March 2008

Just heard about this on the news. I mean I guess we all make errors, but it’s rather alarming to find out about this article which describes how the US Air Force sent Taiwan Nuke Parts, although they had ordered batteries for helicopters. The more alarming part is the fact that we didn’t even realize we had done it, it was only after the Taiwanese government contacted us inquiring about the parts that we discovered the error. I’m glad that while we’ve bombed Iraq into oblivion and are worried about terrorists all around the world that we find these type of mistakes within our government.

This is another must see documentary from what I’ve heard. Wasn’t able to watch it yet myself, however I was listening to various talk radio shows this morning and everyone I tuned into made mention of this. I’ve watched many of their films and must say they are a great source of critical information.

PBS Frontline - Bush’s War

I had to watch this twice and pinch myself various times to confirm that what I was watching was actually true. Chris Wallace, on camera, live tells Fox and Friends that he’s unhappy with how they distorted all facts about Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday. What’s next, Cheney admitting he was wrong?

Thanks to the great people at www.mediamatters.org for capturing this great moment in TV history.

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It’s kind of hard to stay calm while watching that or is that just me?

…and Bush has “no regrets” about the war.

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Let’s give it up for Keith Olberman who is tirelessly pointing out what really should be very obvious - We’re not winning and we’re ruining our Country economically with this war. World War II was over in 6 years and our involvement was even less than that. The invasion of Normandy which can be considered one of the large battles in modern times, was a logistical nightmare and cost thousands upon thousands of soldiers their lives.

Is anything either of the Democratic Presidential Hopefuls says binding? Not at all. Do either of the candidates have any records pushing for the topics they now stand behind so strongly? Also negative. Let us be very clear on what’s going on here. It’s called sweet talk. Not straight-talk, not genuine-talk - but sweet talk. The story you give your Mom when you’re trying to go out again on a Friday night though she’s skeptical. “Of course I’ll be home before 1:00AM, no I won’t drink any alcohol, of course I won’t smoke pot Mom!” We’ve all been there - or the most of us I would say. This is exactly what we’re currently seeing with the Democratic Candidates. Hillary seems to be willing to say anything that will advance her cause.

When it comes to pulling our troops out of Iraq - she says yes to everything. Will you pull out our troops when you become President? “Yes!” - will you leave troops in the country? “Yes!” Will we have to keep a certain contigent of troops there to protect American interests? “Yes”. I would love to be the person asking the questions here because I would follow up with “Can you define what American interests are?” and secondly, “how can you claim that you’re going to pull our troops out of the country where we’re building the largest US embassy in the world there?”.

Of course to neither of the questions would we receive a straight up answer, because Politicians are trained not to answer questions. The reason for this is the fact that straight answers would reveal too much of the truth. The discrepancy between what Politicians say and what’s really going on is usually very stark. The feeling that I’m getting here is that neither of them are really going to do what they say, and there isn’t a thing we can about it. It’s not like Candidates have to fill out a form with all the points they plan to address and we can reference that at a later point in time. Instead what we get is the usual sweat talk that’s starting to piss me off more and more as the days go on.

I was listening to the Bill Press radio show this morning and either he or someone else said something that I believe to be true for myself. When the Primary Campaigns started, the notion I got from the people I spoke to was that any Democratic Candidate would suffice. Now however myself and many others feel slightly different about that. The reason in my case is the fact that the candidates that spoke the most truth, aren’t in the race anymore. What’s more, the candidates remaining aren’t speaking about any truly problematic issues. What about the invasion of privacy? What about the fact that our military is in shambles? Why isn’t the blackwater issue more of a topic? Because those are issues that you can’t get a majority of people behind you. They are controversial issues and they require someone to take a hard stance - a stance that most presidential candidates aren’t willing to take at this point because I’m sure that pollsters are telling them not to.

To sum it up I think it’s safe to say that many people are looking at the Primaries and are thinking that we’re being fooled, once again.

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It’s incredible that he even has an audience and moreover that they’re all laughing. It’s like the one event where they showed a parody video of him looking for WMD’s under the table in the white house. I’m pretty flexible when it comes to humor, but I’m really not seeing anything funny here. Here’s the guy that with the help of his advisors has and is currently taking down this country and he has the audacity to joke about. Unreal…

Thank you for canceling this idiot. I wish we could say it was due to him being an idiot, however I’m sure the only real reason is that his ratings sucked.

Read more about it at politico.com here.