Yesterday's New York Times front-page investigative story about John McCain's long time ties to the nation's gambling industry ("For McCain and Team, a Host of Ties to Gambling"), jogged my memory about an unsettling bit of information I was given by Ross Perot in 1995.
In November 1995, my wife and fellow author, Trisha, and I, interviewed Perot for several days for an unauthorized biography (Citizen Perot: His Life & Times, Random House, 1996). During one of our conversations, outside of the 'on the record' taped interviews, Perot discussed with us how he had utilized private investigators to uncover information about other people. Perot never used, from what I could determine, any of the personal details he assembled about others. Rather, he was merely a collector of information, never knowing when it might come in useful.
I discussed this with my editor, Bob Loomis. Without independent reporting, much of it was no more than informed gossip. Perot had passed along personal details about Barbara Walters family, Clinton chief of staff Leon Penneta, and business tycoon Peter Ueberroth, someone Perot had seriously considered as a vice-presidential candidate in his own 1992 presidential run.
From our interviews with Perot about the Vietnam POW/MIA issue, it was clear there was no love lost between Perot and a number of public officials who opposed his efforts to keep looking for soldiers he believed had been left behind and were alive. On Perot's most disliked list was George Herbert Bush, who as Reagan's vice-president had shut the door to any further government probe on the matter. Richard Armitage, George W. Bush's ex-deputy Secretary of State, had earned Perot's eternal animosity because of his conclusion that there were no MIAs left in Southeast Asia. And the final person to earn Perot's enmity was John McCain, who as a decorated war hero, and then Senator, had also closed the door to any further MIA investigations.
Bob Loomis and I decided that I should not report Perot's personal details about these men and women, with two exceptions. Regarding Ueberroth, I wrote in Citizen Perot that one Perot campaign insider had concluded that "Ueberroth was the perfect match," but that "Perot and Mort Meyerson (Perot's top business executive at EDS) personally made inquiries about him and eventually opted for a stand-in candidate."
And as for Armitage, Perot's information was so detailed, including even surveillance photos of Armitage in supposedly compromising situations, I did report it. And Armitage was generous in giving me extensive interviews that helped explain the background and put into context Perot's one man war on him.
I am only reporting now Perot's rumor/information about McCain because of today's New York Times story. Perot told me that McCain had a gambling problem and he had uncovered details that McCain was bailed out in the late 1980s from a big gambling debt by his wife, Cindy.
If true, it raises a question as to whether McCain's gambling might ever have put him in a situation where he was pressed to repay his debt through Senatorial favors.
An enterprising reporter has to ask Ross Perot if he will acknowledge what he shared with me 14 years ago, and if so, if he will now provide the evidence to back up the assertion. Perot hasn't talked to me since I published my unauthorized biography, so unfortunately, I am not the person to ask. And some reporter should ask McCain, directly, if he has ever had a gambling debt that his wife had to pay off. American voters have a right to know.
Gerald Posner
Posted September 29, 2008 | 02:00 PM (EST)
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Lou Dobbs is a PHONY!
Lou Dobbs-
HE LIKES Bush McCain PALIN! Don;tlet himfool you!
Apparently Lou Dobbs does not know how to explain his MISSING IN ACTION mouth while the INVESTMENT BANKS ROBBED the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS! Remember,he was suppose to be the ECONOMIC GURU!!
LOU DOBBS is more interested in INCITING HATE while ignoring the REAL PROBLEMS!
Such as prosecuting (REGULATING) EMPLOYERS who HIRE illegals and PRIVATE INVESTMENT BANKS while Robbing the AMERICAN PEOPLE BLIND!
The war in IRAQ and his belief that the SURGE was a SUCCESS as John McCain boasts failed to mention the fact the Bob Woodward revealed had very little to do with the decrease in Violence in Iraq. Once again,as he mouthed off about Russia Georgia conflict, proved he knew NOTHING about the ploy behind the Real Agenda for that backfired plot by this administration and the GEORGIA LOBBYIST!
ONCE AGAIN, LOU DOBBS is spending too much time on the radio and not EDUCATING himself on what he clains to be such a KNOW IT ALL on, EVERYTHING!
Lou Dobbs main concern ws the CASUALTIES, NOTHING more. yesterday, September 15, 2008, over 30 people died in Iraq, more bombs!
Meanwhile, this "ECONOMIC GURU" willnow attempt to act as though he is not as IGNORANT as he really is.
I want to know, what this man's agenda is on CNN?
I want a Brilliant Leader. I do not care if I ever have a beer or an ORANGE soda with my President! But Lou Dobbs, he likes you stupid!
Forget about "...Five different schools in six years. What was that about?" for the VICE presidential Nominee for the Republicans. Forget the fact that the Presidential Nominee does not even KNOW HOW To send an EMAIL! And this leader talks about the FUTURE?
I have to agree with Roger Ebert :
Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: The American Idol candidate
September 11, 2008
BY ROGER EBERT Sun-Times Movie Critic
I think I might be able to explain some of Sarah Palin's appeal. She's the "American Idol" candidate. Consider. What defines an "American Idol" finalist? They're good-looking, work well on television, have a sunny personality, are fierce competitors, and so talented, why, they're darned near the real thing. There's a reason "American Idol" gets such high ratings. People identify with the contestants. They think, Hey, that could be me up there on that show!
My problem is, I don't want to be up there. I don't want a vice president who is darned near good enough. I want a vice president who is better, wiser, well-traveled, has met world leaders, who three months ago had an opinion on Iraq. Someone who doesn't repeat bald- faced lies about earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere. Someone who doesn't appoint Alaskan politicians to "study" global warming, because, hello! It has been studied. The returns are convincing enough that John McCain and Barack Obama are darned near in agreement.
I would also want someone who didn't make a teeny little sneer when referring to "people who go to the Ivy League." When I was a teen I dreamed of going to Harvard, but my dad, an electrician, told me, "Boy, we don't have the money. Thank your lucky stars you were born in Urbana and can go to the University of Illinois right here in town." So I did, very happily. Although Palin gets laughs when she mentions the "elite" Ivy League, she sure did attend the heck out of college.
Five different schools in six years. What was that about?
And how can a politician her age have never have gone to Europe? My dad had died, my mom was working as a book-keeper and I had a job at the local newspaper when, at 19, I scraped together $240 for a charter flight to Europe. I had Arthur Frommer's $5 a Day under my arm, started in London, even rented a Vespa and drove in the traffic of Rome. A few years later, I was able to send my mom, along with the $15 a Day book.
You don't need to be a pointy-headed elitist to travel abroad. You need curiosity and a hunger to see the world. What kind of a person (who has the money) arrives at the age of 44 and has only been out of the country once, on an official tour to Iraq? Sarah Palin's travel record is that of a provincial, not someone who is equipped to deal with global issues.
But some people like that. She's never traveled to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America or Down Under? That makes her like them. She didn't go to Harvard? Good for her! There a lot of hockey moms who haven't seen London, but most of them would probably love to, if they had the dough. And they'd be proud if one of their kids won a scholarship to Harvard.I trust the American people will see through Palin, and save the Republic in November. The most damning indictment against her is that she considered herself a good choice to be a heartbeat away. That shows bad judgment.
HE LIKES Bush McCain PALIN! Don;tlet himfool you!
Apparently Lou Dobbs does not know how to explain his MISSING IN ACTION mouth while the INVESTMENT BANKS ROBBED the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS! Remember,he was suppose to be the ECONOMIC GURU!!
LOU DOBBS is more interested in INCITING HATE while ignoring the REAL PROBLEMS!
Such as prosecuting (REGULATING) EMPLOYERS who HIRE illegals and PRIVATE INVESTMENT BANKS while Robbing the AMERICAN PEOPLE BLIND!
The war in IRAQ and his belief that the SURGE was a SUCCESS as John McCain boasts failed to mention the fact the Bob Woodward revealed had very little to do with the decrease in Violence in Iraq. Once again,as he mouthed off about Russia Georgia conflict, proved he knew NOTHING about the ploy behind the Real Agenda for that backfired plot by this administration and the GEORGIA LOBBYIST!
ONCE AGAIN, LOU DOBBS is spending too much time on the radio and not EDUCATING himself on what he clains to be such a KNOW IT ALL on, EVERYTHING!
Lou Dobbs main concern ws the CASUALTIES, NOTHING more. yesterday, September 15, 2008, over 30 people died in Iraq, more bombs!
Meanwhile, this "ECONOMIC GURU" willnow attempt to act as though he is not as IGNORANT as he really is.
I want to know, what this man's agenda is on CNN?
I want a Brilliant Leader. I do not care if I ever have a beer or an ORANGE soda with my President! But Lou Dobbs, he likes you stupid!
Forget about "...Five different schools in six years. What was that about?" for the VICE presidential Nominee for the Republicans. Forget the fact that the Presidential Nominee does not even KNOW HOW To send an EMAIL! And this leader talks about the FUTURE?
I have to agree with Roger Ebert :
Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: The American Idol candidate
September 11, 2008
BY ROGER EBERT Sun-Times Movie Critic
I think I might be able to explain some of Sarah Palin's appeal. She's the "American Idol" candidate. Consider. What defines an "American Idol" finalist? They're good-looking, work well on television, have a sunny personality, are fierce competitors, and so talented, why, they're darned near the real thing. There's a reason "American Idol" gets such high ratings. People identify with the contestants. They think, Hey, that could be me up there on that show!
My problem is, I don't want to be up there. I don't want a vice president who is darned near good enough. I want a vice president who is better, wiser, well-traveled, has met world leaders, who three months ago had an opinion on Iraq. Someone who doesn't repeat bald- faced lies about earmarks and the Bridge to Nowhere. Someone who doesn't appoint Alaskan politicians to "study" global warming, because, hello! It has been studied. The returns are convincing enough that John McCain and Barack Obama are darned near in agreement.
I would also want someone who didn't make a teeny little sneer when referring to "people who go to the Ivy League." When I was a teen I dreamed of going to Harvard, but my dad, an electrician, told me, "Boy, we don't have the money. Thank your lucky stars you were born in Urbana and can go to the University of Illinois right here in town." So I did, very happily. Although Palin gets laughs when she mentions the "elite" Ivy League, she sure did attend the heck out of college.
Five different schools in six years. What was that about?
And how can a politician her age have never have gone to Europe? My dad had died, my mom was working as a book-keeper and I had a job at the local newspaper when, at 19, I scraped together $240 for a charter flight to Europe. I had Arthur Frommer's $5 a Day under my arm, started in London, even rented a Vespa and drove in the traffic of Rome. A few years later, I was able to send my mom, along with the $15 a Day book.
You don't need to be a pointy-headed elitist to travel abroad. You need curiosity and a hunger to see the world. What kind of a person (who has the money) arrives at the age of 44 and has only been out of the country once, on an official tour to Iraq? Sarah Palin's travel record is that of a provincial, not someone who is equipped to deal with global issues.
But some people like that. She's never traveled to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America or Down Under? That makes her like them. She didn't go to Harvard? Good for her! There a lot of hockey moms who haven't seen London, but most of them would probably love to, if they had the dough. And they'd be proud if one of their kids won a scholarship to Harvard.I trust the American people will see through Palin, and save the Republic in November. The most damning indictment against her is that she considered herself a good choice to be a heartbeat away. That shows bad judgment.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Lou Dobbs...MR PHONY!! Where is the ECONOMIC GURU?
Lou Dobbs:
NO PRESS CONFERENCE FOR PALIN….
OBAMA HAS BEEN ABSWERING THE PRESS FOR 19 MONTSH
LAST TUESDAY…. OBAMA TOOK QUESTIONS!
.
ECONOMIC GURU!
YOU were the one ASLEEP at the SWITCH!
MOUTH!
Like I have asked you before, where were you when the banks were ripping the AMERICAN PEOPLE OFF?
Mouthing off about the illegals and NOTHING ABOUT THE EMPLOYERS HIRING THEM! PHONY MEDIA! HANK POULSEN IS OK WITH YOU!
HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN IN THE APPOINTED OFFICE?
DO you think ALL AMERICANS are as STUPID AS MOST OF YOUR LISTENERS?
PLEASE...YOU ARE SUCH A MISLEADING PUNDIT AND A LIAR!
YES A LIAR! YOU PHONY MOUTH! HEY...those CASUALTIES IN IRAQ....HOW MANY TODAY....MOUTH. Since you measure “SUCCESS” as YOU and MCCAIN agree but Petreaus does not.
YOU ARE ONNLY CONCERNED WITH CASUALTIES...YOU KNOW THE SURGE IS WORKING...
WELL
What did GENERAL PETRAEUS JUST SAY?
HUH?
I wonder what you would have done if one of Obama;'s girls came on NATIONAL stage UNWED, UNDER AGE, and PREGNANT?
I WONDER WHERE YOUR MOUTH WOULD BE?
MR DOBBS....MR ECONOMIC GURU,,,,MR INDEPENDENT PHIONY!
THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE!
NO PRESS CONFERENCE FOR PALIN….
OBAMA HAS BEEN ABSWERING THE PRESS FOR 19 MONTSH
LAST TUESDAY…. OBAMA TOOK QUESTIONS!
.
ECONOMIC GURU!
YOU were the one ASLEEP at the SWITCH!
MOUTH!
Like I have asked you before, where were you when the banks were ripping the AMERICAN PEOPLE OFF?
Mouthing off about the illegals and NOTHING ABOUT THE EMPLOYERS HIRING THEM! PHONY MEDIA! HANK POULSEN IS OK WITH YOU!
HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN IN THE APPOINTED OFFICE?
DO you think ALL AMERICANS are as STUPID AS MOST OF YOUR LISTENERS?
PLEASE...YOU ARE SUCH A MISLEADING PUNDIT AND A LIAR!
YES A LIAR! YOU PHONY MOUTH! HEY...those CASUALTIES IN IRAQ....HOW MANY TODAY....MOUTH. Since you measure “SUCCESS” as YOU and MCCAIN agree but Petreaus does not.
YOU ARE ONNLY CONCERNED WITH CASUALTIES...YOU KNOW THE SURGE IS WORKING...
WELL
What did GENERAL PETRAEUS JUST SAY?
HUH?
I wonder what you would have done if one of Obama;'s girls came on NATIONAL stage UNWED, UNDER AGE, and PREGNANT?
I WONDER WHERE YOUR MOUTH WOULD BE?
MR DOBBS....MR ECONOMIC GURU,,,,MR INDEPENDENT PHIONY!
THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE!
Letter toLou Dobbs....9-15-08
Just what the hell are you talking about. Where the hell have you been?
Obama has been talking to the press for 19+MONTHS …STRAIGHT
IDIOT
LIKE I ASK U ALL THE TIME…MOUTH…WHERE WERE YOU??????
MR MIA for ECONOMICS!
Oh, and we are in the MIDDLE of a RECESSION!
MR ECONOMIC KNOW NOTHING! HOW IS RUSH? HOWS THE RADIO?
Obviously, your expertise is just not CUTTING THE MUSTARD, MR ECONOMIC GURU!! Where were you? While the PRIVATE INVESTMENT CRONIES ROBBED US BLIND?? WHERE WERE YOU? This just happened? YOU MORON!
Regarding the immigrants, ALL YOU HAD TO PROMOTE WAS EMPLOYER REGULATION! REMEMBER THAT WORD,,,,REGULATION!
YOU MR ANTI-REGULATION!
But no, instead, you create HATE towards the immigrant and IGNORE the employers.
Who are you kidding? Make sure you take care of those employers, and then,,,JUST SHUT UP!
You have a real hate show! CNN Should KICK YOU OFF THEIR NETWORK!
AGAIN!
Obama has been talking to the press for 19+MONTHS …STRAIGHT
IDIOT
LIKE I ASK U ALL THE TIME…MOUTH…WHERE WERE YOU??????
MR MIA for ECONOMICS!
Oh, and we are in the MIDDLE of a RECESSION!
MR ECONOMIC KNOW NOTHING! HOW IS RUSH? HOWS THE RADIO?
Obviously, your expertise is just not CUTTING THE MUSTARD, MR ECONOMIC GURU!! Where were you? While the PRIVATE INVESTMENT CRONIES ROBBED US BLIND?? WHERE WERE YOU? This just happened? YOU MORON!
Regarding the immigrants, ALL YOU HAD TO PROMOTE WAS EMPLOYER REGULATION! REMEMBER THAT WORD,,,,REGULATION!
YOU MR ANTI-REGULATION!
But no, instead, you create HATE towards the immigrant and IGNORE the employers.
Who are you kidding? Make sure you take care of those employers, and then,,,JUST SHUT UP!
You have a real hate show! CNN Should KICK YOU OFF THEIR NETWORK!
AGAIN!
Friday, September 12, 2008
WHITE ABSTINENCE ONLY !!! EXCEPT FOR PALIN!!
Let's say that you enjoyed watching last week's Republican National Convention on television.
Let's say you drank in the almost uniformly white faces and the regimented revivalism, you clapped when speakers belittled Barack Obama's work organizing impoverished communities, indeed, you cheered with Rudy Giuliani's zinger, "Drill, baby, drill!"
Let's further stipulate that you were not at all discomfited by the convention's incessant "Country First" mantra that defines loyalty to America as lockstep fealty to the Republican Party.
Let's say - for sheer argument's sake, of course - all of this is true. What, then, of the substance? Stripping away the partisanship, passion and propaganda, what about the veracity of the claim that the GOP puts this country first?
Well, let's just say it's a little dicey.
On national security, the Republican Party advocates continuing to force thousands of young Americans to risk life and limb refereeing Iraq's civil war. Though the party's slogan hearkens back to conservatives' "America First" isolationism, the GOP nonetheless supports spending $12 billion a month on the war - money needed at home.
Same story on economics. In 2004, the Republican White House called outsourcing "a plus." In 2006, the Republican commander-in-chief OK'd the sale of critical infrastructure to foreign dictators. And today the Republican presidential nominee is demanding more NAFTA-style trade pacts that eliminate American jobs. This, says the GOP, is putting our country first.
But who is the "country"? According to the Census Bureau, it will soon be mostly non-whites. That is, the demographic groups who the alleged "country first" party regularly disparages, whether Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is scapegoating Latinos, Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., celebrating Japanese internment or President Bush genuflecting to Bob Jones University's white supremacists.
Maybe, you insist in your post-convention fervor, I just don't get it. Maybe "country first" really does mean refereeing foreign civil wars, spending billions overseas while cutting domestic programs, exporting jobs and bashing ethnic groups that will soon comprise the majority of the nation.
But I don't think so. More likely, Republicans have simply taken the famous parable to heart - the one about patriotism being the last refuge of scoundrels.
As a political strategy, it's not stupid. Following the Bush-DeLay-Abramoff era, many Americans rightly think Republican politicians are scoundrels. And so those politicians are trying to make sure "this election is not about issues," as McCain's campaign manager said this week, but about a hideous hypernationalism only Joe McCarthy could love. Employing flag pins, war stories and Bible-thumping social conservatism, former P.O.W. McCain and Christian fundamentalist Palin hope their red-white-and-blue phantasmagoria will hypnotize America into voting Republican.
On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities, the Republican convention reminds us of what Barry Goldwater suggested 44 years ago: Terrorists are not the only ones who believe extremism is "no vice." And, as the old aphorism warns, when the most virulent extremism attacks our country, it won't be shrouded in Islamic fatwas - it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
Sadly, the when is now. McCain is the flag, Palin is the cross - and Americans will have to decide whether we believe their zealotry puts country first.
David Sirota is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. His blog is at www.credoaction.com/sirota.
Let's say you drank in the almost uniformly white faces and the regimented revivalism, you clapped when speakers belittled Barack Obama's work organizing impoverished communities, indeed, you cheered with Rudy Giuliani's zinger, "Drill, baby, drill!"
Let's further stipulate that you were not at all discomfited by the convention's incessant "Country First" mantra that defines loyalty to America as lockstep fealty to the Republican Party.
Let's say - for sheer argument's sake, of course - all of this is true. What, then, of the substance? Stripping away the partisanship, passion and propaganda, what about the veracity of the claim that the GOP puts this country first?
Well, let's just say it's a little dicey.
On national security, the Republican Party advocates continuing to force thousands of young Americans to risk life and limb refereeing Iraq's civil war. Though the party's slogan hearkens back to conservatives' "America First" isolationism, the GOP nonetheless supports spending $12 billion a month on the war - money needed at home.
Same story on economics. In 2004, the Republican White House called outsourcing "a plus." In 2006, the Republican commander-in-chief OK'd the sale of critical infrastructure to foreign dictators. And today the Republican presidential nominee is demanding more NAFTA-style trade pacts that eliminate American jobs. This, says the GOP, is putting our country first.
But who is the "country"? According to the Census Bureau, it will soon be mostly non-whites. That is, the demographic groups who the alleged "country first" party regularly disparages, whether Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., is scapegoating Latinos, Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., celebrating Japanese internment or President Bush genuflecting to Bob Jones University's white supremacists.
Maybe, you insist in your post-convention fervor, I just don't get it. Maybe "country first" really does mean refereeing foreign civil wars, spending billions overseas while cutting domestic programs, exporting jobs and bashing ethnic groups that will soon comprise the majority of the nation.
But I don't think so. More likely, Republicans have simply taken the famous parable to heart - the one about patriotism being the last refuge of scoundrels.
As a political strategy, it's not stupid. Following the Bush-DeLay-Abramoff era, many Americans rightly think Republican politicians are scoundrels. And so those politicians are trying to make sure "this election is not about issues," as McCain's campaign manager said this week, but about a hideous hypernationalism only Joe McCarthy could love. Employing flag pins, war stories and Bible-thumping social conservatism, former P.O.W. McCain and Christian fundamentalist Palin hope their red-white-and-blue phantasmagoria will hypnotize America into voting Republican.
On the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities, the Republican convention reminds us of what Barry Goldwater suggested 44 years ago: Terrorists are not the only ones who believe extremism is "no vice." And, as the old aphorism warns, when the most virulent extremism attacks our country, it won't be shrouded in Islamic fatwas - it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
Sadly, the when is now. McCain is the flag, Palin is the cross - and Americans will have to decide whether we believe their zealotry puts country first.
David Sirota is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. His blog is at www.credoaction.com/sirota.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
McCain, Are you sure you want to go there?
McCAin should try to learn how to use a computer, just so he can keep up with Osama Bin Laden.
McCain should be aware that there are many Russians that live in this country and are aware of his deceit with the Leader of Georgia and their lobbyists.
Out of bounds! McCain misstates Obama sex-ed record
By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Throw the flag against: The McCain-Palin campaign.
Call: Unsportsmanlike conduct.
What happened: A new 30-second TV ad attacks Barack Obama's record on education, saying that Obama backed legislation to teach "'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners." The announcer then says, "Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."
Why that's wrong: This is a deliberately misleading accusation. It came hours after the Obama campaign released a TV ad critical of McCain's votes on public education. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for but was not a sponsor of legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12.
But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach "age-appropriate" sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators.
Republican Alan Keyes tried to use Obama's vote against him in the 2004 U.S. Senate race. At the time, Obama spoke about wanting to protect young children from abuse. He made clear then that he was not supporting teaching kindergartners about explicit details of sex.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday of McCain's ad: "It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls."Penalty: 15 yards for the McCain campaign's deliberate low blow.
McCain should be aware that there are many Russians that live in this country and are aware of his deceit with the Leader of Georgia and their lobbyists.
Out of bounds! McCain misstates Obama sex-ed record
By Margaret Talev | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Throw the flag against: The McCain-Palin campaign.
Call: Unsportsmanlike conduct.
What happened: A new 30-second TV ad attacks Barack Obama's record on education, saying that Obama backed legislation to teach "'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners." The announcer then says, "Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."
Why that's wrong: This is a deliberately misleading accusation. It came hours after the Obama campaign released a TV ad critical of McCain's votes on public education. As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for but was not a sponsor of legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12.
But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach "age-appropriate" sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators.
Republican Alan Keyes tried to use Obama's vote against him in the 2004 U.S. Senate race. At the time, Obama spoke about wanting to protect young children from abuse. He made clear then that he was not supporting teaching kindergartners about explicit details of sex.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Tuesday of McCain's ad: "It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls."Penalty: 15 yards for the McCain campaign's deliberate low blow.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Russian Georgian PR BLAST! No kidding!
When Cheney is in Georgia while all eyes are on the Republican Convention, what in the world did he do now?
Just as I said...THIS IS A SET UP! I have called, emailed, blogged and made many, many comments on smelling a RAT! More BLOOD on America's hands all for the PRE 9-11 Missile Defense Treaty! What IDIOTS!!WAKE UP!
Just as I said...THIS IS A SET UP! I have called, emailed, blogged and made many, many comments on smelling a RAT! More BLOOD on America's hands all for the PRE 9-11 Missile Defense Treaty! What IDIOTS!!WAKE UP!
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN-PALIN
Return of the "Mavrick" MEVERICK
A Democrat, probably some sort of spelling elitist, is amused.
The line appeared on screen just as McCain discussed adult literacy, two colleagues say.
Clinton amends 'No way, no how, no McCain-Palin'
Hillary releases a statement at the close of McCain's speech:
“The two party conventions showcased vastly different directions for our country. Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden offered the new ideas and positive change America needs and deserves after eight years of failed Republican leadership. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin did not.
“After listening to all of the speeches this week, I heard nothing that suggests the Republicans are ready to fix the economy for middle-class families, provide quality affordable health care for all Americans, guarantee equal pay for equal work for women, restore our nation's leadership in a complex world or tackle the myriad of challenges our country faces.
“So, to slightly amend my comments from Denver: NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN-PALIN.”
A Democrat, probably some sort of spelling elitist, is amused.
The line appeared on screen just as McCain discussed adult literacy, two colleagues say.
Clinton amends 'No way, no how, no McCain-Palin'
Hillary releases a statement at the close of McCain's speech:
“The two party conventions showcased vastly different directions for our country. Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden offered the new ideas and positive change America needs and deserves after eight years of failed Republican leadership. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin did not.
“After listening to all of the speeches this week, I heard nothing that suggests the Republicans are ready to fix the economy for middle-class families, provide quality affordable health care for all Americans, guarantee equal pay for equal work for women, restore our nation's leadership in a complex world or tackle the myriad of challenges our country faces.
“So, to slightly amend my comments from Denver: NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN-PALIN.”
Sarah Palin speech ONLY!! NO QUESTIONS ASKED!
If Bush/McCain Campaign refuses to allow any questions posed to the Republican Party’s VP candidate, then why would the nedia give time to STUMP SPEECH ONLY COVERAGE?
Who wrote the 'MOM of the YEAR' speech?
The Man Behind Palin's Speech
Thursday, Sep. 04, 2008
By MASSIMO CALABRESI / WASHINGTON
As Democrats and Barack Obama's campaign scrambled to attack Sarah Palin's well-received acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday night, they latched on early and hard to the fact that it was penned by former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully. But the story is more complicated than just the recycling of a Bush staffer into John McCain's fold, and it tells you more about how McCain's camp intends to use Palin than it does about the continuing influence of the current White House.
The clues are in the text itself. Scully started working on the vice-presidential speech a week ago, before he or anyone else knew who the nominee would be, and it's not hard to pick out the parts that would have been the same regardless of who delivered it. Scully unspooled two centrist themes via Palin that have been key to the McCain message: the idea that the Republican nominee puts service to country ahead of career and the notion that he's the true representative of Middle America. Both themes implicitly push Obama and Biden to the left, and Scully made them explicit with lines accusing the Democrats of élitism and talking down to working-class voters.
Once Palin was chosen, Scully tailored the speech to the Alaska governor, highlighting her biography and using her PTA background and local political experience (contrasted so memorably with Obama's work as a community organizer) to bolster his two themes. Where much media attention in the wake of her surprise naming has focused on Palin's views on cultural issues like abortion, the speech carefully steered away from ideological touchstones. Palin was shown as an average mainstream American looking to bring change to Washington, further bolstering McCain's overarching message of reforming the wasteful Federal Government.
Scully was a good choice to help moderate Palin's right-wing image. A veteran of the early Bush White House, his specialty was crafting Bush's pro-life message in a way that would not offend soccer moms or mainstream Catholics who get nervous around some of the more extreme Evangelical rhetoric. A former protégé of the late pro-life Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, Bob Casey, Scully has a history of finding rhetorical unity for voters on the right and in the center.
The Palin-Scully pairing is anything but a guaranteed fit, though. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights. A vegetarian who is regularly critical of the NRA and much of the hunting community, he is a passionate advocate for doing away with the more brutal versions of blood-sport, including aerial hunting, which Palin supports.
Don't be surprised, though, if the combination continues. McCain wanted to pick a centrist Vice President not just because he liked candidates such as Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, but because he badly needs to close the gap in swing states like Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, where he trails Obama. But he had to pick a cultural conservative like Palin because he couldn't risk alienating an already demoralized base. If Palin was viewed as the most likely right winger to sell in the swing states, Scully is the right pick to help repackage her from a base pleaser into a bridge builder. (See photos of Sarah Palin here.)
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838808,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics
Thursday, Sep. 04, 2008
By MASSIMO CALABRESI / WASHINGTON
As Democrats and Barack Obama's campaign scrambled to attack Sarah Palin's well-received acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., on Wednesday night, they latched on early and hard to the fact that it was penned by former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully. But the story is more complicated than just the recycling of a Bush staffer into John McCain's fold, and it tells you more about how McCain's camp intends to use Palin than it does about the continuing influence of the current White House.
The clues are in the text itself. Scully started working on the vice-presidential speech a week ago, before he or anyone else knew who the nominee would be, and it's not hard to pick out the parts that would have been the same regardless of who delivered it. Scully unspooled two centrist themes via Palin that have been key to the McCain message: the idea that the Republican nominee puts service to country ahead of career and the notion that he's the true representative of Middle America. Both themes implicitly push Obama and Biden to the left, and Scully made them explicit with lines accusing the Democrats of élitism and talking down to working-class voters.
Once Palin was chosen, Scully tailored the speech to the Alaska governor, highlighting her biography and using her PTA background and local political experience (contrasted so memorably with Obama's work as a community organizer) to bolster his two themes. Where much media attention in the wake of her surprise naming has focused on Palin's views on cultural issues like abortion, the speech carefully steered away from ideological touchstones. Palin was shown as an average mainstream American looking to bring change to Washington, further bolstering McCain's overarching message of reforming the wasteful Federal Government.
Scully was a good choice to help moderate Palin's right-wing image. A veteran of the early Bush White House, his specialty was crafting Bush's pro-life message in a way that would not offend soccer moms or mainstream Catholics who get nervous around some of the more extreme Evangelical rhetoric. A former protégé of the late pro-life Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, Bob Casey, Scully has a history of finding rhetorical unity for voters on the right and in the center.
The Palin-Scully pairing is anything but a guaranteed fit, though. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights. A vegetarian who is regularly critical of the NRA and much of the hunting community, he is a passionate advocate for doing away with the more brutal versions of blood-sport, including aerial hunting, which Palin supports.
Don't be surprised, though, if the combination continues. McCain wanted to pick a centrist Vice President not just because he liked candidates such as Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, but because he badly needs to close the gap in swing states like Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, where he trails Obama. But he had to pick a cultural conservative like Palin because he couldn't risk alienating an already demoralized base. If Palin was viewed as the most likely right winger to sell in the swing states, Scully is the right pick to help repackage her from a base pleaser into a bridge builder. (See photos of Sarah Palin here.)
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838808,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics
Thursday, September 4, 2008
LETS GET THIS RIGHT!! MEDIA better PAY ATTENTION!
September 4, 2008
To set the record, I come from a family of ten children, and in a hospital bed, on my mother’s dying bed, unable to speak, she motioned for a paper and pen Her last wish was for all of us siblings to take care of our oldest sister, who is mentally retarded. I know what a special needs child does to the dynamic of a family. My mom voted for JFK.
When I travel outside of this country with my current passport, my third one issued, (one every TEN years) I am often asked why TWICE, TWICE, and this country and its IGNORANT, ANTI-INTELLECT people voted BUSH into office?
The McCain supporters are the majority of people that put BUSH into the White House for EIGHT YEARS! This intellect needs to be questioned.
Let us not forget the media took a beating for not asking enough or the right questions prior to the invasion of Iraq. I do not believe the media will be forgiven twice if they allow the same group of people that played the media to do it once again. They need to earn the forgiveness that the American people were so gracious to give and not only ASK the RIGHT questions in 2008, but get the ANSWERS to those questions prior to NOVEMEBER 2008!
OK! Now, let’s get a grip on the POW action!
This morning on C-Span, Michele Bachman, a state representative of Minnesota, was not aware of the fact that her newfound hero, Sarah Palin, collected $24 Million dollars of EARMARKS! She was informed of this fact by a call in AMERICAN HERO, a Korean Veteran from Iowa, who received a SILVER STAR. He informed her of this FACT of her newfound hero. He also commented on how the number of UNKNOWN POWS are not ‘bragging up’ their POW time and their service as John McCain does.
It is a fact that the education for the people in the United States of America has been on a FAST decline and still going, DOWN! How is it that the same party that voted Bush in twice will have nominated the man, John McCain, to lead their party, without any ability to use a computer? I have mentioned before, Osama Bin Laden knows how to use a computer. Asking that anti-intellect crowd if this is relevant might be too invasive? Is it sexist or maybe inflicting the AGE factor? How does this lead to the future as the Vice President nominee proclaimed he would do?
After last night’s DIV ISIVE speech, it was very clear that the McCain Party is not going to fool us with a UNITY ticket. For those of us that take advantage of the God Given gift of intelligence I could only hope that we will not go through EIGHT MORE YEARS OF THIS!
To set the record, I come from a family of ten children, and in a hospital bed, on my mother’s dying bed, unable to speak, she motioned for a paper and pen Her last wish was for all of us siblings to take care of our oldest sister, who is mentally retarded. I know what a special needs child does to the dynamic of a family. My mom voted for JFK.
When I travel outside of this country with my current passport, my third one issued, (one every TEN years) I am often asked why TWICE, TWICE, and this country and its IGNORANT, ANTI-INTELLECT people voted BUSH into office?
The McCain supporters are the majority of people that put BUSH into the White House for EIGHT YEARS! This intellect needs to be questioned.
Let us not forget the media took a beating for not asking enough or the right questions prior to the invasion of Iraq. I do not believe the media will be forgiven twice if they allow the same group of people that played the media to do it once again. They need to earn the forgiveness that the American people were so gracious to give and not only ASK the RIGHT questions in 2008, but get the ANSWERS to those questions prior to NOVEMEBER 2008!
OK! Now, let’s get a grip on the POW action!
This morning on C-Span, Michele Bachman, a state representative of Minnesota, was not aware of the fact that her newfound hero, Sarah Palin, collected $24 Million dollars of EARMARKS! She was informed of this fact by a call in AMERICAN HERO, a Korean Veteran from Iowa, who received a SILVER STAR. He informed her of this FACT of her newfound hero. He also commented on how the number of UNKNOWN POWS are not ‘bragging up’ their POW time and their service as John McCain does.
It is a fact that the education for the people in the United States of America has been on a FAST decline and still going, DOWN! How is it that the same party that voted Bush in twice will have nominated the man, John McCain, to lead their party, without any ability to use a computer? I have mentioned before, Osama Bin Laden knows how to use a computer. Asking that anti-intellect crowd if this is relevant might be too invasive? Is it sexist or maybe inflicting the AGE factor? How does this lead to the future as the Vice President nominee proclaimed he would do?
After last night’s DIV ISIVE speech, it was very clear that the McCain Party is not going to fool us with a UNITY ticket. For those of us that take advantage of the God Given gift of intelligence I could only hope that we will not go through EIGHT MORE YEARS OF THIS!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
McCain Can't Use 'a Google.' So What?
Just goes to show you HOW STUPID and IGNORANT the AMERICAN INTELLECT IS!
just another reason why the entire WORLD LAUGHS at our STUPIDITY!
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 4:34 PM
McCain Can't Use 'a Google.' So What? Andrew Romano
The liberal blogosphere's outrage du jour? John McCain's professed "computer illiteracy." "Did the GOP really pick one of the last few cavemen among us who has yet to learn how to use the internet or e-mail?" writes commenter Tony over at the Politico. "Pathetic," add DailyKos's BarbinMD. "How long should it take to 'learn' to get online? It's one point and a click."
I understand the temptation to sic some snark on the senator from Arizona. Compared to Barack Obama--a 46-year-old who's comfortable thumbing his BlackBerry every "seven seconds" and teleconferencing by Mac laptop with his young daughters--it's easy enough to paint McCain as a doddering old dinosaur by, say, trotting out the clip where he admits that he's "an illiterate [who] has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get." Or the one where he uses the nonexistent phrase "a Google" to describe an Internet search. Or his assurance during an interview yesterday with the New York Times that even though his aides "go on for [him]" right now, "[he's] learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon." That latest outburst has earned McCain a round of liberal scorn over the past 24 hours, with Politico commenter Veritas claiming "it shows he is stubborn, stuck in the past and slow to learn" and Democratic blogger Jed Lewison wondering what would happen if the famous 3:00 a.m. call arrived via email. Elsewhere, Jane Hamsher has written that "someone who is going to be expected to lead the country through the social, political, economic and communication upheavals that are happening as a result of the changes in computer and online technology very much needs to be able to use [a PC].” In other words, no email = incompetent president. Also, he's, like, old. LOL.
just another reason why the entire WORLD LAUGHS at our STUPIDITY!
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 4:34 PM
McCain Can't Use 'a Google.' So What? Andrew Romano
The liberal blogosphere's outrage du jour? John McCain's professed "computer illiteracy." "Did the GOP really pick one of the last few cavemen among us who has yet to learn how to use the internet or e-mail?" writes commenter Tony over at the Politico. "Pathetic," add DailyKos's BarbinMD. "How long should it take to 'learn' to get online? It's one point and a click."
I understand the temptation to sic some snark on the senator from Arizona. Compared to Barack Obama--a 46-year-old who's comfortable thumbing his BlackBerry every "seven seconds" and teleconferencing by Mac laptop with his young daughters--it's easy enough to paint McCain as a doddering old dinosaur by, say, trotting out the clip where he admits that he's "an illiterate [who] has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get." Or the one where he uses the nonexistent phrase "a Google" to describe an Internet search. Or his assurance during an interview yesterday with the New York Times that even though his aides "go on for [him]" right now, "[he's] learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon." That latest outburst has earned McCain a round of liberal scorn over the past 24 hours, with Politico commenter Veritas claiming "it shows he is stubborn, stuck in the past and slow to learn" and Democratic blogger Jed Lewison wondering what would happen if the famous 3:00 a.m. call arrived via email. Elsewhere, Jane Hamsher has written that "someone who is going to be expected to lead the country through the social, political, economic and communication upheavals that are happening as a result of the changes in computer and online technology very much needs to be able to use [a PC].” In other words, no email = incompetent president. Also, he's, like, old. LOL.
CNN likes to brag on their coverage.....really?
John McCain Doesn't Know How to Use a Computer (Video)This video appears to be from at least six weeks ago, but no one has really commented on it. Do we want a commander-in-chief who can't use a computer without assistance?
Washington is full of these guys, and it's so depressing. Larry Craig once said "I've never used the internet" (though we know he was lying). Ted Stevens thinks the internet is a series of tubes. Bush uses "the Google." I can't wait until we have a computer-literate generation of leaders in our Capitol.
McCain Computer Illiterate Opinion and Commentaries
The Atlantic: The Information Age (June 24, 2008)
The Caucus (The New York Times): McCain and the Internets (June 24, 2008)
David Corn: Can a Guy (McCain) Who Doesn't Know How To Use a Computer... (June 24, 2008)
Online Media Daily: McCain Camp Downplays E-Factor In Face Of Obama's... (June 24, 2008)
BuzzFlash.org: If you are running for president, you should have a clue.. (June 17, 2008)
The New York Sun: McCain and the Computer (June 17, 2008)
McCain Computer Illiterate Blogs
Google Blog Search: McCain Computer Illiterate
NewsBusters: CNN: Computer Illiterate McCain Too Stupid to be President (June 26, 2008)
The Gun Toting Liberal: Sheriff John McCain Doesn’t Understand “The Internets” (June 25, 2008)
The Talent Show: A Series of Tubes (June 24, 2008)
It's Not Me, It's You: Sad or Hilarious? You Be the Judge ... (June 24, 2008)
Crooks and Liars: “Aware of the Internet,” Computer Non-User McCain Touts... (June 24, 2008)
Gizmodo: Mac vs. PC: The Republicans (February 4, 2008)
Related Searches
John McCain | Computers
Washington is full of these guys, and it's so depressing. Larry Craig once said "I've never used the internet" (though we know he was lying). Ted Stevens thinks the internet is a series of tubes. Bush uses "the Google." I can't wait until we have a computer-literate generation of leaders in our Capitol.
McCain Computer Illiterate Opinion and Commentaries
The Atlantic: The Information Age (June 24, 2008)
The Caucus (The New York Times): McCain and the Internets (June 24, 2008)
David Corn: Can a Guy (McCain) Who Doesn't Know How To Use a Computer... (June 24, 2008)
Online Media Daily: McCain Camp Downplays E-Factor In Face Of Obama's... (June 24, 2008)
BuzzFlash.org: If you are running for president, you should have a clue.. (June 17, 2008)
The New York Sun: McCain and the Computer (June 17, 2008)
McCain Computer Illiterate Blogs
Google Blog Search: McCain Computer Illiterate
NewsBusters: CNN: Computer Illiterate McCain Too Stupid to be President (June 26, 2008)
The Gun Toting Liberal: Sheriff John McCain Doesn’t Understand “The Internets” (June 25, 2008)
The Talent Show: A Series of Tubes (June 24, 2008)
It's Not Me, It's You: Sad or Hilarious? You Be the Judge ... (June 24, 2008)
Crooks and Liars: “Aware of the Internet,” Computer Non-User McCain Touts... (June 24, 2008)
Gizmodo: Mac vs. PC: The Republicans (February 4, 2008)
Related Searches
John McCain | Computers
WHAT A MOTHER! Sarah Palin.....GO GO GO !!
let';s really look at this MOTHER!
HELP ALASKA!
YES, ALASKA is what we are all concerned with!
After all, their REVENUE sharing is only shared with ALSAKANS, not the COUNTRY!
ALL women that delivered a baby and went back to work THREE DAYS LATER, PLEASE STAND UP NOW!
Notice, the woman 'mother' did nto come on stage with the baby in arms , did she?
Nor did her ESKIMO husband......
The daughter held that FOUR MONTH OLD baby during that entire campaign stump with TEN THOUSAND people clapping their loudest and not ear plugs for the baby!
WHAT A MOTHER!
Palin Comparison: Not Enough "Northern Exposure" in the Press?
Interviewed by a reporter from Alaska, Sarah Palin could not testify to her national security experience. And Cindy McCain says it amounts to Alaska being close to Russia.
By Greg Mtichell
(August 31, 2008) -- It has come to this.
When a Fox News morning host, Steve Doocy, testified to Sarah Palin's national security experience on Friday by saying that her state, Alaska, was so close to Russia, it drew hoots across the media and blogosphere (and even, no doubt, from a few Fox viewers).
This morning, on ABC in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Cindy McCain, wife of the GOP standard bearer who had just picked Palin as his running mate, endorsed this very view.
Asked about Palin's national security experience, Cindy McCain could not come up with anything beyond the fact that, after all, her state is right next to Russia. "Remember that Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia," she declared. She added that Palin has "way more experience than...." but Stephanopoulos cut her off before she could say, for example, "Barack Obama" or maybe "others give her credit for."
Earlier, she said that Palin was "heavily experienced" in general, citing her going from the PTA to mayor to governor -- and having a son headed for Iraq. She actually said that she started her political career at the PTA "like everybody else."
Meanwhile, Palin's mother-in-law, Faye Palin, told a New York Daily News reporter that she didn't agree with Sarah on everything and hadn't yet decided how she would vote. She added: "I'm not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she's a woman and a conservative. Well, she's a better speaker than McCain," Faye Palin said with a laugh.
But this actually isn't as appalling as a phone interview Palin herself gave yesterday to reporter back home, at the Anchorage Daily News. (E&P has been covering for three days now reports from the Alaska press.)
The reporter, Kyle Hopkins, asked, according to the transcript posted today, "Are you ready to be President Palin if necessary?"
"I am ... I am up to the task, of course, of focusing on the challenges that face America," she answered, and that was all she could say on her behalf on this question. Then she abruptly shifted to how her candidacy would help Alaska. "And I am very pleased with the situation that I am in, when, when you consider the situation now that Alaska will be in.
"And that is Alaska, and Alaskans will be allowed to contribute more to our great country and they'll be allowed to do that because I -- if we're elected -- will be in a position of opening the eyes of the country to what it is that Alaska is all about and what Alaska has to offer. So, I am happy to and very honored to be asked to do this. I know it's going to be great for Alaska."
Who said the woman was against earmarks?
The early returns are not good, with most in the media still stepping lightly around the issue of John McCain's hypocrisy in asserting, for months, that Barack Obama is "dangerously" inexperienced in facing international threats -- and then appointing Sarah Palin as his running mate. If you don't believe it, just keep reading the Alaska newspapers.
Or, take conservative ultra-hawk columnist Charles Krauthammer's word for it, in his blog posting at The Washington Post: "The Palin selection completely undercuts the argument about Obama's inexperience and readiness to lead -- on the theory that because Palin is a maverick and a corruption fighter, she bolsters McCain's claim to be the reformer in this campaign. In her rollout today, Palin spoke a lot about change. McCain is now trying to steal "change" from Obama, a contest McCain will lose in an overwhelmingly Democratic year with an overwhelmingly unpopular incumbent Republican administration. At the same time, he's weakening his strong suit -- readiness vs. unreadiness.
"The McCain campaign is reveling in the fact that Palin is a game changer. But why a game changer when you’ve been gaining? To gratuitously undercut the remarkably successful 'Is he ready to lead' line of attack seems near suicidal."
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Greg Mtichell (gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com) is editor. His ninth book, on Iraq and the media, is titled "So Wrong for So Long."
HELP ALASKA!
YES, ALASKA is what we are all concerned with!
After all, their REVENUE sharing is only shared with ALSAKANS, not the COUNTRY!
ALL women that delivered a baby and went back to work THREE DAYS LATER, PLEASE STAND UP NOW!
Notice, the woman 'mother' did nto come on stage with the baby in arms , did she?
Nor did her ESKIMO husband......
The daughter held that FOUR MONTH OLD baby during that entire campaign stump with TEN THOUSAND people clapping their loudest and not ear plugs for the baby!
WHAT A MOTHER!
Palin Comparison: Not Enough "Northern Exposure" in the Press?
Interviewed by a reporter from Alaska, Sarah Palin could not testify to her national security experience. And Cindy McCain says it amounts to Alaska being close to Russia.
By Greg Mtichell
(August 31, 2008) -- It has come to this.
When a Fox News morning host, Steve Doocy, testified to Sarah Palin's national security experience on Friday by saying that her state, Alaska, was so close to Russia, it drew hoots across the media and blogosphere (and even, no doubt, from a few Fox viewers).
This morning, on ABC in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Cindy McCain, wife of the GOP standard bearer who had just picked Palin as his running mate, endorsed this very view.
Asked about Palin's national security experience, Cindy McCain could not come up with anything beyond the fact that, after all, her state is right next to Russia. "Remember that Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia," she declared. She added that Palin has "way more experience than...." but Stephanopoulos cut her off before she could say, for example, "Barack Obama" or maybe "others give her credit for."
Earlier, she said that Palin was "heavily experienced" in general, citing her going from the PTA to mayor to governor -- and having a son headed for Iraq. She actually said that she started her political career at the PTA "like everybody else."
Meanwhile, Palin's mother-in-law, Faye Palin, told a New York Daily News reporter that she didn't agree with Sarah on everything and hadn't yet decided how she would vote. She added: "I'm not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she's a woman and a conservative. Well, she's a better speaker than McCain," Faye Palin said with a laugh.
But this actually isn't as appalling as a phone interview Palin herself gave yesterday to reporter back home, at the Anchorage Daily News. (E&P has been covering for three days now reports from the Alaska press.)
The reporter, Kyle Hopkins, asked, according to the transcript posted today, "Are you ready to be President Palin if necessary?"
"I am ... I am up to the task, of course, of focusing on the challenges that face America," she answered, and that was all she could say on her behalf on this question. Then she abruptly shifted to how her candidacy would help Alaska. "And I am very pleased with the situation that I am in, when, when you consider the situation now that Alaska will be in.
"And that is Alaska, and Alaskans will be allowed to contribute more to our great country and they'll be allowed to do that because I -- if we're elected -- will be in a position of opening the eyes of the country to what it is that Alaska is all about and what Alaska has to offer. So, I am happy to and very honored to be asked to do this. I know it's going to be great for Alaska."
Who said the woman was against earmarks?
The early returns are not good, with most in the media still stepping lightly around the issue of John McCain's hypocrisy in asserting, for months, that Barack Obama is "dangerously" inexperienced in facing international threats -- and then appointing Sarah Palin as his running mate. If you don't believe it, just keep reading the Alaska newspapers.
Or, take conservative ultra-hawk columnist Charles Krauthammer's word for it, in his blog posting at The Washington Post: "The Palin selection completely undercuts the argument about Obama's inexperience and readiness to lead -- on the theory that because Palin is a maverick and a corruption fighter, she bolsters McCain's claim to be the reformer in this campaign. In her rollout today, Palin spoke a lot about change. McCain is now trying to steal "change" from Obama, a contest McCain will lose in an overwhelmingly Democratic year with an overwhelmingly unpopular incumbent Republican administration. At the same time, he's weakening his strong suit -- readiness vs. unreadiness.
"The McCain campaign is reveling in the fact that Palin is a game changer. But why a game changer when you’ve been gaining? To gratuitously undercut the remarkably successful 'Is he ready to lead' line of attack seems near suicidal."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Greg Mtichell (gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com) is editor. His ninth book, on Iraq and the media, is titled "So Wrong for So Long."
Thursday, August 28, 2008
NO COMPUTER? BIN LADEN HAS A COMPUTER!!!
The Republican Party and their electorate overlooked GW Bush’s lack of knowledge on most everything for EIGHT YEARS!
I am appalled at the fact that any party in this country’s government would even allow a contender for President to the most powerful country in the World with ABSOLUTELY NO KNOWLEDGE to use a computer. This just amazing to me!
The fact that the American people would even consider voting for someone that does not know how to use a computer is embarrassing as an American. Osaama Bin Laden knows how to use a computer! Are we that ignorant to elect what is supposed to be our leader?
According to Webster, Leadership is:
Capacity or ability to lead
I do believe that Senator Obama will do, as most great CEO’s have done; hire the BEST people to surround him to make the best decisions to move our country forward into the 21st Millennium.
I was aware of Barack in Illinois, as one of my Senators but was really moved by his speech at the 2004 Convention. I was speaking to my girlfriend in California and expressed my regret that she missed it. (She is from Chicago also) She mentioned she had Time Warner and could replay it. I asked her to tape it for me and I have it in my possession today.
The decision to ask Joe Biden, to be his Vice President, quite capable of being President should something tragic should happen while in office, displays his judgments and ability to make the tough decisions. The fact that pre September 11, 2001 it was not more than 10% or the American People that held passports. We will be led by the best teacher moving forward to EDUCATE the AMERICAN people transitioning to a
GLOBALWORLD is very reassuring as a world traveler myself.
I am appalled at the fact that any party in this country’s government would even allow a contender for President to the most powerful country in the World with ABSOLUTELY NO KNOWLEDGE to use a computer. This just amazing to me!
The fact that the American people would even consider voting for someone that does not know how to use a computer is embarrassing as an American. Osaama Bin Laden knows how to use a computer! Are we that ignorant to elect what is supposed to be our leader?
According to Webster, Leadership is:
Capacity or ability to lead
I do believe that Senator Obama will do, as most great CEO’s have done; hire the BEST people to surround him to make the best decisions to move our country forward into the 21st Millennium.
I was aware of Barack in Illinois, as one of my Senators but was really moved by his speech at the 2004 Convention. I was speaking to my girlfriend in California and expressed my regret that she missed it. (She is from Chicago also) She mentioned she had Time Warner and could replay it. I asked her to tape it for me and I have it in my possession today.
The decision to ask Joe Biden, to be his Vice President, quite capable of being President should something tragic should happen while in office, displays his judgments and ability to make the tough decisions. The fact that pre September 11, 2001 it was not more than 10% or the American People that held passports. We will be led by the best teacher moving forward to EDUCATE the AMERICAN people transitioning to a
GLOBALWORLD is very reassuring as a world traveler myself.
National Security is not important to the American Mainstream Media
Chuck Todd from MSNBC warned his colleagues that they would be sorry they missed so much of the DNC Convention while lamenting over the CLINTONS for the first three days of the Convention. The media missed so much and I am very angry you decided to take this programming strategy and MIS-INFORM the AMERICAN PEOPLE, ONCE AGAIN!
I guess it wasn’t enough “RED MEAT” for the media. But let us not forget, the fourth arm of the People’s GOVERNMENT, the Media, and how well they did informing the AMERICAN PEOPLE prior to being MIS LEAD by CHENEY/BUSH into Iraq!
YES! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
I have my critique of the mainstream media but am more concerned of the continuous EXPLOITATION of the ignorance of Americans and allowing the Bush administration to bring this country to its lowest levels across the board. Domestic and Foreign!
Apparently, the National Security is not important to the American Mainstream Media and it’s responsibility to inform Americans of THE REAL ISSUES!
Wow! Amazing! The only MEDIA outlet that showed the CHAIRMAN of the Foreign Intelligence Committee Speech was C-SPAN.
After all, while banks were robbing the American treasury and its people, we were all exposed to the talking heads, misrepresenting themselves as reporters but bringing in the cash while focusing on Paris & Brittany.
As a matter of fact, the American Mainstream media has continuously exploited the ignorance of the American people and the fact that the education of its people has been fast eroding.
The mainstream media continues to bash government yet they are right there playing the same old game and not INFORMING the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Now, NBC has refused to allow the T-Bone Pickens advertisement to be aired.
I guess it wasn’t enough “RED MEAT” for the media. But let us not forget, the fourth arm of the People’s GOVERNMENT, the Media, and how well they did informing the AMERICAN PEOPLE prior to being MIS LEAD by CHENEY/BUSH into Iraq!
YES! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
I have my critique of the mainstream media but am more concerned of the continuous EXPLOITATION of the ignorance of Americans and allowing the Bush administration to bring this country to its lowest levels across the board. Domestic and Foreign!
Apparently, the National Security is not important to the American Mainstream Media and it’s responsibility to inform Americans of THE REAL ISSUES!
Wow! Amazing! The only MEDIA outlet that showed the CHAIRMAN of the Foreign Intelligence Committee Speech was C-SPAN.
After all, while banks were robbing the American treasury and its people, we were all exposed to the talking heads, misrepresenting themselves as reporters but bringing in the cash while focusing on Paris & Brittany.
As a matter of fact, the American Mainstream media has continuously exploited the ignorance of the American people and the fact that the education of its people has been fast eroding.
The mainstream media continues to bash government yet they are right there playing the same old game and not INFORMING the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Now, NBC has refused to allow the T-Bone Pickens advertisement to be aired.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
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.
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.
Comments to LOU DOBBS @ CNN
8-23-08
Isn't this interesting....
Oh and by the way, your concern for the EFFORTS in Iraq is REALLY, REALLY, about casualties...ARE YOU KIDDING?
Where in the hell were you when DEAD SOLDIERS, that we cannot view draped in the PROUD AMERICAN FLAG coming home to their final resting place, were receiving $6 000.00 Death Benefit. It was Don Imus, yes, DON IMUS, embarrassed you, (while promoting one of your books) , John Mc Cain , Rick Santorum and all the rest of you PHONIES! You only put up the FALLEN HEROES SITE on your CNN website to SHOW YOU CARE about the CASUALTIES in IRAQ! YOU PHONY!
It was DON IMUS, yes, DON IMUS that PUSHED the LEGISLATION to be CHANGED? And it was CHUCK HAGEL that would not accept the $12, 500.00
WHERE WERE YOU?
Another WHERE WERE YOU?
When the ROIBBERY the Fraudulent Financial institutes in this country that you are suppose to be the GURU.... ECONOMICS.... you LIAR!
Funny, troops MIGHT be out by 2011 but we won’t know until NOVEMBER, after the election, if this is agreeable!
Now, we attack PAKISTAN! WOW... PHONY! EDUCATE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS,, HOW YOU RPRESIDENT, I NEVER would have voted for such an IDIOT,, is playing POLITICS!! SPIN ON THIS LIAR! HELP YOURSELF!
Isn't this interesting....
Oh and by the way, your concern for the EFFORTS in Iraq is REALLY, REALLY, about casualties...ARE YOU KIDDING?
Where in the hell were you when DEAD SOLDIERS, that we cannot view draped in the PROUD AMERICAN FLAG coming home to their final resting place, were receiving $6 000.00 Death Benefit. It was Don Imus, yes, DON IMUS, embarrassed you, (while promoting one of your books) , John Mc Cain , Rick Santorum and all the rest of you PHONIES! You only put up the FALLEN HEROES SITE on your CNN website to SHOW YOU CARE about the CASUALTIES in IRAQ! YOU PHONY!
It was DON IMUS, yes, DON IMUS that PUSHED the LEGISLATION to be CHANGED? And it was CHUCK HAGEL that would not accept the $12, 500.00
WHERE WERE YOU?
Another WHERE WERE YOU?
When the ROIBBERY the Fraudulent Financial institutes in this country that you are suppose to be the GURU.... ECONOMICS.... you LIAR!
Funny, troops MIGHT be out by 2011 but we won’t know until NOVEMBER, after the election, if this is agreeable!
Now, we attack PAKISTAN! WOW... PHONY! EDUCATE THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS,, HOW YOU RPRESIDENT, I NEVER would have voted for such an IDIOT,, is playing POLITICS!! SPIN ON THIS LIAR! HELP YOURSELF!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Leter to American Media: :
All of you in the US MEDIA are guilty of continuing the ignorance of Americans and their knowledge or lack of what and how things really work.
Apparently, you must have profited off of the Karl Rove style politics that have caused the IGNORANCE and LACKOF REAL TRUTHFUL KNOWLEDGE!
You all should be ashamed of yourselves. While you headline news about the BESTSELLER list of NYTIMES but most of the media failed to mention the fact that the denotation after the title notes "BULK" sales, and then fails to explain HOW ‘BULK’ sales works. NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
Funny, the REPUBLICANS are so quick to jump on the NY Times and almost always will denounce the NYT's for all other truths that they do write about.
No wonder the 4th arm of the GOVERNMENT is failing. Just look at the MEDIA BLITZ with this Russian-Georgia conflict. I think that reporters outside this country will reveal how wrong America was to jump to their conclusions. Funny, Karl Rove was at a meeting with the President of Georgia and Tony Blair. Karl Rove can have a meeting with these two but still is in contempt of U S Congress refusing to testify.
Now why have you not EDUCATED and INFORM the American People of the EXPERIENCE of Dr. Rice has FAILED! And funny, Georgian Lobbyist is McCain's Foreign Policy Advisor...smell a rat?
LETTER TO DOBBS:
You apparently are too concerned about your 3-hour RADIO show and not INFORMING yourself on FACTS...Just MOUTHING OFF as usual.
You insistently kept asking where Europe was during this conflict with Russia & Georgia...YOU IDIOT!
Who is the President of the EU? You are so ignorant and it is really a wonder why CNN can't get rid of you...Once again, you , MR ECONOMY, where were you in the FINANCIAL FRAUD in this country?
All of you in the US MEDIA are guilty of continuing the ignorance of Americans and their knowledge or lack of what and how things really work.
Apparently, you must have profited off of the Karl Rove style politics that have caused the IGNORANCE and LACKOF REAL TRUTHFUL KNOWLEDGE!
You should be ashamed of yourself. While you headline news about the BESTSELLER list of NYTIMES but most of the media failed to mention the fact that the denotation after the title notes "BULK" sales, and then fails to explain HOW ‘BULK’ sales works. NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
Funny, the REPUBLICANS and you, so-called, MR INDEPENDENT are so quick to jump on the NY Times and almost always will denounce the NYT's for all other truths that they do write about.
No wonder the 4th arm of the GOVERNMENT is failing. Just look at the MEDIA BLITZ with this Russian-Georgia conflict. I think that reporters outside this country will reveal how wrong America was to jump to their conclusions.
Funny, Karl Rove was at a meeting with the President of Georgia and Tony Blair. Karl Rove can have a meeting with these two but still is in contempt of U S Congress refusing to testify.
Now why have you not EDUCATED and INFORM the American People of the EXPERIENCE of Dr. Rice has FAILED! And funny, Georgian Lobbyist is McCain's Foreign Policy Advisor...smell a rat?
Apparently, you must have profited off of the Karl Rove style politics that have caused the IGNORANCE and LACKOF REAL TRUTHFUL KNOWLEDGE!
You all should be ashamed of yourselves. While you headline news about the BESTSELLER list of NYTIMES but most of the media failed to mention the fact that the denotation after the title notes "BULK" sales, and then fails to explain HOW ‘BULK’ sales works. NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
Funny, the REPUBLICANS are so quick to jump on the NY Times and almost always will denounce the NYT's for all other truths that they do write about.
No wonder the 4th arm of the GOVERNMENT is failing. Just look at the MEDIA BLITZ with this Russian-Georgia conflict. I think that reporters outside this country will reveal how wrong America was to jump to their conclusions. Funny, Karl Rove was at a meeting with the President of Georgia and Tony Blair. Karl Rove can have a meeting with these two but still is in contempt of U S Congress refusing to testify.
Now why have you not EDUCATED and INFORM the American People of the EXPERIENCE of Dr. Rice has FAILED! And funny, Georgian Lobbyist is McCain's Foreign Policy Advisor...smell a rat?
LETTER TO DOBBS:
You apparently are too concerned about your 3-hour RADIO show and not INFORMING yourself on FACTS...Just MOUTHING OFF as usual.
You insistently kept asking where Europe was during this conflict with Russia & Georgia...YOU IDIOT!
Who is the President of the EU? You are so ignorant and it is really a wonder why CNN can't get rid of you...Once again, you , MR ECONOMY, where were you in the FINANCIAL FRAUD in this country?
All of you in the US MEDIA are guilty of continuing the ignorance of Americans and their knowledge or lack of what and how things really work.
Apparently, you must have profited off of the Karl Rove style politics that have caused the IGNORANCE and LACKOF REAL TRUTHFUL KNOWLEDGE!
You should be ashamed of yourself. While you headline news about the BESTSELLER list of NYTIMES but most of the media failed to mention the fact that the denotation after the title notes "BULK" sales, and then fails to explain HOW ‘BULK’ sales works. NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
Funny, the REPUBLICANS and you, so-called, MR INDEPENDENT are so quick to jump on the NY Times and almost always will denounce the NYT's for all other truths that they do write about.
No wonder the 4th arm of the GOVERNMENT is failing. Just look at the MEDIA BLITZ with this Russian-Georgia conflict. I think that reporters outside this country will reveal how wrong America was to jump to their conclusions.
Funny, Karl Rove was at a meeting with the President of Georgia and Tony Blair. Karl Rove can have a meeting with these two but still is in contempt of U S Congress refusing to testify.
Now why have you not EDUCATED and INFORM the American People of the EXPERIENCE of Dr. Rice has FAILED! And funny, Georgian Lobbyist is McCain's Foreign Policy Advisor...smell a rat?
McCain on the StumpSpeech Deceiving Vets.....
August15, 2008
Susan Golden
Earlier this week, 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.
Susan Golden
Earlier this week, 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.
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