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Jon Stewart Interviews Douglas Feith

Here’s the link to the uncut interview Part 1

Got to love the excuse, the untruths are “errors” according to Feith. What creeps.

Here’s the link to Part 2, uncut.

Iraq is the war of “hypotheticals”

After the Pennsylvania Primary, opinion by Red State Update

Before you Vote, West Virginia…

Listen to the candidate that will empower you to have a better life. It’s not Hillary Clinton filled with false promises of “yes SHE will”. It is Barack Obama that brings hope with “Yes, WE can”.

Since it is Tuesday, here is part of his Super Tuesday speech.

John McCain vs John McCain

Double talk from the Straight Crooked Talk Express.

The Keating Five…. Fair Game…

When asked if McCain’s entanglement with the Keating Five will be “Fair Game” this fall, Obama told reporters that the issue was within limits for discussion.

“Congressmen DeFazio delivered a speech that wasn’t my speech,” he said. “I don’t think there is any doubt John McCain’s public record about issues that he has apologized for or written about are not germane to the presidency. I was just asked previously about a whole host of associations that are a lot more flimsy than John McCain’s relationship to Keating Five and what I have said is that I can’t quarrel with the American people wanting to know more about that and me having to answer questions about it.”
DeFazio, an Oregon superdelegate who has endorsed Obama, told a crowd Friday in Albany, Ore.: “John McCain has already told us he doesn’t know much about economics. He says we need less regulation. Hello? Wall Street, mortgage meltdown, Bear Stearns, taxpayer bailout, Enron. But I guess maybe for a guy who was up to his neck in the Keating Five, and savings and loan scandal, less regulation is better for his friends. No, that is not good for the American people.”

Excerpt from Ben Smith Politico

John McCain is the last remaining Senator that was a member of the “Keating Five” which was connected to the Savings and Loan crises of the late 1980’s. For more information on the “Keating Five”, click here.

John McCain doesn’t want to discuss how he discouraged Congressional investigation into Charles H. Keating Jr.’s involvement in the collapse of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, CA. Perhaps he doesn’t want the voters to be reminded about this:

McCain received $112,000 by 1987 from Keating and Keating’s relatives and employees to McCain’s Senate campaign, more than any of the other Senators.

With more investigation, I’m sure there will be more skeletons falling out of McCain’s closet. I’ve already begun searching for the skeleton key.

UPDATE:  Don’t let McCain tell you that Keating was just a constituent.  John McCain and Keating go back to 1981 and they were friends.  Slate has the story and the details.

Republican Girls Gone Wild!

Hillary’s ‘foot in the mouth’ campaign

Senator Hillary Clinton left Pennsylvania feeling rejuvenated. We became a Fountain of Youth to her by energizing a campaign that had, til that point, sputtered, clanged and was on the verge of collapse. She moved onto the delegate rich states of Indiana and North Carolina hoping for a double win. Even in North Carolina, where Senator Barack Obama was heavily favored, her campaign felt that they could use the recent Rev. Wright controversy to not only to post a strong showing, if not win the state outright, but to woo the super-delegates into voting for her.

By the time North Carolina’s primaries were over, however, Senator Clinton had lost to Senator Obama by 230,000 votes. That wasn’t just a defeat for her, it was a crushing blow.

Her hopes were pinned on Indiana but somewhere between Pennsylvania and Indiana, things changed. She won Indiana but by a slim, if not barely existent margin, of some 20,000 votes. Her margin of victory was not enough to even gain on Senator Obama’s delegate lead.

Adding insult to injury, 9 super-delegates openly came out the very next day to support Senator Obama. Her victory in Indiana was now a loss.

Senator Clinton’s ‘re-energized’ campaign suddenly had a black out.

How did this happen?

One, Senator Obama finally severed all ties with the irritable Rev. Wright. Two, he shed the ‘elitist’ perception Senator Clinton was using against him by holding several, very successful, townhall meetings which took away a good chunk of the working class and elderly supporters from Senator Clinton. Thirdly, people began to take a serious look at both candidates economic, health care and energy plans to find Senator Clinton’s a bit lacking (this should have been what happenned in Pennsylvania but it never did materialize. Instead we were given a hack of a debate which focused on the peripherary instead of on real issues).

Fourthly, Senator Clinton opened her mouth and torpedoed her own campaign.

Her ‘gas tax’ proposal was not only stolen, outright, from Republican Senator John McCain but it was also denounced, heavily, by economists everywhere. When it was analyzed, it was shown that her ‘gas tax’ relief was nothing more than a lot of hot air. When all was said and done, it would save the average motorist a grand total of 30 bucks or about enough to feed a family of 4 at Wendy’s or McDonalds.

Gee, thanks Hillary!

Lastly, she alienated herself from her very source of support when she openly claimed, in a very controversial and disparaging remark, in a USA Today article that ““There was just an A.P. article posted that found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how the whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me,” she said. “ There’s a pattern emerging here.” Hillary threw out the race card only to find it backfiring on her.

Perhaps there was just too much Rev. Wright rhetoric for the country’s like or, perhaps, the inspirational and unlikely alliance of Southern whites and blacks in North Carolina showed the rest of the country that it could overcome it’s segregationist past and really could work together for common cause. Wait, isn’t that the theme Senator Obama’s entire campaign is being run on? Either way, the ‘white race’ card didn’t sit well with voters and it has been tossed back at her in disgrace.

In an article in The New Yorker, a magazine in Senator Clinton’s own backyard, it was written that, “Indeed there is, and it should be painted over as soon as possible. Hillary Clinton, as her record from high school onward proves, is the very opposite of a racist. This time, she seems to have well and truly misspoken. “

Open mouth, insert foot and hope for a good dose of Pepto Bismol.

phillyblues@paforchange.com

Is This How Republicans Plan to Win in November?

The State of Missouri, ever mindful and fearful of illegal immigrants, wants to make sure these illegal immigrants don’t show up at the polls in November and attempt to vote.

The interesting thing is that Missouri law already requires proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Somehow, the current law just isn’t enough for these Republicans. Fear rules in their world and fear is their only means of controlling others.

Excerpts are from the New York Times:

Supporters of the measures cite growing concerns that illegal immigrants will try to vote. They say proof of citizenship measures are an important way to improve the accuracy of registration rolls and the overall voter confidence in the process.

State Representative Stanley Cox, a Republican from Sedalia and the sponsor of the amendment, said that the Missouri Constitution already required voters to be citizens and that his amendment was simply meant to better enforce that requirement.

“The requirements we have right now are totally inadequate,” Mr. Cox said. “You can present a utility bill, and that doesn’t prove anything. I could sit here with my nice photocopier and create a thousand utility bills with different names on them.”

From October 2002 to September 2005, the Justice Department indicted 40 voters for registration fraud or illegal voting, 21 of whom were noncitizens, according to department records.

Wow - a whole 21 non-citizens. Now that is a frightening number especially since it happened within a 3 year span. What does that make it, 7 non-citizens/year?

The Missouri Supreme Court already ruled a photo identification law as unconstitutional so now the Missouri lawmakers believe it is time to change the Missouri State Constitution. What this change would do is disenfranchise some elderly who can’t get copies of their birth certificates.

Lillie Lewis, a voter who lives in St. Louis and spoke at a news conference last week organized to oppose the amendment, said she already had a difficult time trying to get a photo ID from the state, which asked her for a birth certificate. Ms. Lewis, who was born in Mississippi and said she was 78 years old, said officials of that state sent her a letter stating that they had no record of her birth.

“That’s downright wrong,” Ms. Lewis said. “I have voted in almost all of the presidential races going back I can’t remember how long, but if they tell me I need a passport or birth certificate that’ll be the end of that.”

A naturalized citizen that comes from a third world country may not have access to an original birth certificate and if they were a refugee, they might not even have a valid passport or their passport may have expired.

So the nuns that were turned away in Indiana may just be the tip of the iceberg. Guaranteed… there will be mores stories like these. After all, how else will Republicans win in November? They have a flip-flopping liar as their presidential nominee who is not inspiring to anyone and who would only bring a third Bush term which would perpetuate all the financial and economic disasters of the past 7 years.

For more on this story, click here

Sunday Humor with George W Bush…

Impersonator Frank Caliente