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The "Let's Not Talk About How We Got Here" Comment When the Crisis ...
How many times in the sordid history of the Bush Administration do we have to hear the dreaded words, "Let's not talk about how we got here." Sure, let's skirt over the facts and dwell on the kind of glasses Sarah Palin has or what Obama's Pastor has to say about America. Fox News correspondents and anchors are excellent at dishing out this blind advice. This has to be the calling card for an administration living in the depths of a demented Existentialism that is thankfully going to end in several months. Didn't somone say that those who aren't good stewards of history are prone to repeat it. How many times in the sordid history of the Bush Administration do we have to hear the dreaded words, "Let's not talk about ... more
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Have the Hard Core Christians Driven America into the Ground
After 8 years of the Bush Administration and the trumpet blasts of christianity and morality from the right-wing, have they finally wounded America so badly that it will never go away. So adamant to flaunt their moral clout, the christians gladly elected twice an Administration that has shed more blood and blank checks that any other in history. Is this the civilized, moral god-loving leadership they talk about so highly all the time and crave in the McCain/Palin baton hand-off? After 8 years of the Bush Administration and the trumpet blasts of christianity and morality from the right-wing, have they finally wo... more
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Financial Crisis Update: Karma's a Bitch
The fact that the Bush Administration has added yet another woe to this country is deplorable. Shame on all those piggies cashing in our hard earned money. What's happening in this country is sick and this November is our chance to rectify a bit of all this damned pain we are enduring. The line at the end of Wilco's 'Misunderstood' is screaming through the streets of America these days: 'I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR NOTHING!'. The fact that the Bush Administration has added yet another woe to this country is deplorable. Shame on all those piggies cashing in o... more
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Prophesy of Burnt Toast Reveals OBAMA 08
Prophesy of Burnt Toast Reveals OBAMA 08 is becoming to be true already...ever since I uploaded the video to youtube, Obama's ratings have taken off again! This may be a funny joke, but when you think about reality and use the laws of attraction, anything, and I mean anything is possible in our world. So stop thinking about McSame!!!! OBAMA 08!!! Prophesy of Burnt Toast Reveals OBAMA 08 is becoming to be true already...ever since I uploaded the video to youtube, Obama's rat... more
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Palin is Proof that There is Something Worse than Bush
1.20.09 was a momentous notion prior to the knowledge that a fallen McCain in his first term could equal something worse than George W. Bush if things go south in this November's election. 1.20.09 was a momentous notion prior to the knowledge that a fallen McCain in his first term could equal something worse than George W... more
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The gospel according to Jim Lehrer and Dan Rather
The Real News offers a behind-the-scenes look into scripted politics and Media journalism as cooperative players with two of it's most well known news anchors.
Conventions and their coverage have changed. The Real News offers a behind-the-scenes look into scripted politics and Media journalism as cooperative players with two of it's... more -
Palin is Proof that Religion and Politics Don't Mix
If the conservative, christian right did not learn anything from being lead into a cage for the past eight years with religious promises, then Sara Palin is the ultimate payoff. This Vice Presidential nomination is yet another reason that the American democracy has tried to make a clean separation of religion and state. If the conservative, christian right did not learn anything from being lead into a cage for the past eight years with religious promis... more
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It's square to be round
What was round is squared off. Nobody like a circle anymore. Why not?
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Rat Park - Where contented rats go to play
It seems that happy rats don't fall prey to the dangers of drug addiction. Maybe we are waging war on the wrong guy once again. Perhaps the WMDs are the living conditions and not the drugs. It seems that happy rats don't fall prey to the dangers of drug addiction. Maybe we are waging war on the wrong guy once again. ... more
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Obama VP name game: back to the future
Who is Tim Kaine again? Evan Bayh? How do you pronounce it - buy, bay, byeh? Would you recognize their faces in a crowd? Do you know anything about them? Me neither. At least not until recently.
Every four years wild, erroneous reporting fuels the 'Veepstakes' guessing game:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28118-20...
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle+articl...
I can't believe a smart guy like Barack would actually pick a 'no-name' running mate - given that he is technically still a n00b and his opponent has been a household name-brand pwner for decades: http://www.mahalo.com/John_mccain_scandals
There is a simple reason two family names have occupied the whitehouse for the last 20 years - it has little to do with campaigns or policy - and everything to do with name recognition.
So, I climbed into my my Delorean, traveled back a few years, and conducted a broad cross-section poll to determine what percentage of Americans were even vaguely familiar with the following names or faces before the current campaign season:
Evan Bayh: less than 1%
Tim Kaine: less than 2%
Sam Nunn: less than 3%
Kathleen Sebelius: less than 2%
Chuck Hagel: less than 10%
Joe Biden: more than 65%
Barack Obama: less than 2%
John McCain: more than 65%
*Polling excludes residents from the same state as the elected official. Imaginary margin of error +/- 4.7%
The correct VP choice is pretty frikin obvious - don't believe the hype. Who is Tim Kaine again? Evan Bayh? How do you pronounce it - buy, bay, byeh? Would you recognize their faces in a crowd? Do you know ... more -
Kansas City: A Personalized Essay
A city means something different to everyone .. Kansas City is just that kind of city. This video essay weaves through a day and night recollection of a town one man calls home. A city means something different to everyone .. Kansas City is just that kind of city. This video essay weaves through a day and night... more
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Obama's Smart Campaign
For the first time in a very long time, a good political candidate is having a good campaign run. The Obama campaign has consistently addressed issues prevalent in the American mood or the media in a smart, worthwhile way. From his recent travels to Europe/Middle East to prove his foreign relations muscle to making pointed speeches about race, Obama has been the apex of intelligent campaign tactics. It's about time a candidate addresses prevalent issues in America and does it aptly. For the first time in a very long time, a good political candidate is having a good campaign run. The Obama campaign has consistently ... more
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Are Fuel Costs Deliberately Skyrocketting to Curb our Amerian Addiction
In light of the miles saved and plunge in using gasoline in the past several months, have the rising fuel costs been a part of a secret agenda to reshape America's dependency on fossil fuels. Beyond the profits garnered by oil executives and wars waged, are we seeing a silver lining in getting rid of SUV's and finding alternative ways to power our lives. Finally, are Americans not logical and thrifty enough without emergency to downgrade their huge vehicles and gas dependency in order to spurn a huge modern movement to move away from our oil addiction .. In light of the miles saved and plunge in using gasoline in the past several months, have the rising fuel costs been a part of a secre... more
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Take a break to join Charleen Touchette of Mixed Blood Radio, for a virtual cup of tea or coffee in historic Santa Fe to chat, reflect on the weather, art, raising children, living green, world politics and keeping creativity flowing in a challenging world.
Check One Earth Blog as the mood moves you for new thoughts, pictures, viewpoints, radio interviews, video, art and links several times each week.
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Check out One Earth Blog for news on Touchette's work with TouchArt Books, Russell Means and the Oppressionist Art Movement, Martin Luther King III and the Realizing the Dream Poverty in America Initiative and Bill Brown at New Mexico Global Warming.
With each decision, we each can be part of the solution.
We share one earth.
Like a stone dropped into a pool of water, every action has a ripple effect.
ONE EARTH - THINK ABOUT/ACT LIKE IT.
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Clinton fanatics!
I saw an interesting article from Sam Stein of The Huffington Post.
So funny and sad at the same time
Eating A Reuben Amidst A Crowd Of Protesting Clintonites
May 31, 2008 06:54 PM
When is a Reuben sandwich not just a Reuben sandwich? When one eats it amidst a denizen of rabidly committed, frequently vitriolic, and unapologetically devoted Hillary Clinton supporters.
The scene at Harry's Pub in the Marriott Hotel, downstairs from the site of the Rules and Bylaws Committee hearing, was emblematic of the double-edged sword that has become the Democratic primary. One the one hand was the political passion: the willingness to stand in solidarity over the idea of counting the votes in Michigan and Florida, even if such a protest was scheduled on a Saturday under torrential rain.
On the other hand were the battered emotions: the ardent vows to not support Sen. Barack Obama under any circumstances, the insistence that every insidious rumor concerning the Illinois Democrat was grounded in fact, the belief that the party itself had conspired in an effort to tear down the Clintons.
With half a dozen flat screen televisions turned to CNN, it was not difficult to ascertain just where the political and emotional center of the crowd stood. A table of three women did not deal in discretion. A sampling of their punditry:
"[Obama] is a cult. His campaign is an anti-woman cult."
"I will actively campaign against him."
"You know who is backing him is George Soros. It'll be George Soros, not Obama, who is running the country."
"South Dakota is totally rigged for Obama because of Tom Daschle. Obama's going to win South Dakota because he's buying it and rigging it."
"[Obama] is a socialist! You know what the Nazi Party was before it was the Nazi Party? It was the Socialist Party."
It was not all that different from the mood outside, where signs read, "At least slaves were counted as 3/5ths a Citizen," and some pamphlets detailed Obama's supposed dealings in drugs and gay sex. The latter being handed out by Larry Sinclair, the youtube opportunist who has claimed to have had an affair with the Senator.
"Would you rather have a president who had an affair [Bill Clinton] or one who was a murderer [Obama]?" Eve Fairbanks, a reporter with The New Republic, was asked by one protester.
Back in Harry's, passions did not ebb. Amidst the chatter came raucous cheers for any Clinton surrogate whose face popped up on the television screen. They were countered by derisive boos when CNN cut to a clip of DNC Chairman Howard Dean. It didn't matter what he said. You couldn't hear it over the crowd's hissing.
I approached a group of Clinton supporters sitting at the bar to pinpoint, exactly, the foundation of their emotions. Almost unanimously they agreed that if Florida and Michigan weren't seated in their entirety, they would never vote for Obama.
As women, were they comfortable with a candidate like John McCain who could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade?
"Oh don't pull that argument," said Valerie Duhaime of Florida. "Obama did not support a filibuster of [Supreme Court Justice Samuel] Alito and he was for [Chief Justice] John Roberts before he was against him."
Within the pub's confines, Obama was not the only persona non grata. The media, too, occupied a dark place in the crowd's heart. The group at the bar went through a litany of websites that they no longer read -- including the Huffington Post. "I only watch the BBC," said Duhaime. "We are outsourcing the fourth estate."
Shortly after revealing my publication, I was turned away. No worries, my lunch, a Reuben sandwich, had arrived. I pulled up my chair to the table and sat down to eat. Minutes later a chant began around me.
"HuffPost sucks! HuffPost sucks!" and later, "Fox News, fair and balanced! Fox News, fair and balanced!" I saw an interesting article from Sam Stein of The Huffington Post. So funny and sad at the same time ... more -
my letter to Hillary Clinton
I'm sure your far too busy of a woman right now to read this but if you do I just want you to know a few things.
I'm in Michigan and when it came time to vote in our primary i was informed by you, Barack and the DMC that delegates weren't being seated. It wasn't a concern of yours at the time because as far as most people knew, you had this nomination sewed up.
I wasn't given a fair shot to vote and please don't insult my intelligence by saying Barack Obama fought against a recount.
Most of us are smart enough to know about the rules, how they were broken and how you and Obama had nothing to say against it at the time. Now I see you yesterday in Florida comparing this situation to the 2000 election when the nomination was stolen. When you talk about Florida and Michigan being screwed over its obvious that your only speaking of the ones that voted for you. What do you have to say about the Obama supporters that didnt even get a chance at a fair primary? If delegates are seated how is that fair to them? If the citizens of Michigan thought that the rules would possibly change or that delegates were going to be thrown in at the last minute do you honestly think things would be the same?
Im an Obama supporter and I will still vote for you if you get the nomination. Unlike 41% of your Kentucky supporters that say they will vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee.
Now do you just want to sit back and claim that as your base or will you denounce the obvious disastrous thinking of Kentucky and WV voters? Please show the rest of the left that your not trying to get McCain in the white house if you lose the nomination. If Barack loses in November you can run again in 2012 as opposed to 2016. Its what a lot of people are thinking and besides that Its what Ive heard directly from the mouth of some of your supporters. I had one lady tell me she would actually take four years of McCain if it meant you get to run again in 2012. Am I missing something here or am I right to think that McCain in the white house would destroy this country beyond repair.
Im not asking you to drop out of the race because im sure Obama supporters wouldn't want that if he was in your shoes. All im asking is that you do whatever you can to ensure that Obama can beat McCain in the fall. If you turn uninformed voters in Florida and Michigan against him the democratic party will never rebound from it. I'm sure your far too busy of a woman right now to read this but if you do I just want you to know a few things. ... more -
Geraldine Ferraro has lost her mind!
I cant figure out who's more delusional Hillary or Geraldine
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Barack Returns to Iowa (full speech)
Another great speech If you cant hear this your just def
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Can Clinton win?
Tonight Barack Obama clinched the majority of the pledged delegates. If for some miracle Hillary Clinton was nominated, It would mean that the nomination was taken away from the leader in pledged delegates. That would tear this party apart beyond repair.
Would somebody please tell me how Hillary Clinton can win this nomination?
I think its over by June 3rd. Does anyone have something to say about this that falls anywhere near reality? Tonight Barack Obama clinched the majority of the pledged delegates. If for some miracle Hillary Clinton was nominated, It would mean... more -
The Race on Race!
The democratic primary all comes down to one simple factor.
Race
41 percent of Clinton supporters in Kentucky say they would vote for McCain if Obama wins the nomination. In southern states like Kentucky, with a white population of over 80 percent, Clinton gets her win. In West Virginia over 90 percent of the voters were white and we are supposed to think that this is some sort of reflection of a movement in the democratic party. The thing that kills me is the fact that a lot of Clinton supporters are aware of this. I say a lot but not a majority of. I honestly think that the majority of Clinton supporters will join the fight with Obama. The ones that wont support him will consist of mostly of racists, sexists or people who are simply unaware of the consequence of a John McCain presidency. The democratic primary all comes down to one simple factor. Race ... more
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