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		<title>Comment on Obama’s Election Brings Joy to…White Supremacists?! by ekinyqedov</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on How Wall Street Became a Mess by refinance home loan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Nonsensical Hitchens Has Become a Joke by Will</title>
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		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amen brother!  It is strange that I agree so much with Hitchens on religion but when he gets to politics it's like he enters the bizzaro world.  He is paradoxical in a sense because he gives the pretense of being a clear thinker and lucid word smith, yet he goes to great lengths to make his positions slippery and semi-unintelligible.  My theory is that he knows that he is not the most intelligent and astute observor on the far left, and this is extremely frustrating to his ego.  So he has to create his own ideological platform to be unique, elusive, and therefore beyond people's grasp in order to feel like a top-dog again.  But the only way he can do this is by contorting and straining the application of his espoused ethical principles in strange and inconsistent ways (as the above piece illustrates).  If you watch his debate with Scott Ritter you can see him use his slimy debating tactics to keep his position slippery enough to be elusive.  He resorts to cheap debating tactics, logical inconsistencies and sophistry to elude the reality of total defeat.  It is sad in a way.  I think I parted ways with him after the Kissinger stuff.  Maybe he should just write fiction like his hero Rushdie.  Has anyone seen his book of letters where he gives himself the last word in every exchange...what a cheap tactic.... But why I am I suprised?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amen brother!  It is strange that I agree so much with Hitchens on religion but when he gets to politics it&#8217;s like he enters the bizzaro world.  He is paradoxical in a sense because he gives the pretense of being a clear thinker and lucid word smith, yet he goes to great lengths to make his positions slippery and semi-unintelligible.  My theory is that he knows that he is not the most intelligent and astute observor on the far left, and this is extremely frustrating to his ego.  So he has to create his own ideological platform to be unique, elusive, and therefore beyond people&#8217;s grasp in order to feel like a top-dog again.  But the only way he can do this is by contorting and straining the application of his espoused ethical principles in strange and inconsistent ways (as the above piece illustrates).  If you watch his debate with Scott Ritter you can see him use his slimy debating tactics to keep his position slippery enough to be elusive.  He resorts to cheap debating tactics, logical inconsistencies and sophistry to elude the reality of total defeat.  It is sad in a way.  I think I parted ways with him after the Kissinger stuff.  Maybe he should just write fiction like his hero Rushdie.  Has anyone seen his book of letters where he gives himself the last word in every exchange&#8230;what a cheap tactic&#8230;. But why I am I suprised?</p>
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		<title>Comment on It’ll Still be Politics as Usual Under Obama by Tomas</title>
		<link>http://www.takingbackpolitics.com/2008/11/it%e2%80%99ll-still-be-politics-as-usual-under-obama#comment-127</link>
		<dc:creator>Tomas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well written post, but a couple things.

While you assume, albeit with eloquent cynicism, that Obama will be be consumed by the powers of state capitalism and the power interests on Washington, you give us no reasons or characteristics about the President-elect indicating why he would be so vulnerable to these power interests. He ran on a proposal that he is different, and most people believe him, including me. It is our job to show his vulnerabilities and keep him to his word. Im waiting, like maybe many, for Obama to betray us and himself. But, I am also eager for him to  be faithful to his words during the campaign. It is up to the media to prove his failure or eventual, if we are to be convinced by your column, betrayal.

And re Cynthia McKinney...she is irrelevant. Did she not win the votes she should have because of a media black out...or because her campaign sucked. I only have the MSM to go off of...but...see this story in the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/26/AR2008102602240.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well written post, but a couple things.</p>
<p>While you assume, albeit with eloquent cynicism, that Obama will be be consumed by the powers of state capitalism and the power interests on Washington, you give us no reasons or characteristics about the President-elect indicating why he would be so vulnerable to these power interests. He ran on a proposal that he is different, and most people believe him, including me. It is our job to show his vulnerabilities and keep him to his word. Im waiting, like maybe many, for Obama to betray us and himself. But, I am also eager for him to  be faithful to his words during the campaign. It is up to the media to prove his failure or eventual, if we are to be convinced by your column, betrayal.</p>
<p>And re Cynthia McKinney&#8230;she is irrelevant. Did she not win the votes she should have because of a media black out&#8230;or because her campaign sucked. I only have the MSM to go off of&#8230;but&#8230;see this story in the Washington Post. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/26/AR2008102602240.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/26/AR2008102602240.html</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on The White House on Election Night by Jeff Atkinson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff Atkinson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Symbolism of an Obama Presidency Can’t be Denied by hannah friedman</title>
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		<dc:creator>hannah friedman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am 22 and  I'd like to capture my thoughts before America either elects a president who its first 26 presidents could have legally owned, or brazenly subverts the very ideals it was founded upon by manipulating numbers in a final embarrassingly overt goosestep towards corporate totalitarianism.

I am nervous. And not night-before-the-swim-test nervous or even night-you-lose-your-virginity nervous, it's a low rumbling primal panic which I can only liken to Star Wars panic. Disney panic. The edge-of-your-seat-terror that makes you  wonder if Skywalker's doomed after he refuses to join Darth Vader and drops down into the abyss, if the wicked octopus or grand vizier or steroid-pumping-village-misogynist is going to wed/kill/skin the dashing prince and then evil people in dark funny costumes are going to take over the world... if it wasn't a movie of course.

And tonight it's not. It's not a movie and yet I feel like Obama might as well be wearing an American flag cape while a decaying McCain, in a high-tech robotic spider wheelchair wearing an eyepatch and stroking an evil cat, gives orders to a sexy scheming Palin who marches back and forth through their sub-terranian campaign lair in four inch thigh-highs and full-body black leather catsuit bossing around the evangelical ants with a loooooong  whip... umm... is this just me? 

Anyway, the point is that things feel weird folks. I have friends who have peed in waterbottles to keep from interrupting a Halo-playing marathon who got off their asses/couches to volunteer for the Obama campaign not once, but many times. Friends so cheap their body content is at least 1/3 Ramen Noodle who donated a good deal of their hard-earned cash to the campaign. People have registered to vote in record numbers, and yet, something just doesn't feel right. I think we should stop congratulating ourselves for just voting. To vote is a privilege which people have died for, and I think there's a whole lot more to be done for the country than to simply help win an election every 4 years.

Hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of man-hours spent on both sides by good-intentioned people who want to make a difference in an historic election, so many resources and voices and energies devoted to a single day. After tomorrow, half of that is going to have been a waste. And I can't help but wonder what could have happened if all that muscle had been put towards something else, and what will happen to its momentum after the election has come and gone. Shouldn't we be donating our money to good causes whenever we can? Helping people who don't have? Dedicating some of our time to  contribute to making the country which provides for us a better place? Of course a power shift is a hugely significant step on the path to great reform, but worrying about this election has been a wakeup call for me:

Even if Obama wins, we have not "won." This isn't a movie and we can't toss every greedy lobbyist oil fatcat bigot down a reactor shaft. I think if we dedicate ourselves to the ongoing welfare of the country as much as we have to the outcome of this election, we'll have a much better shot at coming closer to the overwhelming good the liberals hope Obama will usher in, but which no mere mortal could fully realize alone. 

Which brings me to the other side. I've heard a lot of people claim that if McCain wins, they're leaving. I heard the same thing about Bush's reelection, and his unelection before that, and nobody seems to be leaving. And that's fine. Because as much as I complain about certain political happenings, atrocities, etc., I really do like it here and I suspect most other people do too. We have New York and Hollywood, purple mountain's majesty and sea to shining sea, we created jazz and country music and baseball and cars and lightbulbs and computers and that movie with hundreds of animated singing Chihuahuas! I mean who among the shivering Plymouth pilgrims ever imagined ordering hundreds of animated singing chihuahuas onto a magical box from an invisible information superweb?

The point being, if things don't turn out the way I want tomorrow, I feel compelled, as a college-graduated adultish-type-person, to take a stand. And if I'm going to leave I'm going to leave. But if I'm going to stay I'm not going to sit around whining like I have for the past 8 years. It's like when I don't clean my room because it's dirty and then I blame the dirt. So in my very indecisive way, before you and your screen, I'm declaring my intention to make some kind of stand in the event of -(Ican'tevensayit)-, and encouraging you to consider making one too...

Jump the ship or grab a bucket? 
-Sigh- 
Wasn't everything so much easier back when the worst possible affront to your values was a PB&#38;J sandwich cut diagonally with crust?

Anyways, I guess what I'm saying is that if we're going to stay on board, we should probably be generous with our time and resources when times are tough even more than when the hero saves the day. Because what if he doesn't? And what if he can't? "Yes we can" should mean more than just winning an election if we're really committed to change.

Best,
Hannah Friedman
www.writinghannah.blogspot.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am 22 and  I&#8217;d like to capture my thoughts before America either elects a president who its first 26 presidents could have legally owned, or brazenly subverts the very ideals it was founded upon by manipulating numbers in a final embarrassingly overt goosestep towards corporate totalitarianism.</p>
<p>I am nervous. And not night-before-the-swim-test nervous or even night-you-lose-your-virginity nervous, it&#8217;s a low rumbling primal panic which I can only liken to Star Wars panic. Disney panic. The edge-of-your-seat-terror that makes you  wonder if Skywalker&#8217;s doomed after he refuses to join Darth Vader and drops down into the abyss, if the wicked octopus or grand vizier or steroid-pumping-village-misogynist is going to wed/kill/skin the dashing prince and then evil people in dark funny costumes are going to take over the world&#8230; if it wasn&#8217;t a movie of course.</p>
<p>And tonight it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s not a movie and yet I feel like Obama might as well be wearing an American flag cape while a decaying McCain, in a high-tech robotic spider wheelchair wearing an eyepatch and stroking an evil cat, gives orders to a sexy scheming Palin who marches back and forth through their sub-terranian campaign lair in four inch thigh-highs and full-body black leather catsuit bossing around the evangelical ants with a loooooong  whip&#8230; umm&#8230; is this just me? </p>
<p>Anyway, the point is that things feel weird folks. I have friends who have peed in waterbottles to keep from interrupting a Halo-playing marathon who got off their asses/couches to volunteer for the Obama campaign not once, but many times. Friends so cheap their body content is at least 1/3 Ramen Noodle who donated a good deal of their hard-earned cash to the campaign. People have registered to vote in record numbers, and yet, something just doesn&#8217;t feel right. I think we should stop congratulating ourselves for just voting. To vote is a privilege which people have died for, and I think there&#8217;s a whole lot more to be done for the country than to simply help win an election every 4 years.</p>
<p>Hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of man-hours spent on both sides by good-intentioned people who want to make a difference in an historic election, so many resources and voices and energies devoted to a single day. After tomorrow, half of that is going to have been a waste. And I can&#8217;t help but wonder what could have happened if all that muscle had been put towards something else, and what will happen to its momentum after the election has come and gone. Shouldn&#8217;t we be donating our money to good causes whenever we can? Helping people who don&#8217;t have? Dedicating some of our time to  contribute to making the country which provides for us a better place? Of course a power shift is a hugely significant step on the path to great reform, but worrying about this election has been a wakeup call for me:</p>
<p>Even if Obama wins, we have not &#8220;won.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t a movie and we can&#8217;t toss every greedy lobbyist oil fatcat bigot down a reactor shaft. I think if we dedicate ourselves to the ongoing welfare of the country as much as we have to the outcome of this election, we&#8217;ll have a much better shot at coming closer to the overwhelming good the liberals hope Obama will usher in, but which no mere mortal could fully realize alone. </p>
<p>Which brings me to the other side. I&#8217;ve heard a lot of people claim that if McCain wins, they&#8217;re leaving. I heard the same thing about Bush&#8217;s reelection, and his unelection before that, and nobody seems to be leaving. And that&#8217;s fine. Because as much as I complain about certain political happenings, atrocities, etc., I really do like it here and I suspect most other people do too. We have New York and Hollywood, purple mountain&#8217;s majesty and sea to shining sea, we created jazz and country music and baseball and cars and lightbulbs and computers and that movie with hundreds of animated singing Chihuahuas! I mean who among the shivering Plymouth pilgrims ever imagined ordering hundreds of animated singing chihuahuas onto a magical box from an invisible information superweb?</p>
<p>The point being, if things don&#8217;t turn out the way I want tomorrow, I feel compelled, as a college-graduated adultish-type-person, to take a stand. And if I&#8217;m going to leave I&#8217;m going to leave. But if I&#8217;m going to stay I&#8217;m not going to sit around whining like I have for the past 8 years. It&#8217;s like when I don&#8217;t clean my room because it&#8217;s dirty and then I blame the dirt. So in my very indecisive way, before you and your screen, I&#8217;m declaring my intention to make some kind of stand in the event of -(Ican&#8217;tevensayit)-, and encouraging you to consider making one too&#8230;</p>
<p>Jump the ship or grab a bucket?<br />
-Sigh-<br />
Wasn&#8217;t everything so much easier back when the worst possible affront to your values was a PB&amp;J sandwich cut diagonally with crust?</p>
<p>Anyways, I guess what I&#8217;m saying is that if we&#8217;re going to stay on board, we should probably be generous with our time and resources when times are tough even more than when the hero saves the day. Because what if he doesn&#8217;t? And what if he can&#8217;t? &#8220;Yes we can&#8221; should mean more than just winning an election if we&#8217;re really committed to change.</p>
<p>Best,<br />
Hannah Friedman<br />
<a href="http://www.writinghannah.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.writinghannah.blogspot.com</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on Election Madness: Who’s the Boss? by Joe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORTsD3RddvU


I was looking over the sample ballot and decided to you tube all the candidates and I hope nobody votes for this crazyness.  Watch this on youtube you will either me amused or disturbed that this he got on the ballot.</description>
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<p>I was looking over the sample ballot and decided to you tube all the candidates and I hope nobody votes for this crazyness.  Watch this on youtube you will either me amused or disturbed that this he got on the ballot.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Nonsensical Hitchens Has Become a Joke by lisa paul (atweed on Twitter)</title>
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		<dc:creator>lisa paul (atweed on Twitter)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I'm glad someone else is saddened by the bizarre, twisting fall of a former hero of mine. I can only assume that Hitchens is now suffering from early onset dementia. What basis do I have for that? None, but neither does he for calling McCain senile. (And although I'd do anything to see McCain get elected, I don't for a minute think he's senile.)

I don't think Hitchens even believes half the stuff he's spouting these days.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad someone else is saddened by the bizarre, twisting fall of a former hero of mine. I can only assume that Hitchens is now suffering from early onset dementia. What basis do I have for that? None, but neither does he for calling McCain senile. (And although I&#8217;d do anything to see McCain get elected, I don&#8217;t for a minute think he&#8217;s senile.)</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think Hitchens even believes half the stuff he&#8217;s spouting these days.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Body of Lies: A Review by Tomas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tomas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>True, generally, but I just saw them on this movie about Crowe inheriting a vineyard in France.

Lots of cleavage, hot French women, and generally formulaic, but entertaining, film-making.

I think it was a money-making kind of deal. One location, etc...

Generally, its tricky to do these political films because they come across sappy, or too serious, or just depressing. We want to escape, right? This film allowed me to escape and get a serving of reality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True, generally, but I just saw them on this movie about Crowe inheriting a vineyard in France.</p>
<p>Lots of cleavage, hot French women, and generally formulaic, but entertaining, film-making.</p>
<p>I think it was a money-making kind of deal. One location, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Generally, its tricky to do these political films because they come across sappy, or too serious, or just depressing. We want to escape, right? This film allowed me to escape and get a serving of reality.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Hollywood’s F-U by TBP Staff</title>
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		<dc:creator>TBP Staff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Last week, I received several emails and texts from readers frustrated or angered by my “attack” of Oliver Stone. One person suggested I share a list of my favorite documentaries, for those in search of meaningful filmmaking.

Let me start with “Religilous,” since it’s out in selected theaters. Here, Bill Maher succeeds in exposing the ignorance shared by most religious individuals. Another terrific documentary is, “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” – an in-depth look at the Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) rating system. It’s not a real sexy film, but definitely worth watching. I also think everybody should watch Frontline’s “Bush’s War” just to have an understanding of this administration – it also offers much more than Stone’s W.

Other worthwhile documentaries include “Shadow Company,” an inside look at companies which provide private security; “The Aristocrats,” the history of comedy’s most popular raunchy joke and “Spellbound,” the journey of a few contestants in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.

-Eugene Mulero</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, I received several emails and texts from readers frustrated or angered by my “attack” of Oliver Stone. One person suggested I share a list of my favorite documentaries, for those in search of meaningful filmmaking.</p>
<p>Let me start with “Religilous,” since it’s out in selected theaters. Here, Bill Maher succeeds in exposing the ignorance shared by most religious individuals. Another terrific documentary is, “This Film Is Not Yet Rated” – an in-depth look at the Motion Picture Association of America’s (MPAA) rating system. It’s not a real sexy film, but definitely worth watching. I also think everybody should watch Frontline’s “Bush’s War” just to have an understanding of this administration – it also offers much more than Stone’s W.</p>
<p>Other worthwhile documentaries include “Shadow Company,” an inside look at companies which provide private security; “The Aristocrats,” the history of comedy’s most popular raunchy joke and “Spellbound,” the journey of a few contestants in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee.</p>
<p>-Eugene Mulero</p>
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