McCain To America..."Democrats want to surrender"

John McCain lies!

At a town hall in New Hampshire, McCain stated, "Democrats want to surrender"

Point in fact, Democrats want to end the war that is causing millions of civilian deaths, the deaths of the thousands of US soldiers and billions of dollars.

"The war has divided us" -John McCain

No, the war has not divided us. George W. Bush has divide us. Senator McCain continues to support the war and George W. Bush's far flung policies.

"Your either with us, or your against us" -George W. Bush

McCain employs many people who were Bush's advisers in the past. If this isn't enough proof that John McCain will continue Bush's policies, I don't know what is.



McCain and his lies

Tom Tancredo's Scare Tactics

Rudy Guiliani is not the only one that can run on the politics of fear. Colorado Congressman and Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo has released a new ad trying to scare people in to voting for him.

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All Eyes on Hillary..A Look Back In Time

The 2008 Presidential Election and the candadicy of Hillary Clinton caused me to look back on another election, that of 1992. I started to go back through old Time Magazine issues and found the article All Eyes on Hillary in September 1992.

ALL EYES ON HILLARY

The G.O.P. hopes to gain votes by attacking her as a radical feminist who prefers the boardroom to the kitchen. But the ploy could backfire by alienating working women.

You might think Hillary Clinton was running for President. Granted, she is a remarkable woman. The first student commencement speaker at Wellesley, part of the first large wave of women to go to law school, a prominent partner in a major law firm, rated one of the top 100 lawyers in the country -- there is no doubt that she is her husband's professional and intellectual equal. But is this reason to turn her into ``Willary Horton'' for the '92 campaign, making her an emblem of all that is wrong with family values, working mothers and modern women in general?

The Republicans clearly think so. Hillary has been such a constant target of G.O.P. campaign barbs that Bill Clinton recently wondered aloud whether ``George Bush was running for First Lady.'' In making her a focus of their attack strategy, the Republicans seem to have calculated that they can shave votes off Governor Clinton's total by portraying his wife as a radical feminist who prefers the boardroom to the kitchen. And they may be right. In the latest TIME/CNN poll, 74% of the respondents said their votes would not be affected by their views of Hillary; but among the remainder, almost twice as many said they would vote against Clinton (14%) as for him (9%) based on their opinion of his wife. If the Hillary factor can mean the difference of a couple of percentage points, it could provide a critical margin in a close election.

The foundations of the anti-Hillary campaign were carefully poured and were part of a larger effort to solidify Bush's conservative base. Republicans dug up -- and seriously distorted -- some of her old academic articles on children's rights. Rich Bond, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, caricatured Hillary as a lawsuit-mongering feminist who likened marriage to slavery and encouraged children to sue their parents. (She did no such thing.) Richard Nixon warned that her forceful intelligence was likely to make her husband ``look like a wimp.'' Patrick Buchanan blasted ``Clinton & Clinton'' for what he claimed was their agenda of abortion on demand, homosexual rights and putting women in combat.

Rarely has the spouse of a presidential candidate been so closely scrutinized and criticized by the political opposition. To a large extent, the controversy swirling around Hillary Clinton today reflects a profound ambivalence toward the changing role of women in American society over the past few decades. Hillary, who personifies many of the advances made by a cutting-edge generation of women, finds herself held up against what is probably the most tradition-bound and antiquated model of American womanhood: the institution of the First Lady.

The President's wife, as Eleanor Roosevelt once wrote, was to be seen and not heard, a discreet adornment to her husband's glory. Never mind that Mrs. Roosevelt broke most of her own rules with her high-profile tours and a vocal interest in civil rights. Most of those who followed in her footsteps remained true to the traditional backseat role, and those who ventured too close to the policymaking arena -- Rosalynn Carter sitting at the Cabinet table, for instance -- were harshly criticized. And there are some sound reasons for concern. The President's spouse is potentially the second most powerful person in government but is beyond accountability. Yet for reasons that are both social and generational, Barbara Bush will almost certainly be the last of the traditional First Ladies. Whoever follows her is likely to shatter the mold -- particularly if it is a woman with the professional achievements, the career ambitions and the activist bent of Hillary Clinton.

Still, Mrs. Clinton would have done well at the outset to have conformed more to the traditional campaign rules for aspiring First Ladies: gaze like Nancy Reagan, soothe like Barbara Bush and look like Jacqueline Kennedy. By not doing that, to some extent, Hillary played into the hands of her critics. At first she seemed insufficiently aware that she was not the candidate herself. Instead of standing by like a potted palm, she enjoyed talking at length about problems and policies. At one coffee in a living room in Manchester, New Hampshire, people were chatting amiably about the cost of groceries when she abruptly launched into a treatise on infant mortality. She sometimes took longer to introduce her husband than he did to deliver his speech. She, and he, should have known that quips like ``People call us two-for-one'' would arouse the traditionalists.

MoveOn's New Anti-War Ad Uninspiring

I just received an email from MoveOn, which I am a member of, with news of a new anti-war ad. After watching it, I nearly fell asleep. Take a look for yourself:



I was also disheartened by the print ad attacking General David Petraeus with the tagline, "Will General Petraeus, be General Betray Us?"


Petraeus Ad 9/2007 (Note: This is a Pdf file and requires Adobe Acrobat)

Are MoveOn's ads effective? Discuss...

Pictures from Portland Obama Fundrasier

Here are some pictures I took from up front at the Obama event Friday night. Enjoy!


People waiting in line to get into the event

Me braving the crowd up front to get up close and personal with Obama

Obama speaking to supporters in Portland Oregon with General Tony McPeak in the background

Obama greeting supporers in Portland

Hillary is business as usual, accepting campaign contributions from a fraudster Hsu

More is coming out about Hsu/Clinton fundraising scandal. According to the LA Times, Hsu has delivered bundles of checks to Clinton's campaign from investors he does business with. Although Clinton has returned some of the money, she has not returned those bundles of donations delivered by Hsu.

Hsu is wanted on a benchwarrent from the early 1990's in California for a fraud. He is now in a hospital and will be sent back to California to face up to the charges brought against him.

We know Hillary Clinton has the potential to bring in millions of dollars from rich donors willing to give the maximum amount allowed. This begs some obvious questions:

1) The question is, why is her campaign accepting money from people who are (at best) of a questionable nature?

2) Why Clinton feels the need to cozy up to corporate interests to fund her campaign?

3) How does her accepting large donations from corporations differ her from Republicans?

I have to seriously wonder how the Clinton campaign made such a large error in judgement accepting these donations from Hsu.

[Yes, I am aware that Obama accepted $2,000 from Hsu as well, but promptly returned it. To my knowledge he did not received "bundled" donations from Hsu as Clinton did.]

Discuss....

Obama on International Relations

One of the reasons I am supporting Obama is his stance on how we will bring other countries to the table, versus Bush's wars and the coalition of the willing. Obama quotes President Kennedy, "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

There are so many situations currently where that attitude would get us further, then declaring war and invading a country. While we are making headway with North Korea, I am still very nervous that things may flare up again (for those who are reading that are not aware, I lived in South Korea for three and a half years and am married to a Korean). I also think there needs to be progress made in terms of human rights violations within North Korea, as they are notorious for how poorly they treat their citizens.

At the same time, we as a nation need to start leading by example. Since the war on terrorism has begun, our military has been marred by the Abu Ghraib scandal as well as secret prisons overseas where torture has been conducted. The sad thing is that it isn't the first nor the last time the US has been involved in torture. Our country has a long history of torture and abuse.

While other presidential candidates and their supporters like to point out Obama's lack of experience (which is a weak argument in itself), he makes up for it in the fact that he surrounds himself with people who have the knowledge in the areas he lacks it. Obama has been a community organizer, a professor of constitutional law, Illinois state senator and US Senator.

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Obama Rally Packed

Obama was great, he is the real thing folks! I just got back from the event and I swear there were about 5,000 people there (although I didn't count). I was upfront and got lots of pictures too and shook Baracks hand.

The Korean media was there and I was interviewed by them (I just got back from being over there for 3 1/2 years) about why I support Obama.

Anyway, he really inspired myself and others that we CAN make a difference.

Mr. Barnhart (the lucky dog he is) got to talk to him for five minutes at a VIP event.

When I get a chance I'm going to post some pictures.

David

Why vote your conscience when you have a party to tell you who to vote for?

Over at Blue Oregon I was dumbfound by the HC fanclub and their attack dogs assertion that I should vote for her even despite my reservations about her candidacy. After all, President John Kerry did so well in 2004. Wait a second...whoops...Bush won the election.

This was a response to a post about Hillary Clinton organizing in Oregon, in which I replied that 1) I would never vote for her; 2) That I feel Hillary Clinton would not win Oregon due to the lack of swing votes she'd have to get.

This is the same Hillary Clinton that voted FOR the war and refuses to apologize. HC herself said that if people can't deal with that to vote for someone else. The same HC that cozied up to Rupert "Fox Neocon" Murdoch and took money from him. The same HC that takes large donations from special interest. The same HC that has taken large amounts of cashfrom questionable sources (see articles Large donations made by family with ties to Hsu and Hillary donates $23,000 she got from fugitive and Media Matters corrects MSM, donations funneled through the Paw family were kept by HC's campaign)

Yet the HC fanclub says I should vote for the presumptive nominee, the same one being crowned by the MSM and special interest she's getting money from. They have no problem throwing around words like, "arrogant" and "immature". They also have the gal to assume I'd vote for a Republican, which they are deadwrong about.

I'd say in terms of arrorgance and insult, the HC fanclub wins on both accounts.

Weekend Political Roundup September 2nd

Texas Congressman and 10th tier Presidential Candidate Duncan Hunter won the Texas straw poll today garnering 41% of the vote out of 1300 people. *YAWN*

Senator Mark Warner of Virgina won't seek a sixth term leaving his seat open for a challenge for Democrats. Hillary Clinton called Warner, “friend and colleague” and then asked if he was busy later seeing as though Bill had other plans.

The "snow job" is over, White House Press Secretary and former Fox News anchor Tony Snow is leaving September 14th. Snow's departure along with Snoop Rove and others marks a mass exodus of personal leaving the White House.

Everyone's favorite gay senator is stepping down, Senator Craig of Idaho announced he's resigning effective September 30th. Craig, who was busted for soliciting sex in a bathroom in Minnesota and then plead guilty to a misdemeanor. He has denied being gay. He was later seen at a matinee showing of I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry.

"Stack `em, pack `em, and rack `em." He was the tough Air Traffic Controller supervisor in Die Hard 2 and this September coming to a theater near you...Fred Thompson, presidential candidate. Yes, that Law and Order guy is running for President. Maybe Bruce Willis and Arnold will head his campaign committee. The guy has barely begun his campaign but I'm already getting sick of him. Can someone shut him up? He's giving me a ******* headache.

Republicans Presidential Candidates Will Drop Like Flies Today

Since today is the day that the Iowa straw poll happens, I predict some of the pretenders will drop out of the race after poor showing. The Washington Post reported that Tommy Thompson will drop out of the race if he doesn't finish first or second, which seems unlikely.

The results of the straw poll will be announced at 5pm Pacific time Saturday.

My bet is that Ron Paul, who seems to be the most sane of all the Republicans, is in it for the long haul. Which leaves Brownback, Hunter, McCain, Giuliani, Huckabee and Tancredo. McCain has long rumored to be in trouble both financially and in the polls due to his undying support for GW's war in Iraq. McCain outright skipped the event knowing that he will not finish second or third even.

Don't be surprised if one or two other's (in addition to Tommy Thompson) drop out after today due to a poor showing. The race to the White House starts today and the field is narrowing. How long can some of these fringe candidates survive?

Mitt Romney Claims Iraq had a hand in 9/11 attacks

Our favorite screwy wacko Mormon Mitt Romney last week tried to make the false claim that Iraq was part of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It amazes me how slick this guy really is. Personally I think they guy is on crack for making those kinds of claims.

Romney is showing the same kind of "compassionate conservative" dance that George W. Bush put on in the 2000 election. And that makes him VERY dangerous!

Can we trust Mormon Mitt dispite the fact he employs clowns on his staff?

An aid to Former Governor Mitt Romney took a leave of absence because he is being investigated in two states for impersonating an officer. This isn't the first time for Jay Garrity to get himself in hot water. When he was Romney's Chief of Staff, he threatened a reporter and told him he'd run his license plates and to not follow Romney's motorcade. In 2004 Garrity was caught with lights, sirens and other law enforcement equipment in a car registered to him.

My question is, if Mitt Romney knowingly employs clowns like this, is he someone we want as our president?

Romney aide takes leave amid probes

Romney aide pulls out all the stops in N.H.

Hillary and Bill's Sopranos ending spoof...what do you think?

As someone who doesn't like Hillary much, but is a big fan of her husband, I have mixed feelings about it. The video is cute and well done. Bill's charisma definitely helps her as well as the fact it shows they have a good sense of humor. At the same time, I have to admit this was an interesting way of promoting a campaign. Someone was thinking outside the box. That doesn't mean I will support her. However, it does make me nostalgic for the [Bill] Clinton Presidency. Those were the good ole' days!

John McCain's Illegitimate Child

Poor John...first it was a black baby and now this?

Newt's Contract On America

It looks like Newt is up to his usual crap. This afternoon I happened to read this on Yahoo News:

Gingrich slams current election politics By MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writer
Thu May 17, 3:51 PM ET

RALEIGH, N.C. - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are "demeaning the presidency" by focusing on the race rather than ideas.

"We have shrunk our political process to this pathetic dance in which people spend an entire year raising money in order to offer nonanswers, so they can memorize what their consultants and focus groups said would work," Gingrich said.

In a speech to the John Locke Foundation, a conservative think tank, the prospective Republican candidate said he will not consider running until he has created a wave of reform.

He plans to spend the next several months preparing for a series of workshops that he will coordinate. They begin Sept. 27, exactly 13 years after he and other GOP leaders released the "Contract With America" that helped their party regain control of the House.

Ten Republicans and eight Democrats have declared their candidacy for president. Gingrich took particular issue with how they have presented their ideas in crowded debates.

"This idea of demeaning the presidency by reducing it to being a game show contest ... is wrong for America, and I would never participate in it," he said.

Gingrich told reporters there is room for a him in the race.

"There's a tremendous vacuum of leadership willing to stand up and talk to the country in clear ways about what we have to get done to create a generation of opportunity and what we have to do to avoid a generation for bureaucracy and problems," Gingrich said.

According the old blowhard himself (sorry I meant Newt), none of the candidates have come up with ideas and are just running for the money. Maybe he should specifically start looking at the candidates of HIS OWN PARTY. This sounds like a set up for him to get into the race later in the year. Talk about self-serving crap!

Dammit Al...stop teasing us!

If you missed it, Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio made an announcement on the Oscars about the show being environmentally friendly. During their presentation, DiCaprio jabbed Al about making an important announcement. Al took out a piece of paper and started to act as though he was going to make an announcement only to have the music drown him out as he acted like he was frustrated and walked off stage with DiCaprio.

So to Al Gore, I say STOP TEASING US! Are you or aren't you?

(Edit 7:50pm PST): An Inconvenient Truth wins the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

McCain: The Republican's Butt Boy

Over the few days or so, John McCain has said some pretty nasty things about both Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

McCain blamed Cheney and Rumsfeld for what he said was, "a terribly mishandled" war.

A few days later, McCain apologized to Cheney claiming he was misquoted (yeah right).

In addition, McCain has called Rumsfeld one of the worst Secretary of Defence in the countries history. We shall wait and see if he apologizes to Rumsfeld as well.

So this begs the question: Is McCain Cheney and Rumsfeld's butt boy or is he his own candidate?

Vilsack is out, McCain sucks up

Well it's no surprise Vilsack is out. Why? He doesn't have enough money and is not generating enough interest. The upcoming election is expected to be the most expensive in the history of our nation. Who's next to drop out?

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Senator John McCain acknowledges his support for the war in Iraq could end his career. When asked if he was sucking up the the religious right, McCain said, "What's wrong with sucking up to everybody?"

Hillary Clinton is slime!

First, let me say that I voted for Bill Clinton both in 1992 and 1996. Back then, I admired his wife. But as of lately, I have become anti-Hillary.

One of the problems that I have with her is that she has become cozy with corporate types including right wing nut job Rupert Murdoch. Yet another, is that she has and still does support the war in Iraq. She refuses to apologize for her vote in 2003.

Recently one of her supporters to said something nasty about Obama, but God forbid someone that supports Obama saying something about poor Hillary.

This reeks of a double standard.

Someone needs to drug the poor woman as she's delusional. As you may know, Hillary Clinton flipped over Dreamworks founder, David Geffen's comments about her. Geffen stated to Maureen Dowd, "Everybody in politics lies," the former president and his wife "do it with such ease, it's troubling."

Recently, Clinton was endorsed by South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford. Ford who is also working for the Clinton campaign stated, "Every Democrat running on that ticket next year would lose — because he's black and he's top of the ticket. We'd lose the House and the Senate and the governors and everything."

Personally, I think Ford has been sniffing some really strong glue. To say that Democrats would lose everything, is not only reckless, it's ridiculous.

I hope another candidate pummels Clinton in the primary and kicks the the queen bitch off her royal throne. We may yet end up with her as our president. God help us all because she's going to just as bad as George W. Bush.