Joshua Micah Marshall on the mothership says
[T]he message from McCain is more like, "Why do I even have to run against this guy?" That anger and frustration that someone like Obama might be overshadowing him is his achilles heel in this campaign.
Isn't that really how Gore lost in 2000? It was impossible for me to believe Dubya was really running against him, and impossible to take him seriously as a candidate -- I have to suspect that Vice President Gore felt the same way. And now it seems John McCain's in the trap. Well, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
I am appalled, though not surprised, at the complete silence by the candidates on the last few days' events on Wall Street and the world's stock, bond and currency markets.... What about Obama? Is he not up to the task of educating people about what the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act did to the markets many Americans poured their retirement and college savings into?I'd really like to hear from him, and I'm confused as to why I'm not. It really is surprising. It's not like the country isn't noticing this stuff. Are candidates not allowed to talk about events that touch on substantive issues?
Home Front 'Surge' War Party's ad campaign will boomerang
by Justin Raimondo
In a disgusting display of mendacity not seen since the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, a pro-war advertising campaign spearheaded by former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer is buying $15 million worth of 30-second television spots that repeat the lies linking 9/11 to Iraq – and explicitly threatening another terrorist attack in the US if we "surrender." It's the first storm in a season of fear.
The content of the ads – four of them, so far – is so completely dishonest that one wonders what the producers were thinking: do they really imagine the American people are going to swallow another round of complete fabrications? It's hard to believe, but there you have it. Even more surreal than the assertions tying the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the Iraqis is the blatant exploitation of US troops in Iraq: this one, for example, shows a soldier who has lost a leg declaiming that he will have lost it for nothing if we allow "politics" – i.e. the overwhelming majority of Americans – to influence our policy....
Most of the above are closely tied into the Lobby, and their agenda is pretty clear: to manipulate the American people into once again supporting a foreign policy that serves the interests of a very narrow sector of foreign opinion, rather than distinctly American interests. This is, in short, a revolting attempt to pimp out the misery of those who have lost loved ones in the neocons' war to make the Middle East safe for Israel – while sacrificing American lives to do so.
The LOBBY. One only has to mention that term to understand who the real power is behind these ads from a dubious sounding front called Freedom's Watch.
The same pack of liars, thieves and mass murderers that lied the U.S. into fighting the war against Iraq is now lying to Americans about the reasons for staying in Iraq, ensuring a steady stream of flag draped coffins coming back to America. And the slaughter of thousands upon thousands more Iraqi's.
Strangely enough, discussions in the American MSM never approach the questions about these lies told to us by these crafty and cunning Masters of Mendacity. Questions that should be asked about why we're still fighting the illegal and immoral war against Iraq.
Questions about how these same pack of liars are in bed with another pack of liars, spending time and money, lying so America will fight another war for their client.
The next war these at large criminals want American soldiers and marines to fight and die in is another war of aggression, this time against Iran.
A war to be fought using American wealth, standing and lives; a war to be fought so Israel can both maintain ME hegemony and continue unhindered with its ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians.
NEVER AGAIN should me our real battle cry.
NEVER AGAIN will American kids go off to fight a war for Israel.
NEVER AGAIN will we succumb to their maddening call to war.
NEVER AGAIN will Americans be fooled by this pack of cutthroats and thieves.
NEVER AGAIN !!
NO MORE AMERICAN BLOOD FOR ISRAEL. NEVER AGAIN!!!
In response to Mr. Marshall's post on the effort, I contributed questions to Representative George Miller's (D-CA7) web site.
The post with my questions (entitled 'Questions for George Miller') is now seventh in the Community Counts web page. When it gets to first, Representative Miller will answer them.
These are the four questions
So ... would you vote for me?
Rionn
