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Senate, Drugs and John McCain

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Senate, Drugs and John McCain

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You've probably heard about Cindy McCain stealing prescription drugs from her charity in the 1990s.


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The strange silence of Barack Obama's grandmother

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The strange silence of Barack Obama's grandmother

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Granny Dunham is the keeper of the family secrets.
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A NY Times endorsement for B Obama. All the points it makes are good points.
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October 24, 2008

Editorial

Barack Obama for President

Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.

The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.

As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.



Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.

In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.

Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.

Mr. McCain offers more of the Republican every-man-for-himself ideology, now lying in shards on Wall Street and in Americans’ bank accounts. Mr. Obama has another vision of government’s role and responsibilities.

In his convention speech in Denver, Mr. Obama said, “Government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.”

Since the financial crisis, he has correctly identified the abject failure of government regulation that has brought the markets to the brink of collapse.

The Economy

The American financial system is the victim of decades of Republican deregulatory and anti-tax policies. Those ideas have been proved wrong at an unfathomable price, but Mr. McCain — a self-proclaimed “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution” — is still a believer.

Mr. Obama sees that far-reaching reforms will be needed to protect Americans and American business.

Mr. McCain talks about reform a lot, but his vision is pinched. His answer to any economic question is to eliminate pork-barrel spending — about $18 billion in a $3 trillion budget — cut taxes and wait for unfettered markets to solve the problem.

Mr. Obama is clear that the nation’s tax structure must be changed to make it fairer. That means the well-off Americans who have benefited disproportionately from Mr. Bush’s tax cuts will have to pay some more. Working Americans, who have seen their standard of living fall and their children’s options narrow, will benefit. Mr. Obama wants to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation, restore a climate in which workers are able to organize unions if they wish and expand educational opportunities.

Mr. McCain, who once opposed President Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy as fiscally irresponsible, now wants to make them permanent. And while he talks about keeping taxes low for everyone, his proposed cuts would overwhelmingly benefit the top 1 percent of Americans while digging the country into a deeper fiscal hole.

National Security

The American military — its people and equipment — is dangerously overstretched. Mr. Bush has neglected the necessary war in Afghanistan, which now threatens to spiral into defeat. The unnecessary and staggeringly costly war in Iraq must be ended as quickly and responsibly as possible.

While Iraq’s leaders insist on a swift drawdown of American troops and a deadline for the end of the occupation, Mr. McCain is still talking about some ill-defined “victory.” As a result, he has offered no real plan for extracting American troops and limiting any further damage to Iraq and its neighbors.

Mr. Obama was an early and thoughtful opponent of the war in Iraq, and he has presented a military and diplomatic plan for withdrawing American forces. Mr. Obama also has correctly warned that until the Pentagon starts pulling troops out of Iraq, there will not be enough troops to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, has only belatedly focused on Afghanistan’s dangerous unraveling and the threat that neighboring Pakistan may quickly follow.

Mr. Obama would have a learning curve on foreign affairs, but he has already showed sounder judgment than his opponent on these critical issues. His choice of Senator Joseph Biden — who has deep foreign-policy expertise — as his running mate is another sign of that sound judgment. Mr. McCain’s long interest in foreign policy and the many dangers this country now faces make his choice of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska more irresponsible.

Both presidential candidates talk about strengthening alliances in Europe and Asia, including NATO, and strongly support Israel. Both candidates talk about repairing America’s image in the world. But it seems clear to us that Mr. Obama is far more likely to do that — and not just because the first black president would present a new American face to the world.

Mr. Obama wants to reform the United Nations, while Mr. McCain wants to create a new entity, the League of Democracies — a move that would incite even fiercer anti-American furies around the world.

Unfortunately, Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, sees the world as divided into friends (like Georgia) and adversaries (like Russia). He proposed kicking Russia out of the Group of 8 industrialized nations even before the invasion of Georgia. We have no sympathy for Moscow’s bullying, but we also have no desire to replay the cold war. The United States must find a way to constrain the Russians’ worst impulses, while preserving the ability to work with them on arms control and other vital initiatives.

Both candidates talk tough on terrorism, and neither has ruled out military action to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But Mr. Obama has called for a serious effort to try to wean Tehran from its nuclear ambitions with more credible diplomatic overtures and tougher sanctions. Mr. McCain’s willingness to joke about bombing Iran was frightening.

The Constitution and the Rule of Law

Under Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the justice system and the separation of powers have come under relentless attack. Mr. Bush chose to exploit the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, the moment in which he looked like the president of a unified nation, to try to place himself above the law.

Mr. Bush has arrogated the power to imprison men without charges and browbeat Congress into granting an unfettered authority to spy on Americans. He has created untold numbers of “black” programs, including secret prisons and outsourced torture. The president has issued hundreds, if not thousands, of secret orders. We fear it will take years of forensic research to discover how many basic rights have been violated.

Both candidates have renounced torture and are committed to closing the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

But Mr. Obama has gone beyond that, promising to identify and correct Mr. Bush’s attacks on the democratic system. Mr. McCain has been silent on the subject.

Mr. McCain improved protections for detainees. But then he helped the White House push through the appalling Military Commissions Act of 2006, which denied detainees the right to a hearing in a real court and put Washington in conflict with the Geneva Conventions, greatly increasing the risk to American troops.

The next president will have the chance to appoint one or more justices to a Supreme Court that is on the brink of being dominated by a radical right wing. Mr. Obama may appoint less liberal judges than some of his followers might like, but Mr. McCain is certain to pick rigid ideologues. He has said he would never appoint a judge who believes in women’s reproductive rights.

The Candidates

It will be an enormous challenge just to get the nation back to where it was before Mr. Bush, to begin to mend its image in the world and to restore its self-confidence and its self-respect. Doing all of that, and leading America forward, will require strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand.

Mr. Obama has those qualities in abundance. Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility.

Mr. McCain, whom we chose as the best Republican nominee in the primaries, has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians.

He surrendered his standing as an independent thinker in his rush to embrace Mr. Bush’s misbegotten tax policies and to abandon his leadership position on climate change and immigration reform.

Mr. McCain could have seized the high ground on energy and the environment. Earlier in his career, he offered the first plausible bill to control America’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Now his positions are a caricature of that record: think Ms. Palin leading chants of “drill, baby, drill.”

Mr. Obama has endorsed some offshore drilling, but as part of a comprehensive strategy including big investments in new, clean technologies.



Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He’s been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans’ patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states “pro-America.”

This politics of fear, division and character assassination helped Mr. Bush drive Mr. McCain from the 2000 Republican primaries and defeat Senator John Kerry in 2004. It has been the dominant theme of his failed presidency.

The nation’s problems are simply too grave to be reduced to slashing “robo-calls” and negative ads. This country needs sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership. Barack Obama has shown that he has all of those qualities.
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The Latest Las Vegas Odds

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The Latest Las Vegas Odds Say that Barack Obama Will be the Next President

The Daily Reckoning - Australia


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May 13, 2008

There is nothing like a national election to make you despair, sourly, of America's future.

...But what probably makes him more appealing than the other candidates is the very thing our colleague dislikes - the vagueness ... the emptiness of his speeches ... the hollowness of his remarks. Having said little; he has said little to annoy them.


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"There is No Law that Will Stop Him from Becoming the Presid

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"There is No Law that Will Stop Him from Becoming President"

The New Media Journal

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Hillary Clinton was right! Barack Obama is in so far over his unqualified head that he is getting caught up in is own tangled web of deceit before he can reach Election Day. And wife Michelle Obama just might be the person who ends his bid for the White House.

Had Howard Dean's DNC not cheated Hillary Clinton out of her nomination by silencing Florida and Michigan Clinton supporters to advance Barack Obama, we might not have the biggest story in presidential political history.

Michelle Obama finally let her anger get the best of her and as she put it, "enough is enough!"

In that audio taped phone interview, Michelle Obama lit into AP writers and editors.

Here's her statement in full context, as reported by African Press International:


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What If Obama is an Illegal Alien?

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What If Obama is an Illegal Alien?

An Odd Citizens Search For Vanishing Freedoms

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Angry Michelle

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Angry Michelle's Closet (braying)


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Newspaper shows Obama belonged to socialist party

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Newspaper shows Obama belonged to socialist party

JERUSALEM - Evidence has emerged that Sen. Barack Obama belonged to a socialist party that sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a sociaslist agenda.

Barack Obama pictured in New Party publication (see photo)

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I am sorry but they are under controls you cannot possibly come to comprehend.

Anything from AI to elitist idealism or even this:


http://www.dumpalink.com/videos/Insane- ... -0b83.html



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Some of McCain's Black Relatives Support Obama

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Some of McCain's Black Relatives Support Obama

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In the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss. where the ancestors of Sen. John McCain owned enslaved Africans on a plantation, black, white and mixed-race family members unite every two years for their Coming Home Reunion, on the land where the plantation started. (see photos)

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The Washington insider who made Obama rich

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The Washington insider who made Obama rich

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"I find again and again that most people - not all people - have saving graces, and if you care to, you can find those and enjoy them." (see photos)

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Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

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Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

Columnist Looks at Biased Election Coverage & the Reasons why

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Obama's agenda is so 'gay'

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Obama's agenda is so 'gay'

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In 2004, Obama called DOMA an "abhorrent law" and said, "The repeal of DOMA is essential. . . . For the record" he continued, "I opposed DOMA in 1996.

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Prophet predicts spaceships to appear in support of Obama

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Prophet Yahweh predicts spaceships will appear on Oct. 31st in support of Obama

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Prophet Yahweh, Seer of Yahweh, Master UFO Caller says that on October 31, 2008, superhuman black men, from other planets, will appear in their spaceships and hover over his UFO Summoning School for three days as a sign that all Americans should vote for Obama. (see photo of Prophet

Many URL's at Prophet's website..

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The Hand Pulling Obama's Biggest Strings (see images)

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The Hand Pulling Obama's Biggest Strings

"The technotronic era involves the appearance of a controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values." (see images)

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That last peice comes from Real Jew News. The Anti-Defamation League has this to say about Brother Nathaniel: Financial Crisis Sparks Wave of Anti-Semitism.

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Leftists: Obama's Useful Idiots

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Leftists: Obama's Useful Idiots

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A major problem with Obama is that there are as many different versions of Obama as there are leftist pundits and there are legions of them.

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My Mother's Birth Certificate - And Barack's

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My Mother's Birth Certificate - And Barack's

Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author

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Meanwhile, as legal challenges proceed at warp speed, and Mr. Obama's lawyers scramble to avoid the Scandal of the Century, one thing remains intractably the same: Mr. Obama still hasn't produced proof of his U.S. citizenship.

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The Silent Debates

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Commentary: Obama breaks promise on campaign finance

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Commentary: Obama breaks promise on campaign finance

by Campbell Brown, CNN

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One year ago, he made a promise. He pledged to accept public financing and to work with the Republican nominee to ensure that they both operated within those limits.

On this issue today, former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, an Obama supporter, writes in the New York Post, "a hypocrite is a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue -- who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. And that, it seems to me, is what we are doing now." (see video)

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Your New President, Zbig Brother

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Your New President, Zbig Brother

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As I write, little more than a week remains before E-day on which most Americans will vote. Nerves are being fearfully wracked. Even people who are usually somnolent say they can't take the stress. There is a real danger that, unaddressed, the frustration of choosing between a Communist illegal alien raised by a Communist sex pervert and a POW traitor who is a Soviet front man could lead to an...

Your next President has already been selected. Didn't you know?

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Very interesting article. And now I can really relax.
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Shahrazad wrote:
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Very interesting article. And now I can really relax.
Shah,

I've met him on a few occasions.

PS - Like I've said elsewhere, I've never voted for President, beginning in 1972 (Nixon - McGovern). It's so fixed (with the Establishment candidates), what's the point?

I only go for House, Senate, state and local slates.



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Survey: McCain beating Obama in Israel

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Survey: McCain beating Obama in Israel

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JERUSALEM - An Israeli pollster says that if the country were on the U.S. election map, it would be bright red.

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