Zac Frank’s explosive essay in Slate details Dick Cheney’s elder daughter, Elizabeth’s, Colorado College thesis on special wartime powers granted to CinC’s, which terrifyingly presages the Shredding of the Constitution under the Eeeeeevil Zionist Booooooooosh Regime (EZBR). Frank also insinuates that she may have gotten help from her father in the preparation, contrary to College policy.
Be that as it may (Rethuglican hypocrisy! She should be impeached!), it once again provides us with an opportunity to wonder where in the world Obama’s similar theses may have gone. It’s a small thing to ask, perhaps, but it might provide us a glimpse into the development of the mind that Chris Matthews likes to claim is responsible for the only decent writing by a politician of which he knows; never mind the strange lack of official transcipts.
I realize that that’s probably unfair, but there it is.
But what about Trig Palin’s real biological mother?
NB: Some may prefer Eeeeeevil Boooooosh Nazi-Zionist Regime (EBNZR), but I find that too long.
Perhaps his thesis has been held back for exclusive release in the “first book of Obama to his people…”
In truth, only God and Obama know, and neither of them are tellin’…
Doesn’t seem too transparent to me though. I mean, haven’t all of the other Presidents, and candidates for that matter, in the late 20th century, released their transcripts as part of their background information..?
Is there any grounds for a FOIA request now that he’s President?
Slate exists to lend gravitas to the Rolling Stone.
Hey, if you can’t get enough Baracky, fret not. NBC is looking out for you. Are you ready for some
footballMessiah?No, they’re not government produced documents.
Obviously some never get past the pictures in Rollin Stone.
I never get past the cover.
You know, I don’t think anyone could find my thesis, but at least (even lowly I) had a book rational used by one of my prof’s and published.
My mom and sister both subscribe to Rolling Stone, when I’m over I occasionally look through it. I saw a REALLY interesting article about the son of an African leader who was raised by the mom in the US. He went looking for Daddy (he was raised by a Step, who provided a great middle-class life for him) in AFrica and now it one of his henchmen. here’s a link. Chucky Taylor.
Anyway, neither my sister or my nephew had read THAT article.
I find the music completely uninteresting. Mostly, they seem like shills for the major acts. Nothing innovative. When I last looked, every artist mentioned was some major (boring) act. Rap or pop.
Rolling Stone has lost it’s way. Wasn’t it supposed to be about Rock and Roll?
Fred Exley wrote for Rolling Stone.
There’s one reason to worship the mag.
Oh, the ‘pre-Ayers’ thesis? Probably just a re-hash of what he’s already said: unilateral nuclear disarmament on our part; part of the ‘we’ll never use ’em’ promise he’s already made to teh World.
(Interestingly, that video is now ‘private‘..)
I worship no magazine.
You lack faith.
I’ve been wondering about that. Didn’t he have to deposit several copies of his thesis? I’ve never heard of a university that didn’t have that requirement. Maybe things are different in those rarefied Ivy League schools.
I stopped reading Rolling Stone after P.J. O’Rourke stopped writing for it.
As for the real biological mother of Trig Palin? I am going with the Virgin Mary or that the Palins found Trig inside a giant Alaskan cabbage.
I stopped subscribing to RS back in ’87 or ’88, when my daughter was born. Because that mag lost much of it’s meaning; and the music had already died.
Rolling Stone was never about the music. It was about delivering a sanitized “underground paper” experience so that ad guys could buy space without worrying about some parent or board of directors member stubbing his eyes on a Bernardine Dohrn paean to murdering your parents and sticking forks in their bellies.
See also: blogs and Pajamas Media.
I stopped listening when one of them made a stink about reggae being better than rock, because it was more authenticky. Not that I dislike reggae. I don’t. It’s just that authenticky is teh stupid.
Ah, right. I’d forgotten or overlooked that this was an undergrad senior thesis, so the absence of a deposit requirement is more understandable.
BTW, Proquest (formerly University Microfilm) gives “Osama” as a suggestion when you search for “Obama”.
Heh.
Well. well.
Here I thought it was the preternatural genius Addington who rocked Cheney’s carcass. It is telling that she referenced the ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ and it’s effectiveness as ‘bullshit’ factor
for making fools of the American public. (Mushroom clouds, Al Qaeda hearts Saddam)
Maybe Lincoln’s use of war powers gives some cover, but not for torture and rendition. Nice try though.
Anyone catch Matt Taibbi on Morning Joe yesterday? Matt caught GWB between the eyes with his two-by-four in the last issue of Rolling Stone, evidently. I’ll have to pick up a copy.
More likely O! got Matt between the cheeks much earlier, though.
NTTAWWT.
MSNBC? I don’t think so, Shill thor.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/25329027
Well, the memo was titled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack in U.S.”
It was?
Yes, sir.
Well, nobody told me that.
But they wrote it to you.
But nobody told me that they wrote it to me.
Who’s “they”?
I don’t know. Whoever is in the room. Vice President Cheney. Don Rumsfeld. Rove. Sometimes there’s some other guys. It kind of rotates.
Do you decide who “they” is?
No, they usually decide who they is. Or at least one of they does. Usually Cheney.
Interesting. What did they tell you they wrote to you about why America needed to invade Iraq?
Sometime in the fall of 2001, pretty soon after 9/11, Rumsfeld and Cheney handed me a piece of paper. I asked them what was in it. Rumsfeld says, “Mr. President, we’ve just written you a memo explaining that we need to invade Iraq.” And I said, “OK. Why?” And Dick says to me, “Because of 9/11, Mr. President.” [Silence]
Is that the whole story?
Yeah. Why?
[Read the full story in RS Issue 1070, on stands January 9, 2009.]
I like Marley. I linked him yesterday.
I like King Sunny Ade, too. I like lots of stuff, but not because it’s certified authenticke.
Before Marley, I liked Desmond Dekker.
Fixed that for you, cleo. A true bastion of journalistic excellence, that Rolling Stone.
I’m in a Max Romeo frame of mind, with added heat from Burning Spear.
“I’m gonna put on a iron shirt
and chase Satan out of earth”
http://www.actionext.com/names_m/max_romeo_lyrics/chase_the_devil.html
I gravitated to Lord Invader myself.
What a piece of shit that is, Cleo. Thanks for bringingto our attention to how vapid the left is, but honestly after the last 8 years I think most of us are already aware.
thor–you don’t need another morning bong hit. You’re good.
Excuse me, but let’s not get personal. Matt is a friend of mine. He’s not an animal.
Then on to Joseph Spence.
I’m sorry, you didn’t think I was referring to Matt as being a piece of shit. Just what he wrote.
Everything clear now?
I like it. Does that old school blues scatin’. Thanks, sdferr.
Here’s another, more fun, more Joseph.
You may be able to separate the man from his work, but not me. Be nice to Matt, he’s had a rough literary life. He often gets terrible headaches.
From Rolling Stone’s review of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Soul to Soul:
Worship the mag? I report, you decide.
“Be nice” to a guy that wrote a piece skewering Bush? Uhm, why should I be “nice”?
Oh I think maybe a pillar of our culture might deserve to be reviewed in a broader light than one selected little paragraph.
Tom DeLay’s Daaaauuey bongos got pulled out early this morning.
Whenever you encounter the words “unitary theory of the executive” in the context of executive war powers you can very near instantly infer you are reading the work of an ideological lightweight. Or a putz, if you wish to be kind about it.
A pillar of our culture? Those words don’t mean what you think they mean.
RS critics aren’t fit to tongue-bathe SRV’s corpse’s sphincter.
No, more like the December 1998 PDB, that named Seif al Adel, and Mustafa Atef ;aka Abu Hamza al Masri, two Egyptian AQ officials
involved with the plotting, But it didn’t incorporate any newer information, or name targets
I’ve got no use for Matt Taibbi. There isn’t anything he’s written about that I’d take at face value. If you can’t tell whether something is made up or not, it might as well be fiction.
Which is fine, but he’s writing about actual people.
I’ve never found lifestyle mags to be pillars of society – it seems to me they are far too desperate to avoid being unhip to make worthy observations on music, etc. Pillocks of society, now there I’m with you.
Dan and thor, have you heard of this cat?
http://tinyurl.com/b9vth3
Of that cat I certainly have heard!