FDA bans gay men from donating blood, tissue & organs. So are we on the way to a new holocaust?

[DevonRex]

268. Well...

Knowing that Bush 1 was CIA, I would have to say that was an inside joke. Anyone who has ever seen Putin's eyes in a serious situation comes away chilled. He has dead eyes.

What bothered me about it was that W shouldn't have joked like that in public. People thought he was serious. Half thought he was an idiot. Some got false hope from it. The rest tried to cover for him.

His entire presidency was spent saying and doing stupid things to push the boundaries as far as he could. On purpose. Our mistake on the left was to interpret that as stupidity. It was not. It was W thumbing his nose at everyone - his mommy and daddy, convention, rich uptight people, worried people, poor people, political people - anyone who tried to tell him he had to behave a certain way.

Who is living a nice life, having discovered he has some actual talent as a painter? W.
Who gets almost all the blame for the Iraq war, torture, and outing Plame? Cheney.
W was even smart enough not to tank the economy until he had one foot out the door so the economic bad times would be felt on the next president's watch. But, he had delivered what he needed to deliver to the power players during his eight years.

Honestly, I find W, Obama and Putin to be fascinating to dissect in terms of how they think and the roles they play and the moves they have made or will make. And in Putin's case, the pathology that defines his life.