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2004-04-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

Must See: VDH Speech with Q&A at Berkeley (1:26:00 Real Video Clip)

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Posted by .com 2004-04-10 12:44:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Superb video. How in the world did he get into Berkeley and come out alive? I would have thought that the morlocks and idiots would have protested every step he took.

Posted by Steve White 2004-04-10 1:04:36 AM|| 2004-04-10 1:04:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Bah, I can not DL this, I get about 181 bytes and it says complete.

Posted by Jim 2004-04-10 2:08:42 AM|| 2004-04-10 2:08:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It's streaming Real Player Video - you're prolly doing right-click "Save As" - doesn't work that way with Real, bro, sorry. If you have Real Player installed, just click the link and watch. Not a D/L, but worth every minute of your time.

Posted by .com 2004-04-10 2:23:58 AM|| 2004-04-10 2:23:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 his very stark assessment of Bush's re-election

For those of us without the time for the video, what did he say that was "stark" (a word usually with bad connotation in today's society).

Posted by OldSpook 2004-04-10 3:30:21 AM|| 2004-04-10 3:30:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 OS - That's actually a tall order, given the tremendous loss of context...

But it's simply based on the US economic situation and how the war is going. Big events, such as capturing OBL, might come into play, but Bush will try to paint things as going good and the Dems will paint things as going badly -- not a big surprise in and of itself. It was the context that made it so stark. You reall do need to hear this in context.

With Real Vid you can position the player to a certain time point and it will buffer up and start playing from that time - it's pretty clean these days and much improved over the old shit they put out.

At approx 1:13:20 a question is posed. The answer regarding my "stark" comment actually comes at 1:17:25 or so.

Sample comments in his answer leading to that point:
"My worry is about the consistency and hysteria... about the failure to find WMD's; that it was cooked up - and we're not angry that we had no idea what Libya was doing, we had no idea what Pakistan was doing - since 1998, and we have no idea how far along Iran is. Those are major intelligence failures - that nobody's talking about. So there is a sense of partisanship. My criticism only of the Democrats, and I'm still a registered Democrat, is simply that Bill Clinton, I think very courageously went in to save Bosnia, but he did not go to the UN; he did not go to the US Congress - he didn't even get a congressional vote. Bush got a congressional vote, and he did go to the UN. Now you can argue that he was cynical, but he did go..." --- and so much more...

Posted by .com 2004-04-10 4:20:06 AM|| 2004-04-10 4:20:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow, great video. VDH is excellent. Thanks for the post.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-10 11:41:04 PM|| 2004-04-10 11:41:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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