That speech was teh awesome. Obama is clearly energized by this and is showing the kind of toughness and clarity that should make McCain poop his pants.

The speech will get little or no mainstream media coverage - get real. There may be a karmic justice in the fact that America's slide into a long, painful depression will be precipitated because the racists among us could not bring themselves to vote for a black man, even though he was the more intelligent, better qualified candidate for president.

A good start, but here is a message that I think would be effective.

Long Version:

John McCain is yet another republican whose solution to all economic problems are: tax breaks to the wealthy, and elimination of meaningful oversight. These discredited republican ideas are the cause of much of our current economic woes. It is time for new ideas to fix our economy.

Short version:

Republicans are bad stewards of economy. John McCain is a republican. Rinse. Repeat.

Kari

wow! more please!

bets that even the evening news plays this one.

orange

I worry about the predictable GOP spin: "Bad news for America is good news for Democrats."

This weekend financial debacle laid a sledgehammer at Obama's feet and to his credit, he picked it up. Keep swinging that thing!!

As for "Bad news for America is good news for Democrats," I'de say "Bad news is created by Republican policies."

B-b-b-b-b-b-but Obama is a traitor who wants to keep us in Iraq!
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Based upon the almost non-exsistant media coverage of this speech and the overwhelming noise from them about McCain and Palin, I'd have to say "Obama who?"

Hope this isn't too off topic, but I notice Didi Myers rocks the house now speaking with Andrea Mitchell on CNBC--I really think Obama/Biden need to hire her if they haven't already--she is a fantastic spokesperson and bright as a button.

She needs to coach them all on how to go about these final days/debates.

With all due respect to Stephanie Cutter--she is doing okay, but I say she's too anxious and speaks too rapidly...She needs to slow it down and not sound so hyper...Chris Mathews interviewed her yesterday and he publicly cringed when she spoke (over the top reaction, but it was like a mirror in his face), adding to her: "You speak as quickly as I do when on T.V.". Yep--she's a bit like Chris--gets a bit too animated and her point gets lost. And Obama/Biden doesn't need that!!!

Biden too does this. They all need to learn to speak their mind firmly, yet they need to be more calm and succinct. Throw in a smile or two to exude confidence and break it up.

Gee--Rachel Maddow does this with uncanny grace.

Anyway, Myers indicated she was available for hire the other day--I really hope they take her up on it!

John McCain is to economics what Sarah Palin is to foreign policy. And yet CNN keeps repeating a McCain claim that he stood before the Senate two years ago demanding "change" vis a vis Freddie and Fannie. What change? I've spent half the afternoon trying to google this demand. I find nothing. But then CNN is to news what Sarah Palin is to Sarah Palin is to Tina Fey - a cheap imitation.

McCain's talk about "fundamentals = workers" and commissions is harking back to the glorious green backdrop era of his campaign. Steve Schmidt and Sarah Palin gave the BBQ Master a few solid months, but he is what he is. And he is a man not qualified to be President. This will become more and more obvious as time goes on, especially now that the press is starting to embrace the fact that he is a liar and so is Palin.

The key will be whether people feel or perceive that his answers are concrete and not just rhetoric. People seem to think Obama is too long on rhetoric so he needs to fight that perception. If he could elaborate on the regulatory framework more i think he has a real winner.

We know how we got into this mess."Really? How, exactly? - che che

Here, read this.

That was Didi Myers on MSNBC, rather (not CNBC).

Wait until Obama realizes that McCain's health plan will force millions of working Americans to obtain new insurance, because he wants to sever the tie between employer and health coverage.

Obama will rip McCain a new one on the health issue.

Kari on September 16, 2008 at 1:46 PM:

Short version: Republicans are bad stewards of economy. John McCain is a republican. Rinse. Repeat.

Shortest version: John McCain's GOP - the Party of Economic Failure

@ Danp I thought the same thing. Where is Campbell Brown to ask "Give me one example " Like she did with that dick Tucker Bounds (why are all poeple named Tucker dicks?)I was listening to Mclame and he said all sorts of "I did" and "we did" , no specifics and no verifyable proof

John McCain is married to a very rich woman because of regulations. Does John McCain oppose the regulations that give Hensley and other distributors undue power?

GOP

Greedy Ol' People

If you are fundamentally against regulation of the financial sector how can you expect a commission to "fix" it?

The McCain quotes about his lack of basic economic fundamentals, etc are absolutely fair game for Obama to play over and over again.

I'd also like to see the "...Keating Five will be on my tombstone" recycled.

It's good he's going after him, but man this "Four more years of Bush" crap isn't going to move people. The "McCain's a lying liar" meme is starting to gain some currency, that's what should get pushed.

As I asked on another thread, here: Ask McCain how much his health insurance would cost him if her were to apply for coverage on the "private insurance market", given his 100% disability from the VA(I think that is who awards it), his history of cancer and his age(is that a factor in health insurance?) I was denied an affordable plan because one of my eyes has a cataract and I had the other repaired surgically last year. I cannot afford to pay the premium and the co-pay and deductible, and my employer cannot afford to cover the premium 100%. Not providing coverage to all Americans is criminal, and it makes no economic sense. I also worked for Lehman Bros. and was released last year when the Sub-Prime thing hit. I feel for all those LEH workers who will have to try to find work in the collapsing financial markets, at a salary commensurate with what they were earning at LEH. I doubt most of them are prepared for what they will face, next. Do you think they will vote for McCain? He has their solution, as long as they elect him, first.

I am committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation
peace,
st john

I caught McCain this morning on the teevee talking about the need for another 9/11-like-commission to study this problem. I thought it was incredibly dumb.

Good to see Obama nail him on it.

I LOVE THIS STUFF!

It's about time. Obama/Biden need to keep hammering the point home that John McCain is an idiot.... pure and simple....take a blowtorch to that 'patina' of experience. The guy knows nothing, and his record is one of ignorance and indifference.

And now the news that there is ANOTHER bridge going somewhere from Wassila that costs $600 billion and John McCain (last year) decried as a 'monstrosity'

oh the tangle web we weave........

But you have to love the conservative defense mechanism -- Don't blame Republicans when they screw up; blame Democrats for being happy when they do.

Michael Phelps, the Beijing Olympics and
the U.S./Georgian proxy Invasion of South Ossetia,
September 16, 2008 Update

Phelps did not win the Olympic Butterfly 100 meter final. Milorad Cavic of Serbia won the event and after the race stated that he had won the event. Cavic had already soundly beaten Phelps in the Semifinals of that event! After the race Phelps also stated that he thought he had lost. And even Phelp’s mother first acted as though she thought Phelps had lost! She appeared totally dumbfounded but accepted it! Cavic’s coach said that he would launch a protest. Serbia also “launched a protest.� Then later both the Serbian government (a U.S. proxy/puppet regime installed after the U.S./NATO-led dismemberment/ethnic cleansing of the sovereign country of Yugoslavia, where under Tito everybody lived together in peace) and Cavic and his coach both withdrew their complaints. U.S. Puppet/Proxy Serbia was clearly under extreme pressure from the United States. Serbia in turn put extreme pressure on Cavic and his coach who withdrew their complaint. The United States wanted their “Golden Boy� (Bloomberg TV, August 18, 2008), and refused to permit the reality of the loss to Cavic to spoil the headline heralding Phelps: “A PERFECT FINISH, AN UNMATCHED RECORD.� New York Times (August 17, 2008) The U.S. intends to use Phelps as part of the capitalists’ fraudulent propaganda campaign that Phelps supposedly represents “victorious capitalism� while the capitalists are in fact losing all over the world as the world enters the beginning of another Great Depression!

The FINA executive Director, Cornel Marculescu, first stated that FINA would not permit the release of the footage by Omega the official timekeeper for the Beijing Games of the finish under the phony hard-sell pretext: “We are not going to distribute the footage. We are not doing THESE KINDS OF THINGS. (!) EVERYTHING IS GOOD. (!?) What are you going to do with the footage? See what the Serbians already saw? It is clarified for us beyond any doubt. He’s the winner in any way. (?) He’s the winner no doubt. Even if you could see the pictures, I don’t know how you could use them.� And Cavic the actual winner stated: “If you ask me, it should be accepted and we should move on. I’ve accepted defeat, and there’s nothing wrong with losing to the greatest swimmer there has ever been.� (!?) (New York Times, August 17, 2008) Parentheses added. The answer to this sort of tripe is simply: “What are you afraid of? What do you have to hide from an actual frame-by-frame analysis? Except the victory of Cavic over Phelps! You sound like a liar caught in a clumsy cover-up! You don’t make decisions for me Big Brother!�

Under public Pressure FINA later was forced to release what they said were digital frame-by-frame footage of the finish which they claimed showed that Phelps had won but actually DID NOT show that Phelps had won (New York Times, August 24, 2008). The images show conclusively that Cavic touched the wall fist without a doubt! But according to Dale Neuberger, Vice President of FINA the system that determines who wins the race actually measures “the instant of depression, of activation of the touch pad, not contact with the pad.� Careful observation reveals that Cavic touched the wall first and that his elbows were slightly bent indicating that he had depressed the touch pad with sufficient pressure (only 1.5 kilograms of pressure per square centimeter, according to Neuberger) to stop the clock.

The event was apparently also not actually shown LIVE. There was on a time delay despite the LIVE claim on the TV screen. Within seconds of the finish which showed Phelps in the water after the race he was suddenly being interviewed on the tarmac! Not credible! It is very easy to rig such an event if the race is that close. The U.S. knew that it might be close because of the fact that Cavic had already beaten Phelps in the Semifinals and they could not let anything alter their propaganda use of Phelps in order to try to improve the depraved image of the U.S. The reality, of course is that the United States is the most hated and despised country in the world. The majority of the world’s citizens recognize that the United States, which reflects the naked dynamic of capitalism, as the source of all war as well as all economic disparity. A software program can be easily written to cover all eventualities in such a situation where the finish of the 100-meter Fly was expected to be very close. The U.S. government can and does routinely hack computers of their adversaries and send computer viruses which completely destroy their adversaries’ hard drives and the entire computer, for example, and more (e.g. monitors by overloading them and simultaneously corrupting multiple Debit Card accounts with Dell Computer and Paypal, for example), as this writer and his roommate have experienced firsthand. The bottom line for this particular computer program, which undoubtedly gave Phelps his false “victory� was that unless Cavic won by a clearly visible margin he would “lose� in a very close race, even if he actually won! And that is exactly what happened!! The 2 electronic touch pads on the walls of the pool can be reversed in their polarity in a digital twinkling, so that even if Cavic touched the wall first it would simply register as Phelps touching the wall. Because if you look closely in that part of the replay which was permitted directly after the race and the images which were later release and printed in the New York Times (see above) it is quite clear that is what happened. Phelps lost! And he and the majority of viewers, including his own mother, knew that he lost! But he was very happy to accept the false victory! It should be recalled that with the Zapruder film of the JFK Assassination the “commentator� Dan Rather lied about what it showed, falsely stating that Kennedy’s head flew backwards due to totally fabricated so-called “jet effect� violating all laws of physics in response to a supposed bullet fired from behind him, when in fact JFK was hit only by 2 shots both fired from the front. One went through his tie knot and the other was the Dum-Dum bullet that hit him in the right forehead and killed him instantly. (Writer is the number one authority on JFK assassination who gave the keynote talk on JFK at Ethical Culture Society on November 12, 1975, twelfth anniversary of JFK Assassination, but who is not permitted to speak on anti-Communist WBAI radio on any topic!)

Both Serbia and the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) went along with the fraudulent Phelps’ victory in the 100-meter Fly because of political pressure from the United States. China was indubitably blackmailed and threatened that unless they went along with the crime the U.S. would push the age issue with the clearly underage Chinese girl gymnasts and take away their Olympic Team gold medal. Humiliation the Chinese did not want to accept! This is also the reason that the PRC went along with the U.S. all around victory in girls’ gymnastics which was accomplished by U.S. puppet judges grossly inflating the level of difficulty and execution by the U.S. and doing the reverse and chiseling big-time the level of difficulty and the execution of the vastly superior Chinese girl gymnasts. Shawn Johnson for example, was permitted to usurp second place in the all-around title after putting in very simple routines in the uneven bars and balance beam even though she won the event on an individual basis later. Even in the floor exercise Johnson’s level of difficulty and execution were pumped up like a balloon while the Chinese gymnasts routines were falsely downgraded. This modus operandi occurred over and over!

Although it made a pro forma protest against the U.S.-instigated “independence� of Kosovo, the Serbian government is a U.S. puppet/virtual proxy state which was installed after the U.S. division of Yugoslavia, a country where everyone got along. Serbia is a U.S. puppet just like the government of Georgia, which was incidentally authorized and directed by the U.S. to invade South Ossetia and now falsely denies it. In July 2008 Kindasleezy Rice standing beside Saakashvilli in Tbilisi, offered encouragement to Saakashvilli similar to that given to the later-sacrificed Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990 by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, to invade Kuwait. Glaspie gave Saddam Hussein the green light to invade Kuwait by telling him: “We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait.� (New York Times, 9/23/90)) The U.S. directed Saakashvilli to invade the independent area of South Ossetia while the world was being distracted by the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. (Rice incidentally also brazenly blurted out at a dinner in Spring 2004 in Washington, D.C. that she was the mistress of the usurper Bush calling him “my husband� before correcting herself to “the president�!)

In addition, the U.S. and the U.S. proxy state, so-called “Israel� have supplied virtually all of Georgia’s military hardware and the U.S. has admitted to having trained the Georgian military. The U.S. also admitted that it had over 2000 military “advisors� and “trainees� in Georgia at the time of the invasion of South Ossetia! Russia Today TV initially reported that “American mercenaries� (all U.S. military personnel today are “volunteers� a 1984 Orwellian euphemism for mercenaries) accompanied the invading force into South Ossetia and that some may have been killed. The Russians found a U.S. Passport of Michael Lee White in Tskhinvali documenting U.S. involvement. These reports were re-confirmed August 29, 2008 on Russia Today TV. The U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia was carried out with the primary objective of trying to create ethnic division in a U.S. attempt to discredit, weaken and divide Russia just like they did with Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. The U.S.-led capitalist media, which is a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community� and the United Nations have focused only on Russia’s response 2 full days later after the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia by driving U.S./Georgian forces out of South Ossetia and following their retreat into Georgia. Saakhashvilli’s credibility was sacrificed in the short term for the United States long-range objective of trying to eventually overthrow the Russian government, install a puppet government in the former CCCP as in the Ukraine, Georgia and the former Baltic Soviet Republics, and steal Russia’s unbelievable wealth of natural resources just like the U.S. is doing in Iraq. The situation surrounding Russia today looks dangerously similar to the beginning of a replay of 1940 with the NAZIS on the border of the USSR preparing to invade. In fact Senator Prescott Bush, the father of George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush I) and George Herbert Walker both fanatical anti-Communists, funded the NAZIs before WWII. The grandson of Prescott Bush is the current “Usurper� in the White House. Barack Obama has stated that he intends to continue the same policies of encirclement of the former USSR just like the NAZIs did in 1940! Biden forcefully echoes this anti-Russian plan. And McCain/Palin are even more rabid-soundingFascists.

The claim by Putin that the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia was a “provocation� to help McCain win the White House is demonstrably false! That explanation is a diplomatic gambit by Russia to allow the U.S. to cool it and to re-evaluate. The reality is that the permanent government of the U.S. capitalist dictatorship wants to go with a Democratic administration for 2008 for several reasons. The capitalists want to tighten and harden the capitalist dictatorship domestically and to try to gain support for their so-called “War on Terror by supposedly gaining the support of a democratic constituency. The truth is that Obama will be a Black Bush. The reason that Obama did not want Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential nominee was because in that case it was very likely that the Democrats would win by as much as 30 to 40 points or more. In that event the victorious democratic constituency would be inclined to expect a “leftward shift� in U.S. foreign and domestic political policy, which is not in the cards as a review of Obama’s actual economic-political-social positions fully documents. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship always wants to try to keep the presidential “elections� close to try to build interest in the sham “election� and “credibility� in a contrived and manipulated “close nail biter/cliff hanger election� to create the false belief that every second person supports the government policies. The reality is that 95% of New Yorkers and presumably the majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need! In addition, the capitalists do not want to marginalize or alienate the Fascist and proto-Fascsist elements in the United States, which they need in order to support the fundamental war-based, mass murder-based and crime-based U.S. policies. The capitalists also want to try to divert the people who are fooled into voting for Obama to join a “volunteer community service,� a form of slavery being hyped by the capitalist media and both “candidates� in order to substitute for government social programs. Through slogans like “shared sacrifice� Obama has been chosen to try to abolish the function of Social Security (keeping older people alive), and to try to whip the masses in line to support U.S. policies such as the “War on Terror� which is simply the pretext used by the capitalists to maintain capitalism in its final stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism.

The invasion of South Ossetia was thus a deliberate provocation which Russia had no choice but to respond to and was carried out to achieve several objectives, the first of which is described above but that invasion also has disturbing parallels to the Full Court Press/Nuclear Arms Race that the Reagan Regime put on the USSR in the 1980’s which ultimately forced the surrender by Mikhail Gorbachev to the threat of a nuclear war. The capitalist media focus on the Russian response to the invasion of South Ossetia, rather than the U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia, has been used to build public support in Poland for the so-called U.S. “Missile Defense� to be placed in Poland and later the radar to be built in the U.S.-puppet Czech Republic where an agreement has already been signed with no public referendum permitted. Public support in Poland on the other hand, which opposed the U.S. “missile defense� prior to the Russian response in South Ossetia, now supposedly supports it! Beginning in January 1984 and with full deployment completed in 1985 the U.S. was able to place Pershing Nuclear First Strike Nuclear Missiles in Germany 10 minutes from Moscow, but only after carrying out the 1983 Korean Airliner Provocation in order to discredit the European Communist-led opposition to the placement of Pershing II missiles in Germany. Placement of Pershing II First Strike Missiles in Germany caused the surrender by Gorbachev in 1988 to the threat of an imminent nuclear war, the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race. (There was no Soviet “economic collapse� as testified by the CIA on U.S. network TV news in 1990, who stated that they had no data whatsoever or any indications of an incipient “economic collapse in the USSR.� This was because there was no economic collapse, but rather a Soviet surrender to the threat of a nuclear war followed by a long and painful dismantlement of the Soviet Workers’ State during the 1990’s leaving the leadership structure in place.) Richard Nixon was present at the takeoff of the Korean Airliner and undoubtedly assured the pilot of the Korean Airliner that he would be safe on his last flight of provocation.

Russia in typical Stalinist opportunist fashion has now agreed to the fraudulent U.S. claim of “economic collapse of the USSR� in order to try to guarantee peace with U.S.-led world imperialism now that the Soviet Workers’ State has largely been dismantled. But now “Russia� finds how fast that “peace� has disappeared with the U.S. breaking virtually all of the U.S.-Soviet Peace Treaties of the 1990’s starting with the cornerstone of the agreements with the Soviet Union, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. The false claim of “economic collapse of the Soviet Union� was fabricated by the United States in order to try to demoralize the masses of the world and the United States especially to the only solution to the complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism. That solution is Socialism! Which can only be achieved through a Socialist Revolution in the United States, which itself can only be carried out peacefully as occurred in the October Russian Revolution of 1917. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Op-Ed column in the New York Times, August 20, 2008, was the typical Stalinist (Not Communist!) opportunist, anti-Communist response, which did not explain the clever U.S. strategy of provocation primarily in order to create ethnic division designed to last for generations and that Russia was forced to respond to these provocations. He also lied through omission by omitting the obvious long-range U.S. objectives of these provocations. Putin and Medvedev to their credit eventually exposed these objectives although only secondarily and without appropriate focus and emphasis! By honestly explaining these provocations Russia would be able to explain how the U.S. intends to manipulate public opinion. This way the public in all countries would be on guard not to allow itself to be manipulated by the country which lied about “Weapons of Mass Destruction� in Iraq and lies about everything. This should be a no-brainer but Stalinist opportunism blocks the mind.

The U.S. has just signed an agreement to build a so-called “missile defense� system in Poland which includes missile interceptors. Russia has promised a “military response� if the missiles are installed in Poland. This sounds like Russia would take the missile installation(a) out in an air strike similar to the U.S./�Israel� bombing of the Osirak Reactor in Iraq in 1981 and the planned bombing of Iran, etc., etc. etc. Obviously the number of missiles in Poland will begin to increase exponentially as the U.S. orchestrates provocation after provocation on the border of Russia. This so-called “missile defense� is actually part of a Nuclear First Strike plan. actually a strategy of intimidation by the United States as was explained back in the 1980’s when the U.S. put a full court press on the USSR with a runaway nuclear arms race and “Star Wars� forcing the Soviet surrender by Gorbachev in 1988. Today the United States and NATO want to force the former Soviet Union into a second surrender as explained above! In an actual First Strike by the United States and the NATO PACT the so-called “Missile Defenses� are used simultaneously with a U.S. Nuclear First Strike in order to try to cripple the Russian response to the U.S. First Strike. The U.S. is hoping that they will win the game of “chicken� like they did in the 1980’s and that the Russians will back down and make a second surrender as they did in 1988. This is the present strategic centerpiece of U.S. “statecraft� with Russia.

Today ninety-five percent of New Yorkers agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit. A Socialist Revolution in the United States will end the basis for all war and set the stage for solving the entire complex of problems created by capitalism, which threaten the survival of humankind. Capitalism cannot be reformed through elections or by any other means because the capitalist dictatorship is left in place and because capitalism has an internal dynamic of its own which leads to a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship finally to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization and all life on Earth, as we see with the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which has already begun. Politicians rise to the surface to the extent that they express and further this almost entirely one-way dynamic. The “presidential elections� are the primary weapon of deception of the capitalists, which is used to try to perpetuate the illusion of “democracy� in what is a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship. Under capitalism “democracy� is simply a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement! If you vote for anyone in the U.S. Presidential “elections� you have been neutralized and are a sucker! No candidate is even just a little “better� than another because the differences prior to the election virtually all disappear after the election according to the needs of the capitalist dictatorship, which makes the actual decisions based on its’ dynamic, development sequence or dialectic, which has little to do with its own
preservation, which in turn underscores the fact that the system controls the politicians—not the other way around. Today capitalism is in its Final Stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism.

The United States Invasion of Iraq is one more act of State Terrorism and has resulted in the deaths of 1.2 million Iraqis by September 2007, one year ago, according to National Public Radio. Now the number is probably more than 1.5 million dead Iraqis. We are told to feel sorry for a few more than 4000 dead US mercenary murderers and cutthroats, the majority who come back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from being forced to murder Iraqis. Capitalism offers a world with no future! Remember that in the end all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call. Do not be intimidated! The first call must be to deprive the capitalists of bodies of armed men to send against the masses, by calling for the only political position with successful historical precedent: Call for Mutiny in Iraq as in Vietnam, the real reason and the ONLY reason the Vietnam War ended on the spot in 1975 after the Third Marine Division turned their guns around on their officers forcing the immediate and total evacuation of all U.S. troops in days and hours. Normally, when the U.S. invades a county they never leave. The U.S. has a military presence in over 130 countries right now and is now invading Pakistan and threatening to use their proxy state of so-called “Israel� to bomb Iran. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship used its proxy state of Georgia to invade the former USSR (South Ossetia) and is right now using their Fascist proxies to fight the governments of Bolivia (Evo Morales) and Venezuela (Hugo Chavez)!

The capitalist demagogues/stooges Obama, Clinton, McCain, etc. all call for “Phased Redeployment,� which means in practice simply transferring some forces from Iraq to Afghanistan (Obama, e.g.) or elsewhere and leaving a puppet government in place in Iraq. Bush has just initiated the beginning of this policy just prior to the sham U.S. “election.� But Mutiny Saves Lives! Mutiny is provided for by the Declaration of Independence which is actually a transitional document which supports a Socialist Revolution in the United States! We should all read that document now! It provides the legal basis for a Socialist Revolution in the United States although a legal basis is certainly not required to end a system fundamentally based on war, mass murder and crime! In addition to employing a mercenary army rather than a conscripted army the capitalists have tried to take precautions to try to prevent the reoccurrence of another Mutiny in Iraq as in Vietnam! Blackwater USA, Custer Battles, Dyncorp, etc and all 45,000 armed military contractors are paid 4 times what the regular U.S. mercenary marauder/cutthroat forces are paid in order to induce loyalty to the officer corps and are a NAZI-like SS (Schutzstaffel) formation which is in Iraq for one purpose only—to protect the Officer Corps in the event of another Mutiny—NOT to protect “diplomats,� the phony cover story foisted on an unsuspecting public. The U.S. created a mercenary army to replace the previous enlisted army used in Vietnam as the yet another tactic to try and prevent reoccurrence of mutiny. Therefore the present U.S. military mercenary army must get its act together, realize that their interests as well as the interests of all humankind are violated by the invasions of Iraq, etc. They will have to turn their guns around on their officers who must all be immediately arrested, unless they join and support the Mutiny, and then they must fight and decisively defeat Blackwater and the other 45,000 military contractors, which they can easily do if they organize themselves to do it, because the regular army is much larger and has heavier weapons. The key is organization, which is already in place. This will open the door to all further social progress and is the first step in ending the War Against Iraq and carrying out a Socialist Revolution in the United States and worldwide.

Patriotism is a capitalist gimmick, a deception to divide up the International Working Class against itself—once more—divide and conquer! Don’t be fooled! Remember that this is NOT our country! It is the capitalists’ country. We just live here! Only a Socialist Revolution in the United States can establish real democracy and freedom and make it our country! Under capitalism “democracy� is just a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement and “freedom� is merely a euphemism for the capitalists freedom to exploit and super-exploit. That is the fundamental basis of “globalism� where the worlds’ capitalists compete worldwide for the lowest wage for workers! Once capitalism is overthrown at its center there will be no more center of world capitalism to act as a threat and the hard dictatorship of the Workers’ States will not be necessary and the basis for genuine democracy and a permanent end to class society will finally be established. We have to end the dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires and establish a new system based on human need where everyone can live like a millionaire. Today, in the United States there is enough money, enough wealth for that to be a reality in practice. Today, capitalism-imperialism has created the greatest economic disparity in all human history. This is due to the dynamic of capitalism based on exponentially increasing capital accumulation by the insignificant minority of capitalists and also has to do with the fact that the capitalist dictatorship knows that a Socialist Revolution is much less likely to occur if the masses are continuously kept on the edge of economic collapse and are encouraged to falsely believe that they must first look out for number one! The reality is that approach only perpetuates the capitalist dictatorship and is completely opposed to each individual’s self-interest and in final analysis is actually part of the capitalists’ strategy of divide and conquer. That is why the Call for Mutiny in Iraq must come from the United States!

In a flood the tall guys drown last. McCain's tactic will simply announce that you're one of the tall guys, and then you can go right back to hating on the blacks and liberals and foreigners and gays and women, and grooving on the moose and the hockey and the POW! and not worry about a thing.

For the little guy, GOP politics is first the anesthesia, then the euthanasia.

Kevin, perhaps you could point out to the Democrats that this might be a good week to be running a lot of "Bush/McCain want to give your Social Security to the Wall Street Bankers," ads. I'm just saying.

Is there a power of deletion by a higher power at Washington Monthly? That looks like right wing agitation propaganda to me.

Only a Socialist Revolution in the United States can establish real democracy and freedom and make it our country! -WHD2

Whoa there, fella!

While I certainly agree capitalists can be greedy a-holes, socialists are not above venality. Violent revolution takes time to organize, and will certainly upset Americans' cushy lives--something they're not willing to do...

...unless you can provide certain guarantees: take weekends off, high-speed Internet access (for porn and sites like this one), online gaming on PC/Mac/console, football and other sports, and reality TV.

Excellent speech. But it needs to be put succinctly into a :30 or :60 spot and blasted out in paid media. If Obama is waiting for the MSM to put out a fair representation of his policies and stands...well, we're all waiting for that and doomed to disappointment. The media filter will always pose it as a "This sounds true but let's treat the other side as equally true just so we appear unbiased". McCain assumes paid media breaks through and he's dead on right on that, even if he's right about very little else.

This was an excellent speech--agree with poster above that it needs to be put succinctly into a media spot.

I'm so glad that they are shooting back more quickly--I was just sitting here thinking that McCain probably sounded like he had a nice plan with a committee, etc. -- then came this strong statement from Obama within hours:

"We don't need a committee--this isn't 9/11! We need new leadership". Right on!

Man, I can't wait for the debates. Those will put this thing away.

This was better than his convention speech

There's a great post at the "Democratic Strategist" about Obama possibly losing an unloseable election and why and what he has to rapidly do to turn things around. Great read.

"How, exactly?"

Posted by: che che on September 16, 2008
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President George W. Bush and his friends have had control of the economy. And, they lied to the American public to get elected. And, the media didn't reveal their lies.

Big money in politics for their own selfish interests are letting the entire American economy go under.

Own it.

"Anyway, Myers indicated she was available for hire the other day--I really hope they take her up on it!"

Posted by: on September 16, 2008
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If Obama's team can get the best of the Bill Clinton team to benefit from that experience then they ought to seriously consider it. There's probably been no administration in history which could just walk in cold the first day and do it right. Hillary emphasized that and I think there's a lot of truth to it.

I saw Robert Reich on PBS NewsHour representing Obama and that's a good pick.

Larry Summers has been sounding pretty good of late on late nite discussions about the economics. I don't know if he would mesh, but he definitely knows his stuff.

Maybe the Obama-Clinton lunch is producing some good results.