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If the MSM would get out of the tank for Obama and report just half of this information he would be not only taken out of the presidential race but impeached from the Senate.

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I doubt if Obama will pick Evan Bayh for his running mate, though it would be good one. The problem is Bayh is a Democrat in a strong Republican state with a Republican governor, Mitch Daniels. If an Obama/Bayh ticket should win the presidential election Senator Bayhs' seat in the US Senate would become vacant and a Republican governor would pick Bayh's replacement. I doubt Gov. Daniels would select a Democrat to fill Evan Bayhs' senate seat. This would mean one less Democrat in the Senate in January, 2009. The Senate Democrats want every seat they can win and voluntarily giving up one is not an option.

Danny L. McDaniel
Lafayette, Indiana

The major issue of the week has been the McCain people stating clearly that Obama has been playing the RACE CARD during this year's Campaigns - from the South Carolina primary onward to this summer when Obama keeps on attempting to charge that the Republicans are "going to make people afraid of him."

NOT that the Republicans have said or done anything racist yet, HOWEVER OBAMA KEEPS ON SAYING THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO BE RACISTS SOON.

Obama's campaign theme now is: YOU ARE A RACIST UNTIL YOU VOTE FOR OBAMA.

In response we post these Video Clips from all the major news FOX MSNBC CNN netwoks:

CLIPS OF OBAMA PLAYING THE RACE CARD THIS YEAR IN SOUTH CAROLINA: http://tinyurl.com/6gcstl

This is absolutely incredibly AMAZING.

This short Video clip includes THE LATE TIM RUSSERT OF NBC NEWS directly calling out Obama on Obama's Playing of the RACE CARD DURING OBAMA'S CAMPAIGNING IN SOUTH CAROLINE THIS YEAR in the Primary Campaign - in a Divisive and Extremely Shameful and Negative Manner.

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Review: Video clips of Obama playing the RACE CARD during this year's Campaign.

Video Clips from all the major netwoks:

http://tinyurl.com/6gcstl

Video clips include Tim Russert directly calling out Obama on Obama's Playing of the RACE CARD in the Campaign in a Divisive and Extremely Shameful and Negative Manner.

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Review: Video clips of Obama playing the RACE CARD during this year's Campaign.

Video Clips from all the major netwoks:

http://tinyurl.com/6gcstl

Video clips include Tim Russert directly calling out Obama on Obama's Playing of the RACE CARD in the Campaign in a Divisive and Extremely Shameful and Negative Manner.

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Review: Video clips of Obama playing the RACE CARD during this year's Campaign.

Video Clips from all the major netwoks:

http://tinyurl.com/6gcstl

Video clips include Tim Russert directly calling out Obama on Obama's Playing of the RACE CARD in the Campaign in a Divisive and Extremely Shameful and Negative Manner.

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"...Republican attempts at new regs..."

WOW, you mean Repubs wanted to regulate something other than people's personal lives???

Gimme a break.

Review: Video clips of Obama playing the RACE CARD during this year's Campaign.

Video Clips from all the major netwoks:

http://tinyurl.com/6gcstl

Video clips include Tim Russert directly calling out Obama on Obama's Playing of the RACE CARD in the Campaign in a Divisive and Extremely Shameful and Negative Manner.

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Excellent blog. good luck.

Dodd? This lowlife was taking bribes from the Tan Man at Countrywide. Dodd was incharge of watching Fannie. Fannie bought all of the Tan Mans fraudulent paper. This is the biggest scandal in US history and media ignores it. Why? Cause there has been no larger greaser of the DC lobbyist scene than these carpetbaggers. There is no telling how many bad trades were done as pay back for Dem politic contributions. Raines is still a free man. Barney Frank who stopped all Republican attempts at new regs several years ago,after Raines had looted the company,is now charged with the solution? WTF is going on here. This is insanity.

What you really need to be asking is,"will this guy be on ticket in nov". He is coming apart like a cheap suit. With each passing day Hillary looks like the Dem candidate but alas,again the Dems have managed to give us a candidates most reasonable people are scared to death of. Algore,Lurch,Obama,Hillary.
Did Obama notice that just the mention he might be for some types of drilling hammered the oil price down $4? The Dems plan to use strategic oil is akin to the father of 7 cashing in his life insurance policy to take bungee jumping lessons. Insanity. Still no mention from the media on how Dems and Barney Frank looted Fannie and have almost destroyed the entire US financial system. Now Dems want to take over health and energy. Please. Bush may sound like a moron but guys like Barney and Obama dont appear to be very smart

I think to say that Obama cannot pick any woman other than HRC is a HUGE slap in the face of women in general. There are several women would would be qualified to be VP and they should not be overlooked just because HRC lost the nomination for Pres.

There is one person who just popped into my mind as a VP choice for Obama who hasn't been mentioned by anyone. I'd be curious to hear what the negatives would be or why this person hasn't been mentioned: NC Gov. Mike Easley.

PG

37th&OStreet was way out in front on this issue:

From today's Washington Post:

By Juliet Eilperin and Jonathan Weisman
Raising a politically-explosive issue for the first time this election, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this morning of invoking the specter of race in order to bolster his electoral prospects.

The charge came in reaction to comments the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had made at three separate stops in Missouri Wednesday, where Obama suggested Republicans were trying to scare voters away from him.

"So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," he told voters in Springfield. "You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis countered this morning with a terse but harsh statement: "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

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Posted by: 37th&OStreet | July 31, 2008 9:46 PM

@ TIC: Que huevado de leche la vaina tuya!

If McCain wants economic policy help and some help re-coralling country-club Republicans he'll pick Romney. If he needs to shore up his base, he'll pick Huckabee. If he can't stand the thought of having a VP smarter than he is, he'll pick Pawlenty. If he's looking for someone who shares his values he'll pick Reverends Ted Haggard or Pat Robertson.

If Barack Obama wants a VP who is experienced in foreign affairs, it'll be Sam Nunn. If someone who'll bring the feminists in, it's Hillary Clinton. If he wants someone with a military background, it'll be Jim Webb. If he wants a VP who he's in full agreement with and shares his values, it'll be either Louis Farrakhan or Jerimiah Wright Jr.

Colin Powell is satan and needs to be doing triple-life in The Hague. Sam Nunn? Is that a joke or what? Joe Biden? Does Obama really need a guy who called him a "clean Negro" at the outset of the campaign whose idea of debate preparation is doing double his normal amount of crystal meth? Bayh and Sibelius? Does anyone know what they stand for besides the death penalty and the war? Kaine seems OK....but RENDELL is BEST, that is...if the country is "ready" to have a Black and a Jew on the same ticket. That that's even a question is absurd but you're in America don't forget.

Rendell's a very loyal Democrat and brings Obama all of the kind of Western PA and Ohio voters Obama needs and can keep the gendergap narrow in a lot of ways especially given the weak choices McCain has to pick from. Romney really is McCain's best choice but I think McCain has worse problems with Mittens than Obama does with HRC.

I believe Rendell's out of consideration though. So, I think Kaine or Bayh work well enough. HRC is best choice.

Colin Powell has made it pretty clear he has no ambition to higher office (he never seemed too enthusiastic for the offices he held before, but they were "up his alley").

Russ Feingold wouldn't really bring any extra votes were he chosen. Any voter who would be drawn to him is almost certainly going to vote for Obama anyway.

Politically, HRC would clearly be the best choice. But personal chemistry is at least as important as political considerations, and it's easy to see why Obama resists choosing her.

I continue to hold with the idea that Obama really can't choose a woman without choosing HRC (it would be like buying cubic zirconium when a diamond cost the same amount).

I think Biden and Sam Nunn are figures from the past, Reed and Bayh are too boring. Tim Kaine seems a little too "talkative."

I think Obama should look to the House, or at least to other people who aren't on people's "short lists."

Gotta love all the buzz over Obama's soon-to-be VP selection, one he says will not be based on geography or composition.
First, can we PLEASE stop all the HRC talk?!?

Whether you lose by one vote or 100,000, you lose. Hillary lost as a consequence of her mistakes and failed gambles - and because she, well, is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Voters gazed through the disguise and saw the uncompromising, love-it-or-hate-it entity (not to mention a two-headed one with Bill always in tow).

If you were from another country and heard Hillary campaign this spring, you'd have thought SHE was the neocon. She sounded more Republican than the actual GOP nominee (who now is a mouthpiece for the Bush cronies he publicly berated just eight years ago).

There is a fine line between moving to the center of the political spectrum and selling out your progressive base. Hillary not only crossed that line, but tripped over it and never recovered. She gambled and she lost.

Look, the Clintons were great for their time, but did little - if anything - for the progressive movement.

Bill Clinton presided over a wonderful period in America. We had eight years of peace and prosperity. A balanced budget. A surplus. Low unemployment. Low gas prices. The '90s were as fruitful for the middle class as the 2000s have been for the very powerful and obscenely wealthy.

However, Bill Clinton's years were not a success in the eyes of true Democrats. Unfairly exposed or not, Bill's personal flaws forced a pathetic legacy that reads not of healthcare, jobs or security, but merely personal survival.

As much as I didn't want to admit it, as much as I campaigned for John Edwards, Obama is simply the right man for this time. He can do great things.

He can begin to lift us from the quagmire caused by an administration that will no doubt be judged by legitimate historians and objective observers as the most destructive, incompetent and deceptive in our republic's short lifespan.

First, in order to position himself to mop up mess after mess left by Bush/Cheney, Obama must survive this lengthy and nasty general election process. There are some incredibly influential people who stand to lose should Obama triumph.

These financial giants and war mongers will not give up control without a bare-knuckled fight, as evidenced by their current puppet, McCain's, violent shifts towards offshore drilling and embracing of the far-right dogma he shunned as a "maverick" for so many years.

For Obama to not only succeed, but do so convincingly, he must provide himself legitimacy and leverage to perform these tall tasks. He needs a veteran by his side to FIGHT for change - not just one who can talk about it or symbolize it by some prima facia perception like governors Tim Kaine, the presumptive favorite, or Kathleen Sebelius.

Obama is smart, tenacious and has surrounded himself with seasoned advisors. He has earned trust and endured more attacks in nine months than Bush has in eight years. Obama has shown he's able to carry the burden - and fear - of change on his own bony yet sturdy shoulders.

That said, in a running mate, Obama needs an attack dog. He needs foreign policy gravitas. He needs someone with raw guts. A politician who can talk milk and potatoes with grocery shoppers while explaining the real dangers of Pakistan to cynical crowds at the local VFW post.

We've had eight years of unchecked hubris. Why not some hubris from the left now?!?
Tim Kaine, in this regard, brings little to the table except to try and turn Virginia blue and gather up some key independents and jaded Republicans. Ditto Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh.

It's our turn, and we need somebody who has scratched and battled for change for years. That is not "same old beltway politics", that is experience FOR change and the resume to back it up.

That said, my top three picks for who would clearly be Obama's most effective campaigner AND staunch assistant executive are as follows: Joe Biden, Joe Biden and Joe Biden.

The man is passionate, experienced and noble. He single-handedly neutered Rudy Gulliani and exposed "America's Mayor" for the manipulating the fears and anxieties of the 9-11 attacks for his political gain.

Joe Biden gives Obama, not only a safety net that Bayh or Kaine would provide, but a springboard to go and do the great things that must be done in these next four turbulent years.

Any other VP choice - no matter what Obama says - is simply for geographical and/or cosmetic purposes only and will be less an asset than Biden ever would prove a liability.

- RBJ

I would LOVE to see Gen Colin Powell on the ticket as VP. But he would never do it. He hates the level of scrutiny that comes with running for public office. And if the Repubs had the gall to BOO him when he gave his speach to the Repub National Convention in 1996, you can only imagine what they'd do to him if he ran with Barack Obama.

If it weren't for the fact that Rhode Island's Gov is a Repub, I would go for Sen. Jack Reed. Assuming the Gov picks the replacement Senator, we can't afford to give up ANY Senate seats.

I like Sam Nunn, though he does look a bit old and worn down when standing next to Sen Obama.

At this point, I don't think the VP pick needs to be able to "bring" a state. I just think the VP pick can't "cost" us a state. In such a scenario, the options are wide open and I'm glad its not a decision I have to be the one to make.

PG

People need to look at who the only guy in Washington who ids getting anything done is...

that is who Obama needs standing next to him.

If the problem in Washington is the bipartisan garbage and lobbyists...(which it is) then shouldn't we go with the person who can fix that problem as his VP?

Read a newspaper over who has passed the most legislation in the past 3 months across the aisle ?

that is who Obama should choose for VP.

how about REALLY breaking the mold of wack politics, and reach across the isle and get Gen. Colin Powell. Now there's a dream ticket.

I've been saying all along that Joe Biden is the man we need vor Veep of the U.S.

He has got the foreign policy experience -- big time. He is a voice of moderation. He would be excellent ballast. He will chew up and spit out Mitt Romney in debate.

And he has a beautiful crop of white hair.

HILLARY HILLARY HILLARY. MY BELIEF IS THAT SHE HAS EARNED THE RANK AND HAS THE EXPERIENCE. I HOPE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DOES NOT INSULT MY CONVICTION AND INTELLIGENCE BY PUTTING UP A WOMAN OTHER THAN HILLARY FOR VICE PRESIDENT...PERHAPS THEY CAN FIND A HILLARY LOOK ALIKE...PLEASE DO NOT BLAME IT ON BILL CLINTON. HE WAS AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT AND I FOR ONE DID MUCH BETTER WHEN HE WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THE DYNAMIC DUO OF OBAMMA/HILLARY IN MY OPINION SECURE THE DEMOCRATS THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE NEXT 16 YEARS....SO WHAT'S GOING ON GUYS AND I SAY GUYS FOR A REASON. ALTHOUGH HILLARY MAY HAVE PUT 18 MILLION HOLES IN THE GLASS CEILING, I AM RUNNING OUT OF PATIENCE WAITING FOR IT TO BE SHATTERED. I DO NOT THINK THE DEMOCRATS VALUE EITHER MAY CONVICTION OR VOTE...SO SO BE IT.

Oh Obama...Better hear us. David Gergen spoke the truth - your poll numbers are going nowhere if you cannot rise after a great foreign tour. So he said you, if you want to win, better choose Hillary Clinton as your running mate. He said that Hillary and Bill campaigning for Obama would be a powerful tag team indeed - one far too much for McCain to handle.

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I was wondering why more posters are not speaking about governor schweitzer. I believe Bob Graham from Florida would be an excellent choice as well. He has foreign policy experience and would put Florida in play just as much as Sam Nunn does Georgia.

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Why wont people let go of the primaries? Its over and done with. Hillary thought she had it in the bag and Obama beat her out. Stop beating the guy down because people on fox would make comments in poor taste about her. ITS FOX! Its not Obamas place to stand up and dis-own, distance him self, or whatever the new word this week is for EVERYTHING.

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"Why is Feingold not mentioned for a possible Obama VP pick?"

Duh! It's a job that requires total loyalty, but Feingold is the ultimate loose cannon.

What does it mean to play the race card from the bottom of the deck? How is that different from just playing the race card?

37th&OStreet was way out in front on this issue:

From today's Washington Post:

By Juliet Eilperin and Jonathan Weisman
Raising a politically-explosive issue for the first time this election, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this morning of invoking the specter of race in order to bolster his electoral prospects.

The charge came in reaction to comments the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had made at three separate stops in Missouri Wednesday, where Obama suggested Republicans were trying to scare voters away from him.

"So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," he told voters in Springfield. "You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis countered this morning with a terse but harsh statement: "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

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37th&OStreet was way out in front on this issue:

From today's Washington Post:

By Juliet Eilperin and Jonathan Weisman
Raising a politically-explosive issue for the first time this election, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this morning of invoking the specter of race in order to bolster his electoral prospects.

The charge came in reaction to comments the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had made at three separate stops in Missouri Wednesday, where Obama suggested Republicans were trying to scare voters away from him.

"So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," he told voters in Springfield. "You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis countered this morning with a terse but harsh statement: "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

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Real Choices-

No it's the 50% of the Dem nomination voters that are owed- she should be asked- she should refuse- but she should be asked.

Your constant and irrational hatred and accusations about her over the months do not speak well for your candidate. Find a hobby and let go- she dropped out- 2 months earlier than Saint Edward Kennedy had with more than 3 times the delegates he had. She has been a good sport. Now it's your turn.

Leon

*Breaking* Obama hides his Indonesian Identity. Obama had dual citizenship with Indonesia.

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/breaking-obama-hides-indonesian-identity-fake-birth-certificate-explained/#comments

His 1981 college trip to Pakistan, he entered on an Indonesian passport, not a U.S. passport.

The Hillary supporters should can their outrage that she isn't going to be VP. Vice-Presidents don't select themselves. Just because she wanted it doesn't mean it was owed to her.

37th&OStreet was way out in front on this issue:

From today's Washington Post:

By Juliet Eilperin and Jonathan Weisman
Raising a politically-explosive issue for the first time this election, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this morning of invoking the specter of race in order to bolster his electoral prospects.

The charge came in reaction to comments the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had made at three separate stops in Missouri Wednesday, where Obama suggested Republicans were trying to scare voters away from him.

"So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," he told voters in Springfield. "You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis countered this morning with a terse but harsh statement: "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

If McCain is on the verge of imploding as his campaign's bizarre antics would indicate, then unfortunately Obama could pick whoever the hell he wanted, Mickey Mouse even, and though no one would be pleased, it may not even matter.

Looks like someone failed to vet McCain.

Looks like McCain married into the mob...

http://www.girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/02/john-mccain-and-mob.html

Compromise: (verb) To expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute:

Can't have a compromised POTUS

End of story. End of McCain.

Not that this (ss) has anything to do with vetting a veep!

At the end of 2006 the Social Security Trust Fund surplus stood at over 2 trillion dollars. The Clinton Administration actually presided over a real budget surplus, without resorting to any anomalous accounting tricks, attested to by the fact that several hundred billion dollars of debt was paid down by 2000. Interestingly enough, the reforms were enacted during the Reagan Administration that made the Trust Fund solvent.

The nation was running on a surplus and that was the important thing.

Posted by: DDAWD | July 31, 2008 3:47 PM

Not really. there is that whole "lockbox" thing - you know the money that will need to be paid back eventually. too bad it has been spent. when SS payouts exceeds its income (coming soon) there will be nothing to do but raise taxes or reduce payouts. this pyramid scheme is illegal for real pension funds.

Obama's soution is to raise taxes - surprise. that's the change you are voting for. the proper solution is to retire the government from the pension business entirely. just another big program thay have completely messed up.

As one utterly disgusted by the misogyny and wrongful bias that continues to perpetuate in the media and among some in the campaigns, I'll say this: if Obama shows that fairness is not in fact his mantra and that he is in fact not different, not brave, but just another same-old-same-old by denying Hillary and THE HALF OF DEMOCRATS THAT VOTED FOR HER the ticket, and if McCain is smart enough to put a reasonable figure like Collins or Snowe on his ticket, then this life-long Democrat, Iraq or no-Iraq, will be sorely tempted to change her tune. I am so angry at the arrogance of my Obama Democrat friends, at the dismissal of the rampant misogny, which, frankly, in the grander scheme, is a much bigger issue than Iraq. The numbers alone prove that HC is the best choice by far for a running mate. This situation is so insulting to the half of us Democrats who voted for HC. My vote is definitely not a given. And, Tim Kaine isn't going to get it.

please, please, please, Obama, not Biden. He's one of the leading alcohol supremacist bigots in the country.

Why is Feingold not mentioned for a possible Obama VP pick? If Obama wants to cash in on the changing Washington theme, why not pick the guy who has changed campaign finance and who Obama himself worked with on ethics and lobbying reform? These guys have an established track record of already changing Washington together.

Also, he's the #2 budget hawk in the Senate (no tax and spend liberal) and sits on the Intelligence Committee (adds foreign policy cred). Judgement? Feingold is the only Senator who voted against the extremely flawed Patriot Act 1.

Another thing you people seam to forget
mr Mc Bush was pulled from sure death by a little vet nom man whitch surley saved his life hummmmmmmmm what did the wonderful war
hero do gave him a lapel pin worth $5.00
and has $100.000.00 yep one hundered million Mr Mc Bush lives to run for president the man that made this all this happen has died and mr Mc Bush didnt even
send flowers so dont tell me hes a hero he is the worste form of an american ive ever heard about yep i lost family friends in the nom war he is not fit to be this great nation,s president for just this alone But wait why did he shun this little man could it be he,s a lier he lies a lot now this little man may have been able to shed some light on the ???????????????? war hero think about this and tell me there is anyone on this sight that would not help and make sure this mans family and he would
ever wont for anything if you had $100.000.000.00 million dollars now tell me MR JOHN BUSH SHOULD BE PRESIDENT

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fuel we could save Ha Ha Ha Obama gets an A
Mc Bush gets an F

"Clinton's so-called "balancing of the budget" was a sham, just like both the Clintons are, since they merely cooked the books by amalgamating Social Security income as general income."

This wasn't cooking the books. This was well known.

I'm just curious why this was such a problem. Ultimately, the budget was balanced. It's just that social security wasn't a stand alone system. I'm no economist, so I might be missing some ramifications, but I really didn't see the problem. The nation was running on a surplus and that was the important thing.

Just to be fair, since I am totally non-partisan and care only for America rather than either political party, I will agree with something Zouk wrote: "Liberal [Democrat] solution to any problem - raise taxes and spend more."

Now that is a trite and mindless sentiment, but true to a large extent. It's called an attempt at "pay as you go"--though with the liberals they still spend more than they tax. Result: the national debt increases.

I'm certain Zouk will ALSO proudly proclaim the other side of the equation: Conservative [Republican] solution to any problem - give tax cuts (to some), borrow, and spend more. Result: the national debt increases, and increases, and increases.

By 1985 under Reagan, America had become the greatest debtor nation in the history of the world. Clinton's so-called "balancing of the budget" was a sham, just like both the Clintons are, since they merely cooked the books by amalgamating Social Security income as general income. Under Bush-Cheney, well, America is now in debt beyond human comprehension--to infinity and beyond.

And who have the Republicans borrowed so heavily from and hocked America to??--China, Japan, and certain Middle East countries, dubious friends to say the least. So America is totally in debt for generations to come, at least, and our debt rests largely in the hands of countries that we really should want to be controlling America.

A plague on both these parties! They've made worms-meat of America!

Exxon Mobil today broke its own record for the highest-ever profit by a U.S. company, with net income this quarter rising to $11.68 billion. While Exxon officials regularly tout the company's investment in alternative energy, ABC reported today that Exxon spends only 1 percent of profits on alternative energy sources.

"They're probably spending more on the advertising than they are on the research," noted an oil analyst contacted by ABC. BP invested the most out of the big five oil companies, at 2.9 percent.

UPDATEAccording to a new study from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, their U.S. profits from the last 12 months were the equivalent to $236 from every single person with a drivers license in America.

now that drindl is back, we can look forward to all the loony postings that usually reside over at moveon, Kos and huff. hold on to your tin foil hats.

HERSH: There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don't we build -- we in our shipyard -- build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.

Might cost some lives. And it was rejected because you can't have Americans killing Americans. That's the kind of -- that's the level of stuff we're talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.

Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh -- a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker -- revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President's office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.

In Hersh's most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The "meeting took place in the Vice-President's office. 'The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,'" according to one of Hersh's sources.

Interviewing Hersh during the journalism conference event, I asked him specifically about this meeting and if he could elaborate on what occurred. Hersh explained that, during the meeting in Cheney's office, an idea was considered to dress up Navy Seals as Iranians, put them on fake Iranian speedboats, and shoot at them. This idea, intended to provoke an Iran war, was ultimately rejected:

"Rewarding effective teachers with pay increases is an incentive to keep effective teachers."

OMG a lib finds the market effective. for teachers only, all other prices to be set by Barack himself.

you really aren't that clueless are you? do you even know one single teacher who went into the profession because they were interested in the pay? After a few years they all surely think "If I don't get at least a 5% pay raise, I'm outta here."

Liberal solution to any problem - raise taxes and spend more.

don't you even try to look for work anymore, zouk?

zoukie went to private school -- and you can see whatit did to his brain. sad case. can't get a job, lives in his mom's basement.

a good argument for public school.

drindl - still angry, still lonely, still shrill, still kooky. In short still a liberal moonbat.

There is no evidence that early education delivers long term sustainable benefits.

this is just another liberal grab at the nanny state and the village raising your kid. A typical liberal program at work - more money, more power, more control, no metric for success that is met.

kingofzouk--still unemployed, still useless, still spending all day on here like an ape flinging feces.

"please explain exactly how altering the margins of some teachers pay is going to magically substantially change the dynamics of the students who are flunking."

Surely you're not as slow as you pretend to be. Rewarding effective teachers with pay increases is an incentive to keep effective teachers. Effective teachers improve their students' performance, which should help increase their grades. Its not a very complicated theory.

Perhaps more importantly, Senator Obama is also a proponent of improving early childhood education programs. Earlier this week David Brooks - one of the token conservatives at the NYT - wrote about how improving early childhood education programs helps kids do better in school - and thus develops a better educated workforce, which helps boost our country as a whole. His example is how the US education system did a much better job between the 50s and the 70s at educating our population - and our economy grew as a result. Since that time, our status has slipped. You ought to check out Mr Brooks' article - there are conservatives out there who aren't totally bereft of ideas. If only the McCain campaign would listen to them, we might have an interesting policy debate between the presidential candidates.

""accept all students free of charge""

you are confusing two important issues:

1 - free
2 - accept all

It is never free, it is simply paid by someone else. Universites too - PELL grants and other mechanism allow the poor to attend in just about any case.

the more prickly issue is the one of having to accept any student and this is what is the underlying cause of the public school problem - not teachers pay.

But allowing motivated students to opt out of the bad schools and permitting them to attend a better school of their choice will send the proper message. Remember that half of all students are below average and there is only so much that can be done for them. add in the faulty parenting of many and those kids don't stand a chance, no matter what you do.

But liberals want everyone to be equally miserable, except themselves. they attend private school but force the poor black kid to go to the worst schools in the city because of where they live.

Will your story change again?

Posted by: bsimon | July 31, 2008 1:18 PM

I admit it is hard to keep up with Obama's positions. I hurt my neck with whiplash on the campaign finance thing, then the guns, then the reverand, then FISA. It seems this injury is not going to heal.

simple simon - please explain exactly how altering the margins of some teachers pay is going to magically substantially change the dynamics of the students who are flunking. contrary to popular beilef, we have plenty of teachers who are willing to work for the decent pay they are offered. Of course it would be nice to be able to get rid of the flops, but that in itself is no solution to the public school problem.

As usual, the Libs have a magic solution which offers no promise. just like the no drilling, no nukes, no oil, no coal energy "solution". I always knew you Libs believed in Santa claus because of your tax policy, but now we need magic dust to enact other policies too.

zouk writes
"but your candidate did."

First you said I said it. Now the story changes & you say Obama said it. Will your story change again?

zouk also misrepresents the facts with
"this approach [taking public dollars away from public schools and diverting them to private schools] is exactly what has made our college and university system the best in the world - with the threat and promise of competition."

When have public dollars been diverted from public colleges & universities to private ones? There has never been a system of public colleges & universities that accept all students free of charge. At least, not in this country.

"Side benefit: taking his pants off will increase airflow to his brain."

Yeah, but will also increase his fertility

zouk keeps the lie alive...
"I thought your guy was about change? yet it seems he will not change anything about the public school system."

Its odd for a guy who's so well informed to keep misrepresenting Obama's positions on the issues. I'm beginning to think its deliberate. Sen Obama has proposed that teachers' compensation be changed to a merit-based system - something that teachers' unions oppose & that Senator McCain & his likely running mate Gov Pawlenty have both endorsed.

Is he trying to loook like the "reach across theaisle candidate"

sounds more like the "reach around" candidate.

THE REAL QUESTION...

WHEN ARE THE MEDIA AND POLITICAL PANELS GOING TO VET THE NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA?

There is a lot out there about him and it is basically IGNORED by the media and political panels. It is OUTRAGEOUS and totally unacceptable! This is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES not the latest cult and the voters need to be informed to make a decision.

When did we care more about the EXPERIENCE and CHARACTER of the Vice President than the President?

American people do be afraid! Something is not right about all this! ZIG ZIGGLER for President?

taking public dollars away from public schools and diverting them to private schools.

Posted by: bsimon | July 31, 2008 12:50 PM

this approach is exactly what has made our college and university system the best in the world - with the threat and promise of competition. doing the opposite (aka the staus quo, spend more, hire administrators, etc) has failed the public elementary and HS school systems. I thought your guy was about change? yet it seems he will not change anything about the public school system. just more failure instead. gotta suck up to the teachers union I suppose. Is that the new politics I heard about. funny, sounds a lot like the old politics to me.

and he knows it is a failure or he would send his own kids there. But he only wants to send "your" kids there instead. It seems what is good for the goose is too good for the gander in this case.

Can we just say that Kaine is now bending on offshore drilling.

I know we all have mixed views on this but as Biden and Dodd and Obama are fighting to show that the oil companies have thousands of miles of oil rich locations to drill that they spin is not oil friendly (which is bologne...it just doesn't have the crazy profit margins that they want to open their options to)

here is this moron Kaine...who I am hating more and more each day...
saying "well I think we should explore the possibilities of off-shore drilling"

Is he trying to loook like the "reach across theaisle candidate"

sorry but whether you call me a liberal or not...if obama picks a "pro-life" anti-gayrights" "anti-stem cell" "throw the environment out the window at 4$ a gallon and get on the oil company lobby gravy train" VP choice...

and McCain picks a Pro-choice" VP cnadidate when he himself is gay friendly and pushed with nancy reagan for Stem Cell research (kaine opposed)...

I would realize McCain is the maverick that he used to be...

I don't think it's going to happen but it scares many of us that Obama is even looking at this guy.

Doug, perhaps it is because he really IS under consideration!

I'm not surprised; it always seemed to me like the Kaine thing was a head fake, maybe a trial balloon at best. (Or maybe Kaine just loves the attention... though he could be talking himself out of the job). Just like the Novak and Romney stuff last week was a head fake from McCain.

By the way, watching the candidates in action in various settings on youtube has only reinforced my long-existing gut inclination in favor of Kathleen Sebelius. If all you've seen is the SOTU, look up some other clips of her speaking and interviewing. I found them quite convincing. There is some good commentary on Sebelius for VP over at fivethirtyeight.com if anyone is interested in joining the discussion.

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I still find it discomforting to allow these pin heads at WaPo to limit the list of Veep possibilities to this limited list. The repugs got for strength... the strongest veep would be Leahy... hands down. The repugs would have gone undetected had it not been for Leahy.

""I haven't said the surge is a failure. Nor have I said it has made things worse. ""

but your candidate did.

To the "AA Candidate":

I work in publishing, and Obama's book deal was run-of-the-mill.

Publishers often pay huge sums (1-2 million) for books based on articles editors read in the newspaper, or a magazine, etc. In the industry, Obama's 40K advance was chump change.

To "DCH":

I, too, am intrigued by Brian Schweitzer. I wonder why his name hasn't been floated more.

zouk writes
"Instead he takes his wealth and directs it to his kids only, in essence, throwing up his hands and abandoning the system."

that is not at all the 'essence' of what he's doing. 'Abandoning the system' is what conservatives propose: taking public dollars away from public schools and diverting them to private schools.

No to Hillary: too many negatives among "independent voters" and--she'd make a great Supreme Court justice, on the bench for at least 20 years! I would prefer Richardson because of the extent of his experience in government, but he doesn't campaign effectively on the national level. Nunn is old news. Dodd wouldn't bring any new votes with him. Sebelius? They'd still lose Kansas. Does the process of elimination leave Biden?

zouk, if you have to lie about what I said in order to make your point, perhaps it is your point that is flawed.

zouk wrote
"ie the surge was a failure and made things worse and now this."

I haven't said the surge is a failure. Nor have I said it has made things worse. I have said that the surge has not accomplished what it set out to do - foster political gains by the Iraqi government. The Bush White House agrees - it assessed just last month that the Iraqi gov't has made 'satisfactory efforts' on 15 of 18 metrics set out by Bush at the outset of the surge.

There's an interesting article in the Minn Post today, where Army Chief of Staff, General Casey, is reported to agree. The title: "Gen. Casey: Surge bought time, but gains are fragile and reversible"

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/07/31/2776/gen_casey_surge_bought_time_but_gains_are_fragile_and_reversible

How's about a dark horse for VP, former Gov. Bob Miller of Nevada?
He supported Clinton in the primary, but was still positive about Obama. Has a military background, and held the governor's office for 10 years (1989 -1999), longest of any governor of Nevada. I think he's well respected. He's 63.

"EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUNDJ DO COUNT PEOPLE."

Right. Like Nixon's service in the Navy, the House, the Senate and as Vice President. Boy, that sure guaranteed resect for the Constitution, didn't it?

I'll take sound judgment anytime.

simple simon - you seem to have become a Barack apologist lately. too bad. you must have quite confusing discussions with yourself over the facts involved. you used to be reasonable but now you ignore anything that doesn't advance your cause. ie the surge was a failure and made things worse and now this.

don't you think if the Obamas were committed to public education, the best demonstration of that would be to send their own kids to public schools, participate in the PTA, be a home room mother, interact with the other neighborhood kids, attend bake sales, donate books, etc.

Instead he takes his wealth and directs it to his kids only, in essence, throwing up his hands and abandoning the system.

typical liberal. ride a bike, I'll take my fleet of limos.

zouk writes
"why do his own girls go to private school? Has he thrown up his hands and walked away from chicago public schools."

Taking his schools out of public schools frees up resources for other kids whose parents don't have the money for private school. If Obama were diverting public funding to private schools via vouchers he'd be the hypocrite you describe. As it stands, he is not. Choosing a private school for his own kids' educations is entirely consistent with the idea that public money should not be diverted to private schools.

I am firmly convinced that it will be Sebelius. Since Obama won't pick Hillary, he'll have to do something to shore up his standing among the many disappointed women who supported Hillary. The other candidates are all duds anyway.

Having said that I still think that an Obama-Sebelius ticket would be a loser. The name itself sounds more like a tag team from a foreign country. Most people can't even spell Sebelius. I think you need at least one candidate in a ticket with a more common anglo sounding name that average Americans can relate to (McCain-Romney, for example).

On top of all that, this election is boiling down to the lesser of two evils, and I don't believe Americans will take a chance on Obama. Despite all his charm, Obama has practically zero experience and is not getting anywhere with white America. McCain, on the other hand looks very old and tired, but he has a great deal of experience. No matter who these candidates select for their running mate, it won't matter.

As much as people want change, I don't believe they will trust Obama enough to elect him, especially with both Houses of Congress already in the hands of Democrats. America will take the safer route and go with McCain, guaranteed!

Like the poster below, I too saw and heard Kaine for the first time last night on Charlie Rose.

Like MarkinAustin, I too was less than impresed with his long-winded (and frankly uninteresting and often evasive) answers to Rose's questions.

He might be "okay" politically, but at least at first hearing didn't seem to have the intellectual depth Obama is looking for in a VP. I asked my husband, "How could he turn to this man for useful advice?"

Harvard notwithstanding, Kaine seemed very "small town" to me--a quality that may or may not play well on the national stage, but really isn't what I'm personally hoping for in an Obama/ "?" presidential team.

Another Miss for the Modelers [Chris Horner]

The hits (or rather misses) just keep on coming, in the form of observations and facts that are proving very inconvenient for James Hansen's and the rest of the IPCC gang's paranoid, hysterical, and angry advocacy for global governance, energy rationing, Kyoto, etc. Today, it is Hansen's catastrophe posterchild, Bangladesh -- which, far from being soon underwater, is actually gaining land mass rather than losing it.

It turns out that the genii at the IPCC never considered that rivers silt up. This should not be surprising: leading sea-level rise expert Nils-Axel Mörner noted that the IPCC's SLR panel is stacked with people who aren't sea-level rise experts. Possibly they are the anthropology TAs, transport-policy instructors, and others that Climate Resistance discovered among the IPCC's 2,000 "world's leading climate scientists."

So, let's review the bidding. The IPCC and the models on which it premises its version of reality are wrong on rainfall. They are wrong on GHG concentrations and behavior. Models are wrong on Antarctica, on Andean snowpack, on Bangladesh, on ocean temperatures, and wrong on the Northwest Passage. Roy Spencer's research appears to have affirmed that models are demonstrably and fatally wrong on the threshold question of climate sensitivity.

Not to worry, the U.S. government is preparing to issue a hysterical statement, on which EPA says it will base its CO2 regulations [the deadline for public comments to NOAA is August 14, everyone], claiming that at least the models are finding observations consistent with models' projections in . . . Alaska. Um, except that in April, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation -- which accounted for all of Alaska's warming (with a little help from the urban-heat-island effect) -- had flipped again, and cooling is in the cards.

Other than that, why, those models are perfectly wonderful tools on which to premise trillion-dollar economic decisions!

Fortunately, we have two candidates for president promising to do just that.

http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/

Lib "science" - ha ha

Money Changes Everything: (video name)
Super delegates are for sale, no matter who you are voting for in the Democratic general election this video is a must watch. The truth is out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPoV4diMjk

Barack Obama on school choice:

[John McCain's] only proposal seems to be recycling tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice... What I do oppose is using public money for private school vouchers. We need to focus on fixing and improving our public schools; not throwing our hands up and walking away from them.""

why do his own girls go to private school? Has he thrown up his hands and walked away from chicago public schools.

the liberal hypocrisy is breathtaking. they love to tell you waht to do, but is never applies to them.

The RNC is chuckling over Obama calling for voters to make "sure your tires are properly inflated" because "we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling if everybody was just inflating their tires."

RNC spokesman Alex Conant responds, "Obama's solution to America's energy crisis is inflating tires?! Maybe he's been out of the country too long."