Have you noticed how the latest fad seems to be the “I misspoke.” Everyone is doing it. An what a great ploy it is. Say whatever you want, then if someone dell latitude d820 battery,dell latitude d420 battery catches you on it, simply say “Oops, I misspoke.” I guess the politicians think this gives them instant absolution.

Lindsey looks on as McCain, lieberman, Warner, Rove, and all the old players that overstayed their welcome and abused the American voters.

To bad their retirement packages could not be redealt on the evaluation of their individual contributions to legislation(s).

Maybe give them a dollar over minimum wage with bonus incentives for actually doing something besides favors for corporates etc. We might even see them get o ff their lazy rears and get a part time job at one of those great republican created jobs like Wal Mart.

Let me assure you that if that’s your concern, all three candidates will not change our stance in Iraq.

The day that Congress gave Bush the authority to attack Iraq, the U.S. signed onto the Bush-Cheney ‘long war’ policy. We are there, in the Middle East and Afghanistan, for the oil and we won’t be leaving until one of two things occur:

1. We have Iraq’s (and probably Iran’s) oil,

2. Or we have an economy run on a non-petroleum energy source.

Both will take years to achieve.

At least with Obama and Clinton, there will be an effort to resurrect the pre-Reagan (Jimmy Carter) days of alternative energy development. It will be faster with Obama, despite of Bill Clinton’s promises on HRC’s behalf. The problem with having the Clintons back is that they come with baggage that forces them to make good faith accommodations and concessions to the rightwing. This is the truth of both Clintons’ records – they concede far more than they achieve.

With McCain (and with HRC to a slightly lesser degree), the emphasis is going to be feeding the industrial military machine. That is the downside of being the first woman President in America – she has to prove herself to be tougher and more supportive of the military than any man.

Think of Ginger Rogers, doing everything Astaire did, only backwards and in high heels. If Maggie Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady, HRC would do backflips in order to gain the reputation of having antifreeze in her veins. An honest-to-God Iron Lady Commander-in-Chief in the US would slash the defense budget to just about nothing, pump the money into developing alternative renewable, sustainable energy, schools and health care. Do you see HRC doing that? Do you see her standing up to the Pentagon and telling them to start looking for meaning in their lives without the use of conflict and force?

The only way to leave Iraq is to leave Iraq. You don’t plan to pull x amount of troops out in 6 months. You leave, irrespective of what the Iraqis do, or what AQII does. You put one boot in front of the other and you leave. Because if you don’t, there is always going to be some justification for staying.

We left Vietnam all at once. It turned out just fine. We didn’t establish it as a base to claim the oil in the South China Sea (you really didn’t think we were there to bring them democracy, did you?), but plenty of Americans got stinking rich none the less, poverty decreased and our middle class expanded. Excepting the damage to rightwingers’ egos (they seem to think if they can’t have a foot on someone’s neck, it’s failure, a lost war), it was one of the best decisions we made.

No sooner had we left Vietnam than our nation began to heal and our stature in the world started to recover. We were able to adopt the role of wise, knowing superpower a few years later, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Even had the CIA not been there working clandestinely, we knew the Soviets would fail because of our experience in Vietnam.

But we don’t seem to learn the lesson that what goes around, comes around. We’re paying for those operations today, the CIA’s training of OBL, the mujahadeen, the northern alliance.

If you want change, if you don’t believe me, start pressuring the media to ask substantive questions about what their administrations’ foreign policy would be in the Middle East. Tell them you’re not interested in what HRC’s opinion of Reverend Wright is, or Obama’s typical syntax. Both Clinton and Obama told Canada not to pay any attention to what they’re telling voters about NAFTA. What makes you think we should pay any attention to their qualified promises to get out of Iraq?

Spread the meme.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have to make them correct the record, on camera, instead of their spokespersons reading a statement over the phone to a reporter?

There, TP — I fixed it for ya… Soon, we’ll no doubt have yet another Billary campaign ad about who you want to be mispeaking when that phone call comes in at 3am…

President-elect Obama must love it when he doesn’t have to say anything and his opponents (both repuglican and DINO) self-destruct…

For the details, see:
“Moqtada Al-Sadr Answers the Wall Street Journal.”

Again.

In short, I always thought that “misspoke” meant an honest mistake.

Now I find out that it means “I spoke a lie and got caught in it.”

Learn something every day.

But of course, if they’d let the inspectors finish, they would never have gone, and there would be 4000 American troops still alive, 100s of thousands of Iraqis still alive, and trillions of dollars not counted on the wrong side of the national ledger.

HILLARY….Misspoke about her trip to Bosnia
McCain…..Misspoke about his inability to distiguish between Sunnis and shiates
Graham…..Misspoke about troops level…