Steve Clemons On Countdown: Under Bush & Cheney America Was Like The BORG In Star Trek!

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Another classic quote from this. McDonnell: "Personal Presidential certainty of American awesomeness is no longer the guiding philosophy of American foreign policy!"

Lawrence starts by playing Liz Cheney's suggestion that a dead soldier's family member should be sent to pick up President Obama's Nobel prize and then blasts the Cheney family with a short history lesson about how Norway bravely stopped Germany from being able to build the atomic bomb and notes that no Cheney has ever served in the military.

He and Steve Clemons go on to discuss how Bush/Cheney's American exceptionalism evolved and how President Obama is reinventing America's leverage in the world.

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1. The peace prize wan't presented based on what Americans think of Obama but the world

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2. Liz Cheney should want the prize to be picked up by the mother of those tortured we knew were innoce

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3. Or those putting an end to torture...like Obama.

[Voice for Peace]

5. gawd she is a slimey chip off the old block

the war machine is the greatest peacekeeping operation evah

[snake in the grass]

4. I disagree.

Even the Borg are more honest and take better care of their drones than the Republicans.

[Voice for Peace]

6. exactly so! assimilating everything, gobbling up the world

[drgonzosghost]

7. Actually more like the Romulan Empire....

"The Enterprise Incident" from the original series was pretty much us.

[onlyadream]

8. Does Liz want Cindy Sheehan to get the Nobel Peace Prize?

That might make some sense.