Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:00:06 -0400
about the capture of Karadzic
You can vote in this poll and the results of it will be announced on the air by Lou Dobbs at about 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (these are the results as of the time of this posting):
QuickVote
Do you believe the national media is biased in favor of Sen. Barack Obama?
Yes 73% 1091
No 27% 395
Total Votes: 1486
This is not a scientific poll
This poll will also be up all day on Tuesday until Lou Dobbs does his show again at 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time!
I think that the very obvious answer to this poll question is definitely "Yes" and in my opinion pro-Obama and anti-Hillary media bias is the main reason why Obama won the nomination:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15744
VIDEO: Dan Abrams asked about Hillary's primary loss "Is it the media’s fault?"
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on June 9, 2008 - 5:58pm.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15744#comment-309677
There is NO question in my opinion of anti-Hillary media bias...
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on June 9, 2008 - 6:07pm.
obvious who corporate power wants in the WH. When has the media ever pushed a "Democrat"? Ever?
Glenn Greenwald has a post about the The AT&T Convention in Denver.
Bilderberg has long pushed for one party rule. Looks like they got their dream candidate... We have officially become the United Corporations of America. And the sad part is, 1/2 the Democratic voters are eating it up.
And for all those who believe the bull about Obama not taking lobbyist money, or being beholden to them, wake the f up.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
He'll be on Democracy Now w/Amy Goodman tomorrow morning between 8 and 9 EDT.
From his website...
UPDATE: I'll be on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman tomorrow morning, along with University of Chicago Law Professor (and Obama adviser) Cass Sunstein, to debate Sunstein's views on matters such as torture, FISA, and whether Bush lawbreakers should be prosecuted (I referenced some of his recent comments on those topics here). Our segment will be between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. EST tomorrow and I'll post the exact time once I know it. Local listings and live audio or video feed are here.
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. ~Gloria Steinem
to listen later. That's like way too early for me! LOL! I can't wait to hear Sustein's reasons why Jr and his gang of thugs should be let off -- will he admit it's because to implicate them, Dems will be caught in the net as well? I hope Greenwald forces his hand! Should be a great discussion!
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
It's so obvious - the media is extremely biased in favor of BO and against Hillary. It was the main reason why so many votes went to BO. Add that to BO's team of false racecard accusations aimed at Hillary and Bill along with the squashing of the votes in MI & FL - it swung this election around. It's an absolute shame.
I'm glad to see you. It's wonderful to hear that Karadzic (sp?) was captured! Isn't there another guy still hiding out?
I guess I should ahve known this but I didn't realize that President Jimmy Carter was officially under the bus with the rest of us...
Indeed, one bright spot in McCain’s otherwise hardscrabble political landscape is how Obama’s vulnerabilities can, at least superficially, be mapped onto this interpretation of Carter’s administration. “There are certain Obama-Carter similarities that make it a relevant analogy,” says Murphy. “Carter was a relatively inexperienced one-term governor who came out of nowhere. He was elected on a thematic platform that fit the times but that was short on practical points. His foreign policy was based on rhetoric not Realpolitik, and it turned mostly into a disaster. Carter is what happens when you buy without looking.”
On the other hand, given the current energy and economic crises, you might look back and think that Carter was enormously prescient. Last week, presidential historian Joseph Wheelan wrote an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution asking, in regard to Carter’s promotion of alternative fuels, “Can we now acknowledge that Jimmy Carter was right all those years ago?” Carter also negotiated the 1978 Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, a 30-year truce that has never once been violated (something one cannot say of any other negotiated peace in the region, and an achievement that seems even more impressive in retrospect). “The last time I looked,” says Jody Powell, Carter’s former press secretary, “President Carter’s favorability rating was a good bit higher than McCain’s or Obama’s or George Bush’s.”
Obama has not argued for a foreign policy based strictly on human rights (indeed, the phrase doesn’t even appear in the foreign-policy section of his Website), and as Eli Lake argued in The New Republic earlier this month, the track record of his foreign-policy advisers suggests an Obama doctrine will likely look “more like Ronald Reagan than Jimmy Carter.” Still, McCain’s Carter analogy has caused a degree of irritation and perhaps some confusion in the Obama campaign about how to handle the former president. “Look, the McCain people are just trying to use Carter’s name to scare people,” says campaign spokesman Nick Shapiro. But he distances his boss from a potential liability: “McCain will carry the Bush legacy into the future, but Senator Obama has no connection to President Carter.”
(snip)
“I can’t say I know how the current president looks on the rest of the world,” Carter says. “I am determined and sometimes stubborn, and he is, too, but I don’t look on the rest of the world as he does, despite our shared Christian faith. For instance, I worry about our endangered values. I worry about nuclear-weapons proliferation. I worry about our torture of prisoners and how that affects our commitment to human rights. I believe in waging war only when our security is in danger. I believe in taking care of and preserving the environment. On these issues, he and I are almost diametrically opposed. Certainly, I do not profess to understand his motivations. As Christians, yes, we worship the same savior, Jesus Christ, and I think we worship Christ in the same way. I look on some aspect of Jesus Christ perhaps differently from him: I worship the Prince of Peace.”
(snip)
What’s most interesting about Carter at the age of 83 is not that he’s an eccentric, or that he’s outspoken, or that he continues to be a part of the debate, but that his mind-set and his policies seem to jibe so well with the attitudes of young people, students, and the blogosphere. In many ways, Carter seems more relevant than George W. Bush, his ideas more contemporary, his interests more outward-looking. He builds houses in New Orleans and elsewhere with his Habitat for Humanity project; he jets around the world, funding projects to deal with global health crises; he makes sure elections are free and fair. Carter is more like Bono than he is like Bush.
In the news-grabbing drama of Carter’s single term in office, his longer-lasting achievements were obscured, but they look today like a blueprint for the future: the creation of a Superfund for environmental cleanup, the passage of the Alaska Lands Conservation Act, the signing of the Camp David Accords, the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty, support for alternative-energy sources, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and the establishment of the departments of both Energy and Education. To say nothing of his emphasis on human rights, which empowered democracy movements in Latin America.
Most characteristic of all was—and is—Carter’s fundamental belief that parties who disagree must talk to each other, and that the higher the stakes the more important such negotiations become. “One of the most counterproductive things this administration has done,” Carter says, “is abandon the U.S. commitment to have full-fledged discussions with people who are crucial to the conversation if they won’t submit in advance to our policies. This leads to isolation and makes it impossible to reach agreements.” It is an argument the Obama campaign has taken up and defended repeatedly.
Would it have killed them to point out the good things about Carter's time in the White House the way New York Mag does here? I guess so. Well, at least Jimmy's got some good company under that bus....Our General is there after all.
"She hopes to open shadowed eyes on a different world...." Robert Smith, borrowed from Penelope Farmer
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Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Senator Joe and his bestest girfriend Susie (Lieberman & Collins) just finished reporting their findings on the Internets for the Dept of Heimatland, er... Homeland Security, Ya! Und it vas very, very skeery. Terrifying. As in Terraist Terror kind of Terrifying.
You all remember Senate Bill S. 1959 right? Introduced by - oh look! - Susie Collins. Sponsored by Susie and Normie Coleman. French kissed by Joe Lieberman.
The "Homegrown Terrorists" Bill-- that appoints Chertoff as the overlord of a series of "Centers of Excellence" (yes that is the real name they picked) located at Universities.... There would be Committees appointed (lifetime appointments) that would be nipping homegrown terror and extremist thought in the bud. But the real problem is - they need to "hear" those subversive thoughts first, they need to "see" those extremist thoughts. They needed FISA! It's all very sinister. Depending on how much you trust these guys.
Well Joe and Susie's report -which they say is only the "first of many"- pretty much settled it --that it is indeed the internet that is helping Al Qaeda to grow and it is indeed the internet that presents a growing danger to us and our national security, especially with these new homegrown 'terrorists'.
As I read Joementum's 24 page report for the DHS-- entitled VIOLENT ISLAMIST EXTREMISM, THE INTERNET, AND THE HOMEGROWN TERRORIST THREAT (golly gee, coincidence, it's pretty much the same titling as the S 1959 bill!)-- I couldn't help but remember the photos of him and Cheney yukking it up in the Rose Garden, with Bush and the boyz, right after this last FISA Bill had been signed. I'd imagined then that they felt a wash of relief knowing all the "easy listening" that lay ahead of them (the political kind). It was a connect the dots kind of moment... Homegrown Terrorist Bill, Homegrown Terrorist Report to DHS, FISA and telecom immunity... followed up by lots of big laughs with the boyz...
See happy Joe, Dick, and George! It was a big celebration for them!
I have a blog nearly ready to put up on this draconian bill - when time permits. It's a fascinating and frightening story. It is often referred to on blogs as the "thought crimes" bill. And it's currently languishing in Committee - the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the companion bill HR 1955 having passed handily in the House with only a few reps voting "NO" (thank you Dennis K) -- So now the test is with the Senate.
You don't want to know who the 17 senators are on the Heimatland Security Committee ... do you? ;)
Well, Gomer Pyle SURPRISE SURPRISE!! Joe Lieberman! Susie Collins! Norm Coleman!! Ted Stevens!! (feeling safe yet?) John Sununu!! Thomas Coburn! Pete Domenici! John Warner!! George Voinivich!!!! (feeling secure yet?)
And because it's the season of bipartisanshipiness... lets throw in a few blue dogs and 'moderates' with "D"s after their names to make it look balanced. You got some moonbat whacko Libruls like Mary Landrieu! Thomas Carper, Mark Pryor, Jon Tester... and ....wait.... what's this?
Claire McCaskill
and
Barack Obama
Huh.
So we just need to wait for those good folks to get it together to see what the next step is for us and the world of danger that lurks in the underbelly of... the 'internets'.
Stay tuned -
My representatives gave my country FISA ...and all I got was this lousy AT&T bag for the Democratic convention!
...on this, ms
Your Theory B is looking more and more likely
:(
Why have Obama and the New Democratic Party chose to rehabilitate the Republican Party at a time when it and conservatism has proven to be such a failure? Answer: "Because that's where the money is."
laughing and smiling so joyfully "across the aisle". Just havin' the greatest of times. It just reinforces the notion that these people are more about themselves and their friendships and associations than about the country. Sad, sad, sad. But it bears reminding so that we don't overdo the hope and change thingy. No matter how light and airy the Obama logo is, his minders still have some work convincin' us that he is going to change the ways of Washington.
...in the marketing doncha know?
Overhaul of the plane reportedly cost in the neighborhood of $500,000. And note that the logo on the tail replaces the American Flag. I'll bet Fox News is all over that
Why have Obama and the New Democratic Party chose to rehabilitate the Republican Party at a time when it and conservatism has proven to be such a failure? Answer: "Because that's where the money is."
And it's all taking place at the PEPSI CENTER in Denver! Wow! What about them odds? And sister logo AT&T was doing the happy dance just a few weeks ago when FISA telecom immunity bill passed with little to no resistance from the so called Democratic-controlled Senate!! What a gift!!
It's family, it's cozy.
It's a good era for the folks at Pepsi and AT&T. And in the US Senate. Some prophetic folks saw this coming down the pike many years ago.....
========================== "NETWORK" - 1976 ~ by Paddy Chayefsky
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.
There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West.
There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today.
You get up [...] and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those *are* the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.
The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale.
========================== "WALL STREET" - 1987 ~by Oliver Stone
The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons... and what I do, stock and real estate speculation.
It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth.
I create nothing. I own.
We make the rules, pal.
The news; war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct.
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My representatives gave my country FISA ...and all I got was this lousy AT&T bag for the Democratic convention!
I remember back around year 2000, all the Internet companies were copying some variation of the Nike swoosh as their company logo.
Interesting that team Obama would also go with the latest fad...after all, we're now choosing our leaders in the country based on who has the best product marketing.
I wonder if candidates are allowed to do product placement commercials and get some sort of fee in return? You know, Obama talking to the American people about some issue in an ad while drinking a can of Pepsi, using a Blackberry and with the campaign staff behind him devouring a Domino's pizza (all with product names clearly displayed).
