Letters to LOU DOBBS

8-22-08
As usual, you mouth off on topics you have no educated or INFORMED, at least credible, statements on the subjects you SCREAM about!
Once again now the truth will be told and proven testimony from South Ossetians themselves, stating that the Georgians were not as innocent as YOU MOUTHED OFF they were! The RUSSIANS ARE COMING! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!
Once again, you are the ECONOMICS GURU…. Aren’t you?
Where were you when the FINANCIAL INSTITUTES COMMITTED Fraud AND ROBBED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
Where were you MR INDEPENDENT?
LIAR!

8-21-08
Do not flatter yourself too much regarding Barack’s Employer Fined penalties for hiring “illegal” workers. If you had watched any of Barack Obama’s stump speech in 2007, you would have known he has been on EMPLOYERS from its conception of the Comprehensive Immigration reform that the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS, and this REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT composed, Even thought they called it BI-Partisan, whatever the case, you helped defeat. That is all you did, stir up hateful feelings towards immigrants who had an OPEN DOOR BY THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS & REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT. You and your RANTS caused hate crimes and even murders to INCREASE against the LATINO Community because the WHITE RED NECK was afraid he could nto find another job,
Do not take into consideration that the WHITE Red neck NEVER PERFROMED 100% LIKE THE illegal Latinos do and did.
Once again, LOU Dobbs mouthing off, big fat racist opinion and NO SOLUTION,
Why don’t you EDUCATE yourself because the more I can bear to hear anything you say anymore, I can ALWAYS CATCH A FLAW with your comments and opinions, because just like RUSTY “Limbaugh” Prosecutions when it is revealed you are not factual at all
8-21-08
(From David Sirota’s email)
WHITE HOUSE '08 - GOP CITES RICHEST COUNTY IN AMERICA AS PROOF ECONOMY IS GREAT
The Roanoke Times reports that as Barack Obama convened a discussion about unfair trade policies in economically ravaged regions of Virginia, the national Republican Party countered by citing Fairfax County as proof the economy is doing just fine. "It doesn't take a lot of courage to go to Martinsville and talk about trade," said U.S. Rep. Tom Davis (R) said in a Tuesday conference call arranged by McCain's campaign. "What would be courageous is to come to Fairfax County, where you have 362 foreign-owned companies and tens of thousands of employees with foreign-owned firms...and take the same stand up here."
Besides the tone deafness of holding up foreign-owned firms as proof of a solid domestic economy, Davis forgot to mention that according to Forbes magazine, Fairfax County has long been the wealthiest county in the United States - a place where the median (the median!) household income is over $100,000 a year. The county is home to many of the millionaire corporate lobbyists that have been instrumental in the passage of rigged trade deals. Davis citing Fairfax County today as proof that trade policies are working for the vast majority of the country would be like FDR citing the Rockefeller family during the Great Depression as proof that the economy was working for most Americans.






8-18-08
Any other MOUTH OFF on more GEO-POLITICAL ISSUES THAT IS EVIDENT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!!!
FRANCE...RUSSIA...GEORGIA...MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUSTPULL OUT A MAP AND HAVE a GEOGRAPHY CLASS!!
MR ECONOMICS!!!
IDIOT!!!
KEEPEM STUPID.... LIAR!



8-18-08
Hey PHIONY!
Don’t forget when you mention this Congress, COMPARE, key word, COMPARE, it to YOUR party, the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS which HELD THE MAJORITY, YES, MAJORITY another word I am sure you will omit just to distort the FACT…. as usual! MR INDEPENDENT...LIAR

6:00pm…quotes the POLLS of 500 ……
More qualified?
A little SPIN.
Anyway, I would like to know WHAT 500 VOTERES were polled...Did any one of them own a passport?
You are such a RACIST PIG!
MR REPUBLICAN...LIAR!
How many Americans had a passport pre 9 /11?
5%...(I KNOW YOU DID NOT KNOW THAT)
MR ECONOMICS.... WATCHED THE FRAUDULENT BANKS STEAL MY, YES, MY, COUNTRY, BLIND!!!
CAN MCCAIN TALK WITHOUT READING ANYTHING?
We will see what OFF-SHORE DRILLING YOU WILL GET, by the way...
YOU PREDICTED...REALLY...WHERE WERE YOU IN THE FINANACIAL FRAUD
IN THIS COUNTRY...RACIST PIG! NO...YOU ARE NOT AN INDEPENDENT...NO YOU ARE NOT

August15, 2008

Susan Golden

Earlier this week, (August15, 2008) John McCain was out stumping and blatantly lying that he was the one to legislate for the increase in death benefits for our troops at war in Iraq& Afghanistan.

This is not true. As a matter of fact, the truth is that it wasn’t until the Don Imus, 'Imus in the Morning' Show, on MSNBC, which McCain was a frequent guest, brought to the embarrassment and the DISGRACE to the Senator regarding the $6,000.00, yes SIX THOUSAND dollar death benefit in 2003,2004,2005 for our troops. All one has to do is get the transcripts and Imus gave credit after legislation was passed to Rick Santorum of PA not John McCain!

Maybe McCain was referencing the first increase to $12, 400, but was still scolded by IMUS! Imagine that! And Imus is and always was a big supporter of John McCain

As a matter of fact, it was CHUCK HAGEL, NOT MCCAIN!

Jan. 26: Is the troops' death benefit enough? Families of fallen service members and one senator are hoping to change the amount paid out. NBC's Bob Faw reports.

Three years later,
NBC Correspondent
TODAY
Updated 2:09 p.m. CT,
Wed., Jan. 26, 2005
Ben was the love of Stacey’s life. In 2003, when Marine Captain Benjamin Sammis, a helicopter pilot, was killed in Iraq, Stacey was devastated — emotionally, and financially.
Since Ben, 29, had not bought the $250,000 life insurance policy the military makes available, the death benefit the government paid his widow was just $6,000.
“I guess it did seem kind of low,” said Sammis. “I mean, I'm not getting my husband back, and here's a $6,000 check. I guess, at that time, it seemed a little absurd.”
That figure has now been raised to just over $12,400, but Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., says it's still too low. He's campaigning for the benefit to be raised to $100,000.
“We spend billions and billions of dollars on things that never work,” said Hagel. “Certainly to invest in our people, in our warrior's families, seems to me the least we can do.”
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, headquartered on the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, tries to add on to the government’s benefit and provide grieving military families with extra assistance. Relying solely on private contributions, it gives $11,000 to each surviving spouse and $5,000 for each dependent child.
For spouses like Sammis, who moved from California to be near her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery, it is impossible to assign a dollar figure to any life.
“Every day I wake up, I deal with it,” said Sammis. “Every second of every day, I think about what's missing in my life.”
But she believes that raising the $12,400 figure would be appropriate.
“I'm proud of him. And he went willingly,” she said. “However, he needs to be paid for the sacrifice.”
A life lost, a marriage destroyed, and a crying need, many argue, for a government to do more.
8-19-08
John McCain says he plans to consult with Democratic Rep. John Lewis when he's president. That's news to Lewis.
During Saturday's presidential forum at Rick Warren's California mega church, John McCain was asked to name the "three wisest people" he would "rely heavily on" if elected president. He didn't cite close confidantes Phil Gramm and Randy Scheunemann, possibly because they have gotten McCain into trouble politically. Instead McCain chose Gen. David Petraeus; former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, one of his economic advisers; and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a leading figure in the civil rights movement.

This is not the first time McCain has invoked Lewis' name on the campaign trail. Earlier this year, in Selma, Alabama, he told the story of civil rights marchers trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in a 1965 march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. Waiting at the crest of the bridge were a brigade of police and state troopers who meted out an attacks so violent that the day is known today as Bloody Sunday.

Central in McCain's telling was John Lewis, a man of just 25 who was at the front of the march and absorbed the first blow. Millions of Americans, McCain noted, "watched brave John Lewis fall."
But even though McCain has now repeatedly cited Lewis as a role model and potential adviser, McCain has not established a relationship with the Georgia Democrat in the 22 years they have served in Congress together. At the time of McCain's Selma speech, a Lewis associate told my colleague David Corn that McCain has never been close to Lewis. Lewis was not told about McCain's speech in Selma in advance, nor was he invited to attend.

In response to McCain's latest invocation of his name, Rep. Lewis said in a statement requested by Mother Jones, "I cannot stop one human being, even a presidential candidate, from admiring the courage and sacrifice of peaceful protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge or making comments about it." But, he added, "Sen. McCain and I are colleagues in the US Congress, not confidantes. He does not consult me. And I do not consult him."

It took McCain years to fully embrace the goals that Lewis was fighting for on Bloody Sunday. In 1983, McCain voted against making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, in opposition to most members of Congress, including many of his Republican colleagues. In 1987, the governor of Arizona repealed the state's recognition of King; McCain supported the move. It was only in 1990, 25 years after Lewis marched in Alabama, when Arizona reversed its decision that McCain changed his own stance on the issue.

And there are, of course, the fundamental differences between John McCain's political philosophy and the goals of Lewis and his fellow marchers. Lewis hoped that the federal government would use its influence to protect the rights of disenfranchised individuals; he sought an expanded role for government because of what he believed was government's power to do good. It explains, in part, why Lewis is a Democrat today and supports Barack Obama for president. McCain, on the other hand, is a fanatical enemy of government spending and has said, "I've found over time that less government involvement is better." It's a philosophy that would have left Lewis and his cohorts out in the cold.

So why does John McCain promise to consult a man who he is not close to and has never consulted before? I put the question to the McCain campaign. If and when they respond, I'll update the post.