By Chuck Miller, October 31 at 11:10 am #

“How the hell is Obama a “terrorist?” The only attacks on innocent civilians for political ends I’ve noticed lately are being directed the Master of Terror at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”

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I certainly couldn’t have said this better myself, though I’ve definitely tried.

I would only add that it’s not just ‘lately’ (though admittedly, that’s a relative term) the terrorists at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, (and wherever else they plan their atrocities) have been terrorizing innocents. It’s been 8 years; here, there, and everywhere.

That was the plan long ago. To terorize the world.

Whatever became of free speech? Just because someone attends some church does not necessarily mean he must agree with the views expressed by the person in charge. What is the matter with a country that thinks everyone must march in lockstep? Barack Obama has nothing to explain on this. If you want to know his views on something, just ask him.

Everybody should watch this! Bill Clinton and Obama together in a midnight rally in Florida. Two great speeches, first Clinton and then Obama. What a one-two punch. Great stuff! Don’t miss it!

http://www.thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/

What delightful comments. (seriously). Like LJ in MD made me laugh with this, even though I agree that it’s a great idea..

By LJ in MD, October 29 at 5:22 am

•  “Maybe we need to bring in the United Nations International Election Monitoring team? They could be randomly posted at polling places and central ballot counting centers around the country. We could throw in a few armed peacekeepers in those cool baby blue helmets to help put down any violent attempts at keeping people from voting.”

I love that, especially the part about the baby blue helmets.

And yep..we’re a 3rd world country all right. Been that way for a really long time now it seems. Democracy, rule of law, constitution, international treaties and conventions, whatever…all gone. So we’re just like any other collection of victims of a now fascist authoritarian state, with nothing but corruption at the highest levels. The higher they are situated in the mob, the more corrupt they are. The curtain has yet to reveal the full measure of Cheney et al’s treachery. But, we’ll get all of this poisonous pus out and the criminals prosecuted.

JFoster2k,

I agree that we should all be concerned. It is as spirtgirl has said…desperate people do desperate things. And, it’s not like we haven’t seen them in action before, and for so long now.

On this though…

•  “..I hope against hope that they don’t escalate the wars for political ends, but I’m not naive enough to think they wouldn’t…”

I fear that they already have, and that it is only by the sheer sensibilities of other nations that the whole powder keg hasn’t exploded. This recent action on Syrian soil that killed 7 civilians is simply impossible to ignore.

Here’s a piece that includes some critical input from one of my own highly esteemed academic mentors, and this has been the case for several years now of the Bush Doctrine:

US Raids Ignore International Law
Tuesday 28 October 2008
by: Matt Renner and Maya Schenwar, t r u t h o u t | Report

AP)  Washington - While US officials continue to avoid discussing the weekend strikes that killed eight people in eastern Syria, Middle East experts have condemned the attacks as a violation of international law that threatens to further destabilize US-Syria relations.

  Sunday, special operations forces carried out a cross-border raid from Iraq into Syria. Press reports quote one unnamed US official who claims that the strike was successful in killing Abu Ghadiya, a terrorist leader in the region. Details of the strike have not yet been released by the US government.

  However, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said the attack killed eight unarmed civilians in a farming village. Ahmed Salkini, spokesman for the Syrian Embassy in Washington, DC, condemned the strike, calling it a “criminal terrorist attack” that “intentionally targeted innocent civilians.”
According to Princeton international law scholar Richard Falk, neither the US nor Syria presented sufficient evidence to back up their claims. Regardless of the intent of the raid, Falk called the US action “a serious violation of international law,” which allows for the use of violence only in self-defense.

  Yet, Falk does not predict that any enforcement action will be taken, because international laws regulating the use of military force have been so undermined by the US and other countries in recent years. Falk called the raid “the latest display of Washington’s disregard for the restraints of international law on the use of force.

“We are witnessing a unilateral expansion of the scope of the right of self-defense [by the Bush administration],” Falk told Truthout. “This is a suspension of the rule of law in the name of counter-insurgency or homeland security. It is an extension of executive authority and the imperial presidency.”

http://www.truthout.org/102808R

We should be all be very concerned. The right-wing has proven many times how effective tactics can be despite a lack of clear policy. The worst part is that too many Americans hear only what they are predisposed to hear. And they act on it. The polls have thus far been encouraging, but we all know what can happen when the republican fear-machine gets rolling.

Terrorist, Socialist, Marxist and the other slanderous shitballs they have flung at Obama can stick in the minds of some undecideds.

I hope against hope that they don’t escalate the wars for political ends, but I’m not naive enough to think they wouldn’t.

The bitter irony and blatant hypocracy of the Christian right is evidenced by their actions in opposition to their own scripture. “Love thy neighbor”, “Thou shalt not bear false witness”, “Thou shalt not kill” ... I guess those rules only apply to others or when it’s convenient for them.

Bring it on!!!
When you have an ‘End of Dayer’ whispering in your ear, That is a National Security Threat!
Let’s be Frankly shall we, Snake oil dealers like Hagee are not only Heretical, but Treasonous.
First, Heresy…
Who do they think they are to claim the ‘end of Times is near’? didn’t their sacred Cow even tell them ‘Only the Father Knows’ the date of this? Not even his ‘Son’ Knew the answer to that question.Are they Claiming Omnience ? to add to their Heresy, atleast Hagees, He states that the ‘Warriors of God’ must initiate Armegeddon (pre- emptively Strike Iran)...So now they claim Omnipotence even Over God?Then he goes on to claim HE knows Who God will Save and Who God will Punish…Hmmm So now they have seized the Power of immortal Judgement?
so now we have a group of Self anointed Heretics Pallin’ around with Public Servants who have influence over Policy (LIEberman,and his best Bud John McCain…And very likely Hillary Clinton). Americans Have made it very clear WE want OUT of Iraq and are not interested in ‘Bomb bomb bomb’ Iran (Nor ‘obliterating’ It). Yet John McCain proposes to - so Who is he Serving- US or the Sociopathic meglomaniacs who hide under the umbrella of ‘Chrisitianity’. since our country was founded on Religious Freedom, by serving Ones interests over all the rest is that not innately UNAMERICAN? Is that not akin to the Monarchies bowing down to thePope?Is not the mere attempt to weild power via Religion innately flawed when Viewed from Our Founding Doctrines? Isn’t Hagge trying to Become the the ‘Great Whore’ the Catholic Church?What was the reason so many Americans Feared a Kennedy presidency..Because he could be an agent of the Pope.And had he proved to be so, would he have not faced High crimes for Putting a church doctrine before the tennents of this Free nation.
These Nut jobs can preach anything they want, Claim anything they Want IN THEIR CHURCHES….But they are Not allowed to hold the rest of US hostage with their Dogma, nor Political Connections.Aka Separation of Church & State.Hagee, Dobson et al are committing a High crime by imposing their religious philososphies on the Free Democratic citizens. Cornerstone Church is at it’s heart UnAmerican in it’s attempts to control public policy and are heretics for thinking they have a right to.
So bring on Hagee, Dobson, paresley et al, snake oil dealers, Ego maniacs and Deceivers are easily revealed to those who place their Faith in and Service to God and Not a mere Mortal.
WE need only expose their form of ‘Chrisitanity’ to prove these are not Christians, ‘Soldiers of God’ is an Oxymoron, for the ‘Meek shall inherit the Earth’

Bring it on!!!
When you have an ‘End of Dayer’ whispering in your ear, That is a National Security Threat!
Let’s be Frankly shall we, Snake oil dealers like Hagee are not only Heretical, but Treasonous.
First, Heresy…
Who do they think they are to claim the ‘end of Times is near’? didn’t their sacred Cow even tell them ‘Only the Father Knows’ the date of this? Not even his ‘Son’ Knew the answer to that question.Are they Claiming Omnience ? to add to their Heresy, atleast Hagees, He states that the ‘Warriors of God’ must initiate Armegeddon (pre- emptively Strike Iran)...So now they claim Omnipotence even Over God?Then he goes on to claim HE knows Who God will Save and Who God will Punish…Hmmm So now they have seized the Power of immortal Judgement?
so now we have a group of Self anointed Heretics Pallin’ around with Public Servants who have influence over Policy (LIEberman,and his best Bud John McCain…And very likely Hillary Clinton). Americans Hav emade it very clear WE want OUT of Iraq and are not interested in ‘Bomb bomb bomb’ Iran (Nor ‘obliterating’ It). Yet John McCain proposes to - so Who is he Serving- US or the Sociopathic meglomaniacs who hide under the umbrella of ‘Chrisitianity’. since out country was founded on Releigious Freedom, by serving Ones interests over all the rest is that not innately UNAMERICAN? Is that not akin to the Monarchies bowing down to thePope?Is not the mere attempt to weild power via Religion innately flawed when Viewed from Our Founding Doctrines? Isn’t Hagge trying to Become the the ‘Great Whore’ the Catholic Church?What was the reason so many Americans Feared a Kennedy presidency..Because he could be an agent of the Pope.Adn had he proved to be so, wold he have not faced High crimes for Putting a church doctrine before the tennents of this Free nation.
These Nut jobs can preach anything they want, Claim anything they Want….But they are Not allowed to hold the rest of US hostage with their Dogma, nor Political Connections.Aka Separation of Church & State.Hagee, Dobson et al are committing a High crime by imposing their religious philososphies on the Free Democratic citizens. Cornerstone Church is at it’s heart UnAmerican in it’s attempts to control public policy and are heretics for thinking they have a right to.
I for One KNEW what Rev Wright was referring to, I didn’t even need to get the full sermon, but I did to prove myself Correct.
‘Chicken come home to roost’ referred to about 50 yrs of Corps fucking around in the Middle east and alllowing OUR Flag to be associated with their Crimianl behavior in cordination with th eOprpessive Oil ‘royals’.Also the term he Used was ‘America’ NOT AmericaNs’. America is either a geographical reference or a Reference to that which Represents US( Fly our flags in foreign countries) as a whole to the world….And Those Assholes should be Damned, because they have fucked US with their Self promotion and Greed!AND WE SHOULD NOT ONLY BE PISSED, WE SHOULD PROSECUTE THEM.
So bring on Hagee, Dobson, paresley et al, snake oil dealers, Ego maniacs and Deceivers are easily revealed to those who place their Faith in and Service to God and Not a mere Mortal.
WE need only expose their form of ‘Chrisitanity’ to prove these are not Christians, ‘Soldiers of God’ is an Oxymoron, for the ‘Meek shall inherit the Earth’

Everybody knows money coming out of the RNC has a dirty history of passing through slimy hands. We find it disgusting. The repub loyal think it’s smart.

Any new horse-shit they are throwing is aimed at the new or swing voters who never pay attention.

But everybody is hurting from Bush/repub money management, and that’s where the focus needs to stay. In that department Obama is clearly ahead because he isn’t Bush, or a republican.

The horse-shit doesn’t scare me.
Here’s what scares me:

1- McCain turned the conversation back to war today.

2- We illegally attacked inside of the borders of another country yesterday.

3- Bush went to visit the RNC today.

4- Commentators following the McCain campaign noted today, McCains upbeat attitude indicated he was convinced he would win, to the point he was almost euphoric.

5- Shortly after the economy took a nose-dive McCain announced he would have a surprise for everyone late in October.

Hmmm, here we are in late October, Bush is having secret meetings with the RNC, we are trying to start a rumble in yet another country. And McCain can hardly contain his joy over his certain landslide!

So, either we are all in la-la land, or the plan is to have a sudden and viscious attack on the United States, or United States interests abroad. Which will cause massive damage and many casualties, scare the beegeebees out of those who still haven’t voted and turn the uncommited back to voting for the mighty war horse. Crippled tho he may be.

Or, Bush will simply declare a halt on the elections and once again head the ship of state into the waves crashing on the rocky shore.
Crash alert ahead.

Could it get any worse than it already is?

Stupid question.

Is ‘Bush the dunder-head’ still in office?

If we haven’t learned anything in the last eight years, we certainly should have learned by now, there is no low to low, no horror to horrible, no improbability to improbable that Bush and the repubs wont try to pull it off it means they stay in power!

And that’s what scares me. Hope I’m wrong.

I was recently asked why I did not vote early. Well if you live in Ohio, where elections have been stolen, the idea of having your cast vote lying around so there are more opportunities for ‘officials’ to misplace it, is not all that appealing. It is going to take an overwhelming election for Senator Obama to get elected. If it is claimed to be “close” then the bastards will use every unimaginable trick to make sure this doesn’t happen. Anyone who thinks elections are on the level, obviously has not lived in the state of Ohio.

We should all be worried. The repugs are going to take everyone down with them. They will salt the fields and poison the wells. If they can’t have it, nobody will. If they can’t have an america in their image, they don’t want one at all, for anybody.

Whatever they’re doing appears to be working.  According to the dailykos tracking poll Obama has lost 4 points in the last 4 days.  At the rate of a point a day the race will be tied by election day.

My understanding of the conventional electioneering wisdom is that if you’re going to slander your opponent, you have to start earlier than the last week and lead with your most believable stuff.  At this point (hopefully) people are just going to assume the attacks are more of the same business about Obama being a Muslim, socialist and terrorist, and they have already decided what they think of that.

The really sad thing is that, win or lose, this kind of reckless barbarity poisons the country’s political and social life and will taint the reputations of the perpetrators far into the future.

The very desperate do very desperate things!  Did they bother to mention that in 2000 McCain called the Rev.‘s Falwell, Pat Robertson, et. al unAmerican for their “religious” views!  What about “Pastor” Hagee that calls for the extermination of Catholics, Jews, and anyone that doesn’t believe in his “brand” of “Evangelical Christianity”!

These very desperate attempts by a group of people who over the last 8 years have proved by their very actions that they don’t really believe in this country or it’s people!  They believe in greed, free markets, the corporate oligarchy, no taxes for the rich - but making the rest pay thru the nose, the good ole boys club, etc.!!!!

After having their way for the all of this time they need to get kicked out!  They want to know why - just look at the latest poster boy TED STEVENS!  Enough said!!!!!!