Obama, McCain and the "worst case scenario"
By Nicole Belle Sunday Sep 21, 2008 9:10pm(Guest Posted by SteveAudio)
Preeminent legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein, tells TheREALnews.com that we should put more energy and resources into preventing future climate change crisis. Cass talks about how our thoughts about "the worst case scenario" of terrorism are more salient in our thoughts and influential in public policy than our thoughts and policy concerning the worst case scenario of climate change. Cass points out that the worst case scenario of climate change is far more likely to occur than a terrorist attack. Cass later points out that climate change is not a high priority for McCain, in contrast with Obama, whose top concerns include the close relationship among national security, environmental protection, and energy independence. This is one of those policy battles where we have to hope voters understand that having a more complicated view and approach is a good thing.
McCain's straight mess express:
In a not unrelated piece, Pepe Escobar from TheREALnews.com details several of McCain's ties with paid oil company lobbyists. And McCain's stance on the economy is completely ripped apart in this one:
"From his lobbyists, to the economy and foreign policy, McCain's express off the rails. John McCain has been in Washington for 26 years. In the last 8 years he voted with George W. Bush 90% of the time. He admits he knows nothing about economics. Even some of his advisers admit he cannot run a company. But he knows K Street very well – the campaign of the self-styled maverick happens to be swamped by lobbyists"
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Weeeeeeee
What would WcCain's lobbyists tell him to do !
As The NY Times Once Told Al Gore, the Key is to Make Climate Change More Dramatic
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=2106
"Please hold on to the bar..."
Jesus in a jumpy castle, there is no fucking R in "Warshington"
We get it grandpa..... you desperately want to start another war. Unfortunately, that doesn't give you the right to change the pronunciation of our capital to include your destructive fetish.
McCain ........ Absofuckinglutely clueless.
great commentary from pepe
btw, that line that palin gave, about taking less from small biz....well ask the small oil companies how that tax she passed is assisting them...cuz it aint...the only ones that can afford it are the large oil companies....
and when did palin ever have a successful small biz
Like it or not McCain is dangerously close to winning this election. We simply do not have enough buffer, if any. Please, please, please email the DNC and ask them to step up the attacks. What the hell is going on with the dem campaign? Dems are getting beat by a bimbo whose main qualification is nice jugs. Do not underestimate the power of those those tatas. They will be working overtime during these last days of this campaign. One thing about republicans, they understand their base. McCain gave them a really nice set of jugs to look at. That will help distract them as McRichyRich gives away with the few remaining scraps of our economy to his wall street buddies.
Connecting the dots, Rove, Palin, AIP, KKK and other assorted white supremacists.
time to worry and stop these scum, whose goal is seizing America and turning the clock back 200 years.
September 10, 2008 -- Palin's adviser base and political affiliations are Klan and neo-Nazi
Cass Sunstein also thinks that impeachment should be off the table, and also criminal culpability if Obama becomes president -- that appearances of revenge matter more than the rule of law, and that an administration's policy cannot be criminal....
Cass Sunstein is a pompous ass. I wouldn't take his advice on anything worth more than two cents.
Sarah Palin quoted Westbrook Pegler in her acceptance speech, who was a fascist writer and an avowed racist.
When you are actually old enough to remember Pearl harbor thats not difficult to do.
So with all these years of experience, why only now is WcCain suddenly a sensible financial Republican,
dare we say its all about jumping onto the bandwagon and erasing his past flip flops, and support of spend spend spend.
Otay @ 10:
If Obama farts within 100 ft of a republican during his presidency, you can bet the republicans will impeach. We needed to impeach Bush. If Pelosi had impeached, then we wouldn't be sitting in virtual tie with McCain. Republicans say - you dems are weak, Bush is the most sleaziest, most criminal president ever and you are too scared to impeach. What the hell do you have to do to be impeached? It must be realllllllly bad.
ferrofluid@11
Thanks for that link. Personally, I loved RFK and that Mrs Rebel without a clue quoted this filthy pig is despicable. Even Bobby Jr. publically called him a fascist---that's the first time I can ever remember him using such a term against someone. But Pegler deserves it---and some.
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And the media is still giving him a freeride with no mention of Keating five mess. Will they ever bring it up?
It's Happened, The American Worse Case Scenario Is Now Our Reality.
by The Old Hippie Because It Is Here, And The Allowing May Possibly Not Be Allowed To Stop.
I'm not going to rant. Like so many others in the reality-based American citizenry, I've ranted, warned, pleaded, begged, and rationalized as rationally and loudly as possible, until I'm blue in the face, with very little success, and mostly in vain, as the following proofs of our shared reality clearly exposes to even the most skeptical, and/or naive American.
Note: The following links are just “get you started” links. Please do further research of your own, think, talk about it, and spread the word to as many of the as of yet unawakened as you are able - Or there is simply no hope - And that is not bombast any longer, as it’s already way too late in way too many areas, and way too many American citizens still aren't aware it has happened.
The Proofs: [The “order” of this listing is not significant, as most are of equal importance.]
ferrofluid (Obama + Biden = 2008) @ 11:
What a coincidence. She was born in Sandpoint, Idaho when it was considered mecca for white supremacists.
Terrorism AND man created global warming are BOTH HOAXES.
The government CREATES problems, which create fear in the people, then the exact same people offer their solutions. Which is ALWAYS more government power. When will people wake up.
The REAL 'worst case scenario' is for people to continue to believe the government.
freeman @ 18:
And what exactly is the solution of the government for man created global warming hoax?
Don Davis @ 3:
Ok here you go..I wish this vid would go viral. The first one did. This one is much much better but has only gotten half a million views. We need more people to watch it.
"Who cares if someone wants to burn the flag on the courthouse lawn if the whole city is flooded"
Good stuff...please watch and pass on. It reaches people at a gut level, with humor, but with a seriousness that is frightening.
How it all ends - climate crisis and we're in the test tube
The environments 2 potential WORST offenders. Palin is apex predators worst nightmare, ANWR's death sentence and Bristol Bay's water qualities damnation.
Please please donate to defendersactionfund.org. It's the only worthwhile 527 we have out there and it needs to be played on daytime TV when WOMEN watch more television. Every market it has played in it has swayed a lot of people.
We started in OH, last week added FL and hope to add PA MI WI really soon since we only have 39 days.
It was encouraging going to the MoveOn anniversary party and a lot of members didn't know about the ad buy or the ad and were really excited about it.
Poor old mccain I say my grandfather go through the same kind of thing.
Of coarse we saw ronnie reagan go through it also.
Do we really want someone that is losing their mind to be the president?
I gusee some do afterall these people voted for a person that didn't have a brain g w bush!
The Obama campaign needs to stress that McCain's two top economic advisors are Phil Gramm (who was the spearheader of deregulation and called us a nation of whiners) and Fionia (forget herlast name), former head of Hewitt Packard, who practically ran the company into the ground, fired 20,000 workers and was herself fired. She was given a "severance" package of over $40,000,000. And throw in the Keating Five scandal too!
Worst case scenario is taxpayers take the trillion B/S bailout money and invest in advanced solar research and get off the oil tit. Good for AMERICA bad for the oil economy and it's leaches Bush, Condi, Dick. Solar is one and done payment no market to manipulate.
Otay @ 10:
Bingo. And the idea that Sunstein is some "preeminent" scholar is nonsense. He is much closer to being "our" side's Addington.
Compared to McCainchurian, George Putz was his own man and not a puppet. McCainchurian isn't a marionette, he's an empty suit with somebody inside.
If The Stuff really existed, I'd swear he's eating it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/
Too bad climate change ISN'T treated as a worst case scenario -- not only is it more likely to happen (already is in fact) but it will affect ALL of us where a terrorist attack, no matter how broad, will only affect a relative few of us.
Grampy McSame is too much past his prime to run for POTUS.
I wonder if during the interviews he is given a small earpiece that Joe Lieberman or any of his "advisors" speak to him thru so that he tries to understand what he is talking about, which may be a little less sneaky than when George W. Bush is speculated to have had that same device in the debate with John Kerry 4 years ago. What would make McSame appear more obvious is his clueless responses that he can barely hear into the earpiece, or thinking he is using an old military ham radio, where he'd blurt out: "Come in, come in! May Day! May Day!"
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