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POPSIn the Land of Queen Esther This is part one of a two part video about Sarah Palin and her sincere yet, in my view, scary religious beliefs. For anyone considering voting for the McCain/Palin ticket, watching this video might give you a bit more food for thought.
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POPSObama's Aunt Found A little snippet I found in the Daily Beast, that I thought I would share with y'all. So much heavy stuff this week, that a little light and cheer can't hurt any of us.
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POPSAn Actual McCain-Palin Robocall We have all heard about the mean-spirited and vicious robocalls the McCain-Palin campaign are inundating potential with in battleground states. But in case you have not actually heard one of these calls, here is your chance. And believe me, this is far from the worst of them.
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POPSMcCain Goes After Michelle ... This is just too much to be believed. I have nothing more to say. Just read the clip and weep or laugh. The choice is yours. Personally, I am weeping.
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POPSChutzpah, With a Capital "CH" Can you believe the audacity of McCain? First he manipulates Obama into taking his trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, which also resulted in a successful European tour. When that worked out too well for Obama, McCain declared that his opponent was being presumptuous, and acting as if was already president of the United States. Now that Russia has stormed into Georgia, McCain decides to send Lieberman and Graham to Tblisi to try to work something out. On what authority will the traitor Lieberman, and Howdy Doody Graham discuss anything of substance, with any officials in Georgia? On top of which, Condie Rice, Madam Secretary herself, is on her way to Georgia to assess the situation. She, at the very least, speaks for the president. For whom do these two McCain puppets speak?
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POPSThe New York TImes Scolds Hillary for Demeaning the Campaign
Even though the New York Times has previously endorsed Hillary in her run for the Democratic presidential nomination, they now seem to be reconsidering due to her tactics. The editorial board is disgusted with her use of Rove-like tactics against Senator Obama, in a "win at all cost" campaign that is making both candidates look bad in the eyes of the voting public. I am not one of those folks clamoring for Hillary to drop out of the race. She certainly has the right to hang-in there up to the convention if she that is what she wishes to do. After all, these are called "nominating conventions" for a reason. They are NOT called "coronations." But if she continues in the race she should at least fight fair, and not throw the kitchen sink at Obama, and begin making the arguments McCain and his campaign will be adopting in the general election. For example on at least two occasions she has essentially said that McCain is better equipped to be president than is Obama. That is just a b
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POPSRemember the Lieberman "hack attack"? Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman publicly accused Ned Lamont's campaign of deliberately crashing his Web site during the contested senate race in November 2006. As it turns out, the FBI ran a complete investigation and determined that it was the fault totally of the Lieberman campaign for using second-rate, bargain hosting services that caused the crash. What is particularly interesting is that these results were reported well before the actual vote, and yet Lieberman and his campaign refused to report the findings or apologize for the false accusations against Lamont up to this very day. The only reason the news came out now, is because a journalist got the information through the Freedom of Information Act. So here is Joe, showing what a lying scumbag he really is. First he makes a false claim against his opponent, and then when proven that the claim is false, he hides the information from the public. The man is a total disgrace, and I hope the people of Connecticut turn on
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POPSAnother Watergate? Unbelievable! Three different members of the Bush State Department bust into the passport files on Barack Obama, and we are expected to believe it was in error, or merely curiosity. The sad thing is that even Hillary Clinton's campaign has some explaining to do, as one of the people who resigned over this incident was President Clinton's ambassador to Paraguay. This campaign is just getting dirtier and dirtier. And hell, this is only the primary. I'm already getting sick over thinking what the fall will bring.
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POPSSome Senior Democrats Wanna Take Bill to the Woodshed Kennedy, Emanuel and others are pissed with President Bill because he is campaigning just like any other person involved in a presidential campaign. They seem to believe that because he is an ex-president, he has to hold himself to a totally different standard than other campaign spokespersons. I happen to believe Bill has gone over the top a few times, but overall, I really do not believe he should be judged differently because of his position.
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POPSBig Pay Day for Broadcasters Amy Goodman laments how the broadcast media has essentially high-jacked our election campaign process. Both Fox and MSNBC chose to exclude Paul and Kucinich respectively, at their own discretion. They charge a fortune of money for candidates to advertise on their stations, even though they do NOT own the public airwaves. The entire system has been bastardized and it is time for the public to start making its collective voice heard. Clipping this article did not do it justice. I hope you will take the time to read it in its entirety.
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POPSMr. Huckabee Should Keep His Word to AIDS Mom Mike Huckabee made some pretty intolerant statements in the past about people living with AIDS. He claims he was misquoted yet refuses to renounce his original statements. Ryan White's mom has asked to meet with Mr. Huckabee and he agreed to have such a rendezvous, but after 29 days he still has not responded to requests for a date.
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POPSThe Political Filth Just Keeps On Coming Why is it that the U.S. seems to need to indulge in filthy, vicious and personally destructive political elections. I know that election campaigns are not necessarily the friendliest of circumstances, but why is it necessary for opponents to destroy each other while trying to prove that either one is the best person for the job? As an American I am disgusted by the vile crap that is propagated by opposing campaigns. And the public, although they keep saying they do not approve of these kinds of campaign tactics, continue to respond to them thus encouraging the campaigns to maintain this vicious style.
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POPSAll Hillary - All the Time With only two months until the Iowa caucuses, and Hillary still very much the formidable front runner, it will be a rare occurrence when her name is not mentioned or highlighted in all things relating to American politics. Can she stand the heat she has been expecting through many years of preparation for this contest?. The contest of her life? This is gonna be a fascinating race to watch, and as the song goes, "It's Only Just Begun."
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POPSItaly's Gay Infant Starts A Huge Controversy So Italy is in an uproar over a picture of an infant with a bracelet that says "Homosexual" on it, as part of a campaign to end discrimination against gays. It's obvious to me that this kid is a born troublemaker.
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POPSIf Obama Really Respects Gays, He's Gotta Can This Guy I realize Senator Obama is getting desperate in trying to staunch the roller coaster of Hillary Clinton in the primary campaign, but he has got to be more careful about who he welcomes into his fold as spokespeople. McClurkin is a self-loathing homosexual who uses his blackness and his religion as a way of salving his own self-inflicted guilt for being homosexual, and has convinced himself that all us sickos can be cured of this horrible disease. I am hoping Mr. Obama will immediately sever his relationship with this dangerous a-hole. I know Hillary appears to be taking the bulk of the Black vote, but he cannot appear to be desperate, or he will really lose all credibility, which is something thus far, he has plenty of.
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POPSMoveOn.org Hits Rudy Where It Truly Hurts Rudy just loved slamming MoveOn.Org's Betray-Us ad, and thought he might really hurt them in the eyes of the voting public. But MoveOn had other plans, and is now running an ad about something the Democratic candidates have yet to publicize. The fact that Giuliani dropped out of the 9/11 commission so that he could instead, go on tour of money-making speeches. Even in the Giuliani campaign/s response to this ad, they are unable to answer the charge, so they simply call names and act tough. How Rudy-like.
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POPSA Long But Important Expose of 5 Big Lies I cannot even begin to effectively clip this 7 page major piece in the Village Voice. But it is a tremendous expose of the 5 huge lies Giuliani is using in his thus far successful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. I urge you to read it and spread it around to anyone who might even think remotely about supporting this guy.
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POPSAir Conditioned Sacrafice Mitt Romney had better enjoy his big lead in Iowa quickly, as it looks as if he is going to fall flat on his face very soon. He is coming off as the stereotypical rich boy who molds himself into whatever shape is necessary in order to attain his goals. When he ran governor of Massachusetts and Senator of the same state, he was a raging, pro-abortion, gay friendly liberal. Now that he wants to be president, he is renouncing all of his former, heartfelt views and claims to be pro-life (anti-abortion) gay unfriendly etc because he needs those conservative right-wing religious wing-nuts to support him. But answers to questions such as this one will really seal his fate. People hate phonies, and he is coming across as a platinum plated, card carrying professional political phony with a condescending attitude to match.
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POPSObama Listens to Gays I clipped this article to applaud Senator Obama for listening to and caring about the gay community. However, after reading several of the reader comments at the end of the piece, I find it interesting that rather than commenting on that aspect of this story, readers are blaming ABC news for being hypocritical and unfairly negative towards Obama for pointing out that he is against accepting money for federal lobbyists. Politics as with beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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POPSWill Fred Thompson Go Back to Law & Order? Mr. Thompson's non-campaign has the makings of a big bust if he keeps up with this ongoing indecision. When he first toyed with running, the Republicans got very excited considering that none of the other declared candidates have really caught fire. But Thompson has been jacking around for months now with promised announcement dates that come and go, and expectations for fund raising which are not met. His reputation for being somewhat lazy when it comes to his political work when he was a senator appears to have some validity judging from the manner in which he is running, or should I say, moseying along with his presidential campaign plans.
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POPSWill You Tube Bring Some Actual Honesty to The Debates? So far these early debates have been pretty tame as far as the kinds of questions that are being asked. The candidates themselves have been primarily making stump speeches and sound bytes, but not explaining their innermost beliefs. I don't know if You Tube will make much of a difference, especially considering the fact that with so many candidates vying for time on microphone, they really cannot say much. Hopefully, as the candidates begin to narrow-down, the questions and answers will become more meaningful.
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POPSEdwards Is Really Getting A Cut From The Media Stylists I am not actually supporting Mr. Edwards in this campaign, but I still believe in fairness for all candidates. I am so fed up with the way the corporate, mainstream media continues to exert its biased influence on elections. We all know about Mr. Edwards ill conceived haircut, but it's been reported ad nauseum and there is no one on the face of the earth who hasn't heard about the $400 cost, that has any concern about this election. But, once again, instead of covering issues, and ideas, the media hangs on to old news of little or no consequence. They are doing with Edwards and they will do it will the other candidates, meanwhile keeping the public uninformed about the real issues facing the voters. This is positively disgusting.
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POPSHillary's Hands Are In The Same Deep Corporate Pockets This is a fairly lengthy article from The Nation, but it is a very worthwhile need. It, sadly, confirms my suspicion that there really is not major difference between the two political parties, because essentially, they are beholden to the same, deep, corporate politics as each other. As long as big business has the ability to influence election campaign with big bucks, it will never be a totally honest system. I believe the U.S. should do what Canada did several years ago. Ban ALL political contributions by big business. Without the constant chasing for corporate bucks, the people actually have a chance for their voice to be seriously listened to.
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POPSCBS Has Been Exercising Selective Firing Since the Rather Incident CBS has been on a real Republican leaning path for some time now. To my memory, it seems to have started when Dan Rather was fired, along with his producer, for reporting on President Bush's less that illustrative military career. Rather and company had their facts and story straight. They got hung up on a technicality with one document and the network caved into the Bush camps threats and intimidations. Now, they are firing John Batiste because he is in an anti-Iraq war advertisement, while they permit someone who worked for the Bush white house, and is on McCain's campaign to stay on their network as a commentator. Our MSM really needs to hold its head in shame. It's time for the U.S. media to take lessons from Canada's CBC and Britain's BBC.
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POPSMcCain Continues to Sink to New Depths The "straight talker" keeps saying the wrong things. His campaign is catering to the very people he so reviled in his 2000 race. I suppose since he sees this as his last chance to become president he is willing to say or do whatever it takes to take that seat in the oval office. I hope you will take the time to read the entire letter Cecile Richards sent to McCain and his campaign big wigs.
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POPSPeople Thought Bush Would Be Like Reagan, Surprise! He's NIXON! Many people believed George W. Bush would walk in the shoes of Ronald Reagan. But once he got into office, he became apparent he was really Richard Nixon redux. One of the most obvious clues to this is his dependency of Karl Rove. He was around for Nixon to, ya know. Some things and people, never change.
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POPSOh John, What Have Ye Done? This article was very difficult to clip effectively. It truly spells out the tragedy of John McCain's fall from grace. A man who sold his integrity and core beliefs when he smelled, up close, the strong, aroma of power. He betrayed his own family after they were slandered by the vicious Bush team in 2000 and literally wound up kissing his enemies cheeks in order to fall into the good graces of the Evangelical base. He further ensured this by snuggling up to all the Evangelical leaders who smeared and libeled him during the campaign because the taste of power was so strong. Once a man even I as a Liberal could proudly support, he is now just a shadow of a man who at one time exemplified political greatness. A tragedy, indeed. Please take the time to read the complete article.
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POPSA Woman Worthy of Tribute Elizabeth Edwards is a woman to be admired. She is facing much uncertainty, pain and God knows what else. But she has decided that her husband's quest for the presidency is so important that she insists on carrying on as long as she is capable of doing so. John Edwards must have been torn between the true deep devotion he has for his wife, and whether or not he should end his campaign. From what I have heard from a person who knows them well, John was totally prepared to ditch the campaign, but his Elizabeth insisted that she wanted to be part of bringing positive change to the country while she still can, and urged her husband to go for it. I have no doubt that if Elizabeth's condition should take a turn for the worse, he will quit his campaign on a dime if necessary to be with her and support her.
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POPSThe Truth About Rudy the Hero As a New Yorker, born and raised, I have followed the details of 9/11 very carefully. I have been appalled by all I have learned about Giuliani's failures on that awful day. And yet, his spin machine has worked at fooling the rest of the country into believing he was the big hero of the day. This was a very difficult article to effectively clip, so I urge you to read the entire piece. It is important for people to begin getting the true story of Rudy the magnificent before they are fooled into making him their presidential candidate.
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POPSIt's That F-Word Again So the Conservatives don't like name-calling or slander. They want to raise the campaign to a higher level.....oops, that's the Liberal's line. It seems like some Conservatives really like to roll around in the mud where they are most comfortable.
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POPSAIPAC Continues to Beat the Drums of War AIPAC is lobbying, nay, pressuring congressional representatives and senators to push Bush into bombing Iran's nuclear facilities. Their tactics are identical to those used when instigating war with Iraq. Thankfully, the vast majority of Jews living in America are vehemently against such an action and will not easily fall under AIPAC's sway as they did leading up to the Iraq war. They have learned their lesson, which hopefully will encourage congress to stand-up to AIPAC and tell them know. Their constituents are against attacking Iran, and they will no longer fall for your standard line that not supporting what Israel wants is equivalent to anti-Semitism. It is my sincere hope that congress will have the courage to do this, and to stop permitting AIPAC from essentially blackmailing them with the Jewish vote. Jewish voters will NOT support any member of congress who presses for war with Iran.
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POPSMcCain Spins Again I used to have great respect for John McCain, but sadly that respect has been greatly diminished at this point. Instead of continuing to be a man of integrity, and perpetuating his "straight talk express" he has done complete reversals on his stands and comments. After blasting the ads and disgusting accusations the media people for the Bush campaign were guilty of, he now says they are good people, and hires them for his own presidential campaign. It says to me that Mr. Straight Talk is willing to get into the same disgusting sewer he complained the other side was in previously. He was the guy who wouldn't say or do just anything to get elected. Guess again.
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POPSThis "Breaking News" is Broke! When the hell with the U.S. public finally grow-up? Are there no more important situations going on in the world that who sleeps with whom? I was absolutely livid as I was watching CNN's "The Situation Room" when Wolf Blitzer interrupted a discussion he was having with a political journalist to announce that Gavin Newsom has admitted to having an affair with his former campaign manager's wife. Newsom himself is divorced. These are all adults capable of working out their own problems. Why in God's name should the public give a damn about their personal marital problems? With Iraq boiling over into Iran, and the world collapsing around us, we shouldn't even be the slightest bit concerned in this kind of tabloid journalism. I have written to CNN about this, and I hope others might do the same.
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POPSCanada's Prime Minister Plays Dirty With Clean Air Prime Minister Harper has laughed at the environment as an important issue for years. As this letter shows, he considers Kyoto as well as any real concern for environmental problems as some sort of socialist plot. Now, Canadians have decided the environment is their number one concern, and the new leader of the Liberal Party is a certified environmentalist. Harper is running TV ads, outside of any political election campaign, trying to smear the Liberal leader, Stephane Dion as a phony to the cause. He is using dirty tricks out of desperation, and it is my sincere expectation that the Canadian voters will see right through his shenanigans and throw these bums out in the next election. We won't even talk about Harper's social conservatism for the moment.
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POPSStill Spreadin' It Around Is this a classy dame or what (I'm sure using the term "dame" really dates me, eh?) She not only gives up her Congressional seat, to run for the Senate. But after losing big time, she invokes her floor rights, and shows up at the SOTU to pass out business cards. Umm, I wonder what business she's in?
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POPSKerry Spares Us Another Run It seems Mr. Kerry has taken the hint, and has decided to sit out this upcoming presidential election campaign. After the painful experience of 2004, for him and for us, I for one am delighted he reached this decision.
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