Love him or hate him the dude is a genius and knows how to hit the nail on the head on common sense. All those who revert to bashing his personal life are ignorant because that is the only ammunition they have because they know at the end of the day he is dead on!

Please enlighten me on what makes Maha Rushie a genius? I will give him credit for one thing he found a weak minded audience and made millions off of them.

This clown takes hypocrisy to a whole new level. What amazes me is how people follow these clowns (Boortz, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc.) and take their word as if it were etched in stone. The funniest part is they have never been involved on the so-called issues or events that they are considered experts on, so what does that say of the fools that follow them.

Peace.

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people of power have NO good will and people of good will have NO power.

I be interested in seeing what specific topics y'all think Rush is either right or wrong about.

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badbrutha…you’ve used this excuse before:

This person has never been in a war, therefore all their opinions and theories on war are hogwash.

This person has never been in politics, therefore all their opinions and theories on politics are hogwash.

This person has never been in economics, therefore all their opinions and theories on economics are hogwash.


It really gives you a bad image. If you were to apply that logic to everything, everyone on PF would get a war, politics, and economics test when registering. If the user never had official experience on a subject, their posts are never posted. Because after all…if the person has never been there, how would they know anything, all their posts must be hogwash?

I don’t even listen to Rush, but if you’re going to call these people hypocrites and expect discussion/debate to be over, you’re sadly mistaken. Ignorance is not bliss.

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The Solution for Illegal Immigrants (Gray areas discussed throughout the thread)

Come now you know you are a Dittohead which is not entirely a bad thing. Everybody is entitled to their opinion and I gave mine as you gave yours. What is hypocritical is being trying to be an expert on something you have no knowledge of.

If you had to go into combat today would you rather be lead by Colin Powell or Maha Rushie? I think I know which one you would pick.

Peace.

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people of power have NO good will and people of good will have NO power.

To be an "expert" on politics, you have to run for office?

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt

EXACTLY! Actually, most of them are no smarter or knowledgeable than we are!! You won't believe this about the recently named Democrat head of the Congressional Committee. Mind you---ALL of us on the Board knew the answer to this question, but this guy didn't!!!! Freaking amazing:

""Reyes stumbled when I asked him a simple question about al Qaeda at the end of a 40-minute interview in his office last week," Stein writes for CQ. "Members of the Intelligence Committee, mind you, are paid $165,200 a year to know more than basic facts about our foes in the Middle East."

"The dialogue went like this:


Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?

"Al Qaeda, they have both," Reyes said. "You’re talking about predominately?"

"Sure," I said, not knowing what else to say.

"Predominantly — probably Shiite," he ventured.

He couldn’t have been more wrong.

Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni."

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

"To his credit, Reyes, a kindly, thoughtful man who also sits on the Armed Service Committee, does see the undertows drawing the region into chaos.

For example, he knows that the 1,400- year-old split in Islam between Sunnis and Shiites not only fuels the militias and death squads in Iraq, it drives the competition for supremacy across the Middle East between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia.

That’s more than two key Republicans on the Intelligence Committee knew when I interviewed them last summer. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., and Terry Everett, R-Ala., both back for another term, were flummoxed by such basic questions, as were several top counterterrorism officials at the FBI.

I thought it only right now to pose the same questions to a Democrat, especially one who will take charge of the Intelligence panel come January. The former border patrol agent also sits on the Armed Services Committee."

The ignorance of the political elites in the US, both Republican and Democrat, is what is astonishing here.

You must have forgotten to include that section of the article that drew attention to this; I fixed it for you (please please - no 'thank you' necessary).

http://public.cq.com/public/20061211_homeland.html

Another disturbing insight:
"The best argument for needing to understand who’s what in the Middle East is probably the mistaken invasion itself, despite the preponderance of expert opinion that it was a terrible idea — including that of Bush’s father and his advisers. On the day in 2003 when Iraqi mobs toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Bush was said to be unaware of the possibility that a Sunni-Shia civil war could fill the power vacuum, according to a reliable source with good White House connections.

If President Bush and some of his closest associates, not to mention top counterterrorism officials, have demonstrated their own ignorance about who the players are in the Middle East, why should we expect the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee to get it right?

Trent Lott, the veteran Republican senator from Mississippi, said only last September that “It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people.”

“Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion?” wondered Lott, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, after a meeting with Bush.

“Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference?

“They all look the same to me,” Lott said."

hmmmm?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by The12thMan";p=&quot To be an "expert" on politics, you have to run for office?

Which office is Rush running for?

Peace.

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people of power have NO good will and people of good will have NO power.

I don't love or hate him. I'm pretty indifferent to him.
He's a marketing genius perhaps. Don't know if I'd call his opinions ingenius except in how he formulates them to make money.

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