Writing about conservatives backing Barack Obama (dubbed "Obamacons"), Bob Novak reported this week that Colin Powell will likely endorse Obama. Given Powell's popularity and national security cred (tarnished though they may be by his loathsome pre-war presentation at the UN), this would be a coup for Obama. But Novak documents something even more significant: the overpowering sense of revulsion with Bush and today's Republican Party felt by many conservatives. The money quote is delivered by a long-time GOP loyalist: "The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of Weekend With Bernie [sic], handcuffed to a corpse." I didn't think it could be done, but that tops Republican Rep. Tom Davis' classic "If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf."
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We can only hope the sheeple will refuse to be lead down the path to ruin by voting to allow them to stay in power beyond November.
Hail Bush and the Republicans... where are we now? I think I am begining to agree with Carlin - people are stupid. How else would you agree to allow a president take off his eyes of the real culprits in Al-Queda and go to war with Iraq - a nation that was contained and controlled after it was defeated in 1992? Still, 51 plus millions elected this idiot Bush as a President when we knew that he had lied to the entire world. My fellow Americans - stop watching too much of the idiot tube, reality shows and dont be too laid back - hold your administration to account - whether it be republican or Democrats. Start taking interest in your country or you will be flushed down the tube. Hungry and ambitious nations who have been too long in the dark are aggressively moving to take over the mantle of Superpower. If Americans do not watch out - it will go the UK way....
"Ike" Eisenhower warned us that the military industry had the power to trump all other social priorities of government, and to produce so much money in so much secrecy that it would corrupt everyone and everything it touches ... and, paradoxically, bring vulnerability not safety to the country.
I wonder, Arianna, just how long it will continue. I wonder just how bad it has to get, before 300 million people finally realize that less than 1 thousand people have sold them down the river ... that they have all this time been spinning this nation's gold into straw.
This "so-called election" isn't going to change anything. We can look squarely at all these people's historic voting-records (the Congressional Record is online at http://thomas.loc.gov), we watch them massing billions of dollars and refusing to tell us who's putting up the money, and we Know. Whoever may take the Oath of Office next January, it deserves not to be any one of them.
If Bush & Cheney where the First U.S. President's American would never been Know....
They dont have the courage to Change!!!!!
The msm still works very hard to portray the GOP as if they are giving Obama the challenge of a lifetime complete with neo con bobble heads spewing lies.
What is a neo-con? Someone who disagrees with you?
They are real, and dangerous.
The so-called "main stream media" is deeply buried in the Rights' pocket.
When Obama becomes president, and announces the return of the "Fairness Doctrine" (passed into law by Congress, not an easily reversed Presidential order), you can bet Fox with their "fair and balanced" reporting will be screaming the loudest, trying to stop it. Forced into honesty, presenting the American people with all sides of every issue, will put them out of business.
Seriously?
I can think of at least 65 million people and probably more.
The question SHOULD BE who would WANT to be a republican considering they are the most corrupt and easily bought off congress in a century or more. The party of hypicrisy and phony politics. The party of fear mongering to further an agenda of looting the U.S. Treasury to line the pockets of their wealthiest contributors.
So really now WHO would want to be a republican except those in hard core denial?
They eat their own.....then pass the tab.
Powell and his family profited mightily, in power and wealth, as a result of his backing Bushco.
As a result of his betrayal of the troops.
He should be worthless to any candidate with integrity.
Granted, your average American is probably unaware of Powell did.
CATAPULT THAT PROPAGANDA
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in," he said, "to kind of catapult the propaganda."
George W Bush
see here for HST:
http://www.youtube.com/user/hdavis21ch
WHO exactly ARE those INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICANS?
"Advancing Democracy WORLDWIDE..."
http://www.iri.org.ge/
Sounds like a neat idea. Too bad it doesn't work here in the good old USA.
McCain, incidentally, is not "the head" of IRI -- he is a member of the board of directors, tho. Lorne Crane is the president.
What is interesting is that, as it turns out, WE are funding this organization.
"Where does IRI get its funding?
The International Republican Institute (IRI) is a 501 (c)(3) and does not receive any money from the Republican Party. IRI is funded by U.S. tax dollars. The funding comes primarily from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. State Department, and the National Endowment for Democracy. IRI also receives grants and donations from individuals, corporations and foundations. Donations to IRI are tax deductible."
From IRI's FAQs: http://www.iri.org/faq.asp