Someone on the HuffPo left a comment about McPOW using his "I lost touch with the music scene while I was locked up for 5 years" and "for 5 years I didn't have a kitchen table, so it's ok if I forget where all my 10 houses are stashed" and " I was locked up for 5 years so it's ok that I sampled different single girls while my wife looked on until I found the right one to replace her with" and "I was locked up for 5 years, so I deserve to be president. No questions asked. Anybody asking questions is a terrrrst and a traitor. Now give me the presidency. 5 long years."

So next time, the Huffpo reader was saying, we should ask if the guys being locked up and tortured for 5 long years in Gitmo deserve to be president? Shouldn't they be returned home so they can run for their countries top office? They deserve it. And they should be allowed to lie, cheat, steal, divorce, go gold-digging, and have many houses.

Please name me ONE thing republicans have authored or done, in the last 8 years, that was aimed at helping an average american. I don't think that porkbarrel spending or throwing money at Katrina/emergencies should count. I mean legislative, I mean policy directives. Even the consumer economy energizer stimulus package was a high interest loan to ourselves, while huge corporations and fatcats get massive payouts of OUR money as tax breaks and subsidies. No interest.

I don't think you'll find one. So let's go back 30 years or so. Anything? Anyone? Bueller?

My opinion is the repubs, now openly in league with the corporate media (tell me again why GE, NBC, Viacom, Murdoch, etc. would ever be espousing leftist agendas - oh you mouthers of liberal-media bias) are not good at anything else, other than manipulation of media and it's soft-brained targets (Us!).

It is the only thing they do. Their ideas are empty and sugar-coated and only serve to give our wealth and liberty to Corporations, without the avg. american catching on.
Their behavior and ethics are abominable...yet they are the party of trust and sobre judgement. Yeah, Like the Maverick and the Milf. Their only campaign tactic, aside from smearing and spinning and smearing and spinning, is to never stop campaigning.

They use EVERYTHING for political purpose. Nothing more shameless and empty than the hand-wringing over the gulf states (all republican governors who invited ONLY Johnny McPOW) it was a terribly transparent and overtly political move. The war was a campaign tactic, bin-token was a campaign and political exploitation move. Everything that happens on earth is always twisted to prove that they were right, and the lefties are wrong. Palin's pregnancy problems are vicious leftwing attacks, and according to Doocy and many others, if the vicious rabid left would only leave these poor people alone, we could concentrate on the real problems that we all face blah blah blah

So I again challenge ANYONE ANYWHERE to provide ANYTHING that even remotely shows the republican party EVER concentrating on real problems we all face.
Have they ever made education better? Made roads safer? Air? Water? College cheaper? Equitable taxes? Balanced a budget? Maintain a surplus? Keep us OUT OF A WAR?

The only thing these guys can do is lie. Spin. Manipulate the soft-brains using the most potent instrument ever devised by man....all encompassing 24/7 media. And the only reason they ever win is because they OWN the media. Literally OWN it. How did fine americans, going back to Carter, get turned into raving panty-waists EVERY SINGLE TIME, even if in real life they outshone their opponent with class, education, charisma, valour, medals, etc? Nothing is more effective than 24/7 bombardment of the populace with messages that the Dem is a limpwristed, kneejerking, pantswetting appeaser. When a person is ridiculed and derided so unfairly, so insistently, so often, and so completely....they cannot overcome it. Superman could not overcome it. And it is the model going back at least to Carter. And it never ends. The only thing allowed to be said about Carter, on national airwaves for 30 years, has been "Worst President Ever". End of discussion, no other viewpoints allowed. No other viewpoints were sought. Dukakis = Fag. Gore = spineless effeminate weak-kneed bloviator. Kerry = inveterate flip flopper and war criminal. Obama = lily livered appeaser and closet muzzlim.

Meanwhile, slimy, corrupt, deserter chickenhawks get elected. Clinton was the only one to somehow come out the other side. Regardless of his (in comparison) awesome governance.....he left in disgrace severely wounded with a 24/7 ongoing hackjob in perpetual progress. And as usual, beating him in effigy nearly every day since. But But But Clinton did it too....Clinton's fault....not a single minute of Love on-air for Clinton since. No retrospectives, no glowing on the list of accomplishments, yet we have been the recipients of hourlong specials on the wonderfulness of LeChimp and he isn't even out of office yet.

If I could make one plea.....gentle reader.....disabuse yourself of the notion that the Media or Corporate Press or the Titans of todays world who hold the reins on our national addiction/brainwashing machine....TV....

Disabuse yourself of the notion that TV and CorpMedia are in any way rational actors. They are not neutral. They never have been. Their news dept. used to be fairly neutral. But that ended over 30 years ago.
They are the machine that runs our country. They impart our knowledge and news to us. They make the corporate takeover of america possible. They cover for themselves. They do not scrutinize themselves. They do not make plain how they benefit from a material, consumeristic world. They will not show you ANYTHING that might jeapardize their control of the Gizmo. They do not want to talk about how lesser corporations are their clients and YOU are their targets. They do not get paid when you buy something. They get paid to talk you into it.

Please stop thinking we will ever get a fair shake, or that the problems with media are just some unfair shenanigans and that some White Knight is going to ride in and put things right. Who needs Big Brother with loudspeakers in the stairwells? We all sit in front of the glowing machine and take our orders quite niceley with this Gizmo, thank you.

The one thing the media cannot do, is make something real where it does not exist.....and that brings us back to Republican accomplishments. For the People. They cannot make them appear, where they do not exist. At least we can with some surety, make a list of the things the republicans have done for us all. In retrospect, the spinning is over, the sugar coating has worn off....what have they done for us?

A small sidenote....since the snide rightwinger will say that in the last 30 years, liberals have ruined all the good things the rightwing wanted to do....well:
With the last 8 years, the republicans have got everything they wanted, everything they told us would be achieved if only we had more rightwing supreme court judges. If only we had more evangelicals running things. If only we gave away more to companies and stopped paying shiftless welfare moms...blah blah blah.
Well they got all those things. Almost 8 unfettered years of complete control, complete Congressional acquiescence. Did it make any of our lives ONE JOT better? Are we any safer? More moral? Has God blessed us? Gas cheaper? Medical costs coming down? Terrrrrsts trembling in abject fear? Other than cronyism, has anything flourished? Even rightwingers lives are not better.
How do the republicans ever even get 10,000 votes in this country? Well, the answer is the TV and Rightwing Radio. Corporate Media.

I was coming to this conclusion also, reading the comments on TPM about HRC NOT running for VP.

The Conclusion on the thread was that the Clintons showed very poor political acumen throughout the whole race. Yes there were surges in votes for her but I chalk it up to mostly Name Recognition, the Victim Card, Rush LimpBow, Race, and a Woman-At-All-Costs mindset by the largest block of voters out there....women. Heck, it doesn't take Rush to convince a wily Republican white racist male that if he votes fer the hated woman, at least a darky ain't going to be tellin' him a-what to do. On the Dem side I think we saw that in the more race sensitive states, a white dem who treats women as second class citizens would still vote for a dem woman before he would vote for a dem afro-american. Let that sink in. Men who are nominally dems (unionized coal workers, auto workers, teamsters etc) but you know they are not flaming liberals. They don't really want women driving their trucks, women fighting in battle, women taking their jobs....but they would pull the lever for the white woman rather than a black man. I can't exactly explain it, but I think it says race trumps gender in a Bias/Prejudice Cage Match.

Yes, HRC played the race card plenty. She hardly needed to. A huge chunk of Texas and Ohio and PA and WVA and KY etc....heck a lot of americans are just not programmed to be able to pull the lever for a black man. It is a huge credit to the populace in general that BHO won.
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Tonedeaf, HamHanded, Rude, Condescending, Entitled, Out Of Touch....are the Clintons Liberals? I think they were once. Like most in their shoes (successful progs) they are prone to being seduced by the money and power. I don't think it is idealism that grew into desperation nor miscalculations guided by Legacy Panic....I believe it is idealism subsumed by money and power and ego.
She is no longer a dem, a progressive, or a liberal.
And she no longer is even just a plain, fine person.
She is in bed with all the corporations, corp. media, and insurance companies, weapons-defense types, etc. And still a Liberal?
I never understood how at least half of the Dem party seemed to think she was still on our team.
And Bill is basically swinging Ch eney-like deals
all over the globe...the global "drain-america" economy he helped forge.

So, I think we have two big questions. Maybe they will be rendered moot if the Clintons just fade away and she loses her CarpetBag Senate seat which she only used as a launching pad for the Prez.....since the only thing she accomplished there was to thwart dems and slide over to the bu-ush/LIEberman staging camp.
1: are the Clintons Liberals
2: were they really ever Master Politicians?

#1 I don't think even needs much analysis or ruminating. What is stunning is how little is is mentioned, in fact the opposite...she is touted for being the Quintessential Dem, Liberal beyond compare, and Tireless Fighter for the poor and disposessed.

#2, I was not as politically aware in 1992....but it seems to me Perot had a huge hand in Wiley Willy's dash to the finish line. And nobody wanted any more Reagan/Bu-usch.
Sure, Bill is smart, HRC is smart, they made a forceful pair. But once in office, were they brilliant? Their choices, their strategies? They were just hanging on by their nails, thanks in no small part to a Republican bench which was constantly sawing on the Achilles Heel of our leader.

Their campaign this time around was a historical farce.

When you think of the massive Load of money spewed out (wasted in
Clinton's case) on this primary....good money just to prove what boors
the C's have become, apparently......what a waste.

Here's the deal....BHO gives HRC 17Mil, $1 for every vote she got and she turns over her complete database for him to use in the General. That way our money isn't wasted on bailing out the Clinon Lunacy. I have my doubts that she will "chip in" to help in the General as much as she could and may hold her lists hostage. Get them now, get them upfront.

I really liked the reasoning here.
The separation between BHO and HRC on Telcom/Net Neutrality is very persuasive. HRC seems totally a creature of Telco contributions and will give them free rides.

Barack Obama For President




by: Chris Bowers


Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:25












I just made my first contribution to Barack Obama, and I did it though the Blue Majority page on Act Blue. Now, I am asking you to do the same, since Barack Obama is the latest candidate to be added to the Blue Majority page.

Ever since the Blue Majority page was launched nearly one year ago,
we at Blue Majority knew that we would add the presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee to the page. In my opinion, Barack Obama has now
emerged as the presumptive nominee. With a pledged delegate lead of 162, a popular vote lead of more than 800,000,
barring a spectacular collapse and / or a highly unlikely thwarting of
the popular vote, Barack Obama will become the Democratic nominee for
President of the United States. When he reaches 2,024 delegates, which
at this point requires only 42.7% of the remaining delegates to be decided,
he will control both the credentials committee and the majority of the
non-disputed delegates at the floor of the convention. At that point,
the only way that Barack Obama loses the nomination is if he decides
that Hillary Clinton should be the nominee instead. In other words,
Barack Obama has become the presumptive Democratic nominee, and it is
time to start supporting him.

Importantly, my rationale for endorsing Barack Obama goes beyond
his status as the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination. As a
progressive, there are two key ideological markers that I believe make
Barack Obama a better choice than Hillary Clinton: the Iraq war and the
DLC. First, Barack Obama opposed the invasion of Iraq from the start,
and rejected the neoconservative principle of pre-emptive warfare as
one of his main reasons for opposing the war. Being able to identify
the invasion of Iraq as a colossal mistake makes Barack Obama far more
qualified to lead our country than candidates who both were, and still
are, unable to recognize why the war was such a bad idea. Comparing Obama's and Clinton's statements on the death of 4,000 American soldiers in Iraq,
it seems clear that Hillary Clinton still believes in the
neoconservative vision for Iraq, while Barack Obama does not. The
second ideological marker is the Democratic Leadership Council, an
organization formed to push the Democratic Party and the national
political debate to the right on a variety of issues. While Hillary
Clinton is a member of the DLC's leadership, Barack Obama has repeated
refuses to be associated with the group.

There are numerous other reasons, too. Here are the four that mean the most to me:

• First, many people have said that there are few policy
  differences between Obama and Clinton, but the truth is that their
  telecom policies could hardly be further apart from each other. Obama proposes exactly the sort of transformative, open telecommunications policy that we need to transform the media landscape in America, while Hillary Clinton's telecom proposals are nothing more than heinous corporate welfare.
  Without a transformed telecommunications landscape, we are going to
  have an extremely difficult time building a progressive America or
  passing any of our other legislation.
• Second, in terms of electability, in order to win the
  general election a candidate must first become the nominee. Simply put,
  I don't see many ways for Hillary Clinton to pull that off. Further, in
  order to win the general election, Democrats will need time to define
  McCain, and time to heal the party once the nomination contest is over.
  However, Hillary Clinton's only path to the nomination is through the
  convention in late August, and also through a intra-partisan civil war.
  In other words, Clinton's path to the nomination renders her
  unelectable in the general. There simply won't be enough time to heal
  the party and define John McCain.
  
• Third, how a candidate campaigns is a strong
  reflection on how that candidate governs. For example, we could tell
  from the 2000 election that George Bush would govern through a series
  of power grabs, Orwellian language, and with a total disregard for
  popular opinion. Barack Obama, by contrast, is campaigning through
  unprecedented national grassroots organizing, speeches that are
  becoming the stuff of legend, and the manifestation of a new political coalition
  that moves us away from the political alignment of 1968-2004. Too
  often, I have heard from the Clinton campaign and its surrogates about
  states and demographic groups that don't matter. Such statements are a
  stark reminder of a recent version of the Democratic Party that takes
  its base for granted, and only campaigns in a select few swing
  districts. We need a Democratic Party that organizes and governs based
  on Barack Obama and Howard Dean's campaign styles, rather than one that
  is based on Hillary Clinton's and Terry McAuliffe's.
  
• Fourth, coattails and movement building matter. In
  both of Blue Majority's victories so far in 2008, Donna Edwards in
  MD-04 and Bill Foster in IL-14, the energy and activism brought to bear
  by Barack Obama were key. The activism in support of Barack Obama has
  the potential to greatly enhance the political reach of the progressive
  movement, and also to provide Democrats with sweeping downticket
  victories. I once called this progressive movement symbiosis, and I still believe it is the most promising path to a truly progressive governing majority that I have seen in my lifetime.

It is for all of these reasons that I am happy and proud to endorse
Barack Obama for President of the United States. I gave my first
donation to his campaign today, and I urge you to do the same.
Thrown in some money for the downticket campaigns, too, since we need
more and better Democrats around the country and since the first
quarter filing deadline is on Monday. Let's change America, and move
closer toward fulfilling the promise of our new political movements: a
progressive governing majority in America. Contribute to Barack Obama today.

Here is a little theory/rant of mine, and why I hope Obama wins the nomination and the presidency. I wonder how many other white men feel like I do.

We need to break up the white power structure in this country...the White Crust. The White Crust is that group of monied interests and families which have been stocking our courts, judgeships, state and national offices, and Corporate Entitites and Boards of Directors since the inception of the USA. (see http://www.theyrule.net)
They have been mis-shaping and turning to evil all that this nation has accomplished. We fought a Civil War to end slavery, but the White Crust made it so that nothing much really changed. Women won the vote, but the old men made sure nothing much came of that. We have had World Wars fought by the Avg Joe, while the White Crust made billions. Their Military Industrial Complex laid waste many countries and countless lives and spent our own young men, usually the young men who are not from the White Crust.
We have had the Civil Rights Movement, ERA, Roe V Wade, Unions....all of them were minimized or almost erased by the actions of the White Crust. No matter how much WE suffer in the lower tiers, no matter how much we sacrifice, no matter how much we MOVE OVER and make room for latinos, blacks, women, fairness, sexual security...the White Crust always reverses our decisions and they keep the business of Business As Usual humming along like nothing ever happened.

I see three ways to throw my vote....McCain, a guarantee for business as usual. HRC is a 75% chance for business as usual. BHObama, however, by his very nature is a vote AGAINST business as usual. For once, someone may make a hole in the White Crust and force a breakup (like rotting ice on a warming lake) that finally causes the White Crust's impenetrable force field to disintegrate.

As a white man, I am sick of seeing the convulsions of our country go for naught. We fought these wars, we fought these battles, we white men have made room and forfeited our favored white status....just to see the White Crust Business As Usual prevail. We all watch lawsuits go in the favor of corp/whitey. We all watch the rich flaunt the very laws we bled to enact. We all see more blacks going to prison for the same crime as a white person. We see women's pay never quite equal to the man's....we see them breaking the laws, raiding the treasury, writing the lobbyist's laws.....all our best intentions get blown away once the White Crust goes into their closed chambers to decide, yet again, that nothing is going to change.

I vote for BHO so that our country can finally get on track to achieving what we are capable of. To be the Nation we all knew we could be. I am tired of seeing my hopes disappear, our hard work disappear. Do you really believe McCain or HRC are going to upset the apple cart, take us in a new direction? Perhaps BHO cannot achieve all this, but like the ice breaking up, it has to start somewhere, no matter how small.