Aiming to Avoid the Dole-drums

Dear One, I agree with you about the horrible social conditions in Iran. I have two things to say about that. One is, Americans need to be VERY CAREFUL not to let the religious right wing take over the Supreme Court, considering that Iran shows you what it really looks like when a nation fails to separate church and state. The second point is that WE, the USA, put those nut jobs in power by placing the Shah in power then controlling his government as a puppet, which infuriated the Iranian people. The Iranian people rebelled against such imperialism, and in the middle of this secular political rebellion, the Ayatollahs seized power. Not to mention the very cogent fact that WE, the USA, gave Iran their first nuclear reactor. Oh, yeah. We forgot all about that. Now we are threatening to bomb them for possessing technology that WE gave them?

And what is all this nonsense about Iran attacking Israel? Iran has been at war with Iraq for decades, and never succeeded in even taking over a neighboring province. How are they going to fight a long distance war with Israel? Iran does NOT have significant military force to back up a nuclear strike, even if it were stupid enough to indulge in one, even if it already had the warheads, which it does not.

And ask yourself, who has strengthened the religious fanatics that control Iran? The USA. First, we give them nuclear power, then we set up conditions for the Ayatollahs to seize power, then we plunge Iraq into civil war and destroy Iraq's infrastructure, which effectively disables Iran's greatest enemy. Furthermore, Bush refuses to have diplomatic relations, only worsening the situation. And McCain threatens to bomb Iran, which is even stupider (and much more real) than Iran threatening to bomb Israel. We have no one but ourselves to blame for the horrible situation in the middle east.

VOTE FOR OBAMA to end all this needless drama.

Just don't do the Viagra ads, John...

A Karl Rove swift-boat strategy against McCain would be to try to gin up "concerns" about the torture experience affecting temper, judgment and overall stability. Throw in the first-wife bit (Ross Perot still has an axe to grind over that) and then a bit of ageism and it's all hopefully something that gets avoided. It may sound odd to say, but McCain may well have faced a nastier campaign in 2000 than he gets from Obama.

OTOH, if either candidate opens up a 10+ point lead you can expect the other to be pressured to go very negative. The 1988 campaign was a real lesson in that.

In the end, I think any risks with Obama are preferable to the far more certain risk of McCain being too much like Bush. He could easily nominate the fifth Supreme Court vote against Roe v. Wade and he's guaranteed to get in the way of any meaningful change on health care.

Johniie Midnight has flip-flopped (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9000.html) on nearly every issue. He has betrayed nearly every principle has ever had. No one knows where he really stands on any of the issues. The two perfect examples are torture and immigration. Senator McCain had been against torture his whole life, for very good reason, until recently when he voted to allow the CIA to torture detainees (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/todays_must_read_276.php). He was for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented workers, until he said he would vote against his own bill (http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/30/video-mccain-says-he-wont-sign-his-immigration-bill/) on that issue.

His positions are both ever-changing and indefensible at the same time. And they are made less defensible every day that he flips and flops them. It's bad enough to be the pro-torture candidate, but when you're the lying pro-torture candidate, that's tough to swallow.

Plus, he is against 80% of the people in the country on the Iraq War (that's the percentage that want to leave Iraq in two years, whereas McCain says he will stay at least through 2013 when his first term ends). He is running based on experience when everyone wants change. And he doesn't even have his own side excited by his candidacy.

LWOL
Ha Ha Ha Ho Ho Ho He He He

"McCain't and isn't able to Govern" is a mere mirage of himself

Extend the PAIN with your vote for Mccain

Wesley Clark, VP
Colin Powell, Sec Defense
Joe Biden, Sec State
John Edwards, Attorney General
....
They need to put me on the vetting team! ;~D

www.ExpressMyOpinion.org

HolyRoller-"He (McGovern) had huge leads in the polls"? You WEREN'T there, were you? How disappointing.

Another pathetic Snewsweek hit piece.

If a mindless war, US$9 Trillion national debt, a recession, high un-employment and the impending Medicare and Social Security crisis ahead does not make some of you people stop and think, then what will it really take? I wonder what some of you would be saying if this was a Democratic Administration? Bill Clinton got a blowjob and the Republicans who went ballistic are somehow indifferent to the many failings of this Bush Administration. Why?

We are spending US$700 Billion annually to import oil. Here is this administation's energy
policy..http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Hybrid/story?id=97505

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel ....Samuel Johnson

Well, Tigrrrl, wingnuts don't sleep.

I see the wingnuts are out.

Barak Hussein Obama: the next president of Burundi.

Lets wait until McCain's suicide attempt comes to light. We have brave soldiers coming home with very serious post traumatic stress disorder after one tour in Iraq. Don't you think our hero has issues from being tortured in a VC prison for five years? Talk about Manchurian canidate. Or how about railing against lobbyists yet his campaigne is run by lobbyists still. Obama will try stop negative campaigning others will surely bring some of this stuff up. The gloves will come off. The Dems have learned well from the Republic party.

McCain is no Bob Dole, although the media will, in order to promote Obama, make McCain look like a bumbling Dole, falling off the stage, s he did when he ran for thesident. McCain will have to find a way to prevent the media from making him look like a Dole clone. They are already trying to make him look like a Bush clone. McCain is his own man, with his own views, policies and plans. Besides, Obama is very young to be president. He apparently has very lofty views of himself, and being black, one does not dare say anything negative about him withour being labeles "racist". And he knows that. He is too thin-skinned to be president. His wife has chosen to speak up on various issues, but according to Obama, those who criticise her are "leave his wife alone", as he says. Why is that? She is fair game since she is injecting her views into the process.. If she wants to be left alone, I suggest she'd keep her mouth shut. The media will do their darndest to get him into the White House. Obama is hardly dry behind his ears, with ver little experince. How in the world can a man like him run this country? He is not prepared for the high office of the presidency.

For the obamamohammeds who don't want to believe that the BarackStar's NASTY reputation will be aired. Here is the National Press Clubs calendar for Wed. 6/18. Start crying, cause this is just getting started. Check the 3:00 booking. Gonna be hilarious.

......DAYBOOK: June 18, 2008

All Events Meetings
Luncheons Newsmakers News Confs


8:00 AM Government Executive
Meeting Ballroom

9:00 AM CSCMP's State Report
Meeting Holeman Lounge

9:30 AM Research on Boomers
News Conf First Amendment Lounge

10:00 AM Quinnipiac Univ. Poll
News Conf Zenger Room

10:00 AM Climate / Health Patterns
News Conf Murrow Room

12:00 PM WAPA
Lunch Zenger Room

12:00 PM American Antitrust
Meeting Ballroom

12:00 PM Sergey Stanishev
NPC Newsmaker Broadcast Center Studio A

12:00 PM History Committee
NPC Meeting Mezzanine

2:30 PM Is McCain Accountable
News Conf Murrow Room

3:00 PM Larry Sinclair on Obama
News Conf Holeman Lounge

NOBAMA!!!

John has more of those BIG BLUE VITAMINS in his bag of tricks than Dole had. Sorry Mr. Dole, but it's true, hehe. I use them too! Keeps me and the misses happy! LMAO!

Go McGame!!!!! Put Sen McGreen to shame!!!

******** NEWS FLASH! *******

Geo-Elitist have new plan for the future:

John McGame in '08

and

Hillary '12


**Sorry BO Kool-Aid drinkers, time to remove the bibs, wipe away the drool, and face reality! LMAO!!!!

I loved Bob Dole and voted for him in 1996. But I see a huge difference between Dole and McCain. For starters, Dole was a gentleman and a nice guy who didn't have a foul temper. Also, Dole was a deep thinker, whereas McCain's politics have been motivated by a mixture of personal malice and political expediency.

McCain got unfairly swift boated by Bush when they ran in 2000. The great Texas Republican political machine laid McCain to waste, and McCain was mad as hell. He started voting against the party line and against Bush. He suddenly supported abortion rights, opposed the Bush tax cuts, co-sponsored a patient's bill of rights with Kennedy and Edwards, and got on the environmental bandwagon with John Kerry. He called Jerry Falwell "an agent of intolerance." My gosh, he actually tried to crack down on gun shows in legislation he put forth with then-Democrat Joe Lieberman. And in 2001, when Senator Jeffords of Vermont switched from Republican to Independent in an effort to counteract Bush's stranglehold on the Senate, McCain announced that he was considering becoming a Democrat, and went into a pow-wow with Senator Tom Daschle at his Sedona ranch. And did you know that John Kerry floated the idea of having McCain as his VP in '04? That was to have cemented his status as a newly-minted Democrat.

But instead of joining Kerry, McCain suddenly switched his affiliation, came out in support of Bush in '04, and jettisoned his liberal image. Suddenly, it was the "old" McCain from the 1980s back in the saddle, the neo-conservative, take no prisoners Creationist. Against abortion. For the war. The SAME man who opposed a Federal amendment banning gay marriage and openly met with gay groups now was pushing a gay marriage ban in Arizona. The SAME man who said in 1999 that he was opposed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, now suddenly in 2007 is promising that he will stack the deck in the Supreme Court with religious right judges and overturn Roe vs. Wade.

But the religious right isn't so sure about him. He's supported so many different opposing positions at so many times, that they are afraid that they are getting played in the name of McCain's political expediency. Senator Dole never did any of these things.

You don't have to take my word for this. Watch news clips of McCain talking about the same issues in different years, which proves what I have written. Get on the Straight Talk Express and get it straight from the horse's mouth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajm5JTf7jZs&feature=related