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Who has the worst radical bedfellows: Obama and Clinton or Thurmond and Feith? Discuss today's Blowback.

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From the Los Angeles Times

You miss the most important point entirely. Barack has campaigned as the agent of "hope, unity and change" without specifying what that means. Many centrist and even conservative voters have cast ballots for him based on his glossy but vague rhetoric. The information that his associates have included indicted a Chicago businessman, a black nationalist preacher and an unrepentant veteran of the Weatherman says a lot about Obama's worldview. That why I, a lifelong Democrat, plan to vote for John McCain.

Graniteman @ 4:43 AM PDT, Mar 17, 2008
It is obvious the Jonah Goldberg apple did not fall far from the tree.

Katherine @ 6:39 PM PDT, Mar 9, 2008
if ayers claimed responsibility for the bombings he should have his us citizenship revoked, besides he could live in mexifornia where us citizenship is considered a liablilty.

Dave @ 12:45 PM PST, Mar 8, 2008
Jonah Goldberg's continuing intellectual thuggery, dishonesty, and vapidity should be called out whenever he writes. The Times would be doing the community a service by replacing him with a a writer--conservative or progressive--of genuine substance.

Tony Litwinko @ 1:50 PM PST, Mar 7, 2008
Doughy Pantload? What are you 12? People are free to associate with whomever they choose without it being a crime. No one is talking about throwing people in jail for their associations here. At the same time that they are free to associate with anyone they choose, I am free to question their judgement in doing so. Call me crazy, but I have a problem with Barack Obama being cozy with a unrepentant leader of the WeatherUnderground. That is not my idea of solid judgement. What's so wrong with being a radical? Nothing until you start planting explosives.

Mike H @ 8:55 AM PST, Mar 7, 2008
Why isn't Jonah Goldberg on the front lines in Iraq? He wants the "United States to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to show that we mean business", but he doesn't want to risk his own rear-end. His excuse, I suppose, is that he's married with a 3 year old daughter, but how many servicemen in Iraq have families at home? Jonah is an excellent example of chicken crap - like many of the other right wing pundits. I got this information from the March edition of In These Times - but the original information was from a blog by Glenn Greenwald on Salon, I should get this info from the Times

William Joseph Miller @ 10:28 PM PST, Mar 6, 2008
Anyone who has read his ridiculous bit of agit-prop Liberal Fascism can clearly see that this guy is either a. The King of Intellectual Dishonesty or b. Incredibly stupid. In it, Goldberg comes up with gems of deductive reasoning like: Since Hitler was a vegetarian, and many liberals are vegetarians, ipso facto, liberals are Nazis.

John Kelly @ 5:31 PM PST, Mar 6, 2008
Why is the L.A. Times paying for such petty editorials? Most of the editorial writers have become like talk radio hosts, trying to wind us up like children, play on our fears. Anything, right, as long as it's a reaction? Whatever, L.A. Times.

Greg Spiegel @ 4:56 PM PST, Mar 6, 2008
Mike H: So what "they had relationships"??? It's America. We can have "relationships" with anyone we want, provided we don't break laws. It's called freedom of assembly, & freedom of association. And what's wrong with being "radical?" Sure as heck beats hack McCarthyite conservatives who only owe their position to the fact that their mommy was friends with someone who knew Monica Lewinsky. Now THAT's a relationship worth talking about. Why anyone would give the Doughy Pantload any attention other than to point out the fact that he's a pathological liar, well, I don't know.

Mumon @ 2:23 PM PST, Mar 6, 2008
Why does anybody read jonah goldberg--he is a fool.

Jerry Wickliffe @ 2:12 PM PST, Mar 6, 2008
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