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Enough Already!

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on March 8, 2008
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The president today announced that he is IN SUPPORT OF TORTURE. Bush announced that he would veto an anti torture bill already passed by congress. “The bill would take away one of the most valuable tools on the war on terror, the CIA program to detain and question key terrorist leaders and operatives,” deputy White House press secretary Tony Fratto said Friday.

So, we’re for TORTURE, at least as defined by Amnesty International and other human rights groups? Check.

Last week it came out that the war against terror didn’t in fact cost us $750 Billion, as we were told for the last several years of public spending statements. Bush and company will have spent almost $3 TRILLION on the war SO FAR, the increases mostly hidden in SECRET APPROPRIATIONS BUDGETS. While not an overt lie, this really does seem like a lie of omission. Borderline financial impropriety? Check.

John McCain has said repeatedly that he intends to be in Iraq for 100 years. This doesn’t include the upcoming conflicts in Iran, Syria, and perhaps VENEZEULA. At our current pace of spending, that would make for a $100 TRILLION commitment for the next 100 years. Insane unsustainable path of destruction for our country? Check.

Economy in the tank? Check.

Taking every opportunity to eliminate our Constitutional granted rights? George Bush has stated publicly that “its just a goddamned piece of paper!”, when asked about the Patriot Act’s possible infringements on our rights. So we have a president an administration and a party that support him who do not believe in the constitution? Check.

A president and an administrations that categorically lied to get us into war, to enrich his friends? Check.

So enough already, THESE PEOPLE HAVE FAILED.

I have an idea on how to fix things, or at least try to fix things. DO NOT VOTE FOR THESE PEOPLE AGAIN!

John McCain is another Bush, prototype, Pro-War, Pro-Big-Business, president. Voting for McCain is offering an extension to the current administration. Unfortunately, this one we have isn’t working so well now. Look around. These people have failed. Giving McCain a chance is basically saying “things are going great, let’s stay the course“.

Staying the course hasn’t worked for Bush, why would we use his tactics to give McCain a shot at continuing the wreckage caused by this administration?

We need change.

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Behind Obama’s Wave of Victories: The More They Know Him….

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on February 14, 2008
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Great article on Obama’s surge to overtake Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries over at the Huffington Post…

People want someone to believe in.

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Election Results – Good for Obama, McCain, Bad to worse day for Hillary. Huckabee still nuts.

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on February 13, 2008
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Barack Obama and John McCain came out the big winners in the “Potomac Primaries” of Virginia, Maryland, and D.C. today. The Obama tide continues to turn as he took over 75% of the vote in D.C., and 65% in VA and MD. I suspect that insiders in the Democratic Party are noticing these large margins of victory. Obama has also started to eat into Hillary Clinton’s coalition of voters, as her support continues to erode.

McCain took all three primaries in slim wins over crazy pastor, and believer that the earth is only 9,000 years old, Mike Huckabee. Mr. McCain himself is a confirmed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder sufferer, after being tortured in a Viet Cong Prison for several years during the Vietnam war. While that makes him a noble, loyal warrior to be thanked for his service to be sure, do we really want someone known to be that unstable to be in charge?

Rev. Huckabee on the other hand is just plain crazy. He has said “I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ”, and he means it. He also thinks that wives should just “submit” to their husbands. On a lighter note, he has vowed to be the anti-obesity president, a self titled “foodaholic” himself, who has lost over 120 pounds.

The Clinton campaign continues to struggle, with even Yahoo getting snarky, “As the votes were counted in her latest setbacks, her deputy campaign manager stepped down. Mike Henry announced his departure one day after Patti Solis Doyle was replaced as campaign manager with Maggie Williams, a longtime confidante of the former first lady.” Hillary’s top two campaign staffers are out, they have suffered 10 losses in a row, and they are running out of money. No wonder she has been railing at MSNBC over Chelsea being slighted. She has focused her energies on winning Texas and Ohio.

Mike Huckabee still has the coolest endorsement ad ever though. Chuck Norris approved.

McCain Response to the Obama “Yes we can” video

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mckirsch
on February 11, 2008
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I just got this new link to John McCain’s response to the Barack Obama “Yes we can” video. It is entitled john.he.is. All I can say is, wow.

Wil Weaton voices interesting thoughts on Barack Obama

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One of my favorite blogs to read is Wil Weaton dot Net 1.5. Wil grew up playing Wesley Crusher on Star Trek, The Next Generation, and is still acting, writing, and blogging. He is humble, intelligent, and funny, and his blog often provides insight into the Star Trek groupie culture, and what it’s like to be, well, Wil Weaton.

A few days ago Wil gave his endorsement for Barack Obama, and listed some information as to why. There is a great quote from blogger Patrick Nielsen Hayden:

“I’m for Obama knowing perfectly well that, as Bill Clinton suggested, it’s a “roll of the dice”. A roll of the dice for Democrats, for progressives, for those of us who’ve fought so hard against the right-wing frames that Obama sometimes (sometimes craftily, sometimes naively) deploys. Because I think a Hillary Clinton candidacy will be another game of inches, yielding—at best—another four or eight years of knifework in the dark. Because I think an Obama candidacy might actually shake up the whole gameboard, energize good people, create room and space for real change.

Because he seems to know something extraordinarily important, something so frequently missing from progressive politics in this country, in this time: how to hearten people. Because when I watch him speak, I see fearful people becoming brave.”

This makes sense to me. I have written about our culture of fear, and how our leaders have used it to their advantage. We need to be a nation of the brave, choosing what is correct over what is politically expedient. No more fear.

Thanks for reminding me Wil.

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