CONCORD, North Carolina (CNN) – John McCain stepped up his rhetoric against Barack Obama on taxes in his weekly radio address, comparing his plan to 'socialist' programs that would “convert the IRS into a giant welfare agency, redistributing massive amounts of wealth.”
What's so astounding about the current Republican propaganda machine is that they're eager to take whatever criticism can factually be applied to them, and throw it at their opponents.
You say Obama doesn't have enough experience? Introduce Palin!
The head of McCain's transition team worked on Saddam Hussein's behalf? Say Obama pals around with terrorists! Your biggest weaknesses? Say they're the other guy's! Works like magic!
McCain has been in the forefront of two major US bank meltdowns (Keating, then now with his friend Phil). So Bush has to literally socialize the banks. So what do you do--call Obama a socialist!
Of course, Bush's plan is not really socialism, which would mean health care and social services. It's fascism, which means taking care of businesses, not people. I wrote about this a few weeks ago.
"redistributing massive amounts of wealth" that's been the main goal of the Bush administration from day one--but it's been a reverse Robin Hood scheme, robbing the poor and middle class and giving it to the rich.
We have had, in the past eight years, the most massive redistribution of wealth in US history, much of it going outside the country to Iraq--and foreign corporations (of which Cheney's Halliburton is now one--they moved to Dubai to escape potential prosecution from war profiteering).
And so, since they've done it themselves, they are now pinning it on someone else.
What I don't get is why the so-called liberal media never stops to say, "Hey, wait a second, you're calling him a socialist but YOU are the ones socializing major corporations, he's just for programs to protect people."
Why does nobody say that?
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Sunday, October 05, 2008
A POSITIVE PATH (real American Freedom from fear, lies, greed)
The Cheney /Bush administration has left this country (and world) in a crisis.
Their policies of lying, cheating, stealing, killing, destroying--somehow sold as "Family Values" have done nothing but undermined everything that Americans grow up holding sacred--freedom and democracy.
In the guise of "protectors" Cheney/Bush have turned this country from a democracy into a Fascist state--where the corporations and government tag-team to tell average citizens what we can and can't do.
Bush/Cheney have turned the government against us. Against you. Against me. They lie to us. They steal from us. They spy on us.
They say they're for "less government interference" but in reality they've created the biggest, most dangerous government this country has ever had.
And now that we're on the brink of disaster--they don't know what to do. So they just do what they got away with before, they lie, they cheat, they steal, they kill, and they tell you it's good for you.
But the neo-CON-MEN don't want to be responsible the shit they themselves shat. They don't know what to do with it, because neo-cons have no positive ideas--only fear-mongering and attacks. Propaganda is all they can do.
You can't get out of this massive mess, now financial as well as military, with propaganda.
So they need a Democrat for at least four years (it took Clinton 8 to remove the Reagan/Bush1 deficit and turn it into a surplus) to clean it up for them.
This mess can be cleaned up, but it'll take intelligence (something we know is lacking in the neo-cons, who can't think more than a few days ahead, hence the financial crisis that anyone with a brain would have seen coming and could have avoided), dedication and time.
And, sadly, while paying for all this unnecessary war, financial gambling and the ultimate redistribution o wealth, there won't be much left for little things like health care, infrastructure and preparing for the future by developing green energy, three things that are essential for real national security.
Sadly, the fascism of the Cheney, a group of people so sad and devoid of even basic human compassion, could only imagine spending that money killing and destroying--not to mention stealing--stealing from the taxes most of us pay, and stealing from the investments people made for their future.
They could have spent the far less money on health care (for life!), and rebuilding bridges, roads, water systems, sustainable energy and other vital infrastructure.
They could have created rather then destroyed. And in creating--they could have made friends instead of enemies, and they would have been improving the world, rather than literally tearing it apart.
And that, in a nutshell, is the choice. The Bush/Cheney/McCain neo-CON path of bankrupting the country on a rampage of greed, death and self-destruction.
Or the Obama/Binden POSITIVE path of REBUILDING the country in the true American way.
Some people who know nothing but fear and hate will vote for the only candidate they can see--because he's selling fear and hate--McCain.
I truly believe that the American people are weary to the bone of 8 years of fear, hate, and destruction.
That we long for real American values of working WITH our fellow man--not against him. Of buildig a better world. Of freedom (freedom from want and fear and greedy financial criminals--freedom from our own government who has been spying on us, lying to us, and stealing from us).
The people who want a better world for themselves and their children must vote for the candidate who has a positive message, and a postive path--Obama.
Their policies of lying, cheating, stealing, killing, destroying--somehow sold as "Family Values" have done nothing but undermined everything that Americans grow up holding sacred--freedom and democracy.
In the guise of "protectors" Cheney/Bush have turned this country from a democracy into a Fascist state--where the corporations and government tag-team to tell average citizens what we can and can't do.
Bush/Cheney have turned the government against us. Against you. Against me. They lie to us. They steal from us. They spy on us.
They say they're for "less government interference" but in reality they've created the biggest, most dangerous government this country has ever had.
And now that we're on the brink of disaster--they don't know what to do. So they just do what they got away with before, they lie, they cheat, they steal, they kill, and they tell you it's good for you.
But the neo-CON-MEN don't want to be responsible the shit they themselves shat. They don't know what to do with it, because neo-cons have no positive ideas--only fear-mongering and attacks. Propaganda is all they can do.
You can't get out of this massive mess, now financial as well as military, with propaganda.
So they need a Democrat for at least four years (it took Clinton 8 to remove the Reagan/Bush1 deficit and turn it into a surplus) to clean it up for them.
This mess can be cleaned up, but it'll take intelligence (something we know is lacking in the neo-cons, who can't think more than a few days ahead, hence the financial crisis that anyone with a brain would have seen coming and could have avoided), dedication and time.
And, sadly, while paying for all this unnecessary war, financial gambling and the ultimate redistribution o wealth, there won't be much left for little things like health care, infrastructure and preparing for the future by developing green energy, three things that are essential for real national security.
Sadly, the fascism of the Cheney, a group of people so sad and devoid of even basic human compassion, could only imagine spending that money killing and destroying--not to mention stealing--stealing from the taxes most of us pay, and stealing from the investments people made for their future.
They could have spent the far less money on health care (for life!), and rebuilding bridges, roads, water systems, sustainable energy and other vital infrastructure.
They could have created rather then destroyed. And in creating--they could have made friends instead of enemies, and they would have been improving the world, rather than literally tearing it apart.
And that, in a nutshell, is the choice. The Bush/Cheney/McCain neo-CON path of bankrupting the country on a rampage of greed, death and self-destruction.
Or the Obama/Binden POSITIVE path of REBUILDING the country in the true American way.
Some people who know nothing but fear and hate will vote for the only candidate they can see--because he's selling fear and hate--McCain.
I truly believe that the American people are weary to the bone of 8 years of fear, hate, and destruction.
That we long for real American values of working WITH our fellow man--not against him. Of buildig a better world. Of freedom (freedom from want and fear and greedy financial criminals--freedom from our own government who has been spying on us, lying to us, and stealing from us).
The people who want a better world for themselves and their children must vote for the candidate who has a positive message, and a postive path--Obama.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Obama Wins. Country Wins. YOU: REGISTER & VOTE
The good news is that internal Republican pollsters have basically said McCain has lost.
Palin's performances give her LESS credibility, only 25% say she's ready and those are the die hard brain dead Republicans (we might possibly know one or two personally--oh, sorry).
So, I'm convinced Obama will win the votes.
Now the question is--will they be counted? And will the Republicans do electoral college shenanigans.
I actually think Republicans will be relieved to have this mess they created in somebody else's hands. That's their pattern. Look at Reagan/Bush1, they screwed things up royal, then gave it to Clinton to clean up. They attacked him mercilessly for eight years but he cleaned it up and gave us a surplus.
Then Bush2 takes over (face it, folks, he didn't win, the Supreme Court unconstitutionally gave it to him), messes up the economy and world worse than any president in history--and now Daddy Democrat has to come in and be the adult and clean it up--while Republicans throw tantrums the entire time and try to undermine him.
Clearly Republicans are very spoiled children (if not "the bad seeds" :)
Of course, I will be surprised if Cheney allows there to be an election at all--I am still waiting for him to pull something, like another terrorist attack.
Then again, he may take his freshly printed billions and go to Dubai, like his company, Halliburton, where he can't be extradited to the world war tribunal and held up as the war criminal he is.
I live in hope :)
Palin's performances give her LESS credibility, only 25% say she's ready and those are the die hard brain dead Republicans (we might possibly know one or two personally--oh, sorry).
So, I'm convinced Obama will win the votes.
Now the question is--will they be counted? And will the Republicans do electoral college shenanigans.
I actually think Republicans will be relieved to have this mess they created in somebody else's hands. That's their pattern. Look at Reagan/Bush1, they screwed things up royal, then gave it to Clinton to clean up. They attacked him mercilessly for eight years but he cleaned it up and gave us a surplus.
Then Bush2 takes over (face it, folks, he didn't win, the Supreme Court unconstitutionally gave it to him), messes up the economy and world worse than any president in history--and now Daddy Democrat has to come in and be the adult and clean it up--while Republicans throw tantrums the entire time and try to undermine him.
Clearly Republicans are very spoiled children (if not "the bad seeds" :)
Of course, I will be surprised if Cheney allows there to be an election at all--I am still waiting for him to pull something, like another terrorist attack.
Then again, he may take his freshly printed billions and go to Dubai, like his company, Halliburton, where he can't be extradited to the world war tribunal and held up as the war criminal he is.
I live in hope :)
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