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Re: Another Against The Bailout

Jest2007 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:25:08 -0000

As a taxpayer, I am outraged that Congress and this administration have allowed this financial meltdown to occur as a result of deregulation and lack of oversight. And, no, I do not believe that this country is on sound financial footing. We have a growing deficit, due to the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts and financial mismanagement; a massive trade deficit; collapsing financial institutions; a deteriorating housing market; and a credit collapse. Besides the federal government, Wall Street is responsible for this debacle as a result of greed and hubris. Once again, it is the taxpayer who will suffer and that is unacceptable. UNBELIEVABLE: A TOTAL OF $1.1 TRILLION. THIS IS A CATASTROPHE AND WALL STREET MUST ASSUME THE LION'S SHARE OF THE PAIN. If Wall Street gets away with this multi-hundred billion dollar giveaway, it will represent a historic swindle of the American public. The Republican mantra of deregulation is antithetical to the prosperity of this country.

Re: FOX ATTACKS! Business

Jest2007 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:05:26 -0000

Hey, Media Guy! Maybe you should learn how to spell. Literacy probably doesn't rate highly among the Fox demographics.

Re: Poll: Palin’s Negative Rating Hits New High

Jest2007 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:16:54 -0000

Unfortunately, the media have once again fallen down on the job in terms of investigating Sarah Palin's background. This is a major dissservice to voters who know very little about this woman.

With the continuous drumbeat of the Ayres rant, why haven't the media given any attention to Ms. Palin's association with the Alaskan Independence Party(AIP). The premise of the McCain's McCarthy-esque attacks on Obama, apparently, is guilt by association. Maybe this would be a good time to examine Palin's association with the AIP. The AIP's creation was inspired by the rabidly violent anti-Americanism of its founding father Joe Vogler. The central purpose of the AIP is to drive Alaska's secession from the United States. In 1992 Vogler renounced his allegiance to the United States explaining that, "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government." He cursed the stars and stripes, promising, "I won't be buried under their damned flag...when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home." Palin has never denounced Vogler or his detestable anti-Americanism. The AIP has stated that Palin was not a member, and the McCain campaign has denied that Palin ever joined this organization. However, Dexter Clark, vice Chairman of the AIP, stated at the AIP 2008 convention that "she was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town – that was a non-partisan job."
Palin's husband Todd remained an AIP party member from 1995 to 2002. Sarah can be described in McCarthy-era palaver as a "fellow traveler." While retaining her Republican registration, she attended the AIP's 1994 convention where the party called for a draft constitution to secede from the United States and create an independent nation of Alaska. The McCain Campaign has reluctantly acknowledged that she also attended AIP's 2000 Convention. She apparently found the experience so inspiring that she agreed to give a keynote address at the AIP's 2006 convention and she recorded a video greeting for this year's 2008 convention. In other words, this is not something that happened when she was eight!

So when Palin accuses Barack of "not seeing the same America as you and me," maybe she is referring to an America without Alaska. In any case, isn't it time the media start giving equal time to Palin's buddy list of anti-American bombers and other radical associates?

Re: Leaked: ABC’s Stephanopoulos interviews John McCain

Jest2007 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:19:41 -0000

Senator McCain, when you were running for president in 2000 you criticized the Bush campaign for "pandering to the outer reach of American politics and the agents of intolerance" such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Yet, your "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion"; and John Hagee, another political supporter, believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult." And earlier this year you took back the "agent of intolerance quote and gave the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University. You have also been hiring Falwell's staffers to advise you on communications issues. At face value, your about-face on these issues is not the "straight talk express" but unmitigated pandering. How do you reconcile this extreme change in position? You state you want a renewed America. However, wouldn't the extreme views of supporters, such as Rod Parsley and John Hagee, be divisive, and do you support these views?

Re: Leaked: ABC’s Stephanopoulos interviews John McCain

Jest2007 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:29:16 -0000

Re: The REAL Rudy: Command Center

Jest2007 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:17:55 -0000

Hopefully, this information will be widely released to the public and the media. Guiliani is basing a major portion of his presidential campaign on 9/11, and his ability to deal with security and terrorism.

Re: FOX ATTACKS! Business

Jest2007 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:05:26 -0000

Hey, Media Guy! Maybe you should learn how to spell. Literacy probably doesn't rate highly among the Fox demographics.

Re: The REAL McCain

Jest2007 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:38:16 -0000

Here is another McCain tidbit that further undermines "the straight talk express." This is an excerpt from an "Opinion" column in the Los Angeles Times, 2/19/08. McCain voted against the Feinstein amendment prohibiting torture. This is really a sellout. Remember when George Bush sold himself to a credulous public as a "compassionate conservative"? If McCain has to advertise his veracity, then beware!

"Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) should have voted last week for legislation sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that would remove any doubt that CIA interrogators are forbidden to engage in waterboarding and other tactics banned by the Army Field Manual. Instead, McCain squandered some of his moral authority by supporting the Bush administration's position that the CIA should have more leeway than military interrogators. The legislation passed the Senate anyway, as well as the House, but support from McCain, the putative Republican nominee, would have made it harder for President Bush to veto."

Re: Leaked: ABC’s Stephanopoulos interviews John McCain

Jest2007 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:19:41 -0000

Re: Leaked: ABC’s Stephanopoulos interviews John McCain

Jest2007 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:29:16 -0000

Re: Sunday Show Roundup: Towering Babble

Jest2007 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:08:48 -0000

Whatever happened to thoughtful debate and discussion? By the way McCain enjoys hurling the Ayers issue at Obama, so why isn't McCain being "hammered" regarding his relationship to Rod Parsley and John Hagee. During the presidential campaign in 2000 McCain criticized the Bush campaign for "pandering to the outer reach of American politics and the agents of intolerance" such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Yet, McCain's "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion"; and John Hagee, another political supporter, believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult." And earlier this year McCain took back the "agent of intolerance quote and gave the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University. McCain's close alliance with these extremists should be of great concern.

Re: Watch Greenwald Go Toe-to-Toe with Colbert

Jest2007 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:51:22 -0000

All you malcontents upset with this interview, don't you realize this is satire? Actually, Colbert is parroting the McCain strategy of nonfact-based allegations and evasion of the truth.