Comment by DieNowForPeace — March 8, 2008 @ 10:48 am

But the buyouts and surge weren’t happening in Basra, unless I’m completely mistaken. I think this is more of a Shi’ite death squad vs. other Shi’ite death squad situation.

Comment by Guido OBGYN Lover”

I don’t know why he doing this, he has plenty of money. Maybe he wants to be some kind of Western Outlaw and he ain’t good at bank robbing. Oh I forgot the Keating 5.

but I tend to think that anything thats more than a couple of years old doesn’t hold back RePUGs, so I figure that the Boeing tanker deal may flare a few folks up.

Obtusehussianman

Comment by Bilbo Hussein Baggins — March 8, 2008 @ 10:56 am

They aren’t planes, they’re Freedom Fliers.

I agree. And then there is the inconvenient truths that

1) he graduated fourth from the bottom of his class at Annapolis. He was only allowed in because of his Father.

2) he crashed three planes while learning to be a pilot.

He probably accidentally crashed his plane when he was captured.

My worries about his captivity is what it did to him psychologically. Many people have talked about his volatility. And they are not talking about his temper, they say that he totally loses it. Do we really want a President who can, on occasion, totally lose it?

There are now many Military leaders who are crossing over and supporting Hillary Rove Clinton (that’s what I am going to call her until she stops her Rovian tactics) and Barak Obama. They all say that the thought of McCain as Commander in Chief terrifies them.

BUT … Obama will continue to be challenged about his “lack” of foreign policy experience. He needs voters and the press to focus on the SUBSTANCE of his thinking, and not Ms. Power’s unfortunate remarks.

Comment by Jeannie See — March 8, 2008 @ 10:41 am

dont’ you mean “McShocked”?

Comment by joe cantwell — March 8, 2008 @ 10:43 am

LOL. Yes.

RE: McCain’s capture

“As an example (and I’ll quote this because it can be checked out), he personally wrote an article in the magazine [US News & World Report] , wherein he stated that during the time he was in prison (in fact I think it was 5 or 7 days after he was captured) he asked the [North] Vietnamese to take him to the hospital, the Vietnamese hospital. And in so doing, he promised them that he would would give them classified military information.”

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/earlhopperinterview08feb08.shtml

Comment by mary — March 8, 2008 @ 11:08 am

I agree that it’s a non-starter, and an article in The Nation isn’t going to be read by any potential “undecided” voters in any event. It’s just not a juicy story and I suspect most people will greet it with a shrug, just as they will greet his hypocrisy with a shrug. “Eh, he’s a politician, what do you expect? But he’s a MAN! Grrrr. And he’s a maverick!”

The only real ammunition held by the Democrats is that McCain is Bush III and they need to keep pounding on that. More war, more financial disasters, more incompetence, still more war, more corruption . . .

Fed to Make $200 Billion Available To Lenders
Bank Seeks to Loosen Credit
The Federal Reserve took strong action yesterday to restore order to frazzled lending markets while a new report showing unexpected job losses underscored the toll that credit markets are taking on the economy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030701225.html?hpid=topnews

The Bush Administration is going to bail out the banks and mortgage industry while leaving the homeowners flapping in the breeze. Another example of where their priorities lie (hint: it’s not with “we the people”).

As for the name-calling going on, the surrogates of Obama should step forward and retaliate against the Clinton surrogates. If she reduces herself to name-calling, she will look poorly compared to Obama.
But her minions say what they will and Obama’s supporters should not stand for it — all those Congressmen, Governors, Senators, and party members should not let her campaign’s Rovian-tactics pass.

That doesn’t seem contradictory in my own mind.

McCain believes that ethanol is a tax funded boondoggle. But… It is widely popular among grain farmers, and has created lots of well paying jobs in depressed rural america.

Ethanol is corrosive to pipelines, and must be delivered by truck. Ethanol plants, therefore ,need to be Dispersed widely in rural America. Small ethanol plants are springing up in many small towns, employing local people. Most gasoline in our area is cut with 10% ethanol…..the money going to local reasidents instead of Big oil companies and middle eastern countries.

‘Now that John McCain has virtually cinched the GOP Presidential nomination, almost if it were on cue, the chief of the US Northern Command, Air Force General Gene Renuart has warned that “Al Qaeda terrorists may be plotting more urgently to attack the United States.” The timing of the warning is perfect, allowing McCain to continue with his campaign of fear and harping on the danger of terrorism. If he doesn’t have a viable plan to salvage the economy, secure the southern border, and a host of issues the GOP refuses to address, then only one path is left, and that’s to use the tactics of fear and intimidation.’

http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=410 (General’s remarks quoted from AP)

But, France is Bush’s new best friend now that they have a conservative ruler. Maintaining that friendship is more important to Bush than creating new jobs in this country. Besides, creating new good paying jobs is the opposite of Bush’s agenda to kill the middle class. He has almost completed this plan and wouldn’t want to do anything to ruin it.

Of course, no one asked him to “put up or shut up”. If he is going to make statements like this, he needs to show proof to back up his claims.

I heard on the news last night that the FBI thinks that the guy who bombed the recruiting station in New York might be the same guy who has been bombing embassy’s in New York. There have been 3 or 4 similar attacks in the past couple of years. So, they have all this marvelous spying authority, why haven’t they been able to catch this guy?

I’m sorry, I do not think that Wolfson comparing Barak Obama to Ken Starr rises to the need to have him fired. I hate Clinton, but this one I don’t think will fly.

What I do think is that someone should ask Clinton why she is being so complimentary of McCain when he told a joke about Chelsea saying “Why is Chelsea so ugly, because Janet Reno is her father”. That doesn’t seem to bother Clinton, but David Shuster saying that she was “pimping” her daughter rose to an actionable offense. Clinton is showing that she can be just as big a hypocrite as the Republicans.

But Boeing supporters in Congress are directing their wrath at McCain, the Arizona senator and nominee in waiting, for scuttling an earlier deal that would have let Boeing build the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company and suppliers in 40 states.