Thursday, August 14, 2008
Troops Donate 6:1 for Obama
This is truly a remarkable number. Of the active-duty military personnel deployed overseas that have given money to a presidential candidate, they have given over six times more to Obama than McCain.
According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination months ago, has received more than four times McCain's haul.
Despite McCain's status as a decorated veteran and a historically Republican bent among the military, members of the armed services overall -- whether stationed overseas or at home -- are also favoring Obama with their campaign contributions in 2008, by a $55,000 margin. Although 59 percent of federal contributions by military personnel has gone to Republicans this cycle, of money from the military to the presumed presidential nominees, 57 percent has gone to Obama.
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McCain: A 20th Century Leader
There is a great new must-read post up today from Andrew Sullivan, who meditates on the state of American power in the world, the botched rationale for Iraq and the Georgia-Russia conflict. Money quote:
A thoroughly twentieth-century figure, [Sen. John McCain] lives and breathes war and conflict as a state of being. For him, it is always 1938 somewhere; America's duty is to control, occupy or intervene wherever any rival seeks influence and any group does not share our alleged values. And so American power must be brought to bear in Georgia and Iraq and Iran and Burma and Darfur and Bosnia and anyplace else where American interests are threatened or democratic allies seek help. And for militarist American exceptionalists, this all makes sense. This is the higher purpose McCain lives for: the glory of liberation, the thrill of conquest, the adoration of the soldier, the defeat of evil.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
McCain On Russia; Unhinged, Frightening
McCain's all-too-familiar rhetoric over the Georgia/Russia war of recent days is really starting to scare me. I had taken as a given that the idealogy of the neoconservative right had been thoroughly discredited by the farce that we got into in Iraq. Well, it looks more and more each day as if they have found a new champion in McCain.
John Marshall has it exactly right:
It's sort of funny when [McCain was] just an unhinged senator. But think for a moment where we'd be if this man were president right now, as he may well be in six months. This man takes the counsel of the people who got us into the Iraq War. On foreign policy, he is in league with the people who were so extreme they've now largely been kicked out of the Bush administration. People like John
Bolton and others like him.
It's beyond Obama or political strategy or dinging McCain on this or that policy. This man is simply too dangerous and unstable to be president. People need to wake up and get a look of the preview he's giving us of a McCain presidency.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
A Vote for McCain is a Vote for War
It's just that simple. McCain's bellicose posturing on Iran and Russia make it clear that a vote for McCain is a vote for more war in Iraq, a new war in Iran and any manners of other violent conflicts around the world.
Here is a chilling new video that came out recently that paints this situation in high relief. Send it to anyone you know who thinks they're going to vote for McCain because they're "just not comfortable with that Obama guy". They will be knowingly and affirmatively voting to condemn more innocent people around the world to die in McCain's Wars. Period.
Money quote (from Pat Buchanan): "[McCain] will make Cheney look like Gandhi."
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Obama's Olympic Ad: 'Hands'
Here is the video of the ad the Obama campaign is playing fduring the Olympics. It's refreshing to see how positive his campaign has remained, even in the face of the lying, hackneyed dreck that McCain keeps putting out:
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Quote of the Day
Sorry, it's not on politics but it's a good one:
CNN's Nancy Grace is the most loathsome, feckless troll to currently,
inexplicably, have a forum on national television. She's a vile, unscrupulous
monster who peddles morbid prurience like a cheap streetwalker and whose brand
of rank solipsism is matched only by her near-sociopathic disregard for the
lives she's ruined and exploited and by her apparent contempt for the tenets of
responsible journalism (to say nothing of basic human decency).
Friday, August 1, 2008
Offshore Drilling Pledge Nets McCain Big Oil Donations
This is just sick. Leaving aside the fact that opening up new offshore drilling to the big oil companies will produce NO new oil until 2017 and, even when it comes, will have ZERO impact on oil and gas prices, a new report shows that McCain has received an enormous influx of new campaign cash from the big oil companies after making his pledge to lift the ban on new offshore drilling. I hate the influence of big money in politics.
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