McCain Called Out For Lies

We finally see the "L" word. Here's the response to McCain's latest "celeb" ad from Obama spokesperson Hari Sevugan:

"This ad is a lie, and it's part of the old, tired politics of a party in Washington that has run out of ideas and run out of steam. Even though a host of independent, nonpartisan organizations have said this attack isn't true, Senator McCain continues to lie about Senator Obama's plan to give 95% of all families a tax cut of $1,000, and not raise taxes for those making under $250,000 a single dime. The reason so many families are hurting today is because we've had eight years of failed Bush policies that Senator McCain wants to continue for another four, and that's what Barack Obama will change as President."

As McCain flies around in his millionaire wife's private jet, these celeb ads highlight how weak the conservatives are. As long as the Right Wing base fail to see the hypocrisy and demand some class out of Grandpa McLame, this is how he will run his campaign into the ground.

From The Pen Of: Steve Greenberg

For all the talk the Conservatives give about government being broken and how much they despise the workings of Washington, they sure know how to spend. I guess that is the "broke", as in having no more money, in broken. After the Republicans use their control it sure is Broke Government. But that all ends on November 4.

Obama Attracts Crowds, McCain Searches For Them

Now matter how you look at it, the Obama brand is much bigger and stronger for leading the US into the next stage, Post-Bush hellstorm. He raises money in a new way, he excites people, he unites them, he gets people to register to vote, he gives hope, he gets the world energized about our country. He is the new paridigm.

In order to keep up with the genuine charisma of Obama, who can get 200,000 people to see him give a speech, McLame must find crowds "to bask in the unwarranted limelight". So McLame heads to Sturgis to bogart a crowd of lawless, extremist bikers. I'm sure his $500 loafers were all the rage. These signs might as well have said "Bikers For The Old White Guy".

This exchange from Keith Olbermann highlights the difference between McLame and Obama:

OLBERMANN: Also, maybe a somewhat serious point contained in all this malarkey; on stage at Sturgis, he referred to the—preferring the roar of the 50,000 Harleys to 200,000 Germans cheering in Berlin. But in doing that, did he not underscore the fact that those 200,000 Germans in Berlin actually showed up to hear Barack Obama speak, but the 50,000 bikers on the roar of their Harleys, they had shown up at Sturgis not to see John McCain, but to see Kid Rock, Kelly Pickler and a bunch of female wrestlers and other women not wearing tops?

MADDOW: This is a critical and basic difference between the John McCain campaign for president and the Barack Obama campaign. Barack Obama creates large crowds when he gives speeches. John McCain‘s campaign has just figured out to find out where there‘s going to be a large crowd for another reason and to hope to slip their candidate in between other acts.

How out of touch is McCain? How desperate? He really counts on the room-temperature IQs of his crowds. I wonder if reformed-junkie Cindy McCain was looking to score some meds off the bikers?

Exxon McCain '08

Exxon McCain website

John McCain thinks if you have a problem with oil, why not ask the oil industry to solve it. They're objective. Asking Exxon to team up for his presidential run was a logical next step.

Right Wing Never Quite Has The Facts

All hot air, all the time. Too bad the truth has to get in the way of all their jabbering. Mitt Romney was asked by Wolf Blitzer to name a single bill John McCain has produced in 26 years [as AZ Senator] on energy independence. Cite one legislative accomplishment?

Romney responded, “I’m not a historian.”

One, Two, Dale, Four

Get Your War On

The highly anticipated premiere of Get Your War On, the new animated series from 23/6, based on the popular comic by David Rees.



Video series on www.236.com.

Bush Administration Borrow Billions

We all know it's better to pay things off up front rather than borrow and pay back with interest. It costs more. It's also the right thing to do. By not raising the appropriate tax receipts now, by cutting taxes for the top 1%, you're just delaying the responsibility of running the government and asking to pay more down the road. You're letting the top 1% keep more of their money and passing on the negative consequences of these reckless tax cuts to the other 99%. When the Bush Administration has to borrow money to pay for its current budget, it's like writing a massive I.O.U. to the country.

"The Bush administration gave details Wednesday on how it plans to borrow the billions of dollars it will need to finance soaring budget deficits. Those plans include raising $27 billion by selling a new 10-year note and a new 30-year bond at the regularly scheduled quarterly auctions to be held next week. The government needs to borrow $171 billion during the July-September quarter, second-highest quarterly borrowing on record. ... Democratic critics say the soaring deficits show the total failure of the Bush administration to put the government's fiscal house in order,. They contended that whoever wins the presidency in November will inherit a huge financial mess that will severely restrain the next president's ability to fulfill his own campaign promises. The administration projects that the deficit this budget year, which ends Sept. 30, will total $389 billion, more than double the $161.5 billion deficit for 2007."

I love this part, too. How can they not include these numbers to show how screwed thing are?

"That deficit estimate could go even higher. It does not include the expected full cost of funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or costs associated with the housing rescue measure Congress passed last week and President Bush signed into law Wednesday."

It's just asking the next generation to assume all this debt. So not only is he ruining the economy now, he also leaves a legacy of debt for the next guy. Look how Clinton left things, there was a surplus. Bush took us from a surplus into a massive deficit. The MBA President from Harvard? What a joke.

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Army Covers Up Death Of PFC LaVena Johnson

Support the troops? Respect the troops? Put a magnet on your car?

When a female US officer in Iraq is beaten, raped, teeth knocked in, set on fire, has lye poured on their vagina, and dragged to another location [ a military contractor's tent], what does the Army rule as cause of death: suicide. Unbelievable. PFC LaVena Johnson deserves better than that. Her father, who previously served in the U.S. Army and worked and retired as a civilian personnel specialist for the Army, got involved and found documents and photos that suggest foul play in her death.

It's a cover up and the story needs to come to light. Contact your representatives in the House and Senate to demand a full scale Congressional investigation begin immediately. Watch the video from Cenk of The Young Turks.



The Army has been complicit in the cover up of many things, the fratricide of Pat Tillman and bogus rescue of Jessica Lynch, to name a few. It is all a front to present this image of the military to America as honorable and doing the hard jobs to protect us. I'm OK with that, most people in the military do a great job, but let's not forget why they are there: to make a paycheck. All this good vibes about freedom is BS, take away their signing bonuses and incentives and you'd see a mass exodus.

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Right Wing Muppets

Both are children of privilege. Both rebelled against their famous Daddies. One lost his first family to marry another woman, one lost the first 40 years of his life to booze. One a fake church man. One a faux military man. Both dangerous to the world.

Bush and McCain. The perfect front men for a complex conservative movement. Don't ask questions because you don't understand things. Just repeat what they tell you and never realize the fool you are.

From the Pen of: John Sherffius

Bob Herbert's NYT Column

Bob Herbert's NYT column

"Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Barack Obama is a United States senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his party’s candidate for president of the United States — and yet it was somehow presumptuous of him to meet with foreign leaders last week during his trip to the Middle East and Europe.

I’ll say this about Senator Obama. He sure raises people’s hackles. I’ve never seen anyone so roundly criticized for such grievous offenses as giving excellent speeches and urging people of different backgrounds to take a chance on working together. How dare he? And 200,000 people turned out to hear him in Berlin. Unforgivable.

The man has been taken to task for promoting hope, threatened with mutilation by Jesse Jackson for suggesting that a lot of black fathers could do better by their kids and had his patriotism called into question because he wants to wind down a war that most Americans would dearly love to be rid of.

John McCain can barely stop himself from sputtering at the mere mention of Senator Obama’s name. He actually ran an ad blaming Mr. Obama for high gasoline prices. Even Republicans had a good laugh at that one.

And yet Mr. Obama continues to treat Senator McCain respectfully. As far as personal character is concerned, Mr. Obama has scored very well, indeed...

So this is not your ordinary election. Senator Obama will have to turn people on big-time just to win by a little. And for all the tedious talk about timelines and what the surge in Iraq has or has not accomplished, the top three issues in this campaign are still the economy, the economy and the economy...."

Barack will have to work twice as hard, as he did against Hillary in the primaries, but, in the end, it will all be worth it. Winning the right way, bringing the American brand back to something you can respect, inspiring people and industry, leaving the sour politics of yore to Grampy McLame.

Our economy was driven into the ground by the people at the top, the Bush Administration, not by Americans working any more or less competitively. Running up massive debts has a consequence. Catering to a small demographic of wealthy people hurts the country as a whole.

If you want to continue this slide into the depths of cheap labor, high prices, and outsourced opportunity, let the "I'm free market yet I subsidize the banking industry" Republican hypocrites continue to sell you there tired broken story by the likes of John McSame.

Barack's New Ad

John McSame, maybe 30 years ago, was a fresh idealist. Now he is a neo-con flunkie.



Barack Obama is bobbing and weaving Grandpa McCain's juvenile mudslinging. I think the country senses the same tired tricks used by McLame and just wants to move on.

Bush Scandals

Cool Venn diagram on all the scandals of the Bush administration. All roads lead to Alberto Gonzales.

The actual diagram has roll-over features and much more information. See it at Slate.com

The Will Of The People

In a statement regarding new sanctions against Zimbabwe today, President Bush declares that “no regime should ignore the will of its own people“:

The regime has also continued its ban against NGO activities that would provide assistance to the suffering and vulnerable people of Zimbabwe. No regime should ignore the will of its own people and calls from the international community without consequences.

Bush proudly ignores public opinion in the United States. Cheney had his "so" answer when told, "many say War not worth it". The Bush administration has runs it's course. The neocon movement, although good at the power grab, has failed. The latest Fox News poll reflects his success, he's at 27% approval, the lowest rating yet in that poll:

McCain: Geezer

Think of this image when you think of John McCain. Old, Grandpa-like, out of touch, compadres with failures like Bush 41 and Bush 43, not allowed to drive the golf cart. Kind of perfect imagery, McCain is trying to be seen in the conservative vehicle that Bush 41 set up with Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush 43. Years ago, the Maverick would have confronted them, now he just conforms. And apropos, the vehicle is a weeny small golf cart. Where's the Hummer you faux hard guys?



What early bird special are these two off to?

Is US Internet Access Being Marginalized?

via: mashable.com

"Whether you are in Europe or any number of forward thinking countries of the Far East broadband speed is growing by leaps and bounds with costs of accessing those pipes well within reach of the average person on the street. In the United States however almost the exact opposite is happening. Whether it is Comcast getting caught traffic shaping or the fact that Time Warner will be putting caps on the broadband usage or in the most recent news that AT&T is looking at instituting tiered based pricing on usage the fact is that Americans are losing out on the same technological advantages the rest of the world is enjoying."



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