10:28 PM EST

Howard and his 50-state strategy is first.

Baltimore Cop Rivieri Surfaces in Another Video

The Last Movement
February 16, 2008
http://www.infowars.com/?p=296


New video of Baltimore police officer Salvatore Rivieri in action at the Inner Harbor. This time he confronts Billy Friebele, an artist from Washington D.C., who was videotaping at the Harbor last summer.

Our buddy officer Riviera gets suspended with Pay for his violent outburst. This is the second video of officer badcop.

Friebele said he was taping the reactions of passersby to a box he was moving with a remote controlled car. Officer Rivieri is seen on tape kicking the box off of the car and then kicking the car. The officer then orders Friebele to leave the area.

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10:42 PM EST

the Clinton lament --

¡Qué narices! (What the heck!);

¡Mis amigos, regresan por favor! (My friends, please come back!):

http://cbs4.com/national/hillary.clinton.president.2.657791.html

Feb 19, 2008 2:23 pm US/Eastern

Hillary's Hispanic Support Eroding

WASHINGTON (CBS4) ― Senator Hillary Clinton's last stand in Texas hinges upon a large number of Hispanics voting for her. This is the same strategy the junior Senator from New York used in California, where support upon Hispanics was large. However, new polling from Gallup shows serious trouble may be on the horizon for Clinton.

The latest Gallup poll shows support for Illinois Senator Barack Obama among Hispanics has grown to a statistically significant lead. A full 50% of those surveyed chose Obama, while 46% supported Clinton. ...Only a month ago, Clinton led Obama by a nearly 2-1 margin with 63% supporting her to Obama's 32%.

...  

10:44 PM EST

http://www.turnto10.com/northeast/jar/news.apx.-content-articles-JAR-2008-02-19-0009.html

Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008 - 11:54 AM 

PROVIDENCE -- Michelle Obama, wife of Sen. Barack Obama, will visit Rhode Island on Wednesday...

On Wednesday afternoon, Michelle will attend an invitation-only launch event of the Rhode Island Women for Obama in Providence.

Later that evening, Michelle will host a “Stand for Change” rally with her brother, Brown University basketball coach Craig Robinson.

The rally will be held at the Community College of Rhode Island, Knight Campus, in Warwick. The Student Dining Commons will open at 5:45 p.m. and admission is free and open to the public.

Speaking in Houston, Obama noted the results in Wisconsin and told cheering supporters, “Houston, I think we’ve achieved liftoff.”

Denise, my personal past and future have no hold on me and I will be fine regardless of who's prez, even McCain.    I was referring to the country.  Perhaps concern would be a better word.

Anyway, I fell sound asleep, again, during most of BO's speech.

Now he's making promises that even god couldn't fulfill.  :) 

"My job will be to keep you safe and will do whatever is required..finest military in the world"..............swell.......just build up the military, BO, for other ME wars.  I thought the people were going to  have a say in his gov't.  Guess not.  Whatever are we going to say and do when he claims that there is "actionable intel" and we have to invade some country or other?  How do we become truly active participants to stop him from becoming yet another unitary executive with a congress who won't/can't impeach and a supreme court who could care less about totalitarianism?  

Bright side.  Maybe he'll be smart and choose Boxer or Feingold or JE to run with him. 

He's been marketed very well indeed....sold to the voters.

He really thinks people are going to turn off their TVs and not let their kids watch so much?   Or maybe he just thinks he's powerful enuf to change  millions of people who are addicted to one thing or another.

He talked like he's already won the nod.  Smart move, or cocky?

Good thing I'm not swooning  and setting myself up.  I really hoped Reid/Pelosi would do something, and they didn't.  But I never trusted either of them either.  Nor believed their rhetoric.

I wish the public were a bit more skeptical and more realistic. 

OK, I'll shut up....since I believe voting has been a sham for many years and the powers behind the curtain choose for us, with the complicit media.

This quote from BO should concern all BO supporters, but it doesn't seem to.

Excerpt from a BO speech. 

 "You need to come to church in the first place precisely because you are first of this world, not apart from it. You need to embrace Christ precisely because you have sins to wash away - because you are human and need an ally in this difficult journey.:

These are not the words of a progressive spiritual thinker.  Quite the contrary.  The christ/sin thing is very evangelical and OT.  This kind of talking turns people like me off...we already have that.

Good luck to America.  We shall see.   

Way to go Cheeseheads!!!!

Lisa Caputo (from the 90's - ya'all remember her?) on MSNBC whining about all the money Obama spent in WI because Clinton is spending her resources in the BIG STATES. Wake up. Lisa!!!!

What did you folks think about Obama coming out to speak before Hillary was finished? I thought it was rather ungracious but I was watching CSPAN and Clarence Paige and/or Roger Simon put forth that he was declaring her basically irrelevent -- that he was running against McCain now.

Don't think I'll make it till HI is finished so I will say goodnight until it be morrow sweet blorgie. And yes that was borrowed :~)

While the nation is transfixed.......

US Will Add to Surge by Summer
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021608A.shtml
Andrew Gray of Reuters reports: "The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than it did before pouring in forces last year - even after a planned drawdown, a US general said on Friday."

Blog on automatic....now with cheap poetry that reads like a trashy romance novel, complete with lusty phrases about freedom and country. Sheesh, when will DFA care?

horny toads with warts

Interesting on MSNBC...BO supporter couldn't list anything about BO which would make him a good prez or something to that effect.

Anyhoo, more reality.

Just When You Thought the Media Couldn't Get Any Worse... By Dave Lindorff   Count on our alert corporate media newshounds to cut right to the chase on the most important news of the campaign.

Annilow
Tue, 02/19/08

Obama waited an appropriate amount of time. This isn't Iowa or NH. They were in different states and had audiences waiting.  20,000 at Obama's in TX, how many at Clinton's in Ohio? They weren't even in Wisconsin.

I thought it was tacky Clinton didn't even mention Wisconsin or thank her people up there at all. She's done that before. If she doesn't win, hell with 'em. It's on to the next state. Very disrespectful.....worse than a scream.

More nefarious dealings.

Sibelgate: US officials visiting Turkey NOW By ladybroadoak  (8 comments) Under the radar "top level US officials" are visiting Turkey now - including a waterboarding-endorsing Attorney General and Dick Cheney .. what price ...

Mukasey warns Turkey on recent expansion of Al Qaeda presence

By Zeynep Gurcanli

"We are watching Al Qaeda closely. And we have seen in the recent period that they have increased their activities in Turkey" he told Turkish Justice Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin and Interior Minister Besir Atalay, according to sources close to the matter.

In addition, the US head of the Justice Department warned Turkish officials that it "appeared as though Al Qaeda may have chosen Turkey as a base". Mukasey is the first American head of Justice to have made an official visit to Turkey.

Mukasey's meetings in Ankara also focused on the presence of PKK terror in Northern Iraq, and according to sources in Ankara, Turkish officials expressed gratitude for the recent changes in American attitude towards the struggle against PKK terror.

The same officials did however warn Mukasey that the PKK may be trying to sustain its movement in the US "under a different name". Within this framework, Turkish officials told Mukasey that the PKK was trying to organize and operate in the US as a "civil society organization," noting that groups such as the "American Kurdish Information network," the "Washington Kurdish Institute," and the "North American Kurdish National Congress" were all examples of such efforts.

seashell :-)
Tue, 02/19/08

We've been lied to, again.....and again and again. Will Congress stand up to him? Doubtful...

Sea,

I understand your skepticism about Obama. I'm trying to remain somewhat level despite the hype and hoopla, too. So keep being the blog cynic or reality check. It's necessary!

With you on all that Indy. She seems to be deficient of gratitude genes.

“...a politician, while running for office cannot tell the truth.”

Bill Maher 

WHAT COSTS MORE PER YEAR THAN THE IRAQ WAR?

This is from an accurate source...something worthy for our concern.

Illegal Aliens Cause Massive Cuts For US Seniors

December 4, 2007



I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again unt il they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of the following facts:

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers. http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/2...

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are cause by he illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0...

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deortatin would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.' http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/p...

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States'. http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

Total cost is a whooping... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!

If this doesn't bother you then just elete th message, but on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, then forward it.

Snopes is provided for doubters: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigrati... merica.asp

Social Security Change For 2008

The United States Senate voted to extend Social Security Benefits to Illegal Aliens beginning in 2008. The following are the senators who voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home state. If a state is not listed, there was no voting representative.


Alaska : Stevens (R)
Arizona : McCain (R)
Arkansas : Lincoln (D) Pryor (D)
California : Boxer (D) Feinstein (D)
Colorado : Salazar (D)
Connecticut : Dodd (D) Lieberman (D)
Delaware : Biden (D) Carper (D)
Florida : Martinez (R)
Hawaii : Akaka (D) Inouye (D)
Illinois : Durbin (D) Obama (D)
Indiana : Bayh (D) Lugar (R)
Iowa : Harkin (D)
Kansas : Brownback (R)
Louisiana : Landrieu (D)
Maryland : Mikulski (D) Sarbanes (D)
Massachusetts : Kennedy (D) Kerry (D)
Montana : Baucus (D)
Nebraska : Hagel (R)
Nevada : Reid (D)
New Jersey : Lautenberg (D) Menendez (D)
New Mexico : Bingaman (D)
New York : Clinton (D) Schumer (D)
North Dakota : Dorgan (D)
Ohio : DeWine (R) Voinovich(R)
Oregon : Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania : Specter (R)
Rhode Island : Chafee (R) Reed (D)
South Carolina : Graham (R)
South Dakota : Johnson (D)
Vermont : Jeffords (I) Leahy (D)
Washington : Cantwell (D) Murray (D)
West Virginia : Rockefeller (D), by Not Voting
Wisconsin : Feingold (D) Kohl (D)

SEND THIS TO ALL YOU KNOW. THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION, UNLESS THEY DON'T MIND SHARING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY WITH FOREIGN WORKERS who didn't pay in a dime.

LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON 'PEOPLE POWER' AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT OR INDEPENDENT! KEEP IT GOING!!!!

Hi  Good People,

I loved Obama's speech.  He wasn't afraid to talk about immigration even in Texas and there was some booing.  He talked about a president talking about what's real, the difficult things.  

He's a wonderful speaker in my opinion, and I haven't been as involved since JFK spoke.  I remember listening to JFK on black and white TV during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  I was living with a family to support myself through college, and we all sat together, silent, waiting on every word.

Most of all, we do need change, and I think it's true to say it will be difficult, almost impossible, and if we have any chance at all it will be with a leader who can inspire us, someone we trust, and we have to be willing to do the work.  That means willing to recognize community, to do our part as citizens, to be willing to pay more taxes if good schools, social security, health care, and infrastructure require it.  If we know and believe a high school education is insufficient to compete globally, then we as citizens have to see that additional school is available, affordable to all children, and has the excellence needed.  

Anyway, I trust him, am very much impressed with his background, his character, his ability to reason, his commitment.  I hope that the country will elect him and that as citizens we will begin to trust each other again and work to fulfill the American promise.  

Night all. 

Over 100 Dead in Terror Attack in Afghanistan 2/19

Boo!

Indy Steve,

I recall a dustup of Hill's when she was running for Senate the first time.

She went to a diner in one of our small towns as part of her "listening tour", ordered food, listened and had her nice photo op... and then failed to leave a tip.

Later on, when it had hit the local media that she stiffed her waitress, a staffer went back and tipped on her behalf.

But anyway, it doesn't surprise me that she has already forgotten her Wisconsin supporters.

OBAMA-BOXER '08

-- volney

The Triumph of Narrative: 'Of all the things Barack Obama has done right this campaign, none may be more important than the fact that he has told a story perfectly keyed to the current moment in history.' 2/20

Another example of the populace being gulled...in the name of security.

Homeland Security Won't Explain Why the Mexican Border Wall Bypasses the Rich and Connected 2/20
 

I officially forgive Wisconsin for not trying to save Howard's candidacy in 2004 after your awesome primary tonight!

Thanks, Wisconsin.

Now, Texas, it's your turn to make it up for giving us W. 

 The Houston crowd at Obama speech tonight was off the hook . Or, I guess that would be really rowdy. (as per my tv)

Fort Hood Soldiers Breaking the Silence in war in Iraq A growing number of active duty soldiers or recent Iraq war veterans are speaking up about the war in Iraq. And with the number of soldiers speaking up about their experiences in Iraq via online forums, blogs and pamphlets, some vets feel it's their duty to let the American public know the truth. "The honest truth is that if the American people knew what was going on over there everyday, they would be raising their voices too. They would be saying, 'Hey, bring those guys home," Sgt. Selena Coppa said. Coppa blames lawmakers in Washington for

I think Obama is the perfect antidote to McCain. The contrast will be stark and revealing.

Will the American people choose hope over fear, the future over the past, young and vibrant ideas over older and tired? I think so.....then obama will really be tested.

Something for everybody:

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4657245 

If you’re an Obama supporter, you know Clinton has too much “baggage” to win the general election.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you know Clinton has successfully fought off the Republican attack machine for the past 16 years, and there’s nothing new to throw at her that will stick.

If you’re an Obama supporter, asking how Obama will deflect right-wing attacks (such as questioning his “Muslim family ties” or dealings with Tony Rezko) during the general election campaign is good strategy.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, asking how Obama will deflect right-wing attacks (such as questioning his “Muslim family ties” or dealings with Tony Rezko) means you’re just a paid Hillary shill and/or “concern troll” trying to smear Obama.

If you’re an Obama supporter, suggesting that Latinos are not voting for Obama because “Latinos hate blacks” is a valid observation.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, noticing that African-Americans are voting overwhelmingly for Obama is racist.

If you’re an Obama supporter, you hate Hillary for her pro-Iraq War Resolution vote, and remind everyone within earshot that Obama never voted in favor of the IWR.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you remind everyone within earshot that Obama was not a Senator at the time of the IWR, and thus no one knows how he might have voted (especially when you consider his votes to continue funding the war ever since), but you get drowned out by the Obama supporters reminding everyone within earshot that Obama never voted in favor of the IWR.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you don’t like the fact that Clinton voted to authorize the Iraq War, but you realize that 76 other Senators, many with far more liberal leanings than Clinton, were duped into a “Yea” vote by the Bush administration’s lies.

If you’re an Obama supporter, Hillary started the Iraq War all by herself.

If you’re an Obama supporter, you remember than Barack supported John Kerry in his 2004 run for the White House, and you think this is fine, because both are solid, anti-war Democrats.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you remember that Kerry voted the same way Clinton did on the 2002 Iraq War Resolution.

If you’re an Obama supporter, you cheer Obama’s plan to start withdrawing troops from Iraq within 16 months after taking office.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, nobody listens when you mention Clinton’s plan to start withdrawing troops from Iraq within 60 days after taking office.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you know you can’t reasonably assume that Hillary is going to bring all the best things about her husband’s eight years of peace and prosperity to the table — you may be getting a “twofer,” but ultimately, it’s Hillary running, not Bill.

If you’re an Obama supporter, you know Hillary is going to bring all the worst things about her husband’s eight years of — well, you can’t remember what was so bad about the Clinton years, except for the Monica Lewinsky scandal, but you’re sure there’s plenty of bad stuff that will carry over into a Hillary Clinton administration.

If you’re an Obama supporter, it’s time for those old, out-of-touch, irrelevant Baby Boomers — in fact, it’s time for everyone over the age of 45 — to get the hell out of the way and hand the reins over to the youth of America.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, of any age, you suddenly become irrelevant the moment you remind the Obama supporters that Obama himself is 46 years old, which makes him a Baby Boomer, too.

If you’re an Obama supporter, 54-year-old Robert F. Kennedy is an out-of-touch Baby Boomer (he did, after all, endorse Clinton).

If you’re an Obama supporter, 50-year-old Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is a savvy, intelligent American (she did, after all, endorse Obama).

If you’re an Obama supporter, you use to revere 80-year-old poet laureate and living American treasure Maya Angelou — until she endorsed Clinton, which suddenly made her old, out of touch, and irrelevant.

If you’re an Obama supporter, 76-year-old Ted Kennedy is neither old, nor out of touch, nor irrelevant, because he endorsed Barack Obama.

If you’re an Obama supporter, you stand behind Obama for demanding that Don Imus and John Tanner be fired from their respective jobs for making racist remarks.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you have no right to demand that Obama fire rabidly anti-gay “ex-gay” preacher Donnie McClurkin — who demonizes gay and lesbian Americans as child killers — hired to emcee an Obama fundraiser chock-full of homophobes.

If you’re an Obama supporter, you agree that marriage equality for same-sex couples is a decision that should be left to the states.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you wonder how Obama can use the same “states’ rights” argument against same-sex marriage that was used against his own parents’ interracial marriage (which wasn’t recognized in a handful of states at the time they were married).

If you’re an Obama supporter, you echo Obama’s repeated mantra of “post-partisan unity,” and agree wholeheartedly that it’s time to “reach out” to Republicans because we can’t get anything done if we’re not all working together.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, pointing out that Obama pits minority groups within the Democratic Party against one another in order to score votes and donations from the larger and more powerful group is just wrong. And racist.

If you’re an Obama supporter, you insist that Obama has not interjected religion into this campaign.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you want to know how Obama can justify his refusal to support same-sex marriage equality based on his own religious beliefs — as well as the religious beliefs of Dick Cheney, “and over 2,000 religious leaders”.

If you’re an Obama supporter, anyone who won’t sign a loyalty oath to vote for Obama in the general election is a traitor to the Democratic Party.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you’re not allowed to take issue with Michelle Obama’s reluctance to support Hillary Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination.

If you’re a Clinton supporter, you remember how quoting passages from a speech by British Labor party leader Neil Kinnock, and “forgetting” to attribute those passages to Kinnock, cost Joe Biden the 1988 Democratic nomination.

If you’re an Obama supporter, plagiarizing a key portion of Deval Patrick’s 2006 campaign speech is a non-issue.

Stay tuned for Part 2. There’s just so much more, presenting it all at once would result in the longest blog entry in the history of the Web.

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Be Careful What You Vote For, You Just Might Get It
Donna Volatile
Counterpunch
February 14, 2008

Well, the Revolution was over before it began…It has just packed up and gone to Texas. It was short, sweet and offered some of us a few moments of self delusion but such is the world of politics.

Ron Paul galloped into our lives, like some aged knight, on an ol’ paint Texas pony, with promises of revolution and ending the war but now Ron Paul is limping back to Texas, to try and save his Congressional seat.

Whether or not Ron Paul is, was or ever will be a ‘racist’ seems a moot point…

Dennis Kucinich too. Gone back to Ohio to try and save his Congressional seat, taking with him his sweet whispers of promise for Impeachment. I guess it’s off the table for good. Nancy Pelosi will be so pleased…

As for the Antiwar Movement?… Well, it didn’t limp off anywhere, it’s just MIA.

Moveon.org continues to support the war mongering democrats and their chosen star de jour is Barack Obama. Even some lefties are getting on board that bus… (Almost makes me pine the John Kerry days…That was a joke, of course…)

Read how Tom Hayden waxes poetic on Obama:

"Many ordinary Americans will take a transformative step down the long road to the Rainbow Covenant if Obama wins. For at least a brief moment, people around the world — from the shantytowns to the sweatshops, even to the restless rich of the Sixties generation — will look up from the treadmills of their shrunken lives to the possibilities of what life still might be. Environmental justice and global economic hope would dawn as possibilities."

Say it ain’t so …

Who will Code Pink endorse? They haven’t decided yet, perhaps they are still too busy mourning the loss of Benazir Bhutto, (I almost fainted when I received that e-mail) but over at Common Dreams, they speculate, Code Pink will likely endorse Obama:

"The group also plans to take an active role in the presidential race, likely backing Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois or former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, both Democrats."

I think The Black Commentator’s Larry Pinkney sums up Obama the best:

"It is both sad and simultaneously horribly fascinating to observe so many euphorically pinning their hopes and dreams on Barack Obama, a chameleon who speaks liberally of "change but who is, himself, beholden to the very same blood-sucking corporate vampires (including Lockheed and others) who are ravaging the peoples of America, and the entire planet. It seems we have moved euphemistically from Dracula to a corporately repackaged Blackula in the person of Barack Obama. In the very name of "change, Obama is moving America euphorically backwards."

And then there’s NOW… NOW endorses Hillary Clinton (which probably has something to do with penis envy) and the world’s just too crazy to be politically active in, anymore.

So, here we are, facing the most critical election in our country’s history and what do we have to choose from?

On the republican side, John (bomb everybody now and let God sort it out later) McCain and Mike (Jesus is a personal friend of mine) Huckabee and as Larry Chin writes, the monsters behind the candidates are (1):

John McCain

Henry Kissinger

Richard Armitage, former deputy secretary of state, covert operative and lifelong Bush ally

Robert "Bud McFarlane, Reagan/Bush national security adviser, Iran, Contra

William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard (neocon)

Alexander Haig, Reagan/Bush secretary of state

George Shultz, Reagan/Bush secretary of state, Hoover Institution, Bechtel

Brent Scowcroft, Ford, George H.W. Bush national security adviser
James Woolsey, former CIA director

Lawrence Eagleburger, George H.W. Bush secretary of state

William Ball, Reagan administration Navy secretary

Colin Powell

Mike Huckabee

Huckabee has been secretive about his team. Among the names floated so far:

Ed Rollins, Republican operative

Frank Gaffney Jr., neocon and protege of Richard Perle

John Bolton, George W. Bush U.N. ambassador (as of this writing, Bolton,s participation is a strong rumor)

On the democrat side, we have Hillary (guess what I’m hiding underneath my skirt) Clinton and Barack (I didn’t vote for that war but watch how quickly I’ll vote for the next one) Obama and the monsters behind these candidates are:

Hillary Clinton

Bill Clinton

Madeline Albright, Clinton administration secretary of state

Sandy Berger, Clinton administration national security adviser

Richard Holbrooke, Clinton administration UN ambassador

Gen. Wesley Clark, Clinton era Kosovo commander

Leslie Gelb, Council on Foreign Relations, former State and Defense Department official

Martin Indyk, Clinton administration Israel ambassador, Brookings

Strobe Talbott, Clinton administration deputy secretary of state, co, creator of Caspian oil "6+2 group, Brookings

Jeffrey Smith, former CIA general counsel

Barack Obama

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Anthony Lake, Clinton administration national security adviser

Sarah Sewall, Clinton administration deputy secretary of defense, counter, insurgency czar

Richard Clarke, Clinton and Bush administration counter, terrorism czar

Susan Rice, Clinton administration Africa specialist and NSC member, Brookings

Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer, NSC Near East and Asian affairs, Brookings

Oh but wait, there’s more!

Hold on to your hats! Rumors abound that Ralph Nader may stage, yet, another, doomed to fail, ninth inning run!

And whatever happened to Cynthia McKinney? She’s running on the Green ticket! (You remember the Green Party, don’t you?)

If there’s any good news, in this election year, it is that Cindy Sheehan’s campaign is alive and well in California.

The bad news is, The Grateful Dead are reuniting to hold a fundraiser for Obama. (I’m just glad Jerry isn’t here to see it…)

A peace activist friend of mine (recently retired) told me, he’s so disgusted with the antiwar movement and politics, he removed all the bumper stickers from his car and went out and bought a flat screen television. He’s done, he’s had it, at least for now.

There is no political process in this country, it’s a rigged game where only certain establishment members get to play. The uneducated voters continue to vote for pre-selected candidates, foisted on them by the mainstream media machine, believing all the while, democracy has been served.

The world has gone crazy… Peace means war, change means more of the same…

The Revolution will not be televised because there is no revolution but you can be damn sure, we will all have a front row seat for the bombing of Iran and the coming of World War III.

Time to go out and buy that flat screen television …

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involuntary reverse peristalsis

Was just listening to Pat "Nazis were efficient" Buchanan carry on about how Reeps are going to go after Michelle Obama for her recent remark about "finally being proud".

Pat apparently doesn't remember what happened the last time the GOP tried to win by attacking the spouse of their opponent -- Hillary in 1992. 

So to the GOP I would say.....go for it. 

God, I hate bad poetry. Or perhaps that should be "poetry". . . .


Chalazions, lots of them

I hope Howard is happy tonight. Seems to me that Wisconsin, Washington and Hawaii are examples of that people powered fifty state strategy. To paraphrase.... Yes, we can take this country back!

Since everyone's playing the who's stealing from whom game, I thought I would remind Edwards voters who think Obama is stealing Edwards message that Edwards stole it from Howard. Even Hillary said "take our country back" the other day.

Of course Howard borrowed from Truman and Wellstone.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=obamas_voice_edwards_message 

12.

seashell venting again i see!:-{ well done maybe your calling is writing? enjoy your post i don't read many here, find them to be dead head groupies, i have to admit i think there hope for them, welcome to the inforwar! keep up the good fight words are more powerful than the sword!

head lice

Barak Obama Fronts Wall Street’s Infrastructure
Bruce Marshall
Information Clearing House
February 17, 2008

Swindle - What Change Really Means

Do not be fooled! Barak Obama’s call for National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank (NIRB) does not signal the return of the Democratic Party to the values of FDR and a revival of the Constitutional prerogative to ‘promote the general welfare’, but would rather provide more welfare for Wall Street and worse. Obama’s plan is nothing more than the direct means of instituting the Rohatyn-Rudman National Investment Corporation (NIC) plan called for in 2005, which in essence is a revival of Mussolini’s methods of corporatist control of the state in a politically correct post modern fashion..

When Senator Obama states that his National Investment Reinvestment Bank will magically turn $60 billion into trillions of dollars as he did in his Feb 13th Jamesville, WI speech, one can easily realize that the only way that this can happen is through the perverse magic of Wall Street. What would happen is that bonds floated by the NIRB will be bought on the open market, to then be speculated upon, securitized as derivatives, traded and ultimately used as collateral on the newly built infrastructure. What we will see is the emergence of an infrastructure bubble to replace the mortgage bubble, propped up by initial government expenditures towards infrastructure. This is just the start as Obama will fund the feel good ‘carbon credit’ swap to be the next blast of hot air to make Wall Street giddy. This is a key insight to a true understanding of what is going on. Bailout the financial powers with a clever plan that will raise money to then buy up hard assets, in other words the remaining wealth of our nation, as the meltdown crisis of over a quadrillion in derivatives losses grows and grows..

I think Obama is the perfect antidote to McCain. The contrast will be stark and revealing.

Rachel Maddow just highlighted it.....

Obama: Yes we can.

Hillary & McCain: No we can't. 

China battles "coldest winter in 100 years"
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By John Ruwitch

CHENZHOU, China (Reuters) - Millions remained stranded in China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a century.

Freezing weather has killed scores of people and left travelers stranded before the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival -- the only opportunity many people have to take a holiday all year.

It has also brought China unwanted negative publicity six

President Hu Jintao chaired an emergency Politburo meeting on Sunday for the second time in a week to discuss rescue efforts.

"We have to be clear-minded that the inclement weather and severe disaster will continue to plague certain regions in the south," said a statement issued after Sunday's meeting. "Relief work will continue to face challenges, posing a tough task."

The China Meteorological Administration said the weather was the coldest in 100 years in central Hubei and Hunan provinces, going by the total number of consecutive days of average temperature less than 1 degree Celsius (33.8 degrees Fahrenheit). somebody need to call al gore and the new world order to stop the carbon tax hell call it a freeze tax! i though the earth was getting hotter? cant be right all the time!

"I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of

others to differ from me in opinion"

Thomas Jefferson

The germ of destruction of our nation is in
the power of the judiciary, an irresponsible
body - working like gravity by night and by
day, gaining a little today and a little
tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step
like a thief over the field of jurisdiction, until
all shall render powerless the checks of one
branch over the other and will become as
venal and oppressive as the government
from which we separated."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1821

Happy Birthday to SusanD ♥'s

Night everyone.

♥'s to all

Kindness is free! Negative energy, oh so costly.

12:28 am est

Just heard Tim Russert say that Obama was willing to let Hillary speak first tonight in the hope that she would deliver a gracious concession speech. When she didn't and began to criticize him, he "bigfooted" her -- went on himself and preemted her on every network. No one saw the last 20 minutes of her speech.

And then his speech all but ignored her and was virtually a kickoff for his campaign against McCain. 

Tell me me he and his campaign don't understand how to play hardball against the toughest hardballers out there. 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19370.htm

What do you all think and know about this BO plan with the NIRB? 

So, thankful, what are you calling negative energy?  Articles?  Rooney's posts?  My  posts?