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Jul 1, 7:52pm

My Way News - Obama disowns critique of McCains military record: Jul 1, 7:27pm 1 review politics
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080701/D91KSSR00.html; Disappointed with Obama:

Democrat Barack Obama rejected a retired general's suggestion that Republican John McCain's military experience didn't necessarily qualify him to be president, as GOP surrogates lined up to label the remarks indecent and disrespectful.

Had a chance to be reasonable. Clark is 100% correct. McCain's service, while honorable, does NOT qualify him as President any more than Bush's service or Cheney's service. It is a non-issue and Clark is merely pointing that out. The whole rhetoric of disrespect or indecent is just that, empty rhetoric - politics as usual.

Obama missed an opportunity to take the high-road, the thoughtful road, the truthful road ... he succumbed to media pressure and that is why I doubt he will be able to make any difference in fixing our broken government even if elected.

The media, the GOP hard-liners, the corporations are so embedded, so in control of the government that he will be dogged every step, or in their view, ever misstep until he just caves in. McCain will tow the line like a good little soldier, Obama will be strangled by it.

I mentioned hope earlier in my blog. In the end, I really have none to speak of. This example is just proof of why we shouldn't get our hopes up.

Obama or not, there's no help coming.

We're just fucked. Hope you can speak Chinese.

The Hills Blog Briefing Room & Webb: McCain Should Calm Down on Using Military …: Jul 1, 7:25pm 2 reviews politics
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/07/01/webb-mccain-should-calm-down-on-us...; From Sen Jim Webb:

He continued: "And John McCain's my long-time friend, if that is one area that I would ask him to calm down on, it`s that, don't be standing up and uttering your political views and implying that all the people in the military support them because they don't, any more than when the Democrats have political issues during the Vietnam War. Let's get the politics out of the military, take care of our military people, or have our political arguments in other areas."

Amen brother. I am one veteran who adamantly opposes McCain and the GOP's misuse of the military.

Webb rocks, love the guy!

Bloomberg.com: News: Jun 30, 12:07pm 1 review economics
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aLr71mSZqOLI; "Avoid the dollar at all costs"

~ Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings

I ask again ... why are there ANY "conservatives" left in America?

Oh yeah ... as long as abortion and gay rights are sold as immoral, the fat cats can continue to rape us.

Americans .... simpletons.

Iraq fails to ink deals with global oil majors: Jun 30, 11:53am 1 review capitalism, war-of-oil
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080630153946.v5pos49w&show_article=1; What do YOU think the invasion was about?

Iraq said on Monday that it had failed to sign technical support deals with global oil majors hoping to cash in on boosting the war-torn country's extensive but underexploited oilfields.

Iraq is still negotiating with Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Total, and a consortium of other smaller oil companies, to develop six oil blocks and two gas fields, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani told a press briefing.

"We did not finalise any agreement with them because they refused to offer consultancy based on fees as they wanted a share of the oil," he said.

Any questions?

Dead soldiers ... for profit.

And they want to open more offshore area. But, there's some 68 million square miles of un-used area already ... why isn't THAT being pursued?

Big oil, and Cheney, want to grab all they can prior to Bush leaving the White House. Just getting the approval for the offshore regions, and then there's Iraq.

Can it be any more obvious?

Raped. Bush's legacy? The president who did not begin to rape us, he only "emboldened the enemy" as they love to tell us ... that enemy being Cheney, big oil, the top of the top capitalist pricks who have sold our country out from under us.

Iraq had NOTHING to do with terrorism, but now that we have created a potential terrorist haven there, and now that we have "emboldened" Iran by making them the dominant power in the region ... well, we can ensure a long term presence which ensures long term profits.

It is so apparent.

Obvious.

And what to Americans do?

Shop.

Democrat with military background assails McCain&039;s credentials - Internation…: Jun 29, 12:53pm 12 reviews politics
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/29/america/campaign.php; Hmmm .... liking Wesley Clark!

When the interviewer, Bob Schieffer, noted to Clark that McCain had been shot down over Hanoi, Clark replied, "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president."

When Schieffer then asked what executive responsibility Obama had held - the Democrat's resume includes work as a community organizer in Chicago and eight years in the Illinois legislature - Clark said that Obama was running on the strength of his character and good judgment.

Note the difference. McCain gets a pass on his ability to lead the military based on his service - McCain CLAIMS this ability and authority, Obama does not make the claim, he only claims sound judgment and good character AND that he had it right on Iraq from the beginning. McCain makes a false claim and rides his POW status, a tragic experience yes, but not a pass. But this language (below) is WAY off:

Brian Rogers, of the McCain campaign, was quick to hit back in a release: "If Barack Obama's campaign wants to question John McCain's military service, that's their right. But let's please drop the pretense that Barack Obama stands for a new type of politics. The reality is, he's proving to be a typical politician who is willing to say anything to get elected, including allowing his campaign surrogates to demean and attack John McCain's military service record."

Where is there ANY demeaning or attack language on McCain's service? That is not the point, but McCain's approach to this is to wave his "pass" around and say what a hero he is.

What should be at issue is not who has the ability, NEITHER has this particular experience .... actually leading ... rather, what should be discussed is who has the apparent judgment and demeanor, who has the right policy to lead, who will listen and use the military as it was intended, to keep us safe ... something that has been abused by Bush, CHENEY, and the GOP. McCain wants the GOP torch to carry on, therefore the answer to who?

Obama ... clearly.

The CBS exchange came a day after McCain made one of his sharper assaults on Obama's character, telling Republican donors in Louisville that "apparently on several items, Senator Obama's word cannot be trusted."

And then we go here ............ contrived NONSENSE. Trust is a word best left out of the debate. McCain has far more to answer for than Obama, far more. This is a wild claim by a soulless McCain and his staff.

Clark might be a great choice for VP! He's a great dude.

One country .......................... one.

John Ridley: When Rove Calls Obama Arrogant, He Means: Jun 29, 10:59am 6 reviews activism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/when-rove-calls-obama-arr_b_109639....; "When Rove Calls Obama Arrogant, He Means "Uppity."

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide: Jun 28, 5:25pm 1 review politics
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aq_sRQH22HdY&refer=worldwide; Complete bullshit, the "prophecy's" root:

OPEC President Chakib Khelil predicted that the price of oil will climb to $170 a barrel before the end of the year, citing the dollar's decline and political conflicts.

Here's the problem, as I've described and as NPR similarly describe a couple of days ago.

What happens is this guy, Khelil, "predicts" oil's price, then speculators at the Mercantile and elsewhere begin to bid FUTURES based on the prediction which causes the "prediction" to come true.

So who makes money? Khelil, oil producers, speculators, big oil.

Who loses? Everybody else.

It is complete bullshit but the news would have you think there is nothing to be done about it. If Khelil said prices were likely to drop to $100 per barrel, that also would happen, but he won't and we all suffer. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, nothing more.

Yes, this is simplified, greatly, but that is essentially how it works.

The rich get richer, the rest get fucked again.

Welcome to globalized America where profit is king.

Jun 28, 12:38pm: Spot on, Abe!

What's The Big Idea?: Comment: The New Yorker: Jun 27, 5:43pm 3 reviews politics
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/06/30/080630taco_talk_wickenden/; Nice Obama Piece:

The general consistency of Obama's policy views - with an occasional bald deviation, as on the public funding of his campaign - is a contrast to John McCain's erratic shape-shifting. McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts as skewed toward the rich, and unsustainable; now he wants to extend them forever. He co-sponsored a relatively humane immigration bill; now he disowns it. He deplored the torture of detainees at Guantanamo; now he attacks the Supreme Court's decision granting them the constitutional right to challenge in federal court their continued detention as "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country."

Over the years, Obama has carefully calibrated his political message, and he has won a grudging respect among some conservatives. In The New Republic, Bruce Bartlett, a Treasury official in the Reagan and Bush p�re Administrations, writes that "Obamaicons" - libertarians, disillusioned neoconservatives, even a few supply-siders - have been pushed "into Obama's arms." In The American Conservative, Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of international relations and history at Boston University, complains, "To believe that President John McCain will reduce the scope and intrusiveness of federal authority, cut the imperial presidency down to size, and put the government on a pay-as-you-go basis is to succumb to a great delusion."

Let us see that again ...

"To believe that President John McCain will reduce the scope and intrusiveness of federal authority, cut the imperial presidency down to size, and put the government on a pay-as-you-go basis is to succumb to a great delusion."

~Andrew J. Bacevich (conservative)

And then summed up nicely ...

Obama will not rouse voters by getting lost in a tussle with McCain over the virtues of cellulosic ethanol. He can, however, make voters part of the solution by helping them understand that the greedy oil companies, the failing auto industry, and the craven Congress will not redeem themselves until consumers demand that they do so by making some inconvenient changes of their own. A little more audacity will yield a lot more hope.

I think Obama will do just that, at least I hope so. McCain is so sold-out, he simply cannot defend himself if the extent of his sell-out is really portrayed well.

Go Obama Go!

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