<i>TNR</i>: GOP Convention Will Get Racist

Racism, Ignorance and Hate is all this generation of Republicans has to offer. The Republican party isn't the party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, or Eisenhower any longer.



The GOP has become a synthesis of Reagan's degenerative economic policies, Nixon's morality, and the Bush Klan's skullduggery.
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Tom Brokaw: Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann Have "Gone Too Far"

Mr Brokaw ... I have a question sir.



On September 5, 1983 you became the solo anchor of "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw"



The following is from Wiki:



"In 1986, Judges Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the Fairness Doctrine did apply to teletext but that the FCC was not required to apply it.[6] In a 1987 case, Meredith Corp. v. FCC, two other judges on the same court declared that Congress did not mandate the doctrine and the FCC did not have to continue to enforce it."



"In August 1987, the FCC abolished the doctrine by a 4-0 vote, in the Syracuse Peace Council decision, which was upheld by the Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit in February 1989."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine



Mr Brokaw, as the anchor of "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" during the time the fate of the Fairness Doctrine was being determined ... how much air time did you and NBC devote to the story?



You see ... Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann's brand of journalism is an offshoot of the Fairness Doctrine's demise ... if there is truly something wrong with their brand of journalism.



Obviously, I don't expect an answer.
About Keith Olbermann
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Union Officials: Obama Should Hit Harder On Economy, Not Worry About "Class War" Label

It's time the "let them eat cake crowd" learns that there are limits to their avarice. Obama shouldn't shy away from including discussion of class warfare in his message. It is a reality that the majority of Americans experience every day.



"Rise like lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number!

Shake your chains to the earth, like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you--

Ye are many; they are few!" - Shelly



Obama needs to tell it like it is ... everyone will recognize the truth from their own personal experience. The way forward is illuminated by truth.
About Barack Obama
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American Prayer - Dave Stewart (Barack Obama Music Video)

Saddle up ... time to get this done ... to the top of the mountain we go!!

Obama-Biden 08

Joe Biden Is Barack Obama's Vice Presidential Running Mate

I thought the people who signed up for the text were supposed to be the first to know?



Not good if you promise something and don't deliver. I like Biden, but this isn't good.
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New Bush Rule: Doctors Can Refuse To Give Women Abortions

Ah Abortion is the great moral issue of the day, but American Christians have yet to raise their voices in outrage or defense of the innocent Iraqi, men, women, children, infirm, and elders who died in the course of Bush's act of piracy in Iraq.



Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed, and not a peep out of the Nation's Righteous.



I wonder what Jesus would do?
About George Bush
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McCain Calls Lobbyists "Birds Of Prey"

Yeah sure, and he's their favorite prairie dog.
About John McCain
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<i>Obama Nation</i> Author Assailed By All Parties On <i>Larry King Live</i>

Isn't Mary Matalin married to James Carville? Isn't James Carville a Clinton Foot Soldier? Hasn't James Carville said that he now supports Obama? Didn't James Carville know what project his wife was working on with Corsi, or do they limit their pillow talk to the Sleep Number adjustment for their mattress?



In short, from where does this Corsi "book" come from? Who supports it? The GOP alone. or in concert with another well known group of "born again" Obama supporters?



I'm curious to know.
About Barack Obama
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Russia Expands Bombing Blitz Against Georgia

Be it in the United States, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Georgia, Russia, Sudan, El Salvador, Iraq, etc ... it is always the little people who suffer ... never the ones who deserve to.
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The John Edwards Affair: Accountability for New & Old Media?

Steve, I feel bad for the Edwards Family and wish that this whole thing had only been a smear. I feel bad for the overlooked constituecy, that Edwards spoke to and for, who lost a credible advocate with media access. I wonder if a few illicit trysts with a person he didn't even love was worth Edwards' chance at VP, AG, Supreme Court, or even President, not to mention the impact to his family?



Selfishly, I breathe a sigh of relief that Edwards was exposed before he was embraced by the Obama Campaign as running mate or in some other high profile role that could have distracted from Obama's race for the White House.



I am reminded that lack of wisdom is never overcome by intelligence.



But most of all, I am astounded at how Fox News - in its rabid desire to get the National Enquirer's Edwards story out - undermined the benefit the story would have had to the McCain campaign by not waiting until Obama had given Edwards a more integral campaign role. The revelation would have tainted Obama, by questioning his judgement at including Edwards, so forth and so on . That Fox News engaged in a premature attack and diminished its benefit to their cause is the most important takeaway from this whole affair.
About John Edwards
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Bush & Habbush

Mr. Kusnetz, the following provision within Executive Order 12333 may create a wall that inhibits discovery of whether or not the forgery was initiated by the White House or the CIA.



"2.7 Contracting.



Agencies within the Intelligence Community are authorized to enter into contracts or arrangements for the provision of goods or services with private companies or institutions in the United States and need not reveal the sponsorship of such contracts or arrangements for authorized intelligence purposes. Contracts or arrangements with academic institutions may be undertaken only with the contract of appropriate officials of the institution."



If the CIA and White House decide to classify outsourced forgery being created for - authorized intelligence purposes - then good luck getting to the bottom of the story.



When in 1981, William Casey steered Reagan into privatizing the CIA through Executive Order 12333, a Pandora's Box of off the books Intel Operations were made possible, and plausible deniability for the activities of the CIA and President, assured.



Without an insider from the contractor providing evidence, the story ends ... and, my hunch is, at this point, a Quija Board is probably the best way to communicate with Habbush.



http://www.tscm.com/EO12333.html
About Iraq
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Sexual Assault and the Military: When Will the Pentagon Take Action?

Paul, the article below discusses this topic as well:



Why Male Military Veterans Are Committing Sexual Assault at Alarming Rates

By Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet. Posted May 25, 2007.



http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/52339/



Outside the Philippine Bases, pre 1992, you had an R&R industry available to US Military personnel that was a virtual emporium of deviance and misogyny. When you have a culture of anything goes, where men can engage and explore any perversion they like without oversight ... you have a problem.



A guy goes into some of these Hooker Towns that cater to Military Men (they exist outside every US foreign base to be sure) and they are going to come away with some pretty bad habits. Today, places like Korea, Thailand and Okinawa, have woman and children provided to the brothels through human trafficking, and they are slaves. It is a leap of faith to believe that men who develop tastes and and a mindset of degrading woman in a Military Sex Resort, are going to abandon them when stationed with females in isolated Iraq, or even when they return stateside.



Blowback occurs when the Military allows abuse of women in one context and prohibits it in another ... not all male soldiers, to be sure, are the problem. The US Military, however, has to re-evaluate acceptable behavior towards all women, not just American, and not just in uniform, in order to avoid misogynistic imprinting on some of our troops, that can lead to abuses.
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Paris Hilton Responds To John McCain's Celebrity Ad (VIDEO)

The Old White Haired Dude that's offering his topless wife up to Bikers? That Old White Haired Dude?



The funny thing about this is that Paris so eloquently skewered McCain, both verbally and visually, that I wouldn't be surprised if the McCain Campaign comes up with a new spin every couple of hours in an effort to pull themselves out from under this viral vid. Grand Slam for Paris ... um, you know what I mean.



I also have to correct my previous assertion that Paris was, in fact, an Eloi ... with this biting response, she revealed a wee bit of Morlock, and that is commendable.
About John McCain
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<i>Washington Post</i> Fans Outrage After Misquoting Obama

About Barack Obama
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I would say this is a far more regrettable situation for Milbank than Obama ... parsing a subjects comment to change its meaning is a propagandist's game ... not a respectable journalists.

From Wikipedia:

"Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

It is hard to argue with the definition of what Mr. Milbank and his Editor at the Washington Post allowed in this case.

I would release a clarification at least if I were the Washington Post ... missteps like this reflect on the character and credibility of the paper as a whole ... and although Mr Milbank holds blogs in such low esteem, hopefully someone at the Washington Post is taking into account what is being discussed online regarding this issue. It's in their best interests.

How Much Sex Is Enough?

About Sex
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Attach a small shelf to your headboard and affix a goldfish bowl to it. When the goldfish looks freaked out and pale ... you know you have reached the limit for that session.

How Much Did McCain Pay for the Hillary Handbook?

About John McCain
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Trey, as disconcerting as this is, it was to be expected, What is truly despicable and requires attention from all Americans is the allegations that Greg Palast discusses in his latest e-mail: "In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color. In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives - overwhelming Black voters. In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor. In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure. My investigations partner spoke directly to Barack Obama about it. (When your partner is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., candidates take your phone call.) The cool, cool Senator Obama told Kennedy he was "concerned" about the integrity of the vote in the Southwest in particular. He's concerned. I'm sweating." I'm sweating too! ... Let's make sure that the overt smear tactics displayed in McCain's left hand don't detract from the covert and anti-democratic actions performed by his right hand ... the GOP

Obama Pushes Back On David Brooks

About Barack Obama
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The most important thing Obama pointed out is the partisanship that exists in the MSM ... These high priced "journalists" are anything but Neutral ... why pretend otherwise?

Krauthammer and Brooks are conservatives with a horse in the race and their commentary and observations should be evaluated with that in mind.

Military Blocks Photos Of US Dead

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The US Government and Military are telling us that things are better in Iraq ... that violence is down ... that "The Surge" is working, but what independent proof do we have that any of their statements are true?

Would Andrea Mitchell, for instance, feel comfortable taking a driver into Baghdad without a heavily armed military escort? How about sending Hannity, Rush, Savage, O'Reilly out to Iraq and let them do a walkabout without bodyguards? Would they do it? Would they bet their lives on the fact that "The Surge" is as successful as they claim?

Come on, gentle friends on the Right ... prove to we Liberals how successful we have been at improving security ... send some of your highly paid pundit heroes "in country" ... not to hangout in the Officer's Mess, but maybe even meet some Iraqi civilians in their Baghdad hamlets ... Throw Michelle Malkin out there, she's tough.

Educate us on our success.

Mortgage Crisis Suicide: Wife and Mother on Verge of Losing Home Kills Herself

About Housing Crisis
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Mr Mitchell, I saw this story and it really made me heartsick. I'm not going to be flippant and say "Oh well, there is sure to be more .. tisk,tisk,tisk". I am going to say that I am extremely angry about this whole mortgage mess and the way it is being spun as the fault of the buyer for not knowing how much they could afford. That is the most dishonest rhetoric out there and I see the Business Channel pundits push this and it really disgusts me.

I don't know the particulars of Mrs. Balderrama's plight but I can say this ... the mortgage games that have been played in the US for the last decade and a half have been so crooked as to qualify as a Bunko Scam. Even before the subprime mess I heard stories of real estate agents, in cahoots with mortgage brokers, moving large sums of money into the potential buyer's bank accounts in order for them to qualify for the loan ... the money removed after the loan was approved. In so far as the sub prime and liar loan mess ... lets' be straight here, the goal was not to get people into homes, the goal was to get mortgages that could be securitized and then moved into the credit market. That was the purpose of the whole phenomena that led to the current mortgage collapse.

And in order to get these CMOs to market, the realtors, appraisers, mortgage brokers, banks, and Federal Government used the dreams of home ownership as a weapon against those who crave the American Dream.

So, Mrs Balderrama wasn't a victim of poor money management ... she was the victim of a coordinated crime against millions of American consumers.

Ford Aims To Save Itself By Bringing Small European Cars To U.S.

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This is a pathetic, losing game for Ford ... I have an idea, why doesn't Ford try innovation?

Let's be straight here, Japanese engineers are already working in China. It is only a matter of time before the Chinese will be mass producing cheap, well designed, internal combustion engine automobiles at a price and rate of speed that the US, Japan and Europe will simply not be able to compete with ... I'm sure during the Olympic Games some of these little automotive darlings will be introduced to the World.

What Ford, GM, the American Auto Industry has to do is break with tradition and explore far-out alternatives to the Internal Combustion Engine. NOT more Hybrid crap ... a complete break with the Oil Industry ... something completely new.

If Detroit wants to stay stubbornly locked into their symbiotic relationship with Big Oil ... IT IS DOOMED!!

Americans are innovators ... so let's get our engineering talent working overtime to reinvent the wheel, for if Americans don't come up with the next break through technology, the Indians, Russians, Europeans, or Chinese most surely will and Detroit will be the odd man out again.