Comments on: “Senator McCain is Absolutely Right”

By: cg

cg — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:04:27 +0000

Here’s the bailout bill the lizards voted on.
Do you see anything about 700 billion dollars for wall street?
Must be the “and for other purposes.”
What sleaze bags.

BILL TITLE: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide earnings assistance and tax relief to members of the uniformed services, volunteer firefighters, and Peace Corps volunteers, and for other purposes

By: bozhidar bob balkas

bozhidar bob balkas — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:50:17 +0000

both mccain and obama have embedded scripts in their respective brains.
the questions to be asked and answered r also prewritten and memorized.
some of the questions will not be put to either one of them:
can one wage a war based on truth/fairness/prudence?
is constitution an interpretative document?
can it be understood? and if so by whom?
will deception/lies by politicos to amers continue w.o. any penalty to liars?
is it fair that US uses ab 20% of our resources?
is it fair that US threatens first use of wmd?
wasn’t the US the first to have used wmd against civs?
is it wise to talk ab USA as the greatest country in the world while killing women and children?
why not the same or similar medicare of many other lands? thnx
isn’t cia the largest terrorist org?
etcetc

By: Jerry D. Rose

Jerry D. Rose — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:54:44 +0000

What could possibly demonstrate the “we agree” mentality of the Democratic and Republican parties than the outcome of yesterday’s vote on the bailout legislation? The New York Times and other establishment media characterized the situation as a “failure of leadership,” a failure of in the White House and Congress of both parties and both presidential candidates to bring the majority of the House around the view that the sky would fall unless the legislation were passed. To me it was more like a “success of democracy” as the “genius” of our Constitution decrees that every member of Congress must submit to the will of the voters every 2 years if he/she is to remain in Congress. Would that the party and media bureaucracies that determine who will participate in debates and how they are to be structured were so subjected to public accountability! Maybe if the Presidential Debate Commission and the networks were as responsive to public opinion, there would be some iota of hope that some of those “voices” (Nader, McKinney, Barr) that Zeese notes could make real “debates” out of obnoxious pissing contests. I’m happy to see that Kevin Zeese is “on the beat” in the electoral integrity issue, but really what “integrity” can there be in an electoral system in which alternative voices and policy alternatives are kept from the awarness of the people?

By: same as it ever was

same as it ever was — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:38:47 +0000

The Wall Street Bailout Bill:
Bush McCain Obama et al.

The Realignment Of American Politics:
Anderson Baldwin Carter Choate Clemente Gonzalez Gravel Kaptur Kucinich McKinney Nader Paul Perot Sheehan Ventura

By: Erroll

Erroll — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:16:00 +0000

Martha

Well said.

By: Martha

Martha — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:59:10 +0000

Zeese asserts McCain talked over Barack. Actually they both repeatedly talked over each other. Which would indicate Zeese allowed his own likes and dislikes to color his perception. Equally true is Barack asked the moderator for help.
The debate was an embarrassment and we don’t need to hear “Oh, mean McCain!” The two war hawks deserved each other and America deserves better. Vote Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader and say “NO!” to the nonsense.

By: Deadbeat

Deadbeat — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:26:32 +0000

I listened to as much as I could (which wasn’t much, granted), and never even heard Obama debunk McCain’s most ham-handed lies, like the ones about American-based corporations suffering a competitive disadvantage from the tax rate That's not completely accurate. Obama did correct McCain regarding the effective tax rate that corporations actually pay due to tax loopholes when McCain stated that corporation in the U.S. has the highest rate in the world. When you look at the stable of Wall Street hacks that Obama has picked as his economic advisers, it should come as no surprise that he won’t discuss class inequality or criticize the “socialism for the rich” bailout plan proposed by the Bush cabal. Here I agree with you. Standing next to Robert Rubin and Laura Tyson doesn't build any confidence that Obama will fight Wall Street.

By: bozhidar bob balkas

bozhidar bob balkas — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:52:14 +0000

most people believe and/or led to believe that politics exist apart from everything else that is happeninig in the universe.
but also bad is the fact, that this aspect of our being is so narrow, so limited; w. firm boudaries of what is allowed to talk about.
nat, parameters for asking questions is also set.
but to obtain answers from nature; oh so stingy w. answers, we need to ask her an indefinate number of questions.
nat, we can’t go on and on asking all the questions that pertain to our doings and the doings of the nature but we have no time for that.
so, we can ask only the salient facts.
but the question arises, who chooses and asks questions?
sadly, up to now, only the ruling class puts questions to politicos; but, only if these lead to the answers that serves plutocrats, clergy, media, hollywood.
u people can understand that i cannot listen listen to politicos or clergy. thnx

By: Timber

Timber — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:47:39 +0000

This is a surprise?

I listened to as much as I could (which wasn’t much, granted), and never even heard Obama debunk McCain’s most ham-handed lies, like the ones about American-based corporations suffering a competitive disadvantage from the tax rate. He never pointed out the number of corporations that either pay no taxes or get tax refunds, and didn’t point out that in Japan where executives get paid 20 or 30 times a typical worker, as opposed to the 300-400 times an American executive often recieves, Japanese corporations somehow manage to outcompete their American counterparts. Nor did he cite a statistic familiar to most DV readers, that somewhere between 1 and 5% of Americans and American corporations control from 75-90% of the wealth.

When you look at the stable of Wall Street hacks that Obama has picked as his economic advisers, it should come as no surprise that he won’t discuss class inequality or criticize the “socialism for the rich” bailout plan proposed by the Bush cabal.

Obama is change that Wall Street and the military-industrial complex can believe in, and as has been the case for 8 or 12 years, the Democrats’ only defense against criticism from the left is that the GOP candidate would be worse. They take no responsibility for allowing the political discourse in this country to drift further and further to the right over the past two decades due to their own cowardice and corruption, and they point to hysterical claims of Obama’s liberalism from the right as proof that he is a progressive. Outrageous.

By: Erroll

Erroll — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:44:28 +0000

Obama seems determined to show that he can be just as tough as McCain when it comes to foreign policy even if that means invading foreign countries who have never threatened the United States and a consequence slaughtering many innocent civilians, many of whom are children.