Well, exactly do you call, this?
If that isn’t a 527 attack ad, can someone please explain to me, what is?
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This comes via the NYT:
The candidate endorsed by Republican leaders to run for a Congressional seat being vacated by Representative Vito J. Fossella died on Sunday morning at his home in Staten Island, party leaders said.
The candidate, Francis H. Powers, a board member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was a retired Wall Street executive and an active contributor to Republican candidates. Mr. Powers, 67, died in his sleep of natural causes, family members said.
“As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family,” Mr. Powers’s son, Brian, said in a statement. “We would appreciate privacy at this time as we make the necessary arrangements.”
Mr. Powers had been selected to run in the November election to succeed Mr. Fossella, who has held the seat since 1997 but who decided not to run for re-election after a personal scandal emerged. Mr. Fossella is the only Republican representing New York City in Congress.
And of course…:
National Democratic leaders have made it clear that they view winning the seat, which has been in Republican hands for 28 years, as a priority. Earlier this month, Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, visited New York to say his party would do “whatever is necessary to win this campaign.”
I wonder what that would be? Maybe like make up lies and smear people and publish pamphlets with false info on them?
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As far as the race card goes, you ain’t heard none of McCain’s surrogates saying crap like, “God Damn America” or “America’s chickens are coming home, to roost.” not even a week after 9/11.
You see, this is why we screwed up in 1964. When we gave the Black Race the special law that we gave them, which my favorite senator and Hero, Barry Goldwater Sr. refused to sign, saying that one could not legislate morality. Not satisfied with that, we gave them their own Holiday, to honor a Communist sympathizer, and immoral degenerate. Now they, being the Black Race, want to rule the damn country, and will ride into the White House, and if ANY conservative tries to bring up his liberal record or any of his polices. They will be painted as a racist bigot. Yeah, I said it, I’m proud of it. We gave them freedom, and they now they want the White Race to shrink in fear. A classic example of “Give ’em an inch, they’ll take a damn mile….”
Sometimes I truly believe, that Trent Lott was absolutely correct.
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Via CNN:
Of course, He might be breaking the law:
18 USC Sec. 713 …
(a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.(b) Whoever, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register, knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells, or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof, except for manufacture or sale of the article for the official use of the Government of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Of course, The Ramones used one, on a tour once:
The difference is, that the Ramones are not running for President and Barack Obama is. So, that might make a difference.
I guess it is up to the Government to decide if they want to enforce the law or not, which you know that they won’t, and face all that backlash? I don’t think so.
Whew! That’s a relief…
So, says David Brooks.
But he does say this:
God, Republicans are saps. They think that they’re running against some academic liberal who wouldn’t wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn’t proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country. They think they’re running against some naïve university-town dreamer, the second coming of Adlai Stevenson.
But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, there’s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol who’d throw you under the truck for votes.
This guy is the whole Chicago package: an idealistic, lakefront liberal fronting a sharp-elbowed machine operator. He’s the only politician of our lifetime who is underestimated because he’s too intelligent. He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.
[….]
All I know for sure is that this guy is no liberal goo-goo. Republicans keep calling him naïve. But naïve is the last word I’d use to describe Barack Obama. He’s the most effectively political creature we’ve seen in decades. Even Bill Clinton wasn’t smart enough to succeed in politics by pretending to renounce politics.
I can’t say I disagree with this. He proved this when he op-ed out of the campaign finance. So, in short, he’s just another slick Liberal. Oh sure, he’ll get elected, go to the White House and not do a damn thing that he promised. Just that simple.
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I want to bring an article to your attention. This article is found over at the McClatchy Washington Bureau, and it’s about an Taliban Ambassador, who welded power at Gitmo.
I am not going to quote it over here, at all. Because it requires the reader to look at the whole story. Now, I’ll let it be known, I have zero sympathy for this guy, he was and still is a member of the Taliban. Who was giving asylum to Osama Bin Ladin. However, the part that strikes me as very disturbing is how we abused their Religion, How we beat them, how we simply treated those people like dirt. Yes, I know we stopped, eventually. But it is the very fact, that we did abuse our prisoners of war.
This is a stain, that will never be removed from the consciousness of America. It is now our stain, our mistake, and we will pay for that mistake, for generations to come. We as Americans will forever be known, as the people who tortured our enemies and are just as bad as the empires of Vietnam, Japan, and other countries who partook in this awful practice. There was a time, when it was known that America did not allow this sort of thing, but that too, like many things in this great Country, are gone forever. Because of this, we are a worse Country for it.
It would be foolish and overly optimistic to think that we could overcome this sort of a blemish, but the fact remains that we brought this stain upon ourselves and it will take decades to even get this out of the active memory of those who wish to bring harm to this country.
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Most of the left is pissed, saying that it’s the same law that was rejected before. The Right seems to be pleased.
Should be interesting, to say the least.
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My reaction?
It can be summed up in 3 words….
Big Honking Deal!
John McCain is going to get his Anus handed to him on a silver platter come November, so, this, is not going to matter, to the General Public at all.
So, while principles are very important, being separated from George W. Bush and a new Direction in Iraq, A New direction for our Nations economy is much, much, more important than this.
Technorati Tags: Politics, Opinon, Barack Obama, John McCain, Campaign Finance, Election 2008, Election 08
Quote:
Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.
Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.
The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations.
The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India. The contracts, which would run for one to two years and are relatively small by industry standards, would nonetheless give the companies an advantage in bidding on future contracts in a country that many experts consider to be the best hope for a large-scale increase in oil production. –Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back – NYTimes.com
When I first read it, I thought…”So?” and then here’s the Moonbat line in the story:
There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract. The Bush administration has said that the war was necessary to combat terrorism. It is not clear what role the United States played in awarding the contracts; there are still American advisers to Iraq’s Oil Ministry.
Nice Accusation, with, of course, Zero Proof.
This should be interesting to watch, and watch the Liberal Democrat use this an excuse to Nationalize the United States oil industry.
(via Memeorandum)
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You know, people will blanch or laugh when I say this, but here’s the proof. Welcome to the new Che Nation, thanks to the God-less Commie Liberals.
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