Is Anybody Decent?
McCain and Huckabee profess allegiance to a democratic nation that has killed over 6,000,000 Asians since the beginning of the
Huckabee is in
If Americans had any decency, they would lock men such as McCain and Huckabee until the devil comes to take them.
Do they intend to vaporize Iranians to gain a few points in the popularity polls?
The Republican hate machine will try to link Barack Obama to his fellow Democrat John Edwards. As heterosexuals, they incur the special wrath of unforgiving doodads.
In future Democratic literature should link political figures with their crimes i.e. cluster bomber Rice, mad bomber McCain and Torture Cheney.
Bush,Having foolishly raised expectations to justify their invasion of
Talking about a death wish, Bush and McCain are two prime examples. After several unfruitful adventures in
Many murderers construct an elaborate fantasy to convince themselves they are under the threat of the intended victim.
Bush, McCain and many others executed the killing plan. Many of these people face eventual disgrace, imprisonment and execution events few paranoids anticipate.
If we Israelis were as paranoid as Bush and McCain, we would have annihilated every Arab between the
The difference between cultures: Most Israelis respect human life while few Americans do.
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In a superb new book, entitled The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, Gene Healy documents the multiple ways our political system has been corrupted by an out-of-control, unchecked Executive that could not be any more antithetical to the "presidency of limited powers and modest goals the Framers gave us in 1787." As Healy demonstrates, allowing the President to transmute into some central, omnipotent figure of authority -- as Bush/Cheney have done and as McCain seems to embrace -- "is the source of much of our political woe and some of the gravest threats to our liberties," and -- more significantly still -- this model (as the Founders recognized) virtually guarantees a state of ever-expanding militarism and endless war:
Throughout American history, virtually every major advance in executive power has come during a war or a warlike crisis. Convince the public that we are at war, and constitutional barriers to action fall, as power flows to the commander in chief.
Little wonder, then, that confronted with impossible expectations, the modern president tends to recast social and economic problems in military terms . . . . Martial rhetoric often ushers in domestic militarism, as presidents push to employ standing armies at home, to fight drug trafficking, terrorism or natural disasters. And when the president raises the battle cry, he can usually count on substantial numbers of American opinion leaders to cheer him on.
As the amazing commenter Pow Wow repeatedly documents here (see here for one typically excellent example), Congress has "increasingly deferred, dangerously and slavishly, to the presidency, which today very much resembles a monarchy," a state of affairs which -- for the reasons Healy describes -- makes endless war and imperial behavior almost inevitable. As Pow Wow puts it: "The choice for Americans today . . . is between Empire and Republic. We cannot have both."
The central truth of the 2008 election is that, with the exception of a few relatively inconsequential and symbolic matters, John McCain enthusiastically embraces the Bush/Cheney worldview in every way that matters. His ludicrous speech yesterday -- actually complaining that it is the judiciary that wields too much power and is excessively limiting presidential powers -- simply leaves no doubt about that.
-- Glenn Greenwald
By Roger Hickey
Today Arizona Sen. John McCain will deliver what his handlers are hyping as a major address on health care. McCain’s plan is a dangerous fraud.
He wants voters to think he is going after health care cost inflation. In reality, he wants to dismantle the employer-provided system that now covers over 60 percent (or about 158 million) of non-elderly Americans, forcing millions of us who now get fairly decent health insurance on the job to instead buy whatever they can find on the individual market controlled by unregulated and predatory insurance companies. And he would drive health care costs upward, not downward.
This is truly amazing: McCain and his handlers knew they had to say something about health care. So they turned to their friends (and financial supporters) in the health care industry and the conservative think tanks. And they have adopted the most extreme right-wing ideological approach, premised on the idea that the big problem in health care is that Americans have too much insurance – in their words, we don’t have enough “skin in the game” – and that only when we have to buy health care with money that comes directly out of our own pockets will consumers force doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to become more efficient.
“I also know that real change has never been easy, and it won't be easy this time either. The status quo in
Karl Rove’s Newsweek article offers much sage advice to Obama especially this tidbit.
5. Stop the attacks. They undermine your claim to a post-partisan new politics. You soared when you seemed above politics, lost altitude when you did what you criticize. Attacks are momentarily satisfying but ultimately corrode your appeal.
McCain: The GOP nominee-in-waiting rapped his Democratic rival for opposing his idea to suspend the tax on fuel during the summer, a proposal that McCain believes will particularly help low-income people who usually have older cars that guzzle more gas.
"Obviously Sen. Obama does not understand that this would be a nice thing for Americans, and the special interests should not be dictating this policy."
The
John McCain believes that maintaining current troop levels in
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want phased withdrawals beginning immediately.
The consensus is stay the course for a while and hope for a better tomorrow.
In 2007 the Congress should have cut the funding of the war to force a withdrawal. They didn’t because they wanted an unstable
If the Republicans can rig the Fall Election, McCain can smooth the way for Hillary’s 2012 bid by dying in office. If Obama prevails, there is a good chance he will be assassinated. Hence, there is a possibility we will be in
The Saudis, Japanese and particularly the Chinese have financed the war almost from its inception. Amassing $1.4 trillions of US Treasury Bills,
Many people claim he is the only white man in the race for President. Certainly, he is the traditional choice.
On Election Day the outsourced factory worker will leave his five diseased children in the trailer. His wife will remind him to grab his cup of coffee at the public cantina and to bring back a carton of beans from the soup kitchen.
Their children are hacking from the asbestos in their FEMA home. His car a memory, he looks forward to a long walk to the polling place. Perhaps the air will restore his lungs.
He can’t afford cigarettes until the Chinese pimp makes his next payment.
Who would have guessed McCain would survive long enough to be elected?
Gene Weingarten, The New Republic
Weingarten discovers life outside punditry:
Someone is saying somewhere that someone is cravenly misleading someone about something, and I get up from my chair, put on my coat, take the elevator to the lobby and walk out into the street.
It's a nice evening. Not too cold. People walking. No one seems to be arguing with anyone. Nice people, walking. Here's a person.
"Sir, do you think that McCain is going on the offensive against Obama in a subtle but devious attempt to ensure that Hillary is his opponent because her negatives continue to outweigh his negatives but Obama beats him by four to six points, according to the latest 24-hour polling data?"
"Uh, I, uh, never really thought about it," says Anthony Booker of
Rambo Hillary landed in
“Obama has exaggerated his role in reaching a compromise in the Senate on immigration as well as his authorship of a bill to address the housing crisis. Voters need to weigh such distortions when they consider whether the freshman senator from
Ron Fournier, AP
The fourth major candidate still running is Ron Paul. Even he will not rail against the obscene profits of the medical industry.
So, the news that politicians lie should not come as any great surprise. Our future President will have flaws. It comes with the territory.
The nation has survived the antics of fools and charlatans for over 200 years. God loves drunks and the
