Friday, June 13, 2008

Clinton supporters for McCain

Via Ariela:

Best response to Women for Fair Politics (former Clinton supporters for McCain) who claim that because of so much sexism in the primaries, they're going to take a STAND and vote for McCain.

"Wow! So McCain has the blind spite vote locked up. 'Because of sexism, we're going to go with Cunty McPatriarch.'"

Amen.

WTF, Fox News?

"Is it a bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab...?"

(Andrew: A communist aloha? A sideways black power symbol?)


Tuesday, June 10, 2008

the GOP gets whacked.

Several amazing things have happened in the last few days.

1) Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee – John Conyers suggested that Scott McClellan come testify before his committee and he accepted. He said he was going to tell Conyers all he knew about the whole Valerie Plame scandal, who was involved and what they knew. Bear in mind that this is the incident that got Scooter Libby – convicted of obstruction and perjury, sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison – and oh yes, President Bush commuted his sentence. Hopefully, Conyers can finally get to the bottom of this.

2) Rep. Dennis Kucinich read 35 articles of impeachment into the record – not just the articles themselves, but all the supporting evidence. It took him over four hours, and probably won’t go anywhere. But it’s important to have it on the record that there are 35 legitimate reasons to impeach President Bush, compared to the one completely illegitimate reason that was used to impeach Clinton. Observe:

#1: Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false case for war against Iraq
#2 Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression
#3 Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War
#4 Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States
#5 Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression
#6 Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114#7: Invading Iraq without a declaration of war.
#8: Invading Iraq in violation of the U.N. charter and international law.
#9: Filing to provide troops with body armor and vehicle armor.
#10: Falsifying accounts of US troops deaths and injuries for political purposes
#11: Establishment of permanent military bases in Iraq
#12: Initiating a war against Iraq for control of that nation’s natural resources.
#13: Secret task force for directing national energy policy
#14: Misprision of a felony, misuse and exposure of classified information and cover up (Plame outing)
#15: Providing immunity from prosecution for criminal conduct for contractors in Iraq
#16: Reckless misspending and wasted US tax dollar with Iraq contractors
#17: Illegal detention – detaining indefinitely, and without charge, American citizens and foreign captives (suspension of habeus)
#18: Torture – secretly authorizing and encouraging use of torture, as matter of official policy
#19 Rendition
#20 Imprisoning Children Bush is guilty of impeachable offence arcticle 20, imprisoning children. Has personal and acting through agents has held at least 2,500 children in violation of Geneva convention and the rights of children in armed conflict signed by the US in 2002.
#21 Misleading Congress about threats from Iran
#22. Has established a body of secret laws through tht office of legal counsel. The Yoo memo was declassified years after it served as law under the exec branch.
#23 Violated Posse Comitatus Act - established programs for the use of the military in law enforcement. must be authorized by the constitution of the congress so that the military cannot become a national police force.
#24 Spying on citizens violating 4th Amendment
#25 Directing telecoms to collect databases on US citizens.
#26 Announcing intent to violate laws w/signing statements, and then violating those laws.
#27 Failing to comply with congressional subpoenas, and instructing others to do so.
#28 tampering with free and fair election. Corruption with the administration of justice, False allegations of voter fraud in selected districts, immediately preceding elections. Undermining process.
#29: Conspiracy to violate voting rights act of 1965, Ohio Sec of State 2004-06
#30: Misleading congress and american people in an attemtp to destroy medicare.
#31 Katrina and the failures of gross negligence of the administration.
#32: Misleading congress and the American people. Systematically undermining global climate change. Article 2, Section 3: Personally and through subordinates including the VP, for not protecting property of people vis a vis global climate change thru deception. Failure to ratify Kyoto. Editing reports - 294 edits by a lobbyist to add data which called into question the facts by muddying them. Or diminishing scientific findings.
#33: Repeatedly ignored and failed to respond to high level intelligence warnings of planned terrorist attacks in U.S. prior to 9/11. Clark warned the president in daily briefings of the threat. Clark was unable to conviene a cabinet level position. Tenet met with the president 40 times to warn of threat. Still no meetings of top officials.
#34: Obstruction into the investigation of 9/11
#35: endangering the health of 9/11 first responders(courtesy theghostofkarlafayetucker)

Compare that with:
#1 got a blowjob
#2 lied about said blowjob
Funny that. NOT.

3) A splendiferous article came out in the Daily Mail (UK) discussing the little mentioned 1st McCain wife. Carol McCain.
Long story, short. She waited for him, caring for their children while he was a POW. Three years before he returned she had been in a horrific car accident that shattered her pevis and arm. Despite the doctor’s prognosis, she learned to walk again. However, after 23 operations, she walks with a limp and is five inches shorter than she used to be. After McCain returned home, he started cheating on her with acknowledged “girlfriends”. In 1979, he met Cindy (the current McCain wife), heiress to a brewing fortune. In 1980 he divorced Carol and one month later married Cindy. He was 44, she was 26. Below are excerpts from the article.

“Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. ‘I have no bitterness,’ she says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce. ‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.’

“Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons. "

"When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again. But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance.."

"But already the McCains’ marriage had begun to fray. ‘John started carousing and running around with women,’ said Robert Timberg. McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details. Some friends blame his dissatisfaction with Carol, but others give some credence to her theory of a mid-life crisis."

"In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage. Carol and her children were devastated. ‘It was a complete surprise,’ says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide."

"Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit."

"‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it. ‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better. ‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’"

"But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics. ‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said. ‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history."

Take THAT family values conservatives. Oh, and on an unrelated note, in the Naval academy, he was ranked 894/899. Nice. (Need I mention that Obama was the President of the Harvard Law Review and graduated Magna Cum Laude?)