I think you know how much I love you and I truly believe that in our hearts we are much closer in our beliefs than we are different. I'm not trying to make you change teams; I'd just like to convey as best I can how I see the differences between us in an attempt to separate out and put aside the things we can't reconcile.

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If you are concerned about the incitement to riot that is beginning to be all too common at McCain and Palin rallies, please sign this petition:

http://www.mccainpetition.com/

Think about it!  He's losing to a much younger black guy with a funny Arab middle name who hasn't been "blooded."  Translation:  Obama didn't serve in the military and he hasn't been in government long enough to "pay his dues."  Not only that, but Obama has this tenuous connection with a '60's radical who fought against the very war that McCain is still trying to win by way of the Iraq war!  Everything he tries to do to score points, just winds up making him look like more uot of touch with reality and he's already used his POW cred until it's become literally a joke.  

His opponent is a young clean-cut guy with a beautiful family, he's smart, he made it on his own and he inspires thousands of loyal followers.  McCain can't even be sure of the support of his own party, since he knows most of them despised him going in and even more by the day are repudiating his increasingly desperate tactics.  I'd feel sorry for the old bastard if he hadn't brought all of this on himself by his belief that he was somehow entitled to the office by virtue of his long government service.  Even that doesn't gain him much traction, since he seems to have had a very undistinguished record as a Senator and has been consistently on the side of Big Money, in whatever form that takes.  

Do I think this is now a slam dunk?  No, I do not, because I don't put anything past the power elite.  I await daily the announcement of a new international conflict or the declaring of martial law.  I worry about the hate being incited by McCain and Palin in their rallies, which are rapidly becoming indistinguishable from a KKK meeting.  I pray daily that God will help us all and let the good guys win this time.  

But even thinking about that, I have space in my heart to realize that John McCain thinks that he is a good guy and that he must save America from... only God knows what he can imagine he's capable of doing that is any better than what has been done these past eight years.  As I observed to my neighbor the other day:  McCain wanting the Presidency reminds me of a dog chasing a car.  We all know that if the dog caught the car, he wouldn't be able to drive it.  Enough said.

In a stunning developing in the hotly contested Presidential election, last night John McCain consorted for over an hour in the same room and at the same time as a man who is rumored to have an unexplained association with a domestic terrorist.  McCain was seen striding over to this suspect individual and shaking him by the hand and smiling at him.  Futhermore, he continued to dialogue with the suspicious person with a foreign name in a way that would lend one to believe that he feels this person to be his equal, perhaps even his better.  One would think that an ultraconservative candidate for the highest office in our great country would be more circumspect than to allow himself to share a stage with this very little understood terrorist-accepting man; however, to the shock and horror of all who witnessed, he remained in the room and dialogued, even jested with a person who we should all clearly be concerned about.  It is difficult for those of us who care about the safety and security of this great country to countenance McCain's shocking decision to legitimize this person, whom we should all repudiate for having an often-discussed association with a person who had a history of violence and anarchy against America.  One cannot accept the excuse that Obama was only eight years old at the time of the terrorists activities and has henceforth redeemed himself by becoming a respected professor and community activities and therefore could in no way have had anything to do with this dangerous America-hating individual.  It is, nevertheless, imperative that each and every one of us guard every moment against the appearance of supporting evil.  Shame on you, John McCain.  We expected better of you.

http://mediacurves.com/

The Republican Richard Shelby spoke last night and said he had in his hand a list of... and for a freaking minute I thought he was going to do a Joe McCarthy and say it was names of Communists... but, no, it was a list of several hundred economists who reject the bailout plan.  Well, that's great!  I'm all for economists having an opinion on this.  In fact, why doesn't our government convene a panel of economists to try to hammer this out instead of a bunch of lawmakers who are all trying to save their political necks.  I don't know about you, but when I'm delivering a baby I hardly ever call an accountant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/24/wanda-sykes-tears-into-go_n_128902.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-witch-hunter-anoints_b_128805.html

Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Government Has Lied For More Than 50 Years About POW's Left Behind And Still Alive In North Korea And Vietnam
Government Has Lied For More Than 50 Years About POW's Left Behind And Still Alive In North Korea And Vietnam
Bob Dumas' search for his brother, Roger, still goes on after more than a half century despite no help and roadbloacks put up by U.S. government. He calls the media corrupt and John Kerry and John McCain "liars and frauds" for keeping the truth about live POW's from the American people.
25 Oct 2005 


By Greg Szymanski


The POW issue has long been a thorn in the side of government, a problem politicians keep pushing under the rug. Despite credible evidence soldiers were left behind and are still living in political prison camps in North Korea and Vietnam, high-powered, two-faced Senators, like John Kerry and John McCain, are the main culprits for keeping the truth from the American people.


However, on Oct. 28, Rep. Ron Paul (R- Tex.) is holding a press conference to revive the issue, officially sending to each legislator on Capital Hill a copy of an historic video called “Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for American POW’s,” in an attempt to open new hearings, being introduced under House Resolution 123.

The following story is about Bob Dumas, whose brother, Roger, may still be alive in a North Korea prison camp after more than 50 years and his nephew, Bill Dumas, the writer and producer of the historic POW video that finally tells the true story.


Most people would fight through hell and high water to find a missing loved one. Bob Dumas is no different. 

For 55 long years, he has been looking for his younger brother, Roger, after he was taken prisoner during the Korean War. But despite traveling to the ends of the earth and trying to uncover every small stone imaginable, his brother’s whereabouts still remain a mystery.

However, Dumas says, a mystery which could have easily been solved decades ago if it wasn’t for the criminal activity and outright lies of the United States government by and through many two-faced, high ranking politicians and military officers still lurking on Capital Hill today.


Two of the major corrupt politicians he wants to expose as liars and two-faced traitors, in what he calls the “biggest military cover-up in the history of our country,” are former Presidential candidate and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former Vietnam POW declared a national hero.

“He’s no hero,” said Dumas, 74, in an extended conversation this week from his Connecticut home. “He’s anything but a hero. Ask why he had the Senate, through Kerry’s influence, seal all his POW records in Vietnam? He had these records sealed for life and is hiding the true story of how he sided with the North Vietnamese to save his own skin.”

McCain sells his fellow POW brothers down the river

Even though the true story of McCain’s captivity may never be known, backing up Dumas’ harsh criticism is a 1992 article written by Ted Sampley in the U.S. Veteran Dispatch entitled “John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate,” a scathing article strongly criticizing McCain’s credibility and truthfulness.

Sampley writes: “What, therefore, motivates a John McCain to attack as a pit bull everyone and anyone who has the opinion that men are still alive in the very same captivity that he himself once experienced? Mr. McCain disguises his attacks on the POW/MIA by claiming he is on the committee to ask "the tough questions" to grill and berate in order to get to the truth. What motivates the man, who at the same time has shown a sensitive, almost patronizing approach to U.S. government officials who have lied to the committee?”

Further Sampley’s article gives eye-witness accounts, information McCain has since classified, showing how the former Navy fighter pilot’s own story told to the American people is filled with holes and many inconsistencies.


“After being periodically slapped around for "three or four days" by his captors who wanted military information from him, which McCain claims he refused to give, providing only his name, rank and serial number, he realized he was in critical shape and called for an officer. He told the officer, ‘O.K., I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.’


“Regardless of the reasons, the offer to give "military information" in exchange for better treatment was a violation of the military Code of Conduct and Collaboration No. l.

“The doctor, according to McCain, said about taking him to the hospital, ‘It's too late.’ At that point, McCain knew he was in big trouble. According to information obtained by the U.S. VETERAN, the flier in desperation invoked the name of his famous father, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., the soon-to-be commander of all U.S. Forces in the Pacific.

“And that was a violation of the Code of Conduct and Collaboration No. 2.

“McCain admits that because of the Vietnamese having the knowledge of who his father was, he thus survived because they rushed him to the hospital. The Vietnamese figured that because POW McCain's father was of such high military rank that he was of royalty or the governing circle. Thereafter the communist bragged that they had captured "the crown prince."

“At the hospital his wounds were treated. He readily admits that other U.S. prisoners with similar wounds were left to die, pointing out "There were hardly any amputees among the prisoners who came back because the North Vietnamese just would not give medical treatment to someone who was badly injured. They weren't going to waste their time. 

"McCain has failed to mention in public what he has confided to another U.S. prisoner privately, that since the Vietnamese felt they had in their hands such a ‘special prisoner’, a propaganda bonanza, a Soviet surgeon was called in to treat him.”

And to add more fuel to the McCain controversy, according to Dumas, in the forefront of the POW issue for over a half century, and several Vietnam POW’s like retired Navy captain, Eugene “Red” McDaniel, McCain was given special treatment since he told the North Vietnamese he was the son of Admiral John McCain II, who became commander-in chief pf the Pacific forces in 1968 and who actually ordered the bombing of Hanoi while his son was in prison. 

However, instead of coming to McDaniel’s side, a long time activist in keeping the POW/MIA issue alive in the halls of Congress, McCain has openly called McDaniel a “fraud and dishonorable man who preys upon families still unaccounted for from the war.”

Although McDaniel was unavailable for comment, Dumas said he told him that he was aware of many propaganda anti-American broadcasts made by McCain, while in captivity from 1967-73, in exchange for special treatment and basically to “save his own hide” when many other POW’s received no medical care and were left to die.

Even though it’s understandable a man trying to save his life may compromise his ethics, the problem with McCain is that he’s withheld truth about his POW record and, without question, has not come the aide of those honorable veterans trying to get at the truth behind the POW scandal.

“If it ever becomes known and people find out the real truth about McCain, Kerry and the others, there will be political turmoil,” said Dumas

Suppose you have a race between a magnificent runner and a truly crippled plodder.  There's no way to make it equal, so you start handicapping the better man.  You throw everything you can at him, boulders in his path, slime on the path, anything to slow him down, you know, just to make the race even.  But it's not working, so you have to do more.  So you put the cripple in the Palin 2008 scooter and he begins to pull even, maybe just a tad bit ahead.  Oh, no, the Palin scooter appears to have some real functional problems that are too obvious to ignore, so the cripple falls back.  That damn magnificent runner is going to win the race, no matter what you do; people love him and believe in him and there's no way to stop him.  So, okay, I guess the only thing left is to send somebody ahead to the trophy box and switch out the trophy real quick, so that when the magnificent runner finally gets there, he doesn't really win anything.

And that, my friends, is the story of the 2008 election.  I knew all along that the powers that be wouldn't allow power to slip from their fingers, that there was no rotten dirty trick that they wouldn't pull, even though THEY were handicapped by having a truly uninspiring candidate.  But I guess I really believed that ultimately, if Obama prevailed, we would have a chance at the fairness that we deserve.  Yeah, maybe he'd have to work harder and be better than any candidate in the world, but, that's okay, because he's up to the task.

The emergency session that has so convinced Congress that these emergency measures MUST BE TAKEN, do not convince me of anything.  They inform me that not being able to win the prize honestly, they are taking the ball and going home.  They are demanding the money that would have funded so many programs in America that would have rescued us from this terrible economy and they're asking... no, demanding it to pay the same bastards that got the economy in this terrible mess.  Not only that, but they're gutting the Constitutional protections of checks and balances by putting this enormous monetary power in the hands of the Treasury and making it NOT subject to review, not ever being able to be litigated in a court of law.  This is NOT socialism, this is facism.  And if you think this is a hyperbolic statement, you need to Google "Plot Against FDR" and see how once before a Bush, along with other business leaders, sought to overturn the government.  Now, they don't have to do anything so dramatic and obvious.  By stealth and cunning they are staging a bloodless coup, putting the power of this Country's economy in the hands of the executive branch with absolutely no oversight or control.  They win either way. 

So our magnificent runner has now been well and truly hobbled in the race.  If he drags himself over the finish line, bruised and bloodied, the prize that they hand him will be a mop and a bucket to clean up their mess.  And he will be vilified from day one if he can't do it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/welcome-to-the-final-stag_b_127990.html

This is the saddest article coming out in the October 6th edition of The Nation, written by the Pulitizer Prize-willing author of "The Killing Fields."  It would make you view Senator McCain in a whole new light.

http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1

http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1

While the Wall Street crowd were feasting on the expansion of the market, the rest of us were kept on starvation rations.  Now that their bubble has burst, it becomes our job to wipe their asses.

Sean Penn:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-penn/country-first-or-how-the_b_126965.html