By Dave Lindorff

The introduction to John McCain at the Republican National
Convention last night was all about family values. There was the paean
to his mother and father, the touching story of his and Cindy’s
adoption of a baby girl from India, and then there was Cindy herself,
who was the focus of much of a gauzy introductory film on McCain, and
who also did the introductory speech, and who brought all the kids up
on stage with her at the end.

By Dave Lindorff

Now that we’ve had a chance to see Sarah Palin and to hear her speak—or at least read the big rolling white block letters on the teleprompter in front of her—we can see that she’s prone to telling whoppers.

Now we know politicians as a group have a propensity to embellish the truth—particularly when describing their opponents or themselves—and even to lie outright, but Palin does it so well, she’s like a George Bush with reading and pronunciation skills.

In her acceptance speech last night, Palin told a whole string of lies. My favorite was talking about little Trig, her latest offspring, who was born with Down syndrome. Looking right out into the camera, she told the parents of America with special needs children that if she and John McCain win in November, “You’ll have an advocate in Washington.”

from the front page of the
Los Angeles Times this morning.

Conflict of interest here?

It is now certain that Palin was NOT
McCain's choice for running mate.

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,6145252.story

Three times in recent years, the Arizona senator's lists of 'objectionable' pork spending have included earmarks requested by his new running mate.

By Tom Hamburger, Richard Simon and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 3, 2008

WASILLA, ALASKA -- For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public scrutiny. He's even gone so far as to publish "pork lists" detailing these financial favors.

Any ideas of places to give money that would run "swift boat" type ads against McCain?  I know Obama won't go for any negative attacks, so it has to come from a third party type campaign.  Would love to see some campaign that deals with the risky, reckless, sleazy, slimy side of McCain.  There is lots of evidence out there and the public deserves to hear it.

This is aletter I posted on the morons "Right to work" for nothing Site

I urge you to flood the site with ridiculing attacks. 

You Sir are a typical Republican coward and a Rupert Murdoch puppet. But HOLY CRAP, you're funny!

Do you really think that any one who is not, or never has been, a part of ORGANIZED LABOR has the slightest idea what your dumbass ads are about?

Those of us within ORGANIZED LABOR are just tickled to tears that your party is stupid enough to waste its money to simply give us all something to laugh about. THANK YOU.

     Adversity is something that Barack Obama knows all too well. He has fought and won some battles along the way earning him a place in our history books for years to come. During his eight years in the Illinois state Senate, Obama worked with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. Obama also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama enlisted the support of law enforcement officials to draft legislation requiring the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.

By Dave Lindorff

There are many reasons why most Americans should be turned off by
Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s last-minute choice of
Sarah Palin as his running mate.

She’s an evangelical Christian who believes in creationism and
thinks this fantasy belongs in the school science curriculum alongside
evolution. She’s opposed to the right to abortion. She thinks global
warming is not a proven phenomenon. She favors drilling for oil in the
Arctic Refuge and damn the environmental consequences. This supposedly
family-centered “hockey mom “is happy about sending her 18-year-old son
off to war in Iraq, even as Iraq is trying to shoo us out of the
country and even as the president is tacitly admitting that the whole
thing is a bust by agreeing to a timetable for withdrawal.

To Cloudancer & Jim, I will admit that I fell down on the job. But as a teenager becoming a US Citizen I can tell you that the  US electoral system is not adequately explained. Even after all these years I still don't understand the Electoral College, but have now decided that I will try again to make my voice heard.

If you have not gone through the naturalization process you have no right to put me down. It is very easy to be highminded if you have not experienced the reality. My thoughts are that if you were born in the US, the country was stuck with you. I was accepted.

I really don't get how this site works, I am pretty confused about how I can get my feelings known. Is there anyone that is willing to help me navigate this site?

By Dave Lindorff

One of the sorrier legacies of eight years of Bush and Cheney in the White House has been the conflation of the terms “National Security” and “Foreign Policy” by both Republicans and Democrats.

Granted that the history of US foreign policy in the world has been heavily larded with wars, many of them at America’s instigation. It is nonetheless true that foreign policy is much bigger and more far reaching than just what has come to be known as “national security” issues.

In Bush-speak, national security come to mean having big guns, lots of heavily armed troops, cruise missiles, nuclear weapons, naval armadas and a bully’s willingness to use these weapons on a whim, with no thought of consequences.