castlerider's Comments (446)

“Political representation in my dear state of Texas has been an absolute joke. You bring a great focus to what's been happening that's greatly appreciated.

Mr. Earle, I met you very briefly a long time ago when as DA in Austin you tried to help us find out who'd kidnapped and murdered a dear friend of my girlfriend's. You were so kind, thoughtful and persistent in returning calls and helping my devastated girlfriend and her family. They've spoken your name for years with great respect and appreciation. (We're sure the criminal was eventually caught, although we had no idea further about it..)
You've since continued with a great career and it's high time that you recieve the proper recognition and get a chance to continue to do what you do best... Serve your fellow Texans, but in an even larger capacity.
I can't wait to tell everyone I know what a great thing it'll be to have you as Lt. Gov., and vote for you, sir.
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“" Right now, it's a nonstarter although most thinking people agree "guns don't kill people but they help"

LMAO... That was a good one. Yep, That's Texas all right.

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“Thanks for that... Good information to know.

But for all his money, Rick Perry doesn't stand a chance against Bill White, The Dem Mayor of Houston who's done a great job here. Hispanics will come out in droves for Senyor White, and so will most thinking Texans who want a Governor who will actually get things done.

Ronnie Earle will make an excellent Lietenant Governor.

I sure wish Howard Dean would come down and shore up the base like he did with the 50 state strategy that was so successfull nationwide. There are a lot of disaffected Dems here in Texas whose votes can really help on coming elections. Right now, they're scattered and need to be brought together.
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“We need a law making it absolutely criminal for any financial institution or corporation to contribute to any political campaign whatsoever. Of course, these special interest criminals will look for any loophole and probably do something like give millions to an individual to contribute, but this law needs to have the same punishment for wherever this money can be traced.

This crime should be fought against with the same deliberate determination that the Secret Service has when they go after counterfeiters. In fact, it should absolutely be within the jurisdiction of the Secret Service, the Treasury Department.

Decision making of our laws should be held in a “Sacred Manner” because they affect the lives of sometimes millions of people. The corruption of contributions have been like money changers in our temple of prosperity, compromising our true sense of liberties and freedom.

America will never again be a truly free country until we remove all the undue influence and begin an elections process that is protected for and by the people. NOT CORPORATIONS OR INSTITUTIONS.”

“Good question.

It's time they supplied us with an answer on that one. Or remove him.”

“A huge missed opportunity…. - NO political leader stating that our government actually CAN run healthcare in America really well because of these important facts.... Why? Why so scared of standing up for our American government??

FACT: Americans have the best Hospitals, best Universities, best technology, and research in THE WORLD !
Also, the entire setup needs to be transparent so that all research is available at the touch of a screen. Cost savings would be tremendous, compared to the behemoth profit-driven monstrosity we have now.
Then think of lives, money saved, businesses able to actually grow, and it starts to get really exciting.. But NO........,
Coward politicians wither like scarecrows whenever some idiot shouts "Socialized Medicine!!"

Here we are like a bunch of scared little children when talking about government doing anything because 30 years ago Reagan metaphorically told us that our government SUCKS! While corporations gleefully waited on sidelines to take over our lives and run the show…. Wake up, people!

So it stands to reason…. The Liebermans, Nelsons, ALL the Republicans, standing on total fear of government helping make our lives better, are acting like cowardly, unAmerican TRAITORS..... Choosing instead to pocket their lobby dollars because they're bought... And PAID FOR.!

It's just not right... That anyone should say our country can't have the best healthcare in the world WITH a Public Option…. It's so worth fighting for.

Mr. President… Where are you?”

“A huge missed opportunity…. - NO political leader has stood up for the fact that our government actually CAN run healthcare in America really well because of these important facts.... Why? Why so scared of standing up for our American government??

FACT: Americans have the BEST Hospitals, BEST Universities, BEST technology, and research IN THE WORLD !
Also, the entire setup needs to be transparent so that all research is available at the touch of a screen. Cost savings would be tremendous, compared to the behemoth profit-driven monstrosity we have now.
Then think of lives, money saved, businesses able to actually grow, and it starts to get really exciting.. But NO........, Coward politicians wither like scarecrows whenever some idiot shouts "Socialized medicine!!"

Here we are like a bunch of scared little children when talking about government doing anything because 30 years ago Reagan metaphorically told us that our government SUCKS! While corporations gleefully waited on sidelines to take over our lives and run the show…. Wake up, people!

So when ya think about it…. The Liebermans, Nelsons, ALL the Republicans, standing on total fear of government helping make our lives better, are a bunch of cowardly, unAmerican TRAITORS..... Who instead choose to pocket their lobby dollars because they're BOUGHT... And PAID FOR.!

So to hell with them... And anyone who says our country can't have the best healthcare in the world WITH a Public Option….

Mr. President… Where are you?”

“A huge missed opportunity is that NO political leader has stood up for the fact that our government could ACTUALLY run healthcare in America really well because of these important facts....
FACT: Americans have the best Hospitals, best Universities, best technology, and research IN THE WORLD !
Also, the entire setup needs to be transparent so that all research is available at the touch of a screen. Cost savings will be tremendous, compared to the behemoth profit-driven monstrosity we have now.

Then you start thinking of the lives, money saved, businesses able to actually grow, and it starts to get pretty darn exciting.. But NO........, Coward politicians wither like scarecrows whenever some idiot shouts "Socialized Medicine!!"

Here we are like a bunch of scared little children when we talk about the government doing anything because 30 years ago Reagan metaphorically told us that our government SUCKS ! ! !
While corporations gleefully waited in the sidelines to take over our lives and run the show....
Wake up, people!

So when you think about it…. The Liebermans, Nelsons, ALL the Republicans, who stand on total fear of government helping make our lives better, they're a bunch of cowardly, unAmerican TRAITORS..... who instead choose to pocket their lobby dollars because they're BOUGHT... And PAID FOR.!

So to hell with them... And anyone who says our country can't have the best healthcare in the world. Now there's something I'll fight for...

Mr. President… Where are you?”

“A big missed opportunity is the fact that NO political leader has stood up for the fact that our government actually could run healthcare in America really well because of many very important facts....

Among these, FACT: we have the best Hospitals, best Universities, best technology and research IN THE WORLD. Also, the entire setup would need to be transparent so that research could be available at the touch of a screen. the cost savings would be tremendous compared to the behemoth profit-driven monstrosity we have now.
Then you start thinking of the lives, money saved, businesses able to actually grow, and it starts to get pretty darn exciting.. But NO........, these coward politicians wither like scarecrows whenever some idiot shouts "Socialized medicine!!"

Here we are like a bunch of scared little children when we talk about the government doing anything because 30 years ago Reagan made his mark by metaphorically telling us that our government SUCKS, while corporations gleefully waited in the sidelines to take over our lives and run the show. Wake up, people.

So when you think about it, the Liebermans, Nelsons, ALL the Republicans, who stand on total fear of government helping make our lives better, they're a bunch of coward, unAmerican TRAITORS..... who instead choose to believe in the mighty dollar because they're BOUGHT... And PAID FOR.

So to hell with them... And anyone who says our country can't have the best healthcare in the world.”

“Thank you. Thank You. Thank you, Mr. Westen.

I'm sick and tired of SO MANY comments excorciating for Obama to grow a pair, for Godsakes.

Time he listened to you and his readers. I just hope Rahm doesn't hide this piece from him which he probably will.

Rahm Emanuel's doing a great job hiding Obama in a bubble.

Hiring Rahm was a huge mistake. My Junior High coach would've done a much better job.”

“Ya know, I totally agree with you .

Fanned.”

“It's like Vietnam in 1969 when we'd already lost 28,000 soldiers fighting in that worthless pit of jungles and rice paddies.
If we'd left in '69, nothing, or very little, would be different now, today, then the way it is now, or was, having stayed there until 1975...
Except that 30,000 American soldiers would still be alive and billions of dollars not to mention innocent civilians, weapons, and treasure would have been saved.

Staying in Afghanistan now will not make it any different for future times then if we stay. And don't give me that garbage about fighting them there so we don't fight them here. We have the most powerful military in the history of known civilization. They're a rag tag bunch of fools who barely have a pot to p#ss in or a window to throw it out of. Just because the Bush administration didn't know how to use the intelligence available and stop 911, which everyone now knows it could have, and should have, doesn't give the military the excuse to tell us how to spend our money and treasure.

So you're not just right about throwing away money and treasure, you're historically right, because that's the BIG difference in all this. The ones who've benefited from all these wars ALL ALONG.”

“This country's been owned by the defense industry ever since JFK was murdered... With taxpayer dollars.

Wise up, people. We're going to get what they decide we get. Our freedoms, liberties are an afterthought, compared to their voracious appetite for our budget and their lifestyle.
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“I sure hope so. Private insurers have been running the show too long and have Failed.”

“Pulsive, dark and seemingly surreal poetry... Tragic that it's actually accurate reality.
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“Ms. Warren, would you please look around you and when you see someone who'll take the point seriously, see about developing a grass roots campaign to support your ideas into some kind of proper representation for us. ?
I think you should be the POTUS, but I know that's a far-gone conclusion that has its gulfs . I don't care what you may conjure up, to run for an office you choose, or to support someone, start a whole new party; I don't care... I trust you.
But please, ma'am, can we think about getting people to show their support a little more then just listening and nodding our heads? no one can honestly win a debate against you. Your integrity's impeccable and can't be diminished, no matter what anyone says.
This grass-roots campaign could have its inception right about now, and if put together correctly, grow to mammoth proportions because there are simply way too many of us out here who are living exactly as you've just described. We're scared, ma'am, and we're starving... Starving for real leadership.
I like Obama, but he's obviously deeeeep in bankers pockets.... I feel I don't even have time for him anymore. He's made his choices, chose the banks over us, and I don't want to even waste my time thinking about it. I can't afford to.
But Ms. Warren, we need you.... We need your smarts, we need your integrity, we need your leadership.
Thanks so much for being who you are.”

“I want to agree with you, since I feel the same way about how wrong it is to support the military industrial complex.

What worries me is the fact that Pakistan has Nuclear Weapons, as does, India. It forces me to believe that it's possible it might be better for our future that we have some sort of intervention going on in that part of the world, but I hope we get the hell out of there ASAP.
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“She's not trying, dear. She is. A voice of reason.

Quite effortlessly, I would venture further to say.”

“What frustrates me is knowing and remembering, since I was there, that had we left Vietnam in 1969, our world now, looking back 40 years later would be relatively just the same, there's not that much of anything that would be different...... Except that 35,000 American soldiers would still be alive, not to mention thousands of innocent civilians.

The greater courage, no matter WHAT Obama says today, would be to stand up to all the power mongers and say that this campaign isn't worth the life of one more American soldier like Kennedy said to his own personal staff in October and early November of 1963 about Vietnam.
Kennedy never had the chance to stand up for the nation and proceed with getting us out of Nam, but he'd already stood up to the power elite when they tried to sucker him into the war with Cuba in '61, and he said no. The Joint Chiefs demanded that he initiate a pre-emptive first strike on Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Missile Crisis and he held his ground... And said NO.

Obama would be the hero of the world and a peace loving nation if he stood up to the power Mongers and got us out of both those countries NOW... Immediately.

40 years from now, it will have made no difference. Except that hundreds of American soldiers and innocent civilians would still be alive.
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“You are SO WRONG.

You like all those others so easy to be manipulated by the corporate hucksters can't see that this system will need to be TRANSPARENT to work, and this transperancy is what will make it a strong, hard working lean and effective system.
Those who can't see this are failing this nation with their unfortunate and obtuse lack of vision and common sense.
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“America must have the best, most inexpensive healthcare in the world.
We have everything. The best universities, hospitals, technology. in the WORLD.
It's got to be the best, the easiest to employ.

That's the mission here... is it, or is it not?
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This mission makes us better. A nation where healthcare’s a right, not a luxury.

We should rally strongly AGAINST those who say government can’t run healthcare.
So many politicians spend so much time largely at the behest of the private insurer's lobbying, saying that govrnment can't do this, that government is the wrong thing, or entity to count on. This is the only purpose for which Republicans have aerved, and they're doing us wrong, failing this nation.
They should be saying the opposite, that this time they intend to see the government succeed.
With the transparency of a well developed system, this can happen, better then anywhere else in the world. This is what the pivate insurers are desperate for us NOT TO REALIZE.

It's time for a patriotic politician to stand up and denounce those that say our government can't do this, because they're not just wrong, they're cowardly, selfish, unpatriotic, uninformed, and UnAmerican.
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“If we left Afghanistan now, what would be different if we'd stayed 5 more years, 30 years from now?

Very little. Not enough to justify the killing of ONE MORE AMERICAN soldier.

This is the fundamental lesson of Vietnam. If we'd left in 1969, instead of 1975, now, very, very little would be different, in terms of what it would require of our country, except that we'd still have 30,000 American soldiers who wouldn't have been killed.

Ignoring history is not just foolish, it's essentially criminal, for what is at stake here, for our country and the world.”

“Pretty stupid of his handlers... That's no way to win a re-election.
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“True to your name, old tart. Unemployment is not understandable, and not acceptable, with all the options that are available andnot being taken because the bank's don't like it. The hell w. them.

All he needs to do is simply pull us out of Afghanistan, but we'll still have unemployment, and he IS the one who makes the decisions.”

“Thank you, Mr, Black for this great post.
I hope you'll write more regularly, as your insight is greatly appreciated by those of us who want to be informed straight up, without the blinders of political pranks that these 2 parties espouse, and now Obama is in the thick of.

The Media is largely to blame also, for Obama's insulatar bubble that is taking him further and making him more out of touch with the mainstream pulse you so avidly have strong reference to.

If some responsible pundit on CNN, would have the likes of you , Elizabeth Warren, and others who talk straight fiscal conservative sense, then this administration MIGHT give considering what you say the time of day.
They've already ostracized MSNBC as a liberal thinktank when actually, the cable channel represents a greater protion for what young, educated, up and coming Americans who like to be informed are thinking.

But what you're saying is so far beyond politics, truthfully. It's about our money, our future, our ability to continue to prosper, and the hard choices that must be made to discipline our nation away from the lazy and selfish elite who have such a hard time allowing anyone to take control for the good of the people.

What worries me is that Obama's too smart for this, so quite possibly he's decided to be a pawn for the elite while they instill more of the Shock Doctrine.
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