The right wing smear machine says Obama is a Muslim so they must be right!!!

The right wing smear machine says Obama is a Muslim so they must be right!!!

My wife got a call from her son last night who told her that he would not support Barack Obama because he is a Muslim. WTF!!!!!! It amazes me how stupid the American public has become. Then again with the amount of people who tune into Rush O’Reilly, and Glenn Coultergeist and the like, really can’t be counted on to think for themselves.

Just to set the record straight when you hear a rumor about someone check it out. It is not hard just go on line and get the facts from several sources don’t just listen to Rush or Glenn and call it gospel. The rightwing nuts will lie, cheat, block people from voting and do anything to promote their crazy agenda.

He has been called a Muslim who attended a madrassa, he is accused of being a member of a church in Chicago that has a separatist doctrine that contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity, he has had to fend off baseless accusations of scandals, and the right mocks his name and his race.

The day after Obama announced his presidential exploratory committee the right wing website InsightMag.com published an article that reported that Obama spent at least four years in a so Madrassa which is a Muslim seminary. You can read what they said here.

http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Obama_2.htm

This is a lie and has been completely debunked by CNN, the AP and ABC but did it go away NOOOOOOOOO. The pudgy idiot Glenn Beck who often speaks when he should be listening or at least checking his facts reported that Obama attended a radical Muslim school.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/obama.madrassa/index.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070124-1317-obama-2008.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2822061

Then as the discredited charges Obama’s association with the Islam began to fade the right began smearing the Christian Church in Chicago where Obama is a member. MSNBC own right winger Tucker Carlson during the Obameter segment on his show 2/07/07 criticized Obama for being a member of a church that Carlson claimed “sounds separatist to me and contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity”

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702090009

The smear continued on the Hannity & Colmes opinion show on 2/28/07 with Hannity said that many call Trinity separatist and a cult. His guest Erik Rush from the WorldNetDaily said the church has a scary doctrine, something that you’d see in a cult or an Aryan Brethren Church. Rush even questioned Obama’s Christianity on the show.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703010012

Similar smears were directed at Obama’s church on the 4/05/07 broadcast of KSFO’s Sussman, Morgan and Vic when Morgan said Obama’s proud to belong to a church that their allegiance goes to Africa before it goes to America. This is a complete fabrication.

Here is a web site to the church you decide. There is no statement that a commitment to Africa supercedes the commitment to America. In fact Trinity's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., responded to the attacks, saying: "The African-centered point of view does not assume superiority, nor does it assume separatism. It assumes Africans speaking for themselves as subjects in history, not objects in history."
http://www.tucc.org/about.htm


Hate mongers like Debbie Schlussel argues because Obama’s middle name is Hussein and that his late father was of Muslim descent Obama’s loyalties must be called into question. Others like Lee Rodgers KSFO’s morning show Fox Hews contributor Juan Williams question Obama’s loyalty because his father was Muslim.

I can remember back in the sixties that the crazies back then called Kennedy’s loyalty into question because he was a catholic and would have to obey the pope.

Now to be absolutely clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago. It is well documented that the Indonesian school Obama attended in Jakarta is a public secular school that is not and has never been a Madrassa.

So to all you swiftboaters out there not all Americans are the stupid goose stepping morons you think we are, and we do check your lies and we are not going to be swiftboated again.

Your reign of terror is about to end. Your tactics of fear mongering and lying to the American people is about to be repudiated and we are going to send you all back to hide under the rocks you slid out from back in 2000.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

Mr. & Mrs. Candidate, where is the America I grew up in and what will you do to get me back there.

I grew up in a family that came from real poverty. The son of a sharecropper in south Alabama, who moved North after serving in the army in WWII with the dream of making a good living so that his family wouldn’t have the lack of opportunity that he had when he grew up.


Dad got a job in a factory and then worked in construction building the Niagara Mohawk power plant in Niagara Falls N.Y. after the factory closed down, and when the Niagara Mohawk project was finished he landed a job working for General Motors in Buffalo until he retired.


All the while he bought a house and sent me to college and helped me raise my family and retired to Florida in 1984 the American Dream fulfilled.


Now as I view this country I say what the hell has happened on my watch. Man am I going to have a lot of explaining to do to my sons.


I have always believed that America was the good guy the John Wayne, who drove the evil out and replaced it with decency and virtue.


In the 21st century we are witnessing the death of the America the good guy. We must take a view of the world and with it America the good and bad then view it with truth and reality. We must decide who we are going to become and what course we will take.


The founders gave all the free men of the time the right to vote and in time we freed a race of people from the bonds of slavery and gave women the right to participate in this grand experiment of constitutional democracy.


In accepting this, we say we trust our elected representatives to listen to what we say and trust the people who elected them. The people are not to be coerced and intimidated to have the right to dissent or agree with what our politician’s platforms are and that every vote should count for something.


As the politics of greed and fear begin to darken the horizon of our Nation, we trust each other less than in any time I have seen in my life and trust less the principles upon which this nation was founded.


Where Kennedy said ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country we have been taken over by the corporate greedheads that could care less what happens to this country or its people.


Where we once dreamed beyond the boundaries of fear and diversity we now wall up communities to keep diversity out. Instead of being able to demonstrate and dissent the current administration fences in protests miles away from where they will be and arrests people who wear Tee shirt with a dissenting message against current policy.


We used to subscribe the separation of church and state and now the current administration gives a litmus test for any one wanting to become a federal judge or political appointee.


The America I grew up in saw John Wayne protecting the weak farmer from the powerful rancher who cut off his water, now we have W protecting the war profiteers with no bid contracts and sweetheart deals. We protect foreign dictators from their people striving to start labor unions for a better way of life for their families. This is not my America.


It is time to return to a time where John Wayne will protect that struggling farmer, to a time where people who work hard will reap the fruit of their labor and where people will work toward the betterment of the citizens and its government alike.


Some will have us fear Islam and tell us that the terrorists are coming to get us while we lie in our beds. This is nonsense, we of course must remain vigilant, but to buckle to fear by turning against the principles that made this country great is losing the war to terrorism.


We need not become the Orwellian state as presented in the novel 1984. That is losing the war on terror. We must insist that this and any future government follows the rule of law that was handed down by our founders who paid the cost in blood to protect our rights as Americans. The constitution is more than just a “G#DAMN PIECE OF PAPER.”


Let us do what Jesus did and throw the money changers out of the temple of peace and justice. Let us reclaim that American dream that no matter where you come from you can grow up to be what ever you want if you are willing to work hard be honest.


Let us find a way to enact universal healthcare for every citizen it is not impossible every industrial country in the world does it.


Let us hold fast to what our founder’s vision of democracy was. Refusing to surrender our liberty and privacy to the fear mongers that want to subjugate our people and install a totalitarian regime.


Let us make sure that we teach our children how to think not just take tests. Let us teach them how to have a democracy that is full of an involved and educated citizenry.


Let us take back control of the media and prevent the control of the internet from the few to the many and promote diversity of ideas and views it is what made this country great.


Let us take back the vote, making sure each vote is verifiable and accessible for every citizen without intimidation, phone jamming or any other tactics that have become standard practice in our elections to deny the people to vote.


Let us take back control of our government with campaign reform and an independent body that has the power to investigate and prosecute those in our government who would line their pockets with money and do the bidding of the rich and powerful to the detriment of the country.


Democrat, Republican, Liberal or Conservative, Green or Libertarian. Let this country unite and stand not for a political party or even a socio economic group. Let us stand for the Ideals that made America great in the first place. Let us return to that America.


Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

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.


Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

$300 Bucks holy crap what a windfall.

Holy crap these criminally insane knuckleheads, in positions of power, who really think that all of the American people are too stupid to see this ploy as kissing babies in an election year.

Three hundred dollars for each working man and woman WTF!!!! This is going to prevent a recession!!! Horse crap!!!


Bail out the predatory lenders?? What a great idea make sure the hedge fund managers get their cut. Oh that's right they already got theirs plus a hefty tax break too.

Here's the deal boys and girls. This is chicanery, tomfoolery and you're being hoodwinked again. The growing economic nightmare that is coming is not going to be solved by giving me $300 bucks.

I am not a sophisticated financial planner or economist but here it goes my attempt at the financial survival plan for the first decade of the 21st century.

If you don't have it in cash don't buy it!!!!

If your kids can't wear it, eat it, live in it, or learn from it, don't buy it!!!

If you are in a dead end low paying job, turn off American Idolatry, CSI, Survivor on The Moon, Nancy Grace, or anything that has to do with Britney Hilton, and go through the paper and find what kind of jobs are in demand that pay good and enroll in your local community college and train for that job instead of numbing your brain with mindless TV.

Pay off your credit card debt and tear up most of your cards!!!

If you are sending your children to college don't get a second mortgage send your child to community college then on to finish at a state school. Remember this was true in my days at school in the 60's and it is true today. If you want to get laid go to college if you want an education go to the library and read a book!!!

No matter what age you are the younger the better, don't depend on the government that is Social Security for your survival financial or otherwise. Start a retirement account now if you have an employer matching account take the full advantage of it, because the government has been taking all of the Social Security surpluses we have put into the treasury's front door since 1983 and sliding it out the back door to build Regan's star wars bullshit defense package and finance this Iraq debacle.

In 2017 or there a bouts all the baby boomers will all be drawing SSI and the fund will dip into the red again. Even though we put in enough money to cover our asses we the people let these blood sucking viper lawbreakers in congress siphon off our social security, for ear marks on bridges to nowhere, on other pork barreling, and endless war schemes.

Lastly we will not have a constitutional democracy with power to the people much longer unless we become an informed and involved citizenry. So wake up and smell the B#!!$#IT we have been getting, wake up your friends and family let's wake up America.

What ever candidate we send to the White House this year if they are telling you everything is great just go shopping, you better start hording caned beans and ammo.

The only way we are going to recover is to adapt a pay as your go policy with deficit reduction on top of that and it will not be painless. We must pay for the neo-con wars that they want your children to foot the bill for; we need to develop a sound trade policy that doesn't reward companies that ship jobs overseas, we must develop sound energy policies in public not like Dick "Head" Cheney behind closed doors with is oil corporation buddies. We must reexamine all of our trade treaties and keep only the ones that are good for America and not just good for big business.

Like I said before I am not an economist but I know that if your monitory system is flawed and your spending more than you take in you are going to be in trouble before too long. What we will need to get through this is sound economic reform and fiscal responsibility. Any candidates willing to talk truthfully about this let's hear it.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

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.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

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.

Peace and Liberty through intelligence, strength, and integrity.

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