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UFC 143 Weigh-In Video For Carlos Condit vs. Nick Diaz
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fightdontbefake February 4, 2012
EXHAUSTED, Condit does not look good at all, look at him slamming that water and his eyes, looks like he is going to pass out, must have been a bad cut. Diaz on the other hand looks like he just woke up out of bed and slipped on his shoes and went right up on scale, easy cut for him as always. Can't wait till tonight, WAR DIAZ!!!
SEAN_VANCE February 4, 2012
Diaz is truly one crazy mo fo…he doesnt care if he wins or loses, hes just coming out to murder you so u better be ready.
Dave February 4, 2012
Can't wait to see the fight. both amazing fighters Nick and Carlos bring it on!!!
Danby February 4, 2012
Danby February 4, 2012
Holy crap Rafael Natal = E. Honda from mike tysons punch out!!
60ndown February 4, 2012
gotta respect diaz as a fighter, but even royce fedor and tyson lost their share.
frit5011 February 4, 2012
this fight better not end in the first round
Bernardo February 4, 2012
LMFAO…Kos is gonna go for the fatality now!!! I don't think its wise to piss Kos off he's one of the few fighters that gets better when he's mad.
I'm really looking forward to the Diaz vs Conduit fight bc its more of a Boxing vs Muay Thai at a high level. I want to see how Diaz is gonna neutralize Conduit's MT arsenal and viceversa. I give Diaz the edge bc he has shown over and over again that his style of MMA Boxing is more dominant vs any other style. Conduit on the other hand hasn't fought anyone with Nick's style so I give the edge to Diaz in that respect. I also give Nick the edge in regards to stamina/endurance, wrestling, and BJJ!! Nick by submission or TKO!!! -
ryeboi February 4, 2012
Carlos needs a new nick name for having his nipples erect at the weigh-ins.
ryeboi February 4, 2012
Carlos "freaky bitch" condit
Brightland February 4, 2012
Both fighters are good and at the top of their careers. However, I think that Nick Diaz is on a higher skill level and will win the title.
scottc February 4, 2012
Diaz always comes in shape and Condit is a more muscular guy so it will be harder on him to make weight. Condit is a pro but may have been weakened by the cut. A lot of these fighters dehydrate and then rehydrate before the fight. It's not a good practice to do because your energy is zapped after the first round. So i give that to Diaz which may be pivotal if the fight goes in to the later rounds. Either way I hope it's a BLOOD BATH!!
ericr64 February 4, 2012
GSP is going to have his hands as full with Condit as Condit will with Nick. Wars ahead.
mmafan11 February 4, 2012
Condit is one of the top Welterweights but…
(1) 6+ Months since Condit got into the Cage
(2) Diaz has had a few more fights in that 6 months
(3) Diaz is "Fight" Ready no ring rust
(4) Weight Cut is harder for Condit due to 6 month "layoff"
(5) Diaz can sub Condit
Diaz by Ko, Sub or points.
zmayo February 4, 2012
Condit by knockout!
Nicky No Name February 4, 2012
Based on the stare down, i'd bet the farm on Diaz….WAR DIAZ!!
fightdontbefake February 4, 2012
Condits competition wasn't that great either, just take a look at his record, sure it has a lot of wins, not too many loses but those wins are over mid-tier contenders, not top dudes.
fightdontbefake February 4, 2012
Go watch the Hardy vs. Condit fight again, Condit leaves himself wide open, and all he does is combination punches/kicks. Diaz will mop the floor with him. Stylistically it is a bad match up for Condit. However, anything can happen in a fight, and just like the Hardy fight, Condit got the knockout, so he still has a punchers chance. Should be a good one.
Bruno: Special Carlos Condit vs Dan Hardy Fight Video UFC 120
FailSonnen February 4, 2012
Bruce Leroy?? lol
ETK February 4, 2012
People making pathetic excuses for Condit in advance.
I think, Condit on his best day, at his peak performance, during the best time of his career, will still lose to Diaz. Excuses or none.
Of course, everybody can get caught and lose.
There is something that Diaz does that most of these guys don't have the skill to respond to. So they resort to swinging away. -
Tempted February 4, 2012
Holy shit Nelson doesn't even look like the same guy. He might actually make a push for 205.
julian moran February 4, 2012
dana whites mom February 4, 2012
joe rogan and nick diaz should change facial expressions
jake February 4, 2012
Roy Nelsons slimmin down! Wonder how fit he can actually get..
Danby February 4, 2012
Ya i think diaz has this. Hes more experienced, has reach, is the more well rounded fighter. Plus he has been active this year or should i say in the past 365 days. This will be his third fight in that time or is it his fourth.
ETK February 4, 2012
It is Diaz' tactics that his opponents can't deal with.
ericr64 February 5, 2012
Well this makes me like 20 for 20 in my years of predictions here. I should start gambling and retire, lol. Thanks for always making my Sunday mornings great Bruno.
Bruno: no problem. Glad to have you with us.

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Sep 28th, 2005, 01:35 PM
Upcoming schedule:
Oct 3 Tokyo
week off
Oct 17 Zurich
Oct 24 Hasselt
Sep 28th, 2005, 01:38 PM
This is according to her own words from:
My Russian sux :p but i think i understand that part correctly :)
Kind of surprising that she decided to skip Moscow...
Sep 28th, 2005, 05:05 PM
Oh, she will not play at Filderstadt? That's sad to hear, I wanted so much to see her there......but ok, maybe I will come to Zürich
Sep 28th, 2005, 05:13 PM
will she play the Quebec challenge?
Sep 30th, 2005, 07:05 PM
Maria is currently ranked #28. She won't be playing any more challengers, so I wouldn't count on seeing her in Quebec
Sep 30th, 2005, 07:07 PM
Maria is currently ranked #28. She won't be playing any more challengers, so I wouldn't count on seeing her in Quebec
Bell Challenge?
the cat
Sep 30th, 2005, 07:45 PM
Masha really should play Moscow if she's offered a wildcard or can in the maindraw with her ranking. I would think that with Makiri being born and raised in Moscow that she badly would want to play the Ladies Kremlin Cup in Moscow for the first time. Especially after finally winning her first WTA Tour singles title. But I don't get the feeling Masha is eager to play Moscow. :scratch:
Sep 30th, 2005, 07:57 PM
Masha really should play Moscow if she's offered a wildcard or can in the maindraw with her ranking. I would think that with Makiri being born and raised in Moscow that she badly would want to play the Ladies Kremlin Cup in Moscow for the first time. Especially after finally winning her first WTA Tour singles title. But I don't get the feeling Masha is eager to play Moscow. :scratch:
I mean.. Moscow is just another tournament... she has to think more of herself, than Russia. Russia is not going to boost her ranking...
Oct 1st, 2005, 12:16 AM
It's probably the Yonex - Japan commitment that makes her a must at next week, then she'll have to rest for Moscow...
Oct 1st, 2005, 07:56 AM
she has more possibility of winning at Japan Open than at the KC
Tati & Dani
Oct 1st, 2005, 09:22 AM
She plays in Hasselt ? :woohoo:
Oct 1st, 2005, 09:24 AM
I wish she could play the Bell Challenge... that would be cool if she wins it as Sharapova won..
Oct 5th, 2005, 04:52 PM
Well she may play in Moscow, after all...
She asked for a WC, today.
Oct 5th, 2005, 10:29 PM
Sad. I don't expect good things to come out of this.
Oct 5th, 2005, 10:30 PM
Well she may play in Moscow, after all...
She asked for a WC, today.
Where did you find so?
Oct 6th, 2005, 07:40 AM
On that Russian forum... wtatour.ru
Oct 6th, 2005, 09:21 AM
On that Russian forum... wtatour.ru
A very informative one :yeah:
Oct 6th, 2005, 03:51 PM
A very informative one :yeah:
But in Russian :sad:
Oct 6th, 2005, 04:02 PM
translators can be handy ;)
...but after a while you can recognise a few bits here and there...
atm looks like a week off after Moscow then Hasselt
Oct 6th, 2005, 04:22 PM
4 weeks in a row in tournament, it's kinda tough !!!
Oct 6th, 2005, 10:17 PM
she is my hero... geez... and the AFL-CIO works on child labour? :rolleyes:
Oct 17th, 2005, 08:38 AM
Good luck in Zuriche
Oct 17th, 2005, 01:15 PM
she doesn't play Zurich..
Oct 17th, 2005, 03:03 PM
Yep, she isn't in the main draw as far as I know.
Oct 18th, 2005, 02:04 PM
But she will play Hasselt :D
Oct 19th, 2005, 04:02 PM
Maria ranked 9 in Hasselt Main Draw
And unless Maria comes across the pond to play in Philly (actually the suburbs of Philadelphia as the tournament is being played at Villanova University) and/or Quebec City, this should wrap up a very nice 2005 for her.
Oct 19th, 2005, 04:19 PM
Yes, this was definitely an awesome year! :D I'm so proud of being your fan, Maria...
Oct 19th, 2005, 07:52 PM
Oct 20th, 2005, 12:51 AM
I hope that I could see her there :)
Oct 21st, 2005, 05:50 PM
Masha also withdraw from Hasselt... she isn't in the main draw.
So Moscow was her last tournament in 2005...
Oct 22nd, 2005, 06:32 PM
Maria must have withdrawn just before the MD was set, she is clearly no longer in the player listing or in the main draw. Most of Maria's internet sites still show her playing as I write this, so the move is very recent. Even her .ru site is silent on any withdrawl. I hope she is ok and just decided to rest.
In any event, it does appear Maria's 2005 season has ended and what a wonderful year it turned out to be for her. Congratulations to Maria and all of her fans. When success comes to someone as nice, classy and sweet as Maria it is special. Time to pause and "smell the flowers", it would be fun to hear everyone's reflections on 2005. In a few months we can start to get excited about what is in store for Maria and her fans in 2006.
Oct 22nd, 2005, 09:44 PM
:sad: Sad that she isn't there :sad:
Maybe next year :D
Oct 23rd, 2005, 12:21 PM
Hmm, I can't reflect on Maria's whole season, cause I am a fan of her since Bejing, were she won her first title. I liked her from the first moment on and started to become a fan of her. The last weeks were really amazing for her, and full of success. I think if she is able to continue on this way next year, the season 2006 will be the "Masha - year".
King Aaron
Oct 23rd, 2005, 04:53 PM
...so the move is very recent. Even her .ru site is silent on any withdrawl. I hope she...
To be honest, Maria's official website isn't of much help. Hopefully it will improve as Maria becomes more and more successful.
Oct 23rd, 2005, 05:48 PM
It's been a great 2005! :bigclap: I am very anxious for 2006! :dance:
Nov 1st, 2005, 02:22 AM
An update on Maria's Official website, wow... " Maria has finished this season. Now she will have a rest and in two weeks will start to practice again and to prepare for tournaments in Australia." Well, I guess that makes it official. Only two weeks off and she starts up again.
Nov 1st, 2005, 07:34 PM
Thanx for the news! maria deserves her holidays. I am interested to see her at Australia next year. She will do a great job there.
Nov 15th, 2005, 02:32 PM
I put this on the Cheering thread but posting it here as well... The Gold Coast tournament is January 1-7, 2006 --- only 7 weeks away. Big Maria already committed. Then Sydney is January 8-15. Players must commit by first week in December so we will see if Makiri goes back to Sydney in 2006 (my guess is she will). Then the Australian Open runs for two weeks starting January 16 (no doubt Maria will play the Open). It has been 5 weeks since Maria lost at the KC so she has had a nice holiday. I don't know for sure, but it is possible she comes to Florida for 5-6 weeks of training in Boca Raton. Back to Moscow Oblast for two weeks of Christmas holiday and then its off to Australia for the month of January.
Nov 15th, 2005, 03:10 PM
Here is the link to the 2006 tour schedule as of Nov 9
After Jan in Australia looks like Toray (Tokyo), Thailand, India, Dubai, Doha in Feb. Then the US in March for Indian Wells (2 weeks), Miami (2 weeks) and Amelia Island 1st week April. Then off to Warsaw, Berlin, Rome to get ready for the French Open.
A date to circle on the calendar, September 18, 2006 when Makiri DEFENDS her China Open title.
Nov 15th, 2005, 07:28 PM
Thx KirilenkoRulz!!
Nov 20th, 2005, 05:46 AM
Maria will play ASB Classic:angel:
Nov 21st, 2005, 05:58 AM
Those are good news! :D
Nov 21st, 2005, 01:03 PM
Nice article about Maria playining the ASB Classic in the New Zealand Herald. A #3 Seed would be nice.
"Tennis: Kirilenko to play ASB Classic
By Michael Brown
The quality of the ASB Classic received another boost when world No 25 Maria Kirilenko confirmed she will come to Auckland in January.
The 18-year-old Russian is not only seen as one of the rising stars on the WTA Tour capable of breaking into the world's top 10, but also one of the queens of an increasingly glamorous women's tennis circuit.
She is expected to be seeded third for the tournament and joins fellow Russian and world No 9 Nadia Petrova, Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova (19), No 41 Marion Bartoli and defending champion and world No 28 Katarina Srebotnik.
The full list of players will be announced on Wednesday and tournament director Richard Palmer expects to name at least 10 players inside the world's top 50. It will be one of the strongest fields in the tournament's history. The cut-off is likely to sit at around 85.
"We are sitting pretty nicely," Palmer said. "I am very happy with what we've got when you look at what's against us."
The ASB Classic clashes with the Hopman Cup, a tier-three event on the Gold Coast and exhibition matches in Hong Kong, all of which account for 42 of the world's top women players.
Kirilenko has progressed up the rankings after starting the year at 111. She claimed her first WTA Tour singles title in September, toppling then world No 1 Maria Sharapova in the semifinal of the China Open, and has won two doubles titles, including the 2004 DFS Classic in Birmingham with Sharapova.
New Zealand No 1 Marina Erakovic will be handed one of the two wild-card spots.
Nov 22nd, 2005, 08:11 PM
Maria told me she was in Saddlebrook right now, is this in Florida? :confused:
Nov 23rd, 2005, 01:38 PM
Cecilia - Yep, it is just north of Tampa Bay, Florida which is the west coast (on the Gulf of Mexico). Here is the url to their tennis website:
Kind of figured she would come back to Florida for her "winter" training as she has been at the Chris Evert Acadamey in the past. CEA is in Boca Raton, Florida on the east coast (Atlantic Ocean).
BTW, big Maria has her new home in Longboat Key, Florida which is just south of Tampa. Longboat Key has to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. We should be happy for both Maria's they are reaping the rewards of their talents.
Nov 23rd, 2005, 01:57 PM
Maria told me she was in Saddlebrook right now, is this in Florida? :confused:
So you have contact with Maria? I envy you! :)
Nov 24th, 2005, 01:45 AM
Yeah... that is close to the Evert Tennis Academy...
Nov 30th, 2005, 03:42 PM
From the ASB Classic website. Makiri should get the 4 seed. Note that the article/release mentions that Makiri is a prospect to end 2006 in the top 10. May be some PR hype here, but would be nice... so long as she stays the same awesome person we got to know in 2005.
"Kirilenko and Doushevina are two of the rising stars of tennis. The first is 18 years old and the second turned 19 last month.
Kirilenko made a final at Beijing the semis at Hyderbad and Tokyo as well as the quarters at both Doha and Guanqzhou in 2005 and is rated as a real prospect to reach the top ten within the next 12 months.
The 2006 ASB Classic featuring the Sovereign singles and doubles will be held January 2-7, 2006 at the ASB Tennis Centre, 1 Tennis Lane, Parnell with qualifying on Saturday 31 December 2005 and Sunday 1 January 2006.
ASB Classic 2006 Player Entry List:
1. 9 Nadia Petrova(RUS) 2. 17 Elena Likhovtseva(RUS) 3. 19 Daniela Hantuchova(SVK) 4. 25 Maria Kirilenko(RUS) 5. 27 - Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 6. 38 Shinobu Asagoe (JPN) 7. 39 Vera Dushevina(RUS) 8. 40 Marion Bartoli (FRA)"
Dec 2nd, 2005, 11:53 PM
Good luck Maria! Gotta get a seed above 24 so that you avoid a top 8 on the 3rd round! :)
Dec 3rd, 2005, 01:36 AM
Winning this tournament could be a morale boosting accomplishment... I sincerely hope that her first tournament becomes outstanding..
Dec 5th, 2005, 04:42 PM
From an article on Dokic getting a wild card to ASB. Frankly, I could do without a Dokic-Kirilenko match to start off 2006.
"Jelena Dokic will attempt to resurrect her tennis career starting in Auckland next month after the former world No 4 was granted a wildcard to the ASB Classic... 'She's been in the top-10 and beaten some of the top players.' Dokic, who has five career singles titles, was suppose to play in Auckland in 2004, but was a late withdrawal citing 'personal reasons.'
'I think she'll be good for the tournament. Imagine Dokic against (world no 19 Daniela) Hantuchova or (No 25 Maria) Kirilenko in the first round.'"
Dec 5th, 2005, 06:30 PM
I would love to see Maria killing a possible giant-in-the-rise..... :p
Dec 6th, 2005, 12:26 AM
Maria will play at Sydney after Auckland :hatoff: :cool:
Dec 6th, 2005, 01:16 AM
she is playing two oturnaments before Australian Open?
Dec 6th, 2005, 01:33 AM
she is playing two oturnaments before Australian Open?
Yes sir :cool:
Auckland 2-7 January and Sydney 8-14 January before the AO which starts on the 16th ;)
Dec 6th, 2005, 01:48 AM
that sucks...
Dec 6th, 2005, 12:27 PM
that sucks...
...but should be a good preperation for her. :)
King Aaron
Dec 6th, 2005, 04:40 PM
that sucks...
It would be better than playing Auckland and then resting for a week. Or not playing at all before the Aussie Open.
Dec 6th, 2005, 06:31 PM
It would be better than playing Auckland and then resting for a week. Or not playing at all before the Aussie Open.
Hmm, I think Maria should play one tourney before Melbourne starts, maybe sydeny or something like that.....
Dec 7th, 2005, 03:20 PM
Hmm, I think Maria should play one tourney before Melbourne starts, maybe sydeny or something like that.....henner - I put this on the Cheering Thread but will copy it here just for reference....
Putting it all together Makiri's January, 2006 schedule is:
2-7 January - ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand
8-14 January - MediBank International, Sydney, Australia
16-29 January - Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia
Note that Sydney has shortened their week and will end on Saturday, with the woman's final on Friday night. This allows the players an extra day to travel to Melbourne from Sydney. Thanks to Sarah for that insight.
As I write this, only 26 days until Makiri's 2006 schedule starts... Luis, inching closer!
Dec 23rd, 2005, 01:36 PM
Makiri will play Toray in Japan starting 30 January 2006, in the #13 position on the players list. Five Russians out of the 23 players listed, they sure seem to like playing in Asia. Note that Hingis is in as a wildcard.
(Name) (Naityonality) RNK EX
1 Lindsay Davenport ???? USA 1 3
2 Maria Sharapova ??? RUS 4 1
3 Elena Dementieva ??? RUS 8 9
4 Serena Williams ???? USA 11 8
5 Nathalie Dechy ???? FRA 12 15
6 Anastasia Myskina ??? RUS 14 13
7 Nicole Vaidisova ??? CZE 15 20
8 Ana Ivanovic SCG 16 18
9 Elena Likhovtseva ??? RUS 17 16
10 Daniela Hantuchova SVK 19 17
11 Jelena Jankovic SCG 22 19
12 Tatiana Golovin ???? FRA 24 20
13 Maria Kirilenko ??? RUS 25 43
14 Katarina Srebotnik ????? SLO 27 46
15 Ai Sugiyama ?? JPN 29 30
16 Kveta Peschke ??? CZE 30 34
17 Klara Koukalova ??? CZE 35 40
18 Shuai Peng ?? CHN 36 31
19 Marion Bartoli ???? FAR 37 41
20 Shinobu Asagoe ?? JPN 38 37
21 Roberta Vinci ???? ITA 41 51
22 WC Akiko Morigami ?? JPN 49 47
23 WC Martina Hingis ??? SUI ?
Dec 23rd, 2005, 09:00 PM
Tanks for the infos, Walt. Hopefully Makiri will make a good job there....I am sure she will, hehe.
Dec 26th, 2005, 04:27 AM
she will have a good run in auckland ive got a feeling about it
Dec 26th, 2005, 12:24 PM
she will have a good run in auckland ive got a feeling about it
you are not alone, hehe, you are not alone!
Dec 26th, 2005, 11:40 PM
I'm not going too overboard since this style of hardcourt isn't her speciality.. but it's enough to top almost everybody anyway.
Jan 23rd, 2006, 02:56 PM
After not hearing anything new on the "official" Makiri site, a frenzy of activity (two new items):
1."Toray Pan Pacific Open"(Tokyo,JPN). 2. "Dubai Duty Free Women's Open"(Dubai,UAE). 3. "Qatar Total Open"(Doha,QAT).
Maria is out of the Australian Open after she lost the third round of the women singles to 1st seed Lindsay Davenport of the USA in three sets 4/6 6/4 2/6. In the first round Maria has beaten E.Linetskaya 6/1 3/1 and in the second round Maria defeated G.Voskoboeva 7/6 6/4. Maria is still in the doubles(with Gisela Dulko) and mixed doubles(with Igor Andreev).
Toray Pan Pacific is next week (30 Jan week) which will make it 5 weeks in a row for her. Then two weeks off (weeks 6 Feb & 13 Feb). Then Dubai is 20 Feb week, and Doha 27 Feb. If she follows form from last year she will then come to the United States for Indian Wells (California) which is a two week tournament (6 March & 13 March) and then Miami NASDAQ (Florida, also a two week event 20 March & 27 March). If this is what she does, will make it 6 weeks in a row, but the last 4 will be in two week tournaments.
Feb 7th, 2006, 01:12 PM
As expected, Makiri now formally on the Players List for the Pacific Life Open at Indian Wells, California, USA from 6-19 March 2006. Last year the event had a 128 person main draw with 32 seeds. Sitting at the 16th position in the players' list, can't think of a single reason why Makiri should not get a seed. Last year she did very well at this tournament winning three matches and making it to the fourth round. Lots of rating points to defend.
1 Davenport, Lindsay 1 USA
2 Clijsters, Kim 2 BEL
3 Sharapova, Maria 4 RUS
4 Pierce, Mary 5 FRA
5 Henin-Hardenne, Justine 6 BEL
6 Dementieva, Elena 9 RUS
7 Dechy, Nathalie 13 FRA
8 Myskina, Anastasia 14 RUS
9 Vaidisova, Nicole 16 CZE
10 Safina, Dinara 19 RUS
11 Pennetta, Flavia 20 ITA
12 Groenefeld, Anna-lena 21 GER
13 Ivanovic, Ana 22 SCG
14 Jankovic, Jelena 23 SCG
15 Golovin, Tatiana 24 FRA
16 Kirilenko, Maria 25 RUS :bigclap:
17 Medina Garrigues, Anabel 26 ESP
18 Sugiyama, Ai 27 JPN
19 Bartoli, Marion 28 FRA
20 Koukalova, Klara 31 CZE
21 Mirza, Sania 32 IND
22 Dulko, Gisela 33 ARG
23 Safarova, Lucie 34 CZE
24 Chakvetadze, Anna 36 RUS
25 Peschke, Kveta 37 CZE
26 Asagoe, Shinobu
Feb 7th, 2006, 09:23 PM
She should get a seed. Clijsters likely will withdraw, so that moves her up to 15 on the list and who knows who else will pull out (Henin could get another stomach ache)
King Aaron
Feb 8th, 2006, 06:06 PM
She should get a seed. Clijsters likely will withdraw, so that moves her up to 15 on the list and who knows who else will pull out (Henin could get another stomach ache)
She is already seeded, though a Top 16 seed would be great. :)
AK-DH Fan
Mar 28th, 2006, 09:45 PM
Does anybody know what her claycourt schedule is like. I'd love to see her Amelia Island or the Family Circle Cup.. Does anybody know or does she start in Europe??
Mar 29th, 2006, 02:33 AM
Does anybody know what her claycourt schedule is like. I'd love to see her Amelia Island or the Family Circle Cup.. Does anybody know or does she start in Europe??The only things I have seen confirmed for Makiri is she will play in the Fed Cup the third week in April (in Europe) and the J&S Warsaw May 1st week. The players lists are out for both Amelia Island and the Family Circle tournaments and Makiri's name is not on either list. So, it looks like Makiri is off to Europe through Wimbledon and won't be back to the US until the start of the USOpen 2006 Series.
AK-DH Fan
Mar 29th, 2006, 03:24 AM
The only things I have seen confirmed for Makiri is she will play in the Fed Cup the third week in April (in Europe) and the J&S Warsaw May 1st week. The players lists are out for both Amelia Island and the Family Circle tournaments and Makiri's name is not on either list. So, it looks like Makiri is off to Europe through Wimbledon and won't be back to the US until the start of the USOpen 2006 Series.
Ok thanx... sad I won;t see her play on the green clay, but I bet she could use the rest
Mar 29th, 2006, 12:15 PM
After Warsaw Masha will play in Berlin, and then most presumably in Rome (like last year).
Apr 6th, 2006, 08:24 PM
Maria's upcoming schedule. Taken from her official site with dates added
April 17: Fed Cup
May 1-7: J&S Cup (Warsaw, Poland)
May 8-14: Qatar German Open (Berlin, Germany)
May 15-21: Internazionali d'Italia (Rome, Italy)
May 28-June 11: French Open
Apr 13th, 2006, 11:04 PM
Maria's upcoming schedule. Taken from her official site with dates added
April 17: Fed Cup
May 1-7: J&S Cup (Warsaw, Poland)
May 8-14: Qatar German Open (Berlin, Germany)
May 15-21: Internazionali d'Italia (Rome, Italy)
May 28-June 11: French Open
It appears we should add Strasbourg on May 22 to the list. Makiri could be the #2 seed in this Tier III $175K event right before Roland Garros.
Strasbourg Full Entry List (http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=230925)
More practice on the red stuff, chance to pad her point totals, maybe even pick up a title (!!!!), but she also loses a week to rest before the big Grand Slam event.
Apr 14th, 2006, 12:28 PM
I hope Makiri can take part in Strasbourg...I think she can get the champion!
Apr 22nd, 2006, 01:09 AM
Maria will team with Dinara Safina as Russia's doubles team in the 1st round Fed Cup tie against Belgium. They will face Belgium's Caroline Maes & Kristen Flipkens
Apr 22nd, 2006, 06:11 PM
Good choice. :)
Apr 23rd, 2006, 02:38 AM
Maria will team with Dinara Safina as Russia's doubles team in the 1st round Fed Cup tie against Belgium. They will face Belgium's Caroline Maes & Kristen Flipkens
Not sure yet... I mean if the score between russia and belgium is tied, the belgian double team could change. It could be Justine and Kim together who will play the doubles in this case.
Apr 23rd, 2006, 03:42 AM
Yes doubles could change but as of now she is scheduled to play. Personally, I'd keep her on the team even if Clijsters & Henin-Hardene play. Those two don't play a lot of doubles. Maria does. Maria has become a pretty good doubles player. If I was to replace someone on the Russian team, I'd replace Dinara, but then again I'm not the captain.
Apr 24th, 2006, 03:37 PM
With the Fed Cup over, Maria now has a week off leading into her European Clay court season. She is slotted #12 in next week's Warsaw J&S Cup which means no seed and "the luck of the draw". Last year she won in the first round and then lost to Kimmy C in the second round so Maria has 25 points to defend.
Apr 24th, 2006, 03:44 PM
Chances are it'll go better, but we'll hope. Good luck Maria. :)
Apr 25th, 2006, 05:35 PM
With the Fed Cup over, Maria now has a week off leading into her European Clay court season. She is slotted #12 in next week's Warsaw J&S Cup which means no seed and "the luck of the draw". Last year she won in the first round and then lost to Kimmy C in the second round so Maria has 25 points to defend.
I think there's a difference between the Makiri of the beginning of 2005 and the Makiri we see right now. Maria improved a lot during the last months and so I think that a Quaterfinal would be a nice result for her this year at Warsaw.
Jul 3rd, 2006, 02:35 PM
As it appears that Masha will be taking the next 4 weeks off, want to post the facts for all the new Masha fans because there seems to be a bit of mis-information floating on this forum. After Wimbledon in 2005, starting in August (which on my calendar is well into the second half of the calendar year) Maria played 5 hard court tournaments in North America where she compiled a 3 wins - 5 losses record. She was eliminated in the first round twice and in the second round 3 times. In one tournament, New Haven, she actually failed to qualify but got in as a lucky loser. I thought this (New Haven) was the low point of Masha's pro career. So, in fact, Masha did not dramatically improve when the 2005 tour left the clay and grass for the hard courts. After North America she had 3 magical weeks in Asia where she won Beijing (China Open) made the 3rd round in Guangzhou and the 4th round in Tokyo. She then ended the year with a very poor loss to Bepa Z in her hometown of Moscow. The details:
North America
- San Diego August 7 - 1st round loss
- Los Angeles August 14 - 2nd round loss
- Toronto August 21 - 1st round loss
- New Haven August 27 - eliminated in the qualifiers, in as a LL, 2nd round loss
- US Open September 10 - 2nd round loss.
- Beijing September 24 - Won the Tournament!!! (a Tier II)
- 10/2 Guangzhou October 2 - 3rd round loss (a Tier III)
- 10/9 Tokyo October 9 - 4th round loss (a Tier III)
Last Tournament of the Year in 2005
- Moscow October 16 - 1st round loss.
In sum, Masha's post Wimbledon second half of 2005 saw her play 9 tournaments with the following results:
- 1st round losses - 3
- 2nd round losses - 3
- 3rd round losses - 1
- 4th round losses - 1
- 5th round win - 1
Jul 3rd, 2006, 03:00 PM
Regarding the second half of the year schedule, I am going to assume Masha will not play in the 2nd round (losers bracket) Fed Cup for the Russia Federation. Also, her history has been to come to North America for the hardcourt season after Wimbledon, so I will assume that will be the case this year. Here are the next tournaments Masha would likely be considering:
July 17 - Cincinnati, Ohio (Tier III)
July 24 - Stanford, California (II)
7/31 - San Diego, California (I)
8/7 - Los Angeles, California (II)
8/14 - Montreal (the Rogers Cup, was in Toronto last year, I)
8/21 - New Haven, Conneticut (II)
8/28 for two weeks - US Open, New York City (GS)
Masha typically does not play for more than 6 weeks in a row, so if you start at the US Open for two weeks and count backwards, she would resume playing on July 31st in San Diego. This is in fact where she resumed tournament play in 2005.
Jul 3rd, 2006, 06:41 PM
Thx for the info
Let's wait and see what she does
Jul 13th, 2006, 01:30 PM
Masha will not be playing in the Fed Cup second round. Went to the Fed Cup site and here is who they have listed as the Russian Federation Team for the July 15-16 matches:
Elena D
Anna C
Elena Vesnina
Vera Dushevina.
Russia Federation is playing Croatia in the losers bracket.
Here is the url in case you wish to check it out:
Jul 23rd, 2006, 07:03 AM
According to Maria's official website, she will play in 4 tournaments leading up to the US Open, which begins August 28 (can't wait. i'll be there once again). The schedule is as follows:
July 31: Acura Classic - San Diego, CA
August 7: JP Morgan Chase - Los Angeles, CA
August 14: Rogers Cup - Montreal, Canada
August 21: Pilot Pen - New Haven, CT
Jul 23rd, 2006, 09:47 PM
Wowww That's Great !!! Makiri will come at Montreal !!!! It's not very far for me :) !!!!! Com'on Maria win this title !!!
Jul 24th, 2006, 12:51 AM
And I'll not be able to go to Montreal this year :sad:
Jul 24th, 2006, 04:47 AM
If I gone there I will take some picture of this beautiful tennis woman and I will give you here !
Jul 24th, 2006, 05:01 PM
Thanks :) And try to take some pictures of Gisela Dulko too :angel:
Jul 24th, 2006, 09:01 PM
Perfect I Very like Gisela Dulko !! It's sure that if I have the occasion I will take very some pictures !!!
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Whenever a rocker says "putting you on the guest list," don't count on it. I interviewed Steve Kilbey of The Church by phone around 1994 and he said the same thing. When I went to the venue (surprise) I wasn't on the guest list. But things have a way of evening out, when, years later, I went to a Chameleons show and got invited to hang out with the drummer in SF, and then into the club early to watch the soundcheck. If I hadn't had tickets no one would have noticed and I probably would have gotten in for free....
I met Guthrie and Raymonde back stage on the Heaven or Las Vegas tour. I had gotten a temp job as a load in/out person for a SF concert hall, and luckily my first job was the CT show. They were both friendly and signed my "Moon and the Melodies" CD. Guthrie couldn't believe I liked that album and Raymonde said he "couldn't play bass to save (his) life" when I offered a compliment about his bass playing! Good times (the 90's)...
A friend of mine's band had opened up for the Church here in the 90s. Apparently it was a tour where they weren't playing "Under A Milky Way" and I guess backstage my friend had commented on missing that song or something and Kilby and Wilson-Piper apparently had a shit fit and got in his face about how they hate playing the song. LOL. It got kind of nasty apparently, like shouting at each other. I dunno, I wasn't there though. I was never a huge Church fan. I do have a few of their albums... really tried to like their stuff, not dynamic enough for me, though I probably like them more now than I did in the 90s.
Cool story about meeting with Robin & Simon! Have you ever listened to Lowlife? Will Heggie was in this band (who is the original bassist on "Garlands"). I LOVE Lowlife.


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By sheer coincidence, my nine-year-old begged me just the other day to buy him one of those iconic toys from my own childhood, the Etch-A-Sketch, which is manufactured by that equally quirky and iconic toymaker, Ohio Art.
And so, thanks to my son, I am now equipped to pile on like everyone else onto Mitt Romney's PR wingman, Eric Fehrnstrom.
Fehrnstrom, as by now everyone with access to YouTube surely knows, famously said this when asked by CNN's John Fugelsang how Romney intended to pivot from the Republican primary to the general election: "Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again."
It was a stunning, perhaps catastrophic, mistake. Rachel Maddow called it the gaffe of what has been a gaffe-prone campaign. Not only was Fehrnstrom's answer supercilious and snarky. It also fed into one of the central narratives against Romney in this campaign, namely that he is an unprincipled fraud who will do or say anything to be president. And now Romney's top aide has said he agrees. On the record!
Eric Fehrnstrom is living every press secretary's and publicity agent's worst nightmare. He's not only given his guy's enemies a talking point they can use against him. He's given them a talking point with props!
I never much cared for the Etch-A-Sketch myself. I quickly tired of the toy once I discovered the best I could do by twisting its two white knobs was to produce a tedious succession of boxes and big city skylines. But somehow I am guessing that between now and next November Ohio Art's signature product will be the toy the political world just can't put down.
As Timothy Noah of New Republic says, Fehrnstrom may have just committed "America's first multi-platform gaffe."
What makes it so new and different, says Noah, "is its extreme ripeness for visual exploitation at the virtual dawn of a new era of social networking on proliferating varieties of gadgets."
Normally when a candidate or top aide commits a gaffe, says Noah, it enters some vast "echo chamber" either of words or images and is quickly forgotten as other words and images overwhelm and take its place.
But Noah says the Etch-A-Sketch gaffe is different. It provides endless possibilities for parody and visual mockery using an image familiar to most Americans to say something about Mitt Romney that has the virtue of being fundamentally true: that he's a fake, a fraud, untrue, what you see today is not what you get tomorrow. And that, says Noah, is a "fatally candid" combination.
As it turns out, I know Eric Fehrnstrom pretty well from our days in the Massachusetts State House Press Gallery when Eric covered politics for the right-leaning Boston Herald when Mike Dukakis was Governor.
Our paths crossed again when Eric was State Treasurer Joe Malone's press guy in the early 1990s and again when Fehrnstrom ran the communications shop for then-Governor Romney.
I'm also guessing that despite the sort of grim sympathy a herd of wildebeest has for one of its own being devoured by a pride of lions, Massachusetts own political herd is no doubt watching the hard-ball playing Fehrnstrom being devoured today and is thinking to itself: This couldn't be happening to a nicer wise-guy.
But Fehrnstrom is simply too experienced a media pro for me to believe his epic gaffe occurred just because he'd let down his guard while savoring the satisfaction of another primary win. Something this big and stupid has to be cultural.
And in reaching for the Etch-a-Sketch metaphor, Fehrnstrom was only doing instinctively what the Republican Party has been doing deliberately ever since George W. Bush ended his disastrous eight-year reign, which is to wipe the historical slate clean and forget all about it so that everything that's gone wrong before or since can be blamed on Barack Obama.
Fehrnstrom's cynical response on CNN is nothing more than of a piece with a Republican presidential campaign and a Republican Party that is steeped in cynicism and betrays a contempt for facts, a contempt for truth, a contempt for principled consistency, a contempt for American traditions and institutions and a P.T. Barnum-like contempt for the average American voter that you'd expect from a party that thinks it's found the secret to creating its own reality.
The Etch-A-Sketch comment was stupid on steroids, even if Mitt didn't have a flip-flop perception problem.
Inventing new or "alternate" realities is a GOP habit/necessity. Run up massive debt and crash the economy? Invent the Tea Party as cover so the Party can condemn the debt they created. Too many people don't pay enough attention to know when to laugh and the brainwashed Party loyalist voters either don't know better or quietly approve the lying as a means to an end.
The GOP is a joke, but a successful joke, considering they can switch masks and largely get away with it.
In a perfect world of course we should confine our politics to the real issues confronting us, which you name. But have you also noticed that Republican demands for focusing on the really important issues confronting the country is nothing more than a cynical ruse used by conservatives to cover for the fact that when it comes to focusing on important issues, conservatives don't. Why waste your time criticizing us for the 1,000 bills we've filed to deny women contraceptives or to humiliate them whenever they legally seek an abortion, say conservatives, when there are so many other important issues out there, like jobs. I didn't catch the Republican congresswoman's name, but last night when Chris Matthews pressed her on why Republicans were wasting so much time on culture war issues like the Blunt amendment on birth control when there were important issues like jobs to take care of, the congresswoman berated Matthews for wasting time asking her why Republicans were wasting time on culture war issues when there were so many more important problems to worry about. It is all a cynical game.
They downsized it just like they do to everything to increase profit and reduce quality.
Also in addition to reporting that they exported the jobs due in part to a Bain Capital connection to Toys R Us this connection also applies to Legos and Lincoln Logs which has been repackaged since I was a kid as well. Apparently they make them in kits with limited options and they're part of a marketing and design campaign to increase profits by forcing the consumers to buy more to do a variety of things and restrict their choices.
This is just the beginning; I could go on with more details and sources about what makes Bain Capital and Mitt Romney child predators in more ways than one.
I don't mean that as joke they really are. a couple source that back this up is "Born to Buy" by Juliet Schor and "Consuming Kids" by Susan Linn.
It's complicated and it may take time to understand bu8t I have no doubt that the evidence is there; and this doesn't even include the child abuse involved in sweat shop labor in the sweat shops they're exported to.
I meant no offense and I take you on your word that using culture war issues to distract from real concerns. I apologize for not knowing your past position on these issues. I was merely reacting to your comment here and noting that cynical conservatives have used objections that sound very much like yours to deflect criticisms of their own extreme culture war agenda.
The sad truth is that given the tight coordination between the RNC and Roger Ailes, and the legions of voters trained to wear "Don't believe the liberal media" buttons, they may nearly be in a position to pull it off. They really can tell people what to think.
Have you noticed the increasing number of books coming out now about the differences in the way that liberals and conservatives think? Seemed to have started with George Lakoff and his Elephant in the Room but now John Dean is in on the act and there is a new book out by Chris Moody now about the "Republican Mind" or something like that that looks interesting. The Boston Globe had another article this Sunday on the different ways that our unconscious values affect political calculations in ways we are obviously unaware off. When I combine the basic irrationality implicit in these works with the efforts of Catholic bishops here and Orthodox rabbis in Israel to push modern democracies back into traditionalist theocracy-based societies I wonder sometimes if the whole world isn't losing its mind.
I sometimes wonder why the whole world is not wondering if the whole world isn't losing its mind!
We have gone nuts as a species.
Maybe I should stop wonder about this and begin wondering if this is natures way of correcting the human being imbalance screwing with the Earth.
Anyway...as to the Fehrnstrom gaffe specifically: I just cannot quiet the feeling that there is another shoe gonna drop...that this is just part of a very clever master plan. This just seems like much too big a gaffe for a pro to make.
The fact is Romney will have more trouble returning to the middle after having an extended trip through the right-wing "who's more conservative" IQ limbo performance. The Etch-A-Sketch line may stick or not, but the erasable Romney thing will find purchase. When a plastic, anal-retentive personality is as off-putting as his, it's not hard to give people more reasons for not liking him. They're already looking for more reasons to support that sentiment.
But the right-wing will fall in line. It'll be humorous watching them making weakly qualified flips and flops of their own. There is a commercial aspect that will provide some level of pseudo-regret among the rightie punditocracy, just to keep the customers satisfied that they're truly conservatives who are committed (and should be).
The nice thing about the Republican propaganda system is they can always find a way to excite the terminally excitable wingers, so it's not as tragic a situation as it should be. Most of that operates sub-rosa, so it's not like most voters will know about the discombobulated babbling of the Right. They won't be praising Mitt so much as illuminating Obama's Marxist Socialist Muslim Foreign-Born Collusion with the Communist Radical Islamic Caliphate. Once you've hooked them in, it doesn't much matter what gets said. They'll believe anything.
It's the handful of indies and a large segment of women voters that will be difficult-to-impossible to convince.
The funny thing is the Right will blame Mitt when he loses, but will be the ones responsible for his loss. If he didn't have to jump into their red meat grinder, his odds of winning would have been far better.
I don't agree with all of his political conclusions or prescriptions, but I think his psychological framework for morality is instructive and useful in trying to understand the differences between liberals and conservatives.
It does seem like there is a loss of direction and a tendency to leave good governance and responsibility behind in favor of sticking to "principles" of ideological correctness. But I find (and I don't think this is just partisan blindness) that the right wing is particularly out of touch with reality. As far as I can tell Obama and a good portion of Congressional Democrats have shown a spirit of compromise on budgetary matters. The Republicans on the other hand are under the sway of Norquist style absolute inflexibility on taxes, Christian anti-gay anti-sex moral purity, while playing a dangerous political game by turning a blind eye to, or even abetting, the outrageous conspiracy theories that are standing in for the barely disguised racial hatred of a black President among certain southern contingents. The Republicans have turned politics into adherence to "principles", which is indistinguishable from absolute adherence to religious doctrine. In my view they've lost the ability to see that compromising to achieve some policy goals is reasonable governing behavior. They've settled into a take-no-prisoners all-or-nothing holy war style of politics that is all about manipulating messages and trying to gain power.
There are three main kinds of political derangement prevalent.
1. There is the right wing political religion which believes Obama is a socialist who wants to destroy America, cooperate with terrorist Muslims who want American Sharia, and he's anti-religion and anti-Israel and weak on defense, apologizes for America and is a wild fiscally irresponsible spender who wants to gut the defense department. All of these things are false, and some rise to the level of whacko paranoid delusions.
2. Then there is the left wing claim that Obama is a closet Republican, and that there is no daylight between the Democrats and Republicans, which is derived from their dissatisfaction in Obama's failure to entirely dismantle the Bush anti-terror military apparatus and PATRIOT act compromises on Constitutional rights, and the lack of prosecution and jail sentences for Wall Street bankers who destroyed the economy while pocketing untold billions. I admit the left has a strong case for dissatisfaction, but I disagree with the motives they attribute to Obama, or their claims that he has political consensus to enact their desired program. They want more than is practical in the current political environment. They are looking at the glass as half empty rather than pragmatically as half full. The glass will be empty if they abstain and let Republicans take over.
3. Then there is the centrist independent illusion that both sides are equivalently partisan and uncooperative and uncompromising, the false assumption our problem is that the Democrats are radical leftists and the Republicans are radical reactionaries and there are no reasonable parties willing to govern from the center. This is completely wrong. The Democrats are the center, and the Republicans have been playing a dishonest game trying to portray Democrats as radical leftists, and they've sold the right and a good portion of independent centrists on that lie. The Tea Party's Obama Derangement Syndrome has pulled the Republicans into the deep end of immoderate reactionary madness. Compared to that the Democrats may seem like leftists, but all you have to do is look at that hatred and hurt feelings of betrayal shown by the left toward our President to discount that theory in an instant.
So independents who are buying this left-right dichotomy stuff are helping Republicans to shift the Overton window way to the right in favor of a religious fundamentalist revival, support for Greater Israel rather than a two state solution, a radical dismantling of government protections for the environment and labor and consumers and health and education, and a libertarian non-statist paradise protected by God's benevolence and full of blond pink-scrubbed Christian families in their Sunday best and SUV navigating their way through free market Jesus' freedom world. But I fear it will quickly be revealed to be a corporate fascist nightmare that serves the interests of the plutocracy and locks in and amplifies the growing inequality and will create a massive peasant slave labor class in America if they succeed. If they have millions of uneducated Americans willing to toil all day for $30 they won't need to outsource to India or China anymore. Welcome to right-to-work America. All the praying in the world won't fix it either. That's whats at stake.
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In another thread, I recently said something along the lines of: Half the people in our country are DEMANDING things that the other half are stating flatly that they will die rather than accept.
There is no path to compromise through that forest.
And Patrick Frank...I respectfully suggest you may be very wrong when you say, ...when I think that it is possible that they will win. Not likely. Because the American people are not as dumb as they think.
Not that the American people are dumb...but even reasonably intelligent people can be fooled...and way too many are to suppose Obama will surely win in November.
By the way, William Saletan in Slate has a longer article on Fehrnstrom. Here's the link:
Impressive comment. You are obviously very interested in organizing ideas so as to better understand how people think, as am I. You may therefore enjoy a post by someone who is a regular reader here, Ben Sen, who reviews a Tony Judt book, "Thinking in the 20th Century."
I've attached my comment that gives you a sense of what is being discussed. I also have a post around here somewhere on the Political Spectrum and how it disguises extremism that you may enjoy.
One of the best cartographers of American political thinking I've ever encountered is professor Ted Lowi of Cornell, whose book The End of the Republican Era was written before Newt Gingrich and the Southern Reactionaries took power. There has always been civil war in the GOP between "establishment" republicans and "movement conservatives," a conflict that really took off after WWII, first with McCarthyism and then white backlash against civil rights. And Lowi does a good job predicting the GOP's mutation from the other side of the liberal two-party coin into a genuine party of the theocratic, neo-fascist Right.
That is Lowi's key takeaway: The Republican and Democratic parties until very recently were both "liberal" parties for exactly the reasons you cite -- both were committed more to process (democracy, science, logic, reason, rule of law) in their political thinking than to faith, ideology and group solidarity as ways of attaining political truth.
Carrying that idea of a "liberal" two party system forward to Ben Sen's post, both parties were therefore committed to "politics" as a way of resolving differences rather than what we have today in America, which is brute force and war by other means -- including the victory at all costs, take no prisoners style of politics employed by the Right in which lying and deception are just politics as usual and amoral Etch a Sketch politicians like Romney do whatever it takes to win power.
The loss of the GOP as the Democratic Party's right-leaning "liberal" governing partner is also what we mean when we say that "moderates" (like me) are now RINO's no longer welcome in the Republican Party. Geoffrey Kabaservice's new book Rule and Ruin, which I have quoted several times on this site, details this civil war very well an explains why the right wing now controls the GOP.
Here is my comment on Ben's post. "Liberalism" and "Politics," both pretty much the same thing:
"The choice we face in the next generation is not capitalism vs. communism, or the end of history vs. the return of history, but the politics of social cohesion based around collective purposes versus the erosion of society based on the politics of fear."
That's a pretty good summary of what I think the central question is in our politics as well. That is why I've said there are really two parties in America: the Community-building Party and the Leave me Alone Party. It makes no sense in the sweep of history for the Tea Party to call Obama a socialist. But it does make sense in the context of right wing ideology in which any sort of collective action or interaction between groups who are different from one another is suspect.
You are right to focus on the issue of "politics" and the need for liberals to recover politics from ideological politics, which is no politics at all but just a brute display of force. While it is tempting to fight right wing ideological fire with left wing ideological fire you can't really be a liberal unless you embrace politics. And as unsexy as that may be, politics is a process not a fixed destination. I will never forget what professor Theodore Lowi taught me: Conservatism can only govern a society that is already homogeneous. Liberalism works in complex modern societies because it creates the values and processes that lets diverse communities to overcome and even embrace its differences to live together in peace. Conservatism is divisive by nature. But if liberalism implies politics, and politics presumes compromise as difficult as that may be with people as intractable as those on the right, then liberals cannot be true to themselves if they become ideologues like their right wing opponents.
At least Romney's changes in position take place over time and after an opportunity to consider something other than the latest poll. The spectacle of Obama twisting and turning over the latest oil polls is truly depressing and fools no one.
The positions that Gingrich and Santorum have taken show that they are a sort of desperate egomaniac that has no place in the White House which, after the past three years, is tired of the breed.
Eric is a cynical wise-guy as a lot of former reporters are and I think that got him into trouble this time because at the end of the day you have to really care about the institutions and traditions you're trying to take over. Eric probably did think nothing Romney has said or done the past six months really matters. None of it is "operative" as Nixon's press guy once said.
Frankly, I think winning is all that matters to him. And I think the same may be true with Romney, unfortunately. It is hard to know how much of Romney's plastic hollowness is due to himself or the dysfunctional party he is trying to win over. Probably both.
But if Eric had a sentimental gene and cared more about ideas and America's institutions than he seems to, he might have had that inner voice instinctively telling him its a very bad idea to compare a political campaign for the most important office in the land (and one that is entirely about "character" as Andrew Sheppard said) to some sales job you can tailor or reboot to fit multiple audiences.
I know lots of amoral consultants just like Eric who seem to treat politics as nothing more than a business or a game.
The Etch-a-Sketch metaphor will live forever because it is so realistically true. Sometimes you just nail it, and Fehrnstrom was swinging at at a ten penny nail with a sledgehammer. He, and Mittens, will never, ever get over it, and they shouldn't be able to.
The apologists are just like Eric and Willard, they never, ever interact with anyone outside their own group, and don't care to. What happens is quite simple- they talk this way among each other so often they get used to it, then, are actually and completely surprised and blown away when they discover how offensive they are to others. This is the insularity of 1% culture, and the previous examples are too numerous to list though they run from Roman Emperors to Marie Antoinette, ad nauseum. Herstory won't be kind, but it will be set in stone, this is a group which will go down in the record books as being the ultimate hypocrites in a thousand ways, notably being against allowing sick people to see doctors while supposedly being for Jesus Christ and his teachings. Wow, lau-lau, they'll be remembered as who they really are- some Frankenstein combination of as, mentioned here, P.T. Barnum/Bull Conner-George Wallace/W.R. Hearst/Dick Nixon/Herbert Hoover sans any actual Barnum-Hoover-Hearst actual accomplishments, and notable for being lying forging frauders a la Barnum/Wallace/Nixon ... such a legacy!!!
Go Mittens! The next OS open call can be an Etch-a-Sketch art contest: who can use the device to draw the best picture of Mitt cruising the freezing Canadian highway system with a Mitt-erable Seamus the Setter alternately heaving and soiling himself on the roof.
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And while, as usual, Obama retreated a bit he still made his intentions clear. If he wins this election, and a plurality, the message is that his second term will not be like the first--regardless of the campaign rhetoric that is about to assault our ears.
The feminists who supported Hillary in the last election may hopefully be starting to see they have no other choice and sitting it out is only asking for more backsliding. The battle is certainly not won.
Check out Rick Pearlstein in Rolling Stone. He is a man after your own heart warning against liberal complacency. In a piece "Why are conservatives crazy after all these years," here is the money quote:
Here's the problem: To this way of thinking, the triumph of enlightenment liberalism is always inevitable. Now it's demographics that's the inexorable force (I debunk that argument here); in the 1960s, it was the certainty that Americans would never consent to give up their big-government perks. And yet, somehow, alongside the ordinary tacking of American political preference between Democrats and Republicans, conservatism continues to thrive. That's because power begets power: Democrats can be counted on to compromise with conservative nuttiness, and the media can be counted on to normalize it. And it's because there will always be millions of Americans who are terrified of social progress and of dispossession from whatever slight purchase on psychological security they've been able to maintain in a frightening world. And because there will always be powerful economic actors for whom exploiting such fear, uncertainty and doubt pays (and pays, and pays).
Conservatism is not getting crazier, and it's not going away, either. It's just getting more powerful. That's a fact that a reality-based liberal just has to accept – and, from it, draw strength for the fight.
And if I was going to take an even deeper cut, I would say the loss of faith that resulted from the 20th century has also made a difference on a cultural level. With nothing to believe in any longer than the front pages, and the fear mongers, the "consensus" in this country is apocalyptic--whether from the left or the right--they agree on that.
The question is whether the middle will hold, or at least, take a stand. I honestly believe this next election is the watershed. More and more of my generation will disappear after it, and I think the new generation is even more skeptical. This is actually typical. Democracies often loss supporters as they age. The Greeks were even aware of it and there is little reason to think this nation is any different. The disgruntled have no idea what they are asking for. See my discussion with Kathy K. on my blog. I'll see if I can get her back, but it's a perfect example.
I read Ben's post, and commented there on discipline in politics, and how patient consistency and long term vision are key to success in democracy.
I encourage Romney to come clean. Please see my latest post-an open letter to the Govenor.


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