abluevoice

I normally agree with you Bob on most issues, and especially Iraq, being the wrong battlefield to fight the war on terror. But you are dead wrong on Afghanistan. After 9/11, US and coalition forces chased the Taliban and Al Qaeda from power and out of control in Afghanistan.
There is a overwhelming consensus that this was the right thing to do, considering Al Qaeda was responsible for 9/11 and the Taliban's brutal, intolerant, Jihadist, Theocracy was turning the country back about 5 centuries to the Dark Ages, where woman and intelligent men we're beat into submission or eliminated.

What went wrong in Afghanistan, after the intial successes, was Bush's diversion invading and occupying Iraq, and his Pakistan policies that allowed both Al Qaeda and the Taliban to re-group. And
now the Taliban is regaining it's tyrannical control of parts of Afghanistan.

No matter what happened in the past with the US supporting the Taliban, they are now our enemy along with Al Qaeda and all of radical Islam that demands we submit or convert to their distorted religious values.

Kerry talked about paying attention to Afghanistan in the 04 election, but nobody listened and now Obama realizes Afghanistan is the right battlefield to fight these real terrorists who have done us harm and mean to do us more harm by sheltering, training, and financing ,anti-US Jihadists, such as Al Qaeda.

Nowhere in your post do you offer an alternative to handling Afghanistan. posted 07/23/2008 at 17:23:00

What a thoughtful, and logical comment, thank you. Republicans, including McCain unfortunately, will take anything out of context and say anything , no matter how untruthful, in their ruthless pursuit of political power. They did this with a real hero, Wes Clark, and his statement that getting shot down didn't qualify McCain to be President. They repeat it over and over and the mainstream media, accepts their distortion and talking points as newsworthy, without ever questioning them. Now it seems, Clark is out of the picture for VP.
Obviously, he was a serious threat to the GOP and McCain as VP, because he outranks him, is smarter than him, and is a real war hero and experienced leader that actually accomplished something in commanding Nato to stop genocide in Bosnia and broker a resolution.
All McCain could do at the time Bosnia seemed unsolvable was join the Republican chorus of critics. posted 07/22/2008 at 14:43:39

I just don't get Al Gore. He could have been a shoe in for the Democratic nomination and he would have beaten McCain in a landslide. His Nobel prize, Oscar and Emmy, give him global recognition with no equal. Yet he choses to stand on the sidelines waving his arms for attention and appealing to bloggers to push his very important messages.

Why doesn't he get it, that as President he can get us a lot closer to alternative energy, non dependance on the Middle East, and emmitting less carbons into the environment then he can as a private citizen trying to be heard??

He is the right guy at the right time with the right messages to save the country and lead the world, and he chose not to do it? What a disappointment! posted 07/21/2008 at 14:37:02

How does one become a political advisor? Great post Mr. Shearer. Besides Bill and Hillary, the Demos have Al Gore, Nobel Peace prize winner, and John Edwards. McCain has no back up even close.

But somebody is giving Obama some bad advice..... So here is some good advice Obama:

Before you announce your VP candidate reveal some of the people being considered for VP and for cabinet posts.
Such as Hillary for Secretary of State. You then get Bill in the deal, and they are loved around the world.
Mention Biden and Richardson, and Wes Clark and Edwards and even Gore (not for VP, but for energy czar or advisor), these names and positive recognition more than overcomes the McCain attack on your experience. Start talking about the Democratic team you have supporting you.

Get Howard Dean involved in recruiting these people to campaign for you and to coordinate their schedules. And most important YOU, have to schmooze these guys and gals that they are needed by you to get elected and to get Republicans out of office and to save the country.

Despite the unprecedented failure, incompetence, and corruption of the Bush administration and it's Republican enablers, and despite the many arrows sticking out of McCain, you aren't going to win in November without a full out push to the big names in the Demo party to work together as a team to beat McCain and the Republicans. This advice is so obvious.......just don't blow it please. posted 07/21/2008 at 14:22:13

We all feel this way. Damn it Sanchez DO SOMETHING! Stop whining about Republican law breaking and abuse of power and political bullying and do something. You've got Rove in contempt now nail the guy. For once, stand up to these guys and your oath of office to defend the law and The Constitution, and arrest him. posted 07/18/2008 at 19:52:42

You're nuts! Sanchez and Conyers and all the other Demos in power need to nail this guy right now! Not wait until sometime in the future. We don't put off arresting someone or taking them to trial until it's politically expedient. posted 07/18/2008 at 19:49:19

Aside from Rice's role in the past and the present in this thoughtful posting Arianna, Iran is a much bigger threat to the U.S. than Iraq ever was and even the Taliban was after 9/11 in Afghanistan.

There is plenty of evidence that they are developing nuclear weapons, that they are financing and arming, Hezbollah and Hamas,and that they are taking control of the politics in Iraq.
Just because of the unprecedented, wrong, and failed invasion of Iraq and incompetent and corrupt occupation by all things Bush.
And just because of the unprecedented, and incompetent failure to stop the resurgance of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan (financed in part, by our aid to Pakistan) and the resurgance of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, we cannot back away from the serious threat of Iran, nor can Israel.

A much stronger case can be made for a pre-emptive strike by Israel, supported by the US, on Iran's nuclear development, then any other military action in the ME.

It is a country run by mad men, who are pretty open about their desire to destroy Israel, (the only real Democracy and US supporter in the Middle East) and their hatred of all things, especially all American values that don't conform to their intolerant Muslim theocracy.

Because of Bush's past failures we cannot opt for temporary peace against Iran at all costs. posted 07/17/2008 at 13:07:22

Mr Wolberg, "there is myth and their is mythmaking", and way down on the bottem of the fantasy list is Republican spin and propaganda and the total inability to take responsibility for any of their numerous failures and self serving corrupt politics, of which you are just another brainwashed mouthpiece.

Your economic numbers are a little shaky, are you talking trillions or billions? but just like McCain (now is it Shia or Sunni?, I wish I hadn't missed that class, hard facts are irrelevant when spouting economic propaganda.

You somehow missed the entire point of Bob Scheer's post, that your boy Gramm and his wife ,have been on the take from all the industries that wanted them to push through Congress de-regulation (Reagonomics) and now that those policies are failing around us these same industries want to be bailed out by corporate welfare!

Fannie and Freddy have $5.3 trillion in gauranted loans out there. That's almost half the GDP of the most powerful economy you talk about. And now the Gov't is backing that gaurantee. If these loans get defaulted on due to the Bush economy, even you will be crying.

The oil companies already have millions of leases of US land to drill on, but they chose not to because, less supply than demand creates bigger profits. But Republican C students such as Bush and McCain, and yourself, just don't get this! posted 07/16/2008 at 17:51:19

This cover is the equivielnt, or even worse to running a picture of McCain in a North Vietnamese prison camp saying "I'll tell you whatever you want, just don't hurt me".

In Kerry's campaign in 04, he lost the election when he said in effect, knowing what he knows now about Iraq, he still would have voted for the war.

Remnick just created the defining moment for Obama's loss and the onslaught of 4 more years of Republican abuse. And that ,it is comming from a liberal magazine is just disgusting and so typical of the Democrats aiding the enemy in their clever intellectual nuanced stupidity. posted 07/14/2008 at 16:02:05

Great post Jules. What in the world could have caused Remnick to make such a politically damaging editorial decision.? This is what's wrong with the intellectual left and why they get pushed around and manipulated so easily by Republican political bullys.

Their gloating in their own political cleverness eats their own, and reinforces all the lies of the worst of
the radical right wing. I'm still a bit in shock over this unprecedented poison arrow of a cover aimed at Obama and the Democrats. posted 07/14/2008 at 13:58:33

I don't believe for one second you are a Hillary supporter! All you have to do is look at your Republican Party, filled with "fumbling idiots" and C students who have gotten very far due to lies and corruption and money and abuse of political power.

Hillary and Obama's positions on every important issue are almost identical and the exact opposite of McCains. Knowing this, or perhaps you haven't bothered to look at where the candidates stand on the issues? How could anybody in their right mind say they support Hillary, but are going to vote for McCain over Obama? What is wrong with you? posted 07/11/2008 at 13:13:03

Hey Alec, I'm 64, and semi-retired in great shape, I ride a longboard almost every day, and most of my friends are in their 60s, but we all agree we don't have what it takes physically or mentally anymore even at our ages to deal with the mental input, travel, meetings, and constant stress and immense responsibility of being President.
Hell yes McCain is too old physically as well as in his policies. He hasn't had an original policy idea in ages, and he is not very bright. He finished near the bottem of his class in the Naval Academy. Enough C students for President. There are subtle ways to point this out, especially via TV commercials and radio spots. You could show a reporter asking him a memory question about something he did or voted on in the past, and show him stammering, looking up to the sky, rubbing his face, and saying "I just can't remember that," which he has done many times. This won't offend baby boomers or retirees, showing He is not the right guy to protect their best interests. posted 07/11/2008 at 13:04:14

What a great post. My feelings exactly, and I'm sure those of many million more people. As much as I dislike Bush and Cheney and all their supporters, my dislike for the spineless Democratic leadership has grown almost equal.

Could you imagine if Rove was a Democrat and the Republicans headed all these committees?
He would have been handcuffed long ago.

Pelosi, and Hoyer, and Reid, have put their ideas of political expediancy above the law. Executive Privilege does not apply to protecting Rove in his stacking of the Justice department with partisan Republicans, or his outing of a CIA agent, but the Demo leadership keep rationalizing their political cowardice and their inabilities to defend the Constitution and live up to their oaths of office.

Maybe the next guy that breaks a law, can say to the judge "the people want to put what I did behind us", as a defense.

And why doesn't Hillary speak up about this, or Gore, or Kerry, or even Obama, damn it. Rove has done damage to all of them. posted 07/12/2008 at 18:56:43

If ever Bush's abuse of power using executive privilege to cover up every probable criminal act, of his administration, needed to be challenged it is over Rove not answering a Congressional supeona.

But wait and see absolutely nothing will happen. If Obama had the leadership potential he says he has or Hillary, or Biden or Richardson or Pelosi, or Reid or the Democratic Party they would take down Rove, and challenge Bush on his abuse of power and Executive Privilege in this case.

But absolutely nothing is going to happen to Rove. I will vote for Obama in November but I will be holding my nose as I do it. posted 07/12/2008 at 19:13:55

You've got my vote, and I'm going to support whatever position you take to win in November.
Because I know you are on the right track concerning the big issues, the failed occupation on the wrong battlefield, stopping tax breaks for the super rich individuals and corporations, protecting the environment, re-building the infrastructure and creating new jobs, weaning us off of oil, and supporting public education. Don't let the Demo advisors castrate you on these big issues as they did Gore. Don't worry about nuances, keep it simple......"I'm for this and this is good, McCain is for that and that is bad"!.......That's all it will take to win.
But please when you get in office, go after Rove and Bush and Cheney and hold them accountable. Don't let them walk away from the damage they have done as if it's all part of the political game. They are not above the law!!!! posted 07/04/2008 at 15:36:36

You are so right on the money on this phony issue! Clark for VP. posted 07/02/2008 at 15:28:28

In the last Presidential election there were about 109 million votes cast. 53 million for Kerry and 56 million for "stay the course" with the fool in the Whitehouse!

This was considered a huge turnout, but there were upwards to another 60 or 70 million that didn't even bother to vote! How sick is that?

Anyway, the Republicans already have 30 to 40 million votes locked in no matter who the candidate is.
This is their base and the base of all the right wing propaganda and audiences of Limbaugh, Fox etc. who's whole political education is dailey right wing talking points.
The Democrats have about the same locked in, but possibly more if the primary turnouts are an indication.

So based on these numbers there are another 25 to 30 million voters from the last election that will decide who wins. And this number could be much greater if somebody can inspire the idiots that don't vote, that it is important.

Arianna, you are right, Obama needs to inspire and lead on the BIG issues, where he is so right and McCain is so wrong, a change in Iraq, rebuilding US infastructure and creating jobs, health coverage, cutting corporate and super rich tax breaks, funding education, and preserving social security and medicare. Let him dance around FISA, NAFTA, the Death penalty and gun laws all he wants. Those issues aren't going to get him the 30 million undecided voters in the middle or the new voters! posted 07/01/2008 at 15:20:17

Great, Great, blog John Soltz. General Wesley Clark out ranks John McCain. He served in Nam saw real action, and was wounded . He headed Nato during the Bosnia problems and directed a workable solution to what at the time seemed as unsolvable as Iraq. He is a decorated, and internationally respected, proven warrior, diplomat and leader. His credentials for President far out distance those of John McCain.
And if Obama wants to win he should pick Clark as his VP. The Dems need someone with guts on the ticket, not afraid to offend the Republican lock step base of voters and the media.

Clark knows what he is talking about when he asks questions about McCain's claims that he has this great experience that qualifys him to be President. In reality, McCain has never made a executive decision about war and peace, other than the wrong one to continue to "stay the course" in Iraq!

And damn it, what is wrong with Obama, and the rest of the Democrats for not going after the media and the McCain "swiftboaters", who are saying he was out of line questioning McCain's experience?
The Dems should be shouting out in unison, "tell it like it is Wes", we support you and the truth, about McCain's campaign propaganda . posted 06/30/2008 at 16:39:56

Even more important is why did Obama reject Clark's statements???

Why aren't Democratic leaders picking up on this and supporting the heck out of Clark's statements revealing that McCain has no experience that qualifys him for President other than being around politics a long time, and having a navel command during peace times.

Here we go again, the gutless, spineless, Democratic advisors are telling their candidates to run away from the Republicans again, and Obama is pulling another Gore and Kerry

I watched that interview, and Clark came on after that loser Lieberman got half the show to compliment McCain on how much experience he had versus Obama. Then Clark came on and didn't get tough enough. He could have easily said McCain finished near the bottom of his class at the navel academy, and being a POW doesn't qualify one for the Presidency, Nor in any way does his record in the Senate or his "stay the course" solution to Iraq, but he was very low key in his critique of McCain.
Especially since Clark out ranks McCain and and has had twice as much decision making experience heading Nato and solving Bosnia. Clark for VP! Clark for VP. posted 06/30/2008 at 16:18:22

Nice try Nora, but this is real life, not fiction. Al Gore is the biggest disappointment in the history of Democratic Presidential politics! That said I would vote for him as President, over Obama or Hillary, in a minute and so would enough people to create a landslide.
And all it would have taken was a little push from the Democratic power and money brokers early on saying, "AL WE GOTTA WIN THIS TIME, WAY TOO MUCH IS AT STAKE. WITH YOUR NOBEL PRIZE AND OSCAR AND EMMY, YOU'RE A SHOE IN AND WE CAN'T TAKE CHANCES ON A BLACK MAN OR A WOMAN". PLUS AS PRESIDENT YOU CAN DO A WHOLE LOT MORE TO SAVE THE PLANET THEN AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN!

But nobody did. The Democrats took the hands down favorite off the table just as Pelosi took impeachment off the table. I'm a life long Democrat, and will vote for Obama. But this is a party that doesn't know how to win, how to lead or how to stand up to Bullys!

If the Republicans win in Nov. It will be Al's fault again. posted 06/30/2008 at 16:50:43

The real meme Rove is testing, when he describes Obama as country club, arrogant and cynical, with the good looking girl on his arm, is a code to the Republican base, straight out of Jim Crow days. He's calling him a racist word even the Huff Post censors that starts with up and ends in y. posted 06/27/2008 at 15:02:26

Here is the strategy Barack; you need to just get elected somehow. So kiss every Dem hand that has a buck in it, tell them what they want to hear, including the oh so disappointing Clintons, and then when you are in the White House do your thing and screw em if they don't like it.......Bush lowered the bar so you can always claim "executive privilege" for every thing. posted 06/27/2008 at 14:39:20

I hope you are right. posted 06/27/2008 at 15:07:05

Yes, cct84, this man has been "effective" in what he does such as create the lowest Presidential approval rating in history for his one time puppet ,W. But Republicans don't care about numbers or especially facts, they are all about Limbaugh and Hannity partisan talking points and spin. You may not have been there in the outing of Ms Plame by Rove, but one of your boys was, Scott McClellan, and not only did he write a book about it clearly indicting Rove, but he testified under oath to Congress about Rove's direct role in the outing. A real fact you overlook because it doesn't fit your neat little world of Republican knee jerk spin. Why has Rove continuously refused to testify, even now under a supeona, to Congress.
There is also plenty of evidence about Rove's roles in all of Republican prison inmate, Abramoff''s
crimes and plenty of evidence about Rove's tampering with the Justice department. But you and Rove are lucky your description of liberal's sanctimonious rage has some validity in their inablity to do nothing about it. posted 06/26/2008 at 11:55:34

Absolutely great post Mr. Moore. As a life long Democrat, it truly pains me and troubles me with so much evidence out there to nail Rove, most recently Scott McClellan's testimony under oath, about Rove's role in the Plame outing, that the Dems in Congress don't go after this guy. You can bet if the roles were reversed and Rove was a Dem, the Republicans would have him in jail.

His most recent absurd statement describing Obama as a country club, arrogant cynic, is simply racist code to the worst of the Republican base that Obama is (Huff Post censors this word) but it starts with up and ends with y. posted 06/26/2008 at 11:29:36

Boy are you old school tidefan408. I guess that was a real put down "did you come from the Soviet Union" during the cold war when you knew where to start in your political comments.

Of course then, anybody you didn't agree with was a "Commie". Whatever happened to the rest of your buddies in the John Burch Society?

The reason you don't know where to start is because, everyone of the unprecedented and damaging failures of the Bush Administration including lying us into a bankrupting war on the wrong battlefield, the recessed economy, the high cost of gas, the neglect of protecting the environment, the corruption of the Justice Dept., the outing of a CIA agent for political vengence, and the warrantless wiretaps, all had Karl Rove's deep involvement. posted 06/26/2008 at 11:18:38

THERE IS NOT A BETTER CHOICE FOR VICE PRESIDENT THAN WES CLARK!

He outranks McCain. He has no skeletons in his closet and he is literally a battle proven warrior. Something the Democrats need desperately on the ticket and in foreign policy input. posted 06/26/2008 at 12:01:03

So Moshe, what do you suppose we the people do to get justice, take to the streets!

Don't you get it? It finally dawned on me when Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court in his forst term and then won a second term with unprecedented voting corruption by the Ohio Republicans running the State's election that gave Bush the re-election in 04.
Even our votes don't count!

The Republicans with the guidance of Rove figured this out long ago. They knew if they got into power they could do whatever they wanted legal or not, with signing statements, and secrecy and especially executive privilege, and they have broken all sorts of laws and continue to, because there is no one to stop them. The people are powerless and the Democrats are spineless. And the Republicans control the media with their talking points and propaganda through Limbaugh and Hannity and their clones, through Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News network and the Wall Street Journal, through corporate ownership of the networks, through right wing evangelicals, and phony think tanks and tons of partisan columnists, such as Novak, Coulter, Wills, Brooks, and Kristol to name a few. posted 06/25/2008 at 20:57:45

I'm a lifelong Democrat and will vote for Obama in Nov. But I will do it holding my nose, since the so-called leaders of this "lesser of the two evils" party has put mis-guided political manuevering above the law and their oaths of office to defend the Constitution!

They just don't get it. Not only is it their DUTY to hold this lawless Bush Administration accountable for unprecedented criminality and incompetence, but just the EXPOSURE of all of this Republican supported and enabled corruption from the White House, in the media via inquiries and hearings and impeachment proceedings would insure a landslide Democratic victory in November.

Why Pelosi can't understand or see this, speaks to a much bigger problem the Democrats have and one the Republicans have exploited for the past 16 years, the Dems don't know how to lead! I only hope Obama changes all this. posted 06/25/2008 at 12:47:51

There is a famous old trinket that defines your political partisanship, jearsfor fears, it is that of the three monkeys, one with his hands over his ears, one with his hands over his eyes, and in your case and all the other Republican enablers, one with a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker across it's mouth! posted 06/25/2008 at 12:36:19

Wouldn't this be amazing, as you state, Obama gets elected, and the Dems tap, Karl Rove's, Rupert Murdoch's, Russ Limbaugh's, Sean hannity's, Michael Savage's, OReilly's, Ann Coulter's, Richard mellon Scaife's, Bob Novak's, the Heiritage Foundation's, The Hoover Institute's, James Dobson's Pat Robertson's and on and on, all their telephones. I now support Obama's vote, thanks ibsteve2u! posted 06/24/2008 at 17:54:50

Since when is defending the Constitution and upholding the law a negative? The Republicans impeached Clinton when he had almost a 70% approval rating and they still took Congress and the Presidency. (Although admitted, the partisan Supreme court and Al Gore's wimpiness on Florida gave them the Presidency). Obama should shout at every reporter and Republican "I took an oath of office to defend the Constitution and uphold the law. Bush is not above the law"! posted 06/24/2008 at 17:46:39

Gee, axt113, you could easily be defending Hillary's vote to give Bush the power to invade Iraq. She was also looking toward the future Presidency and didn't want to be "clubbed" if the war on the wrong battlefield actually turned out as Bush thought it would, WMDs and all. posted 06/24/2008 at 17:40:33

Excellent post, MoeB. Just when you think the Democrats finally have a candidate that stands for "truth, justice and the American Way", and maybe Obama really does, he is forced into Hillary like pragmatism by his advisors and the "gotcha media" . Besides this immunity issue, which is pretty hard to walk the fence on, he didn't show up for the recent Senate vote on "windfall taxes" for the oil companies, another position he has stated he would support in his speeches.
If we, the Dems, win the war in 09 and Obama becomes President, then we can overlook these lost battles........But if these stale, "lesser of two evil" campaign tactics by Obama and his advisors puts Bush lite, McCain,in the White House, we're all going to be kicking ourselves for taking this third strike (first Gore, than Kerry) with the bases loaded in our last at bat in the world series. posted 06/24/2008 at 17:34:28

Good post "flydoghead". The oil companies have given close to $100 million in campaign funds to Republicans over the past 7 years, and Bush and Cheney have paid them back with record breaking obscene profits,more tax breaks, and not a negative word about the retail price of gas skyrocketing from $1.25 when Bush took office to what I paid today for regular $4.59.
If anyone remembers in the 06 midterms, the oil companies reduced the price of gas at the pumps, weekly before the voting to help Republican candidates.
So now Bush in his lame duck lunacy and McCain desperate for campaign funding are turning over the last gift to the oil companies, Alaska and offshore drilling. And they are selling it to the voters as an instant fix to high gas prices and short supply. Another big lie of the Republican's "permanent campaign" strategy of governing. This is not just Obama's fight, Hillary, Pelosi, Gore, Reid and Kerry, lets hear something from you guys! posted 06/19/2008 at 14:44:28

I think about 57 million dummies voted for Bush in 04. Today I got two emails going around. One with pictures of Obama's Afro relatives in native dress or Muslim attire and attacking him as a covert jihadist. and the other one really crazy, saying he is the "Manchurian Candidate" of radical Islam that is taking over this country from the inside. This is just the beginning of the attack on Obama from the Republicans and the their "swift boating" lunatics.
I point this out because it shows a real flaw in the Democrats and their quest for the Presidency and leadership of the "free world".
Bush has more failures as President than any leader in History. McCain is a 72 year old carbon copy that will say anything, or kiss any butt to get elected. So you would think the Demos had a clear cut trip to the White house. But instead what do they do? They nominate a target for the right, with a huge racial and religious bullseye, and in second place another target with almost as big a bullseye in her legacy of political brand hatred.
While on the sidelines, giving speeches at commencement excercises, is a Nobel prize winner and Oscar winner and former Vice President and, should have been President, Al Gore.
All Gore needed was a push from the Demo powers and financiers and they chose to support Obama and Hillary. At times the evidence seems overwhelming, the Dems are unfit to lead. posted 06/16/2008 at 14:01:24

All this stuff that is comming out now with undisputable facts and evidence, in McClellan's book, recent Congressional reports and now Waxman's revelations about Abramoff's inside dealings with the White House, all point the finger directly at Karl Rove, Yet he is free as a bird and a news commentator on Fox and for Time.magazine.

The evidence is ovewhelming that Bush, Cheney and Rove lied about every issue from the build up to the war, to the outing of a CIA agent to the inside dealings with a crook such as Abramoff. And they laugh at the idea of Congrssional supeonas. Yet the media is still publishing Republican talking points on all these issues as gospel, and the spineless Democrats continue to turn the other cheek, and hold nobody in this corrupt Administration accountable for these criminal abuses of power.

This is a far bigger issue to me than Hillary's demise, and to millions of Americans like me, that demand justice and the protection of our Constitution. I want to see Rove exposed and prosecuted!
If the Republicans can impeach Clinton for lying about consensual sex, why can't the Dems nail at least Rove for his criminal activity in the white House while directing the "permenant campaign"? posted 06/09/2008 at 15:32:21

A good suggestion, but Reid is too weak to do this. Maybe if Lieberman listened to Hillary's or Obama''s pro Israel speeches today he would stop kissing Republican's butts.
How he and McCain can still support this failed and wasteful occupation of the wrong battlefield, Iraq, is simply mind boggling.
There must be some campaign payoffs involved. How can Lieberman defend a military action with no definition of victory and no definition of our enemy? I met him once and he didn't impress me as being too bright. He spoke in all political cliches. But maybe that's all you need to do to get elected in this country of voters that elected Bush twice. posted 06/04/2008 at 13:41:01

This was not a question from a reporter! It was supposedly a question from a student in the student audience. But since this is the second time it's happened in a short time, it seems pretty obvious these questioners are right wing plants. Dirty tricks are synonomous with Republicans and the radical right, and they have no boundries, when it comes to their politics. Even outing a covert CIA agent to make a political threat is now part of their playbook. posted 04/01/2008 at 15:49:51

Every day there is a new disappointment from the Democratic Party that proves why they continue to let the Republicans control the debate and the spin on every issue. The latest being Hillary supporter, Ed Rendell's IDIOTIC and DAMAGING statement yesterday that Fox News has offered the most balanced reporting to date on Hillary's nomination struggle. Better than all the other news networks.

There in a nutshell is why the Democrats have been losers, and will continue to be losers in 08. Rendell, the former head of the DNC, hasn't a clue WHO THE ENEMY IS! posted 04/01/2008 at 15:41:17

Why doesn't somebody with access to Al Gore ask him this one simple question:

DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD BE A MORE EFFECTIVE ADVOCATE FOR SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? posted 03/31/2008 at 14:06:53

Nobody is going to read a 20 page exit strategy report, especially not voters who mostly listen to sound bites. Anybody that would read that already would be opposed to this occupancy (it is not a war and the Democrats must stop going along with that label).
The Democrats have to simplify the issues of Iraq to an indictment of Bush and Cheney and Rice for putting us into this wrong battlefield. And they must demand from McCain a definiton of victory in Iraq that justifys one more dead American soldier and one more dollar spent. Because there simply is no justification the Republicans or McCain can make to show the continuation of this unwanted occupancy in the middle of a sectarian war serves the self interest of the US in any way! posted 03/31/2008 at 13:57:43

THIS IS NOT A WAR! WHO IS THE ENEMY? WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF VICTORY. IT IS A OCCUPATION AND A CIVIL WAR BETWEEN RADICAL SHIA AND SUNNIS. BUSH BROKE IT AND WE ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO FIX IT AS HE AND MC CAIN AND CHENEY AND LIEBERMAN AND ALL THE REST OF THE COVER OUR ASSES REPUBLICANS KEEP SAYING AND THE MEDIA AND THE DEMOCRATS KEEP BUYING.
WE ELECTED THESE BUMS TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR THIS COUNTRY, NOT iRAQ. IT IS NOT IN THE BEST SELF INTEREST OF THIS COUNTRY AND IT'S TAX PAYERS TO WASTE ONE MORE AMERICAN LIFE (OR iRAQI LIFE) OR TO SPEND ONE MORE PENNY OR TO CREATE ONE MORE ANTI-AMERICAN MUSLIM BY STAYING IN THIS FAILED DISASTER. WE NEED TO REMOVE FROM POWER, THE BUMS THAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS AND ANYONE THAT CONTINUES TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR THEM OR SUPPORT THEM.
WE NEED ONE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE OR LEADER TO SHOUT THIS OUT, OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
















WHAT WE NEED IS A DEMOCRAT TO STAND UP AND SHOUT THIS OUT! posted 03/28/2008 at 14:43:54

dear Foxy Lady, it is much more than a "small" chance of McCain getting elected. He is now the favorite by the latest polls versus Obama or Clinton. This means 4 more years of Bush's failed foreign policy and Republican spin that the occupation of Iraq and the lives wasted and billions spent to stabilize a religious civil war is our best defense against terrorism. Yet, all the so-called Demo leaders, are cought up in the Bush/McCain new definition of patriotism whether one admits the "surge" is successful.

Who cares if the surge is a success? What is a success on the wrong battlefield and in a civil war?

Here is the real question the Democrats and the media should be shouting at Bush and McCain:
EVEN IF THE SURGE WORKS AND THERE IS LESS VIOLENCE IN THE CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ, DOES THIS JUSTIFY THE COST IN LIVES AND DOLLARS AND THE ILL WILL TO THE U.S.? HOW DOES A SUCCESSFUL SURGE JUSTIFY THIS? posted 03/28/2008 at 14:28:05

Lets see, Al Qaeda attacked us on 9/11. Since then they were allowed to re-group, and recruit and re-arm thanks to Bush's unprecedented incompetency as Commander of our armed forces, and his invasion and occupancy of the wrong battlefield.
Now john McCain, the heir apparent to the Presidency, thanks to a brainwashed media and a pathetic Democratic opposition with zero leadership skills, wants to make this occupation of the wrong battlefield and a raging religious civil war the keystone of his 4 more years of Republican expensive and mis-guided foreign policy.
The Republicans just keep dumbing down the spin and the lap dog media accepts it. The spineless Democrats argue among themselves, and the world and it''s people suffer the consequences. posted 03/28/2008 at 13:48:49

I just don't get it? Why aren't the Dems demanding every time a mic or camera gets in front of them one thing from Bush and crew and now McCain:

What is the definition of the day ,for victory in Iraq, that the surge is working for?

And if their answer is for less violence, or stability, then ask is this worth the thousands killed and wounded and $12 billion tax dollars a month, and the $3 trillion future bill?

When did America's best interest for our money and our soldier's lives become secondary to a political cover up for a failed Presidency. posted 03/21/2008 at 15:16:49

These partisan hate talkers are simply pimps for the Republican radical right propaganda machine, that now pretty much controls the media, yet continues to cover up their enormous influence on the news by calling real facts that expose their simplistic talking point propaganda, liberal reporting.

The DNC and especially Democratic candidates just don't get how influential all this free media Republican advertising disguised as talk radio are on the dummies that listen to them.
Their dailey audience is gigantic and more than enough to get a pathetic candidate such as John McCain (who needs Lieberman to tell him the difference between a Shia and Al Qeada) elected in 08.

With 50 plus million listeners a day, who's only political education is the lies from these bums and the constant vicious attacks on all candidates and ideas, liberal, progressive or Democratic, it's no wonder that a 71 year old Republican who offers only more of the same Bush failures, lies and incompetence, is leading the Demo candidates in the latest polls.

Wake up Dems, you not only need to go after this talk radio monoply of un-American, Republican lies and hate, but you need to expose them dailey and you need to pressure their supposedly politically neutral national advertisers and media outlets to drop them or offer equal time to Dems.
This can be done easily by Hillary, or Obama or Gore or their advisors by letting the advertisers and the media outlets know if they continue this free Republican advertising and the Dems win the Presidency and Congress you will legislate their partisan bias out of existence......This is called "Political "jawboning", and Kennedy, LBJ, Reagan, all used it effectively to get their way.


posted 03/21/2008 at 15:04:32