June 2008 - Political Certainty

We are leaving in the morning for the start of an 8-day cruise for our 50th anniversary, together with kids, grandkids, spouses. I will be keeping a diary of sorts and, if it comes out interesting, I’ll be submitting posts.

I hereby request that others be on the alert for silly right-wing blabbering in my absence so that the writers can be called into account

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Are Senator and Mrs. Obama evil?

June 14th 2008 13:24

The Conservative spokespeople and rumor spreaders seem to think so -- the truth be damned, the Right is on the side of God.

SL and others repeatedly assert their knowledge comes from Fox and its commentators. Thery will not read anything else, lest their opinions be put in question

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More on the Supreme Court’s Habeas Corpus ruling

June 13th 2008 20:51

An excellent and timely article was posted by Damo the other day in which the decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that the Writ of Habeas Corpus was available to detainees at Guantanamo.

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Political ad Fiscal Conservatives supporting Obama?

June 11th 2008 19:37

An article in The New Republic is worth consideration and analysis. Bruce Bartlett, a well respected author and rock hard GOP conservative, notes the increasing number of conservatives and supply-siders who are supporting Senator Obama. These "Obamacons" are a diverse and interesting group.

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The Green Slime starts and the eating of kittens

June 11th 2008 12:12

The Lovely Joan was speaking the other morning to her New Jersey sister-in-law who explained why she and many of her friends would not vote for Barack Obama. Whenever challenged to explain specifically why Senator Obama was in such disfavor among Jews who acknowledge that Democrats are more likely be in favor of more liberal-progressive programs and policies than the GOP, the responses are not at all clear. There is, from that which I gather, an almost visceral feeling that the Democratic nominee is lacking in patriotism, experience and attitude; he is, ultimately, unready or unfit to be president. There is, unfortunately, an undercurrent of racism, an emotion that should be identified and utterly rejected by a group such as Jews or other minorities who have been the victim of prejudice over the centuries.

At the heart of the negative feelings are the masses of e-mail and person-to-person suggestions that Senator Obama is anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, weak, inexperienced, a close associate of weird and anti-American and anti-Caucasian people and a general all around bad guy

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The story that must be remembered and a book that should be read

June 11th 2008 00:48

The June 9th post of Arianna Huffington in her excellent site is of the greatest importance to us all. Ms Huffington remarks that the Senate Intelligence Committee Report, issued at a time when we might have been distracted by the Clinton-Obama finale, is a 200 page analysis on how the Bush administration misrepresented secret intelligence to justify the newly coined Doctrine of Pre-emptive War. As a result we invaded a country which posed no immediate threat to the United States, resulting in newly created and motivated terrorist groups, a distrust of the United States among our allies and, ultimately an increase in the danger to our nation. Our economy is hurt, our national image weakened, our military forces likewise weakened, all to satisfy the shifting rationales of our leaders.
We know all of this. Ms Huffington continues,

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Want to be afraid? Really afraid?

June 5th 2008 23:42

There are two articles in The Washington Post that should be read carefully. If the material doesn't scare the stuffings out of you, read them again!

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Senator Lieberman: Have you no shame, no decency?

June 3rd 2008 00:21

My title paraphrases the question posed to Joseph McCarthy by Joseph Welch in 1954: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

I have had a long-standing admiration for Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. I confess that some of this admiration was based on his religious ideology and on his liberal-progressive political stances. My first inkling that I would be disappointed, eventually, was when he ran against anti-Iraqi war, Ned Lamont, promising, "I am confident that the situation is improving enough on the ground that by the end of this year, we will begin to draw down significant numbers of American troops," he said in October 2006, "and by the end of the next year more than half of the troops who are there now will be home." Within weeks after winning that election, of course, Lieberman was joining with Sen. John McCain, his friend and ideological ally, in support of sending 30,000 additional American troops to Iraq -- and bringing exactly none home

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A Choice between Idealism and Pragmatism

June 2nd 2008 20:15

Gary Hart has an interesting article published in The Huffington Post yesterday in which he suggests that the dichotomy between Liberal and Conservative is not as important and significant in Democratic politics as is the inclination of serious voters to favor

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