Monday, June 2. 2008Parsley, Pfleger, Hagee, Wright and no Sage Pastor ProblemsFirst it was Rev. Jeremiah Wright, now its Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest who both are saying Barack Obama is a black dude, which as we all know, only Republicans are allowed to say. Its a racial mess and a half, let me tell you... On the other side we got John McCain having to throw a couple of his pastor backers under the bus. Rev. John Hagee who will say or do anything to goad Jesus into killing everyone on Earth (other than John Hagee). Because the word Christian is involved we cannot say that the man is nuttier than a peanut farm. Recently another one of these nutzoid Pentecostal preachers, Rev. Rod Parsley, claimed Muhammad and Islam are "evil" and the "anti-Christ" and McCain had to deny him also. Not sure if he did so three times though. Boy, religion sure helps these guys hey. Just as it helps solve the problems in the Middle East. I wonder why Hillary is immune to all this... Has she found a reasonable religion or something? 
Thursday, May 29. 2008McCain's Straight Jacket Express John McCain's "Straight Talk Express" bus suffered a flat tire sometime around the announcement that he'd had a falling out with a couple of evangelical pastors, Hagee and Parsley, who according to themselves, are on a first name basis with Gawd and Jesus. This can't be very good for ol' John because being for their endorsements before he was against them will have repercussions with this base. It's been reported that up to 20% of Americans are religiously insane and with Hagee and Parsley withdrawing their support for McCain, one has to wonder where McCain goes to fill this void.It's unlikely he's going to find much support among those earning less that a few hundred grand a year as he's pledged to make Bush's tax cuts for the already filthy rich permanent, anymore than he's gained favor with homeowners facing foreclosure whom he's referred to as speculators. He has another equally pressing dilemma in spite of his war hero status with military personnel by voting against the popular GI Bill which passed the Senate 75-22 and the House with a similar veto-proof majority. This leaves the racists and chauvinists which Barack and Hillary wouldn't get anyway. So, looking into the 2008 general election future with both eyes open, there is no way McCain should win fair and square against either Obama or Clinton. Unfortunately we've seen just how fair and square worked in both 2000 and 2004. So fasten your political seatbelts, the road is about to get very bumpy because the GOP and their corporate controllers have too much to lose now that they've tasted the spoils of their excesses the past twelve years. Expect every dirty political trick and then some with the support of a compromised media punditry. Gawd help us all.
Sunday, May 18. 2008John McCain and Neck Wattles infomercial
In fact, if you devote just 30 minutes of your time to sit through Hugh Downs' latest Sunday morning tv Medimericial, you see what it will take for McCain's candidacy to improve on a superficial level - what matters most in elections. And it is a product that all Americans can benefit from if they'll only pick up their phone in the next half hour. And that's not all: You also get an early look at 5 MDs hawking natural cures for the masses, who are prime candidates to be considered for the McCain cabinet's newly created post of Surgeon General of the United Red States.
Saturday, May 17. 2008Ted Kennedy Rushed to Hospital, is Hillary ResponsibleSenator Edward Kennedy was rushed to the hospital today. Thus far no hard facts have come by to blame Hillary Clinton though cable media and the liberal blogosphere are diligently investigating her involvement. Remember it was only a week ago that Senator Clinton said "white people" to describe white people! Execution scheduled soon. On a related story to a question I asked yesterday, it seems the media will soon declare Barack Obama better than beer and bigger the Jesus.
Wednesday, May 14. 2008Hillary Clinton Wins West Virgina Primary by 41 pecentThe final results of the West Virginia Democratic Primary 67% to Obama's 26%. A spread of 41 points the greatest winning margin since the primaries began. I am writing this for Google 24 hours after the polls closed. Both cable television and the internet have long ago picked Barack Obama to actively campaign for and Hillary Clinton to actively campaign against, so the facts and the numbers of this, the biggest win so far in the primaries, has gone mostly unreported. What few headlines there are read something like Futile win for Clinton in W Virginia, or Obama Woes Floridians in Record Turnouts, or We All Hope Hillary Drops Dead. So if no one else is posting these numbers which took me most of an hour to find through Google, I will just to see if anyone cares. I do admit that if I had gone to that special place six steps deep inside CNN I could have had them right away. I must also say that so unlike cable news and media which has long ago thrown any concept of fairness to the wind, at least broadcast television tries to be fair and balanced regarding this election process. If cable or the liberal blogoshere were one's only source of information, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro would be IN FACT dirty fighting racist pigs. It's truly amazing. But I suppose if one's own ox is the beneficiary of whatever it may be, one would either take little notice or not give a rat's ass. Human nature being what it is... The big question is whether cable news and media will keep campaigning for Obama once they have thrown Hillary to the wolves.
And being a child of the Sixties I feel compelled to ask... Is Obama bigger than Jesus?
Tuesday, May 13. 2008McCain's Bushisms John McCain greeting his opponent after being defeated. Is this the man you want protecting us from our enemies?As if we haven't been tortured enough after seven plus years of wincing through almost daily Bushisms, from food on our families, to co-existing with fish, to fool me once, Of course, like his newest best buddy Bush, he can't quite articulate what victory in Iraq is unless it was one of his many inane statements, "until they stop killing us." I'm still trying to make any sense of this. Does it mean once every Iraqi is dead then they won't be able to kill our soldiers anymore? Scary is that he's denying any of these statements even though he's been caught on tape. Scarier is the media letting him off the hook by not looping it 24/7 like they do with far less meaningful dem gaffes. But what caught my attention was a report this week on The Huffington Post claiming that after the 2000 election McCain said he didn't vote for Bush and that his wife Cindy voted for her husband on a write-in ballot. This was confirmed not only by Arianna herself, but also two other witnesses. In true Bush mode McCain denied having made this statement and claimed he had in fact voted for Bush. Is this constant lying a republican thing? No need to answer that. Nonetheless, this is more than a he said - she said thing, because it really does come down to character. The guy has flip-flopped, pandered and changed his stance on almost everything he stood for in 2000 to appeal to the wing nutters in the republican party. And they say Hillary will do anything to get elected. He's made so many contrary claims the past few weeks, including he never said he didn't understand the economy, that how can we believe anything he says? He's all over the map in contradictions. We know the MSM can't be trusted to save us from another dangerous loon in the White House, so it's left to the liberal blogosphere to hammer home every single miscue, gaffe, stumble or inane utterance McCain makes. The GOP started this, the only difference is they're wrong on every issue and have to rely on just making shit up about our candidate. Stuff that has zero to do with the issues. I'm certainly no expert, but if I were a dem consultant using GOP rules, this is an ad I'd run against McCain: "John McCain claims he has more experience in foreign affairs and is the best candidate to fight terrorism. After the dirty tricks Bush pulled on him in the republican primary in South Carolina in 2000, this is how McCain reacted."
Monday, May 12. 2008Bob Barr to be the Libertarian Candidate for President Bob Barr, the congressman and House Manger who led the impeachment of Bill Clinton 10 years ago, has decided he will run for President as the Libertarian candidate, their convention is in two weeks. Barr is so far out on the lunatic fringe he lost his congressional seat not in the 2006 Democratic upset, but back in 2002, in a lunatic fringe district in the lunatic fringe state of Georgia no less!Barr is best remembered as the strongest congressional voice for everything NRA. He is one of those lunatic fringe Republicans who are so intrinsically repulsive they can't get lobbying jobs (Bob Dornan is another) so they become radio talk show hosts whipping up the masses to evermore bigotry, intolerance, and gun fun. This week George Wlll and Sean Hannity had a fit with their one time friend who they now call "spolier" saying he will help John McCain lose the election in the same way Ralph Nader helped lose it for Al Gore in 2000. Which they say could be even worse than what Nader did as so many conservatives are disillusioned with McCain who on occasion says reasonable things. The point here is just a reminder to anyone still confused - even after watching Ron Paul ply his lunatic fringe poo for so many months - as to what a Libertarian is and what the Libertarian Party is about. It is not about pot smoking old guys with ponytails, rather it's the hardest turn to right-wing lunacy in America. It is worse than communism, fascism, theocracy and anarchy all joined asunder. It is mostly about those who want to settle things with their personal arsenals rather than laws. If it is not clear to anyone how I feel about Looneytarians, I have a special Libertarian page that will help explain it further. The Libertarians.
Saturday, May 10. 2008Houston Chronicle Letters All in Favor of Photo IDThe top line of today's Letters to the Editor in the Houston Chronicle reads: Adamantly! Tenaciously! Obstinantely! Stupidly! In all four of these letters one can see that here in Dumbutt, Texas not much thinking goes on at or off The Range. On a related story, yesterday a man sitting his chair at a KOA campground suddenly went cold as an AR-15 round slammed into his stomach ending his day and life. Again an AR-15 assault rifle from a loud and often used makeshift gun range bordering on the campground. Good place for a range! Lot's of thought went into that as it was being used for years without anyone thinking to complain. Back to the letters. Though are ofthem are full of what we now call nativism a few paragraphs jumped off the page at me.
Wow hey! Voting Rights Act of 1964 out the window. And an even smaller pool of voters than we already have. Like only landowners or those who know Ronald Reagan's birthday? And this one takes my breath away.
Now if you are from someplace where it may snow on occasion and don't know what "these people" means, you also probably think a black man can become the President. Of course all these Dumbuttians will not accept the fact that voter "ID" fraud is so rare it matters not a wit to our election process. Rather it is all about further reducing the vote of the old, the poor, and the funny colored and funny named, who tend to not vote Republican. Suppressing the vote is the best shot Republicans have of winning this November.
Wednesday, May 7. 2008Rush Limbaugh Voter Fraud, Character Matters
Rush Limbaugh has been telling his gang of Republican Limbiciles to go out and corrupt the vote by voting in Democratic Primaries. Character matters. Months ago it was to vote for Hillary to knock Obama out believing Hillary could not win the general election. That false thinking comes from a career based upon little else other than hating the Clintons. Character matters. After so many years of the same lies Limbaugh has begun to believe them himself. More recently he is sending his Limbiciles out to vote for Hillary to extend the Democratic Primaries to help give John McCain help. John McCain only just two months ago Limbaugh was saying was a liberal in drag who no conservative should vote for come November. Character matters.
Friday, May 2. 2008Fareed Zakaria NAILS John McCain on Foreign Policy
Mccain Vs. Mccain He seems to think he can magically unite the two main strands in the foreign-policy establishment. He can't. Fareed Zakaria NEWSWEEK Apr 26, 2008 Amid the din of the dueling democrats, people seem to have forgotten about that other guy in the presidential race—you know, John McCain. McCain is said to be benefiting from this politically because his rivals are tearing each other apart. In fact, few people are paying much attention to what the Republican nominee is saying, or subjecting it to any serious scrutiny. On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years. Yet almost no one noticed. In his speech McCain proposed that the United States expel Russia from the G8, the group of advanced industrial countries. Moscow was included in this body in the 1990s to recognize and reward it for peacefully ending the cold war on Western terms, dismantling the Soviet empire and withdrawing from large chunks of the old Russian Empire as well. McCain also proposed that the United States should expand the G8 by taking in India and Brazil—but pointedly excluded China from the councils of power. We have spent months debating Barack Obama's suggestion that he might, under some circumstances, meet with Iranians and Venezuelans. It is a sign of what is wrong with the foreign-policy debate that this idea is treated as a revolution in U.S. policy while McCain's proposal has barely registered. What McCain has announced is momentous—that the United States should adopt a policy of active exclusion and hostility toward two major global powers. It would reverse a decades-old bipartisan American policy of integrating these two countries into the global order, a policy that began under Richard Nixon (with Beijing) and continued under Ronald Reagan (with Moscow). It is a policy that would alienate many countries in Europe and Asia who would see it as an attempt by Washington to begin a new cold war. I write this with sadness because I greatly admire John McCain, a man of intelligence, honor and enormous personal and political courage. I also agree with much of what else he said in that speech in Los Angeles. But in recent years, McCain has turned into a foreign-policy schizophrenic, alternating between neoconservative posturing and realist common sense. His speech reads like it was written by two very different people, each one given an allotment of a few paragraphs on every topic. The neoconservative vision within the speech is essentially an affirmation of ideology. Not only does it declare war on Russia and China, it places the United States in active opposition to all nondemocracies. It proposes a League of Democracies, which would presumably play the role that the United Nations now does, except that all nondemocracies would be cast outside the pale. The approach lacks any strategic framework. What would be the gain from so alienating two great powers? How would the League of Democracies fight terrorism while excluding countries like Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Singapore? What would be the gain to the average American to lessen our influence with Saudi Arabia, the central banker of oil, in a world in which we are still crucially dependent on that energy source? The single most important security problem that the United States faces is securing loose nuclear materials. A terrorist group can pose an existential threat to the global order only by getting hold of such material. We also have an interest in stopping proliferation, particularly by rogue regimes like Iran and North Korea. To achieve both of these core objectives—which would make American safe and the world more secure—we need Russian cooperation. How fulsome is that likely to be if we gratuitously initiate hostilities with Moscow? Dissing dictators might make for a stirring speech, but ordinary Americans will have to live with the complications after the applause dies down. To reorder the G8 without China would be particularly bizarre. The G8 was created to help coordinate problems of the emerging global economy. Every day these problems multiply—involving trade, pollution, currencies—and are in greater need of coordination. To have a body that attempts to do this but excludes the world's second largest economy is to condemn it to failure and irrelevance. International groups are not cheerleading bodies but exist to help solve pressing global crises. Excluding countries won't make the problems go away. McCain appears to think that he can magically unite the two main strands in the Republican foreign-policy establishment. But he can't. This is not about personalities but about two philosophically divergent views of international affairs. Put together, they will produce infighting and incoherence. We have seen this movie before. We have watched an American president unable to choose between his ideologically driven vice president and his pragmatic secretary of State—and the result was the catastrophe of George W. Bush's first term. Twenty-five years earlier, we watched another president who believed that he could encompass the entire spectrum of foreign policy. He, too, gave speeches that were drafted by advisers with divergent world views: in that case, Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski. It led to the paralyzing internal battles of the Carter years. Does John McCain want to try this experiment one more time?
Monday, April 28. 2008Rev Jeremah Wright National Press Club Speech Video April 28, 2008
Rev. Jeremiah Wright gained much applause and a few standing ovations this morning speaking at the National Press Club to an appreciably Black audience. He served out a few zingers for the supportive crowd which is in Washington for a two day black church symposium. "I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?" Said Reverend Very Right "My goddaughter's unit just arrived in Iraq this week while those who call me unpatriotic have used their positions of privilege to avoid military service while sending over 4,000 American boys and girls to die over a lie." Said Reverend Very Right A few video clips of the speech... But his central theme was that it is not he who is being vilified by the media, but the African American Church. Said Reverend Very Right "The most recent attack on the black church -- it is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright -- it's an attack on the black church, just might mean that the reality of the African-American church will no longer be invisible." NYTs - Wright says criticism is attack on black church Geraldine Ferraro and Bill Clinton have spoken the truth to race concerning the politics of the Democratic Primaries and are also Very Right. Rev Wright has rightly dissed the media, which as Hillary Clinton has learned, no good can come from. All that will come from his recent televised appearances on Bill Moyers, the NAACP and the National Press Club will be on the one hand a further saturation of his divisive video clips by the media, and on the other, complaints that putting himself out front will further saturate the air with his divisive video clips from the media. Speaking of being Right, Adlai Stevenson was right, Hubert Humphrey was right, George McGovern was right, Jimmy Carter was right, Walter Mondale was right, Michael Dukkasis was right, Al Gore was right and so was John Kerry. Looking back further Jesus Christ was right, Gandhi was right, JFK, RFK and MLK were right. Being right mostly gets you a little sticky gold star and a kick in the head...
Wednesday, April 23. 2008Jesse Jackson Most Reponsible for Barack Obama on the Win After the 1988 primaries Jesse Jackson initiated the rules fight within the Democratic Party. At that time it was much like the Republican primary rules today, with many states, most of the big ones as winner take all the delegates, or winner take all regards to each congressional district within a state. Jackson won the fight and now it is all proportional in the Democratic Party.The old way - and the present GOP way - was structured to the Electoral College system of the general election where states decide the outcome rather than individuals. This hit home like a Florida hurricane in 2000 when Al Gore beat George W. Bush in votes, but sadly for everyone in the world - with the help of the five conservatives on the Supreme Court - Bush became President no matter. Had the old rules been in place this year, Hillary Clinton would have wrapped up this nomination months ago. My argument for Hillary is not about policy or disliking Mr. Obama, it is based mostly upon my personal Texas belief that a Black man cannot win the Presidency in America. My God, do you realize he fathered Black babies! I also lean toward Hillary because not only does she have far more political experience, but has her feet firmly planted on the ground. Unlike many of my fellow Democrats I bare no animosity or spiritual falderall in this matter, they are both wonderful people and I will happily take either one. Other than the sad question of racism, another important factor keeps at me. Remove all Obama's delegates from the states (mostly in the South because of African American turnout) that will go Republican no matter Charlie Manson were the candidate, and Hillary is far ahead. Yes, I know, Geraldine Ferraro got her ass fired for saying much the same thing, but I don't have to worry, I was fired long ago.
Friday, April 11. 2008Barack Obama Bitter San Francisco Speech a Political Misstep"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothings replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Barack Obama Speech in San Francisco April 6th. McCain's campaign criticized the comment Friday. "It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking. It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans." Hillary Clinton also jumped on this Obama speech in a more subdued but like manner. Even with liberal blogs and the main stream media blatantly behind Good Person Barak Obama and against Bad Person Hillary Clinton [Newsweek this week even ran side by side photos of a scowling Richard Nixon next to Hillary to compare their similarities for chrissake.] Everyone, well almost everyone, is saying Hillary is a loser, a spoiler, a bad person and living in a fantasy world because she stays in the race even though the math makes it impossible for her to win. No, Hillary is staying in because there may be more missteps and revelations about Obama that could change everything. And woe be to this country if they come out after the convention! This is a serious political misstep by Obama which followed last months major negative revelation concerning Rev. Wright. What a convoluted issue for me. I am behind Hillary because I believe this country is far more racist than we like to admit and a Black man cannot win in a general election. I know it in my bones. I do not want another 4 years of George Bushism. On the other hand... Obama in his own small way with his speech Sunday night addressed this issue that I have been screeching about here for 12 years to no avail. To put it lightly... The ascendancy of the Right - and the pain it has caused as the cows come home these days - over this past generation has been because the GOP so successfully played upon the inherent religious intolerance, bigoty, racism, nationalism and gun madness of the small brains and bitter hearts of Dirtball Americans. We are where we are because these nitwits blame all their troubles on Blacks on welfare, immigrants stealing their jobs, queers doing whatever it is they do and those damn fereners up to no good all over the world!
Monday, April 7. 2008Neocon William Kristol Weighs in on a McCain VictoryOne Republican strategist not affiliated with the McCain campaign mused about how an independent advertising effort against Obama might work. “Barack Obama: He’s not who you think he is” would be the theme. The supporting evidence would come from his left-wing voting record in Illinois and Washington, spiced up with fun video clips of Reverend Wright.
Kristol goes on to tell us even more of what we already know: And an experienced Democratic operative e-mailed: “Finally, I think [McCain’s] going to win. Obama isn’t growing in stature. Once I thought he could be Jimmy Carter, but now he reminds me more of Michael Dukakis with the flag lapel thing and defending Wright. Plus he doesn’t have a clue how to talk to the middle class. He’s in the Stevenson reform mold out of Illinois, with a dash of Harvard disease thrown in.” In a close race, that “dash of Harvard disease” could be the difference. For as was proved in the absolute in 2004, most Americans don't like voting for anyone they think is smarter than they are.
Sunday, April 6. 2008Hillary For President - SNL April 5, 2008
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