By Via a reader tip comes news that two failed US Presidential candidates could be heading to Pyongyang to secure the release of the two US hostages there:
The U.S. and North Korea have started delicate negotiations over two American journalists who were detained and sentenced to hard labor in North Korea, an influential source in Washington said Sunday. The next three or four weeks will be crucial in deciding whether the two women can walk free.
The U.S. House of Representatives intended last week to adopt a resolution urging the North to release reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling, and the Senate intended to follow suit, but their plans have been postponed at the State Department’s request, the source said. The State Department made the request to Congress because it fears that a resolution could anger the North at a time when the two countries have entered sensitive negotiations, the source added.
Earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on July 10 asked the North to grant the two an amnesty and allow them to return home to their families.
John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who was the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 and former U.S. vice president Al Gore, the founder of the TV station the two reporters work for are being mentioned as possible special envoys to Pyongyang, other sources said. [Chosun Ilbo]
What I find interesting about this is that many people like to say that former President George Bush was a blathering idiot. If that’s so than what does that make Al Gore and John Kerry the two people who lost to him? I guess it makes them qualified to be envoys to Pyongyang.
I wonder if Al Gore will preach global warming nonsense to Kim Jong-il?
7:16 pm on July 20th, 2009 1
Reports are that both have passed through Poland, Rumania, Turkey, and Italy trying to find North Korea. They said ‘as soon as they find where the country is they will immediately release the reporters.’ AP.
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9:11 pm on July 20th, 2009 2
“news that two failed US Presidential candidates could be heading to Pyongyang”
I would like to believe that… but I’m not entirely convinced that those two elections were completely on the up-and-up.
In Gore’s case, he clearly received votes from the majority of the population and only lost the electoral votes due to shadiness.
It almost seems as if the System, and not the men, failed.
Oh, and by the way, I loathe them both…
…but my desire for completely honest and transparent elections is much stronger than my dislike of these two clowns.
Can we just do a swap? You guys can just keep Gore and Kerry. You don’t even have to send the reporters back. We will send you Kennedy and Franken next week. You can collect the whole set!
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10:24 pm on July 20th, 2009 3
“What I find interesting about this is that many people like to say that former President George Bush was a blathering idiot. If that’s so than what does that make Al Gore and John Kerry the two people who lost to him?”
Change that to, “If that’s so than what does that make the people who voted for Bush?”
Much better.
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July 21st, 2009 at 3:52 am
It makes them people who gave enough of a sh1t about the republic to not vote for a couple of liberal douchenozzles.
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July 21st, 2009 at 8:04 am
BZZZT Wrong. It makes them victims.
Gore: Having your brother as the governor of a swing state and having activist judges on the Supreme Court hand you the election. (Yes, they are activists. All judges are. Republicans just bitch about it when the activism is against them.)
Kerry: Rove’s campaign of getting the Bible thumpers out to vote for Bush when he talked about banning gay marriage, and the lies of the Swift Boat Veterans.
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July 21st, 2009 at 8:27 am
How many of the Swift Boat vets do you personally know? Probably none, I bet.
It’s always more FUN when you can claim victimhood. Maybe you can go on Oprah or something…
July 21st, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Being swiftboated by veterans is a claim of telling the truth, where did you hear it was about lies?
10:27 pm on July 20th, 2009 4
“What I find interesting about this is that many people like to say that former President George Bush was a blathering idiot”
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There’s nothing about former President Bush or his inarticulate yammerings in this news story — how do you find that “interesting about this”? I find it interesting that someone on the planet still believes that those elections were remotely close to fair. Chickenhead is entirely correct when he states that at the very least the 2000 election was not on the “up and up”. The only difference between the 2009 Iranian election and the 2000 American election is that the Iranians proved that there are people who care enough to take to the streets and vocalize sentiments of a stolen election — even in the face of violent repression.
Gore and Kerry may have been failed candidates, but Bush was a failed president. 9/11Fail. Iraqfail. Katrinafail. Afghanifail. PatriotActfail. _____fail.
I wonder if ROKDrop will preach partisan nonsense to its readers?
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July 21st, 2009 at 3:54 am
Yeah- Katrina was an opportunity for the Fed Gov to blow right past a state and municipal gov. We smacked down the Iraqis, and we inherited 9/11. History, strategy, and civics fail for you, sweet thing.
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July 21st, 2009 at 7:05 am
It is interesting that the Annenberg Foundation that both Bill Ayers and Barack Obama had ties to in Chicago begrudgingly believes that Bush won the election:
Think about this, if George Bush lost maybe he could have been an envoy to Pyongyang.
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10:32 pm on July 20th, 2009 5
“If that’s so than what does that make the people who voted for Bush?””
Nobody voted for Bush. They voted against Gore and Kerry.
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July 20th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
More like they voted for God, Jesus, and assault rifles.
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July 21st, 2009 at 1:15 am
The most common explanation was people voted for the person they would most like to sit down and have a beer with.
I still haven’t heard a good explanation for those who think Sarah Palin would be a good candidate for President.
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July 21st, 2009 at 3:55 am
Yeah- the drive by media hates her so she MUST be bad. Maybe Oprah can run next time.
July 21st, 2009 at 5:49 am
As they should have- and some day we can have assault rifles again, like we did before 1934.
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2:52 am on July 21st, 2009 6
If they want to send a failed presidential candidate, they should send Howard Stern…He’s the only one who can produce what Kim Jong-il really wants: porn stars.
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5:15 am on July 21st, 2009 7
Coll, Kerry can throw his medals at Kim J. Illin’ and Gore can bore the bastard to death with his inconvenient stupidity.
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6:07 am on July 21st, 2009 8
Dear Lord, it’s happened again. Another Republican vs Democrat slug fest…
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July 21st, 2009 at 7:16 am
It is kind of like what the Japanese do to Koreans with the Dokdo issue. It is fun to poke people with this issue just to see the reactions.
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July 21st, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I have an entry in my blog about the Dokdo stuff.
http://waronbull.blogspot.com/2009/07/dokdo-very-politicized-piece-of-worth.html
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July 21st, 2009 at 5:20 pm
notice that I messed up the title…
6:54 am on July 21st, 2009 9
GWB is a product of american Society and a ruinous political system. Even the new prez has looked extremely foolish in his first six months in office. If anything, the society and political system needs to change to produce decent leaders, right now everyone seems or is buffoonish.
It’s a sad commentary but I don’t see anything but further decline for the united states. If anything, the financial situation (not just the recession but the 23 TRILLION in debt owed to China, etc.) will extremely diminish the u.s.’s role in the future.
HJ
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July 21st, 2009 at 7:42 am
We just want to be like Zimbabwe… One day at a time. C’mon everybody!
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8:07 am on July 21st, 2009 10
Sorry, I replied too early. I didn’t realize that this site was run by reactionaries. Go back to your trailers, folks. Nothing to see here.
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July 21st, 2009 at 8:25 am
No – just adults, more than a few who have seen the elephant and been around the world a few times- and don’t appreciate being pissed on and being told it’s raining.
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July 21st, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I’m guessing the elephants you saw were the ones Hannibal rode, as your posts clearly indicate your age. When did your great grandson teach you to use the internets?
“As they should have- and some day we can have assault rifles again, like we did before 1934.”
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July 21st, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Is there more than one internet? I’m kinda old, like you mentioned.
Before the NFA of 1934, Americans owned whatever guns they wanted. Even ones with evil protruding phallic-like appendages like pistol grips, and automatic weapons. Now automatic weapons are strictly controlled. Crime is all but a memory- except in places where regular people are allowed to own weapons. We have police who you can ask to live in your house who will protect you, so you don’t have to do anything- and everyone knows that only police and Army guys are carefully screened and highly trained in the use of guns. Civilians just aren’t smart enough to protect themselves and many of them just can’t help but commit crimes when the occasion presents itself.
Most people can’t help but commit crimes when they come near an evil weapon of any sort. I’ve seen it on The View and on Oprah.
That’s why places which have tough restrictions on guns are so safe, and places which don’t have restrictions on guns are so dangerous. Look at Washington DC and Boise Idaho. Washington is safe and quiet, while Idaho requires curfews, federal troops, and SWAT teams to keep a lid on the crime and bloodshed. The horror!
5:55 pm on July 21st, 2009 11
Don’t worry, Junior…
These days, all the cops think they are SWAT and all the SWAT think they are special forces… and homeland security has ‘em equipped that way.
…but there aren’t enough of them to control a motivated and irritated (or homeless/jobless) population.
If one ever needs an assault rifle, it can likely be pried from their cold, dead hands.
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