Obama when running for the Senate opposed the Iraq war – back when it was still popular.

The following article in the Times U.K. will likely be unsettling for those disciples of Hillary and Obama:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1752381.ece

Can anyone identify a situation where he has demonstrated real political courage in taking a stand for the common people and against large corporate power? Not just words, but actions.

Both Obama and Hillary have been bought with corporate money, and as such, have been and remain beholden to them. The fawning coverage by the MSM (which is the mouthpiece of the Bush Administration and Big Money), stands a proof positive. If either of them were suspected of ever siding with the common people rather than the corporate agenda, the MSM would completely ignore them. Don’t believe this? Just consider the lack of coverage for John Edwards, even though he came in second in Iowa.

Big Money is counting on most of the voting populace to be dazzled by style and remain oblivious to substance (or the lack thereof). And if that doesn’t work, a strong dose of fear can be injected to aid the cause.

Some of you may remember that Obama supported pro-war Joe Lieberman in his race against anti-war candidate Ned Lamont.

This writer would strongly recommend that you check the facts, and remember that actions speak far more loudly than words.

For further details, check out http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2007/street0207.html

Comment by freeman

Sure they are. The media is owned by multinational corporations. John Edwards is their worst enemy.

Comment by shoeless — January 4, 2008 @ 10:54 am

The only members of the media talking about John Edwards were Limbaugh and O’Reilly blabbing about his haircuts and lambasting all trial lawyers as if they’re satanic and not helping their clients.

What they fail to mention is that all the candidates are paying several hundred dollars every day for makeup artists so why the attack on Edwards? He just scares them and progressives need to fight for him.

“Fundiegelicals” I likey!

Comment by freeman

Sure they are. The media is owned by multinational corporations. John Edwards is their worst enemy.

With regard to President Andrew Johnson, I defined surviving impeachment attempts as remaining in office, despite these efforts. How do you define “surviving”?

Although Missouri and Kentucky did not completely secede from the Union, slavery was practiced in both states, and sentiments in both states were arguably more divided than in perhaps any of the other states in existence at the time.

The is extensive discussion of the border state phenomenon on the wikipedia website. You may also wish to consider the following passage from http://www.civilwarhome.com/borderstates.htm:

“Believing Kentucky to be a buffer zone, Governor Beriah Magoffin refused the call for troops and formally declared the states neutrality. But the attempt proved futile: both Union and Confederate recruiters operated in the state, with Kentuckians serving on both sides. When Confederate troops moved into western Kentucky Sept. 1861, and Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant occupied Paducah, the legislature officially endorsed the Union. Pro-South Magoffin established a provisional government at Russellville, ratified the Confederate Constitution, and Kentucky was admitted to the Confederacy in December. The state, like Missouri, suffered the tragedy of a war that pitted father against son, brother against brother.
Missouri attempted neutrality after delegates to a secession convention in February 1861 refused to secede, but Federal invasion in May pushed many Unionists into the Confederate camp. As in Kentucky, pro-Union and pro-Confederate governments were established, the latter run in exile by Governor Claiborne F. Jackson. Missouri became a Confederate state November, 1861. Its thriving prewar economy was devastated, its people terrorized by brutal guerrilla warfare.”

Certainly, more of the lingering sentiments from the Civil War would seem to exist in these two states than perhaps any others that weren’t formally part of the eleven Confederate states. Anyone who has read “Huckleberry Finn” may recall that Jim was a slave who escaped with Huck from Missouri.

And now we all know that based upon an unassailable authority (i.e., YOU), that George Santayana must have been referring to something that has NEVER EVER occurred when he stated, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

For anyone interested in reviewing examples of history repeating itself, there is the matter of Hitler’s ill-fated invasion of Russia in WWII, making a very similar mistake to the one made by Napoleon several decades earlier. There is also the matter of the United States attempting to prevail in Vietnam, a decade after the French left there in defeat. And for the more detailed current example, please consider this: http://www.socialstudiesmadesimple.com/history_does_repeat_itself.htm

Stating something with absolute certainly does not necessarily make it so.

Hillary came third,
Giuliani came 6th

Paul…was ignored but came with 10%
The savior of Republican party Fred Thompson,as we were told, (the new Reagan), came fourth. My prediction, he will be out soon.

Paul will improve….
Mccain will improve
Obama will improve
Giuliani will be a bust…

Romney is boxed…
Hillary is cornered
and
Huckabee will do good in some southern states,thanks to Evangelical’s help, …but going west, he will falter..

Is McCain back on the saddle?…. time will tell.

Hillary warmongering will not help her…The country needs and looking for a way out of war.
If she and Giuliani cannot see that..then they are losers at starting point. Giuliani adopting a strategy of scaring people,and claiming to be the champion of 9/11 tragedy….Will it work..? I doubt it.

I think the media is more than just ignoring Edwards; I think they are actively squelching him.

Edward and Kucinich have the strongest anti-corporate message of all the candidates. Our media is corporate owned (and controlled). I think this accounts for the vast majority of the observed behavior.

“By any standard, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd stand at the top of the list in presidential qualification, stature, substance and a lifetime of depth and achievement. A reasonable person might conclude that each of these three, has equal or greater qualification to be president as any of the three leading Democrats.

Biden, Richardson and Dodd simply did not exist in the eyes of the annointing class, a group of political insiders with an extremely narrow life experience beyond their life as political insiders with each other.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brent-budowsky/media-insiders-shaft-bide_b_78823.html

Mark my words, with all the others dropping out of the race, they will give Edwards a huge bump in the polls, yet MSM will STILL ignore him.

Hate to nitpick, but. The Confederacy did not consist of 11 states and two border states. The border states were just that; border states. Kentucky and Missouri remained in the Union throughout the Civil War. Lots of fighting in Missouri but it remained in the Union.

“Although history doesn’t always repeat itself”

History NEVER repeats itself.