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Where Were You When You Realized George Bush Was a Liar?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:38:15 GMT

clipped by: Maxwell_Smart
clipper's remarks: I don't know, some people's loyalty to the president reminds me of some people's loyalty to a king. Since the pres is not a king it sometimes boggles my mind. When they do discover he is a liar and how much he has lied and for what purposes, I wonder if they remember that day - kind of like remembering where you were when you learn that Kennedy was shot or where you were when 911 happened. If you had such an experience why not write about it. It's an interesting and informative read.

Clip Source: masbury.wordpress.com

I remember when I realized George W. Bush was a liar. It was November 8, 2006—the day after the mid-term elections. It had taken me six years to admit the truth. A week earlier, Bush had said in no uncertain terms that Donald Rumsfeld would stay on until the end of Bush’s presidency. “Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them.” The day after the election, Rumsfeld was gone. When asked about the turn-around, the President said:

Mr. Bush

"atrocious economic policies" of Bush

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:11:39 GMT

clipped by: benaloy
clipper's remarks: USA owes 1 trillion to China !

The 'Big Mouth' !!

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

the "atrocious economic policies" of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday

"profligate spending," massive borrowing and dramatic tax cuts since President George W. Bush took office in 2001 were behind the market turmoil and economic crisis

Eight years ago, the United States had a budget surplus, low inflation and a stable, strong economy

Carter said he was astonished that the United States now owed China "in the neighborhood of $1 trillion."

Deregulation and what he called a withdrawal of supervision of Wall Street had encouraged irresponsible elements in the U.S. financial system, enabling banks to borrow 30 times their value.

Future Vision

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:45:05 GMT

clipped by: patden
clipper's remarks: We need more talk like this - please listen Mr. Obama.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Turning Disaster Into Opportunity

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Gary Hart

Posted October 8, 2008 | 02:34 PM (EST)

Rare is the catastrophe that does not offer some promise. The key is having the genius to discover hope within the rubble.

An argument can be made that the current financial disaster offers a future president, Obama in this case, the chance to transform the U.S. economy. A weakened Wall Street and a chastened conservative community are not now in a position to resist thoughtful and sober re-regulation of markets. The Reagan era (actually Nixon-Reagan-Bush) is over and with it the arrogance that laissez faire always presumes.

The Wall Street disaster is a metaphor for excess and greed, but also for a time gone by. The world of the new century requires not just a new Democratic administration, but one that is prepared to transform our nation and help transform the world.

Tags: politics

Moscow calls for anti-U.S. alliance

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:31:15 GMT

clipped by: spirithiker
clipper's remarks: While Russia has insisted it was not intending to supplant NATO, Mr Medvedev made it clear that the US-dominated alliance was partly responsible for the war in the Caucasus by its failure to rein in Georgian "aggression".

This is the result of the U.S. throwing its weight around the world for far too long. It is human nature that if one person is constantly directing policy onto everyone else then that person is going to be knocked down for being perceived as a bully.

The time has come for the U.S. to relax its role as self appointed world police and let other nations handle their own affairs or we will be “uninvited to the party”.

Hopefully, future U.S. presidents will bury this old school ‘might is right’ mentality that Bush/Cheney revitalized when they took office.

Clip Source: www.canberratimes.com.au

THE President of Russia has called on Europe's leaders to create a new world order that would minimise the role of the United States.

Mr Medvedev spoke of a Russia that was "absolutely not interested in confrontation", and outlined plans for a new security pact to ban the use of force in Europe.

Mr Medvedev sought to show that the US was at the root of all the world's problems. He blamed Washington's "economic egotism" for the world's financial woes and then accused the Bush Administration of taking Europe to the brink of a new cold war by pursuing a deliberately divisive foreign policy.

While he called for a cooling of the noxious rhetoric that had blighted East-West relations over the past two years, Mr Medvedev clearly laid the blame for the deterioration on the US, which he said was again viewing Russia through the prism of the Cold War. "Sovietology, like paranoia, is a very dangerous disease, and it is a pity that part of the US Administration still suffers from it," he said.

Tags: russia, u.s., foreign policy, cowboys, bush, cheney

Bush administration cuts birth control funding to Africa

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:13:47 GMT

clipped by: maxpower212
clipper's remarks: This is more important than you might think.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

Nicholas D. Kristof: Can this be pro-life?

The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world's poorest women in Africa.

Thus the paradox of a "pro-life" administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year - along with more women dying in childbirth.

The saga also spotlights a clear difference between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

Obama supports UN-led efforts to promote family planning; McCain stands with President Bush in opposing certain crucial efforts to help women reduce unwanted pregnancies in Africa and Asia.

Big Brother Bush is a Pervert! Violating the Constitution one Phone Call at a Time

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:51:43 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Read the article. The level of B.S. from the Administration is intolerable!

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence analysts eavesdropped on personal calls between Americans overseas and their families back home and monitored the communications of workers with the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations, according to two military linguists involved in U.S. surveillance programs.

The accounts are the most detailed to date to challenge the assertions of President Bush, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and other administration officials that the government's controversial overseas wiretapping activities have been carefully monitored to prevent abuse and invasion of U.S. citizens' privacy.

The linguists said that recordings of intimate conversations between citizens and their loved ones were sometimes passed around, out of prurient interest, among analysts at an electronic surveillance facility at Ft. Gordon, Ga.

Their claims were reported Thursday by ABC News.

Tags: spying, phone, communication, terror, big brother, bush, constitution, civil rights

Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:30:05 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: washingtontimes.com

At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.

Mr. Obama's conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confirmed to The Washington Times by his campaign aides, began just two weeks after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June and stirred controversy over the appropriateness of a White House candidate's contacts with foreign governments while the sitting president is conducting a war.

Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:49:17 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: Listening in on phone sex.

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.

"These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to be in the Middle East, in our area of intercept and happened to be making these phone calls on satellite phones," said Adrienne Kinne, a 31-year old US Army Reserves Arab linguist assigned to a special military program at the NSA's Back Hall at Fort Gordon from November 2001 to 2003.

Kinne described the contents of the calls as "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."

Calling home to the United States, talking to their spouses, sometimes their girlfriends

Tags: politics, bush, eavesdropping, spying

Bush Signs Presidential Transition Order

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:07:28 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

A piece of paper that President Bush signed Thursday helps ease his way out of the White House when his term ends and clears the way for his successor.

the directive he put his name on Thursday was one that few talk very much about. Basically, it's the executive order that turns the keys to the White House over to whomever is elected president on Nov. 4.

A little publicized truth is that Washington can't wait until inauguration day next Jan. 20 to figure out the details of a transition to a new presidency. Both Barack Obama and John McCain already have designated officials to oversee such a transition once the outcome of the election is known. The transition team of the winning candidate will set up procedures for selecting key personnel and making policy decisions in the 11 weeks between the election and when the new president takes office.

Tags: bush, president, transition, obama, mccain

Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:07:33 GMT

clipped by: boozich
clipper's remarks: yet another instance of BS from bush...and if they again focussed on US internal affairs (ie: monitoring CEO's of banks) the US would have found people and companies who did not have moral conscience

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Kinne described the contents of the calls as "personal, private things with Americans who are not in any way, shape or form associated with anything to do with terrorism."

"There is a constant check to make sure that our civil liberties of our citizens are treated with respect," said President Bush at a news conference this past February.

But the accounts of the two whistleblowers, which could not be independently corroborated, raise serious questions about how much respect is accorded those Americans whose conversations are intercepted in the name of fighting terrorism.

Pro-life Victims

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:00:22 GMT

clipped by: nchnted
clipper's remarks: There is no sympathy for the women who must live and sometimes die with this Bush - McCain decision. The consequences of any cause must be considered before you blindly support it.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Thus the paradox of a “pro-life” administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year — along with more women dying in childbirth.

The saga also spotlights a clear difference between Barack Obama and John McCain. Senator Obama supports U.N.-led efforts to promote family planning; Senator McCain stands with President Bush in opposing certain crucial efforts to help women reduce unwanted pregnancies in Africa and Asia.

When she dies,

Her children sob and shriek and in the ensuing months they often endure neglect and are far more likely to die of hunger or disease.

In some parts of Africa, a woman now has a 1-in-10 risk of dying in childbirth. The idea that U.S. policy may increase that toll is infuriating.

Look Who Is Getting the Last Laugh

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:47:07 GMT

clipped by: DanaGarrett

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

CARACAS, Venezuela - They don't call him President Bush in Venezuela anymore.

Now he's known as "Comrade."

"One of our economists was telling us that Bush has just implemented communism for the rich," Castro said.

No one in Latin America has been making more hay of Bush's turnabout than Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, a self-proclaimed socialist who is the U.S.'s biggest headache in the region.

"If the Venezuelan government, for example, approves a law to protect consumers, they say, 'Take notice, Chavez is a tyrant!'" Chavez said in one of his recent weekly television shows.

"Or they say, 'Chavez is regulating prices. He is violating the laws of the marketplace.' How many times have they criticized me for nationalizing the phone company? They say, 'The state shouldn't get involved in that.' But now they don't criticize Bush for having nationalize . . . the biggest banks in the world. Comrade Bush, how are you?"

"Comrade Bush is heading toward socialism."

Does My Vote Count?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:47:53 GMT

clipped by: sahara

Clip Source: www.learnnc.org

The people vs. the electors

As everyone learned or was reminded of in the election of 2000, the Constitution doesn't say that the candidate with the most popular support has any claim on the Presidency. It says that the candidate with the most electoral votes will become president. So George W. Bush won the election fair and square, by the rules set forth in the Constitution

Actually, the last president to be elected by a majority of the voters was George H. W. Bush in 1988. In 1992 and 1996, Bill Clinton won with a plurality — more than any other candidate, but less than half of the total vote — because there were three major candidates. Because the third candidate, H. Ross Perot, failed to win a majority anywhere, he didn't win any electoral votes, and Clinton was able to win a majority of the electoral votes without winning a majority of the popular vote.

IV. Does my vote count?

every vote does count; it just counts in a more complicated way

Clip Source: www.archives.gov

Tags: elections

David Brooks: Sarah Palin "Represents a Fatal Cancer to the Republican Party"

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:01:15 GMT

clipped by: zizzy

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said he'd rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. But he didn't think those were the only two options. He thought it was important to have people on the conservative side who celebrated ideas, who celebrated learning. And his whole life was based on that, and that was also true for a lot of the other conservatives in the Reagan era. Reagan had an immense faith in the power of ideas. But there has been a counter, more populist tradition, which is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely. And I'm afraid that Sarah Palin has those prejudices. I think President Bush has those prejudices.

How quickly we Forget !!! Don't YOU Forget!

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:44:47 GMT

clipped by: davboz
clipper's remarks: What'd ya think, I was clipping planes flying into the WTC? Very close.

Clip Source: www.thelibertypapers.org

Second, despite what Nancy Pelosi says, the Democrats most certainly did their part to help President Bush succeed in his “ownership society.” These Democrats who scream that this credit crisis is a result of lax regulations didn’t much appreciate the regulators when they warned that Freddie and Fannie were in trouble as early as 2004.

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The recent ~~rescue package~~ bailout was also a bipartisan “achievement.”

We are going to elect one of these two collectivists into the White House in just a few weeks and we are going to send Democrats and Republicans back to the House and the Senate and ask them to abuse us more.

Make no mistake: this credit crisis is a bipartisan government achievement. What it is NOT is a failure of the free market.