McCain Too Old????

"Did you hear about this?


Two State Department employees were fired -- this is a bit of a scandal -- because they were looking at Barack Obama's passport file.


Not only that, but the same person was also looking at John McCain's Civil War records."


Who knows when the Clintons will throw in the towel but I am going to stick with some humor for now because the nastiness is about to start.


Just watch fox in the AM. I did today and they were slamming NBC for having Keith Olbermann covering the election returns. They said he was bias and called NBC the New Barack Channel.


I think everyone has it right when they call the Fox News “FAUX NEWS”. They are the last ones on the entire world of media who should complain about bias.


That being said I think they are right. Keith Olbermann should be left as a progressive commentator not a news person like Tom Brokaw, or Dan Rather. The reason Keith Olbermann was on though is because he will raise ratings and NBC is under the GE banner and we all know what GE is about and that is profit and profit only.


One of the most important issues of the coming years will be media control and access. We must limit the control of large media conglomerates on the information we get if we are to remain a free people.


If you are concerned with these issues there are some progressive sites that will give you current information on issues regarding truth in media and legislation that is going before congress.


www.freepress.net


www.mediamatters.org


Stay alert, search for the truth, and take back America.


Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.


P.S. thanks for the pict BEE

Just how relevant is Reverend Wright.

Just how relevant is Reverend Wright.

I am so sick the media attention to the newest star Huckster Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Just how relevant to fixing this country problems is Reverend Wright. The great so called God fearing Black crusader who now is going to exploit this rift with Obama to peddle his upcoming book no one would have read until now.

Pay attention people, this is just another smoke screen to blind people from seeing the real issues that matter.

Just look at who McCain is kissing ass for, John Hagee. John McCain, naturally, is "very proud to have Pastor John Hagee’s support." Meanwhile, Hagee seems to hate Catholics about as much as Jews and Muslims quite a bit more so. McCain has a lot to be proud of. I wonder what McCain really stands for because McCain has changed so many of the positions he has held in the past just to get the vote of the far right.

If you wonder whose butt Hillary is kissing, just stick it out there she’ll kiss it for a delegate.

Obama is the only candidate so far that has not gone negative first. He has defended his positions when attacked and admitted that he did not agree with all that reverend Wright has said in the past, and admits that it is something that he needed to clarify his position on.

When they start talking about the real issues, issues that matter for the future of this Nation, that’s when you will get my attention again candidates.

Now listen Mr. McCain, Ms. Clinton, and Mr. Obama. I don’t care about your preacher, spiritual advisor, whether or not you’re white, black, gray, or gay, male or female, whether or not you where born to a foreign daddy or born in a canal zone. Let’s get real let’s start talking real issues that are going decide the future course of America. Who has the best ideas, who will end the strangle hold of corporate America over the congress and president of this great nation.

Let’s start talking about how we are going to end this mess in Iraq without starting WWIII.

Let’s start talking about how we are going to sustain social security. The government uses the surplus that has come into the treasury from the FICA in your pay check tax since the 1980’s to fund all the earmarked pork barreling, misguided military adventures and the missile shield star wars that have enriched the military industrial complex and bankrupted the nation.

Let’s start talking about how we are going to create real sustainable renewable energy projects not lowering gas prices.

Let’s start talking about what Americas roll in foreign affairs should be. Can we really be the world’s policeman any longer?

Let’s start talking about ways to fix our economy and set up sustainable import export policies that will protect our jobs and national security instead of throwing six hundred dollars at me like a rich man gives a crack whore as he tells her to get out of his Lexus and have a nice life.

Let’s start talking about how America should conduct itself to the rule of law and human rights. Ending the torture of prisoners and closing down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay would be a good place to start.

Let’s start talking about what we are going to do about our porous boarders and what should be done about illegal immigration.

Let’s start talking about restoring the power to the congress and repairing the damage done to our liberty by Bush and Co. so we don’t end up with another demagogue in the White House, who will use fear mongering to strip your constitutional rights away in the name of security.

Let’s start talking about what we are going to do about the corporate control of the media.

LET’S START TALKING REAL ISSUES!!!

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Who will we choose as a leader

Who will we choose as a leader

I was reading an article today about the importance of who we choose as a leader to end this moral & economic ruination of our nation. What she had to say is worth reading. What we base our decision on will reflect how the path that the Nation will follow for the next four years.

What will you base your decision on? Will you vote for McCain because he is a so called war hero? McCain’s heroism comes from his activity in Vietnam. He no doubt was courageous in captivity, but the war itself was immoral.

What the Republican Party will try to do, is use war heroism to confuse the American people into continuing unjust wars and supporting their architects with the honor of brave soldiers.
Nixon used this same tactic in 1968 and by calling Democrats as too weak to STAY THE COURSE.

McCain is playing the war hero card for sure in this the most important election in recent history. If the Democrats are to win the presidency and seats in congress they better dispel the war hero myth and engage the republicans about war and war heroes.

Soldiers in both unjust and just wars may be heroes if you just look at the personal courage and self sacrifice in a battle. The trick is and the Republican leadership will put a smoke screen over this, so we must know that those who oppose a preemptive unnecessary war are also heroes.

It took great courage to stand in the halls of congress and speak against the call to war as Senator Robert Byrd (S.WV.) did in March of 2003 before King George and his cable of cretins rushed to war to steal Iraqi oil.

It is easy to make war, strike out and destroy, but it is hard to be a peacemaker that will negotiate and settle differences and build a lasting peace. In my life the ultimate moral force in the world is the peace hero one who will not stand for evil or injustice.

Catherine Crier wrote in her article CHOOSING A LEADER

“During this contentious political season, we are called upon to judge the character of the candidates. Who should lead the nation, the fighter or the war hero? Who best wears their patriotism on their sleeve (or lapel)? Who can throw or take the biggest punch, swig the strongest shot, or bowl the highest game?

When the American Film Institute took a vote on the greatest American film hero of the last century, the winner was not Rambo, Rocky or a John Wayne cowboy. Instead it was Atticus Finch; gentle, bookish, moral, yet tough to his core. He never proclaimed his authority or postured for effect. He simply acted on his principles, with bravery and integrity, leaving no doubt who the real leader was. This might not be a bad model for the next occupant of the White House.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080418/cm_huffpost/097352;_ylt=ApeL23AAzZdbl4cNWQ7b5bP9wxIF

Who fits this mold the best, McCain, Clinton, or Obama.

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McCain gets a free ride from the press.

While the democrats tear each other apart in the news each night, the press seems to give our Republican candidate for president the free pass. You can’t even read a story about McCain without hearing him called a “maverick.”


Maverick

NOUN: One that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter.

ADJECTIVE: Being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence: maverick politicians; a maverick decision.


According to Media Matters McCain was called a maverick more than 1,300 times in print and on television. I don’t know about you but someone who sticks with his party line 80% of the time is hardly a maverick. The times that he has bucked his party line was with issues that were very popular with the majority of the public so he was not taking any political risks.


McCain has been referred to be a moderate despite the fact that both his McCain himself and his voting record proves that he is a neo-con. McCain voted for cutting federal funding of family planning clinics that counseled women on abortion. He has opposed federal hate crimes legislation, the establishment of the International Criminal Court, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, pro-labor legislation, ergonomics rules, lawsuits against gun manufacturers, and benefits for gay partners. He has supported privatizing Social Security, conservative judicial appointments, the teaching of intelligent design in public schools, tax cuts for the wealthy, and the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.


His claim to be a straight talker but McCain has been all things to all people. McCain used to describe Jerry Falwell as an agent of intolerance but after he decided to make another run for president he publicly embraced Falwell back in 2006. It seems like someone needs a favor from the religious conservatives.


He has flipped on many issues such as tax cuts for the wealthy he opposed in 2001 he is now in favor of when he needs to appeal to the conservative base. McCain also once said on abortion, I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade." And yet he had also told an anti-choice group in a letter, "I share our common goal of reducing the staggering number of abortions currently performed in this country and overturning the Roe vs. Wade decision". Today, his website reads, "John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned."


When he ran for president in 2000, he skipped the Iowa caucus, and made clear his contempt for ethanol made from Iowa corn. "Ethanol does nothing to reduce fuel consumption, nothing to increase our energy independence, nothing to improve our air quality," he said in 2003. Yet in 2008, he decided to compete in the Iowa caucus, and had a change of heart on ethanol. "I do not support subsidies, but I support ethanol and I think it is a vital alternative energy source, not only because of our dependence on foreign oil but because of its greenhouse reduction effects," he said in August 2006.


The squeaky clean McCain has his own whitewater with his involvement in the Keating Five. Back in early 1987, at the beginning of his first Senate term, McCain attended two meetings with federal banking regulators to discuss an investigation into Lincoln Savings and Loan, an Irvine, Calif., thrift owned by Arizona developer Charles Keating. Federal auditors were investigating Keating's banking practices, and Keating, fearful that the government would seize his S&L, sought intervention from a number of U.S. senators. At Keating's behest, four senators--McCain and Democrats Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Alan Cranston of California, and John Glenn of Ohio--met with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, on April 2. Those four senators and Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich., attended a second meeting at Keating's behest on April 9 with bank regulators in San Francisco.

Regulators did not seize Lincoln Savings and Loan until two years later. The Lincoln bailout cost taxpayers $2.6 billion, making it the biggest of the S&L scandals. In addition, 17,000 Lincoln investors lost $190 million.


The news media would also have you believe that McCain doesn’t tell people what they want to hear but makes decisions based not on what’s good politics but on what’s right. The press presents John McCain as unwavering in principle, and propped up by endless political courage and would never pander for a vote.


Consider his decision in 2000 to denounce the Confederate flag flying over the south Carolina statehouse but when the primary approached, he said that the flag was a symbol of heritage.


In recent months, McCain has backtracked on his positions on immigration and taxes, with an eye toward pleasing the conservative base, any other politician who tried a similar gambit would be criticized for such blatant pandering. But for John McCain, the rules are different.


Maybe after they pick the winner of the Democratic primary we will get to see the real John McCain.


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Anniversary of the Worst Foreign Policy Disaster In Our History

Anniversary of the Worst Foreign Policy Disaster In Our History

While the Democrats snipe at each other over similar platforms, and the Republican candidate can’t remember who the enemy is, the anniversary of America’s most disastrous foreign policy mistake fast approaches.

It was this week on March 20th 2003, when the smug and cocky George “Worst president ever” Bush and Dick “Head” Cheney decided against good military advice, to rain bombs on and destroy the infrastructure of Iraq and open a Pandora’s Box of perilous times for this Nation. This was the beginning of a preventative war that was unnecessary and what will serve as Bush’s pathetic legacy.

Saddam Hussein as we now know had no part in the September 11th 2001 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, he possessed no weapons of mass destruction, and he posed no great threat to the security of the United States.

Now what to do have in Iraq? We deposed and executed a brutal despot, but in the process destabilized Iraq. Then we opened the door for al-Qaeda terrorists to establish a foothold in a country where they could not have operated under Saddam. We destabilized the entire region by emboldening Iraq’s most dangerous enemy Iran.

We are now involved in an occupation of Iraq and the majority of the Iraqi people don’t want us there. The majority of Americans at home are calling for an end to this madness and for our troops to return home.

Levels of violence had dropped during the surging of another 30 to 50 thousand troops sent to the Iraq but now that violence is starting to spike up with more suicide bombings in Baghdad this week.

So now that we will have a new administration in less than a year how do we end this quagmire that spills American and Iraqi blood daily and bankrupts this country. So far none of the three remaining candidates has a satisfactory plan to that.

So far Clinton and Obama have spent more time on telling us who voted for the war than how they plan to end it. Ok Hillary you were spineless and rubber stamped the Bush plan, without doing the research and Obama you weren’t able to vote one way or the other because you were not in the senate yet but you did not support the war but did not have the pressure of being bullied to go along by the GOP.

McCain’s plan is more of the same war without regard to how we are going to pay for it, and how to stabilize the region. Just American troops as targets for the roadside bombs and American tax dollars to the war profiteers.

None of the candidates that I can see has a credible plan to proceed? Rigid timeline withdrawals will not help, and a blank check approach to this war is no longer an option either. The candidates need to begin talking about how America will proceed in world affairs after the Bush / Cheney regime is gone.

I want to live in a America that will:

No longer be in the business of preemptive wars and nation building.
No longer be in the business of torture.
No longer be in the business of kidnapping people and sending them to secret prisons.
No longer be in the business of propping up repressive regimes because they allow business to operate in their countries without regard for human rights.
No longer appoint incompetent yes men like FEMA’s “Heck of a job Brownie” or Secretary of Defense Donald Dumbsfield over qualified people who could do the job right.
No longer disregard the basic human rights that are in the Geneva Convention.
No longer disregard the Fourth Amendment and end unsupervised wiretapping of Americans.
No longer propose amendments to the Constitution to limit the rights of Americans on the basis of sexual orientation.
No longer allows a few giant media conglomerates to control the internet or the airwaves.
No longer depend on foreign oil.
No longer put corporate interests above American interests.
No longer run huge war deficits and cut taxes for the wealthiest individuals.

All right Mr. and Mrs. Candidate your turn to respond.
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It’s the Economy Stupid.

Now that the news about the occupation of Iraq has almost stopped, the major news channels are devoting most of the time on New York’s naughty governor and the primaries instead of the real issues that are facing this country.

America is quickly becoming a second rate economic power, and the consequences are not going to be pretty to anybody that has to work for a living. The burden that NAFTA and other trade deals that hamstring US Businesses and labor must be reviewed by the next administration that takes power in 2009.

We have issues like “Open Trucking” where Mexican trucks are to be free to roam the USA and compete with the Teamsters. Some say it is just fair competition but that is a bunch of crap. First of all the Mexican truckers are non union drivers who are paid a fraction of what American drivers so how do our businesses compete? The Mexican trucks don’t have to have expensive road safety features like American trucks do. How do our businesses compete?

So if you have to work for a living and don’t make your money as a hedge fund manager the economy is a big issue and NAFTA is a word that means you have been sold out by CEO’s shipping your manufacturing job out of the U.S. to cheap labor nations like Mexico and China.

Now the numbers that Bush / Cheney will give you are "The Census Bureau data show that U.S. export growth was phenomenal in 2006, increasing by 14.5 percent. ... Exports to Europe increased by 15.2 percent and to China by nearly 32 percent. The growth in exports to Japan was a slower 7.5 percent, but it grew. Since 2001, U.S. exports have increased by more than 42 percent."

Now that looks impressive but just like the spin on the build of the intelligence that led to the war in Iraq, the administration conveniently left out the other half of the story.

In 2007 our trade deficit with Mexico grew by 16 percent to $73 Billion, a new record. Mexico ships more cars to America than America ships to the world. Now where did Mexico get the Auto Industry? I think maybe it was Enrique Ford.

If you think that is bad look at the trade deficit with China. It has grown to $256 Billion which happens to be the largest trade deficit ever between two nations.

Since the Bush / Cheney have taken power three million manufacturing jobs have disappeared to countries that have cheap labor. The U.S. trade deficit has doubled, and most alarming is the America is running a trade deficit in the advanced technology sector of more than $67 billion with China.

Bush said “free trade is essential to the creation of high paying quality jobs. “ Yes George but it is exports that create jobs and imports displace them. So sit down and pay attention W. We import over half a trillion dollars more in manufactured goods than we export. The Bush administration has been slaughtering the U.S. manufacturing jobs like the Canadians club baby seals in the artic.

So ok everybody here is your economics 101. What is the correlation between $4.3 trillion in trade deficits under George W and 3 million manufacturing workers, that had a decent living and health care coverage now working at a low paying customer service center or god forbid Wal-Mart. The correlation between trade deficits and the 50 percent fall of the value or the dollar to the euro, or the quadrupling of the price of gold under George and Dick?

None of the candidates has come out with a new plan to deal with the changing of America from an industrial super power to the capital of the world’s fast food empire. I hope McCain and the Neo-Convicts plan on winning the next major conflict by killing our enemies with artery clogging McFries and McShakes.

None of the candidates seem to have the will to do what is necessary to deal with the de-industrialization of America, our dependency on foreign technology, manufactures and the massive loans to pay for our deficit spending. McCain even goes further when he informed autoworkers that their “jobs are not coming back” and that protectionist steps would be bad for America.

McCain thinks the lowest cost of a weapons system is the most important factor. He even supports the winning bid by Airbus a European venture to build the next generation of Air Tankers for our military. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company and suppliers in 40 states.

All I can say is we better start protecting our manufacturing jobs because it will be hard to buy tanks and jets from the people you might be fighting in the next conflict. Imagine if we would have had to ask the Japanese for enough tanks, planes, and ships so we could defeat them during WWII.

Bush / Cheney have created an economic disaster that could put this country out of business and if this goes on much longer there won’t be any American companies to protect.

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If you promise me somthing show me how you pay for it too!!!

We have a looming fiscal crisis standing in the room like the proverbial 800 pound gorilla. Between Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and all the other entitlement programs, defense programs and interest paid to those nice Chinese bankers who lend us the money, takes up probably 90 percent of the budget.


Not one candidate is telling us what they will cut in order to balance the budget. Clinton and Obama are promising universal health care and McCain is promising an occupation he is prepared to continue for 100 years in Iraq. They both want to add on a stimulus package of approximately $150 billion. Can anybody say reality check show me the money!!!!!


Now with the Fed cutting interest rates from 4.25 percent to 3 percent recently, this has sent the dollar sinking in value again which means higher oil prices and higher prices for any imports which we are now addicted too.


Now the Democrats say they are committed to withdrawing from Iraq none say that they are not leaving a large force in Iraq that we Americans will be paying for with money that will have to come from future generations.


The republicans however say they are committed for 100 years. After 7 years of major conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq we have a major strategic crisis. It will get worse if new conflicts arise with Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and even Russia seems ready to have a go with another possible arms race.


Our military is stretched so thin I am wondering as should all you voters out there who will fight these wars??? Romeys boys won’t be in the fray and neither of the Bush twins has volunteered.


Hell they want to invade Iran and we can’t even stop the invasion of the United States by barefoot Hispanics storming in from south of the boarder. What is to be done about illegal immigration. No one will tell us what the plans are because they are afraid to lose the Hispanic vote. By the way can anyone tell me where the heck Hispania is anyway. I am still trying to find Causicaia on a map.


What is to happen to the middle class? I don’t know about the rest of you out there I am a wage slave and every year since W has taken office my real earnings have taken a downward turn and is now spiraling out of control like a Japanese Zero who just encountered a P38 during WWII.


Now candidates I am listening, and I am waiting for someone to step up and tell me how we are going to fund Social Security, Medicare, finance foreign aid and defend nations like Iraq that refuse to make the sacrifices needed politically to defend themselves?


The only rays of hope I see are that we do have a couple of guys that are speaking either the truth or offering hope. Both men have integrity and the support of a growing youth movement. On the dems side we have Obama, who is the candidate of hope. On the other side of the isle we have Ron Paul who is giving us a triple finger shot of truth. The rest of the field offer nothing but more of the Same Ole S#!T.


The choice is yours America.


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Protecting those War Profiteers oops!!! I mean Patriotic Phone Companies in the Global War on Terror

President Bush says he will veto any legislation that doesn’t give the Patriotic Phone Companies immunity for illegally spying on Americans. The phone companies are begging for immunity from breaking the law because they say they were only being patriotic and trying to help keep us safe.

In the FISA debate the phone company’s main legal argument on why they spied on Americans and should be exempted from lawsuits challenging the legality of warrantless spying on phone calls and emails is that they were helping the government as a patriotic duty in a time of crisis.

Well that is a bunch of B#LL$#IT. It is reported in CNN that the phone companies have cut off wire taps because the FBI was late on paying their bill. Now that is real patriotism.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/10/fbi.unpaid.phone.bills.ap/index.html

The only thing that this so called war on terror has produced is dead and wounded Americans and super rich war profiteers. Since September 11th 2001 this country has enriched many American Corporations who milk our treasury dry.

Here is another site dedicated to exposing this.
http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?list=type&type=176

The head ChickenHawks in this administration have made millions from the blood of our brave troops and the misery of Iraqi civilians. Dick “Head” Cheney for instance has never completely severed his ties to Halliburton and receives millions of dollars in deferred income and stock dividends with all the no bid contracts awarded his company.

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft now heads The Ashcroft Group; a consulting firm that helps companies win federal homeland security contracts. Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge runs a consulting firm and advices Lucent Inc. Joe Allburgh was the head of FEMA and now runs New Bridge Strategies a unique company that was created specifically with the aim of assisting clients to take advantage of business opportunities in Iraq.

These and many other people from the Bush inner circle are traitors and have used the blood of America’s best for mega profitable business opportunities.

Bush said go shopping.


Where is the outrage?? Has any candidate commented on war profiteering?? Where is the leader with the courage to say, as Franklin D Roosevelt did during WWII “I don’t want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster”.

Bush said go shopping.

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Let’s get back to issues

The last several days are a good example of how to divide your base and let another rightwingnut win the presidency.

Alright children let’s put an end to name calling and who said what to whom. Let’s get back to issues. Tell us specifically what you are going to do for the USA and at least an outline of how you will accomplish it.

Granted both Clinton, Obama, and Edwards have voted for Bush’s war money you all screwed up big time ok!!! Both Clinton and Obama have ties to big money, OK how are we going to end the strangle hold that big money special interests have on our country??

How are going to restore constitutional checks and balances to restore the balance to the three co-equal branches of our government, so that we don’t repeat the mistake of letting a complete moron of a president lead America into another endless war??

How will you end partisan politics in your appointments so that we don’t have another unqualified jerk hired because he kissed enough A$$ “Heck of a job Brownie” when the next Katrina happens?

How will you end big media control of information going out to the American people??

What will you do to restore our foreign policy so that we don’t create more enemies than we can possibly kill in a lifetime?

What will you do to restore American jobs and end the huge deficit that has been created by these mindless war profiteering thugs in power now??

Quit the name calling and get back to the issues so that we don’t have to endure another 4 years of a Ghouliani, Huckabuck, or a sneering McCain or poster boy Romney.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

Congress now has the chance to do nothing and make it count.

The Fourth Amendment

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

As we watch the primary races lets not take our eyes off the scoundrels that we have allowed to erode our constitutional rights one by one. As one of the worst congresses ever and some would argue that the 109th congress was the worst. I disagree because those scoundrels where the bad guys and we knew that. The 110th congress was elected to right the wrongs that the Bush / Cheney regime heaped on America and did little except wring their hands and say woe we don’t have the 60 votes.

Congress now has the chance to do nothing and make it count. On February 8th 2008 this abomination to our constitutional rights will expire. Last August 2007 the Protect America Act was rushed through congress legalizing executive branch domestic wiretapping without warrants.

It’s incredible that this was passed in the first place because this administration has been breaking FISA laws which require warrants to snoop on Americans and ignoring the 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures since February 2001 well before September 11th.

Congress reconvenes January 22nd 2008, Senate Majority leader Harry (hapless) Reid plans to bring an unacceptable bill S. 2248 to the Senate floor for a vote. This bill contains retroactive immunity for the poor misguided telecom companies who handed over the private communications of Americans to Bush / Cheney Company without being served warrants to do so.

It boggles my mind that even with the incredible mandate we gave congress in 2006 that they would even consider rubberstamping the shredding of our 4th amendment rights and give immunity retroactively to the Bush / Cheney administration and their Telecom pals.

There is however a Judiciary Committee version of this bill which contains 4th Amendment fixes and does not provide immunity to the telecom industry. This bill is subject to floor amendments that could weaken the bill. The president has promised a veto of the bill if it doesn’t grant immunity to the telecoms.

The best way to kill this abomination is to let it expire on its own because even King George W. can’t veto the natural expiration of a law.

Call your Senators and demand that congress restore 4th Amendment protections of Americans private communications and emails by letting the Protect America Act expire on February 8th 2008. Only if that fails should the Senate consider the Judiciary Committee version of S. 2248. There is no other reason to grant immunity to the Telecoms other than to protect the guilty and hide the truth from the American people.

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OpEd News
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5554

Is it just me or does this upcoming presidential election looks more like a VEGAS sports booking parlor?

I watch a lot of political news shows like Tim Russert, Face the Nation, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, Joe Scarborough and some others that analyze news and politics. What I keep getting is that this is a football game and not an issue driven presidential election.

You can even bet on who will win the nomination and election there is an article on this at Slate.com.
http://specials.slate.com/futures/2008/

This country is in dire need of a change in direction. The people need to take back the government from the well financed special interests and but the power back into the hands of the people.

CNN has a list of issues that they think will decide the election their issues are Abortion, Immigration, Iraq, same sex marriage, Social Security, Taxes, Health Care. Same sex marriage and Abortion, Why are these even on peoples minds when they decide a president.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.abortion.html

Five of the seven issues above are important and I want to know where the candidates stand on issues that actually mean something. I am against abortion but I don’t feel I have the right to tell someone that they can’t have one after she has been raped or her life is in danger because of the pregnancy or for any other reason it is a personal choice issue.

Same sex marriage, who cares!!!! If Johnny wants to marry Todd, or Ruth wants to be with Anne what business is that of mine. As long as Johnny and Todd are 18 it is none of my business what they do as long as it does not interfere with my rights.

I want to know where they stand on creating and independent ethics commission to investigate congressional & presidential ethics misconduct.

I want to know where they stand on banning registered lobbyists form giving gifts to members of congress and their staffs.

I want to know where they stand on public financing of all elections and spending limits on campaigns.

I want to know where they stand on restoring our constitutional rights and from further degrading our individual rights.

I want to know where they stand on torture and indefinite detention.

I want to know where they stand on limiting corporate media ownership.

I want to know where they stand on American imperialism and reducing our military presence around the world.

I want to know where they stand on bringing back jobs to America.

I want to know where they stand on the President misleading and out right lying to the American people to get us into an illegal and unnecessary war.

I want to know where they stand on NAFTA, CAFTA, and all these other trade agreements that cause Americans to lose their jobs.

It is time we become agitators and demand Congress to do the will of the people and not the will of the highest bidder. America needs the courage to stand up and be counted now as in no other time in our history.

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