In case anyone hasn’t been paying attention, the worst threat Palin poses on a White House ticket is the threat she poses to the environment.
Palin doesn’t believe humans are responsible for global warming, even though her state has a front row seat as the Artic melts away.
Palin wants to drill through Alaskan wilderness for oil even though scientists have long concluded that the presumed oil there is negligible and wouldn’t become available at least ten years after discovery.
Palin has fought successfully against imposing stricter regulations on mining operations which pollute Alaskan streams and destroy the state’s most important international export: salmon. … If you like “wild caught Alaskan Salmon” you had better eat up now before Palin’s policies have you munching on iron ore and smelt.
And oh yeah, Palin is on record refusing to believe the polar bear is endangered.
Palin personifies the forces behind global warming and pollution: beaurocrats with their heads in the sand and pockets full of oil money.
Well, nothing shocking here: If you put money in McCain’s pocket he will help you push through questionable real estate transactions. Just a little old-fashioned politics from an old-fashioned guy.
But, hey: you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. That’s okay, right?
WRONG! Not in public office it’s not!
When are Americans going to start demanding a little more fair and balanced approach to governance?
I’m calling bullshit on all this press about McCain visiting “poor areas“. As if “poor areas” were dead zones on a map where you can’t get a cell phone signal. As if “poor areas” were uncharted regions of Mars thought to be inhabited by savage life forms. As if McCain were fucking diving in to a black hole tethered to one of his wife’s diamond-studded panties. As if we should give McCain a medal of honor for doing his so-called job.
How brave. How noble. How exemplary for this privileged white man to dirty his shoes in “poor areas”.
McCain might as well come out and say: “Let them eat cake.” Or he could just fly over them in one of his private jets. He is so fucking out of touch.
The poor are not aliens. The poor are not foreign. The poor are our friends and neighbors, our brothers and sisters.
And the poor don’t live in one “poor area”. The poor live right next door, down the street, above and below us. Has McCain never taken a stroll around the block in DC (one of the most impoverished cities in America!)??? What a load of horse shit, McCain.
Call me a cynic. Call me jaded. But, I don’t buy for a second that McCain gives a damn about “poor people”. I don’t think that McCain cares or empathizes with those less fortunate. This is nothing but a media blitz in hopes of inaccurately painting McCain a “compassionate” Republican.
Again: bullshit. It’s all politics, baby. If he really cared about the poor he would have taken the silver spoon out of his mouth and done something to ease their burden during his 26 years in public office.
The New York Times is reporting that the Pentagon has sought to mold public opinion starting from the buildup to the War in Iraq through a cabal of retired generals posing as “independent military analysts” on television news channels. And shocker: these retired generals have strong financial ties to the military industrial complex and to the military contractors on which they are supposed to be commenting.
The generals’ mission? To plant seeds of untruth about the War in Iraq.
The thing is that I am actually shocked. Really shocked. If we can’t trust our retired generals to give us objective, honest, sobering analysis on the state of our nation’s security, then who can we trust? I
mean, it is becoming seriously difficult not to drown in complete cynicism here!
And this whole thing reeks of one name: Donald Rumsfeld.
Citizens! We must demand a more transparent government!!! We elect (most of) these people! We can vote (most of) them out!
Moral of the story: don’t trust retired generals posing as military analysts on television news.
I suppose everyone has now caught wind of McCain’s ridiculous plan to “stimulate the economy” by placing a moratorium on the gas tax through the summer. While this plan is obviously irrational, harmful and backward thinking (global warming, pollution, anti-alternative fuels, putting hard-earned American money in the pockets of terrorist friendly middle eastern regimes, etc.), it should come as no surprise that this is a simple pander to the oil industry which has donated 70% of all its political contributions to Republicans. And among them: Senator John McCain.
I suppose we could give 71 year old McCain credit for kickin’ it old school and towing the party line by keeping the Republican Party bent over for the oil industry. But, I shan’t.
McCain’s proposal to lift the gas tax is criminal. Yes, criminal. He is attempting to deceive the American people, posing as if this tax cut is “to ease the burden on the working man”. Bullshit! This tax cut proposal is nothing more than a pathetic and weak attempt at securing more funding for McCain’s campaign. Pure and simple.
And McCain should be held accountable. How much longer will we allow our elected officials to take bribes from the very countries who fund those who wish to do us harm? Who’s products keep polluting our air?
It’s unfortunate that McCain has shown us that he is no different than Bush, Cheney or the rest of them. Because we are at a time when we require true visionary leadership. It’s as if McCain were sleepwalking. It isn’t 1985, Johnny Boy!!!!
Where Obama (in many peoples’ opinion) represents “change”, McCain is the anti-change. McCain is the status quo. The rotten-to-the-core status quo.
That crafty Bush Administration has done it again, finding new and inventive ways to thwart Americans’ civil liberties. Now they are going to use spy satellites to peer into our homes and offices. Isn’t that the most fantastic news? What’ll they think of next?! I mean, I feel so safe right now. So safe! Knowing that Bush and his cronies are doing everything in their power to “fight the evil doers” (which in this case is mom and pop American). Are we going to have to start storing everything in 3oz. containers? Cause that makes me feel extra super-duper safe to the max. Idiots.
For the last time, the terrorist group known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq was NOT in Iraq before the US led invasion. It simply didn’t exist. Furthermore, 95% of its combatons are foreign fighters who have come to Iraq for the sole purpose of attacking US troops and positions. When are our elected officials going to stop trying to connect Iraq to 9/11?!? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
Oh and BTW, Senator McCain, Al-Qaeda is associated with Sunni Islam - not Shi’ia:
MCCAIN: Do you still view al Qaeda in Iraq as a major threat?
PETRAEUS: It is still a major threat, though it is certainly not as major a threat as it was say 15 months ago.
MCCAIN: Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shi’ites overall?
PETREAUS: No.
MCCAIN: Or Sunnis or anybody else.
Get it straight, “straight-talker”!!!
Let’s face it: the surge is not working. Just because we have diminished our definition of success does not a success make. Troops are still dying. Iraqis are still dying. There is no end in sight. Maliki is weak and ineffectual. Our resources are stretched beyond comprehension. The surge has been nothing more than a band-aide on a severed artery. And at the end of the day we are at the mercy of a radical Anti-American cleric.
Something to ponder: why do you think the Bush Team never bothered to put enough troops in Iraq to begin with? The Surge is the Bush Team’s half-ass response to pressure from all sides to do something constructive about the horrific situation in Iraq. Could it be that it was never the intention of the Bush Team to secure peace, prosperity and independence for Iraq in the first place? Hmmm …