HL Mencken or PT Barnum or Karl Rove once said: “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” Apparently, Senator John “Muck” McCain has carved that into stone and is using it as the base of his very base presidential bid. He’s wallowing in more slop than found on a thousand pig farms and, dang it, he’s proud of it.
A lot of folks equate MuckCain with George W. Bush. They’re wrong. Whereas BushCo. craps in its hands and flings it, MuckCain’s Mob lobs crap straight up in the air and hopes it will never fall back down.
Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power.
Thus it was fitting he chose Monroe, Michigan for a nuke-powered energy push. The town's central square hosts a statue honoring General George Armstrong Custer, wiped out by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at the Little Big Horn in the summer of 1876.
More important was the melt-down at Monroe's Fermi Unit I on October 5, ninety years later.
Candidates for Sale
Big Business Is Making Sure It Wins the Presidency
by Matt Taibbi
What do Obama and McCain have in common? The same big donors, who will expect to have their way no matter who wins
For all the excitement that Barack Obama has garnered, and all the talk about a new day in Washington, it would be tragic if the real legacy of his election victory was to finally expose the essentially unchanging, oligarchic nature of our political system. It's the same old story: Money talks, and bullshit walks. And don't be surprised if we're the ones still walking after November.
US newspapers, such as the New York Times, see nothing risible about publishing a statement from President George W. Bush declaring that “Georgia is a sovereign nation and its territorial integrity must be respected.”
No one points out that Bush should have zero standing enunciating such a principle. Iraq also was a sovereign nation, but Bush invaded it under false pretenses, demolished its army, overthrew its government and then conducted a lengthy military occupation resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Many years ago, during the 1970s if memory serves, neoconservative Irving Kristol, echoing John Stuart Mill, called his conservative party, the Republican Party, “the stupid party.”
Kristol was referring to the Republicans’ inability to compete on the policy front. Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan led the Republicans out of the wilderness, but now Republicans have reverted to the stupid party, or more precisely the moronic party.
War in the Caucasus
Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation?
by Michel Chossudovsky
In mid-July, Georgian and U.S. troops held a joint military exercise entitled "Immediate Response" involving respectively 1,200 US and 800 Georgian troops.
The announcement by the Georgian Ministry of Defense on July 12 stated that they US and Georgian troops were to "train for three weeks at the Vaziani military base" near the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. (AP, July 15, 2008). These exercises, which were completed barely a week before the August 7 attacks, were an obvious dress rehearsal of a military operation, which, in all likelihood, had been planned in close cooperation with the Pentagon.
The war on Southern Ossetia was not meant to be won, leading to the restoration of Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia. It was intended to destabilize the region while also triggering a US-NATO confrontation with Russia.
Obama is as quiet as a church mouse about how Georgia began these hostilities by bombarding civilians in South Ossetia. He’s an imperialist behind NATO aggression every bit as much as Dick Cheney’s troops are. You won’t hear him contradicting the crap coming out of DC from Dubya Bush that declares Russia has supposedly initiated this conflict.
It is hard to get away from the reality though that Georgia began this conflict as it did by murdering several thousand innocent civilians and causing thousands of others to become refugees from their homes. It was an effort by the Georgia government to ethnically cleanse a troubling region for themselves. Washington now wants to spin their war effort in another manner altogether though, and the Democratic Party aligned liberal intellectuals are mute. The blame game has them attacking Russia instead of owning up to what they, the US government, authorized the Georgian government to do.
Yes, They Think We’re THAT Stupid!
by M. Kane Jeeves (Ed Naha)
