Comment: Any time Alvy. As my sources come from private and government agencies or organizations that even the non-partisan ''factcheck''relies upon and not the ''joke media'',of whom do you refer? FOX? I reference them not.[Besides, your ''joke media'',sychophantic in its display,can be viewed right here on NEWSWEEK].
Comment:
I hold in my hand one of the most important pieces of paper in America: Table T08-0071, an analysis of candidate John McCain's tax plan.
OK, it's not really in my hand because I'm typing, but I'm looking at it carefully, and you should too. It is a table constructed by the Tax Policy Center's steely-eyed tax analysts, and it reveals nothing less than McCain's secret plan to diminish the US government beyond recognition. If he gets his way, conservatives will finally be able to say they've achieved the goal set out by Grover Norquist: to get government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
The numbers in the table show the revenue loss to the Federal government from McCain's proposed tax cuts. In the far right corner is the 10-year total: -$5.7 trillion.
People deride the Republican candidate as "McSame," implying a continuation of Bushonomics as well as the president's foreign policy. But from the perspective of domestic policy, it's much worse. Sure, McCain extends the Bush tax cuts but that's the least of it. At $1.7 trillion they amount to less than a third of the damage.
Note also that the big ticket tax cuts-eliminating the alternative minimum tax and lowering the corporate tax-both follow on another Bush tradition of exacerbating market-driven (i.e., pre-tax) inequalities by cutting high-end taxes the most.
As I stresshere , McCain's plans to pay for these tax cuts amount to filling a crater with a teaspoon of sand. Earmarks won't get you there, so he'll have to go after discretionary spending. In fact, he's already suggesting a freeze in such spending, excluding defense, of course. Sound inoffensive until you consider that we're talking about kids' health care, education, child care, training for displaced workers, environmental and labor protections, and dozens more programs that lots of people actually need and care about.
Plus, he can't fill the hole he's dug with cuts in these programs either, which leads you to the inevitable punch line of all this: his target is the entitlements,
Comment:
Social Security and Medicare. Those programs have always been the big enchiladas for the Norquist shock troops and they've never recovered from their Social Security privatization defeat. Well, they're back, incognito.
McCain's top economist, a number cruncher of great integrity named Doug Holtz-Eakin, responds to the Tax Policy's analysis here, and he makes a good point or two, especially regarding the way they score the AMT, but his counterpoints amount to little more than quibbles. In fact, one can't help wonder if Doug, who used to inveigh against supply-side nonsense, has been drawn to the economic dark side. When recently asked about the extent to which these numbers fail to add up, his response was: "I think what [critics] ought to do is remember that the proposals are going to engender economic growth, which is the best thing you can do for near-term budget improvement." That's pure hand waving of the type with which the old Holtz-Eakin had no patience.
This story has yet to catch the fire it should, and hopefully will, once the D's get focused on McCain and his dim vision of government. But the point born of these numbers is as simple as it is compelling:
For seven long years, we've tried entrusting our government to those who discredit it, defund it, and fundamentally disbelieve in its role, except when they seek a lucrative contract or a bailout. We gone down the road-and it is a crumbling road, with potholes and failing bridges -- where the solution to every problem is a tax cut, where critical agencies are staffed with cronies at best and opposition lobbyists at worst, where secrecy trumps transparency and cynicism rules, where budget resources are never available for expanding children's health care, but always there for war.
Table T08-0071 is a road map to taking us far, far deeper into this morass. We must not go there.
Comment:
McCain's Character -- A Disaster Waiting To Happen
by John LeBoutillie
Ronald Kessler's excellent piece in Newsmax on Senator John McCain's erratic and explosive temper is 100% dead on target. As someone who has known McCain for 32 years, I can unequivocally state that he should be no where near the Oval Office.
His behavior through the years tells us all we need to know: he is a spoiled brat-turned adult who demeans people who dare to disagree with him; he has an explosive temper that can erupt on a nanosecond's notice; he is a total liar who will tell you something one day and then totally deny it the next (more on that below); he is a political chameleon who is enabled by the so-called Main Stream Media; he is also a megalomaniac whose former POW status has allowed him to get away with things -- i.e. the Keating Five Scandal -- that others would have gone to jail for.
In sum, McCain is a disaster waiting-to-happen.
Comment:
Now, a story: in 1990-1991 I had the great privilege to meet and ultimately befriend retired Air Force Colonel Ted Guy. Ted had been a POW in Vietnam for over six years -- after being shot down and captured in Laos and driven on the Ho Chi Minh Trail to Hanoi. Ted became famous as the war ended as he tried to bring changes against several of his fellow US POWs who he thought had cooperated with the North Vietnamese while in captivity; after coming home in 1973 his superiors decided not to press charges. But Ted was forever branded a "real hard ass" because of this incident.
For a while Ted was the Senior Ranking Officer (SRO) in -- I believe -- The Plantation (a POW camp on the outskirts of Hanoi) in which John McCain was also being held.
The SRO kept the chain of military order among the POWs; they took orders from him and kept discipline that way.
When I got to know Ted Guy, the US Senate Select Committee on POWs was being organized; McCain was named a member. Ted Guy's thoughts -- then -- about McCain? "John was a good troop in camp."
Ted Guy -- since repatriation in 1973 -- had discounted any chance that living US POWs were left behind in Vietnam after the January 27, 1973 Paris Peace Agreements. In fact, by his own admission, Ted often became gruff with MIA family members who asked him if their loved one might have been left behind in captivity. "I told them there was no chance and they needed to get a life."
This was the same message many of the former POWs were delivering to relatives of the thousands of men who did not come home in Operation Homecoming: "Forget it... we are the only living men... give it up and move on with your lives." Of course, that was easy for them to say: they had come home!!!
The US Government never officially briefed the returning POWs about the egregious violations of the Paris Peace Accords -- by both Hanoi and Washington DC. Washington refused to pay the $4.25 billion President Nixon secretly promised in a February 1, 1973 letter to Premier Pham Van Dong -- and kept hidden from the Congress for three years; Hanoi failed to release the other group of 600 US POWs they were holding as an insurance policy against these funds.
If the truth had been told to our returning heros, they would probably have led the charge for the return of their comrades; but they were not told. Instead they were sent out to America's heartland as the war heros we so desperately needed -- McCain and Ted Guy included.
Except that Ted Guy was intellectually honest enough to read all the new revelations that began surfacing in the 1980's; by 1991 he had seen enough. "I was lied to," he told me. "I am now certain we knowingly left men behind in captivity." Ted also got a fellow former POW, Terry Uyeyama, to join our little 'group' as we went around DC trying to get the US Government to reverse policy and negotiate for the living men still being held in Vietnam and
Comment:
Then McCain entered the picture.
As the Senate Committee heated up -- and more and more new information surfaced showing that indeed we did leave men behind held against their will in Vietnam and Laos -- McCain began a long and vicious campaign to discredit and shoot down any new information or anyone advocating that the truth about our POWs be made public. Thus emerged for many to see the mean and ugly side of John McCain.
Ted Guy, his old Senior Ranking Officer and friend and admirer, soon changed his mind about McCain.
A series of odd phone calls to Ted in Missouri from McCain made him question the truthfulness and sanity of McCain. "John would call me one day and say something... and then he'd call a few days later and I'd ask him about what he'd said on the first call and John would completely deny ever saying it!"
So Ted Guy began recording all his phone calls from McCain. "I don't trust him anymore," said Colonel Guy. "I think he is a total liar."
From these taped calls, Ted soon discovered a frequent pattern: McCain often denied things he has just said only a few days earlier!
How to explain this? A liar or a total nut? Or both?
Sadly, Ted Guy died of leukemia 7 years ago. A healthy Ted Guy today could have and would have stood up and told the truth about John McCain -- and had the former-POW status to take McCain on.
Comment:
McCain these days goes unchecked -- either about his truthfulness or his sanity. Ron Kessler has opened the topic of McCain's explosive and dangerous temper to further public scrutiny. In Ron's story are traces of the lies and denials and admissions -- all at the same time!
In sum, John McCain is not the man for the presidency. He is a fraud.
Yes, he would beat Hillary one on one. And we can't have her either.
But before everyone rushes to sign up for McCain's campaign, let's take a break and learn more about McCain the man and his character.
Once you get to 'know' this man, you will agree: he must be defeated by a real Reagan conservative for the GOP nomination.
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John LeBoutillier is a former U.S. Congressman and a nationally recognized political commentator. He has been a frequent guest on many national talk show programs and is author of the book Harvard Hates America. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.
Comment:
On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years. Yet almost no one noticed.
In his speech McCain proposed that the United States expel Russia from the G8, the group of advanced industrial countries. Moscow was included in this body in the 1990s to recognize and reward it for peacefully ending the cold war on Western terms, dismantling the Soviet empire and withdrawing from large chunks of the old Russian Empire as well. McCain also proposed that the United States should expand the G8 by taking in India and Brazil-but pointedly excluded China from the councils of power.
We have spent months debating Barack Obama's suggestion that he might, under some circumstances, meet with Iranians and Venezuelans. It is a sign of what is wrong with the foreign-policy debate that this idea is treated as a revolution in U.S. policy while McCain's proposal has barely registered. What McCain has announced is momentous-that the United States should adopt a policy of active exclusion and hostility toward two major global powers. It would reverse a decades-old bipartisan American policy of integrating these two countries into the global order, a policy that began under with Beijing and continued with Moscow. It is a policy that would alienate many countries in Europe and Asia who would see it as an attempt by Washington to begin a new cold war.
Comment: Dunno. It seems that everyone,not simply McCain,is ''woefully uninformed''about energy. Take Obamas windfall taxes. You do realize what occurred the last time this happened.[Democrat Executive and Legislative branches]. Domestic exploration fell to less than 8%. OPEC importation rose to over 14%. Then Hillary declares that OPEC be cut out of future oil importation to the US,a patently insane idea. OPEC has 173 nations who are importation customers. Would reducing this number by one have any affect on their bottom line? No.
Just as absurd is any idea that wind and solar power will magically replace fossil fuels in a matter of mere months or years. This is a false canard played by true believers who are unsure how to go forward on such ideas anyway. Red states stand ready,as with Texas'Galveston and Padre Island regions,and in the plains states,which are already marshalling windvane energy sources. Blue states are another story. Enviros are fighting to stop any new windvane construction along the bird-migratory Pacific Flyway,and in Cape Cod and offshore Maryland,solely for asethetic reasons.[Both Kennedys in Congress killed a bill to build offshore windvane power sources]. It is expected that such energies will only provide less than 6% of Americas energy needs[US Dept.of Energy www.eia.doe.gov] and will fall into Have and Have-Not groups. The rich will be able to purchase 60-100,000$ solar panel setups. The middle class and below will eat cake if they can afford the flour. Yet it is from this base that rage directed at Washington will flow,demanding that drilling must accompany new technologies. Pass to the 'economy''and both Clinton and Obama are isolationists. Their plans will hurt American jobs even in the short run,and as well,corporate power will be on full display even under a president Obama,if the growing number of lobbyists on K St. is any indication,never mind the pork free-for-alls directed at corporate America by Congress in the nearly two years since the Democrat takeover of that body orchestrated in degrees by both Democratic candidates.[The Center for Responsive Politics at www.opensecrets.org for more on these influences on Obama and Clinton]. If one can make any case that Obama is surefooted on international relations,then why have his advisors been such wretched choices? Goolsbee,McPeak,Powers,Brzheninski and many others including a recently-fired advisor who freelanced with HAMAS,have all been shown the door. Lake and Rice[Susan],were the architects of the Clinton administrations blundering Rwanda policy. Not an auspicious start to replacing the Bush Era,one would agree.
Comment: Thanks Lee;
We should all go to that one-sided, mom and pop site and check out how screwed up really people are, according to screwed up poeple.
Sounds good. One day, when I trust joke media like you do, I'll let go of the CNN and MSNBC and the likes of those pests.
Thanks again.
Comment: This Boeing stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. McCain is "old school" Washington, with corporate ties and back room pay-offs. So is Clinton. In this regard, Obama is the only viable candidate, the only one who doesn't have a history of selling out to the corporate moguls.
Meanwhile, McCain tries to position himself as a liberal in regards to energy production. Yesterday's big headline was "McCain Acknowledges Global Warming and Urges Nuclear Power to Combat it."
I am SO GLAD that John McCain has acknowledged the reality of global warming. However, his supposition that nuclear power is "clean energy" is absurd.
Clean energy doesn't leave behind deadly radioactive rods to be disposed of. Clean energy isn't subject to nuclear fallout, meltdowns and explosions. Clean energy doesn't cause birth defects and cancer. Clean energy can't be subverted into nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
Effective clean energy technologies created to date are solar, wind, hydroelectric and hydrogen fuel cells. Ethanol is not clean energy, as it takes immense amounts of energy to create fuel this way, and the big corporate farmers pollute with excessive chemical fertilizers and pesticides. However, it can help us transition our economy away from oil dependency and as such it is an excellent stop gap, especially if we use cellulose ethanol rather than corn based ethanol.
McCain is woefully uninformed about the realities of our energy problems and their potential solutions. McCain is woefully uninformed about the economy, and still hasn't come up with any plans for combatting the recession, paying down the national debt, and restoring lost jobs. McCain is woefully misguided about the war, and wants to pursue a hawkish military policy even though the vast majority of Americans are against this.
I respect McCain and the sacrifices he has made for our country. But right now, we need someone ready to roll up their sleeves and work on our current problems. Someone who can make America stronger before we go down the tubes with our oil dependency, our failure to recognize the shifting global economy, and our blatantly wrong-headed foreign policy. McCain is not that man. I'm a Republican and I'm voting for Obama.
Incidentally, I own and operate two corporations, and I am a full believer in capitalism. But I have watched while many CEOs abuse their power and manipulate lawmakers into legislating on their behalf, as they steadily move jobs overseas. I consider this activity un-American. We have separation of church and state, which is a good thing, intended to prevent religious mania from controlling our government. Now it is time to institute a separation of corporate interest from the state, and prevent corporate greed from controlling our government. This government is "for the people" according to our founding documents. It is in our best interests to keep it that way.
Comment:
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Laughing my @ss off
Another nail in the coffin in the Repubs bid to keep the white house
You don't have to go home but you can't stay here LOL
"There will be no change with McCain"
Comment: If you want to see what blowback is, how about Husseins choice for National Security Advisor.
Anthony Lake?!? Smells lkie Enron and Bill's deals with China.
So what if Boeing lost the contract? These are some of the highest paid workers in the country? Thats what happens in your buisness, get over it!
McCain 08
Comment: I just read an article, with stuff that doesn`t surprise me, unfortunately - as the media have been more or less one sided on race issues.
And in that, there has been a rage building up among "whites", as their issues and emotions on it has had to be/and is, in the media; "politically correct repressed" - until it boils and explodes. While 90% of black voters going for Obama, is never questioned and commented in the same way.
And - also, I think, this is some of the answer to why more of Hillary`s supporters won`t vote Obama; it all seems unfair, and Hillary is seen through a certain set on lenses, that "fits" the Obama message and political self righteousness of the media.
Link to article; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24588813
And, I do think it has more to do with Obama`s personality and handling of things, than race - being "smooth", brushing off things as "distractions", making people who have an issue with those "distractions" look "stupid" or ignorant (and feeling humiliated never make people smile at the one who caused it....!), that is just in line with the comment on "clinging to their guns and religion" (why isn`t that picked up in the media as "racial" and descending = why he got his elitist label)
This comment in the article showing and confirming the point that it`s personality and style more than race;
"I think if it was somebody other than him, I'd accept it," she said of a black candidate. "If Colin Powell had run, I would be willing to accept him."
I`d go with Powell, too; he looks solid, genuine, willing to listen, ready, capable & willing to act, down to earth ??? to be trusted.
I wouldn`t expect him to sit in that church for 20 years +....
Address it, before it becomes a wildfire! Let`s put all hurt emotions on the table.
Comment: Idealizing Colin Powell is just too romantic. If Colin Powell ran for President he would have to face the same racial prejudice that Obama is facing. There are many very nice, very normal, very prejudiced people in our country, and that's a fact.
Here's a different "what if" for you:
What if Barack Obama were white? He would already be the nominee, no questions asked. And Hillary would have started stumping for VP in March.
Comment: They'd do all the actions to make your assumption correct - yet will not admit it.
They'll call you racial slurs and come back - who me? I love Powell and King.
But they love Powell. he'd be a shoe-in.
Strange. If you have to say something like that, you already know there is a problem and what it is.
Comment: Wrong you are Nins. Colin Powell would win hands down. Period.
McCain 08
Comment: I totally agree with you. At least Col. Powell I respected, and felt he had substance to him. I would have had no hesitance in looking at him for last presidency vs. this nutcase we have had in for the past 8 yrs. I absolutely do not care what color of the skin a candidate is. But do feel that I have to feel that they have a substantial amount of substance behind them for accomplishements to make me feel good about what that candidate who is proposing a whole lot of policies of getting implementing under his Presidency as being able to get implemented.
Comment: You say you want your candidate to have "a substantial amount of substance behind them" and you state that Colin Powell has this. I don't get it. Colin Powell is a life-long military man, and has served a Secretary of State (but under a very unpopular President, who tied his hands so much that he resigned). I would see Powell as a viable Vice President or as a diplomat, but he has no experience at all as a legislator or as a politician, so jumping into the Presidency is a bit of a stretch. Obama has far more legislative experience (12 years) than Powell. Obama has a degree in International Relations from Columbia University. And Obama is very hawkish, for a Democrat, and vows to increase military spending, even though he wants a controlled withdrawal from Iraq. Incidentally, Powell wants a withdrawal from Iraq, also. Obama is actually more qualified than Powell to be President. Are you sure about that skin color remark you made?
Comment: If you keep saying you don't care. You care.
Comment: Obama just go home these people can see right through you even without your jacket on. You are a lying hypocrite and you are not qualified to be president. I can't wait for you to lose the nomination so you can go back to your dirty politics in Chicago and we don't have to see your face or hear your voice any more.
Comment: I've been to 57 States??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
Wow, Obama, what a loser! How is he suppose to run our country?! With Cliff Notes?? Obama should consider passing the US Citizenship test before running another foolhardy campaign to lead this country. The only world that Obama can lead the US, is Post-American world, where China and Russia share #1 spot and US trails far far behind.
Comment: He was making a joke......
Comment: Tired and Old wrote, "BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME. MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR. CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !"
TiredandOld,
Denigrating that young woman's egregious suffering (in Austria) to amuse yourself is the nadir of your existence. Your poorly composed vituperative and calumny towards Chelsea Clinton shows a sad and rageful man with no semblance of etiquette or humanity. Seriously, you need to focus on properly expressing anger and to refrain from filthy humor that hurts people.
Posted By: Alvy: "First you write you don't like people that sling. Then you sling. Your wordiness is as idiotic as your fanaticism po. Don't just blow people down, criticizing people blowing people down. Big words don't make it nice. Don't pretend."
Alvy,
Chivalry is not slinging. Of all the bloggers in Newsweek, in the parlance of our times, you "sling" as if your life depended on it.
Comment: Neos wrote: "In 1976 Jimmy Carter first spoke of the lack of a national health care plan as a "national disgrace." Since that time to the present plans have existed for implementing universal health care in this country. Hillary had a plan in the 90's but it went nowhere - partially due to her stubborn unwillingness to compromise and deal effectively with others; she was convinced that she was the only one who had the right plan (hasn't changed much, has she?)
Neos,
It is important to know about the history of health care reform in the U.S. Noteworthy, in 1993, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, an "ultra-right-wing," politically conservative association of physicians and medical professionals, litigiously defeated the Task Force led by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on National Health Care Reform.
This bastion of medical professionals opposes mandatory vaccination, universal health care and government intervention in healthcare. It's no wonder why nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured.
Much to the dismay of the misanthropic ill-informed, Senator Clinton's early attempts at universal health care were not defeated by HRC's mismanagement or any other purported characterological deficits.
Rather than researching facts, some believe otherwise. The powerful AAPS which believes that there is no right to medical care, and opposes efforts to implement a national health plan defeated the nation's right to access good health care.
Although 15 million persons might remain uncovered under Senator Obama's plan, that's a much better figure than 50 million, and a move in the right direction.
Comment: "It's been too long since we have" gotten a Democratic president in the White House, Clinton says. Well, she's doing her best to see that we don't get one,with her negative, divisive, and racist comments. If she achieved the presidency one can only imagine the horrors she would invite on those who opposed or disagreed with her.
Comment: Alvy wrote: "What a loser you are lemmon."
Alvy,
Since you can't best anyone in a debate or an argument, invariably, you resort to name-calling. "Loser"???
When people use harsh hyperbolic language in a forum of ideas, it creates enmity, discord and completely obscures the point one is trying to make; in other words, rather than debating an issue, you tear the person apart thinking you've made a strong argument, but you haven't. That's one of various fallacies people fall prey to when they can't properly express their anger......Tell me about your mother.
Comment: Ysterday was Mother's Day. Please stop posting this.
Comment: Sorry, Pia. I wasn't thinking of Mother's Day. My bad.
Comment: Now's here the Play of the Day:
In a video on Hillary's website an article is flashed with the headline "Obama attacks Clinton's gas tax plan". The actual text for that headline is actually from an article on Troopergate.
Fortunately there is a pause button so you can pause it and review at you leisure.
Link to the video:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/182.aspx?a5580500
Link to website with a screenprint & transcript of the article:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5930322
Comment: I have a question for someone with enough intelligence and factual information at their disposal.
Question ; Barack Hussein Obama stated several times in his campaign he will devote $150 Billion into the creation of " Green " jobs. How will he get all this money, whats a 'Green" job, how many will be created and how much does it pay ?
If the Obama campaign can't answer this then its gonna be a lot of fun watching John McCain taking Obama to town on this one.
Comment: Do you wonder why no one answers you? Really?
Comment: I do, Alvy. I can't help myself esp. after CC posted that I belong to a gang here. A gang that insults, offends and calls anyone who is against Obama, names like evil, scum, etc.......I have never called anyone scum.
Comment: He is a OSU Beaver.... Ducks unite!!! Lets kill some beavers.
Comment: LOL !!!
Obama gonna get Oregan......... :-)
Comment:
Mc a loser ask anybody in his party they are having trouble handling the fact that they will lose the General Election. You want to see a bunch of pissed off people go to a Young Republican's meeting they almost break out into fist fights. You want to atlk about a bunch of scared as hell devided people this isn't even funny! Well actually it is quite funny
Comment: I think people want to see Obama in the white house so bad that they are willing to throw away the core responsibilities of what a president should be saying and doing. His popularity is beyond touch right now and that is all good for him. But when you break down who is running and why they are running for office and a person still wants to back the lesser of the two then we have a real issue here. Someday we will have a minority run the White House, but why this guy. We have many minorities who have far more experience, intelligence, and knowledge of running the country, yet Americans have chosen Obama, I just can't see why. The bottom line is r u willing to allow your children to live in a country that is operated by someone who is shallow and is quite arrogant. A person looking out for his own behind, and selvish, a leader who will say the right things to get in to office and uses the race card,(which is very low) to achieve his goals. That to me is not a leader but a man who has no soul and needs to be told so. I personally have written to his camp to try and ask the questions I have and I got nothing. For someone who says he is in tune where is his response? PEOPLE WAKE UP WAKE UP....AND VOTE FOR THE RIGHT THING, NOT RACE OR TO SEE WHAT AN EXPERIMENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD BE LIKE. PEOPLE LIVES ARE AT STAKE HERE.
Comment: is obama really that bad?
Comment: Drudge Report Exit Polls show Obama winning by 13% in N. Carolina, and Obama winning by 2% in Indy.
Goodbye bowling alley....Hello Basketball court!!!!!!!
Comment: Drudge report...Excellent source...?
Comment: Let's save the bowling for Hillary.
Comment:
During a week of reverberations over the sayings of Reverend Wright, the political calculus in Clintonland hopefully reckoned that white voters would swiftly abandon the good ship Obama in a flight of fear following a paroxysm of soul-searching racial uncertainty.
The highly paid strategists of the Clinton campaign sharpened their pencils and carefully calculated their arcane political equations. Following a series of deft tactical maneuvers designed to manufacture a withering crisis, the MSM would subject Obama to another week on the defensive against the phantasmagorical sayings of Rev. Wright following his madcap spree of ill-advised press conferences manufactured to stimulate the undercurrents of racial intolerance still roiling just beneath the surface tension of America.
The Clintonian rationale for this round of "strategy" was at once stark and simple. The Reverend Wright machinations would be especially effective in the Jim Crow-obsessed South and that great state of Indiana, once the home of the national headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan where 30% of the white male population donned the iconic white hoods and robes of the Rolls Royce of race baiting organizations to march 500,000 strong down Pennsylvania Avenue proudly brandishing banners proclaiming their brand of lily white masculine supremacy.
Comment:
During a week of reverberations over the sayings of Reverend Wright, the political calculus in Clintonland hopefully reckoned that white voters would swiftly abandon the good ship Obama in a flight of fear following a paroxysm of soul-searching racial uncertainty.
The highly paid strategists of the Clinton campaign sharpened their pencils and carefully calculated their arcane political equations. Following a series of deft tactical maneuvers designed to manufacture a withering crisis, the MSM would subject Obama to another week on the defensive against the phantasmagorical sayings of Rev. Wright following his madcap spree of ill-advised press conferences manufactured to stimulate the undercurrents of racial intolerance still roiling just beneath the surface tension of America.
The Clintonian rationale for this round of "strategy" was at once stark and simple. The Reverend Wright machinations would be especially effective in the Jim Crow-obsessed South and that great state of Indiana, once the home of the national headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan where 30% of the white male population donned the iconic white hoods and robes of the Rolls Royce of race baiting organizations to march 500,000 strong down Pennsylvania Avenue proudly brandishing banners proclaiming their brand of lily white masculine supremacy.
The Clinton campaign's happy coincidence was simplicity itself for the North Carolina and Indiana primaries fell on the very same date. This miraculous synchronicity provided the sacred crucible for the latest media-driven experiment in race-baiting. In gambling terms - and that is precisely what the strategists were doing - they bet the house on the Reverend Wright gambit and then rolled the proverbial dice.
Comment:
During a week of reverberations over the sayings of Reverend Wright, the political calculus in Clintonland hopefully reckoned that white voters would swiftly abandon the good ship Obama in a flight of fear following a paroxysm of soul-searching racial uncertainty.
The highly paid strategists of the Clinton campaign sharpened their pencils and carefully calculated their arcane political equations. Following a series of deft tactical maneuvers designed to manufacture a withering crisis, the MSM would subject Obama to another week on the defensive against the phantasmagorical sayings of Rev. Wright following his madcap spree of ill-advised press conferences manufactured to stimulate the undercurrents of racial intolerance still roiling just beneath the surface tension of America.
The Clintonian rationale for this round of "strategy" was at once stark and simple. The Reverend Wright machinations would be especially effective in the Jim Crow-obsessed South and that great state of Indiana, once the home of the national headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan where 30% of the white male population donned the iconic white hoods and robes of the Rolls Royce of race baiting organizations to march 500,000 strong down Pennsylvania Avenue proudly brandishing banners proclaiming their brand of lily white masculine supremacy.
The Clinton campaign's happy coincidence was simplicity itself for the North Carolina and Indiana primaries fell on the very same date. This miraculous synchronicity provided the sacred crucible for the latest media-driven experiment in race-baiting. In gambling terms - and that is precisely what the strategists were doing - they bet the house on the Reverend Wright gambit and then rolled the proverbial dice.
The results are now in hand. The latest CBS-New York Times poll indicates that Obama's support has held relatively firm in spite of the provocative statements of Reverend Wright. The majority of Democrats are now satisfied with Obama's handling of his former pastor.
Comment:
During a week of reverberations over the sayings of Reverend Wright, the political calculus in Clintonland hopefully reckoned that white voters would swiftly abandon the good ship Obama in a flight of fear following a paroxysm of soul-searching racial uncertainty.
The highly paid strategists of the Clinton campaign sharpened their pencils and carefully calculated their arcane political equations. Following a series of deft tactical maneuvers designed to manufacture a withering crisis, the MSM would subject Obama to another week on the defensive against the phantasmagorical sayings of Rev. Wright following his madcap spree of ill-advised press conferences manufactured to stimulate the undercurrents of racial intolerance still roiling just beneath the surface tension of America.
The Clintonian rationale for this round of "strategy" was at once stark and simple. The Reverend Wright machinations would be especially effective in the Jim Crow-obsessed South and that great state of Indiana, once the home of the national headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan where 30% of the white male population donned the iconic white hoods and robes of the Rolls Royce of race baiting organizations to march 500,000 strong down Pennsylvania Avenue proudly brandishing banners proclaiming their brand of lily white masculine supremacy.
The Clinton campaign's happy coincidence was simplicity itself for the North Carolina and Indiana primaries fell on the very same date. This miraculous synchronicity provided the sacred crucible for the latest media-driven experiment in race-baiting. In gambling terms - and that is precisely what the strategists were doing - they bet the house on the Reverend Wright gambit and then rolled the proverbial dice.
The results are now in hand. The latest CBS-New York Times poll indicates that Obama's support has held relatively firm in spite of the provocative statements of Reverend Wright. The majority of Democrats are now satisfied with Obama's handling of his former pastor.
Even more importantly, the early voting results in North Carolina suggest that Obama will carry that Southern state decisively. According to analyses from North Carolina's political experts, Obama is trouncing Clinton via a new and unanticipated surge in black turnout that was almost certainly triggered by the massive MSM overreaction to the stage-managed appearances of Reverend Wright.
In a nutshell, the Reverend Wright strategy backfired. Polls indicate that the early voting in Indiana is heaviest in counties where Obama has commanding leads. While Indiana is another "open primary" state, and Rush Limbaugh's legions of followers could effect yet another Clinton upset via Operation Chaos, it will not matter.
With a population of nearly nine million, North Carolina is the very last large state to hold its primary this year. If Hillary Clinton had upset Obama in North Carolina, the nomination calculus could have been rewritten. The Clintons muster
Comment: By paying their check, Obama saved them as much as Hillary is planning to save them w/ her "gas tax holiday'.....
Comment: A bit late.. but good one KB!
Comment: And you Obummies are calling Hillary desperate....LOL!!!
Comment: What, Rocky? You implying that Obama is buying votes with cake now?
Comment: Never...Barrack has way to much integrity for that!!!....Whew...Thats a good one...LOL!!!
Comment: At least he didn't get swill liquor or forget his words like the other two did.
Comment: Didn't you watch him on MSNBC drinking a Bud. The whole pinky finger sticking out didn't help his cause. He needs to stick to Chablis.
Comment: There is nothing wrong with a good Chablis. I may not vote for him if her were drinking Bud. He needs to have his people check the cool beer list if that's true.
Comment: Well he was at a local watering hole so that might be all they had. I laughed...he looked so uncomfortable.
Comment: At least Obama will be available for work because the court will be in the WH. Unlike President Numnuts, who was on vacation both physically and (especially) mentally for the entirety of both terms.
It's about time for everyone to just set aside their anger and support Obama. Even Achilles (not the blogger) had to swallow his anger against Agammemnon and take the field against the Trojans to glorify the Greeks. Stop the drama, vote Obama!
I don't presume to try to change the minds of the haters, let haters hate.
Until Obama is sitting in the WH on January 20th, 2009 he will always be the underdog in this race.
Comment: That is Mr. Numnuts to you. Or President Dillhole.
Comment: Doesn't he remember what happened to the last politician who said "let them eat cake"?
the man does not know how to relate to the everyday middle class go to work and pay the bills person. Sure, $26 isn't much to him, and he just let everyone in the country know it. But $26 after taxes is a whole day's work to a lot of people who can't find full time jobs at a decent wage.
Comment: You really do have problems Alabama. The man treated a few people to a slice of cake, that's all and you have to criticize him for this too. You're so bitter and angry, (at yourself?) one can't help but feel sorry for you.
Comment: He's just stupid. What kind of little man will say: He's bad, he bought their cake.
Comment: Start building that basketball court, cause here comes President Obama!
Comment: Now that was a substantive, issue-focused article. Gotta give Newsweek credit for their hard-hitting journalism.
What? Oh, i'm sorry, I didn't realize it was just a Valentine to Obama.
Comment: Stupid Texan.
Maybe Obama's getting treated nice right?
Stupid Texan.
Comment: Alvy wrote: "What a loser you are lemmon."
Alvy,
Since you can't best anyone in a debate or an argument, invariably, you resort to name-calling. "Loser"???
When people use harsh hyperbolic language in a forum of ideas, it creates enmity, discord and completely obscures the point one is trying to make; in other words, rather than debating an issue, you tear the person apart thinking you've made a strong argument, but you haven't. That's one of various fallacies people fall prey to when they can't properly express their anger......Tell me about your mother.
Comment: Obama, one opines, should keep fighting his hard fought campaign until the very last vote has been cast.....Reminding voters of his perpetual lead in pledged delegates reassures his supporters that the Super delegates (unlike in Massachussets) will vote as the pledged delegates have.
PS Tired, you provocateur. Your humor is flatulent like the malodorous (man?) that you pretend to be.
Comment: First you write you don't like people that sling. Then you sling.
Your wordiness is as idiotic as your fanaticism po.
Don't just blow people down, criticizing people blowing people down.
Big words don't make it nice. Don't pretend.
Comment: tired and old wrote, "BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME. MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR. CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !"
TiredandOld,
Denigrating that young woman's egregious suffering (in Austria) to amuse yourself is the nadir of your existence. Your poorly composed vituperative and calumny towards Chelsea Clinton shows a sad and rageful man with no semblance of etiquette or humanity. Seriously, you need to focus on properly expressing anger and to refrain from filthy humor that hurts people.
Comment: tired and old wrote, "BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME. MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR. CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !"
TiredandOld,
Denigrating that young woman's egregious suffering (in Austria) to amuse yourself is the nadir of your existence. Your poorly composed vituperative and calumny towards Chelsea Clinton shows a sad and rageful man with no semblance of etiquette or humanity. Seriously, you need to focus on properly expressing anger and to refrain from filthy humor that hurts people.
Comment: tired and old wrote, "BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME. MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR. CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !"
TiredandOld,
Denigrating that young woman's egregious suffering (in Austria) to amuse yourself is the nadir of your existence. Your poorly composed vituperative and calumny towards Chelsea Clinton shows a sad and rageful man with no semblance of etiquette or humanity. Seriously, you need to focus on properly expressing anger and to refrain from filthy humor that hurts people.
Comment: tired and old wrote, "BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME. MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR. CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !"
TiredandOld,
Denigrating that young woman's egregious suffering (in Austria) to amuse yourself is the nadir of your existence. Your poorly composed vituperative and calumny towards Chelsea Clinton shows a sad and rageful man with no semblance of etiquette or humanity. Seriously, you need to focus on properly expressing anger and to refrain from filthy humor that hurts people.
Comment: tired and old wrote, "BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME. MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR. CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !"
TiredandOld,
Denigrating that young woman's egregious suffering (in Austria) to amuse yourself is the nadir of your existence. Your poorly composed vituperative and calumny towards Chelsea Clinton shows a sad and rageful man with no semblance of etiquette or humanity. Seriously, you need to focus on properly expressing anger and to refrain from filthy humor that hurts people.
Comment: tired and old wrote, "BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME. MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR. CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !"
TiredandOld,
Denigrating that young woman's egregious suffering (in Austria) to amuse yourself is the nadir of your existence. Your poorly composed vituperative and calumny towards Chelsea Clinton shows a sad and rageful man with no semblance of etiquette or humanity. Seriously, you need to focus on properly expressing anger and to refrain from filthy humor that hurts people.
Comment: tired and old wrote, "BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME. MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR. CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !"
TiredandOld,
Denigrating that young woman's egregious suffering (in Austria) to amuse yourself is the nadir of your existence. Your poorly composed vituperative and calumny towards Chelsea Clinton shows a sad and rageful man with no semblance of etiquette or humanity. Seriously, you need to focus on properly expressing anger and to refrain from filthy humor that hurts people.
Comment: Obama, one opines, should keep fighting his hard fought campaign until the very last vote has been cast.....Reminding voters of his perpetual lead in pledged delegates reassures his supporters that the Super delegates (unlike in Massachussets) will vote as the pledged delegates have.
Comment: Obama, one opines, should keep fighting his hard fought campaign until the very last vote has been cast.....Reminding voters of his perpetual lead in pledged delegates reassures his supporters that the Super delegates (unlike in Massachussets) will vote as the pledged delegates have.
Comment: HEY ! GLIMPS.
THAT POET ENDORSING HILLARY.
IS THAT THE ONE WHOSE POETRY READS :
ROSES ARE RED AND VIOLETS ARE BLUE,
I AM FOR LIE AND HILLARY TOO.
Comment: QUESTION #
CAN ANYONE TELL ME THE PRICES OF GASOLINE IN MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT ?
THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE HIGHEST I HAVE EVER SEEN !
Comment: I LIKE HILLARY BETTER ON CANDID CAMERA, REAL---- VERY REAL !
DON'T LIKE PRETEND HILLARY ON CAMERA, BAD ------ VERY BAD !
Comment: Senator Clintor needs to win this nomination and go on to beat McCain. Enough of non-sense rhetoric!
Comment: No, she doesn't and she won't.
Comment: Obama, one opines, should keep fighting his hard fought campaign until the very last vote has been cast.....Reminding voters of his perpetual lead in pledged delegates reassures his supporters that the Super delegates (unlike in Massachussets) will vote as the pledged delegates have.
Comment: Yeah like your going to do anything hill. Real great idea your gas tax cut, not going to do sh*t. She is a complete phony and fraud.
Comment: Obama, one opines, should keep fighting his hard fought campaign until the very last vote has been cast.....Reminding voters of his perpetual lead in pledged delegates reassures his supporters that the Super delegates (unlike in Massachussets) will vote as the pledged delegates have.
Comment: NEWS FLASH !
CLINTON CAMPAIGN SENDS HILLARY TOTHE FRONT !
HILLARY CLINTON ARRIVED AT A GAS STATION TODAY UNDER HUGE PRESSURE.
HILLARY REPORTED MASSIVE SNIPER FIRE AS SHE CIRCLED THE GAS PUMPS.
HILLARY REPORTS THERE WAS NO ATTENDENT TO GREET HER.
HILLARY CLINTON HAD TO DUCK LOW AND RUN FOR THE BATHROOM AS CHELSEA SMILED FOR THE CAMERAS.
LATER HILLARY REPORTED A BROKEN FINGERNAIL IN THE GAS STATION INCIDENT.
HILLARY CLINTON CALLED GEORGE BUSH AND DEMANDED THE PURPLE HEART.
Comment: NEWS ALERT !
BILL CLINTON IS IN AUSTRIA TODAY LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME.
MUST HAVE A SOUND PROOF BASEMENT, KEYLESS LOCK, FIVE AND ONE HALF FOOT CEILING AND LEG IRONS BOLTED TO FLOOR.
CALL CHELSEA AND WARN HER ! NOW ! REALLY !
Comment: L E S B O EARNS THREE STARS ?
Comment: Don't bash lesbians.
Comment: EWS FLASH !
PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR ED RENDELL AND CHELSEA " THE CHILD " CLINTON WILL VISIT THE GREEK ISLE OF LESBOS.
CHELSEA WANTS THE *** POPULATION TO ENDORSE HER MOM.
LETS HEAR IT FOR LESBIANS IN *** !
Comment: If obama is outraged, and many other people are shocked, sad, hurt etc.
Then who were the people at this speech cheering him on? and why ?
Comment: HEY ! PIA.
YOUR WRONG GOOD BUDDY!
HILLARY HAS IMAGINATION, LOTS OF IMAGINATION.
BOSNIA TRIP ? HILLARY FLEW THE PLANE , CIRCLING AROUND, SITTING ON FLAK JACKET, LANDING WITHOUT FAN FARE, DUCKING BULLITS, RUNNING TO THE TERMINAL, ALL THE WHILE SMILING FOR CAMERAS.
IN A WAR ZONE AFTER THE WAR HAD BEEN OVER THREE MONTHS, WITH ENTERTAINERS AND CHELSEA CHILD IN TOW.
WOW ! SEE IS AMAZING !
HILLARY THE GREAT ! DEFENDER OF BILL !
DO YOU THINK SHE HUFFS GASOLINE FUMES OR EMBELLISHES ON HER OWN ?
SORRY ! PIA.
I JUST HAD TO GO OFF ON THE WITCH !
Comment: Hi T! How are you?
I agree on her lies imagination. After that, BORING! And a boring witch at that!
Comment: HILLARY CLINTON GETS TANKED UP ON WHISKEY AND IT DOESN'T COST HER $63.00.
SHE IS AS BAD AN ACTRESS AS JANE FONDA.
Comment: What a joke! I can just picture it - the bosses pickup truck followed by a whack of SUVs filled with aides and Secret Service agents. I wonder when the last time Clinton was actually in a gas station? She strikes me as the type of person who would be annoyed if the tank wasn't full when she was picked uo and they had to actually stop for gas.
This is ridiculous pandering - at least when she downed the shot of Crown Royal (Canadian, by the way!) and a beer in PA, she looked like she'd done it before!
Comment: Thank you for your post, neighbor.
Comment: Good thing she has the right wing republicans backing her now financially and politically, switching over and voting for her in the democratic primaries, otherwise she would be out. They know they can't beat Obama.
Comment: I want Hillary out and as soon as possible! She is causing more damage each and every day.
Comment: Good thing she has the right wing republicans backing her now financially and politically, switching over and voting for her in the democratic primaries, otherwise she would be out. They know they can't beat Obama.
Comment: She is so fake and cannot be trusted.
Comment: I second and I thank you!
Comment: ME TOO ! PIA.
Comment: She is so fake and cannot be trusted.
Comment: Earth to Alvy.........where are you?
Comment: H.C. is a copy cat....
Comment: She is and it's because she is boring! She has no imagination.
Comment: hey Pia :-)
what going on?
Comment: Hi glimps! I just ordered a bunch of goodies from VS web site. New things on there, very pretty..... What about you, what are you up to besides working today?
