Obama Covers For George W. Bush’s War Crimes
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Obama is a centrist; Republicans call him a Marxist.
Obama is a Christian; Republicans call him a radical Muslim sleeper cell.
He’s gracious to a fault in the face of Republican divisiveness; Republicans call him a tough Chicago thug.
Now Republicans are blaming Obama for not supporting the war they lied us into while Obama holds on to his “Team of Rivals” fantasy, and takes the high road – again.
Instigating a pre-emptive war goes against over 200 years of U.S. foreign policy, violates the Constitution as well as numerous treaties of which we are signatories. According to George Bush’s former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, the Illegal Iraq invasion and occupation was in the initial planning stages the MONTH BEFORE Bush took office. In Ron Suskind’s 2004 book, “The Price of Loyalty,” O’Neill said that the invasion of Iraq was the topic at the FIRST National Security Council and a map detailing how Iraq’s oil fields would be carved up was on display… the Bush White House actively worked to deceive the American People and were “fixing the facts around the policy“… Yet there was President Obama… once again weaving the LIE that we went to Iraq to “disarm a state” into the much abused national consciousness. Read the transcript here.
He praised the well-fed, draft-dodging, silver-spooned, giggling, war-criminal Bush for his “love of country” and assured us all of our support of the troops, 4000+ of whom Bush is directly responsible for murdering and thousands more of whom are suffering from catastrophic physical and/or mental illnesses. In addition, the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq murdered millions of Iraqis, displaced millions more, and poisoned with depleted uranium the people unlucky enough to be born on top of Dick Cheney’s (and his buddies’) oil.
Remember how HILARIOUS it was when we couldn’t actually FIND the WMD’s that weren’t there?
Like a battered spouse pining for an abuser, Obama continuously infuriates those who supported him with a mandate for “change” through his constant wooing of the sociopaths who not only “drove the car into the ditch,” as he likes to say, but will stop at nothing to get back in power to continue to make the government an appendage to their own affairs.
If the Republicans gain control of the House and Senate this November, a level of obstructionism not seen since another Bill Clinton was attempting to govern will quickly replace the “look forward, not backward” meme, as their own words betray:
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Glenn Beck Debases, Dishonors and Disgraces MLK’s Dream
Glenn Beck Debases, Dishonors and Disgraces MLK’s Dream
Still unable to accept the outcome of an election not decided by the right-wing Supreme Court, tens of thousands disgruntled white people gathered on the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech 47 years ago to decry the African American President that normal people legally elected to clean up the abhorrent aftermath of 30 years of class warfare Reaganomics and 8 years of disastrous Bush policies.
Beck, a incredibly-wealthy huckster told Forbes magazine that he could “give a flying crap about the political process”, but is only in it for the money, and who uses his Rupert Murdoch and Saudi Prince Alwaleed-owned Fox News show not only to convince his willfully ignorant audience into losing their money by “investing” in a gold coin company currently under investigation, but also to espouse an ideology meant to cultivate divisions in this nation – lest people turn their anger on the big moneyed interests that Beck convinces his dupes to loudly rally to support.
Bussed to Beck’s Restoring Honor ™ rally courtesy of billionaire climate denier right-wing billionaire David A. Koch of the oil giant Koch Industries, the so-called “non political” event steeped-in politics attendees were praised by half-term governor opportunist Sarah Palin, praised “patriots” in the audience for “knowing never to retreat”… from… I guess… the legally-elected black guy in the White House… and directed to join FreedomWorks, the Astroturf funding arm of the Teabaggers run by former representative Dick Armey, who holds the notable opinion the government-run socialist healthcare known as Medicare- that many of the Teabaggers currently enjoy without a sense of irony – “trashes the Constitution.”
Of course, Republicans traditionally become born-again Constitutionalists during Democratic administrations when it seems like their true constituents – big-moneyed interests and their transnational corporations – may have to loosen their grip around the neck of working people if “pesky” government gets in the way. This is nothing new.
Beck, who has ensured that racial wounds remain wide open so that our economic royalist masters can drive a wedge between the people who they seek to control, has called the first African-American President a “racist with a deep seeded hatred against white people” as well as railed against the very philosophy of “social justice” that Martin Luther King devoted his life to.
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George Will Gives Us Another Glimpse into Republican Bizarro World
Only a Republican could be quoted saying that peace talks are the biggest threats to peace and be taken seriously, just like when Bush schooled we ignorant Plebs on June 18, 2002 saying, “I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” on Christiane Amanpour’s Sunday show George Will told the American People that “…the peace process is the biggest threat to peace in Palestine.”
This comes on the heals of the announced this week from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that there will be new peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, so the real problem for Republicans is not how they can effectively aid in the peace process, but how they can stop progress in order to deny a Democratic administration any victories while in office. Of course, the unprecedented Republican obstructionism on all fronts proves once again that Republicans care nothing for country or community – only to the profit of their benefactors – transnational corporations whose only goal is to ride the working people of this nation to the bank without pesky government interference. If they can stop Hillary Clinton from positively affecting peace in the Middle East, they improve their chances of convincing the willfully ignorant of this nation to put them back in power so they can continue turning them into compliant serfs.
As if normal people weren’t already convinced that the Republican Party is a nest of morally-bankrupt, greed centered oligarchs (and their willfully-ignorant sycophants who adopt the agenda of billionaires in the hopes said billionaires will one day meet them for a beer), we have more proof that Republicans would be quite content having millions die in perpetual war in order to maintain their own power.
Republicans are sick… sick… sick… and the most tragic part is that their ideology is like a virus that sickens us all.
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Palin Defends Dr. Laura’s N-Word Tourette’s
Never one to miss an opportunity for media exposure – especially when it comes with the added benefit of activating the racist Republican base that still can’t forgive the normal people of America for voting a black man into the highest office in the land, – one-time, half-term Governor of Alaska and professional Twitter updater, Sarah Palin defended Dr Laura’s episode of “N-Word” Tourette’s syndrome by misguidedly equating Dr. Laura’s quitting her radio show with an assault on her Constitutional right to rant like the racist she is.
Listen to Dr. Laura’s rant here:
Although supposedly remorseful about her insensitivity, Dr. Laura said she felt her freedom of speech rights “have been usurped by angry, hateful groups who don’t want to debate — they want to eliminate.” So… in other words… in true right-wing fashion, Dr. Laura blamed the targeted minority group for not quietly accepting her verbal whipping, rather than take responsibility for her hateful and insensitive use of the most hatefully-charged racial epitaph in the English language.
Only in Teabagger-infested America can a barely literate moron who squeaked out of journalism school after bouncing around to SIX different colleges has the arrogance to fancy herself a Constitutional scholar be taken seriously by right-wing sycophants is coming to the defense of a notoriously insensitive doctor of PHYSIOLOGY who let her mother’s corpse rot for MONTHS while playing armchair quack psychologist to those self-loathing enough to seek her advise.
Given the context of Dr. Laura’s departure, Palin tweeted – without a speck of irony – “”Dr. Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice, America!”
Amazing.
Not unexpectedly, The Republican Party’s propaganda channel Fox News chose not to cover the incident at all.
Read Ronda Racha Penrice great editorial from the Grio. here.
Watch Stephen Colbert’s take on Dr. Laura’s rant:
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No War But the Class War
While Economic Royalists, their Republican and DINO operatives in government and their corporate-cover propaganda outlets, fan racist flames to keep the people divided against themselves, some in media are finally starting to talk about the class war Republicans have been waging against working people since Reaganomics inflicted it’s supply-side, trickle-down, disaster on a once-vibrant middle class.
Shirley Sherrod gave voice to it when she noted in her speech to the NAACP that the conversation the nation needs to have was not about “black versus white” or “white versus black” but “rich versus poor.”
The Republican response to the utterance of this truth was to take her speech calling for unity among working people and heavily edit it to ensure racism maintains it’s fresh, painful and divisive utility. An actual, mature, conversation about class and race in America is considered blasphemy in world where wedge issues are vital to keeping people angry, distracted and misinformed enough to vote for their own demise.
Simply put, Republicans care only for their wealthy benefactors who sent them to Washington to make government, as FDR said, “an appendage to their own affairs,” ensuring that they can continue to ride your back to the bank without the “pesky” interference from the only institution powerful enough to slow them down – our Constitutionally-limited, democratically-elected, representative government of “We The People.”
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There’s Always Room for Endless War: Billions More for Afghanistan but NONE for Needs at Home
In the face of the Wikileaks documents exposing the futility of our murderous, un-winnable, adventures in Afghanistan, Congress approved ANOTHER deficit-ballooning war supplemental while nixing deficit-neutral funds to prevent the layoffs of approximately140,000 teachers. Proving, once again, that the “deficit hawk”, “we must cut spending” meme only gets trotted out when Republicans are further turning the screws on the Middle Class their policies are actively meant to destroy.
A House aide said that the teacher money is a top priority for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wis… but apparently not as important as pouring unlimited resources into Afghanistan – historically unconquerable since Genghis Kahn.
The final bill contained 37 Billion for a war that, according to the leaked Pentagon internal documents, is destroying our economy and making us less safe.
The bill also cut $10 billion in funding to prevent teacher layoffs, $1 billion for summer youth employment, $5 billion for Pell grants and $701 million for border security, all of which were offset and budget-neutral, whereas the war funding actually increases the national debt.
Here we are again. Fake Republicans and Democrat in Name only, so-called “deficit hawks” who only seem to appear when the late, great, American Middle Class needs relief from the disastrous effects of 30 years of Reaganomics.
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Obama Capitulates to Fox News Hit List
In the heat of the class war Republicans are actively waging against the working people of this nation, the American People are in desperate need of a bold and unapologetic populist leader in the style of FDR- not a Neville Chamberlain-style appeaser appealing to the enemy for restraint and mercy through constant capitulation.
Yet Barack Obama has done it again. In another vain attempt to get Republicans to work with him like some “Team of Rivals” fantasy, the Administration immediately threw Shirley Sherrod under the bus, rather than defend her against egregious lies and heavily-edited hit piece courtesy of Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck and Fox News.
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Florida GOP Lawmakers Afraid Voters Won’t Deliver For Big Oil
… so they cut them out of the conversation.
Big Oil wins again – with the help of their Republican operatives in our government. Republicans just robbed the Floridian community (they are supposed to represent) of the opportunity to protect their environment and their economy from the dangers of corporate-sponsored ecocide by blocking the attempt to get a Constitutional ban on offshore drilling before voters in the November 2 general election.
The actions of the Florida Legislature is evidence of the fact that the only reason Republican politicians get out of bed in the morning is to ensure that our wealthy overlords – transnational corporations who have no allegiance to country or community – can continue to ride the American People to the bank unfettered by the pesky government.
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Glenn Beck: Still Searching for a Historical Justification for Selfishness
The schizophrenia of being a modern conservative is enough to give normal people sharing the same air a perpetual knotted stomach. For example, the conservative penchant for proclaiming Jesus as their favorite “philosopher” while re-writing the story of the original liberal “community organizer” into some free-market capitalist crusader Hell-bent on teaching the lazy poor people to pull themselves up from their bootstraps.
The hypocrisy of today’s Cons turning the “Prince of Peace” into a vindictive, war-mongering, selfish, greed-centered, version of themselves is illustrated beautifully at Tea Party Jesus – where the literal words of today’s Christians are put in the mouth of Christ as evidence to the unbridled dishonesty and disingenuousness of Con philosophy.
Canadian-American economist, prolific author and proud progressive John Kenneth Galbraith put it correctly when he said,
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
Not only are they in desperate need of moral justification, they are in on a constant mission for historical justification – even if that means they have to simply “make it up.”
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Failed Republican Ideology Haunts “Change We Can Believe In”
Barack Obama’s Facebook page announced, “We’re going to keep on fighting until wages and incomes are rising, businesses are hiring again, Americans are headed back to work again, and we’ve recovered from this recession.”
Sound’s wonderful, but I’m done with promises… promises…. like most normal (non-Republican) Americans, I’m numb from promises and looking for ACTION.
The gap between the rich and poor is the widest in decades. Well-fed Republican bastards are, AS USUAL, fighting for tax cuts for the rich – although it would add to the deficit they suddenly care so much about – while simultaneously blocking the extension of unemployment benefits for those out of work in the worst economic climate since the FIRST Republican Great Depression. Their reasoning is simple – the more people unemployed at election time, the better their chances of getting their boney fingers around the neck of power again. THAT’S how much Republicans hate the “small people” of this nation.
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