Peace Vigil in Fort Worth, Texas

We gathered on the banks of the Trinity River to mark the fifth year of Boy George Bush’s delusional war on Iraq.
A video of the evening can be found here .
Thank you.

Is it torture…

to hold Sen John McCain’s feet to the fire to see if he will back up his past claims that the U.S. should not torture? Or his claims that torture is ineffective?

President Boy George Bush has vetoed the waterboarding ban. The only thing that will allow this country to stand tall with honor in this arena is if Congress overrides his veto.

Would it be torture for Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama to engage a game of who can hold McCain most accountable? Maybe Sen.’s Obama and Clinton can argue over how many times McCain has flip flopped on this issue.

The two candidates could flip a coin to decide who gets to argue that if McCain votes McCain/Bush again he puts our own soldiers at risk of torture. According to who? That’s according to Sen. John McCain, before the McCain/Bush ticket.

The loser of the coin toss gets to ask if torture is so effective, where is Usama bin Laden? Why have not we captured bin Laden? What about the promise of justice for all the victims of September 11, 2oo1? Why have they been forgotten?

Either one or both could take the argument that Sen. McCain once again is a Bushbot, supporting President Boy George Bush in his failed three-trillion-dollar war in Iraq. Once again, it is McCain/Bush allying us with the cesspool governments of the world who condone torture. It is a McCain/Bush legacy that has scarred this nation, and left our nation with such a sorry reputation overseas that they only thing holding it up at all the world knowing Bush soon will leave office. However, will McCain/Bush move in with the same zeal for war?

It’s up to Sen.’s Clinton and Obama to do all they can at all costs (even to their own ambitions and egos) to keep faith with the American people and our allies.

Is it torture…

to hold Sen John McCain’s feet to the fire to see if he will back up his past claims that the U.S. should not torture? Or his claims that torture is ineffective?

President Boy George Bush has vetoed the waterboarding ban. The only thing that will allow this country to stand tall with honor in this arena is if Congress overrides his veto.

Would it be torture for Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama to engage a game of who can hold McCain most accountable? Maybe Sen.’s Obama and Clinton can argue over how many times McCain has flip flopped on this issue.

The two candidates could flip a coin to decide who gets to argue that if McCain votes McCain/Bush again he puts our own soldiers at risk of torture. According to who? That’s according to Sen. John McCain, before the McCain/Bush ticket.

The loser of the coin toss gets to ask if torture is so effective, where is Usama bin Laden? Why have not we captured bin Laden? What about the promise of justice for all the victims of September 11, 2oo1? Why have they been forgotten?

Either one or both could take the argument that Sen. McCain once again is a Bushbot, supporting President Boy George Bush in his failed three-trillion-dollar war in Iraq. Once again, it is McCain/Bush allying us with the cesspool governments of the world who condone torture. It is a McCain/Bush legacy that has scarred this nation, and left our nation with such a sorry reputation overseas that they only thing holding it up at all the world knowing Bush soon will leave office. However, will McCain/Bush move in with the same zeal for war?

It’s up to Sen.’s Clinton and Obama to do all they can at all costs (even to their own ambitions and egos) to keep faith with the American people and our allies.

It’s McCain/Bush, stupids! Get your heads in the game!

“I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat”Will Rogers

One Citizen’s Opinion
by
Lee Dunkelberg

Good, God!

Just how much do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton want to give the White House to McCain/Bush/Hagee? It’s almost as though they are
climbing over each other to tear down what once was an easy hit.

It’s not even just the candidates and the media. The backers of the
two candidates are sniping at each other (at the same time they are
sniping at the news media for the “horse race” coverage, which they are
eating up).

Look, you knotheads! Think of this as an audition. BOTH of you and
all of your disciples turn the circular firing squad around and try a
few shots at the enemy.

In case you don’t know, and from all appearances you don’t, you are
looking at a bloody road to a convention that already is set to
implode. Not only are you going to have a fight inside the convention
hall in Denver, you are going to have hordes of people outside calling
for your heads.

How about you two actually DO something? How about turning around
some of this FISA crap? How about calling McCain/Bush on getting in bed
with John Hagee?

Did you happen to notice the frigging unemployment numbers, thanks to the McCain/Bush policies? Want to talk about that?

Nope. You want to talk about nasty remarks one of the minions made
in Scotland (for Christ sake) or tax returns. Or, you want to enpower a
drug addict megabigot and sit around and whine about cross voting.

Have either one of you knotheads asked your driver what the price of
gas is? Here’s one that stumped Poppy Bush. What’s the price of milk?
Do you know (or care) that it is skyrocketing. Want to give McCain/Bush
a pass on that? Fine. Go ahead.

Don’t whine about horse race coverage when all you are doing is
stupid horseplay that is handing the election to the same people who
have been stripping of our rights.

Rights? Remember them? Well, let’s hear about it, for Pete’s sake.

OK, back to your mudfights. All of you.

At first, I thought we were going to relive 1968 with the peaceniks.
demonstrations, a pasty platform and the evil Richard Nixon. Now, it is
looking more and more like 1972 and George McGovern. I want to welcome
all of you new activists to the Democratic Party. Looks as though
you’ll cut your teeth on the same kind of successes I did when I
started.

There’s another, less known saying of Will Rogers, and it’s never been more true.

You’ve got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you’ve got to be a humorist to stay one.

 

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First published at What’s driving you crazy? blog

 

I voted for John Edwards last Tueday(someone has to be the adult).

I voted for John Edwards.

Because so many Clinton/Obama supporters can only see red instead of reason, I will explain why it was not a wasted vote. Someone has to be the adult.

For one thing, with the Democratic Party’s broken primary system, I could have split my votes. Vote my two-thirds at the polls and the other third at the precinct convention. I almost did that, but could not even figure out which one should get the two-thirds.

My Edwards vote was a statement.

At this point, I cannot sign on to either campaign. Rather than sit it out, I thought I would be one of those who went to the polls and said “I still am out here, and I don’t like what I’m seeing”. Once there is a candidate, I will go full bore for whoever it is.

But this cat fighting that is going on is playing into the hands of the GOP.

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Bulletin from Texas: Here we go and go and go and go!

FORT WORTH, TEXAS –Well, the sun is out. The temperature this morning is a crisp (6°/43°), but not prohibitively cold, and the skies are clear across the state. All this means a likely record turnout in a primary election (probably will beat the general election turnout in some years).

What does it mean? Polls show things are very, very tight. The latest is from Zogby.

On the strength of some strong campaigning in Ohio and Texas, Democrat Hillary Clinton of New York has retaken a narrow lead over rival Barack Obama of Illinois in Texas and has dead-locked the race in Ohio, a new Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle survey by Zogby International shows.

This has led one of my friends who is a Barack Obama cheerleader to concede that the senator from Illinois may not give Hillary Clinton the coup de grâce on which the Obamadillos™ were counting (though I question how much mercy might be behind that death blow).

“I unfortunately have to tell you guys that I THINK this will be razor thin,” she said (she often talks in capital letters). “He may win Texas and Vermont, and she will win Ohio and Rhode Island.

“She said last night on Jon Stewart (The Daily Show on Comedy Central – ed.) if its close like it is now she has to stay in for the other big states and said she’d stay in for Pennsylvania (188 delegates-ed), and thats April 22nd.
“So NOTHING will be resolved today!”

How could Sen. Clinton pull off a last-minute touchdown? It’s easier to explain than why someone who is not a sports fan is using a football metaphor. One reason is that Clinton has really put the push on the last few weeks. She and her supporters know it is a do or die situation, and they may get by with a little help from their enemies.

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Burgess calls GOP leadership “stranglers, thieves and pedophiles”.

Who Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX26) was so discerning?

This comes via Examiner.com -

Republicans short a few rogues in their gallery?

The congressional GOP must be on the way back up, thanks to, what one member called the purge of “stranglers, thieves and pedophiles.”

At a book discussion Monday night at the National Press Club, political language guru Frank Luntz, who often advises Republicans, said that, last fall, “leadership made me apologize for saying they were in trouble” heading into the elections.

That’s when Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, piped up from the back of the room.

“You upset the stranglers, thieves and pedophiles,” he said to much laughter. read more

Ok, Rep. Burgess, the only problem here is sorting out who is who. Care to enlighten us? If it was “last fall”, then the author was talking about the current GOP leadership. So, that would be, in Rep. Burgess’ case Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio), House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) and House Republican Conference Chairman Adam H. Putnam (Fla). Which is which? Or did he mean Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)?

Of course, he could have meant Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) or read more