Bring It On!

Bob Barr for President

Run Bob Run!

At last! Now, conservatives have a CHOICE! As they say on the Right, the White House is currently being fought over by two Democrats and a Communist.

Let’s face it, McCain is just another Big Government tax-and-spend liberal. He even sponsored legislation for Communist Indoctrination Campaign Finance Reform! Sure he’s “changed his mind” now, but can we ever trust him again?

McCain has been divorced and remarried. And that’s not all — he swears and takes the Lord’s name in vain. Are these the Family Values we want in the White House?

On the other hand, Bob Barr was one of the ringleaders of Bill Clinton’s impeachment. He spoke for millions of decent Americans when he expressed his utter shock — horror! — that the President of the United States could have an affair.

And now Bob Barr is running for President. [swoon] Finally, we have a chance to elect a president who stands for Family Values and Limited Government.

In 2000, liberals had a real choice — Ralph Nader. Conservatives only had one option: Republican George W. Bush. And we all know there’s no difference between the two parties. But millions of liberals were able to assuage their consciences by voting for their ideal candidate.

And now it’s our turn. Millions of us will have a chance to vote for Libertarian Bob Barr instead of Republican Lite McCain. Isn’t this great?!?!?!?!?

Check out this hilarious video: Sean “Dude Where’s My Forehead” Hannity throwing a hissyfit at Bob Barr.

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Racism, Avoidance, and Hanging that Darky from a Tree

I read this entire article through, and really, while not what you hope to see, hardly surprising. That’s something Progressives would do well to factor. It’s not a Southern thing, it’s an American thing, and anybody who has had the good fortune to live in more than one area of our country is well aware of, racism is region-blind.

Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One night was all she could take: “It wasn’t pretty.” She made 60 calls to prospective voters in Susquehanna County, her home county, which is 98 percent white. The responses were dispiriting. One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn’t possibly vote for Obama and concluded: “Hang that darky from a tree!” — Wapo

Overt racism is easier to deal with; more of us are distressed by it than condone it. Once out, it just lays there like a big pile of reeking poop, needing attention. When the campaign gets reactions like this, I’m actually pretty happy. It shakes people up, reminds them what racism actually IS. It puts it back into their faces. When you drive by a traffic stop that was the result of racial profiling, without seeing the intent, knowing the ugly, you can drive by with your psyche unmolested. Hearing people yell “niggers” at campaign volunteers on primary election day is a lot harder to rationalize away. This is where a lot of us are. We want racism gone, and as long as it isn’t in OUR faces, it pretty much is. That is about to change; we’re going to see a lot more overt racism between now and November. I never thought I’d consider hate healthy, but this country needs this. We need to stop seeing sparkle ponies and get a grip.

The campaign released this statement in response to questions about encounters with racism: “After campaigning for 15 months in nearly all 50 states, Barack Obama and our entire campaign have been nothing but impressed and encouraged by the core decency, kindness, and generosity of Americans from all walks of life. The last year has only reinforced Senator Obama’s view that this country is not as divided as our politics suggest.” — Wapo

The fact that Obama is focusing on what’s working is simple logistics. Is flaying overt racism going to move the candidacy forward? Not thinking so, at least not from where I’m watching. Can real progress be made by simply winning the Whitehouse and doing a decent job? Sure, that will influence some of the less blatant, the “show me’s” of the “us and them” crowd. (Changing them revolutionizes the next generation too.) Are some people never going to get it, for whatever short-sighted, low self-esteem, bigoted upbringing they had and now pass along?

Bingo.

Let’s accept that. It’s everywhere, and it’s real. By focusing on getting to the place where forward motion can be obtained is the first logical step in securing what this country is long overdue for… a genuine attitude adjustment. I’d like to see us in 8 years. I believe we will be better. Not finished, but hopefully seeing things as they are for a change– one change of many.

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John Yoo, the Torture King speaks..

It wasn’t easy to read this article. I have an over-powering hatred for the man. The following section just made my blood run cold:

It seems grotesque, doesn’t it? To sit in a comfortable classroom as the future lawyers of America clack away on their laptops, parsing definitions with the man whose legal mind turned America into a torturing nation?

Grotesque doesn’t even begin to cover it pal. That is sumbitch actually gets to enjoy his 15 minutes of fame smacks of hell on earth to me. Why isn’t he on trial? Why isn’t he explaining this shit in front of a whole bunch of Congress critters? Why in the blue hell isn’t he languishing in a cell like the people in Gitmo..without due process?

Yoo is evil..pure unadulterated evil. That we would torture people who have done nothing blows apart everything we stand for as a nation. That we would torture them without even providing them due process is enough to get Yoo and his cronies into the final level of Dante’s Inferno.

” Yoo also wrote the memo that put the “enemy combatant” label on Padilla. As a result, the lawsuit claims, Padilla was held without charges for three years and eight months, completely alone under twenty-four-hour camera surveillance, with his windows blacked out and no clock or radio or TV to help him mark time. Sometimes the lights were left on for days, sometimes he was left in the dark for days, sometimes the cell was extremely hot, sometimes extremely cold. His sleep was constantly interrupted and he was threatened with death and given disorienting drugs and shackled and forced into stress positions for hours at a time. Whenever he was moved, he wore a blindfold and noise-canceling headphones to reinforce his isolation and helplessness. After a few years of this intentional effort to break his will and destroy his mind, Padilla was given to “involuntary twitching and self-inflicted scratch wounds” and his jailers often observed him weeping in his cell, so broken and passive that he had become “like a piece of furniture.”

Like a piece of furniture. This is a human being, and one I might add, that was never proven to have done anything against the United States or it’s citizens.

John Yoo plants his vile logic into the minds of our next generation of lawyers.

How does he sleep at night? Has he rationalized all the guilt away? I will have to finish reading it later…I feel I need a shower NOW and I haven’t even gotten past the first page.

Crossposted at Sirens Chronicles

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This is your GOP on Drugs

What do you get when you’re losing, want to copy the winner’s message and are too lazy to do, erm, what’s that called again? Oh yeah, RESEARCH. So, what do you get?

You get the GOP. From Huffpo:

Leave it to the tone deaf GOP to find a way of attaching themselves to this election cycle’s “change” mandate that simultaneously reinforces the fact that their failed policies have messed up the world to such an inhuman extent that many Americans now live their daily lives in a state of free-floating panic and paralyzing anxiety.

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What the GOP doesn’t seem to realize, because they are idiots, is that “the change you deserve” is the registered advertising slogan of Effexor XR, a drug that many of you might have started taking as a result of all the…you know — terrorism. (Hat tip to Bluestem for catching this gem.)

Effexor, also known as Venlafaxine, is approved for the treatment “of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults.” Its common side effects are very much in keeping with the world the House Republicans have striven to build: nausea, apathy, constipation, fatigue, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, sweating, memory loss, and - and I swear I am not making this up - “electric shock-like sensations also called ‘brain zaps.’”

Oh, I’ve got your brain zap, pal. His name is Obama. It’s a continual source of amusement to me to see the scramble to rig up some sort of pig called change and foist it out there like “change” is some kind of magic genie dust word that will automatically make people forget being lied into a war costing trillions while tax cuts for wealthy, a nose-diving dollar, corporate bailouts, unfettered spying, lying and torture, sellout crap like the Dubai port fiasco, a recession, and no health insurance for kids happened.

Change is not a slogan, dude; it’s Middle America’s gut check. There is no way in hell you can dress up the GOP and expect the majority to dance with it. America is dumping you, sweetie. Go lie to (and with) somebody else for the next 30 years.

Take two Effexor while you’re at it. Bzzzzzzzzzzt - brain zap!!

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KKK Spokesman Endorses John McCain for President

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Hillary accepted & signed the DNC rules barring MI & FL

Wonder if she’ll adhere to all our treaties in the same fashion?

Hillary — Ready to lie on day one!!!!

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“Hey sister, meet the sisters”

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets Obama supporter Doris Smith during a campaign stop at Tudor’s Biscuit World in Charleston, W. Va. Monday, May 12, 2008. “Oh, I didn’t want to do this,” Smith said, embarrassed, who was wearing the Obama T-shirt as Clinton walked into the restaurant. “I didn’t know she was going to be here.” (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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Politics, War and Our Troops

At the time that this article is written 4,071 American families have lost a loved one in the war that our nation is in. Many of the kids fighting in this war will eventually face the same politics that our troops in Vietnam faced. As someone writing from a liberal perspective I want it known that my thoughts against the war are not against any of our troops in any single way. They are political thoughts to hopefully bring them all home safe and sound.

As a child I was the son of a WWII Navy veteran that served as a medic attached to the Marines. All of my life I wondered why my father never wanted any of his children to go into the military and follow in his footsteps. It’s an honorable service and for the most part builds a sense of character that one can never appreciate as a civilian. Serving your nation, offering your life in defense of your country and all of the good and bad things it has to offer its people is a greater sacrifice than most people will ever face in a lifetime.

From time to time I can imagine why my father chose to keep his children out of the military. As a medic he had seen the cost of war first hand on many soldiers and marines. Their blood touched his hands first on the battle field and changed his life forever. On Iwo Jima he spoke of the fighting that went on around the clock for days and he finally passed out with exhaustion but found comfort in a large comfortable object and slept for several hours nestled in sleep with his head resting comfortably. That object was a larger than life dead rat but it was the best night of sleep he had in weeks.

In politics today they talk about the war in Iraq as if it is something for somebody else to worry about. Most Americans don’t even think about the war in their day to day lives other than the headlines we read in the papers. Have we become numb to the body count and our children coming home in caskets day after day? Are we ignorant that our kids are still risking their lives every single day in Iraq while we debate politics and personal gripes on healthcare and whom is the best candidate to offer the best solution to Americas future problems?

We as a people need to recognize that our fight for justice over the attacks of 9/11 are over. Our troops need to come home and defend America on the homeland. Our troops need to come back to the land they love and the land they have defended honorably. The mission in Iraq is over. The war is won. That fact is proven by the number of dead of our nations enemy that compares to the sacrifice paid in our own war dead. In some reports the number of Iraqi dead in the war is over one million. Percentages work against any nation willing to attack America ever again. Nut job terrorists hiding behind any nation may not care that in a room of ten terrorists that less than one half of one percent of them will survive. America is not playing around anymore with nut jobs.

Our nation faces an economic crisis that can continue to funnel billions of dollars out of our nations economy to support the efforts in Iraq or it can focus those dollars on the people at home. Bringing our troops home is not accepting defeat in Iraq. Iraq has never in its nations history been stable unless a gun has been held at its peoples heads. America and our military is not about that.

Bringing our troops home is the beginning to the end of the ugly America out to bully the world and the end of the George W. Bush legacy. Now is the time for the olive branch over the sword.

Papamoka

Originally posted at Papamoka Straight Talk
Feel free to link to and borrow this post…

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The Story of Stuff

Best 20 minutes you’ll spend all night.

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Tim Wise: On White Privilege

Very interesting clip worth watching. I think it also sheds some light on Hillary’s campaign tactics of trying to make race an issue.

It’s not about race, it’s about economics stupid!!!!

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