Karl Rove is one person I'd guess has been cheerful all week

[dgauss]

Not because the death and destruction give him some kind of pleasure. He's a focused sociopath and I suppose more or less unaffected by tragedy and gore one way or the other.

But for the last few years moral, ethical, and legal clarity has been his enemy. This is the kind of human clusterfuck he needed, both personally and professionally. It's an all-consuming situation without clarity. The crimes are all over the map. Even liberals can't agree. Everybody's guilty. Everybody is equal again. The clarity that was building against him in mainstream politics withers a bit under current passions and the advantage swings back to those who can take moral complexity and twist it into simplistic, self-serving rhetoric.

Advantage: sociopaths.

[babylonsister]

1. I was about to disagree, but can't.

His puppet has royally messed up ALOT recently. But this comment got my attention: "It's an all-consuming situation without clarity." I know distraction is the enemy, and this country, this board! is highly distracted at the moment when Iraq is just as important if not more so. Currently WE are killing and being killed there.

[gordianot]

2. You are correct it is a matter of focus and right now Iraq is a real mess.

Also the situation in Iraq is our mess.

[dgauss]

3. I remember when I thought it was a shame we couldn't focus

on issues like deregulation, privatization, health care and so on because we had been dragged into more immediate tragedies by war mongers. Now that tragedy has been pre-empted and 50 or so deaths in Iraq in a day barely registers. Where does this end?

[GreenTea]

4. Must know the voting machines are in place & ready to steal the elections.