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Does McCain consider stopping the war in Iraq a great cause? Of course he doesn’t. But will we hear his campaign or the RNC declare during the general election that it is unpatriotic to oppose the war? The Republicans have been famous for this kind of tactic. Remember the swift-boating of John Kerry? That was only the most recent example.

Good point kelly. Having run for public office I have seen how a person gets caricatured and labeled. “America-hater” will be a very popular label this year.

Speaking of suffering, perhaps McCain might want to address this:

http://www.kansas.com/205/story/363892.html

BUSH IGNORING THE IRAQI REFUGEE CRISIS

Close to 20% os the Iraqi population have become refugees - about half ‘internal’ and half external.

Yeah, George…the country is sure in better shape after 8 yrs of Dubya’s “leadership”.

some much should be “so much”.
Which reminds me I make mistakes, who could vote for someone that is not perfect?

Thanks Ben.

“OH there goes Chas and WS!”

Naw, I am pro-Second Amendment, Dub Dog, so you wouldn’t lose me on that one.

Actually, I would probably cross the aisle and vote for you, but I don’t believe for a minute that you are actually a Republican.

You’re too smart for that.

(No flaming intended ‘Dog)

“I am a fiscal conservative and would never put in any earmarks that I do not see the need for…”

I was waving the flag for you until I read the above line. Same line used by EVERY politician.
(except maybe Ron Paul, who votes for none)

Sounds to me like the man’s channeling John Kennedy.

Unforunately for him, if we take him up on his challenge, that means voting for someone else in November.

“The Democrats are keen to wipe out the Bush tax cuts, which also lowered the tax on dividend income to 15 percent. Apprently, they believe that’s not something that affects the average Joe.

Really? Last Tuesday, the lead story in The Wall Street Journal reported on older workers forced to delay retirement, not only because of the subprime mortgage crisis, but because of the poor performance of the stock market, which has been supported the last few years by lower taxes on dividends and capital gains.

Union leaders often engage in rhetoric that suggests that large industrial corporations are evil incarnate, even though union pension funds are chock full of shares in large corporations, as well they should be. When business profits, share prices rise — and retirements and college funds held by average people are more secure.

Democrats repeatedly complain about “tax cuts for the wealthy,” as if the Bush tax cuts had squeezed middle-income households more than the rich. Not so: A recent Congressional Budget Office report noted that after 2001, the total effective tax rate paid by the middle fifth of households fell steadily to its lowest level since 1979.

Thanks to the Bush tax cuts, the tax burden has declined for all income groups, but lower income groups experienced more relief in terms of percentage-point reductions than did the wealthiest households.

The effective rate for the top 1 percent has declined by less than one percentage point. For the middle and lowest, it fell by nearly 3.

Meanwhile, the share of the income tax paid by the top 1 percent has grown even as rates have fallen. In 2004, the top tier earned more than 16 percent of the national income, but those families paid nearly 37 percent of the nation’s income-tax bill.

What’s “unfair” about that? Jacking up rates to where they were before the Bush tax cuts, as so many Democrats advocate, would probably also return the share paid by the wealthy to where it was before those tax cuts — while saddling the rest of us with a lackluster economy.

Memo to Sen. Obama: If you want more jobs, encourage more risk-taking. You can’t do that that by jacking up the rates that punish investment and entrepreneurship.”

http://www.kansascity.com/275/story/562903.html

Sounds sorta like JFK:

Ask not what your country can do for you.

Ask what you can do for your country.

Memo to AmWay - with the monstrous deficits we have been running fiscal disaster is unavoidable - UNLESS we change that. And that will require the same sort of action taken by the Clinton administration immediately after taking office. As I recall your Republics predicted that would immediately throw the country into a depression.

Ben,
Have you thought that Bush and his fellow Republicans are like a teenager than gets a credit card for the first time. They rack up huge amounts of debt then ask for their parents (the Democrats) to bail them out of debt by paying the bill?

Reagan and Bush Sr. rack up a lot of credit card debt and Clinton comes around and raises taxes to pay the bill. Bush comes around and gets more credit card debt and now a Democrat will have to come around to pay his bill. And all throughout this the Republicans will whine and throw a temper tantrum about being forced to take responsibility for their actions.

“We will continue to divide America.”

Who has been more divisive in the last 100 years of American history than George “19%” Bush?

Ben,
Have you thought that Bush and his fellow Republicans are like a teenager than gets a credit card for the first time.

Doug, I think this cartoon basically sums it up:

http://www.gocomics.com/rallcom/2005/02/10/

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Max
Posted April 6, 2008 at 1:21 pm | Permalink

Yup Amway, those evil corporations will be taxed to death by Clinton/Obama.

Goodbye jobs for working people.
Goodbye 401k’s where millions save for retirement.
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Right, Max, as if that’s not what’s going on right now under Bush. How many jobs lost last week? How many more jobs going overseas? How many home lost due to the layoffs? How many single mothers struggling to raise their children, while at the same time worrying about layoffs or plant closings? How many of America’s finest dying in a Iraq because of oil and Bush? How many layed off people trying to get to job interviews, caused by this recession, who can’t afford even the fuel to get there? How about the Chinese government bailing out Wall street: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jill_treanor/2007/12/chinese_whispers_2.html
Hows that working out for ya? Gee, isn’t China a communist country? Isn’t that what Viet Nam was all about?

Yep, Max, things are great right now, huh? You all cons got your priorities on straight, don’t you: screw the little people, I got mine.

You are one sad indictment of just what’s wrong with this country. You and your ilk are indeed morally bankrupt when you accept a communist countries money in bailing out American financial institutions, but in your party, money talks; humanity walks.

JM took the words right out of my mouth…a few seconds ahead of me!

Yeah, Bentley, quick translation of McCain: You need to do all these things, because I’ll make sure the government doesn’t!

Hey WS, how was George to know Sammy was gonna start juicin’ 9 years later?

“Hey WS, how was George to know Sammy was gonna start juicin’ 9 years later?”

Sammy on the juice? Tell me it ain’t so!

“Last Tuesday, the lead story in The Wall Street Journal reported on older workers forced to delay retirement, not only because of the subprime mortgage crisis, but because of the poor performance of the stock market, which has been supported the last few years by lower taxes on dividends and capital gains.”

Well, of course, the f***ing Wall Street Journal would see it that way.

But for the sentient beings that know the WSJ editorial page long ago sold its soul to Satan, the stock market never did better than under Clinton-Gore’s debt and deficit reduction . . .

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outlander
Posted April 6, 2008 at 6:11 pm | Permalink

Hey WS, how was George to know Sammy was gonna start juicin’ 9 years later?
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outlander
Posted April 6, 2008 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

‘Course, if he was like the other owners, he would have just looked away when Sammy was shooting up and counted his take of the money generated by the power explosion and the home run race.
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Wow, now bush was a mind reader as well as a baseball team owner. Whudda thunk?

How’d ya like this guy feeding your wallet:
“American evangelist John Hagee announced donations of $6 million to Israeli causes on Sunday and said that Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem.

Hagee, a Christian Zionist who has been in the spotlight lately for endorsing presidential candidate John McCain and criticizing the Catholic Church, brought hundreds of backers on a solidarity trip to Israel.

Hagee and his group, Christians United for Israel, joined keynote speaker Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel’s hard-line opposition Likud Party, at a rally in support of Jerusalem remaining united and under Jewish control.

“Turning part or all of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban,” Hagee told an audience filled with Americans who waved Israeli flags and cheered.

Palestinians claim the eastern part of the city, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as the capital of their future state.

Hagee said his group was giving $6 million to 16 Israeli causes. Recipients include the Magen David Adom rescue service and a conference center in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel.

The fate of Jewish settlements like Ariel is at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The support of evangelicals for Israel’s continued control of the West Bank endears them to Israeli hard-liners but troubles more dovish activists.

McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, distanced himself last month from Hagee following an uproar over the San Antonio megachurch leader’s comments on Catholicism.

Hagee has called the Roman Catholic Church “the great whore” and a “false cult system.” He has also suggested that the Catholic church helped shape Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitism.”

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/US_evangelist_gives_6_million_to_Is_04062008.html

From JM’s article:

As the blog, Think Progress notes, “it was members of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government who brokered the ceasefire, to which Sadr agreed. Experts agree that Sadr’s influence was strengthened — rather than diminished — by the Basra battle.”

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So JM, “Raw Story” quotes the blog “Think Progress” who says that McCain is wrong about who ask for the ceasefire.

And that is enough to convince you?

Shakes head sadly…

What’s the matter Bentley, cheerleading for a loss in Iraq?

Did you go to any armchair General school that any of us have heard about? :)

From the same NYT story about return tours for troops:

“Beyond the Army, members of the Joint Chiefs have also told the president that the continued troop commitment to Iraq means that there is a significant level of risk should another crisis erupt elsewhere in the world. Any mission could be carried out successfully, the chiefs believe, but the operation would be slower, longer and costlier in lives and equipment than if the armed forces were not so strained.”

“Did you go to any armchair General school that any of us have heard about?”

Is that the best you can do, McCoward?

Really.

The war has no end in sight and all you can do is make some stupid comment about an alleged school for “armchair Generals?”

Seems to me that the “armchair generals” have been correct more often than the real generals.

How much has the war cost so far?

How many lives have been lost or ruined?

When will it end?

Yeah, answer that last question in terms of days, weeks, months or years.

Your choice.

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Regular
Posted April 6, 2008 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

J M Walker, I’d be more concerned about the hundreds of Muslim “charities” that feed Hamas and Hesbollah under the guise of Palestinian charities.
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I am concerned, but one can’t cover em all, now, can one? This guy is a main-stream right-wing whacko, who is bypassing what many are trying to do in a peaceful manner. He is indeed a POS, just like the ones supporting terrorist networks. How’s that grab ya, boy?

Raw Story were? Oh, well, I dun went to collage.. .

Yeah, McClatchy papers are well known in Iraq. Why everyday Iraqis pick them up and say, “Allah be praised, McClatchy papers knows more about Iraq than we do! Just look at all those words!”

(chortles)