“Meet the new boss....same as the old boss.”

Sorry, Pete.

It would have restored my faith in democracy.

I cannot believe people with ANY intelligence would stand up and applaud a WAR CRIMINAL. Bush waged war on innocent people.  INNOCENT!! 

Good God.  I’ve given up hope.  I don’t write anymore because I’m just a small voice in the wind and our representatives in government do not listen. 

Jump up Obama and show us some more Grandstanding!  Go ahead and applaud the little criminal!  Let him get away with murder.

The eternal fester, serving two masters.

No doubt they are the boil that simply will not drain. But then you have to lance a boil before the puss can run out.

Maybe it’s time we try to educate our elected officials. This, more than any issue demonstrates how truly uninformed they are. Now we can blame Israel and AIPAC for their ignorance, but who do we blame for the fact that nobody seems to want to set the record straight? Sure, I would like to believe they are far to intelligent to not understand what’s going on, but the facts argue otherwise. I think we the people are in the habit of putting the less intelligent at the head of the line. [Why do we do that?]

Because of all their shortcomings, I really believe the isolation of being trapped in the echo chamber is a real threat to their discovering any kind of truth. And that’s where we come in. And lets face it folks, it really is up to us. Nobody else is going to plug the hole leaking truth, justice and the honorable way out of this sinking ship of state.

Here’s a good place to start:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6761/palastinianlan dloss8tz.gif

I understand visuals have a greater impact on the candidates since they don’t have time to study.

But lets not forget, inside of Israel, just like inside the USA, there are citizens as outraged and alarmed as we, and trying hard to help their fellow human beings. And here in the USA there are Jews, and Israelis as outraged and alarmed as we. We need to stop waiting for someone else to point out the inequities and start doing it ourselves.

Israel Blocks Aid Convoy From Reaching Gaza

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/29/headlines#9

“The Israeli military has prevented an aid convoy organized by Israeli human rights organizations, peace activists, and former military personnel from entering Gaza to distribute five tons of food to needy Palestinians. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the activists have been trying to enter Gaza since Saturday. The groups have been calling on Israel to end the siege on Gaza. In the past 10 days Israel had tightened a seven-month blockade of the Gaza strip by halting supplies of food, medical equipment and fuel.”

When I travel abroad, I’m aware people look at me and see me as a part of the current threat to world peace. [AKA all things Bush] Many Jews face the same broad brushstroke even though they don’t deserve it.

While we see current government control in Israel as a threat to us, and world peace. The world sees us as the threat to world peace! And of course with Bush in charge we are. But even if Bush resigned tomorrow, what we have started will not quickly go away. Terror is the new World Order, except it really isn’t new. Which brings me back to the echo chamber. What is the magic key that unlocks the chamber that keeps the candidates from hearing those of us who disdain the echo? Lets find that key and make a difference.

Is Israel responsible for the corruption and duplicity in Washington D.C.? Or are we? Perhaps Israel may be the elephant in the room, but you must agree, they are also a convenient scapegoat.

So back to square one. How do we educate the uninformed we put in office that they’ve got it all wrong?

No man can serve two masters.

Well that’s it!

No man can serve two masters!

That pretty well eliminates all the candidates, huh.

they must all be craven cowards - but frightened of what - #By Louise, January 29: “...I think the answer to that is obvious. The press...”

Undoubtedly so, Louise, but this is a new development......

The String-Pulling Cabal - AGAIN!!!!

Quote Haaretz - The AIPAC affair: Can the pro-Israel lobby recover?

As the American Israel Public Affairs Committee holds its annual policy conference this month, it can point with satisfaction to one of the closest relationships ever between the U.S. administration and the government of Israel.

This year has also seen the most perplexing development in the powerful pro-Israel lobby’s history: an FBI investigation into allegations that a Pentagon analyst passed classified information to Israel via AIPAC officials.

The closer Israel and Washington have grown on policy issues, the more vociferous the charges of Israel’s critics that the Jewish state and its American Jewish supporters exercise too much influence over U.S. decision-making..... http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ArticleNews.jhtml?i temNo=576759&contrassID=13&subContrassID=1&sbSu bContrassID=0

PS -Note the “Related Links” section on the left!!!

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Also check for “Highlights” - AIPAC Achievements:-

As America’s leading pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC works with both Democratic and Republican political leaders to enact public policy that strengthens the vital U.S.-Israel relationship. With the support of its members nationwide, AIPAC has worked with Congress and the Executive Branch on numerous critical initiatives—from securing vital foreign aid for Israel to stopping Iran’s illicit nuclear program......... http://www.aipac.org/about_AIPAC/default.asp

Douglas Chalmers:

“As such, they must all be craven cowards - but frightened of what, exactly???”

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I think the answer to that is obvious. The press!!!
Since nobody that votes agrees one hundred percent on anything, everything a candidate does has to be read as appealing to a myriad of views.

Of course it is impossible to please everybody all the time. But following what the press and pundits say, plus all those experts who advise, gives a candidate a clear path [sorta] to follow at any given moment.

Do any of us really believe these candidates read all their emails? Or closely follow the activity on their web sites? Or keep a running record in their heads sorting out the majority, minority or somewhere in the middle views of the people they meet on the campaign trail?

Not hardly. They after all are people, just like us. And being people wanting badly to appeal to the majority they rely heavily on input from advisors, who in turn rely heavily on input from the press and pundits who presumably are keeping score.

Bottom line. Who jumped up when and why is almost as important as anything Bush said. Because in the final analysis he didn’t say anything new ... or important, except he repeated his lies about Iran. [oh there’s a surprise]

Watch today’s Democracy Now. Far more valuable and informative way to spend an hour than listening to the war criminal in chief.

http://www.democracynow.org/

I didn’t watch the SOTU. I cant afford that pain anymore. [digging out the toenails that have curled back into the feet] But I read the transcript on the White House web-site.

Near as I can see, Bush is pretty proud of his accomplishments. And sorely disappointed that he hasn’t been able to destroy Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, like he has everything else. And he hasn’t been able to start WWIII [yet]

I did not read one single “jump to the feet in ovation” paragraph.

Interesting, because when you take the speech out of the audience it makes it clear, audience reaction highlighted by the press, is for the press. duh ...

There was one thing Bush said I agree with:

“The enemy is still there ...”

The queen sits on his left, reflecting light like a polished piece of jade. The real decider sits on his right, managing to swallow his spittle.

The troops continue dying. The vets continue being ignored. The war rages on. As un-winable as ever. The “leaders” continue play-acting at leading.

The working poor keep getting poorer. The Middle Class keeps getting smaller. Multi-Millionaires sell stock and buy gold.

The sick get sicker. Children go hungry. The homeless numbers reach new highs. Consumer purchasing power reaches new lows.

Foreclosures reach new highs. New housing starts reach new lows. That old standby safest of all safe investments, Real Estate is becoming the dead chicken hanging ‘round the neck.

The push to destroy our Constitutional rights once and for all, like a runaway train gains speed.

And the horse race for the position of NEW VERSION of SAME OLD SHIT continues.

And that my friends is the real state of the union.
So, who jumped up when is about as important as why ...

Quote The Hill - Clinton, Obama steal Bush’s final show: “Clinton and Obama’s divergent views on the troop surge in Iraq, however, were plainly visible........

(3): There also appeared to be some division among Democrats Monday over whether to continue to pump money into the Iraq war effort. When Bush said he would “ask Congress to meet its responsibilities to these brave men and women by fully funding our troops,” Obama and Clinton remained seated while Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) stood up behind them to applaud........

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Clearly, Obama’s “I don’t oppose all wars” statement is still in effect since 2002 athough he apparently wants to renounce his words from August last year about backing Bush’s (Condi Rice’s) bombing innocent villagers in rural Pakistan over targetting a non-existent Al Qaeda who are actually based in Karachi anyway (ref. Benazir Bhutto, Dec. ‘07).

Too bad that the Democrats still can’t get their act together about sorting Bush on his constant red herring of “fully funding our troops” in Eye-Rak. That should be the easiest thing to rebuff but they have utterly failed to deal with his aspersions against their loyalty to their country. As such, they must all be craven cowards - but frightened of what, exactly???

Is it the ‘fully-funded’ military-industrial complex which is constantly bleeding money off from properly equipping soldiers to their disadvantage to enrich their own profits??? Or is it the constant barrage of ‘red herrings’ from the covert soldiers of AIPAC pursuing another well-known agenda???