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POPStest clip I hate the stupid login requirement for this add-on. It makes it slow and useless.
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POPSObama's 'Change' and Rahm-bo: Neo-conned Again? This article, if read, will burst the bubble of belief by Obama cheerleaders. (Did Pelosi or a Dem Congress change anything either?) Roberts does not spare Obama any more than he did Bush: War policy: In “Hail to the Chief of Staff,” Alexander Cockburn describes Emanuel as “a super-Likudnik hawk,” who as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006 “made great efforts to knock out antiwar Democratic candidates.” The neoconservatives were and are intimately tied to the Israeli Likud Party with its militant Zionist war agenda for a "new middle east". On Economy: Obama’s advisers are drawn from the same gang of Washington thugs and Wall Street banksters as Bush’s. Consider Obama's support of Lieberman then too, who supported McCain and is another "super-Likudnik hawk" when it comes to Israel and war policy. Get the picture yet? Some very important policies (primary ones) will not "change" at a
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POPSFirst Bush-Obama Meeting: Hard Feelings and Hand Sanitizer
"I hope you don't mind me giving you a piece of advice." "Not at all, Mr. President," Obama told the commander-in-chief. "You've got a bright future," Bush said presciently. "Very bright. But I've been in this town awhile and, let me tell you, it can be tough. When you get a lot of attention like you've been getting, people start gunnin' for ya. And it won't necessarily just be coming from my side, you understand. From yours, too. Everybody'll be waiting for you to slip, know what I mean? So watch yourself." Bush then noted that he and Obama had something in common. "We both had to debate Alan Keyes," the president said. "That guy's a piece of work, isn't he?" Obama laughed and even "put my arm around his shoulder as we talked," he recalled, although he added the gesture "might have made many of my friends, not to mention the Secret Service agents in the room, more than a little uneasy." Despite this display of bonhomie, Obama said the president's demeanor turned down
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POPSConned Again My despondent friends in the Israeli peace movement ask, “What is this man doing in Obama’s administration?” This is a very interesting article on Obama's choice of staff and if there will be a real change or not.
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POPSObama Will Reverse Bush Executive Orders Mr. Podesta is John Podesta of the Center for American Progress. Another order being reviewed is the EPA's ruling on stricter emissions standards for California. Pretty much every president does this, but expect special interests on the right to howl anyway.
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POPSIt's Official: Emanuel is Obama Chief of Staff No surprise. This has been in the works for a few days, but now it's official. I suppose this should be the first position filled, since this is basically the guy who runs the cabinet. Emanuel wasn't on my wishlist, but you take what you can get. For Secretary of State, say it with me, "Bill Richardson, Bill Richardson, Bill Richardson..." There's been some talk of Robert Kennedy Jr. joining the team as head of the EPA. A good choice, but make him Attorney General and watch Dick Cheney shit his pants and run. See also; Obama Considers Stars for Cabinet .
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POPSAn Indian Hymn to Obama America needs more money. Much of the infrastructure is second rate or crumbling. The education system calls for renovation. Almost half the population has no health cover. A completely new social security system needs to be put together . The disparities have reached unacceptable level...The US economy, in other words, has hit a wall. A deadend has come. A complete change of course is necessary. The question is to provide the country a more sustainable future. Obama's challenge is on the one hand to shepherd his countrymen through the present downturn. At the same time, he needs to explain to them that physical resources are finite. He must underscore that America needs to get to save again both at the national and family level. He is striding a political minefield. He will have to sound convincing when he says he does not hold a magic wand to wave the situation away.
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POPSAn Election Day Note: Thanks, President Bush Me too. I believe he will gladly leave the White House and return to private life to live as a private citizen. I believe he will be sad by what he was not able to accomplish and fearful of what lies ahead for all of us. Since I never read the Daily Kos, Huffington, Salon, or watched CNN, I never saw anything in his conduct as my President to make me ashamed or embarrassed. I believe he is a man who tried to do what was best of us and the US. Sadly, he didn't have much to work with in the other Branch of Government.
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POPSComparison Of The Obama and McCain Tax Plans Basic Findings Jobs respond more to McCain's plan than to Obama's More after-tax spending potential under McCain than under Obama The McCain Tax Plan Family Tax Relief Pro-Growth Tax Cut Elements Maintained Dependent-Exemption Increase The Estate Tax Health Care Business Taxes The Obama Tax Plan Some Expiring Provisions from 2001 and 2003 Made Permanent Increase Taxes on High-Income Taxpayers Social Security Surtax Extension of the AMT Patch Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Higher-Education Tax Credit Tax Credits for Low-Income Filers Making Work Pay Credit Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit Exemption for Low-Income Seniors Overall economic activity more vigorous under McCain's plan
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POPSPalin's clothing returned -How will it all end ? so this is the penultimate ploy of the republicans a striptease by sarah and mcain finally shortcircuits and blows up oh and bush gets taken for a walk with the men in white coats and maybe barack walks on water or levitates to the white house
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POPSPalin's Gone Wild: "Rogue Diva" vs McCain Advisers I knew this would happen. She has been handled, and that is something her history shows she does not like. Sarah is impossible to tame. McCain has a problem, and Sarah appears to be out for (no surprise here), Sarah. McCain's first crisis is his own pick for VP. This blog covers it well, along with CNN. Now read how this one adviser hauls off and knocks Palin right in the chops: "She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. "Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom." WOW...THIS ADVISER IS RIGHT! If anyone can read her history and character, this McCain adviser just hit the proverbial nail on the head. THIS IS THE REAL SARAH PALIN, WHO HAS JUST BEEN VETTED.
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POPSMorgage our Children's furture? Are we the type of people that will saddle our children and grandchildren with out bills? Will an American child's first steps be to his/her job? When McCain screams about socialism and tax and spend Democrats he's offering the same solution as his hero Bush. CHARGE and SPEND. Don't worry about solving our problems, leave them for your kids to deal with. Have we really sunk so Low?? Don't be fooled again!
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POPSstoking the fury i like the closer in this article-the revelation that the palin family spent 13,000 of the tax payers money to go on religious retreats-then goes on to comment........no wonder she winks at us- hmmm i never had any doubt as to why
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POPSTwo Very Wealthy Men on Taxation Inequality Republicans are more likely to think: “I’m making $80 million a year – God must have intended me to have a lower tax rate. The origin of that belief has been handed down from Abram Vereide (see below), but it goes all the way back to the Puritans. George Bush is not a member of the family, but in the 1970s he attended Bible study meetings in Midland, Texas that were organized by The Family. U.S. economic policy is in part based upon a Christianity for the elite. The Family was founded 70 years ago by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant evangelist based in Seattle. In 1935, Vereide said, God appeared to him in a vision and revealed where Christianity had gone wrong: preoccupation with the poor, the weak and the suffering.
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POPSPalin and Her Followers are frightening I think that says that you abused your power, if I read correctly. This kind of parsing of words is disingenuous in the extreme. It is also either arrogant or stupid to suggest someone read the report knowing they will find Finding Number One. It is hard to believe that John McCain can be trusted with anything if he is suggesting that we should trust Sarah Palin. Someone who abuses her power by using it to further her personal ends in the context of her sister’s nasty divorce, and sees nothing wrong with it, frightens me. Its like the Mafia, don’t cross a family member, your livelihood and your reputation could be in danger. But then, this is what frightened me about the Bush/Cheney Texas Mafia, so I guess I’m just a weenie.
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POPSThings Taller Than John "Bush" McCain
An interesting comment from demogorgon : --- As an ex-air force officer (1962-1967) I'm glad it's finally coming out that this man is NO hero! He destroyed 5 airplanes, admitted that he was a "gambler" when he flew; went in alone on a Hanoi target when the bombing run was being called off; and then tried to "outrun" a SAM missile. Things got SO bad that none of his fellow officers wanted to fly with him and he was being re-evaluated for removal from flying status when he was shot down. Words like "reckless", "intemperate" and "lacks common sense" were part of the lexicon of John McCain, naval pilot. I don't mind the "confessions" while he was a POW, that was pretty much SOP, but what I DO mind is that his so-called "selflessness" when he "refused" to accept early release was anything but...he WAS offered early release because of his family connections, but was ORDERED not to accept it! And now, his never-ending use of his "heroism" as if he'd actually been one. MORE BELOW:
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POPSPro-life Victims There is no sympathy for the women who must live and sometimes die with this Bush - McCain decision. The consequences of any cause must be considered before you blindly support it.
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POPSChange you can believe in - change for the worse Do you like paying taxes, then watch government become bigger and more incompetent? Do you like discovering your family doesn't have enough income and start looking for a second job, only to find there are none? Do you really want a health care system like Canada's (ask any Canadian what they think of their health care - they wait over a year for an MRI, for example..) Did you like Carter's sky high inflation with a downward spiraling productivity? Then you will LOVE the change Obama brings you.
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