Comments on: Jack Bauer, White Courtesy Phone Please http://www.undiplomatic.net/2009/05/08/jack-bauer-white-courtesy-phone-please/ Bringing foreign policy back, girl. Those other countries don't know how to act. Mon, 21 May 2012 19:17:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: TB http://www.undiplomatic.net/2009/05/08/jack-bauer-white-courtesy-phone-please/#comment-27712 TB Mon, 11 May 2009 09:39:44 +0000 http://www.undiplomatic.net/?p=3225#comment-27712 I visit your blog every month or two, when I'm very very bored, and I've made this comment before, but visiting again, it still stands: "Undiplomatic" is a great title for your blog, as it has almost nothing to do with diplomacy. One has to scroll down a long way to find items that have anything with the State Department, or (anyone's) foreign policy. You're just a shill for the DNC. The post above illustrates this perfectly. Hey, the Democrats won the election! Overwhelmingly! You have a huge mandate and own both Houses in Congress! You can push ANY LEGISLATION YOU WANT. ANY PLAN YOU WANT. ANY PROGRAM YOU WANT. And the Republicans CAN'T DO A THING ABOUT IT!!!! And how do you all, including Obama himself, spend your time? Attacking dead dog Republicans, of course! Why waste your time? Why do they so threaten you, still? Talk about "fear-mongering." Physician, heal thyself. Your tag cloud says it all. Why do I bother commenting? 1) Because it's annoying to see the garbage that spews forth from you and yours -- it's no less obnoxious than the bugaboo Limbaugh that Sykes and Obama wish was dead. It doesn't further our discourse, it only lowers it. 2) Because there are so few good blogs out there on diplomacy, by people who claim to have done it, that I'm continually disappointed in yours. I don't expect to agree with everything I read -- ha! I'm in State! -- but I would hope for intelligent, thought-provoking writing, not lazy, Daily Kos-type crap. I guess one difference is that people read Kos. I visit your blog every month or two, when I’m very very bored, and I’ve made this comment before, but visiting again, it still stands: “Undiplomatic” is a great title for your blog, as it has almost nothing to do with diplomacy. One has to scroll down a long way to find items that have anything with the State Department, or (anyone’s) foreign policy.

You’re just a shill for the DNC. The post above illustrates this perfectly. Hey, the Democrats won the election! Overwhelmingly! You have a huge mandate and own both Houses in Congress! You can push ANY LEGISLATION YOU WANT. ANY PLAN YOU WANT. ANY PROGRAM YOU WANT. And the Republicans CAN’T DO A THING ABOUT IT!!!! And how do you all, including Obama himself, spend your time?

Attacking dead dog Republicans, of course! Why waste your time? Why do they so threaten you, still? Talk about “fear-mongering.” Physician, heal thyself.

Your tag cloud says it all.

Why do I bother commenting? 1) Because it’s annoying to see the garbage that spews forth from you and yours — it’s no less obnoxious than the bugaboo Limbaugh that Sykes and Obama wish was dead. It doesn’t further our discourse, it only lowers it. 2) Because there are so few good blogs out there on diplomacy, by people who claim to have done it, that I’m continually disappointed in yours.

I don’t expect to agree with everything I read — ha! I’m in State! — but I would hope for intelligent, thought-provoking writing, not lazy, Daily Kos-type crap.

I guess one difference is that people read Kos.

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