Dear Hillary:
What happened? No really, what the fuck just happened to you? I can't for the life of me figure out how a once-promising presidential campaign — a sure thing for Pete's sake — turned into a pathetic embarrassment? You've had such a head start in this quest to occupy the Oval Office. I mean, literally, you and Bill have been planning it since at least January 1993 when he became president.
And then the unthinkable occurred. When asked last week by South Dakota's Sioux Falls Argus Leader newspaper about all this "Hillary Should Quit" nonsense, you said: "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know I just, I don't understand it." Jeez, Hillary, are you out of your fucking mind? Even if you didn't mean it, to suggest that as a justification to stay in the race, Obama could be assassinated before the primary season is over, is perhaps the most shocking, shameful, morally reprehensible thing you could have possibly ever said. How could you? Do you realize that with that one comment you threw away whatever shot you may have had to fulfill your dream of convincing, brainwashing and/or bullying the super D's into handing you the nomination? How could you implode like that? It was a despicable act of desperation and, quite frankly, it was pathetic. With that one reckless opportunistic blunder you not only threw away the campaign, but your legacy as well. A once valiant warrior, you are now just a sad footnote in history.
Zionists claim that Israel arose in order to provide the Jewish people with a national home. But decade by decade, it has become ever clearer that Israel is not a state of, by and for the Jewish people. It is rather a state of, by and for a sprinkling of families, 19 in all, whose income amounts to $70 billion — 88% of the national budget.
I know a lot of right-wing conservatives. We don't share much political common ground, but it's hard to imagine any of them thinking the indefinite detention and torture of children, against whom there is no evidence whatsoever of wrongdoing, is anything other than the behavior of a monster.
If a man screams in a government torture chamber, does he make a sound? Not if the only one who hears him is an American reporter.
On Wednesday 28th May 2008, I will attempt a citizen’s arrest of John Robert Bolton, former Under-Secretary of State, US State Department, for the crime of aggression, as established by customary international law and described by Nuremberg Principles VI and VII.
Today's Quote:
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
McCain continues to prove that the GOP is the party of corporate corruption. His economic policy came from the same man who was mostly responsible for the mortgage crisis, and even while working on McCain's campaign was still also working for the banks as a lobbyist to block legislation that would protect consumers from preditory lenders.
Former White House Smokescreen
Scott McClellan calls the Bush Administration a "culture of deception." While it is the most shocking "tell-all" book from a former insider, it still begs the question why he never said anything sooner. Just like all the others, once they leave DC they realize that people from the administration are going to end up on the dock in the Hague for war crimes, and they're just covering their own butts. None of these people ever showed any evidence of a conscience when they were in the administration. [NYT] [WP]