Fake Troops, Fake Support, Sanitized War
Brandon Friedman at VetVoice notes that for its "Pledge of Allegiance video" on Tuesday night, the Republican National Convention used stock footage of a staged military funeral, along with actors - fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of the real thing.
Brandon writes:
The issue here isn't that the RNC used actors in what might have been a haste. Rather, the underlying problem is that Bush and McCain supporters don't like to deal with the messy reality of warfare that genuine troops bring to the table. That is, they feel compelled to stage a funeral with actors. Because to show a real military funeral--with the heaving chests of a broken family clutching a flag-draped coffin containing the pieces of their dead soldier--might just make the funny hat-clad, stupid button-wearing audience blanch. And that doesn't make for good TV. Plus, people just wouldn't go for it. So they use sanitized actors.
But this is an insult to the military. The use of actors shows an unwillingness to face up to what they've done--to the military and to the nation. And it shows that the only way to keep up support for the war is to hide its reality from the American people.
If I said that something like this surprised me, though, I'd be lying. But then, this is also why troops overseas are donating to Obama at a six to one rate over McCain. They're tired of being treated like this.
I'd add that its another example of the glorification of war - something that can only be done by sanitizing it - that McCain says he hates but that Republicans indulge in at every turn. Even some on the Right have previously noted McCain's love for warmongering.
Meanwhile, the wars that Bush involved America in continue to take their toll. Army leaders said today that soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year and attributed the increase directly to a force strained by two wars.
As of the end of August, there were 62 confirmed suicides among active duty soldiers and Guard and Reserve troops called to active duty, officials said. Another 31 deaths appear to be suicides but are still being investigated.
If all are confirmed, that means that the number for 2008 could eclipse the 115 of last year — and the rate per 100,000 could surpass that of the civilian population, Col. Eddie Stephens, deputy director of human resources policy, said at a Pentagon news conference.
With Richard Holbrooke warning that, because of Republican incompetence, Afghanistan is shaping to be a 'long war' which will outlast even Vietnam's 14-year term, we can see clearly where a McCain-Palin administration would lead - and it isn't a glorious future unless the thousands of dead, crippled and grieving are to be played by actors too. It bears repeating - in the first four days of the Republican convention, Afghanistan didn't rate a single mention. That's shameful.
Crossposted from Newshoggers
bloodthirst first
Character. What kind of character does this show us. What are the republicans all about if not lies, deceit, half-truths, and selfish, money grubbing interests.
Wonder how many military funerals McCain has attended.
According to Andrew Sullivan, Mr Palin's former business partner has made an emergency request to the court to seal his divorce papers. Sounds interesting.
I consider myself an individual with some "intestinal fortitude", but I could not watch the Repub Convention. I started
and had to turn it off. I have people at work who are standard American sheep- uneducated, uninformed, bigoted, walmart
shoppers...and they were saying McCain's speech was incredibly bad.
I feel we have this election won, and not because Obama is such a great candidate, but that McCain is so bad in so
many ways.
NOW WE HAVE TO MAKE OBAMA DO THE RIGHT THING AND BE A TRUE PROGRESSIVE!
John Bush at it again!
Big Phonies. God, I'm sick of it.
I hope the soldiers' votes get counted. I hope someone is keeping their eye on that ball.
If Obama had used footage of fake troops at a fake funeral, we would NEVER hear the end of it.
Leadership @ 4:
Miatch @ 7:
Here, Here!
Well...at this point...nothin the repugs do shocks me anymore...
Obama may not be a warmonger, but large corporations call the shots.
The Pentagon exists to protect and serve their interests.
"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."
I could see it being an issue of a family's privacy, but there are other ways to signify the cost in lives and sacrifice without using a staged funeral - a shot of Arlington National Cemetery, perhaps. Any of a number of suitable memorials to other wars, which would also imply a proud history.
But, no - the Republicans have turned service, especially military service, into a fracking joke.
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Oh, Christ on a pogo stick ... Palin & McCain are making their campaign appearance, and Palin just asserted that MILLIONS of people were saved by McCain's support of the Iraq War. Because, you know, that evil uppity elitist, Barack Obama, he has the power of life and death at a single NO vote.
Typical republican slime machine at work... can't face the realities of all of the lives they've shattered and destroyed, so they play pretend and fantasy... the avarice, unbounded lust for money and power, the stupidity of most everything they say, the overabundance of lies every single time a republican opens his or her mouth... They MUST be stopped this election. If not, I fear for what will become of all of us, and I'm talking about the entire world in that "us".
If we only lived in a country with free press we would have over four thousand films to chose from. To bad they didn't use footage of PAT TILLMAN'S funeral,that was spectacular, but I guess they have already played that to the hilt.
We have to do whatever we can to stop this madness. As Obama said, ENOUGH!
Donate, write letters to the editor, register new voters, volunteer to drive people to the polls, whatever we can do, we must do it.
No way! No how! No McCain!
Miatch @ 7:
Exactly!! These people use it, and suddenly the Republicans are the true patriots. Patriots?? Are you kidding me?!
Meanwhile, my dad has officially gone to the dark side. He was spewing Fox lines at me. "I have a gut feeling that history will honor Bush," he said, "because Truman had the lowest ratings...(continue bullshit)..." Unfortunately for him, I'm an historian and immediately responded, "HARRY Truman? Umm...You might want to rethink that."
And the insanity continues...
Fake Troops, Fake Support, Fake Compassion, Fake Economic Policies, Fake Intelligence, Fake Patriotism, Fake Justice, Fake News, Fake Smiles, Fake Advertising, Fake Elections, Fake Contracts, Fake Government, Fake Sincerity, Fake "Friends," Fake Fear, Fake War, Fake Allegience, Fake Social Programs, Fake education, Fake Energy Policy, Fake Freedom, Fake People.
well done Mr. Davis!
I worked for a caterer this week at the RNC.
was with many members of congress during Palin's speech.
they enjoyed her zingers but were openly cynical about most of the content. especially the ANWR drilling.
one of my colleagues was staffing a large VIP area and had several guests (non-politicians) tell her that Obama has their vote after the BS they heard this week. good news, eh?
in conclusion, when you are about to embark on one of the largest institutional transformations in history, be sure to have a 72 year-old man at the helm.
sheesh!
There are a million things to be disgusted with about McCain. This isn't one of them. It is against regulations for uniformed military officers to appear in political ads. That is a good regulation. And it would be despicable to show a real funeral. I'd like to believe even McCain's Rovite handlers couldn't stoop that low. (Though of course I will probably be proven wrong when they stoop even lower.)
xoites defends Constitution @ 17:
You said it! It's all fake and a reasonable facsimile for these clowns! We've got to turn this around NOW.
xoites defends Constitution @ 17:
May I add Fake Christians to your list?
And speaking of Fake Christians, I bet Fred Phelps has attended more soldiers' funerals than McAin't.
bateman @ 21:
Please add away. I can't possibly think of them all.
I have recently come to the conlusion after the last 3 days, facts and republicans don't see eye to eye. This shit has to stop. You can make up your own opinions, but not your own facts.
John McCain said last night:
Here is a little dose of reality. http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080905/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy
Get these douchebags out!
ppcli @ 19:
I disagree... why even do this (show a fake funeral) if you think it's despicable to show a real one? Why even do this stupidity at all (stage a fake funeral with actors)? Seriously, that's the bottom-of-it we need to get to. Unfortunately I believe I'd have to think like a republican to understand that and then I'd be totally fucked! I won't be going there...
Fake opposition party.
Limpbaugh just said the Obama camp is desperate and wants to get the "nag" Hillary to counter Palin.
The same guy that spent 3 hours talking about how the "libs" were making sexist comments about Palin.
right on! @ 13:
You and me both.
It has been my opinion, fwiw, since the beginning of this thing that it is a 'live-action movie/video game' mind set as long as the public does not see the actual dead (funerals) or brutally injured...as we did during Vietnam, and the public will not build up massive protests as happened then.
Miatch @ 7:
Exactly. Just as we'd never hear the end of it if one of HIS daughters got pregnant out of wedlock. But it's OK if some poor hayseed up in the Alaskan boondocks gets knocked up by a self-professed "redneck" who "doesn't want kids."
Of all the myriad things I hate about Republicans, hypocrisy just might top the list. They're the masters of the double standard.
Filthy bastards.
After listening to the voice over in that video, the first thing that came to mind was Forrest Gump.
xoites defends Constitution @ 22:
completely Fake Lives, Fake Caring, Fake Intelligence, Fake Knowledge a.k.a. Fake Facts... as xoites says, the list goes on and on...
Bush likely to scrap nuclear deal with Russia
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04425787.htm
Cold War II.
The best ad yet.
Brilliant!
To the career soldier, every problem looks like a war.
This is a surprise?
How?
Very little is real in Rethug political theater. It's to be expected.
We need to read between the lines and not fall for their culture war stalling action. They have no issues to run on. They've trashed the economy; they've looted the treasury, rolled back worker safety through lax enforcement, transferred billions to their millionaire base, cut social programs to the bone and are doing their best to roll back The Enlightenment.
Their world view is all about bringing about a feudal theocratic plutocracy.
Please forgive me for going off topic, but kos has a must grab story about the green screen behind McCain last night. It falls under the topic of you really just can't make this stuff up.
xoites defends Constitution @ 17:
REAL assholes
This wasn't even the most crass video they showed last night.
Here's KO's reaction to the 9/11 video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTwtR5Q9iS4
The actual video is also on YouTube, but I am choosing not to link to it. Search for it and view it at your own peril.
At this point I’ll have to disagree with Friedman. The offense IS that they used actors – not real funerals, not real soldiers, not real emotional turmoil. For if this war was just, if this war had any value to America or Americans, then those that gave the ultimate sacrifice would be heroes. We would see them and say “God Bless America” – God Bless the willingness of those soldiers, those families for their contribution to that which is right, just, and true.
But it is not right, nor just, nor true.
So they have to fool their audience – just as they fooled most of this country into going to war in the first place.
Reality is a strong rhetorical tool, when it supports your cause. When it doesn’t – you’re most likely selling something.
Phony soldiers and a staged funeral isn't the only fake things going on with these republics creeps... It actually makes total sense in a sick cynical way. Fake soldiers and fake funerals goes right along with the fake change their fake war hero presidential aspirant and his fake soccer/hockey mommy vice presidential sidekick bring to the American public... Phonies and fakes.... Pretty much sums up the republic party and its politicians to me..............end-o-rant.......JD
Ask John McCain about Mai Van On.
Who was the REAL war hero in Viet Nam?
Mai Van On.
Click HERE, or HERE.
I see the repugs are at it again with there lies and half truths. Sarah "the female pit bull" and her lies about the brave hero McCain. He's just stand there with that silly grin on his face and staring at the crowd. I'm amaze that the Mendaious Sounds of Misinformation (MSN) let them get away with the lies about what he did as a POW and how his Wikipidia bio has been scrubbed and the media does not attempt to find the tapes that he made for the North Vietamese. If was a vet of my was Korea he would have been called, not a hero but a traitor, for makeing tapes for the enemy and give the NVA more than he name, rank and serial number.
did anyone other than myself, before 2-28-2008 print his Wiki bio?
just questions
Geraldo @ 34:
With all due respect, that's an oversimplification. It's the cardboard heroes that think the answer is to go to war - Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bush ... and folks like McCain, Mr. 894 out of 899 midshipmen in his class.
Of course, now that the military and political leadership is infested with Christian Dominionists who think it's God's Will that we reclaim the Middle East, it's not that every problem looks like a war, it's every war looks like Armageddon.
Author George Orwell wrote in "1984": war is peace. In an effort to fuel the engines of the war corporations, a nation must be continually at war. The rich get richer. The poor fight the wars. Ready for a draft?
A week and a half ago, idiotic Republicans were concern-trolling over the DNC: Pat Buchanan complaining that Michelle Obama didn't talk about religion, redstate.com (I think) complaining that the Democrats didn't have enough flags... I even saw one conservative expressing outrage at how "inappropriate" Malia Obama's dress was. It was ridiculous.
But to some extent, aren't we concern-trolling ourselves here? They used film footage of actors staging a fake military funeral, and we're outraged about it. But if they had showed real footage, we'd complain about how the dead were being exploited for political gain. (More on that in a minute.) If they showed neither, we'd complain that war casualties were being overlooked. So no matter how they handled it, they'd be doing the wrong thing. Maybe that's appropriate--the Iraq war and occupation are Republican abominations, and we need to hang them around their necks like a dead rotting albatross. But attack them directly on the issue itself, not in a way that comes across looking like petty quibbling.
I just find it incongruous how, on one hand, people are angry (rightly) that the GOP broke the taboo against showing actual footage of the 9/11 attacks for partisan purposes, while on the other hand, they're complaining about faked funeral footage.
"this is also why troops overseas are donating to Obama at a six to one rate over McCain"
And thus, why the wars can never end: it's an effective way of killing off supporters of Democrats!
I can't help but wonder if many of the soldier suicides are people who once pledged their life for the Republican party, and--now that they find themselves betrayed--would rather die than join up with the Democrats.
THIS just in!!!
OT...but lookit anyhow.
Totally awe-inspiring is ya ask me.
http://snipurl.com/3n1iz
Phylter @ 37:
REAL BLOOD shed by REAL people where the Corporate Directory is getting REAL WEALTHY.
CountryIdeology first!What is particularly disturbing is that is not a humanitarian ideology but an corporate impirical one
this post misses the forest for the trees.
there are bigger issues than actors in a video playing soldiers. Nothing about politics is real anyway, I think we should stick to issues like how Palin has been put in a viewing chamber away from the press
I'm not going to take issue with the substance of this post -- that the Republicans don't want to deal with the real cost of war, because it's absolutely correct -- but I will swallow my pride and defend McCain on this one small point:
By law you can't use real troops for things like this.
Dr. Hemlock knows -- he was in the Army for 22 years.
Had it been me, I would simply have foregone the militaristic imagery. But given that they decided to go with it, if you don't use historical/archival material (which they certainly could have done), you're barred from using current military personnel for such purposes.
Oh...and where was McBain flag lapel pin last night?
VietVet8666 @ 10:
man you could have fooled me! richardson biden obama open thier speaches telling you that when they take over its on to the real war against alkida and the taliban, and even packistan if need be, you know they call a guy who sells fish a fishmonger a guy who sell you a woman for sex is a whoremonger , and a bunch of corporation flunkys who sell you more war? you guessed it , warmonger!!!!!!!
xoites defends Constitution @ 17:
Fake F'n F'ks
harley @ 26:
He mentioned he watched the Giants/Redskins game with "squeaky-clean" sportscaster Jim Nantz at Rush's home last night.
Sounds like you have some icky stuff on yourself Nantz. Will you disown Rush now that he has proven to be a sexist, racist, biggot ?
Jeez, what do you expect from a group that doesn't know the difference between Walter Reed Medical Center and Walter Reed Middle School?
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/mccains_speech_a...
What I really despise is what they said during the staged military funeral video:
"I march in Montgomery as we boycott the bus system".
Talk about "sanitized". Let's forget the fact that the civil rights movement all started to end institutionalized segregation in the United States. Let's pretend like they marched in Montgomery to boycott one sole offender, the bus system.
Yeah. I guess they don’t want to offend the fucking racists in the audience. God forbid they faced reality and admitted that blacks were treated like animals.
How about "I march in Montgomery to end segregation and racism"?
What? Is that too much for the GOP crowd to stomach?
liberalNmoderation @ 48:
Oh, what do they all know? They're all pinko, commie, socialists anyway.
Who the heck wants to pay attention to all that "static and background noise" at these REAL military funerals anyway ?
not McSame that's for sure.
liberalNmoderation @ 48:
I disagree.
I think you are on topic.
The GOP uses the troops and their families are PROPS. They do not support them with kevlar vests, armored vehiches and protective equipment, health care when they return, or GI benefits. They vote against funding for all these things. And as they break the human spirit of the soldiers and their families what do they do, they send them back to War for a third, fourth or fith tour. To the GOP, the troops are just PROPS to be used to rally the ignorant.
Jack Damage @ 40:
Wag the dog.
theWalrus @ 58:
when they flashed that on the green screen yesterday, I thought it was the maid's house at one of McCindy's estates.
Hope all of you get a chance to watch Samantha Bee's clip from last night's Daily Show. Of course you don't have to because you have the......what is that word.....hmm you might be doing something else and you might have to make a ........what would that be......a decision to make concerning different alternatives.....the word just isn't coming to me, sorry
Anyway you owe it to yourselves to see this sequence, these people are very, very conflicted. I may have compasssion for their plight but I bloody well don't want them running our country.
ceejaygee @ 15:
What do you propose we do to put Diebold, Sequoia and ESS into check?
The only hope Obama will have is if all ballots are hand counted. ANY computerized counting cannot be trusted.
Sadly, Obama isn't far from McCain in his desire to confront Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and even Russia militarily. I'm quite certain he is supporting (as are all other Congressional Democrats) the dangerously provocative billion dollars in "aid" Bush is sending to Georgia. Obama/Biden also support placing "defensive" shields all around Russia which will truly give the U.S. first strike nuclear capability over Russia. Russia will never allow this. After watching the above video, the last thing ANY American should want is U.S. global military domination! With over 5,000 active nuclear warheads in Russia we should agree to nuclear parity and stop with the wasteful militarism already. When will enough finally be enough? When it's too late?
Personally, I'd rather be voting for Scott Ritter in November. At least I feel he can be trusted. With Brezenski (who HATES Russia and is spoiling for a fight) being Obama's top foreign policy adviser, this does not give me any comfort. If Obama did an about face vis-a-vis his foreign policy positions I would consider working for him full-time.
McCain, Obama and everyone else with a microphone are ALL lying to the American people about what has happened and is happening in Georgia.
So, vote, schmote. Either candidate is pro-military and pro-Israel.
Here's something recent on South Ossetia:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7558619.stm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20677.htm
All that and no FLAG PIN!
Crooks, Liars and HYPOCRITES!
I can't believe that all of you people are buying the bull that Obama is selling to you. You all come off as bitter and uneducated. McCain and Palin are the only ticket for real change in
Washington. I'm from Illinois and let me tell you about Obama. He won an uncontested election and immediately announced he was running for president. We have a terrible economy and another governor going to prison but he didn't care about any of the people who elected him. He has done nothing in this state to help the people and he'll do nothing to help American. John McCain and Sarah Palin both have records of fighting bad policy and winning. Barrack has done nothing in Illinois and he'll do nothing in the White House. Good luck to all of you. I know you can't be convinced to change your opinion because ignorance is bliss. Obviously you are all very happy with a candidate as shallow as yourselves. Hillary would have been at least solid candidate that I would have considered voting for; never for Barrack.
kit wilson @ 44:
Percentage wise, there are more blacks (and minorities) in the military than there are in the general population. So the population that has gotten the shaft in the last some odd decades is the same one that is willing to die for its own country in hopes of advancing itself (with benefits like education, a career after serving etc.).
Now, let's see if some "uppity" POS like Tom Ridge or BillO' would be willing to send their own child to war.
Beth @ 67:
Of course you wouldn't vote for Barrack; his name isn't on the ballot because you misspelled Obama's first name.
I sure hope there is a support group out there somewhere for people that voted for the Bush/Chaney/McCain 'illeagal war machine'....twice! If I had voted for Bush even once I would have killed myself twice.
The sarah palin affair story is about to explode. According to andrew sullivan:
Todd Palin's former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Oh God.
Perhaps it's wise to sit back and watch the firworks for the time being.....
Beth @ 67:
For someone who puts ideology before facts, to come preaching here about us, being the ones less educated, is truly revealing. Delusions of grandeur much?
VietVet8666 @ 10:
Hooray! ...lets play ad lib!
Obama may not be an authoritarian, but he voted for the patriot act.
Obama may not be for wiretapping, but he voted for immunity for AT&T
Obama might not be a republican but....
Beth @ 67:
BRAINWASHED! Have some empathy for this person as you should for the Manchurian candidate McCain.
now this is funny:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/213806.php
To the 'concern troll Beth'...I wish I could say help is on the way for you however there is no health care offered by current Repukes in office..especially mental health! Sorry Beth!
Beth @ 67:
Sorry Beth, you can't have it both ways. If you would have "considered" voting for Clinton than there is NO FREAKIN' way you can even "consider" voting for McSame. There is no common ground on policy or approaches to governing between the two of them.
So we have to assume that you are repuke engaged in nothing but trouble making or as we say here on the series of tubes that make up the Internet, a "troll". That said; begone foul troll doll, go back to the murk and darkness that you and your fellow unamerican freaks inhabit. You have no business here, we're going to fix what went wrong with our country and get on with the people's business. Come back when you can make a meaningful contribution.
ppcli @ 19:
Agreed; it's a good policy. But why use the footage at all then? Why bother going through the motions of showing your patriotism when it's completely fake? Unwilling to show the images of a failed war, are we, Repubs? Don't want to remind the public of what your guy has voted for and supported, do we? Don't want to think about the links between John Bush and George W. McCain, eh?
Yeah, I wouldn't, either.
cynick @ 71:
ya wel it get wicked boring up there in Alaska.
'I’d add that its another example of the glorification of war...'
I think there has been an attempt to 'glorify war' for some years now. I watch mostly informational television, ie the history, discovery, natgeo and learning channel and pubic TV, and of course MSNBC and CNN during the day. Has anyone else noticed the increase in the shows (some weekly) that the venues deal solely with war, warfare, past wars...violence in general and the technologies related to them? I call them testostaroni and warmonger shows. In the middle of the day during summer when kids are home and they are watching them. Also of course the increased ad spots to join the military, mostly the Army or the Marines. Oh let's not forget the weekly dose of fear from 24 that I understand depicts someone being tortured every episode.
Chicken "Hussein" Little - Not! @ 64:
Yeah, that's one of the funniest segments I've ever seen them do. I love Samantha Bee! Hope C&L puts it up soon....I couldn't find it yet on YouTube this morning, but maybe it's up now.
"That is, they feel compelled to stage a funeral with actors. Because to show a real military funeral–with the heaving chests of a broken family clutching a flag-draped coffin containing the pieces of their dead soldier–might just make the funny hat-clad, stupid button-wearing audience blanch. And that doesn’t make for good TV. Plus, people just wouldn’t go for it. So they use sanitized actors. "
This from Wiki, on Sadr City:
"In March 2008, during the Battle of Basra, clashes erupted in Sadr City between the U.S. and the Mahdi Army. There was intensive street by street fighting, with the U.S. relying on Stryker armored vehicles as well as M2A3 Bradley IFV and M1A2 Abrams MBT, and the Mahdi Army using improvised explosive devices allegedly smuggled from Iran.[6] The U.S. launched at least one airstrike, killing 10 reported militants. As of March 29, 2008, about 75 Iraqis have been killed and 500 injured. The Iraq Health Ministry claims these are all civilians, but the U.S. disputes this.[7]"
I just tattooed soldiers who returned from that battle, on leave for all of 18 whole days, despite being on their fourth & fifth deployments. The stories they tell are horrific; ambushes, being pinned down, being abandoned while CO's high tail it out of the line of fire, trying to rescue soldiers so badly burned their skin melted onto the rescuers' hands,... Iraqis wielding AMERICAN sniper riles, & newly made German weapons designed to disable the Bradleys. And the real scummy part, if the wounded make it clear of a fire fight, to die maybe a month later in American hospitals, they aren't counted among American losses.
I can't tell you, with a head full of these stories from our brave troops, how nauseated I am with every single person in power at any level. But this staged sanitized Big Brother bullshit is beyond the pale.
Please, someone arrest the bastards. the Hague is calling.
Does McCain suffer from PTSD?
lisa @ 66:
Glad I'm not the only one who saw that.
Had Obama not worn his...they would crucify him.
JohnnyThief @ 81:
Our current leaders have no interest in the reality of warfare.
A new low. A staged film of a burial. I get that you can't show a real one (thank goodness), but to film a fake one, these people are so sick.
Beth @ 67:
Beth how many McCain points did you earn for this crap? Are you even from Illinois? Gonna earn that picture with McCain? They will up the ante, how much can you raise? How many hours will you work? How many votes will you deliver on election day? Go girl, spin your wheels. The winds of change are coming, and that scares you to the depth of your bones. You are reading the wrong polls and believing them (or want to believe). Go, make a storm shelter for yourself to hide in. People are removing their shackles, oh, maybe not you, but many are no longer afraid of your party's scary bullshit. Beth, how long have you been scared? Since you were a little girl and daddy spoke ill of the democrats and said "they will take everything we have away and give it all to black people? (of course eh used different words)? Go on Beth stay scared till you die, or come out into the light and see the rest of the world. You might like it.
No you won't.
"PICK A CITY, cuz one of them is going."
I totally got shivers from that... he's so right and what a great way to put it.
xoites defends Constitution @ 17:
smk101 @ 16:
How about the FAKE Walter Reed?
One of the images that appeared behind McCain was that of Walter Reed Middle school in North Hollywood Ca, which I pass by almost daily to pick up the kid.. I'm thinking the GOP wanted Walter Reed Army Hospital instead.
The Disneyfication of war.
I think it's fair enough that the Republicans show military funerals. After all, vote GOP and you'll get many, many more of them.
And a fake one? So much the better. Everything else about them is fake. Anything 'real' would be jarring.
Please Make This VIDEO Go Viral...
This is the #1 thing that we need the ignorant American masses to know about John Insane!
This is important!!!
Do you all remember the first time at Bush went to a surprise visit during thanksgiving to Iraq and he held a tray with a turkey on it. Well that turkey turned out to be a fake turkey. Again they are all show.
That was a very powerful video. Thank you.
I can't stand the man. He makes me cringe the same way Bush and his administration does.
"HE'S CREEPY!"
The modern post 1900 republican party has become a party of:
Sexual deviants (they either take it or pay for it) there is a whole website filled with facts about republican pediophiles, rapists, etc....you name it
Psychopaths
Sociopaths
Have absolutely no empathy
No honor
No humanity
Warmongers
Religious freaks
and PEACE does NOT exist in their dictionary.
and if somehow they manage to slime their way into office -
I am OUT OF HERE.
here you go - check it out http://www.armchairsubversive.org/
When will the MSM report that the US was PAYING INSURGENTS AND OTHERS NOT TO FIGHT and then declaring the surge a success? There was a surge of cash along with the surge of troops. What will happen when those payments stop? Will there be a resurgence of the insurgents who stopped fighting because of the surge of cash? Taxpayers need some accounting on where their "hard-earned" money went. There was a surge of money out of their pockets. Where did it go?
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