Hey, Ho, Let's Go! (the Democratic Pep Rally)

A friend of mine texted me recently, simply stating "This is the Best Pep Rally Ever". Michelle Obama and the Kids showed the Party and whoever else was watching that African American people and families are like, and have the same "values", as everybody else. The Obama kids are cute as a button and Mrs. Obama is not, as vanity fair joked, Angela Davis II. Senator Ted Kennedy left his hospital bed to tell us that it's time for hope. It's time for a new generation to take over. Then there was my favorite first day highlight. Rep. Dennis Kucinich was the first speech I saw that really hit the utter failures that have been in charge since 2001, Old School Populist Style!

And then... Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke. As anyone who reads my little rants knows, I have been no fan of the former candidate for the nomination, but this week she did what needed to be done. She fully thanked her supporters, talked of her historic (and it was) campaign, implored her supporters to join her in getting Barack Obama elected as President of the United States of America, and gave a solid "No way, No how, No mccain!" repudiation of mccain/bush policy. She challenged her supporters. "I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?... Were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?" Well said Senator!

The next day brought out more Big Guns. First there was Senator, and Vietnam Veteran (that seems to be So important these days), John Kerry. Senator Kerry called the befuddled and angry one on the differences between senator mccain and candidate mccain. He argued that it was Obama's "judgement and character" that we could trust to "Keep America Safe", not johnny POW who has been wrong "again and again and again". The Democratic Party's Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden spoke about the American Dream. Senator Biden slammed "his friend" mccain's record and policy on taxes, energy, and foreign policy, sharing instances of when "john mccain was wrong. Barack Obama was right". But the biggest dog at the convention so far... the man that I've gone from defending, to being disgustingly disappointed in, to now remembering how it feels to have an intelligent, articulate, and charismatic Commander-in-Chief, President William Jefferson Clinton spoke on Wednesday night. And Damn was he good. His was the best case for Barack Obama as President of the United States that I have heard yet. Even conservative republican/obama supporter Andrew Sullivan liked it.

Tonight the Official Democratic Party Candidate for President of the United States, Senator Barack Obama will speak, after being introduced by Al Gore, to 75,000 people at Mile High Stadium. Reports say the speech will not be about economic issues and not a lot of "high rhetoric". Here's to Hoping Barack doesn't keep the rhetoric too low.

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the DNC, though I suggest you check out the speeches for yourself:

He has a remarkable ability to inspire people, to raise our hopes and rally us to high purpose. He has the intelligence and curiosity every successful President needs. His policies on the economy, taxes, health care and energy are far superior to the Republican alternatives. He has shown a clear grasp of our foreign policy and national security challenges, and a firm commitment to repair our badly strained military. His family heritage and life experiences have given him a unique capacity to lead our increasingly diverse nation and to restore our leadership in an ever more interdependent world. The long, hard primary tested and strengthened him. And in his first presidential decision, the selection of a running mate, he hit it out of the park.

President Bill Clinton

Most important, Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
President Bill Clinton

"There is a new wave of change all around us, and if we set our compass true, we will reach our destination -- not merely victory for our party, but renewal for our nation."
Senator Edward Kennedy

And one day, they - and your sons and daughters - will tell their own children about what we did together in this election. They'll tell them how this time, we listened to our hopes, instead of our fears. How this time, we decided to stop doubting and to start dreaming.
Michelle Obama

We need leaders once again who can tap into that special blend of American confidence and optimism that has enabled generations before us to meet our toughest challenges. Leaders who can help us show ourselves and the world that with our ingenuity, creativity, and innovative spirit, there are no limits to what is possible in America.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Wake up, America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is call for you to go from down to up. Up with the rights of workers. Up with wages. Up with fair trade. Up with creating millions of good paying jobs, rebuilding our bridges, ports and water systems. Up with creating millions of sustainable energy jobs to lower the cost of energy, lower carbon emissions and protect the environment."
Representative Dennis Kucinich (Really a Must Watch!)

"Candidate McCain now supports the wartime tax cuts that Senator McCain once denounced as immoral. Candidate McCain criticizes Senator McCain’s own climate change bill. Candidate McCain says he would now vote against the immigration bill that Senator McCain wrote. Are you kidding? Talk about being for it before you’re against it...Let me tell you, before he ever debates Barack Obama, John McCain should finish the debate with himself."
Senator John Kerry

Sometimes loving your country demands you must tell the truth to power. This is one of those times, and Barack Obama is telling those truths.
Senator John Kerry

Let me make this pledge to you right here and now. For every American who is trying to do the right thing, for all those people in government who are honoring their pledge to uphold the law and respect our Constitution, no longer will the eight most dreaded words in the English language be: "The vice president's office is on the phone."
Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden

Again and again, on the most important national security issues of our time, John McCain was wrong, and Barack Obama was proven right.
Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden

Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden!

It's 3 AM... and the phone is ringing. Who do you want to answer that phone?

Last night/early this morning my phone rang at 3:03 AM. I answered it. It was Barack Obama, telling me he had chosen Senator Joe Biden as Vice President to his President of the United States of America! I could not be happier! Joe Biden brings more than just his being Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his service on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and his incredible knowledge of the world and it's leaders. He is also an aggressive "straight talker". He is not afraid to fight. His occasional gaffes are more problems with politically correct language. He doesn't make mistakes when it comes to the facts, like the other old white guy who's been a Senator for decades.

Senator Joe Biden!

GObama/Biden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish the media Would focus on the incompetent old man.

Drug Addict limbaugh recently said that the media believes 'you can't criticize the little black man child'. You know what I say to that? There are a hell of a lot more people who think you can't criticize a "below par" navy pilot, who lost 5 of Our airplanes, and was born the year before the Star Spangled Banner was adopted as the National Anthem.

If "the media" spent the same time and focus on johnny the same they do on Candidate Barack Obama, maybe there would have been more coverage of his gaffes on foreign policy, gaffes on Iraq, ignorance on the economy, his memory loss when it comes to crises and conflicts of the past 20 years, guesses at what middle class is, the timing of his divorce (which was based on his first wife being disfigured in a car accident) and most recently on how many houses he and the uber-wealthy heiress he married own, not to mention what they are worth. How about more on that temper of his? Or all the lobbyists that are ON HIS PAYROLL (especially the one paid so handsomely by the country of Georgia)?

They could run a Time magazine cover story comparing the pro-campaign finance reform, partner of liberals like Russ Feingold and Ted Kennedy, "maverick" old "straight talker" of 1999 to the bought and sold, campaign finance rule breaking, rover advised, "I don't have to show that I'm different" from president junior, anything to win johnny same that's running now. Hell, they could even throw in the fact that the only reason he is the candidate at all is that the rest of the republican field were so incredibly weak and/or crazy. How about a piece asking if being a junior officer in the Navy is really presidential "experience". Speaking of the military background, how about we ask about how he got where he did by riding on his family name (remind you of anybody else), his not "disagreeing" with a draft, or how the once anti-torture former POW, went from against water boarding and "torture" in all it's forms to allowing it and what ever else the United States Military inflicts on it's prisoners. Here's a an question raised recently by Andrew Sullivan. Would bushco. consider the sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating mccain went through torture? So much for setting an example for the world. The older, dumber (894 out of 899 in his graduating class) third termer will now be shouting about Our "victory" in Iraq, now that the failure in chief that calls his shots is agreeing on a timetable to pull US forces out of Iraqi cities by Summer '09 and out of all Iraq by '11. I hope the newly focused media asks him what exactly it is that We've won. And when his answer includes 9/11, they say Iraq had nothing to do with it. And then when he counters with saddam, they say that was 5 years ago.

Ah the newly focused media, druggie rush and the rest of Them should be happy they're not focusing on the Iraq-9/11 forgery that came out of the Vice President's office or the Gilded Age-esque, still floundering, corporately socialist, economy.

Baracky II

Baracky II


Out of kindness to Senator Hillary Clinton, not to mention not wanting to pull a hot head johnny and replay her attacks, I didn't post Baracky-The Movie. You can search for it on YouTube yourselves, if you like.

If you know me, you know that this made me cheer and cry.

Paris Hilton (A proper response)

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I never liked Paris Hilton, until I saw her response to john "i have nothing new to add" the same's ridiculous ad where he compares Senator, and Candidate for President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, to celebrities paris hilton and britney spears. Now, I know the "I used to be a 'maverick'" campaign will see eye to eye with the half of this they like and will want to make her their energy adviser (she's got to be better adviser than senator "we're a nation of whiners" graham was), but this is a surprisingly good response to mccain's jack ass of an ad.

I don't think offshore drilling is the answer, or even much of a band aid, to the energy problem we, in the United States, and we, of the world, face. But if it ends the bullshitification of the issue... Give FL, AK, LA, TX, and every other state that wants it, the right to have oil and dead fish wash up on their shores for not much more than drilling profits. If it breaks the goddamn political shenanigans and dead lock in what pretends to be the United States of America's Legislature, so be it. I say let states decide on offshore drilling (with tough federal environmental regulations). Of course, We already drill offshore, not to mention the fact that big oil is sitting on 68 million unused acres of Federal land it has already leased from Us. This "compromise" on the renewed call for additional offshore drilling should only be made as part of a Comprehensive energy package that must also include raising the Gas mileage on all Non industrial, commercial, and agricultural vehicles to 40 miles per gallon. It must close tax loopholes/corporate welfare for energy companies and use a windfall profit giveback from the Oil companies, who are profiting enormously from the current gas prices, to fund the hell out of wind, solar, bio-fuel and any other cheaper, cleaner energy source.

Maybe the extra bit of oil that comes out in 10 years won't even be needed. They may close down he pumps out of "cost effectiveness" before there's even a spill. The market could drive things in a direction that is better for Our health, environment and security. A compromise of this nature on energy is not my Ideal, but it would be nice to end all this Grandstanding/lying that drilling off shore will save us all and bring gas prices down to where they were before this oil man was appointed president. We need to get onto the real goal of getting off of a resource that not only pollutes but, WILL RUN OUT.

And one more thing, there are little everyday things that everyone can do to conserve oil, gas, energy, and money. Making sure your tire pressure is where it should be conserves gas and if everyone did it regularly, may actually have a real positive effect. Too bad ignorant asshole old men, with nothing better or positive to say, make fun of the little things that Average Americans can actually do right now. Not to worry, the man who wants to be the president in 2009 and can't even use a computer won't stop me from doing what I can. I'm unplugging my cell phone charger as we speak.

The War of Words (and links)

In our sound bite politics, words can be used as narratives. And when a "narrative" is set in a "stubborn/steadfast" (depending on your angle) man's mind, he'll never be for the word he was against. Now I'm not talking about Our War on a the noun Terror. A more appropriate example is the worst president in history's recent "agreement" with the Iraqi government on "joint aspirational time horizons" as opposed to a "timeline" for Our "withdrawal" from the "quagmire" in Iraq. It is nice to hear that they may be finally coming up with an "exit strategy", like the ones the son of a bush Used to go on and on about. The "decider" also came out recently to say that there is "progress" in Iraq, but it's different than the "progress" in Iraq last year or the "progress" from two years ago. That "progress" meant we had to stay. This "progress" means the failure-in-chief can "reduce" the troops' tours of duty from the 15 months He increased them to, back down to a year. This "raise the price and hold a sale" "ideology" isn't only for the White House spin on easing the burden they've put on Our troops. Turns out it works for gas prices, too. Huzzah! Gas might be down to $3.50 a gallon by Labor Day (just a buck more than it was 2 years ago)!!!!

Words can make campaign coverage "spin", too. A quote, completely taken out of context, can be used by the media to discuss buzzwords like "presumptuous" or "arrogance". A quick word about "arrogance", well actually, there are a few... "Bring 'Em On" "You're either with us or you're against us" "mission accomplished" "God wants me to run for President". And was it "presumptuous" for "I don't have the temperment or the mental capacity (click that one!) to be president" johnny to tour Iraq and the "Middle East", or Columbia and Mexico, as a candidate for president? Or is it only presumptuous if the trip goes incredibly well? Elitist is another funny word. Referring to the actions of one social class towards another, it's usually based on income, which may be illustrated by a candidate's $520 loafers. Quite often in politics, though, it's based on intelligence. You know, if you use big words, and stuff like that, you're an "elitist". And speaking of the "elite", doesn't comparing multi-millionaire heiress paris hilton to multi-millionaire heiress cindy mccain make a hell of a lot more sense than comparing her to Barack Obama?

A word currently trying the nerves of the treasonous she-devil "turd blossom" is "contempt", specifically, Contempt of Congress. The House Judiciary committee voted to send Contempt of Congress charges against karl rove to the full House of Representatives for a vote. The charges stem from rover's refusal to testify before Congress about his involvement in the political hiring and firing (that's not allowed) at the "Justice" (There's a word that seems to have lost some power over the last eight years) Department and for his possible pressing of the investigation of Alabama's former governor based on his party affiliation.

Who knows why rover and miers and bolton and dick and junior have repeatedly refused to testify, under oath, and in public, even when a word like "contempt" is hanging over their heads. Maybe it's because they're afraid of another word... "Indictment". Indictment took another red "law maker" recently. A leader in the gop, an avid avenger for oil, and a "bridge to nowhere" enthusiast, senator ted stevens was indicted on corruption charges. Another fallen in disgrace. Don't worry though, ya old "series of tubes" chum, no one in Washington seems to care about words like "accountability" or "responsibility" any more, anyway. You can add "honor" and "integrity" to that list, as well.

Bring the Funny!

Now we all saw the hilariously, and obviously ironic, New Yorker cover depicting Obama as a Muslim, bin laden impersonator and his wife, Michelle, in full Angela Davis attire, as they felt the warmth of the burning flag in the fireplace. HA HA HA. I've been rolling on the floor ever since I saw it. The joke was so obvious... to a New Yorker reader. Well, now, Vanity Fair has there funny mccain cartoon cover answer. Only difference is, the New Yorker was making fun of the lies about the Obamas being spread by the right, while the Vanity Fair cover is poking fun at the truth. The bitter red candidate is old, his wife was addicted to pills, and they are for destroying rights provided for by Our Constitution. That's why I like this cartoon cover of john "the philanderer" mccain better.

Speaking of the funny old coot, have you heard the one about the gorilla that brutally beats and rapes a woman? You know what, slap stick johnny tells it best. But seriously folks, the rerun of the shrub campaign is really upset about the amount of coverage given to an American politician attracting over 200,000 cheering, American flag waving, Europeans to hear his speech. Poor "one reporter showed up for me" john doesn't get this kind of help from the main stream media. All he gets is CBS editing his gaffes out of interviews. Now I'm not talking about him forgetting that "Czechoslovakia" is no longer a country. They're editing out gaffes about the borders of countries that are the top priority of Our foreign policy and National Security. But who cares if the one who calls himself experienced knows what borders Iraq or Pakistan? Or a later edit, which I assume is for Obama's sake, when the computer illiterate one forgot that the war in Afghanistan was Our "first major major conflict" after 9/11. The funniest/most sickening joke from mccain (aka The Joker) to me was when he laughingly joked with the Google kids about his being 5th FROM THE BOTTOM OF HIS CLASS in College. That's right a candidate for President of the United States was 894 out of 899 at the Naval Academy. Oh, and you have to laugh when during his hunt for press during Barack's EU/Middle East tour, the 72 year old friend of the 27%er was detoured from an off shore oil rig at the site of a huge oil spill to meet with the Dalai Llama. Can you imagine the conversation between the "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" war hawk and the man who believes we should have "compassion for our attackers"?

But the jokes don't end with johnny third term (or worse), his buddy LIEbermann was out comparing the "pastor" that said hitler "was fulfilling god's will" to Moses. Now that's a knee slapper right up there with faux news misspelling education during a segment on... education. Ah, the funny, you don't even have to watch John or Stephen (link to a CLASSIC) for it anymore.

Next up:
More on my support for Barack Obama for President of the United States.
The first "gitmo case", where the prosecutor said Flight 93 was "shot down" on 9/11 and coerced evidence is not allowed.
And the Non-Binding Impeachment Hearing and accountability in the White House.

Correction: The gaffe about Iraq bordering Pakistan was not edited by CBS. The bewildered one's gaffe about the timeline of his beloved surge was, along with forgetting about the war in Afghanistan, of course.

Barack, FISA, and Our wars

Barack Obama is going to make decisions that I do not like. Barack Obama is not the "liberal" he has been defined by the right and misunderstood by many on the left. Just because a hippy lefty, like me, believes he could be one of the Great Leaders (certainly American) of my lifetime does not mean Barack is a hippy leftie. And being against the War in Iraq does not make someone "a liberal" either. He's left of center certainly, but not all his stances match the progressive left. The politics he preaches talks of sitting down with both sides of an argument and coming to a mutual agreement and understanding. A welcome change from "you're with us or your against us", but a bit of a pill to take when the decision lands on the side of the argument opposite yours. I haven't had a real problem with any of Obama's decisions thus far . I thought he should take a hit not taking public finance moneys allotted by the 10% of Americans that check the box on their tax forms, and he did. But it was a smart move. But this FISA bill vote really pisses me off. Senator Barack Obama, along with 68 other Senators, voted in favor of giving the president the right into Our privacy without fear of reprisal or oversight, even for the then criminal acts he and the "we were only following orders" telecoms perpetrated before the law went through. Not to mention, it was something he said he would not vote for. More of the same new mccain missed the vote, like he has every other one this year.

There are a couple, not to say they're legitimate, rationales I can think of for Congress's "bowing" to the president and giving him right and reign over any detail of any of our lives he deems fit to explore. In a Rachel Maddow interview with Russ Feingold. He seems to think that it may be okay, though "it was one of the greatest assaults on Our Constitution", that Obama voted yea on the new FISA, because it is something Obama and the Democrats will fix after he becomes President. So they vote pro-spying on American Citizens, the republicans can't say they're weak on the terrorists, and after they win, they'll change it back. That coupled with the pro-spying contingent having enough votes to pass it anyway might be enough of a pathetic excuse, but there may be more. Also passed that day was a "landmark" Medicare Bill, that brought Senator Edward Kennedy out of his sick bed for a deciding vote. The bill hits the insurance companies and helps the doctors and the patients. Was this close Medicare vote negotiated by giving certain votes on FISA? I don't know, but I still don't like it. It's not enough to sway my support for Barack Obama for president of the United States of America, but I don't like it.

In other news that smells funny, have you heard about the fake Iranian missile pictures? I wonder who made those. Maybe it was Iran thumping it's chest like it's nemesis Israel, whose planes may be practicing on Our bases in Iraq. Or... Maybe... it was the same "folks" that forged those Nigerian Uranium documents they helped cheneyco. rush us into war in Iraq. Either way if we go to war with Iran, oil prices will spike even higher, and there will have to be a draft.

In other news, the befuddled one said he would balance the budget by 2012 with the help of "savings from Victory in Iraq". That's right. The money that we have been "deficit or debt" spending in Iraq can be used as income once we can stop "deficit" spending it for war. Obama defended his stance that children should learn foreign languages, his economic plan came out some months ago. And Our "Free Market is the Best" government bailed out a couple more huge private companies. But my favorite bit of the week, no it has nothing to do with a-rod, was the video of candidate "i'm not the man I used to be" mccain being asked by a reporter if it was "fair" that insurance companies pay for viagra, but not birth control pills. Squirm, johnny squirm.

And finally, onto Our two wars. In Afghanistan, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, is now saying that, unless we pull troops out of Iraq, we will not have enough troops in Afghanistan to fight the resurgent taliban and al qaeda there. Pakistan as recently said the US can no longer hunt bin Laden there. And in Iraq, the Iraqi government is pushing for a TIMETABLE for the withdrawal of US/foreign fighters. Those surrender monkeys, why do they hate Iraq? You know, here's Senator Barack Obama's Plan for Iraq. I'm sure I'll type more about both wars later, along with the economy, energy, political satire, and patriotism.

Update: Congress overided (is that a word?) presnit bush's veto of the Medicare Bill.

George Fucking Carlin!

It's a sad day when such a funny man dies, but George Carlin was more than a funny man. He spoke truth to power and to people about the stupidity, the dumbing down and the bullshit that flies through our political correct, sterilized language and into Our two faced, "polite" society.

He was Absolutely One of the Greats!

Carlin at Carnegie Hall (complete with the 200 Dirty word list) is a must see and the only HBO show that has had any Real and lasting impact on my person.

"Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat! 69 assholes tied in a knot! Hooray! Lizard shit! Fuck!"

Mr. Carlin, You will be missed.

georgie and john

Representative Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment of george w. bush (co-sponsored by Representative Robert Wexler) has been sent to committee for the Democratic "leadership" to slow kill, though Kucinich vows to not let it die (you can help). Just to set the record straight, I do not support impeachment out of some sort of partisan, competitive, "You impeached 'us' we'll impeach you" bullshit. If President Barack Obama (yeah, I typed it) illegally spies on and/or detains American citizens indefinitely and without charge... if he invades a sovereign nation, breaking international law, based on cherry picked, false, and fabricated intelligence ignoring and shooing aside "doubters"... if he uses publicly funded Propaganda to mislead the Nation... if he derelicts his duty and lets Americans citizens drown from inaction against a foretold disaster, leaving the survivors to remain displaced, their homes and neighborhoods in ruin for YEARS... if he condones torture, of any type or name, in United States detention facilities or ships US prisoners to other nations to be tortured, I will call for his Impeachment and removal from office. Whether it is in his first year, his last year or his last week as president. It is Congress's Responsibility to keep a check on the president. Illegality, impropriety, and incompetence should and needs to be met with accountability. We do not have a king. No one is above the law. If anything it's because of partisanship that he has NOT been impeached. I know we're a Nation that gets more outraged by reports of referees fixing games than United States Senate reports of a president and his underlings fixing intelligence to rush Our Country into war. A war that has cost the lives of thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands (a conservative estimate) of innocent Iraqi. Dick-tator saddam was hanged for killing under 200. Our Laws, their enforcement, and Our adherence to them, even when it comes to Our prisoners, are what keeps us from chaos and fascism.

But let's talk about the man who wants to continue georgie 24%'s policies, both foreign and domestic. That's right, ol' flip floppin' john has had another less than stellar week. Let's see... He taught us vladmir putin (the president of Russia) was the president of Germany. He told his supporters, who can now donate and receive non-elitist golf supplies, that he would "veto every beer". When asked if he would like to have vice president dick (currently at 18% approval) in his administration McSame responded "hell yeah". We found out that this 21st century candidate is computer "illiterate". And the biggest gaffe for "senior moment" johnny was when he said it's "not too important" when Our troops leave Iraq. That last one really pissed some people off. His supporters say johnny third term has never been for "timetables", despite him coming out and saying that if he becomes president (evolution forbid), Our troops would be home by 2013. His supporters say he can say what he wants, he was in the military. But finally some military personnel are beginning to speak out and say that being a Navy aviator, POW, and Senate liaison does not give you "carte blanche" on all things military. It's gotten so bad for the 72 year old candidate that he's having trouble with endorsements from elected officials in his own grand Old party. Oh, and since I mentioned the military, Obama's "short list" of Vice Presidential candidates sure is getting interesting.

With Our current president being protested in Rome and the Iraqi government rejecting the idea of 60 US bases on their soil, saying it would "lead to colonization", it's no wonder that the international community likes the idea of a change from the current "your either with us or your against us" American leadership that has dragged Our Country's reputation into the muck. Not that Our reputation problem is only international. With crap like faux news's "terrorist fist jab" and the ever classy reference to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama" (yeah, they're a respectable news organization) it's no surprise most people are and will remain uber-cynical, pessimistic and/or apathetic, at least until something Changes?

Possible future Ink topics:

• The dramatic rise in gas and food prices and the people who have been talking about conserving resources for 30 years.
• Foreclosures, inflation and all the other indicators that illustrate how the US economy is sucking wind.
• The internetic system of tubes and Campaign 2008
• The things I don't like about Barack Obama.
• www.fightthesmears.com

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

This is not the first time someone has stood up to attempt to hold the President of the United States accountable for his actions. It is, however, the first time it has been, although still minimally, covered by the press.

More on the case for impeachment hearings and "McFlipper" the candidate that would like to continue this "misunderstood" president's failed foreign and domestic policies later.

Representative Kucinich's Full Articles of Impeachment are available here.

Washington, Jun 10 - Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio
In the United States House of Representatives
Monday, June 9th, 2008
A Resolution

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

Resolved, that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:

Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.

In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power.

INDEX
Article I
Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq.

Article II
Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression.

Article III
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War.

Article IV
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States.

Article V
Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression.

Article VI
Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of H. J. Res114.

Article VII
Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.

Article VIII
Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter.

Article IX
Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor.

Article X
Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes.

Article XI
Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq.

Article XII
Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources.

Article XIIII
Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries.

Article XIV
Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Article XV
Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq.

Article XVI
Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors.

Article XVII
Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives.

Article XVIII
Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy.

Article XIX
Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to "Black Sites" Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture.

Article XX
Imprisoning Children.

Article XXI
Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government.

Article XXII
Creating Secret Laws.

Article XXIII
Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

Article XXIV
Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment.

Article XXV
Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens.

Article XXVI
Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements.

Article XXVII
Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply.

Article XXVIII
Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice.

Article XXIX
Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Article XXX
Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare.

Article XXXI
Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency.

Article XXXII
Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change.

Article XXXIII
Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.

Article XXXIV
Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001.

Article XXXV
Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders.

The Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee

Once he earned 2,118 pledged delegates, Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic National Primaries. Below is his victory speech from last night. It was given at the site of this year's republican national convention in the "red" state of Minnesota. That's probably why only 20,000 enthusiastic supporters showed up.



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GObama!!!!

Sometimes there's just too much to say.

It's amazing to me how much happens when I skip a week or two of typing. Was it crazy to think that talk of, and the subsequent backpedaling from, "appeasers" who want to talk to our enemies, like Sec. of Defense robert gates, exxon's favorite Secretary of State condi rice, and most recently, Israel, who is now negotiating directly with Syria, would have lasted more than a few days? Or the resignation of five top aides to formerly pro-campaign finance reform johnny third term, because of lobbyist ties, and worse yet ties to the bastards in Myanmar that kept rescue aid at bay for weeks? Even LIEberman, who will be speaking at pastor "catholicism is the great whore" hagee's joint, and graham, not to be confused with the old man's economic advisor gramm, who's been lobbying for one of the 'architects' of the mortage crisis, had to step down from their positions at the "527" Vets for Freedom group because of conflicts of interest. And on the pastors of bush jr. jr. mccain, johnny has finally rejected pastor hagee, whose endorsement he Actively sought. All it took was for hagee to tell us all that hitler was doing god's work. The oldest man to run for a first term also rejected his "spiritual guide", I assume for comments about how Men, like Washington and Jefferson, formed this country to destroy the "false religon" of Islam.

But why focus on all the problems of candidate mccain, when hillary is comparing her staying in the race until June with her husband's race. Unlike Senator Clinton's primary campaign, President Clinton had all but declared victory way in advance of June, and there were a helluva a lot more late primaries then (California was in June). And of course her campaign, remember she Was the shoe-in establishment candidate, is the same as Bobby Kennedy's 1968 Presidential campaign. Bobby Kennedy entered the race in March of 1968. That means he was running for three months by the time June came around. The woman, that moved to New York to run for Senate, entered the 2008 race in January of 2007. The real story here is that hillary clinton reminded us all that inspirational speakers, who speak of real change get killed. In a race, where I have personally been told of hillary's opponent "I'm so scared he's gonna get killed" or the even more simplistic "someone's going to kill him", she's using fear mongering politics, like roveco. used to fool a country, telling people "Bobby Kennedy was assasinated in June". So, you know, anything can happen. This was the fourth time in the campaign she brought up Senator Robert Kennedy's murder. This time only a week after his brother, Senator Edward Kennedy, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. But enough about her. That race will be over next week.

Let's talk about the friggin' chest bumper-in-chief. Seems his old mouth piece is out and about with a tell all book, and it's got them all in a feeding frenzy. Sweet Schadenfreude! The co-conspirator that let a GOP lovin' gay prostitute, writing for a tiny little website, into the White House briefing room week after week to ask the talking chimp softball questions, says his old boss is self, and publicly, deceptive. That the Iraq NIE was declassified by the president for leakage to the press, and they were all lying about the outing of a CIA agent. He writes of little georgie bush and friends' failure and "state of denial" before, during, and in the wake of the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. And the big bombshell... that the lead up to the war in Iraq was propaganda, as opposed to candor, honesty and a real discussion about the necessity of war. It should be said that I, like the little prince, have not read the book, just the reports on it. What does rover have to say about scotty turning on the administration? He says former mouthpiece mcclellan sounds "like a left wing blogger". You know what I have to say to that? Thats' because he's speaking the truth!

"I am concerned-as I believe most Americans are concerned-that the course we are following at the present time is deeply wrong... I am concerned-as I believe most Americans are concerned-that we are acting as if no other nation existed, against the judgment and desires of neutrals and other historic allies alike"

"But past error is no excuse for its perpetration. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom... Now, as ever, we do ourselves best justice when we measure ourselves against ancient texts, as in Sophocles [from Antigone] 'All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil"

"the young men we have sent there [Vietnam]; not just the killed, but those who have to kill; not just the maimed, but all those who must look upon the results of what they are forced and have to do"

"the price we pay in our innermost lives, and in the spirit of this country"

"war is not an enterprise lighltly to be undertaken, nor prolonged one moment past its absolute necessity"

"Our Country is in Danger: not just from foreign enemies; but above all, from our own misguided policies-and what they can do to the nation that Thomas Jefferson once said was the last, great hope for mankind. there is a contest on, not for the rule of America but for the heart of America"
- Senator Robert F. Kennedy

appeasement golf

Keith Olbermann!!!!

Joe Biden and more Joe Biden

Jon Stewart

Chris Mathews

On bush's "bullshit" statements on "appeasement" at an event In Israel celebrating its 60th Birthday and his "tone deaf, arrogant, embarassing gesture" to give up golf in "solidarity" with military families and soliers in Iraq.

More from me later on this out of touch, utterly incompetent, failure in Our White House, who has created one hell of a mess after 7+ years.

The Unthinkable, The Unconscionable, and The Noble

It is feared that as many as 100,000 people have died due to the catastrophic cyclone that hit Myanmar, or as some still refer to it, Burma, on Friday May 2. 1,500,000 people have been effected by this incredible storm. A storm more devastating perhaps than anything seen before. Why then has the UN suspended aid to Myanmar? The "junta" government in Myanmar has been seizing the aid before it gets to the victims that need it. This military government is Denying international aid to its dying public. It is unthinkable and unforgivable, and further proof that there are governments in the world, especially those installed by gun point, that have not a care for the people they "govern".

Smoke continues to rise and bullets continue to fly in Lebanon, where "militants" and the military once again battle. "Pro-government fighters" have lost Beirut to hezbollah and other Shiite militias. You may recall Israel taking on hezbollah, who is backed by Syria and Iran, in a month long conflict, because of the capture of two Israeli soldiers. When the conflict ended, hezbollah declared a 'divine victory'. An all out civil war, which is feared by many in Lebanon, would give the unstable region even more instability. But we have a different possible civil war on Our minds. A civil war that would occur as a result of a "pre-emptive" strike, or invasion, by the United States of America. A "doctrine" that has inflamed instability in the region of Asia We refer to as the Middle East.

In wartime news, Congress is just about set to give the chickenhawk-in-chief another blank check, but with caveat this time. The addition of an increase in education benefits for veterans has "blue dog" Democrats and little georgey 29% up in arms. You see the "blue dog" Democrats, or as I like to call them "Pick your party or go independent" democrats are for "pay as you go" which means no spending unless you have the funding source. This "principle" of course doesn't count when talking about $70,000,000,000.00+ in funds for a war that has cost Us $500,000,000,000.00 already. Maybe I should refer to them as "pick and choose" Democrats. Senator Jim Webb has proposed a new GI Bill which enlarges education benefits to veterans. Little prince AWOL and his henchmen (and woman) are against it, because it would make it harder to get people to re-enlist. After serving their Country, more soldiers would want to go to college instead of going back to the frontlines from which they have just returned. You heard right, if we give them to many benefits for fighting for "Our Freedom" then they may want to use them instead of going on their SEVENTH tour of duty. Unconscionable! Of course, grumpy "i was a prisoner of war" grampa, being the biggest superstar hero veteran of the universe is... not sure/against it. What a pandering, bullshit express jerk the distinguished Senator from Arizona has turned out to be, since he trading in his pre-2000 maverick status for the title of bush jr. jr.

Since I mentioned johnny third term, and in the interest of equal time, Senator Barack Obama has taken an undeniable and increasingly insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, state contests, and the Popular vote in the Democratic Party's Presidential Primary. And has now taken the lead in superdelegates. Senator Clinton is remaining in the race. Recently, using Indiana and the southern state of North Carolina to base how all us whites vote, she recently gave "Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again" as the reason for her continuing. At least it's a noble cause.

Just a side note: Gallup says Obama's support among whitey is as high as Candidate Kerry's was in 2004. The uninspiring Senator Kerry didn't have the youth, black, or new vote that Senator Barack Obama has. If he did, maybe the last four years would have gone a little differently.

I know what I said but it's poetry.

I know it's barely a week since I said I would stay out of primary rantings. But at least I wrote it in poem form.

What They Say
(An Ode to the Clinton Campaign)

Who has lived in the castle should be the next king.
First Family Clinton has such a nice ring.

It’s not Inspiring Millions to engage for their first.
The only way to “real” change is more Senate experience with the worst.

Don’t judge by our words, the ones we’ve “misstated”.
Judge by the pastor we once celebrated.

Behind in the polls, we’re the only shoe-in.
Just keep moving the goal posts to know how to win.

We'll yell and we"ll cackle, we'll cry and we'll drink.
We’ll fight the way they do. We know how they think.

The Ex-President's not asking for votes. He's asking for prayers.
The scandals we'll bring will certainly be rare.

We'll beat those darn reds. It's still us against them.
Even the ones who vote Our primary against Him.

Oh and my vote on the war I'm so dead against
I was duped by the smartest president yet.

Mission Accomplished

Five years ago yesterday a flight suited cheerleader-in-chief told Us all that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended". The media swooned. Johnny third term agreed and shouted of Our great victory. Now, five years later, little georgie 29%'s mouth piece says it wasn't the president's fault that the banner reading "Mission Accomplished" was misunderstood. Their defense is, don't laugh, "the Navy did it". The banner was framed in the top of almost every photograph from the empty headed tyrant's press corps simply for composition and of course was completely coincidental. This overly orchestrated, flight suited, image conscious, scripted event certainly wasn't paying attention to the backdrop. But let's talk about the Mission that has been Accomplished.

April 2008 in Iraq had the highest American casualty rate since August 2008. 4,064 troops have died. 3,924 since "Mission Accomplished" flew behind the failure-in-chief's bloated head. The bloated cost of the neo-con war in Iraq has climbed past $500,000,000,000.00. $435 million a day, $3 billion a week, $12 billion a month. More than any war the US has fought, with the exception of WWII. Iraqi reconstruction is not being paid for with Iraqi oil money, as war architects had promised. Water treatment plants in Baghdad still aren't working well enough. Electricity is still not at pre-invasion levels. The president of Iran can visit Iraq in broad daylight with advanced notice, and the president of the United States still has to make surprise visits and can't leave the "green zone". Hamas and Hezbollah have all gained strength during junior's "freedom march". Oil is $120 a barrel. Gas is at $3.62 per gallon. And al qaeda is gaining strength in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is right where little george left them.

Mission Accomplished??? At least the worst president in history and his vice dick's buddies at haliburton and exxon/mobil have succeeded.

Enough!

A friend of mine recently told me that she was worried that Obama may be "another Carter", which is better than the more recent McGovern nonsense that's being spread now. I don't really know what she meant by it. My first thought was Obama is certainly not the pacifist President Carter is, nor is he a southern baptist peanut farmer from the south. There is, however, a comparison that does seem analogous. When President Carter ran for a second term in 1980, he had a challenger that fought him all the way to the convention, Ted Kennedy. Senator Kennedy was down and just about out mathematically when... he won Pennsylvania. He still didn't have a real mathematical chance, but the race went on. Some say the divided bitter primary was a factor in Jimmy Carter's loss. Others say the State of the Union at the time, coupled with ronald raygun's "optimism" were insurmountable obstacles. So yeah, if Obama is Carter circa 1980 then Clinton is Kennedy, except for one thing. The deck was stacked, the establishment lined up, and the clear front runner/"imminent" nominee was not Obama, as was the case with then incumbent President Carter. This time around it was Senator Clinton.

Candidate Clinton has run as change, while allowing people to believe it'll be Bill Clinton's third term. And we all remember how good it was back then, right? She was supposed to be unstoppable, with her coronation taking place on Super Tuesday. But an, in Hillary's vernacular, "inexperienced" Junior Senator from Illinois is not only giving her a run for her money, but is beating her. She still claims that she would have an easier time with, the candidate that stands up for full disclosure and campaign finance reform as he breaks campaign finance laws and withholds the tax returns of the woman who's family Fortune he married into, media darling Grandpa McSame. If that's the case then why can't she beat this political novice from Lincoln's Home State (Please note the 16th President's experience in National Politics prior to election)

The Junior Senator from New York has every right to run and continue to run for President, as does any American. She does not have to leave the race because mathematically it's almost impossible for her to win (See Ralph Nader). Her campaign's recent spin to quiet their growing math problem was truly something to behold. Her campaign made the following statement the day after the Pennsylvania primary. "More people have voted for Hillary than any other candidate". Why is this so misleading, because it counts Florida whose delegates were discounted because they did not abide by the DNC's path to hillary's victory. Because it counted Michigan, who's delegates were discounted for the same reason and didn't even have Barack on the ballot. And finally, the piece de resistance, they didn't count the caucuses at all. The Clinton Campaign is being dishonest. Maybe that's why Hillary's Campaign manager and former DNC Chairman terry mccauliffe is in this ad for fox news. Don't get me started on the republicans for hillary. They may be there for the primaries, but to be sure they won't be in the general.

All that being said, the primaries are going to go on at least until June, despite the fact that Clinton's "Great Victory" (by just shy of 10%) in PA only netted her 10 of the 160+ delegates she needed to catch Barack and 200,000+ of the 700,000+ votes she needed in the popular vote. Even loud mouth matthews is starting to realize that the media is keeping this horse race alive. He, of course, isn't a media outlet that has "jumped ship on obama". In the Hope that my head doesn't explode prematurely and I don't turn into the very thing that makes me so nauseous when it comes to Hillary Clinton's campaign since Feb. 5th, I'm gonna try my damnedest to make this my last anti-Clinton/Democratic Primary blog.

Candidate mccain will be the target of my bile (I mean blog) from here on out. Perhaps a rant about mchypocrite's "honored to have his endorsement" pastor hagee, who thinks god damned America with Katrina, because of gay pride and that Catholicism is "the great whore". Maybe one about the flip flops of the hundred year old candidate between his campaign in 1999, when rover was out telling South Carolina that mcold fathered an illegitimate child of color, and Campaign 2008, where he panders as much as he can to those he once called "the agents of tolerance". But I'll save some of those guns for later.

There are some other NEWS stories out there to shake my fists at the air about. The Pentagon's propaganda machine has officially infiltrated almost all of the Mainstream Media. US contracted ships fired eleven "warning shots" at Iranian boats causing oil to jump $3. There's the admitted criminal activities of both the FBI and the CIA, some of which are ongoing. Foreclosures are Still on the rise. Rice and food rationing are causing riots around the world. A recent verdict in New York shows once again we are a "shoot first, and ask questions later" Nation, as long as you're a cop. For the rest of Us it's "guilty until proven innocent". There are some fun stories out there too, like bush's disapproval rating is the highest in Gallup history or the new images of colliding galaxies shot by the Hubble telescope.

And in bushco.'s war on a noun/tactic news... Our man in Afghanistan, President Karzai, escaped a "well-coordinated assasination attempt" at the Afghan National Day Military Parade. Afghanistan is the country george conquered before moving Our forces to Iraq. And, of course, there's THE WAR IN IRAQ. The war candidate mcthird term of bush is still all for, and said would be easy.

Earth Day, Every Day!

Green is the new black. It's hip to go hybrid. As Brad, Leo, and Ed Begley Jr. go, so goes a Nation. A Nation that up until about 8 years ago was on the forefront of the Environmental movement. A movement that started some 38 years ago. An important idea has come out of this resurgence/evolution of the environmental movement. The idea that the little things you do matter. If everyone decided to act, buy, and use with conscience, the "environment" (and the people in it) would be better off. Environmental options, products, and solutions are more abundant and easily accessed than ever before. There are even green options for you naughty adults "out there".

Switching your light bulbs to compact fluorescents, unplugging your chargers (or anything that has a little light on when it's "off"), wearing a sweater (instead of turning up the heat) and taking showers together all help reduce our consumption of energy, and the resources that give us that energy (i.e. oil, natural gas, coal and the small percentage that comes from "alternatives"). And to those who complain of the "horrible" light given off by Compact Fluorescent bulbs, I say buy a lampshade (and not a plastic one).

Buying items with less packaging and/or plastic, and bringing your own grocery bag to the supermarket reduces the amount of waste we create, as well as the amount of resources needed to make that packaging or those little plastic and paper bags. Aside from the nutritional benefits from cooking, or "processing", your own food, the more non-processed foods you buy, the less energy is used to process them. It also takes far less energy and resources to grow and harvest fruits and vegetables than it does to raise and harvest meat. I try to have one vegetarian day a week.

I don't do these things because Al Gore told me to. I do them because they save me money. I don't do them, because it's what a hippy is supposed to do. I do them, because Our reliance on foreign sources of energy is dangerous and deadly. I don't do what I do, because it's Earth Day or Earth Week. I do it to do my part as one of many human beings on a planet covered with life, so generations of humans will continue to have air to breathe, water to drink, and soil to farm.

I leave you with the Green Team. Happy Earth Week!

In the news (and in politics)

First, I guess we should get Campaign 2008 out of the way. "Third term of 28%" mccain has been out on, as John Stewart put it "an old man wants you to get on a bus so he can tell you stories about his life" tour. On the road, candidate mccain continues to make mistakes about his big, blue ribbon issue, the facts on the ground in Iraq. He continues to confuse the fact that Iraqi "law makers" called for the mahdi army's cease fire while they were meeting in Iran. It is understandable that most of the American public may not have the time, nor the inclination, to keep track of these kind of details, but He certainly should. The mccain "look how traditional my life has been" tour is a set up for his race against Senator Obama, though marrying into a billionaire beer distributing family may not be so "traditional". Maybe voting against Martin Luther King Day and standing by the Ariznona governor when he rescinded it was? For all his age and "experience", his confusion about the facts in Iraq, his "economics is not something I've understood as well as I should" confessions, and the flips his campaign has made since Campaign '99 are all very telling negatives.

In primary '08 news, The Clintons put out tax returns showing they earned more than $109,000,000 since President Clinton left office. I knew they were rich, but that's almost as much as some New York Yankees. Camp Clinton's head strategist mark penn resigned from the campaign. He didn't give any specific reasons. Maybe it was because of the recent surge in super delegates endorsing Obama. Or the fact that Senator Clinton's lead in the polls in PA is vanishing. The Obama campaign couldn't be reached for comment. They were out drinking Yuengling's, eatin' chili dogs, and joking about bowling.

And finally in important news that's blocked out by the Glow of Campaign 2008, Attorney General mukasey testified before Congress and said "And before 9/11, that's the call that we didn't know about. We knew that there has been a call from someplace that was known to be a safe house in Afghanistan and we knew that it came to the United States. We didn't know precisely where it went.". If he's not lying, this is a blunder of US intelligence that could have helped to stop the attacks of September 11th, while remaining within the laws as they stood at the time. In more disheartening news from Our government, two JUSTICE Department memos were released. One saying the Law doesn't matter when it comes to the torture and inhumane treatment of US captives. The other a memo explaining why the Constitution does not matter, when it comes to the US government spying on US Citizens. When the founding fathers, with all their faults, created this Country, they understood that We are a Nation of Law, and not of Men. No man, king, nor president should be held superior to the Law in the United States of America. What kind of Country are we when we torture? What kind of Country do we become when we treat Our citizenry as subjects of Our leader's whim and perusal? I guess, sadly, you could call it bush/mccain country. Let's hope that savior Petraeus will tell Congress today of the wonderful world of rainbows Our success in Iraq has created and is building for Iraq's "liberated".