Archive for September, 2008
What Did Kissinger Say?
Some FACTS from the recent debate:
- Obama said McCain adviser Henry Kissinger backs talks with Iran “without preconditions,” but McCain disputed that. In fact, Kissinger did recently call for “high level” talks with Iran starting at the secretary of state level and said, “I do not believe that we can make conditions.” After the debate the McCain campaign issued a statement quoting Kissinger as saying he didn’t favor presidential talks with Iran. (Obama stated during the debate the he (Obama) was referring to Ambassadors and Secretaries and not the President).
- McCain tripped up on one of his signature issues – special appropriation “earmarks.” He said they had “tripled in the last five years,” when in fact they have decreased sharply.
- McCain repeated his overstated claim that the U.S. pays $700 billion a year for oil to hostile nations. Imports are running at about $536 billion this year, and a third of it comes from Canada, Mexico and the U.K.
- McCain misrepresented Obama’s plan by claiming he’d be “handing the health care system over to the federal government.” Obama would expand some government programs but would allow people to keep their current plans or chose from private ones, as well.
- McCain claimed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had drafted a letter of resignation from the Army to be sent in case the 1944 D-Day landing at Normandy turned out to be a failure. Ike prepared a letter, but he didn’t mention resigning.
For full details, as well as other dubious claims and statements, please read our full Analysis section.
President Palin?
McCain’s health – wow. In addittion to a deadly form of skin cancer that has a high probability of recurrence (a probability that increases as time passes. It’s ‘when’, not ‘if’), he is on 6 different types of medications for his kidneys, high blood pressure, arhtritis, and other maladies. He suffers from vertigo and has high blood pressure.
Watch this video, it’s very thought-provoking and very worrisome. Should he need melanoma treatment, he would not be able to serve as president. Palin would be in charge of the free world?
Solving McCain’s Debate Problem
McCain wants to be in Washington so he can tell Congress about the lax legislation he supported that led to this mess. To do that he wants to cancel the presidentail debate. I say he can do both.
We can move the debate to the D.C. area and hold it there.
How the economy can be fine on Monday the 15th and bad a week later is clearly a load of bull. McCain’s boys have clearly drawn up inside him and he’s looking for a way to avoid going head to head with Obama.
Presidents: Report to the Presidential Debates and speak to America!
Congressmen: Report to Washington and spend $700 billion tax dollars!
https://goearth.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/mccainpalin-running-scared/
Bye Bye Credibility
No one can flip his position more than John McCain. He is the master.
On Monday (September 15th) he tells America the economy is doing well – no need to worry: “The fundamentals of the economy are strong”.
The following week (September 24th) he has to suspend his campaign becuase the economy is in such disarray that the presidential race should be put on hold.
WOW. That is one end of the spectrum to the other. Unless you believe that economy went south between September 16th and September 24th, he’s either completely out of touch or he doesn’t mind lying to the voters.
McCain/Palin Running Scared
John McCain wants to postpone Friday’s debate on national security.
On 09/15/2008 (That was last Monday!), John McCain said that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong” and now 10 days later he is suspending his presidential campaign(to escape the microphones and the questions) and he also wants to cancel the debate.
Surely this is not a would-be president – this is the universe playing a joke? Last Monday when he told Americans that the economy was fine, he was either an IDIOT or a LIAR. (Those seem to be the only 2 options).
John McCain is SCARED of facing Obama!! The debate is TOMORROW. He just needs to show up. What a chicken shit. Grow a pair. Palin is afraid of microphones and McCain is afraid of debates.
These 2 are not leaders of a nation – they’re a couple of little kittens.
They’re running from questions about their own platform!
I’m Fired Up! And Obama’s Ready to Go! (McCain/Palin are taking cover).
Morford on Palin
Mark Morford on Palin:
Truly, among women in the know and especially among those who fought so hard to bring Hillary Clinton to the brink of history, nausea and a general recoiling appear to be the universal reactions to Palin’s sudden presence on the national stage, stemming straight from the idea that there’s even a slight chance in hell such an antagonistic, anti-female politico could be within a 72-year-old heartbeat of becoming the most powerful and iconic woman of all time.
They say: You’ve got to be kidding me. They say: This is what we get? This could be our historic role model? Two hundred years (OK, more like 2000) of struggle, only to have this nasty caricature of femininity try to hijack and mock and undermine it all?
It cannot be true, they say. The universe must be joking; it would not dare dump such a homophobic, Creationist evangelical nutball on us, this anti-choice, God-pandering woman who’s the inverse of Hillary, this woman of deep inexperience who abhors birth control and supports abstinence education and shoots exhausted wolves from helicopters and hates polar bears and actually stands for everything progressive women have resented since the first pope Swift-Boated Eve.
Hundreds of Billions – Again
President George W. Bush, flanked by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, acknowledged that the [bail-out] program will put a “significant amount of taxpayers’ money on the line.”
[Treasury Secretary] Paulson was asked the approximate dollar size of the government intervention. “We’re talking hundreds of billions,” he said.
Oh – but we already spent hundreds of billions rebuilding Iraq. All the while Bush’s Republicans were nation-building – America’s economy was heading into the crapper.
So who will be paying interest on this loan to? Communist China again… We already buy everything from China and we finance everything through China. Does the Bush Administration want us to be Communist? To destroy America like this, Bush must really hate us. Who the hell votes for more Republican leadership? Everything (everything) is such a mess. Unless you make 1/4 million per year and you’re afraid you’ll go hungry after a tax hike, I just don’t see how informed, intelligent people could support this leadership.
On the SEC Chairman:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/26787948#26782378
What’s Not to Love
What’s not to love?
· The Economy is a total mess
· The Fed bailout of Freddie/Fannie helps Communist China but doubles the US debt and leaves taxpayers on the hook.
· The war is sucking up billions of dollars of real money (the people involved in this are cashing ‘real’ checks for ‘real’ money) and costing thousands their livelihoods and their lives (Over 4,000 since “Mission Accomplished” day). Honor the troops.
· Global warming is getting worse and the USA is the only modernized country not participating in the Kyoto protocols.
· The Taliban (the ones who were really involved with 09/11 by protecting Al-Qaeda) are back in power and Bin Laden hasn’t been a priority since Bill Clinton tried to kill him.
· The quagmire has left us unable to fight effectively in Afghanistan or to posture against Iran or Russia (or anyone else)
· According to actuary tables there’s a chance McCain dies in the next 4 years and the proposed VP – 1 ½ year leader of the 47th most populous state is completely unprepared to manage the entire country and face global leaders and international threats. The hockey-mom who became president is good in a Disney movie but terrifying in the real world.
· Palin believes global warming is a joke, believes rape victims should be charged for their own medical exam, believes that parents and churches don’t teach religion well enough and the already burdened school teachers should teach religion (regardless of your family’s religious beliefs). Palin’s husband is a secessionist who was a member of an anti-American party of nearly a decade. Palin participated in the party’s 2008 convention.
· The national debt has reached record highs and just jumped 5 trillion to bail out Fannie/Freddie (who paid their CEO’s millions over the past 2 years).
· The federal government is running record deficits.
· Health care is increasing at 10 times over income
· College tuition is increasing at double the rate of inflation
· Highest food inflation and lowest Consumer Confidence Index since George H Bush was president.
· Unemployment is rising
· The dollar is weakening
· …All while big businesses are setting record profits
· Federal laws (FISA), Constitutional protection (Habeas Corpus (Article 1)) and Global treaties (Geneva Conventions) are being broken with the authorization and support of the highest levels of government
· We have admitted to and defended the use of torture
· Undercover CIA agents have been exposed (for showing the White House deceit regarding WMD)
· Bush flew to Arizona to eat birthday cake with McCain while on TV we watched a city drown
Some Election Videos
“Still”
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/realchange_ad/
Damon on Palin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk
McCain slams Palin:”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmRkTJRfwqA
Is McCain Dumb?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdW5IWVDMic
“Change”
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/realchange_ad/
Go Earth! 