McCain Went With Public Financing Leaving Obama in the Driver's Seat

One of McCain's brilliant errors was apparently assuming that the purportedly sincere liberal reformer Obama would stick with public financing for the Presidential campaign. By pledging to not seek private funds and limiting himself to public financing McCain was left outspent by Obama's money machine. McCain screwed up again. Bless him for it.

Of course there may have been more necessity than choice to McCain's decision to seek public financing. If he had the choice however, it was neither a sign of tactical nor strategic brilliance. He tried to lecture Obama about who knew what the term strategic meant in one of the so called "debates". Obama is the strategic genius of the two and this is just one part of that intellectual grasp that McCain just doesn't have, period.

McCain's Concession Speech Was Great But May Express A Justification for White Only Organizations

Yes, McCain's congratulations to the African-American community upon the election of President Obama can be taken at face value, he is being sincerely complimentary given the long sacrifice for a greater degree of racial equality in the United States. Still, the idea that a white community might "similarly" want a "whites only" church, community or political group may be in the back of his mind. It is certainly not an uncommon thing for a McCain supporter to belong to such organizations.

Of course Senator McCain isn't famous for expressing a consistent position on many important issues. McCain played the "good loser" once again and the noble fortunate servant of America. Still he must have wanted to get away from some of the thugs booing and yelling at his grand finale reminding us all that the bigotry at the core of the Republican Party has not died, nor has the Republican contempt for a democratic vote. But the avalanche of Obama votes overwhelmed the functioning fraud capacity. The evil Democrat was elected. "Boo!"

MCCAIN WANTS TO DISTRACT US FROM MCCAIN

EVERYTHING MCCAIN DOES IS A DISTRACTION FROM JOHN MCCAIN AND HIS CHECKERED HISTORY. FROM HIS LIFE OF CRIME AT ANNAPOLIS TO HIS REMARKABLY DESTRUCTIVE BUT BRIEF CAREER AS A VIETNAM PILOT TO JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER
THING HE HAS DONE, THERE IS SOMETHING TO HIDE.

PALIN IS QUITE A DISTRACTION ISN'T SHE?

NOW OBAMA IS A TERRORIST ACCORDING TO MCCAIN. BUT IT WAS ONLY MCCAIN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE TERROR BOMBING OF VIETNAM!

THE NUMEROUS VIDEOS ON THIS PAGE SHOW ABOUT HALF OF THE
CRAP ON MCCAIN. MORE WILL BE ADDED SOON.

20/20 "Interview" Sarah Palin Lies to Sexist Gibson

The more we find out about Sarah Palin of Alaska the less suitable she appears to be for a position a heart beat away from the Oval office. As a mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she seemed to be something of a corrupt official, seeking to ban books and get family enemies fired. Sarah Palin denies these facts it in the interview. Unfortunately Gibson and ABC have made no apparent effort to get to the bottom of these stories.

Charlie Gibson does document, and Palin is compelled to defend her own pursuit of earmarks and federal funds as mayor and governor. Of course the lying nature of her behavior, its two facedness and hypocrisy never come up in the interview or the so-called examination of the interview that follows.

As governor Palin might have grown into the position. She became governor mainly due to the sinking of her former Republican mentors and associates in a quagmire of their own corruption. She, of course, opposed their corruption since it was an opportunity for herself. Now she tells it as if she never worked with these other corrupt officials.

When I saw Sarah Palin on 20/20 she was talking about finding "efficiencies in agencies" as the only way she could actually think of to change our economic policy. Palin had already stone walled Charlie's repeated questions about how her and McCain's economics would be any different than Bush's. After all, McCain/Palin tell us they are running against the Bush economic policies!

Interviewer Gibson never asked, "which efficiencies", "which agencies". Sarah Palin is probably almost totally uninformed about the fundamental federal agencies. She didn't name a single one.

To Gibson's credit he pointed out that most of the federal budget is outside the budget for governmental agencies. She stuck with the same "efficiencies" answer, because she doesn't even understand the question.

Palin is clearly out of her depth. No wonder Palin is sequestered from the press!

Sarah Palin was personable but she didn't answer Charlie Gibson's question about how she and McCain lie about Obama wanting to raise taxes on everyone. That is the backbone of McCain's Gobbels-like propaganda ads saying Obama will raise taxes. Of course, its similarity to fascist lies were not mentioned, let alone condemned.

Charlie Gibson did explain that 91 percent of the U. S. citizens would see a tax cut under Obama. At this point Sarah could have apologized for lying. Charlie the interviewer could have asked her to stop lying or to apologize. It didn't happen.

As for Palin's lies about opposing the bridge to nowhere Gibson took her on a tour of many of her contradictory actions and statements about the bridge to nowhere. OK, Charlie did drill down to reality here noting that Palin kept the money for the bridge to nowhere. He documented the lies and then that she actually supported that bridge until the issue was decided without her input. Clearly, Palin was caught with her pants down. Charlie let it go without any comments. He could have said, "Liar, liar, pants on fire!" Charlie didn't and Palin didn't blush!

Sarah Palin didn't seem to notice her obvious lack of candor, she is, after all, above any demand for moral consistency. Gibson did not object to this example of the divine right of Republicans to be pure venal hypocrites and to never be called on it. Yes, there was only one pit bull in the room and it wasn't Charlie Gibson!

Palin actually defended earmarks in the interview! I doubt her lies about opposing earmarks will change. Palin hates earmarks you know and she loves them and hates them. I suppose few mindless supporters of evangelical Republicanism will care about this hypocrisy. It is just like their own hypocrisy in their own hypocritical lives.

As I looked at this interview I wondered if there was an agreement to let Palin censor the footage. It looks like parts of it are heavily edited to keep Palin from looking like an all too obvious fool.

Gibson really is superficial about all the sex related questions. Is he a patsy for McCain's patsy, Palin?

Sarah has become a leader of the far right without noticing that social conservatives do very much want to keep women in the home. Palin defends her position as a career politician and mother in strictly feminist terms, as if this is not what the evangelical right has traditionally opposed. It is all pretty incomprehensible. How do you oppose abortion in all cases (including rape and incest) and then oppose a woman caring for her own kids? Palin does.

Gibson asks Palin if she is ready to be President. Of course she is, she says! End of discussion! No facts, policies or anything else are really discussed.

Ultimately Sarah Palin's only answer to Gibson's question about her national security policies and experience was to drill, drill, drill! She seems rather
ignorant about the whole of foreign policy.

Charlie Gibson calls himself a "maybe sexist", for Sarah's and the Republican Party's benefit, and skips from one potential scandal for Palin as VP Candidate to another. He asks superficial questions, mostly. Palin hardly answers the few questions of merit that he does pose. She gets away with not answering.

Charlie Gibson's definition of sexism must be that sexism is asking asking a Republican career woman why she isn't at home with the kids, the way Republican women generally say it must absolutely be!

Will this interview help make the many scandal stories of Sarah Palin more legitimate? Now, will mainstream media really look into Palin's record or is this an effort to put the dozen or so negatives swarming around Palin to bed?

Of course this interview made me wonder, "Is ABC, in bed with the Palin campaign?"

Then the format of the program was for this modest interview to be put under a microscope. Of course it is a ridiculous discussion about whether Palin is "in trouble or not". They all say Palin is "not in trouble".

Torie Clarke, the Republican lens of the so-called microscopic discussion seemed to be saying more liberal things than Dee Dee Myers, the Democratic lens. It is a tribute to the reactionary nature of the Democratic Party that Dee Dee and Obama can sound even more reactionary their Republican opponents.

The interview did document that Sarah Palin is lying about opposing earmarks and the bridge to nowhere. Still, Gibson didn't ask, "Sarah, aren't you a liar?" You see, for Charlie, being a feminist means never demanding that a Republican woman tell the truth. That would be sexist because no employed journalist would never demand that a Republican man tell the truth. Charlie Gibson doesn't want to discriminate!

Of course any conscious citizen wants real answers and more probing questions. The working class as a class for itself must obviously deal with facts and never accept capitalist lies no matter who tells them, man or woman, interviewer or interviewee, Democrat or Republican.

McCain Does His Philistine Thing and Tries to Skip Republican Convention

Canceling even part of a national party's convention because there might be a catastrophe in Orleans is pretty hard to understand, especially from a "great leader" like McCain. What an incredible joke. Who are Bush and McCain to take off work to "help" the people of new Orleans? What a joke. How can anyone take this seriously?

So they postured as nice people who care about the remnants of the New Orleans population left over since the last public works neglect catastrophe. Caring about New Orleans and the United States means long term planning and long term investments that don't necessarily make money today. Indeed, it looks like the free enterprise system is unable to do public works correctly, like New Orleans the dikes are not built to withstand a Hurricane that is 4 or 5 on that Fujiyama ? scale.
So with global warming and other trends New Orleans is always going to be risking catastrophe during hurricane season. It's a matter of public policy.

Good mass evacuation, New Orleans, but do we really need martial law for the ten percent who remained? It is a fascist move and reprehensible in any society. We must obviously struggle for democracy to come about in New Orleans and this nation.

McCain should have at least postured as a bus driver or something. Meanwhile the great leader's convention is falling apart. Hell, let's cancel his whole candidacy and the Republican Party to boot!

With the Arrest of Amy Goodman and Two other Journalists McCain and the Twin Cities Offer Straigt Up Fascism

     Amy Goodman and two Democracy Now producers were arrested while filming the harsh repression of peaceful demonstrators in the fascist stronghold of St. Paul, Minnesota.

     Perhaps we should demand of the McCain campaign, that he demand the immediate release of these journalists.

Democracy Now! is calling on all journalists and concerne citizens to call the office of Mayor Chris Coleman and the Ramsey County Jail and demand the immediate release of Goodman, Kouddous and Salazar.  These calls can be directed to: Chris Rider from Mayor Coleman's office at 651-266-8535 and the Ramsey County Jail at 651-266-9350
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John McCain Claims He Doesn't Know How Many Homes He Has

John McCain tells us he is a great leader. Yet he also tells us that well past the age of maturity that he doesn't even know how many homes he owns!

So even with all the wisdom in the world John McCain won't know how to get home. After all, he supposedly doesn't even know these homes exist!

Of course it could be argued that he has the chauffeur to take him home even though he doesn't know where it is himself. Yes, ready to lead but not to his own house!

Of course Mr. McCain may also not know how to get dressed. Does he have a butler to help in that event?

Then if Mr. McCain forgot what he had for breakfast at one of his mansions he can also ask the cook.

Apparently Mr. McCain wants us to believe that he isn't too strong in his mastery of the facts of his own life. How can he be expected to master the facts necessary to lead a nation?

I find it very hard to believe that Mr. McCain doesn't know how many homes he owns. I think Senator McCain knows that if everyone learns just how much he and his wife are members of the ruling class they would be shocked. After all, he is passing himself as a regular guy who just happens to be a war hero. He is ruling class through and through. Certainly his wife and her family are, and he married into that.

Of course, most Americans are not aware that there is a ruling class. Perhaps this could be an educational opportunity for us all, especially those who thinks that all Americans have a decent and middle class life. As millions of Americans plummet into the working class, including the unemployed they may be open to the idea that there is is an inequality in the United States that is the result of exploitation and the rule of the rich. People like McCain as a genuine war hero. Will they like him as fake "regular guy"? How many cars does
McCain own?

Of course Obama serves the same elite and I think anyone in the Senate or White House is part of the ruling elite or ruling class even if in a somewhat different way. Maybe I am wrong about that. What about functionaries and bureaucrats?