David Corn

Bush lied to start the war?

Go figure.

An even better penance would be sworn testimony in front of several congressional committees.

Scott McClellan was the front man for journalistic push back. When he concludes Bush's war was enabled by propaganda just who does he think defended the propaganda and executed the journalistic push back without relent?

I hope Bush slimes and trashes Scotty as he slimed ever other senior White House Official that left before the end. Scotty can't be expecting a job with the Carlyle Group but he would be a good candidate for any organization that wanted a front man who'd defend his boss' interests to the end, well, almost. Isn't he shooting himself in the foot with this attack?

Maybe McClellan's revelations will fuel renewed interest in both investigating further and prosecuting the thugs by whom Bush was surrounded and protected in this, the most dishonest, criminal, incompetent administration ever. (Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan partisans need not worry any longer about their guys vying for last place in the presidential galaxy.)

Appointed by a Republican Supreme Court (by way of a tortuous and fatuous interpretation of the 14th Amendment) to his first term and elected by 50.6% of the vote in 2004 (a "mandate," crowed Bush and Rove) following the tainted results in Ohio, it's about time these mendacious cynics are called to account.

What's done is done. We're in the war now.

So how are all the families who have lost sons and daughters in this war suppose to process this information in the book? That their relatives died in vain? What good does it do to write a tell all book when we're still in the midst of a war?

Thanks for the encouragement, Scott!

What good does it do to write a tell all book when we're still in the midst of a war?

Snotty McClueless waited until the war became an occupation.

Nobody wins an occupation. Sooner or later the occupier leaves and the insurgents claim victory.

Iraq will be thus.

McCain Adviser Phil Gramm Shaped McCain’s Economic Policy While Lobbying For Foreign Bank

While Gramm was advising McCain, he was paid by UBS to lobby the Senate about the mortgage crisis, strongly opposing increased government regulation and several consumer protection bills, which, as Keith Olbermann noted, “might have mitigated the current crisis”:

As recently as December 31 of last year, still working for Swiss bankers, specifically to help kill the Emergency Home Ownership And Mortgage Equity Protection Act and the Helping Families Save Their Homes and Bankruptcy Act, a bill that would have let bankruptcy judges adjust mortgages terms so American families facing foreclosure could repay their loans and keep their homes. […]

Gramm’s deregulation [as a senator] help set the stage for an explosion of banks slicing up subprime mortgages, bundling them with other mortgage slices, to hide the credit risks, and stelling mortgage stew to other investment firms. That gave lenders powerful incentive to make as many loans as possible, regardless of risk.

Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ4kH3sNNTo

(Thinkprogress)

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It is all about judgment.

You Cornnuts are so gullible!

Scotty wrote this book for left wing dingbats who will make Scotty very rich by feeding your delusional appetite for revenge on Bush~

Suckers!

Jeesh Pansy,

One too many margaritas last night hey!

Got under your skin big time.

It's no wonder you lefties grow up bitter and angry, you spend all your time drinking margaritas and spewing blather on blogs instead of playing with your kids. The cycle just keeps on giving.

Hey by the way margaritas are for girls!!

You Pansy!

It never ceases to amaze me that there are still right-wing nutjob supporters of Bush out there in spite of all the evidence that he is a cross between a coke-addled neo-con puppet and a traitorous war criminal.

Ahhh, well, there will always be a certain class of people that can be easily manipulated by mass media and lack the critical thinking skills to discern the truth. According to the Rethuglicans, they make excellent cannon fodder.

Hey by the way margaritas are for girls!!
You Pansy!
Posted by: LBH | May 28, 2008 12:56 PM

Wow!! What are you like 7 years old?

Tell us again about how Oregon is this fabulously wealthy state with all those... what did you call them? Affullent people. I'll be back later to do the funnies; but you can entertain us with your unintentional humor in the meantime. Huh. Larry. Us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljboY5t2Dw

Tell us again about how Oregon is this fabulously wealthy state with all those...

Pansy, if you lived here in Oregon I would be happy to let you cut my lawn. I'm all for helping those in need make it above the poverty line.

Now go back to playing with your Barbie and Ken Dolls drinking those virgin margaritas!

Pansy, you and your margaritas are disgrace to the hispanic community.

It's a delegates game, dumbass. You need to learn the rules. Hell, you need to learn the rules and then try following them.

Posted by Pansy

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Well you got something right for once:

Gore won a popular plurality of over 500,000 votes over Bush, but lost in the Electoral College by four votes.

It's all about the rules Pansy, Bush thanks you for straightening that out once and for all.

Dude, how far up your rear end does your head reach? You walk around like that in public? How 'bout some facts (about your own state, ZOMG!! You truly are Clueless):

Oregon is ranked 23rd in the nation in per-capita income. That ranks BELOW OHIO. In fact, none of Oregon's counties rank in the list of the nation's 100 richest counties. And while Portland's Multnomah County is one of [Oregon]'s wealthiest counties, Obama actually does far better outside of Portland, were people are poorer and whiter.

Posted by Pansy Weed

Dude, I thought you were brighter than this, must have been those virgin margaritas.

Let me help you out with your own numbers:

You were using a concensus form 2000 for 100 richest counties and the numbver one county has per capita income at :

Marin County, California $44,962

If you would have checked the CNN info you also posted you would see that over 60% of Oregonians make over $50,000 which blows away your 2000 numbers. Hell my house is worth more than you will make in a life time of mowing lawns.

By the way who in the hell watches Charlie Rose anyway? You must have one hell of a boring family to waste your time on that crap!

Pansy been homeschooled once again!

This is the kind of advocacy that Axelrod was engaged in.

You would think a "journalist" would make it his job to find some relevant definitions and facts surrounding the issue of Lobbying:

Lobbying Versus Advocacy: Legal Definitions

Posted by Pansy

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Wow!

Excellent spin! Excellent!

Now get off your knees already ~

Let's make an issue about Obama's Bush Moment with the 57 states.

Posted by Pansy

Obama list of Bush gaffes:

confusing Iran with Iraq in hearings

confusing his uncle for a great uncle (remeber his uncle is Rev Wright)

confusing Aushwitz for Buchenwald

confusing his uncle for being in the Army instead of the Navy.

confused by seeing dead people on memorial day

not knowing what his preacher was a preachin

calling poor white folks bitter

flip flopping on Iran

flip flopping on Chavez

flip flopping on Nafta

taking property from a crook (Rezco)

being buddies with a terrorist

taking endorsement from Hezbollah

employing ant-semites

employing lobbists who hide it very well

degrading women because of Hillary

not knowing how capital gains tax works

having wife who hates America

List go on and on and on~~~

Jeesh- even your buddy Bush isn't this stupid!!!

Pastor Hagee was so upset that he couldn't start his regularly planned series that he talked about last week and let his son Matthew throw the word "irregardless" around like buckets of manna on the pulpit.

Posted by Pansy

Dude, you should repudiate this bigot (Hagee) just as MCain did. Oh wait you believe his garbage.

McCain Gaffe Alert: Iran

It is looking increasingly like John McCain really knows nothing about Iran, despite wanting to bomb them.

Yesterday, in his big non-proliferation speech, McCain took his gaffes to a new level. He actually invented 20 years of negotiations between the United States and Tehran. In his speech, McCain said:

"Today, some people seem to think they've discovered a brand new cause, something no one before them ever thought of. Many believe all we need to do to end the nuclear programs of hostile governments is have our president talk with leaders in Pyongyang and Tehran, as if we haven't tried talking to these governments repeatedly over the past two decades."

McCain has clearly forgotten what Max Bergmann points out: The stated policy of the United States since April 7, 1980 has been that we don't talk to the Iranians. Never has the United States had communications, or tried to have communications, with the Iranian government on their nuclear program. Iran's nuclear communications have been limited to working through the European Union (led by France and Germany, countries John McCain has referred to as "vacuous" and "posturing").

http://tinyurl.com/52vzr5

(huffpo)

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Gramps is senile. He has no idea what he is talking about.

ADD:

Taken with his other many gaffes on Iran (repeated Sunni/Shia screw up, the use of Khamenei and Ahmajinedad interchangeably) there should be real questions about whether McCain has any knowledge of US-Iranian relations. Given that this one was in his prepared text, it also makes you wonder what his foreign policy team actually knows about Iran. For a man running for President on his foreign policy aptitude such confusion should sound alarm bells.

So to review John McCain's policy toward Iran:
1) He thinks that there is no difference between Sunni and Shia.
2) He thinks that Khumeni and Amajenadad are the same.
3) He thinks we've been talking to them for 20 years.
4) He thinks we should "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran."

Three of his stated beliefs are simply false. The fourth is simply reckless and is a clear display that John McCain is more extreme than Bush on the issue conservatives would like you to believe is the biggest threat facing America today.

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Gramps Insane - older than spam. . .

Gramps Insane - older than spam. . .

So what's Obummers excuse? Ignorance?

Another... MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY GAFFE By Obama Campaign (Iran & WTO)

Gateway Pundit ^ | 5-28-08 |

Another... MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY GAFFE By Obama Campaign

Barack Obama Is Going to Open New Channels Of Diplomacy With Iran
Barack Obama believes that:

"We have not exhausted our non-military options in confronting the Iranian threat; in many ways, we have yet to try them.

Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. Now is the time to pressure Iran directly to change their troubling behavior. Obama would offer the Iranian regime a choice. If Iran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization. "
Barack Obama- Is ready to offer the Iranian Regime membership into the World Trade Organization:

But, Oops!... There appears to be a problem with this plan.

Amir Taheri at The Wall Street Journal has some critical information that was missed by Obama's staff of foreign policy advisors:

As a nation, Iranians are among the few in the world that still like the U.S. As a revolution, however, Iran is the principal bastion of anti-Americanism. Last month, Tehran hosted an international conference titled "A World Without America." Indeed, since the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005, Iran has returned to a more acute state of revolutionary hysteria. Mr. Ahmadinejad seems to truly believe the "Hidden Imam" is coming to conquer the world for his brand of Islam. He does not appear to be interested in the kind of "carrots" that Secretary Rice was offering two years ago and Mr. Obama is hinting at today.

Mr. Ahmadinejad is talking about changing the destiny of mankind, while Mr. Obama and his foreign policy experts offer spare parts for Boeings or membership in the World Trade Organization. Perhaps Mr. Obama is unaware that one of Mr. Ahmadinejad's first acts was to freeze Tehran's efforts for securing WTO membership because he regards the outfit as "a nest of conspiracies by Zionists and Americans."
It doesn't look like the Iranian Regime will be much interested in the Obama Campaign's incentive of membership in the WTO...
Since they just walked away from the organization 3 years ago.

...Unless, of course, Obama can clean out all the "nest of Zionists and Americans" on staff first.
Maybe that's part of the plan?

Three superdelegates have come out to day endorsing Barack Obama: Pat Waak from Colorado, Meredith Wood Smith from Oregon and Ben Pangelinan from Guam.

[Waak]

Second, I believe that Sen. Obama and his message of change is what Colorado wants and that he will defeat John McCain in November. In fact, the most recent Rasmussen poll on May 19, 2008 shows a Sen. Obama with a 6-point lead in a head-to-head race and I think that margin will only increase as voters see the clear difference.

Finally, I believe that our country needs the type of visionary, uplifting leadership that Senator Obama has shown during this long campaign. In the state of Colorado his message of hope has attracted young people, new Democrats and Independent voters who will make up a winning coalition this fall.

LBH brings disgrace upon all Oregonians.

Does McSame do the same for Arizonians?

Smith]

Why Obama? Because he received the majority of the votes in the Oregon primary, and he demonstrates the leadership needed to get us out of Iraq, restore our economy, begin the tough job of providing health care for all Americans and, most of all, heal the divisions in our nation. His commitment to grass-roots organizing, similar to Howard Dean's "Fifty State Strategy," will help Democrats win our down-ticket races. His deep understanding of our Constitution ensures that he will appoint judges, to both the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, who will truly defend our constitutional rights and freedoms.

Pangelinan]

"While both Democratic candidates will be great for America and great for Guam, Senator Obama is my choice. I believe he is the best candidate to deliver on the promise that is America, for all of America.

In speaking to members of both teams, I have come to trust in Senator Obama's commitment to turning the promises on the issues that are important to the people of Guam, into progress for the people of Guam."

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), a key Bush antagonist and member of the House Judiciary Committee, says McClellan needs to tell Congress the full story about potential White House conspiring around the leak of a CIA officer's name and propaganda efforts that preceded the invasion of Iraq.

Wexler released a statement Wednesday calling for McClellan to tesitfy under oath before the Judiciary committee.

“The admissions made by Scott McClellan in his new book are earth-shattering and allege facts to establish that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby – and possibly Vice President Cheney - conspired to obstruct justice by lying about their role in the Plame Wilson matter and that the Bush Administration deliberately lied to the American people in order to take us to war in Iraq," Wexler said. "Scott McClellan must now appear before the House Judiciary Committee under oath to tell Congress and the American people how President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, and White House officials deliberately orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people.

“The allegations by this former top White House aide – that Rove and Libby deliberately coordinated their stories in order to obstruct justice in the Plame case, that the President deliberately disregarded contradictory evidence related to Iraq, should outrage every American and Congress must respond by initiating immediate aggressive oversight starting with an appearance by McClellan before the House Judiciary Committee," he continued. "Any continued obstruction by this Administration to prevent White House officials from appearing before Congress cannot be tolerated by this Congress in the face of these shocking revelations.”

(rawstory)

Swing State Polls Give Hillary Last-Minute Boost

May 28, 2008 05:56 PM

A Gallup Poll released on May 28 gave a last-minute boost to the central claim of the Hillary Clinton campaign that she would make a stronger general election candidate than Barack Obama against John McCain, prevailing in swing states that have twice as many votes as those in which Obama trounces her.

In a conference call for reporters, Howard Wolfson, Clinton's strategist and communications director, read key paragraphs from the Gallup report entitled "Hillary Clinton's Swing-State Advantage"

The Gallup report found:

"In the 20 states where Hillary Clinton has claimed victory in the 2008 Democratic primary and caucus elections (winning the popular vote), she has led John McCain in Gallup Poll Daily trial heats for the general election over the past two weeks of Gallup Poll Daily tracking by 50% to 43%. In those same states, Barack Obama is about tied with McCain among national registered voters, 45% to 46%.

"In contrast, in the 28 states and the District of Columbia where Obama has won a higher share of the popular vote against Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries and caucuses, there is essentially no difference in how Obama and Clinton each fare against McCain. Both Democrats are statistically tied with him for the fall election."

The Gallup findings were music to Wolfson's ears, so much so that he reread the first graph aloud to make sure it sank in.

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Sorry Pansy, but facts are facts and your boy is a losing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysj0bMFAeXc

BREAKING: Sen. John McCain Resigns from the McCain Campaign

Cindy McCain the likely replacement.

In a surprising development, Sen. John McCain asked himself to resign from his own campaign today. Sen. McCain said today,

I had much respect for John McCain. I really thought he would make a good candidate. Then the guy turned out to be a flake. My friends,when I made a solemn promise to the American people that there will be zero tolerance for incompetence in my campaign, I meant it. Then I took a look at my own voting history and at the appointments I made to my campaign. Listening to Phil Gramm's economic advice while he was a paid lobbyist for a Swiss Bank was a dumb thing to do. I thought I had left behind the Keating Five days, but apparently not. So, with regret, I have asked myself to submit my resignation. The search for a replacement will be led by my trusted advisor Charlie Black.

After renouncing and rejecting two pastors and several lobbyists in his staff, there was no one left to blame for his campaign's problems. To keep his `Straight Talk' image McCain was left with no choice but to fire himself.

(kos)

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McSame has done the right thing, eh?

Then again you guys stuck with Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 04 so for my sake please stick with Obummer.

As Pansy said:

It's a delegates game, dumbass. You need to learn the rules. Hell, you need to learn the rules and then try following them.

Those delegates have worked so well for ya in the past , huh Pansy?

After renouncing and rejecting two pastors and several lobbyists in his staff, there was no one left to blame for his campaign's problems.

You call that campaign problems when he's running neck to neck with Obummer in all the polls? Doesn't say much for your guy if he is doing so bad against McGramps and has all the national media rooting him on, heh?

From NBC's Mark Hudspeth and Domenico Montanaro
The Obama campaign decided to weigh in on the McClellan book. The campaign uses it as another reason to pivot to McCain on foreign policy and to link Bush and the presumptive Republican nominee.

"It's not news that this Administration engaged in spin and deception to lead us into a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged, the only question now is, do we continue George Bush's failed policy in Iraq or do we change it?" Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a statement. "John McCain is promising four more years of the exact same policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave troops and nothing of the Iraqi government, while Barack Obama wants to begin a phased withdrawal of our troops and refocus our efforts on going after al-Qaeda in Afghanistan."

*** UPDATE ***

NBC/NJ's Matthew Berger reports Bill Clinton said of the book, "I haven’t seen it. I haven’t seen it, but I think, from what I read, it seems to confirm what Joe Wilson has always said about his own experience. And it shows all the more why it’s important that we change the direction of the country and pick the best president. "

Wasserman-Schultz on arresting Rove: ‘Well, if that’s what it takes.’

In an interview with MSNBC’s Dan Abrams yesterday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) said that the House Judiciary Committee would be willing to arrest Karl Rove if he continues to refuse to testify about his role in the U.S. attorney scandal and prosecution of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. The Hill reports:

“Well, if that’s what it takes,” she said. “I mean we really cannot allow the co-equal branch of government, the legislative branch, to be trampled upon by the executive branch. The founding fathers established three branches of government. We are a co-equal branch, and this is an administration that essentially has ignored and disrespected the role of the legislative branch for far too long.”

Watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaT3HP6Frcc

(thinkprogress)

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Is there any theme music that goes with a frog march?

The Obama campaign decided to weigh in on the McClellan book. The campaign uses it as another reason to pivot to McCain on foreign policy and to link Bush and the presumptive Republican nominee.

Another rookie move by Obummer Jr.

First off, McClellan was on Bill Mauer less than a year ago defending the Iraqi war.

Second, this has nothing to do with current status of Iraq.

Third, Obummer would rather meet with Iran than our troops. He's afraid to go to Bagdad with McCain cuz he knows McCain would look more Presidential and he would have to admit that the surge is working.

McCain will trounce on him once again, he should just keep his mouth shut.

Is there any theme music that goes with a frog march?

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God, your still on that 4 years later? Dude, get a life!

McCain's camp sends over video from that same Reno town meeting, picking back up the same line of attack from Memorial Day: that Obama has not been to Iraq since 2006.

But McCain added a new, tougher twist:

Now, why is it that Senator Obama wants to sit down with the President of Iran, but hasn't yet sat down with General Petraeus — the leader of our troops in Iraq?

Pursue George W. Bush beyond January 20 until he is brought to justice.

Direct Democracy

Bush intentionally lied about Iraq

Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan (AFP)

President Bush's former press secretary says President George W. Bush intentionally lied about the reasons for invading Iraq and about so-called "progress" in that war-torn country.

Scott McClellan says Bush relied on "propaganda" instead of fact to mislead the American public about his failed Iraq war.

The White House fired back Wednesday by claiming McClellan is "disgruntled."

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/7969

Dems seek to avoid meltdown

By ROGER SIMON | 5/27/08 :

The Clinton campaign sees the rules committee meeting as its best hope to gain ground on Obama.
Photo: AP



Those people who believe all problems have solutions may be unfamiliar with the inner workings of the Democratic Party.

On Saturday, the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee will try to solve a big problem, in order to avoid a huge problem in order to prevent a train wreck.

The big problem is what to do about Michigan and Florida, two states stripped last year of their delegates to the Democratic National Convention because both broke party rules and moved their primaries up too early in the election year.

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Let the melt down begin!!!

Bush intentionally lied about Iraq

Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan (AFP)
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Which is why he was on Bill Mauer less than a year ago defending the war? Come on, the guy is trying to sucker lefty libs into buying his book.

And guess what it's working

Knuckleheads

McClellan writes:

' “History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.” '

Gee, that's not what I hear from John McCain. But of course, he might be in "permanent campaign mode."

(JuanCole)

Will smoking past affect Obama’s health?

By JEFF STIER | 5/28/08 10:52 AM EST Text Size:



Now that John McCain has finally released his medical records, the issue of candidates' health should be put to rest, right?

Not so fast. Barack Obama’s campaign has said at least some of his medical records would be released next week, and if complete, they may reveal some valuable information.

Some of his records? What's he hiding?

While voters should pick their candidate based on the issues, we have a right to know of any lurking health issues. Obama is young, active and looks great. But he has a documented history as a cigarette smoker. Not many people realize that even as a former smoker, he faces significantly increased risks of smoking-related diseases. These risks did not simply disappear when he quit smoking in February 2007. (Let me be clear, this is not an appeal to puritanical values — nor an endorsement of a candidate. This is about the long-term and sometimes irreversible consequences of smoking cigarettes.)

Yes, Obama claims to have quit — and by doing so, he did reduce his risk of smoking-related disease. But the science tells us that it is naive to think that quitting after years of smoking returns you to the state of health of a never-smoker. In fact, after enough smoking, some health effects are irreversible. How long and how much one smokes determines the extent of health risk after quitting.

More than half of all lung cancers are diagnosed in ex-smokers. And it's not just lung cancer. Ex-smokers face long term risks for pancreatic, esophageal, bladder, and kidney cancers, to name a few.

A 1998 study reported that the amount of fatty deposits in the carotid artery depended on total pack-years of tobacco exposure in a lifetime, not whether a patient currently smokes. A smoker's excess risk of a stroke doesn't return to that of nonsmokers until at least five, or as long as 20, years after quitting. It is possible that Obama would have to serve a hypothetical four smoke-free terms before his stroke risk returned to normal.

So how long and how much did Obama smoke? The campaign refuses to say, but we know he smoked a lot over his life. Based on accounts of his friends, we know he was smoking by the time he was a freshman at Occidental College three decades ago. He admits to having smoked up to ten cigarettes a day, but he said he usually smoked closer to four or five daily.

Most people underestimate how much they smoke, but let's take him at his word. Let's also assume he really did quit when he said he did, although he admits to having fallen off the wagon on occasion.

So he smoked for at least a quarter-century. That's more than 50,000 cigarettes — and maybe as many as 70,000.

Just because he's young, looks great and exercises doesn't mean he's completely healthy. And given what an important figure he is, to ignore his smoking history is to miss an educational opportunity.

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Obummer has exposed his children to second hand smoke which can be worse than first hand smoke. What a lousy parent. I bet Pansy also smokes in front of his kids while sippin margaritas and ignoring them.

Then again if I were a member of Hagees doom and gloom Rapture Ready crowd like Pansy, I'd problably be a smoker and drinker also.

Silly Cornnut!

Well it's been fun homeshoolin ya Pansy but I have to go home now cuz I've got your cousin coming over to do my lawn. I'll tell him hi for ya!

John McCain and George Bush believe the same things on virtually every issue - the list of their agreements goes on for pages. But a better judge of a politician’s views is not how he talks, but how he votes. John McCain - when it counted and when he showed up in the Senate to do his job in 2008 - never deviated from George Bush’s position. Not once. 100%.

It’s all there in black and white. John McSame - just like Bush.

Landmark cluster bomb ban agreed by 111 countries
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080528/ts_afp/irelandweaponsdiplomacy

'But crucially, the United States, Russia, China, India, Israel and Pakistan -- all major producers and stockpilers of cluster bombs -- were absent from the Dublin talks, and thus not part of the agreement."
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Nice company we keep. Pathetic.

"Where's the apology?"

Since it's all bullshit, à la little lying Ricky Clarke, and meant to earn him bucks from the nutrooters, why is there a need for an apology? ... But maybe you'll get one after you apologize for repeating little lying Joey's claim that the perjurer Plame was "covert", eh? ;-)

This book reveals Scott is merely following a family tradition of political opportunism. His mother, Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn, held and ran for various local and state offices in Texas as a Democrat, Republican, and Independent. Core principles like fidelity, honesty, and truth are lacking in his gene pool.

gimme a break.

you want to see a shifting paradigm? how 'bout liberals pretending that the whole world didn't think that saddam was rebuilding his weapons program. now, with 20-20 hindsight, we are asked to pretend that it was, in fact, the GRAND LIE.