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Politics / 2008 Pain and Palin
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM
WaPo takes us back to 2008:
Speaking of Palin and nuclear weapons, during the last Silent Reading party, I returned to this passage in The Gay Science (I use the Silent Reading party to revisit underlined passages—my habit is to underline anything that amazes me):The former GOP vice presidential candidate started the war of words this week when she suggested that Obama was weak on nuclear defense.
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Obama shot back while overseas to sign a nuclear reduction deal with Russia, calling Palin "not much of an expert" on nuclear issues.Palin counterpunched Friday while addressing the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Clearly mocking the president, she dismissed the "vast nuclear experience that he acquired as a community organizer."
The ultimate goal of science is to create for man the greatest possible amount of pleasure and the least possible amount of pain? But suppose pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other...This may not be a perfect description of science in the 21st century (that is still up in the air), but certainly it describes the state of science in the century that followed the one in which Nietzsche wrote all of his work, the 19th century. With nuclear weapons, the greatest amount of pain possible stands next to (and threatens) the greatest amount of pleasure known to humans, advanced capitalist consumerism.
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She, of course, acquired vast knowledge of nuclear weapons issues while robbing the city of Wasilla.
Clearly mocking the president, she dismissed the "vast nuclear experience that he acquired as a community organizer."
She, of course, acquired vast knowledge of nuclear weapons issues while robbing the city of Wasilla.
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Is she *still* on about this community organizer business? Has she not noticed that he's been President for over a year now? That officially qualifies, as if it needed to be reinforced, as more executive experience than she has.
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@2, I know! it makes no fucking sense! over a year! as president! during the most difficult economic crisis since the great depression! she is insane!
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Didn't Reagan, the God of the "conservatives" (which they aren't) reduce nuclear missiles too?
Maybe Palin was dozing off in class when that happened, or making out in the TV weathergirl prep room ...
Maybe Palin was dozing off in class when that happened, or making out in the TV weathergirl prep room ...
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"...he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other..."
That would be Faust, right?
That would be Faust, right?
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@1
I came here to ask which of the 7 state funded community colleges she attended taught her about international nuclear arms policy...but it is the same thing you asked.
I came here to ask which of the 7 state funded community colleges she attended taught her about international nuclear arms policy...but it is the same thing you asked.
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Truth is, nobody has much experience with how to deal with nuclear weapons issues today. They were created for a geopolitical situation that no longer exists. We've gone from a world where the NATO and Warsaw Pact arsenals faced off in the cold war to a world where even third world countries can build a bomb.
Strategic reductions by the US and Russia are more about trying to slow proliferation through leading by example. If either party was really contemplating elimination of the capability to fight a nuclear war then not just weapons, but delivery systems like ballistic missile submarines would be on the table--which they're not.
Strategic reductions by the US and Russia are more about trying to slow proliferation through leading by example. If either party was really contemplating elimination of the capability to fight a nuclear war then not just weapons, but delivery systems like ballistic missile submarines would be on the table--which they're not.
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Dear Sarah, he was a community organizer over two decades ago. Move the fuck on. He also co-sponsored with Republican Dick Luger a bill to secure loose nuclear weapons while he was in the Senate.
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The abyss of my hatred for this farce seems to be a bottomless one. Every news clip, quote, soundbite pushes me deeper.
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