Sir Charles comes over from the dark side

"I was a republican until they lost their minds,"
-Charles Barkley



















When John Mellencamp let loose with a rip on the Bush administration in the middle of an celebrity golf tournament event concert, sending ex Vice President Dan Quayle marching for the exit, he may have shot a few shockwaves through the American Century Championship. But one of the biggest celebrities in the Lake Tahoe field - a man who used to be one of America's biggest Republicans literally - wasn't shedding any tears for Quayle.
"He's right," Charles Barkley said of Mellencamp. "The word conservative means discriminatory practically. It's a form of political discrimination. What do the Republicans run on? Against gay marriage and for a war that makes no sense. A war that was based on faulty intelligence. That's all they ever talk about. That and immigration. Another discriminatory argument for political gain."
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I'd only disagree with Charles about one thing, the Iraq war wasn't about "faulty intelligence", it was cooked up intelligence demanded by dubya and gang to fit their agenda. See The Downing Street Memo.