past week.
That was up from $13.9 billion in the previous week.
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post from DemConWatch on 25 July 2008 08:11:00 PM. © DemConWatch
Update 7/25: Latest projection: Obama leads 304-234, up 1 EV from our previous forecast. McCain gains in MN, MI and OH, Obama in PA and FL, and overall inches a little further ahead.
Please also check out our Senate Forecast and House Forecast.
Map showing consensus of sources. This table will show a state Blue or Red if a majority of the sources show it Leaning or Solid for that candidate. MI moves from Obama to Tossup.
Unanimous solid states, not shown in the table below:
Solid Obama: CA, CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, NY, RI, VT - 150 EVs.
Solid McCain: AL, ID, KS, KY, NE, OK, TN, UT, WY - 58 EVs.
The sources are sorted by each projection's estimate of Obama's Electoral Votes (Algorithm at bottom). The states are sorted by the number of electoral votes.
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