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No, it's brand new. It's here, it's now, and you have Rush and folks like full-auto and the others on this board for making it brand new.
You talk about what the left tried to do, and what you're not understanding is that they didn't do this. When Fluke spoke, it wasn't about her. It wasn't personal. She was just another person blending into the background of a sea of people supporting an agenda that Democrats and liberals have been supporting for a very long time.
Fluke would have been just as forgettable as any person walking down a busy street. Even if Rush felt the need to respond to her statements, he could have focused his comments on addressing the issues and her arguments on their merits, and nobody would have noticed Fluke. Just another person saying more or less the same things that lots of people have said lots of times before. But Rush insisted on a completely different approach, and that had a completely different result.
Now, the first and foremost issue is Sandra Fluke, college student, human being, intelligent, articulate, respectful toward others, cool and composed. She's been publicly humiliated, being called vile names, for no other reason than the fact that she has different political positions than Rush. He's a conservative, she's a liberal, therefore he feels the need to call her vile names. Now, people who didn't know who Fluke was, would have never heard her name, people who don't normally bother with politics, are hearing her name and seeing her. And what is the first thing they see? The fact that she was senselessly attacked on a personal level, and that she's standing strong, composed, level headed, courageous. And most people in the country are thinking "Wow, she's pretty impressive."
For some people, it will end there, they'll lose interest again. Other people will dig deeper and learn more about what she has to say. Young people who are perhaps getting ready to vote for the first time in a Presidential election, but who still don't really know what side of the aisle the think they belong on, are now weighing their options between the filthy fat dude who eats too many pills and says vulgar things, and the well dressed, cool and professional woman with whom they might disagree about certain things but is still alot more worthy of imitation that that guy.
This could have remained about the issue of the health care law, the insurance mandate, and the provision that does not allow religious organizations to exempt themselves from the law. But Rush turned it into something else entirely. And what are we talking about now? Sandra Fluke. And regardless of whether you agree or disagree with her politics on the health care law, she deserves no bit of the vile disrespect that has been thrown at her.
I am opposed to the health care law. I have been all along. I remain opposed, I support the law being repealed. But Sandra Fluke does not deserve to be demonized for nothing more than expressing her position in a respectful, professional, and articulate manner. She does not deserve to be called vile names just because her and I hold differences of opinion on this issue. I condemn Rush, not just for his comments. But for moving the discussion away from the real issues and being an ABSOLUTE FAILURE toward the cause of repealing the health care law. He could have argued the issue. But instead he argued the person. And in doing so, he gave Fluke a big opportunity, which she is capitalizing on quite well I might add, to walk through that door and look the part of an inspiration for alot of young women in our country.
You should wear a big "Fluke Me!" Button
Amazing how you just made InTheMiddle's case for him. Just like that.
Fluke is just an disposable tool in the Liberal assault on America.
She'll go down in the pantheon of soon-forgotten Liberal heroes like the guy who outed Mark Foley
Also, if she's so concerned about the cost of birth control maybe she should work on her gag reflex.
You should wear a big "Fluke Me!" Button
Amazing how you just made InTheMiddle's case for him. Just like that.
Fluke is just an disposable tool in the Liberal assault on America.
She'll go down in the pantheon of soon-forgotten Liberal heroes like the guy who outed Mark Foley
Also, if she's so concerned about the cost of birth control maybe she should work on her gag reflex.
You should wear a big "Fluke Me!" Button
Amazing how you just made InTheMiddle's case for him. Just like that.
Fluke is just an disposable tool in the Liberal assault on America.
She'll go down in the pantheon of soon-forgotten Liberal heroes like the guy who outed Mark Foley
Also, if she's so concerned about the cost of birth control maybe she should work on her gag reflex.
Amazing how you just made InTheMiddle's case for him. Just like that.
Fluke is just an disposable tool in the Liberal assault on America.
She'll go down in the pantheon of soon-forgotten Liberal heroes like the guy who outed Mark Foley
Also, if she's so concerned about the cost of birth control maybe she should work on her gag reflex.
Fluke just kicked the fat-fuck Limbaughs ass all over the place. Limbaughs ratings are going down as we speak and Rush is still losing sponsers. Fluke will make a fortune off of speaking tours thanks to the fat-fuck limpballs.
Ah, the "If I look busy, I must be good" theory of effectiveness.Clinton spent her initial days as Secretary of State telephoning dozens of world leaders and indicating that U.S. foreign policy would change direction: "We have a lot of damage to repair."[289] She advocated an expanded role in global economic issues for the State Department and cited the need for an increased U.S. diplomatic presence, especially in Iraq where the Defense Department had conducted diplomatic missions.[290] She pushed for a larger international affairs budget;[290] the Obama administration's proposed 2010 budget contained a 7 percent increase for the State Department and other international programs.[291] In March 2009, Clinton prevailed over Vice President Joe Biden on an internal debate to send an additional 20,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan.[292] An elbow fracture and subsequent painful recuperation caused Clinton to miss two foreign trips in June 2009.[292][293]
Clinton announced the most ambitious of her departmental reforms, the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, which establishes specific objectives for the State Department’s diplomatic missions abroad; it is modeled after a similar process in the Defense Department that she was familiar with from her time on the Senate Armed Services Committee.[294] (The first such review was issued in late 2010 and called for the U.S. leading through "civilian power" as a cost-effective way of responding to international challenges and defusing crises.[295] It also sought to institutionalize goals of empowering women throughout the world.[156]) In September, Clinton unveiled the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative at the annual meeting of her husband's Clinton Global Initiative.[296] The new initiative seeks to battle hunger worldwide as a strategic part of U.S. foreign policy, rather than just react to food shortage emergencies as they occur, and emphasizes the role of women farmers.[296] In October, on a trip to Switzerland, Clinton’s intervention overcame last-minute snags and saved the signing of an historic Turkish–Armenian accord that established diplomatic relations and opened the border between the two long-hostile nations.[297][298] In Pakistan, she engaged in several unusually blunt discussions with students, talk show hosts, and tribal elders, in an attempt to repair the Pakistani image of the U.S.[154]
In a major speech in January 2010, Clinton drew analogies between the Iron Curtain and the free and unfree Internet.[299] Chinese officials reacted negatively towards it, and it garnered attention as the first time a senior American official had clearly defined the Internet as a key element of American foreign policy.[300] By mid-2010, Clinton and Obama had forged a good working relationship; she was a team player within the administration and a defender of it to the outside, and was careful that neither she nor her husband would upstage him.[301] She met with him weekly, but did not have the close, daily relationship that some of her predecessors had had with their presidents.[301] In July 2010, Secretary Clinton visited Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan and Afghanistan, all the while preparing for the July 31 wedding of daughter Chelsea amid much media attention.[302] In late November 2010, Clinton led the U.S. damage control effort after WikiLeaks released confidential State Department cables containing blunt statements and assessments by U.S. and foreign diplomats.[303][304] A few of the cables released by WikiLeaks concerned Clinton directly: they revealed that directions to members of the foreign service, written by the CIA, had gone out in 2009 under her (systematically attached) name to gather biometric and other personal details on foreign diplomats, including officials of the United Nations and U.S. allies.[305][306][307]
Secretary Clinton in February 2011The 2011 Egyptian protests posed the biggest foreign policy crisis for the administration yet.[308] Clinton was in the forefront of U.S. public response to it, quickly evolving from an early assessment that the government of Hosni Mubarak was "stable" to a stance that there needed to be an "orderly transition [to] a democratic participatory government" to a condemnation of violence against the protesters.[309][310] Obama also came to rely upon Clinton's advice, organization, and personal connections in the behind-the-scenes response to developments.[308] As protests spread throughout the region, Clinton was at the forefront of a U.S. response that she recognized was sometimes contradictory, backing some regimes while supporting protesters against others.[311] As the 2011 Libyan civil war took place, Clinton's shift in favor of military intervention was a key turning point in overcoming internal administration opposition and gaining the backing for, and Arab and U.N. approval of, the 2011 military intervention in Libya.[311][312][313] She later used U.S. allies and what she called "convening power" to help keep the Libyan rebels unified as they eventually overthrew the Gaddafi regime.[313] Following the successful May 2011 U.S. mission to kill Osama bin Laden, Clinton played a key role in the administration's decision not to release photographs of the dead al-Qaeda leader.[314] In a December 2011 speech before the United Nations Human Rights Council, she said that the U.S. would advocate for gay rights abroad and that "Gay rights are human rights" and that "It should never be a crime to be gay."[315] The same month saw her conclude the first visit to Burma by a U.S. secretary of state since 1955, as she met with Burmese leaders as well as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and sought to support the 2011 Burmese democratic reforms.[316]
Throughout her tenure, Clinton has looked towards "smart power" as the strategy for asserting U.S. leadership and values, combining military strength with U.S. capacities in global economics, development aid, and technology.[313] She has also greatly expanded the State Department's use of social media, including Facebook and Twitter, both to get its message out and to help empower people vis à via their rulers.[313] And in the Mideast turmoil, Clinton particularly saw an opportunity to advance one of the central themes of her tenure, the empowerment and welfare of women and girls worldwide.[156] By now Clinton had set the record for most-traveled Secretary of State for a comparable period of time, logging 465,000 miles (748,000 km) and visiting 79 countries.[156] (Time magazine wrote that "Clinton's endurance is legendary."
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With any luck, you might catch him in tears at the bank.Fluke is just an disposable tool in the Liberal assault on America.
She'll go down in the pantheon of soon-forgotten Liberal heroes like the guy who outed Mark Foley
Also, if she's so concerned about the cost of birth control maybe she should work on her gag reflex.
Fluke just kicked the fat-fuck Limbaughs ass all over the place. Limbaughs ratings are going down as we speak and Rush is still losing sponsers. Fluke will make a fortune off of speaking tours thanks to the fat-fuck limpballs.
With any luck, you might catch him in tears at the bank.Fluke just kicked the fat-fuck Limbaughs ass all over the place. Limbaughs ratings are going down as we speak and Rush is still losing sponsers. Fluke will make a fortune off of speaking tours thanks to the fat-fuck limpballs.
He'll be at the bank alright... right outside buying drugs to feed his fat fuck, drug infested oxycontin addiction.
With any luck, you might catch him in tears at the bank.Fluke just kicked the fat-fuck Limbaughs ass all over the place. Limbaughs ratings are going down as we speak and Rush is still losing sponsers. Fluke will make a fortune off of speaking tours thanks to the fat-fuck limpballs.
He'll be at the bank alright... right outside buying drugs to feed his fat fuck, drug infested oxycontin addiction.
Contraception and abortion are women's healthcare?
The pill gives you breast cancer and abortion kills babies. That's pretty shitty healthcare.
If this so called war on women is helping Obama why is his approval rating down from 50% to 41%? Some of you might want to rethink this whole war on women talking point.
This "war on women" is a christian fundamentalist policy. They do not see it that way because women are supposed to be subserviant to the Husband and to all male authority figures. That is how women are portrayed in their fantasy sky fairy manuals. They are property. They are OWNED. They do not see any need for one of them to speak up on behalf of other women. The man will decide what is abuse.
Wow. Just wow.
This "war on women" is a christian fundamentalist policy. They do not see it that way because women are supposed to be subserviant to the Husband and to all male authority figures. That is how women are portrayed in their fantasy sky fairy manuals. They are property. They are OWNED. They do not see any need for one of them to speak up on behalf of other women. The man will decide what is abuse.
Wow. Just wow.
What's so "wow" about it?
Southern Baptists have made quite a splash with their pronouncement that a "wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband" yada, yada, yada.
Can you understand that some people take that to statement to extremes and USE religion to enforce the domination of men over women?
He'll be at the bank alright... right outside buying drugs to feed his fat fuck, drug infested oxycontin addiction.
This "war on women" is a christian fundamentalist policy. They do not see it that way because women are supposed to be subserviant to the Husband and to all male authority figures. That is how women are portrayed in their fantasy sky fairy manuals. They are property. They are OWNED. They do not see any need for one of them to speak up on behalf of other women. The man will decide what is abuse.
Wow. Just wow.
What's so "wow" about it?
Southern Baptists have made quite a splash with their pronouncement that a "wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband" yada, yada, yada.
Can you understand that some people take that to statement to extremes and USE religion to enforce the domination of men over women?
He'll be at the bank alright... right outside buying drugs to feed his fat fuck, drug infested oxycontin addiction.
Yeah suckscocks, I think Rush gave up the Oxy a decade ago.
Maybe if you gave up the meth, you'd be able to follow along...
Rush Limbaugh & Co are learning this lesson well. The GOP will pay dearly at the ballot-box come Nov. 2012 for their devious war on women.
Sandra Fluke: Slurs won't silence women - CNN.com
(CNN) -- Last month, students from several Catholic universities gathered to send a message to the nation that contraception is basic health care. I was among them, and I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.
I joined these students in speaking at a media event because I believe that stories of how real women are affected are the most powerful argument for access to affordable, quality reproductive health care services.
I also joined these students because now is a critical time to raise this issue in our public consciousness.
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