GIRARDVILLE, Pa. - Former President Clinton said Saturday that Democrats calling for his wife to drop out of the presidential race should "just relax" and let the remaining states vote.

Nice thought anyway in our caffeinated, delusion chasing, and media hyped society Bill.

Hillary Seeks Cheney’s Counsel for Response to Patrick Leahy

http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1667

Have no fear, if McCain gets elected we should be out in 95 years.

You've heard of "mortgage rescue" scams ... but have you heard about the latest twist on the concept--as in "Emotional Mortgage Rescue"?

xoites Hussein (non typical white person) defends Constitution @ 9:

7

I hope you have more than he does.

A little but I could be heading down that alley soon enough.

Not only is McCain too angry, too Bush like, and too dumb, he is simply TOO OLD to be trusted to lead and protect this nation in these complex times

I watched Real Time last night and was disgusted by Bill Maher who is completely infected with Obamaitis and like too many of Obama's supporters it causes non-stop irrational trashing of Clinton. Maybe the cure will only come from Obama dropping out of the race. That makes as much sense as asking Hillary to drop out.
Robert Klein was hilarious and a very good guest.

McCain linked to credit crisis!

Gramm’s role in the swift and dramatic recent restructuring of the nation’s investment houses and practices didn’t stop there.

A year after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed the old regulations, Swiss Bank UBS gobbled up brokerage house Paine Weber. Two years later, Gramm settled in as a vice chairman of UBS’s new investment banking arm.

Later, he became a major player in its government affairs operation. According to federal lobbying disclosure records, Gramm lobbied Congress, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department about banking and mortgage issues in 2005 and 2006.

During those years, the mortgage industry pressed Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages.

For his work, Gramm and two other lobbyists collected $750,000 in fees from UBS’s American subsidiary. In the past year, UBS has written down more then $18 billion in exposure to subprime loans and other risky securities and is considering cutting as many as 8,000 jobs.

Gramm did not respond to an e-mail, and was unavailable for comment, according to a UBS spokesman. The bank has no official position on the subprime crisis, the spokesman said, but is a member of the Financial Services Roundtable and other industry groups that are actively lobbying Congress on the issue.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html

[[[[4 Don Davis Says]]]]]: Hillary Seeks Cheney’s Counsel for Response to Patrick Leahy

http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1667

*===>>If Dick Cheney said such to me, I'd wear it as a badge of honour, evermore. Dick is such a perfect name for him, too, isn't it?

IraqNam explodes and the media ignores it basically. This is just the beginning. Iraqis are fed up. Osama BinHiding is right. American blood being spilled will mean withdrawal when the images are FINALLY shown. Just look at the anger over 4000 dead. Incredible. Now amplify that by millions and you have the feeling of Iraq. Except a simple election won't make 'em happy. Their world's have been destroyed for????????????

The Real Hussein @ 7:

I comb my hair like Bill Maher.

just be sure to use a mirror to look at the top of your head...
when bill bent his head down to read, not a pretty thing...

and, there comes a time, you will know it, with that mirror,
when a combover is no longer an option... k?

you are a real man!

Mike Mid City @ 21:

Travis, go with McCain and yell at the kids on the lawn.

Who the fuck is 'Travis'

Uncle Joe @ 17

So if he had shown up for Tavis Smiley's symposium as Hillary did then he would have been labled the "Black Candidate"? Oh the Horror! So him being black was a secret and he would have been exposed? Oh Please!

i'll try this here... after reading bluesage... a repost from the VP thread, with some hindsight added:

while i am an OBAMA backer, originally EDWARDS, i want to say that the only reason i did not want hillary to even run is because of clinton fatigue, and all the baggage she would bring along…

that said, her campaigning lately is a complete turn off… i don’t necessarily want her to drop out of this race…
I WANT HER TO STOP ACTING LIKE A DISGUSTING, LYING,
CHEATING, ROVIAN REPUBLICAN…

i want to respect the clintons again... i spent a lot ot time and energy defending them against that "vast right wing conspiricy"...
never ever thought they would join that club.

that’s all…

The Walmart fiasco (suing former employee to regain $400K+ in health care costs) hits NBC Nightly Snooze. At least some will see it.

29/03/08 -- - MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.

"The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran," the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched.

He said the Pentagon is looking for a way to deliver a strike against Iran "that would enable the Americans to bring the country to its knees at minimal cost."

He also said the U.S. Naval presence in the Persian Gulf has for the first time in the past four years reached the level that existed shortly before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

Col.-Gen. Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences, said last week that the Pentagon is planning to deliver a massive air strike on Iran's military infrastructure in the near future.

A new U.S. carrier battle group has been dispatched to the Gulf.

The USS John C. Stennis, with a crew of 3,200 and around 80 fixed-wing aircraft, including F/A-18 Hornet and Superhornet fighter-bombers, eight support ships and four nuclear submarines are heading for the Gulf, where a similar group led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has been deployed since December 2006.

L.A. Confidential @ 32:

29/03/08 -- - MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday.

"The latest military intelligence data point to heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran," the official said, adding that the Pentagon has probably not yet made a final decision as to when an attack will be launched.

He said the Pentagon is looking for a way to deliver a strike against Iran "that would enable the Americans to bring the country to its knees at minimal cost."

He also said the U.S. Naval presence in the Persian Gulf has for the first time in the past four years reached the level that existed shortly before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

Col.-Gen. Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences, said last week that the Pentagon is planning to deliver a massive air strike on Iran's military infrastructure in the near future.

A new U.S. carrier battle group has been dispatched to the Gulf.

The USS John C. Stennis, with a crew of 3,200 and around 80 fixed-wing aircraft, including F/A-18 Hornet and Superhornet fighter-bombers, eight support ships and four nuclear submarines are heading for the Gulf, where a similar group led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has been deployed since December 2006.

just after the last warship left the seattle area heading for the persian gulf, i said that
this smacks of war preparations. i said that bush/cheney are determined to start a war
with iran and attack them without provocation.

bush and cheney should have their balls cut off and stuffed up their butts for all the lies
and deceptions and crimes they have and are committing in the name of U S peace.
bush and cheney are two fucking fascists dictators. IMPEACH NOW !!!!!

L.A. Confidential @ 35:

dadams @ 34:

Time is rapidly running out for the neocons to make their move. I got a real bad feeling this isn't going to turn out to well.

I hope I'm wrong

blackwater moves hdqts to the carribean and changes their name
bush's directive 51
politicizing of the entire govt here
destrution of civil liberties
troop and equipment movement to and around iran
the neocons are planning more than iran, they want to take control of the USA too.

these are not dreams, they are waking nightmares.
when the general public has an epiphany, the game will be over.

garbotty says @ 33

Yes, they have been covering the Rev. Wright story but always with a "it's no big deal - move along now" twist. Even guys like Cafferty and Olbermann have been infected by the kool-aid and are turning themselves inside out to explain away any questions about Obama or Rev. Wright. And all the while the Hillary Hatred from all of them marches on. It really is surreal how this Obamamania has taken hold and no one questions anything about this Sainted Man.

garbotty says @ 33

Oh, and the Obama getting a free pass meme started with Obama getting a free pass. If you don't or can't see that then you are not accepting the reality of this situation.

He heard it, he didn't hear it, he wasn't there, he was there, he would have have stayed, he would have left....the sound of someone talking out of both sides of their mouth.

Check this out.

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We invite everyone throughout North America and around the world to turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8 p.m. (your own local time)–whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town...

Join people all around the world in showing that you care about our planet and want to play a part in helping to fight climate change."

http://www5.earthhourus.org/

Starts in half an hour on the east coast.

I wish the Press would cover Bush's Directive 51 and what it would mean to the cities in America if this was ever implemented. I wish more in the Media had the freedom and ability to connect the dots and write some investigative pieces on the fact that Canadian troops can now patrol within the borders of America in the case of emergency etc. Sept. 11th really screwed us up policy wise. The Patriot ACt, etc etc etc..

What Tavis was saying is the media has given Obama a free ride to the White House, and the America will suffer. Obama will finish the job George Bush started, the destruction of our country, he has no business in the White House, the outhouse maybe but not the White House.

Bluesage @ 31:

katy @ 28

Many would say that this whole "Clinton acting badly" story is coming from the Obama camp with the Obama apologist and appeasers in the media. If you really believe that the Clintons have joined the "vast right-wing conspiracy" and that they blahblahblah...

are you kidding?!? i couldn't even read past that...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/185608.php

[...] Now obviously, Hillary's been in the political big leagues for a while. She knows how to deflect a question. But it's actually much richer than this. This afternoon Greg Sargent and I were talking this over and one of us realized that this wasn't just any Pittsburgh paper. It was the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the money-losing, vanity, fringe sheet of Richard Mellon Scaife, funder of the Arkansas Project, the American Spectator during its prime Clinton-hunting years and virtually every right-wing operation of note at one point or another over the last twenty years or more.

In fact, what I only discovered late this evening, when Eric Kleefeld sent me this link at National Review Online, is that not only was it Scaife's paper. Scaife himself was there sitting just to Clinton's right apparently taking part in the questioning.[...]

... and so much more, but that would be wasted energy, i'm sure...

it's coming from right outta the clinton camp and you and everybody else knows it... get real...

'nuff said.

Maher needs to admit he was wrong to support McCain. He's always giving the guy little plugs.

if you look at the rhetoric being used by other world leaders around the world, whether it’s Vladimir Putin or whether it’s Sarkozy or whether it’s Hugo Chavez, are there drastically different tactics of the same sort of the approach being used right now? Or are they sort of all following this model, just sort of blitzing the same idea over and over until people don’t particularly listen, I think?

NC: Well, it’s a mistake to expect anything from leaders other than attempts to expand their power and control and domination. They differ, you know. But as soon as you mention the word “leader,” you should shutter and look somewhere else. In a free society you might have representatives but you wouldn’t have leaders.
So, let’s imagine that this was really functioning: we are in the primary season. What would a democratic primary be? Say, take New Hampshire. It wouldn’t be (that) a candidate comes into a town and says…tells you lies about themselves. What would happen if the people in the town would get together and say look, we worked out the programs they want the next president to follow, and then if somebody wants to come in to be elected and they’d say OK, you can come, here’s what we want you to do. If you are willing to do that, maybe we will vote for you. If you are not, we’re not willing to vote for you. And there should be mechanisms to ensure that they do it or else you throw them out. But the way we do is quite different. The leaders come, they tell you what they present themselves usually falsely, and you’re then to decide whether you want him or you don’t want him. But that’s completely backwards from what a functioning democratic society would be. So when you talk about leaders, you have to shiver.

Tavis is absolutely right! We're so cynical that at this point we expect to be lied to, or we're more interested in who CAN win, that we don't try to help the people who advocate what we believe TO win.

It's pathetic and is the reason why this election I don't care who wins the presidency because all of those running have been dishonest in some way. I can no longer stand Hillary. McCain... nothing more needs to be said about why he's unacceptable. Obama I'll defend because I understand the origins of much of the criticism about him comes from, however what the issues on which he really needs to be criticized are ignored.

It's all a big mess and nothing will magically change no matter which of the current candidates get into office. In fact, I believe we're more prepared to weather the storm should things take a dramatic turn for the worse than those who feel so incredibly vested in one candidate or another.

What I found interesting was Smiley's statement that the US government's involvement in the MLK assassination was "arguable".Maher then called Smiley a "nut",with a "just kidding" added.

Maher is always real quick to call anyone a nut that questions the official story whether it be 9/11 or any other controversial topic.

Does anybody care what Tavis Smiley has to say? Raise your hand if you have ever watched his talk show all the way through. No hands? Thought so.

I watched the state of the Black Union on You-Tube and besides the funny stuff from Dick Gregory. Those people were all out to lunch. Rev. Wright problem multiplied by twenty.

BTW, Dan Savage is creepy and I don't don't know what he adds to the discussion. His field is more fudge related.

bluesage @39

The reason people are saying the Rev. Wright thing is "no big deal" is because it is no big deal. It's on par with the "General Betrayus" uproar. Wright said some stuff that was inflammatory, but in essence wasn't too far from the truth.

Besides, if we want to get into the candidates courting crazy religious folks, Barack's relationship with Wright is pretty tame compared to the McCain-Hagee-Liberty University thing and much less scary than Hillary's involvement with
"The Family."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich/hillarys-nasty-pastorat...

bluesage @ 40

"Oh, and the Obama getting a free pass meme started with Obama getting a free pass. If you don’t or can’t see that then you are not accepting the reality of this situation."

Well, that's why I asked. What should Obama have been criticized about, that the media is ignoring? I wanted you to actually come up with some sort of evidence to convince me that's what's happening.

There's no question that the media hasn't asked been asking too many critical questions about policy, but that's more or less been the case across the board. If I'm presented with some evidence that Obama has endured special treatment, then I'd be happy to believe you. In the meantime, all I'm thinking about is all the "Hillary is inevitable" articles/news pieces and all of the "Obama-Osama" mixups I saw for months and months prior to when actual voting began.

Mainly, when I hear people say "Obama is getting a free pass", it's usually from a Clinton fan who is upset that someone is critical of Clinton. Usually, though, the criticism is centered on Clinton's negative campaigning. It goes something like this:

Clinton Campaign: "Obama isn't patriotic. And is inexperienced. And is a Messiah-figure"
Media: "Clinton is engaging in Rovian tactics"
Clinton Supporters "Why is the Media being critical of Clinton? How come Obama always gets a free pass?"

Space Ghost Hussein @ 62:

Does anybody care what Tavis Smiley has to say? Raise your hand if you have ever watched his talk show all the way through. No hands? Thought so.

I watched the state of the Black Union on You-Tube and besides the funny stuff from Dick Gregory. Those people were all out to lunch. Rev. Wright problem multiplied by twenty.

BTW, Dan Savage is creepy and I don't don't know what he adds to the discussion. His field is more fudge related.

Uh,apparently wey do care what Tavis has to say considering he has his own show. He started out on radio and has had a steady upward trajectory ever since. Many people of African descent watch the State of the Black Union and the book it produced, The Covenant with Black America, became a best seller in 2006. I'm sure you didn't know that because most of the political issues Black folks discuss with each other are things that white people think is blasphemous against these united states because it is the critical truth, as opposed to the Pat Buchanan style obsequious blather that people like you prefer to hear. I suppose that's why you say the SOTBU is full of Rev. Wrights multiplied. *lol*

We like it like that!

Glinda @ 65:

miss_kitty Hussein @ 24:

Mike Mid City @ 21:

Travis, go with McCain and yell at the kids on the lawn.

Who the fuck is 'Travis'

miss kitty, does your browser have a "find" function? Yes? Then use it. Oh and listening to the video would also be enlightening for you.

["Find" function or no, "Travis" was a typo. His name is spelled T-a-v-i-s. There's no "r" in there. Site Monitor]

'Tavis' was not a typo. The guy was not bright enough to know the guy's real name. Then his equally brilliant wife Glinda, who didn't understand my comment was a dig at Mike in Midcity for not knowing Mr. Smiley's first name, came down on me like I was stupid.

Maybe YOU should listen to the video yourself. I did, but have listened to Tavis Smiley for years, and didn't NEED to listen to the vid to know what his real name was.
Or you could read the blurb under the pretty picture:
"From Real Time Overtime, the web-exclusive portion of Real Time with Bill Maher with panel Robert Klein, Tavis Smiley, Robin Wright and Dan Savage"

Thanks for playing.