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<![CDATA[That's a BALD FACED LIE BUCKO!!!!! The air space ABSOLUTELY WAS CLOSED AT THAT TIME!!!! You're not spinning, you're flat out lying dude. <br> <br> READ IT MOTHER FUCKER!!!!! <br> <a href="http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=254256" rel="nofollow">http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=254256</a> <br> <br> <b>LOL...a link to a website that is blank....some great insider mook refuting you do there junior.</b>]]>
<![CDATA[Yoo's legal opinions were blatantly dishonest, falsely claiming that Bush had rights overriding the jurisdiction of the Congress of the United States as prescribed by the Constitution. So shouldn't Yoo therefore be teaching Unconstitutional Law? And since Boalt Hall doesn't teach that subject, shouldn't Yoo be teaching it elsewhere? By retaining Yoo on their faculty, isn't Boalt Hall becoming a legal laughing stock?]]>
<![CDATA[I ain't the one lying asshole, you are. FAA opened the airspace on the 13th, They left on the 20th, ya dumb fuck. <br> <br> Their is nothing to spin as you first claimed, dumb ass. They flew out 9 days after the attack, after being questioned by the FBI. You think this is a sign of a conspiracy don't you? Your deluded little mind is working overtime, jack ass.]]>
<![CDATA[A turban isn't a hat. And if I wore a turban, I would be a wingnut like Pat Robertson or Falwell and want gays murdered in obedience to God's Word. <br> <br> <br> Reply to: comm-682443773@craigslist.org <br> Date: 2008-05-15, 6:39PM PDT <br> <br> <br> You mean your turban's off to him, figures.]]>
<![CDATA[There's a reason Bush has let Bin Laden walk away from Sept. 11th scott free. Bush does not seem to care about capturing this mass murdered. In fact, probably went after BTK and the Zodiak more aggressively than Bush went after Bin Laden. When we had Bin Laden pinned in the hills of Torah Bora, Bush simply let him escape by only covering 3 sides of the mountain. He gave Bin Laden a HUGE window to escape. He didn't bother bringing in the green berets to capture Osama, he instead outsourced the job to a bunch of guys on horseback. Wow, what a great president!!! Bush cares more about the safety of Bin Laden than he care about the safety of the American people. <br> <br> <img src="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/happyfuzzy/BinLadenBush.jpg">]]>
<![CDATA[Check his tax returns, tens of thousands of dollars. <br> If someone gave this money to an arab charity/terrorist group the court would say it is then incumbent on the donor to make sure of the legitimacy. <br> Its going to be a long hot summer for that lying dog!]]>
<![CDATA[You're way out of touch. I hate to break this to you but the Democrats are well on their way to decimating the Republicans come November. The Democrats continue to win in special elections in heavily republican districts. This is a very, very very bad sign if you're a republican. The country has finally recognized the error of its ways. Bush has proven to be he worst president in the entire history of the United States. We don't need to spin shit, the truth speaks for itself and it's now coming out loud and clear. People realize that the republicans are traitors who are only out for themselves. They just want to make a quick buck for themselves and their masters, the elite rich. Talk about spinning, you're trying to blame the democrats for sending our troops into combat. I hate to break this to you but it was Bush that wanted and started this war. You may recall that Bush is the commander in chief and the lives of the troops is in the President's hands. The president is in charge, he makes the commands, he gives the orders, the troops merely follow. The democrats that did vote for this war fucked up big time. Yet the way in which this war was conducted falls squarely on the shoulders of the Commander in Chief, period!!! The democrats now want to do the right thing and move our troops out of harms way. We are no longer at war with Iraq, we are occupying their country. We need to move our troops out of Iraq and let the Iraqis retake their own country. The occupation is a lost cause and the only reason we are there is so Bush's cronies can continue to profit from it. If the democrats had known had incompetent Bush was when he went into Iraq, they would have never signed off on it. They also were not aware that Bush had given them cherry picked and false evidence. The president is in charge of gathering intel. All the intel that proved that Iraq had no WMD's was done away with. Instead they just took what helped them prove their case. It was a fraud. Even I knew it which is why I opposed the war from the beginning and protested it while people ridiculed me. I knew better and since I am a real patriot, I did what was right for the country, not myself. But that's what real patriots do. And you're not a real patriot, you put the needs of Bush before that of the country. You're a gay neocon that has a crush on Bush. You probably want to have sex with him and lick his sweaty ball sack. <br> <br> <img src="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d54/happyfuzzy/retardedneocon1.jpg"> <br> <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 2:52PM PDT <br> <br> <br> Our future does not involve friends of Jeremiah Wright or gay marriage or global warming. The left is full of lying losers that can't spin their way out of the failures they created with voting to send our brave troops into battle and then abandoning them for politics sake. <br> <br> Democrats look weak because YOU ARE WEAK! I dare you to flag all 20 posts!]]>
<![CDATA[That's a BALD FACED LIE BUCKO!!!!! The air space ABSOLUTELY WAS CLOSED AT THAT TIME!!!! You're not spinning, you're flat out lying dude. <br> <br> READ IT MOTHER FUCKER!!!!! <br> <a href="http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=254256" rel="nofollow">http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=254256</a> <br> <br> Yeah, that's right you prick!!!! You neocons are so fucking full of shit it's amazing!!! You people will believe ANYTHING!!!! Your willingness to commit treason against this country to defend your beloved lord and savior, Bush, it stunning. You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves. In time, the full truth about Bush and his actions will be revealed. You will discover that Bush has done everything in his power to protect the Bin Laden family and has done absolutely nothing to help the American people. Yet, you continue to support this traitor for reasons unknown to the rest of us. Why would you support a man that hates you and will do everything in his power to destroy you? This is a man that favors the Saudi people more than the American people. This is a man who lies to the American people in order to further his personal agenda. You should be ashamed of yourself for putting a man, a very, very stupid man above the welfare of the American people. Pathetic, absolutely, undeniably, 100%, pathetic. Neocons are traitors, no doubt about it. You people don't know the first thing about patriotism or love for your country. Bush has destroyed the United States and now it's up to the liberals to save the United States just like FDR did. But that's how it always has worked. The republicans destroy the country, the democrats fix it. Just take a look at Nixon, Hoover, Reagan, Bush Jr. Bush Sr. was probably the most honorable Republican that's served office in the past 100 years and that's not saying much. At least he was able to put the country before his own agenda. Instead of letting the country fall apart, he did the right thing and raised taxes even though it virtually destroyed his political career. <br> <br> <br> Whats there to spin? They let the Bin Laden family leave on the 20th. Air space was not closed then. The FBI interviewed 26 of the family members before they let then go. His family cut Bin Laden off a long time ago. So why would we not let them leave? Hell they probably were in danger from dumb ass Americans like you who would have strung them up just for being family of Bin Laden. <br> <br> Thinking must really hurt your under powered little brain.]]>
<![CDATA[About a month after the September 11th attacks, I read an article in the Tampa Tribune by Kathy Steele entitled "Phantom Flight From Florida." The intriguing report told the tale of a flight out of Florida that allegedly took place on September 13 - a day when ALL civilian air traffic in the United States was grounded. <br> <br> "This was out of a Tom Clancy movie," according to a retired homicide detective who was hired for the flight. Its mission was to spirit the son of a Saudi prince, the son of a Saudi army commander, and another unidentified Saudi from Florida to Kentucky, because "there was a perceived threat, and the family of the person wanted him home right away." <br> <br> The "person" in danger was the son of Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who is no minor figure in the Saudi Royal family. Rather, Prince Sultan is the kingdom's minister of defense, the third-ranking position in the Saudi Government, whose powers exceed those of even America's super-powerful Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. <br> <br> Dan Grossi and Manuel Perez were the two Floridians who were hired to serve as private bodyguards on the flight. <br> <br> According to the article in the Tampa Tribune, Dan Grossi is a retired Tampa cop who worked in internal affairs and homicide. Perez is a retired FBI man whose experience was in counter-terrorism and bomb-making. Perez now runs a detective agency and the two men provided security for the National Football League at Raymond James Stadium in September of 2001. <br> <br> The article reported that shortly after the September 11 attack, Lexington police Lt. Mark Barnard received a request from a prominent Saudi Kingdom official for the protection of three young Saudi men in Florida, at least one of whom - Prince Sultan's son - had been studying English at the University of Tampa for three weeks. (Tampa police records listed Sultan Bin Fahad as the individual who specifically requested protection for the three men. That is probably Prince Sultan Bin Fahad, head of the Saudi General Presidency of Youth Welfare. In family-run Saudi Arabia, there is apparently a whole Ministry devoted to keeping Royal youth out of trouble - something the Bush family elders no doubt dream of copying.) <br> <br> Apparently Barnard then contacted the Tampa police department and two "off-duty" Tampa intelligence detectives were assigned to watch the three Saudis for their protection. At around 11:00 AM on September 13, Dan Grossi received a phone call from the Tampa police detectives who needed help with a problem: escorting the Saudi men they were protecting on a flight to Kentucky. <br> <br> Grossi and Perez evidently felt they were up to the task, and at 2:30 PM Grossi was contacted by the Tampa Police Department with specific instructions. And by 4:35 PM a plane carrying Grossi, Perez, Prince Sultan's son, the son of an unidentified Saudi military commander, and third unidentified Saudi, was in the air and en route to Kentucky. The private Lear jet flew from Ft. Lauderdale to Tampa, where it parked at Raytheon Airport Services, which owns a private hangar on the outskirts of the Tampa International airport. <br> <br> (Tampa, of course, is home to General Tommy Franks and the Pentagon's Central Command (CentCom), which now rules Afghanistan and Iraq directly, and indirectly rules the entire oil-rich Middle East and Central Asia through its growing network of Halliburton-supplied military bases. Raytheon, of course, is the massive arms manufacturer that supplied many of the high-tech weapons used in Afghanistan and Iraq. Tampa is also near Venice FL, where Mad Cow Morning News has exposed numerous secrets about the training of 9-11 pilots Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi at shadowy local flight schools. And Tampa is in Florida, where Gov. Jeb Bush stole the 2000 election for his brother George, and where Jeb issued Executive Order 2001-261 to prepare the FL National Guard for a terrorist attack on 9-7-01.) <br> <br> Their destination, according to the two bodyguards, was the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, where the three Saudis were to link up with relatives who were in Kentucky to purchase race horses. <br> <br> Grossi and Perez further stated that upon landing they saw several 747's parked on the tarmac with Arabic writing. The article suggests that at least one of these 747's flew back to Saudi Arabia with the boys, although their Floridian chaperones appear to have left the airport before that occurred. If true, the flight of these 747's would validate at least part of the Michael Moore story about powerful Saudis being allowed to fly out of the U.S. on the second day of the prohibition of all civilian flights. <br> <br> Perez stated that he was unaware of who their charges were until they landed. Both men told of what a strange feeling it was to fly in an almost empty sky, and Perez recalls asking the pilot, "We're not going to get shot down are we?" - a legitimate fear, given the fact that fighter jets were urgently patrolling the skies looking for any more terrorists. <br> <br> Regarding the curious fact that the flight had taken place when all other air traffic was still grounded, Dan Grossi said "he was told that clearance for the flight had come from the White House after the Prince's family pulled a favor from former President Bush." <br> <br> If so, this was no ordinary ex-Presidential favor. In debunking a Michael Moore-inspired Internet rumor about a secret flight of relatives of Osama Bin Laden, Snopes.com describes exactly how restricted the skies were that day: <br> <br> The Federal Aviation Administration ordered all flights in the United States grounded immediately following the terrorist attacks, and that ban stayed in effect until September 13. (Even then, for that first day commercial carriers were either completing the interrupted flights of September 11 or were repositioning empty aircraft in anticipation of the resumption of full service. New passenger flights did not resume until the 14th.) During that two-day period of full lock-down, only the military and specially FAA-authorized flights that delivered life-saving medical necessities were in the air. The enforcement of the empty skies directive was so stringent that even after the United Network for Organ Sharing sought and gained FAA clearance to use charter aircraft on September 12 to effect time-critical deliveries of organs for transplant, one of its flights carrying a human heart was forced to the ground in Bellingham, Washington, 80 miles short of its Seattle destination, by two Navy F/A-18 fighters. (The organ completed its journey after being transferred to a helicopter.) <br> After reading the Tampa Tribune article, I distinctly remember blinking and checking the URL to see if I had accidentally clicked on a link to one of those "publications" that spots Elvis, or reports that ninety year old women have just given birth to Bigfoot's baby. But no, this was indeed the Tampa Tribune. <br> <br> I remember wondering how on earth our government could have authorized a flight out of the country before they even knew who the perpetrators of the attacks were? <br> <br> And further, why did the families of the young men "perceive a threat" when it wasn't yet clear on the 13th of September exactly WHO had attacked America or where they were from? <br> <br> According to a transcript on the State Departments website of a statement given by a "Senior White House Official" on September 13 at 5:22 PM it had not yet been announced that Bin Laden was behind the attacks when protection was requested for the three young men. <br> <br> When this "Senior White House official" was asked if Osama Bin Laden had perpetrated the attacks against the US at 5:22 PM on September 13th, to which he replied: "I think that right now what we need to do is -- as I said, again, this happened 60 hours ago. We don't want to be premature, not because we don't want to name or finger someone, but because we want to make sure that we understand all the connections, not just a connection." <br> <br> Was Prince Sultan a psychic who somehow mysteriously predicted that 15 of the 19 hijackers would turn out to be Saudi nationals? Or did he perhaps know who was behind the attacks since he was funding charities linked to Al Qaeda? <br> <br> Now fast forward about a year and a half and imagine my surprise last week when I read a "Newsweek web exclusive" that reported that Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz - THE VERY SAME defense minister of Saudi Arabia - is being sued on the behalf of the victims of 9-11 for his alleged role in the financing of groups suspected to have links to the terrorist attacks of 9-11! <br> <br> "Wow," I thought, "wasn't this the SAME Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz who had the kid on the Phantom flight?" <br> <br> After further checking, I discovered that - yes, my friends - they are one and the same! <br> <br> According to the Newsweek article, when three attorneys from the "prestigious Houston firm" that represents Sultan bin Abdul Aziz filed a motion in court in the Prince's defense, they also inadvertently provided evidence in the form of "stacks of affidavits and canceled checks" that indicated that the Prince had personally authorized the funneling of millions of dollars on the behalf of Saudi Arabian government to organizations that the US has identified and raided as terrorist front operations sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden. <br> <br> But it gets worse... <br> <br> The name of the "prestigious Houston Law firm" that is representing this suspected supporter of terrorism? <br> <br> Why that would be none other than Baker Botts of Houston - as in JAMES Baker, as in THE James Baker: George Herbert Walker Bush's former Secretary of State and George W. Bush's counsel during the 2000 election recounts (you know, "Mr. the votes have been counted and recounted and counted again and even though we still lost we're taking the crown"?) <br> <br> It seems that in spite of the fact that Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz and his government have been accused of funding charities linked to Al Qaeda, James Baker's firm still feels the need to defend the Prince against those "evil" trial lawyers representing the orphaned families of the 9-11 victims. <br> <br> But perhaps what is just as shocking to me is the allegation that the son of this SAME Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz was reportedly flown out of the United States when all other planes were grounded following the special orders of Bush's own father! <br> <br> Moreover, the entire 9-13 mission of the Lear jet is shrouded in mystery. That mission began in Ft. Lauderdale, stopped in Tampa and Lexington, and returned to Tampa to bring Grossi and Perez home. But then the jet flew to New Orleans "to pick up someone who needed a ride to New York." So this plane made AT LEAST 5 flights on 9-13, but the FAA told the Tampa Tribune, "it's not in our logs... it didn't occur." The White House, the State Department, and the National Security Council all refused to answer the Tribune's questions. <br> <br> Now the Bush administration is refusing to make public an 800-page Congressional report on the attacks of 9-11. In fact, this administration is so hell-bent on keeping the report from the public that they are even "re-classifying" information that was already a part of the public record! <br> <br> According to a new Newsweek bombshell by Michael Isikoff, <br> <br> <br> Among the portions of the report the administration refuses to declassify, sources say, are chapters dealing with two politically and diplomatically sensitive issues: the details of daily intelligence briefings given to Bush in the summer of 2001 and evidence pointing to Saudi government ties to Al Qaeda. Bush officials have taken such a hard line, sources say, that they are refusing to permit the release of matters already in the public domain -- including the existence of intelligence documents referred to on the CIA Web site. <br> As average citizens struggle to carry on their daily business and keep their blood pressure in check in the midst of a new "orange alert," Mr. Bush & Co. are still busy protecting their buddies in Saudi Arabia and lying to the American public. <br> <br> Why can't we know the truth about who our enemies are, Mr. Bush? <br> <br> One has to wonder when George W. said, "You're either with us or against us" - just exactly who he meant by "us." "Us" is beginning to look like a Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda conspiracy, especially when one includes the well-known business ties between George H. W. Bush, and the Bin Laden family through the infamous Carlyle Group. <br> <br> In a scandal this potentially huge - one implicating the President's close family and family lawyer - shouldn't a Special Prosecutor be appointed? If the President was Bill Clinton, the family member was Hillary Clinton, and the family lawyer was Webster Hubbell, the media - not to mention the Republican Party - would be demanding a Special Prosecutor at the top of their lungs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even though the post-Watergate Special Prosecutor law was repealed after Ken Starr's legal lynching of President Clinton, pre-Watergate-style Special Prosecutors can still be appointed by the Attorney General.]]>
<![CDATA[100 years in Iraq? Nobody cares (except voters). See ya in Novemba, Repugnican LOL Boy.]]>
<![CDATA[Let's not forget that this flight was chartered BY OSAMA BIN LADEN HIMSELF!!!! That's right, Bush allowed a flight, PAID FOR, by Osama Bin Laden, to fly out of the country without a military escort, or anything!!! The president PERSONALLY signed off on this. So let's see how this works, Osama Bin Laden attacks the United States killing thousands of Americans. All flights in the US are grounded because of the attacks. The only planes allowed to fly are ones authorized PERSONALLY by the president. One flight is allowed to leave the US. One paid for by Osama Bin Laden with the Bin Laden family. Several years later, Bush declares that "i don't really think about him (BIn Laden) anymore." Wow, it seems like Bush doesn't really care about bringing BIn Laden to justice. He obviously doesn't care about the 3,000 people that died in 9-11. What he does care about was politicizing 9-11 to accomplish his goals in situations that were completely unrelated. It's absolutely pathetic. The actions of this president border on treason. How can Bush sit there and refuse to protect the American people yet do everything in his power to protect the family of a terrorist and the terrorist himself. People need to pay more attention to this. The media has reported it but nobody seems to be screaming loud enough. The fact that Bush is a traitor is right there in your faces but nobody WANTS to believe that the President of the United States is in league with the terrorists, not the American people. We must impeach Bush and then charge him with war crimes. <br> <br> Reply to: comm-683549756@craigslist.org <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 3:21PM PDT <br> <br> <br> Spin this "Bin Laden Family flown out of country shortly after 9/11. No civilian aircraft were allowed to fly for days, but your Chimp in Charge allows his Daddy's friends and his monetary supporters in failed oil business's to escape to Saudi. Now I WANT OF YOU RIGHT WING SPIN MASTERS TO EXPLAIN TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WHY???????? Nope, Can't do it, not gonna happen.]]>
<![CDATA[Dear Lovers of Liberty, the struggle is underway! Join us! <br> <br> Are you aware by May of 2008 the law will require you to carry a national identification card? <br> Are you aware that there are plans being developed to have all Americans embedded with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) computer chip under their skin so they can be tracked wherever they go? <br> Are you aware the Supreme Court has ruled that the government has no authority to impose a direct unapportioned tax on the labor of the American people, and the 16th Amendment does not give the government that power? <br> Are you aware that computer voting machines can be rigged and there is no way to ensure that vote is counted? <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Follow the link to get the full dvd and the real truth!!!: <a href="http://www.freedomtofascism.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freedomtofascism.com/</a> <br> <br> <br> <br> Did you know the Federal Reserve is "privatley" owned. And know one knows who all the owners are??? <br> <br> Shut Down the Federal Reserve: Save America. Sign the petition below. <a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/AFTF_P_1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/AFTF_P_1/</a> <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[It depends what Religion your are governed over. If it is christian, easy right? you say your christian and it's over! Not so dufuss, you will go through the conversion acts of the church, your trail is based on Biblical law not Democratic Justice! you will be forced to sign a Lawyalty Oath, to them, and you will be whached for the rest of your life, they want you to slip up and break your oath, then they get what you own, you get the close on your back, or a Humanitry act they put a bullet in your head. That what the christian State has in plan for us. <br> <br> Now if your under Muslim rool, then read their Bible to see what your fate is. same goes for all the others. <br> <br> You all should read the fuckin Bible to see how much the gods can steel from you and your family, and how little they care about you. Especialy you christians you should read it, and try to understand it, But I know far to many of you don't understand it, and live by what you are told! So you do what has gotten you to nowhere so you don't get screwed, and in return you don't screw me! <br> But it doesn't work does it? You will sell out, all the way down the line to the last man. that's logic? But some of you will see and be in it, I'll see you there.UNI&#937;&#8734;]]>
<![CDATA[why is gas cheaper in mexico (2.98$ a gallon),than here in america?And POS gas price records?Oil sets record near $128; pump price at high! <br> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br> Ummm..get out of your basement much? Mexico's oil and gas is stated owned. The state subsidizes the price.]]>
<![CDATA[Whats there to spin? They let the Bin Laden family leave on the 20th. Air space was not closed then. The FBI interviewed 26 of the family members before they let then go. His family cut Bin Laden off a long time ago. So why would we not let them leave? Hell they probably were in danger from dumb ass Americans like you who would have strung them up just for being family of Bin Laden. <br> <br> Thinking must really hurt your under powered little brain.]]>
<![CDATA[Ignoramus, they are playing the game, "what the price will bear", if you don't strike or stop paying it, it will comtinue to rise. <br> <br> Young Americans are Ignerant by their parents teachings, and sence most you whatched Hee Haw instead whaching the world of events you wouldn't be in stupid spot your fathers placed you in. <br> <br> If Your willing to give them $5.oo 9/10ths, that's the price they set. YOOO HOOOOOOOOO, are you there? <br> <br> "WHAT THE PRICE WILL BEAR", is what you are forced to pay! I hope you atleast can understand that.UNI&#937;&#8734; <br> <br> <br> ------&gt; gas price &lt;----- (san jose) <br> Reply to: comm-683346122@craigslist.org <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 12:44PM PDT <br> <br> <br> why is gas cheaper in mexico (2.98$ a gallon),than here in america?And POS gas price records?Oil sets record near $128; pump price at high!]]>
<![CDATA[Spin this "Bin Laden Family flown out of country shortly after 9/11. No civilian aircraft were allowed to fly for days, but your Chimp in Charge allows his Daddy's friends and his monetary supporters in failed oil business's to escape to Saudi. Now I WANT OF YOU RIGHT WING SPIN MASTERS TO EXPLAIN TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WHY???????? Nope, Can't do it, not gonna happen. ]]>
<![CDATA[<img src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/22508/thumbs/r-OBAMAMCCAIN-huge.jpg"> <br> <br> Obama Responds To Bush, McCain Appeasement Attack <br> AP | MIKE GLOVER | May 16, 2008 at 02:13 PM <br> <br> WATERTOWN, S.D. — Barack Obama rebuked Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for "dishonest, divisive" attacks in hinting that the Democratic presidential candidate would appease terrorists, staunchly defending his national security credentials for the general election campaign. <br> <br> Obama responded Friday to Bush's speech Thursday to the Israeli Knesset. The president referred to the leader of Iran, who has called for the destruction of the U.S. ally, and then said some seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals _ comments Obama and Democrats said were directed at them. McCain subsequently said Obama must explain why he wants to talk with rogue leaders. <br> <br> "I'm a strong believer in civility and I'm a strong believer in a bipartisan foreign policy, but that cause is not served with dishonest, divisive attacks of the sort that we've seen out of George Bush and John McCain over the last couple days, " Obama told about 2,000 voters at a town hall-style meeting in a livestock barn. <br> <br> Obama said McCain had a "naive and irresponsible belief that tough talk from Washington will somehow cause Iran to give up its nuclear program and support for terrorism." <br> <br> During his swing through South Dakota, the Democratic front-runner said he had intended to focus on rural issues, but felt compelled to respond to the criticism from Bush and McCain. <br> <br> "They aren't telling you the truth. They are trying to fool you and scare you because they can't win a foreign policy debate on the merits," said Obama. "But it's not going to work. Not this time, not this year." <br> <br> Bush did not mention Obama by name in his speech, but Obama and other Democrats said the implication was clear. <br> <br> "That's exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided our country and that alienates us from the world," Obama said. He vowed to turn the foreign policy debate back against both Bush and McCain, rejecting the notion that Democrats critical of the war in Iraq are vulnerable to charges of being soft on terrorism. <br> <br> "If they want a debate about protecting the United States of America, that's a debate I'm ready to win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for," Obama said. He blamed Bush's policies for enhancing the strength of terrorist groups such as Hamas and "the fact that al-Qaida's leadership is stronger than ever because we took our eye off the ball in Afghanistan," among other failings. <br> <br> The Illinois senator also said that he has state "over and over again that I will not negotiate with terrorists like Hamas." <br> <br> Other Democrats accused McCain of hypocrisy Friday, saying the certain GOP presidential nominee had previously been willing to negotiate with the militant Palestian group Hamas. <br> <br> In Charleston, W.Va., speaking before Obama's speech, McCain told reporters: "I made it very clear, at that time, before and after, that we will not negotiate with terrorist organizations, that Hamas would have to abandon their terrorism, their advocacy to the extermination of the state of Israel, and be willing to negotiate in a way that recognizes the right of the state of Israel and abandons their terrorist position and advocacy." <br> <br> McCain contended that Obama wants to "sit down and negotiate with a government exporting most lethal devices used against soldiers. He wants to sit down face-to-face with a government that is very clear about developing nuclear weapons. ... They are sponsors of terrorist organizations. That's a huge difference in my opinion. And I'll let the American people decide whether that's a significant difference or not. I believe it is." <br> <br> In an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post, former Clinton State Department official James Rubin said that McCain, responding to a question in a television interview two years ago about whether U.S. diplomats should be working with the Hamas government in Gaza, said: <br> <br> "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy toward Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so ... But it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that." <br> <br> Rubin, who interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News, said McCain is "guilty of hypocrisy" and accused him of "smearing" Obama.]]>
<![CDATA[for healthcare and it never happened <br> <br> mc cain is full of shit <br> <br> he cant even control the border in his home state]]>
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<![CDATA[Our future does not involve friends of Jeremiah Wright or gay marriage or global warming. The left is full of lying losers that can't spin their way out of the failures they created with voting to send our brave troops into battle and then abandoning them for politics sake. <br><br> Democrats look weak because YOU ARE WEAK! I dare you to flag all 20 posts!]]>
<![CDATA[That's be a great day!]]>
<![CDATA[Nobody cares that McCain approves of 100 years in Iraq, except those losers, the 70% of voters who want us out of there.]]>
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDGEGnIHiWU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDGEGnIHiWU</a>]]>
<![CDATA[Sexist fool. Obama open mouth insert foot. I do not support appeasement except if it has to do with Iran.]]>
<![CDATA[ALL of these anti-Obama posts are by loser Republican LOL Boy. <br> <br> <br> Reply to: see below <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 1:49PM PDT <br> <br> <br> mandate second graders get same-sex education. <br> <br> have tea with Iran <br> <br> universal healthcare for partial birth abortions <br> <br> establish the dept of racism ]]>
<![CDATA[Don't you love liberalism? ]]>
<![CDATA[allah willing..... <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[mandate second graders get same-sex education. <br> <br> have tea with Iran <br> <br> swear in the presidency on the Quran <br> <br> universal healthcare for partial birth abortions <br> <br> establish the dept of racism <br> <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[and you flopped. Weak on national security. 8 for '08. <br> <br> Surrender Iraq <br> Abandon Israel <br> Make friends with Syria <br> Give Lebanon to Hezollah <br> Talk nice with Iran <br> Save the polar bear <br> Cozy up to Chavez <br> Barney Frank as gay ambassador to the world]]>
<![CDATA[Don't build nuke weapons. Don't support terrorists. Don't attack Israel. <br> <br> hmmm, so what hasn't worked for 10 years, Obama and ilk will be a raving success? How about we get the Europeans at the table? ]]>
<![CDATA[Republicans are scum America and the world know it and so do you!]]>
<![CDATA[I'm a woman an I will be voting for Obama as will my Daugthers, and so will those women when the time comes because no one what McBush. <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[Nutcracker Bush gets standing ovation from Israel. Every wannbe Democrat bigwig tries to chime in. Pelosi, Obama, Biden, Kerry, Dascle, Edwards running like scared chickens. No, really, we are tough.]]>
<![CDATA[May 16, 2008 <br> Bad Week For McCain <br> Posted by Michael Scherer <br> <br> This was supposed to be John McCain's green week, when he went to the Pacific Northwest, hung out with the forest people, and made clear to America that he is not George Bush. Yesterday's Back-To-The-Future prediction that the war in Iraq would be essentially won by 2013 was icing on the cake. <br> <br> Then George Bush goes to Israel and forces McCain into a shouting match with Obama about whether or not Hitler has anything to do with Hamas. As Marc Ambinder points out, this debate puts McCain on the same side as Bush, drowning out the earlier talking point about being different than Bush. Then today, we get presidential adviser Ed Gillespie basically apologizing for the whole misunderstanding. The goal, says Gillespie, was to ding Carter, not Obama. "We did not anticipate that it would be taken that way," Gillespie said, though the Obama forces still disagree. (For those keeping score at home, your eyes do not deceive: Three Ambinder blog links in one paragraph.) <br> <br> Then we have the ever-unfolding game of pin the McCain staffer/volunteer on the corrupt foreign regime/527 group. First McCain lost a convention chair and a regional manager for past work with Burma. Then Craig Shirley, who sat on McCain's Virginia Leadership Team, got pinched for his role with an anti-Democrat 527. ]]>
<![CDATA[You are one ignorant fuck, and if I have to explain it to you,you don't belong on a politics board. Pure fucking stupidity. Comparing shit to sherlock..]]>
<![CDATA[Kerry's not a candidate, and anyway, he failed to distinguish himself form Bush by voting for the war, whereas Obama was ALWAYS against the war. And if you're sinking our ship, keep doing it, we love the results! <br> <br> <br> Reply to: see below <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 12:54PM PDT <br> <br> <br> The liberals ship has sunk long ago. ]]>
<![CDATA[They felt shafted by the DNC leadership. They say they'll vote for McCain instead of Obama. All polls indicated at least a fifth of Clinton supporters will. No mention of how many Clinton supporters will not vote at all. I give it another fifth of Clinton supporters. McCain Democrats see the light! <br> <br> Stars are aligned for a GOP President. You'll still control congress libturds. Just you leaders agenda will be veteod at every turn.]]>
<![CDATA[Your a fool. <br> <br> Get use to President Obama!]]>
<![CDATA[America knows the truth! ]]>
<![CDATA[I beg your pardon he obviously mis-spoke and meant Republickans are dog shit. You can't polish a turd, soon it stops shining and starts stinking, ergo; I give you John McBush/Stain. ]]>
<![CDATA[Cry babies of the left. awe <br> <br> I've got zero experience. I've got questionable friends. I've got an insane church for a religion. I've got a broken home. I want to be President.]]>
<![CDATA[You should be. <br> She took impeachment off the table (ignoring her constitutional duty, and protecting the war criminals). And she has escalated the funding for the war she pledged to stop. Not to mention that she knew about our torture and rendition policies in 2002 and did nothing about it. <br> <br> Send her the message that you are disappointed and mad. Vote for a true Democrat, Shirley Golub, instead. <br> <br> www.shirley08.com]]>
<![CDATA[Lie about a disasterous economy. Lie about how you are a believer in Christ. Lie about how your taxes will drive you broke. Lie about what you'll do to stop gas price hikes. Lie Lie Lie. If you have no record to run on, a lie will suffice.]]>
<![CDATA[And Republicans wonder why America calls them liars! <br> <br> Your post show them very clearly. Republicans think they can lie and get away with it too funny!! Sorry Republicans this in not 2002 or 2004 It is now 2008 and America is SICK of what REPUBLICAN have to offer which is nothing but lies just as Bush proved when speaking at an event marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state. <br> <br> Republicans are what is wrong with America everyone knows it. <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[California- nope McCain-yes <br> NY- nope McCain- yes <br> Texas- nope McCain-yes <br> Florida- nope McCain- yes <br> Ohio - nope McCain -yes <br> <br> <br> And you wonder why he hasn't yet clinched.]]>
<![CDATA[What a troll, Bush make anyone squirm what a laugh. <br> <br> Your post just shows how far up W butt you are! Nasty Republican. <br> <br> <br> America and the World know Republicans can't be trusted.]]>
<![CDATA[Republicans have no credibility and America knows it, and it scares the hell out of Robot Republicans like the one that post crap day in a day out. <br> <br> You know Republicans scrared of what is going to happen this Nov because they are going down in flames and there is thing they can do to stop it but they keep adding fuel to their fire with every lie they tell and repeat. <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[What's the matter, does snorting cocaine offend your Wide Stance Family Values? <br> <br> <br> Reply to: see below <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 12:42PM PDT <br> <br> <br> Too bad you were wrong about snorting cocaine. ]]>
<![CDATA[Suckers of the left. The liberals ship has sunk long ago. <br> <br> No mention of polls saying Democrats vote for McCain. No polls showing Democrats voting for Nader. No polls suggesting any bad news for Democrats. ]]>
<![CDATA[Doing a great job, thanks, Nancy.]]>
<![CDATA[Not only Dems, but the media, which has records of prior McCain statements, are going after him and his hero Bush on Hamas and on appeasement.]]>
<![CDATA[How sweet Joey and IBN with a little Brown eye wedding picture. <br> So who pitches and who catches ? <br> I guess I was wrong to assume you are both bottoms. <br> Also, there is a little bit of dinlkeberry hanging from each of your Jew baiting Assholes. You guys must not be doing your daily FELCH.]]>
<![CDATA[Saudi Arabia rebuffs Bush on oil production <br> White House: Riyadh says it's already meeting customers' demands <br> <br> updated 25 minutes ago <br> RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia’s leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices. <br> <br> It was Bush’s second personal appeal this year to King Abdullah, head of the monarchy that rules this desert kingdom that is a longtime prime U.S. ally and home to the world’s largest oil reserves. But Saudi officials stuck to their position that they will only pump more oil into the system when asked to by buyers, something they say is not happening now, the president’s national security adviser told reporters. <br> <br> “Saudi Arabia does not have customers that are making requests for oil that they are not able to satisfy,” Stephen Hadley said on a day when oil prices topped $127 a barrel, continuing to set records. “What the Saudis wanted to tell us was we’re doing everything we can do ... to meet this problem, but it’s a complicated problem.” <br> <br> The Saudi oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, said the kingdom decided on May 10 to raise production by 300,000 barrels, at the request of customers, and that increase was sufficient. <br> <br> “Supply and demand are in balance today,” he told a news conference. “How much does Saudi Arabia need to do to satisfy people who are questioning our oil practices and policies?” <br> <br> Hadley also said the Saudis briefed Bush again on their plan to increase their production capacity over time. They also argued that even an increase would be unlikely to bring down the soaring prices, driven more by uncertainty in the market, lack of refining capacity for the type of oil readily available and other complicated dynamics, he said. <br> <br> Economists say prices are being driven up by increased demand, not slowed production. Energy-guzzlers China and India are stretching supplies. <br> <br> Minister thinks Bush 'was satisfied' <br> As a result, Hadley suggested the White House was satisfied with — or at least accepted — the Saudi response. He added, however, the Bush administration will see if the explanation “conforms to what our experts say.” <br> <br> Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said the discussion with Bush about oil was friendly. “He didn’t punch any tables or shout at anybody,” the minister said. “I think he was satisfied.” <br> <br> High energy costs are a major drain on the U.S. economy, which is experiencing a slowdown that some think is already a recession. At the pump, gas prices rose to a national average of $3.78 per gallon on Friday, according to a survey of stations by AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. <br> <br> When Bush and Abdullah met in the kingdom in mid-January, the president also sought more Saudi output in a plea that also ultimately was for naught. <br> <br> Mideast issues discussed <br> Iran was the other dominant topic of Bush’s overnight visit with the king. <br> <br> The two shared a concern over the recent violence in Lebanon, where Hezbollah overran Beirut neighborhoods last week in protest of measures aimed at the group by the country’s government. The display of military power by the Shiite militant group, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization, resulted in the worst internal fighting since the end of Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war. <br> <br> With Shiite-dominated Iran backing Hezbollah, Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia — eager to stop any advance of regional power by Tehran — joins the West in supporting Lebanon’s government. Hadley said Bush and Abdullah shared a concern that the recent events would “embolden Iran.” The U.S. and Saudi Arabia, he said, “are of one mind in condemning what Hezbollah did.” <br> <br> On Thursday, Hezbollah and the government reached a deal to end the violence after Lebanon’s Cabinet reversed measures aimed at reining in the militants. <br> <br> Bush’s Saudi stop was intended, in part, to celebrate 75 years of formal U.S.-Saudi relations and strengthen ties that, once strong, have frayed over the perception Washington favors Israel too much in the dispute with the Palestinians, the Iraq war and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Fifteen of the 19 airline hijackers were Saudis, and Americans blamed Saudis for allowing the religious extremism that gave rise to them, an accusation that stings here. <br> <br> Bush was spending the day with Abdullah at his lavish farm complex outside Riyadh, talking mostly out of public view over multiple tea services and meals. Abdullah greeted Bush warmly at the airport, and rode with him in his limousine out into the desert. <br> <br> The White House hoped that new agreements formalized during Bush’s visit would give the relationship a boost. <br> <br> Energy talk included nuclear power <br> Among them was an agreement for the U.S. to assist the kingdom in developing civilian nuclear power. Another agreement involves U.S. promises to help protect any Saudi nuclear infrastructure with training, the exchange of experts “and other support services as needed.” Hadley said it would not involve U.S. troops. <br> <br> But the rising price of oil commanded attention. <br> <br> When Bush first ran for president in 2000, he criticized the Clinton administration for high fuel prices and said the president must “jawbone” oil producing nations and persuade them to drop rates. At that time, oil was nearing $28 a barrel — less than a quarter what it is now. <br> <br> Bush’s visit comes two days after Congress voted to temporarily halt daily shipments of 70,000 barrels of oil to the nation’s emergency reserve. After Bush’s talks, his administration announced in Washington that it has canceled oil shipments into the reserve beginning in July, when the current purchase contract expires. Bush has refused to stop pouring oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, saying the stockpile was meant for emergencies and that halting the shipments would have little or no impact on gasoline or crude oil prices. <br> <br> It’s a move that Democrats have sought for the past year to increase supply and apply downward pressure on prices. With an eye to the November election, the Senate sent the measure to the president Wednesday night without a single GOP objection. The White House has indicated that Bush will sign the reserve measure. <br> <br> Also, as Bush prepared to leave Washington, Senate Democrats introduced a resolution that would block $1.4 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia unless Riyadh agrees to increase its oil production by 1 million barrels per day. The Democrats said they introduced the measure to coincide with Bush’s trip to send a message to Saudi Arabia that it should pump more oil to reduce the cost of gas for Americans. <br> <br> Besides wanting to discuss oil, Bush paid his second visit to Abdullah this year — on top of a stop by Vice President Dick Cheney in Saudi Arabia in March — to talk about his goal of achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before he leaves office. Saudi Arabia’s immense power in the region means that its backing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and any concessions he will have to make is key. <br> <br> Bush meets with Abbas in Egypt on Saturday, during a one-night stay there before returning to Washington. <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[Thanks for coming to my defense UNI&#937;&#8734; <br> <br> <i>You Christian asshole, your Hatred of Humanity never seeces to amaze me. Who gave you the right to be god? When do you denounce your throne? I'ld like to run for the position, because you've done a horable job in teaching Morality, and I want you out of the Alters of Mans Gods, and I want you gone. You speak for all Religions who see the Patriot Act/Romans-13 as an act of God! You are the Devil instead, and quite insane. You need to live, you need to see the world the real Humanity that you want to buiry in the ground. You need to see for your own eye's instead of listening to the Preacher's Lies and Political Biase crap, do what Buddha did he desided to stop listening to the lies he was being told by his "servants" and desided to go live with his people, just to see for him self, the cruelty we've placed on all people, you included. You don't get out of here alive either;UNI&#937;&#8734; <br> <br> </i> SOMA Art Seen Full of Sick Degenerate Kids Busy With Self Mutilation (Fashionable self hating artsy culture into peversity... ) Reply to: see below Date: 2008-05-16, 10:24AM PDT <br> <br> Just saw a supposedly artsy photo magazine exhibit (at a popular rich kids SOMA gallery) of demented pictures that feature repulsive sick brats engaged in self mutilation and other twisted & psychotic behavior. Pictures of those fat tattoed sick looking woman (who've appeared in recent years.. who look like they came from a circus horror side show!) sick transexuals, and those skinny gender confused SF bicycle boys... all of them fashionably fascinated with perversity and their own self destruction. <br> <br> Unfortunately these very twisted self hating juvenile brats now dominate the SOMA & SF art community. <br> <br> Indeed lefty liberalism is a mental disorder! <br> <br> <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[why is gas cheaper in mexico (2.98$ a gallon),than here in america?And POS gas price records?Oil sets record near $128; pump price at high! <br> <br> <br> NEW YORK - Oil prices spiked to a new record Friday, then held on to most of their gains after traders failed to respond to efforts by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia to boost supply. <br> <br> Light, sweet crude for June delivery was up $2.20 at $126.32 in afternoon trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices rose as high as $127.82 a barrel, a new record, earlier in the session.The previous trading record was $126.98. <br> <br> Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Ali Naimi, said the country increased production by 300,000 barrels a day last week in response to requests from customers. <br> <br> Meanwhile, the Energy Department said it would cancel shipments into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months beginning July 1. The move came days after Congress passed legislation requiring the president to suspend the shipment into the reserve in hopes of lowering gasoline prices. <br> <br> Oil industry observers questioned whether either move would have a significant effect on soaring energy prices. <br> <br> "It's ridiculous because I don't think this is going to bring the price down," said Phil Flynn, analyst at Alaron Trading Corp, of the Energy Department's move. <br> <br> The effect of Saudi Arabia's move was also not immediately clear. The increase, which went into effect last Saturday, would lift output from the world's leading producer to 9.45 million barrels per day by June. <br> <br> The country often adjusts its output to meet demand, and the increase coincides with the start of the peak driving season in the U.S. The announcement coincided with a visit by President Bush, who was in the kindom to appeal for a more significant increase in production. <br> <br> "It's a way to raise production without raising production," Flynn said. "I think it was a way to save face." <br> <br> Saudi Arabia has in the past acknowledged the ability to produce as much as 11 million barrels a day. <br> <br> Crude's latest surge comes 10 days before the Memorial Day holiday, the traditional start of the peak U.S. summer driving season, suggesting that retail gas prices still have further to rise. <br> <br> Motorists are now paying a national average of $3.787 a gallon for regular gasoline, up nearly a penny from the previous day, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. <br> <br> Diesel prices also have risen to record levels, meaning that even Americans who don't drive will likely face even higher prices on all sorts of goods because of increased shipping costs. A gallon of diesel now sells for $4.482 a gallon. <br> <br> Oil prices could rise even higher as U.S. demand picks up during the summer months, when gasoline consumption is typically the heaviest. Traders are clearly betting gasoline prices have a way to go too: Gasoline futures jumped to a record $3.2438 a gallon on the Nymex before easing to $3.2237, up 5.79 cents. <br> <br> Energy traders also honed in on an upward revision of an oil price forecast by Goldman Sachs from $107 to $141 a barrel for the second half of the year. The investment bank is predicting continued swings in oil prices as prices dip at times because of falling demand before again moving higher. <br> <br> "Accordingly, we would view any pullback in oil, regardless of the size or duration _ although a correction could be as large as 15 percent _ as an opportunity to re-establish long positions in oil before the summer," Goldman Sachs advised traders. <br> <br> Also pushing oil prices higher was speculation that China's demand for diesel needed to fuel its power plants would rise due to reconstruction efforts after this week's earthquakes. <br> <br> In other Nymex trading, heating oil futures rose 6.53 cents to $3.6877 a gallon. Natural gas futures fell 25.9 cents to $11.14 per 1,000 cubic feet. <br> <br> In London, June Brent crude surged $2.26 to $124.89 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.]]>
<![CDATA[Too bad you were wrong about snorting cocaine. ]]>
<![CDATA[Don't talk about him approving 100 years in Iraq. That was Obama who stupidly said that, right? <br> <br> <br> Reply to: see below <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 12:20PM PDT <br> <br> <br> don't talk about his middle name. <br> Don't talk about his Muslim dad. <br> Don't talk about his lack of accomplishments. <br> Don't talk about his lack of bipartisanship. <br> Don't talk about what he will ask Irans leaders. <br> Don't talk about his pastor. <br> Don't talk about his wife. <br> Don't talk about his support for gays. <br> Don't talk about how he will raise taxes. <br> <br> Change? He wants every last cent of change from your pockets.]]>
<![CDATA[on the cusp??? oh so close, wannabe crybaby n chief, presumptive loser. Obama aint good enough to wipe my ass. To weak to clinch. To weak to matter. When will Obama declare victory? When will the surrender monkey take the nomination. His is but an abomination to America.]]>
<![CDATA[Sure they do, to Republican concern trolls who want to internationalize an American election. It's just another Republican pseudo issue, another flop in the works for the zero-credibility GOP. <br> <br> <br> Reply to: see below <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 12:23PM PDT <br> <br> <br> Endorsents by anti-americans mean so much.]]>
<![CDATA[national security- not a democrat strong point.]]>
<![CDATA[Tue May 13, 10:20 <br> <br> American voters now trust the Democrats on all ten key electoral issues tracked regularly by Rasmussen Reports. Last month, the GOP's had an advantage on two issues. <br> <br> Not surprisingly, the economy is still seen as the most important issue in this year's presidential campaign--76% of voters say it is a Very Important issue. The Democrats now have a 14-point advantage over the Republicans on this issue, up from eight-points a month ago. Data from the Rasmussen Consumer Index shows that consumer confidence is currently hovering near record lows. Not only is confidence low, three-out-of-four Americans believe that economic conditions are getting worse. <br> <br> Government Ethics and Corruption is a Very Important issue for 71% of Likely Voters. The Democrats have a huge advantage on this issue—45% now trust them while just 26% prefer the GOP. That lead has also widened since last month, when the Democrats had only a six-point advantage. <br> <br> Perhaps the biggest surprise comes from the fact that Democrats are now trusted more when it comes to National Security and the War on Terror, an issue long considered a GOP stronghold. The latest polling, however, shows that 49% of voters now trust the Democrats more on this issue while 42% trust the Republicans more. This shift comes at the same time that confidence in the War on Terror has fallen significantly. <br> <br> Each month, Rasmussen Reports asks likely voters to rank the importance of ten electoral issues and which of the two major parties they trust more on these issues. The Democrats have been dominant on most issues throughout the past two years. It should be noted, however, that these general perceptions are likely to have a bigger impact on Congressional races rather than the Presidential election. While voters tend to prefer Democrats over Republicans on a generic basis, John McCain consistently outperforms the GOP brand. In fact, polling shows that he is trusted more than either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton on key issues such as the economy and national security. <br> <br> The trust on issues data reflects another significant trend of Election 2008—there is a growing number of people who consider themselves to be Democrats. In fact, the Democrats now have the largest partisan advantage over the Republicans since Rasmussen Reports began tracking this data on a monthly basis nearly six years ago. <br> <br> Another issue the Republicans used to be trusted more on was taxes. Last month, the GOP's had a four-point lead over the Democrats on this issue. This month, they have fallen behind to a five-point deficit. Taxes are a very important issue for 57% of voters. <br> <br> The War in Iraq is a very important issue for 59% of voters. This month, the Democrats hold an 11-point lead over the Republicans on that issue. Last month, the Democrats led by just two points on that issue. A separate tracking survey has consistently found that six-out-of-ten Americans want troops home from Iraq within a year. <br> <br> The Democrats lead the Republicans by double-digit margins on the issues of education, social security, health care, and immigration. <br> <br> Four national telephone surveys of 800 Likely Voters were conducted by Rasmussen Reports April 30- May 8, 2008. The margin of sampling error for each survey is +/- 3.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. <br> <br> Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information.]]>
<![CDATA[It is true, if he can't support an innocent life in the womb, how will he ever support our troops?]]>
<![CDATA[I have to throw this back at you Eu<font face="Symbol">&#937</font>uch. I am curious to know what you have for charity? <br> <br> What do you do to help people? Perhaps gave money to a food bank, or a homeless shelter, some of your hard earned money to help cure a disease? <br> <br> <i>In the sence of christian charity, when did you last give anyone something they really Needed to help them UP† ? <br> <br> I don't mean just giving them a gift, they can't use, something you might not use, or stopped useing. That's not a gift! you have just handed off your Head Ack, to a person who can't take anymore head acks. That's as evil an Act as knowing some people are starving to death, and clame not to be able to do anything to help, your Bible lets you do evil, but I hate to tell you, there has to be a god to excuse you before your washed of your crimes. You don't get the right to bless yourselfs, that's not your job†; When you give only to recieve Praise, and pride. Forcing upon your self the Grantitude that you did not give. you are evil†;UNI&#937;&#8734;</i>]]>
<![CDATA[In a sign that they are likely to declare victory in the presidential primary very soon, the Obama campaign is now boasting in a memo to reporters that they are on the cusp of winning the pledged-delegate majority, thanks to the endorsement from John Edwards and a group of his delegates. <br> <br> By the Obama campaign's math, they are only 17 elected delegates away from the pledged-del majority, a number that they are guaranteed to pull off next week in Oregon and Kentucky. Expect them to court super-delegates to break their way en masse after that happens, on the basis that Obama has the popular mandate to be the nominee.]]>
<![CDATA[Endorsents by anti-americans mean so much. It really is a good barack baramometer.]]>
<![CDATA[Wedding pictures..... ]]>
<![CDATA[don't talk about his middle name. <br> Don't talk about his Muslim dad. <br> Don't talk about his lack of accomplishments. <br> Don't talk about his lack of bipartisanship. <br> Don't talk about what he will ask Irans leaders. <br> Don't talk about his pastor. <br> Don't talk about his wife. <br> Don't talk about his support for gays. <br> Don't talk about how he will raise taxes. <br> <br> Change? He wants every last cent of change from your pockets.]]>
<![CDATA[<a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/03/26/the_audacity_of_rhetoric" rel="nofollow">http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/03/26/the_audacity_of_rhetoric</a> <br> It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious. <br> <br> Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it. <br> <br> It makes a good story, but it won't stand up under scrutiny. <br> <br> Barack Obama's own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far left fringe. In college, "I chose my friends carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father." <br> <br> These friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets" -- in Obama's own words -- as well as the "more politically active black students." He later visited a former member of the terrorist Weatherman underground, who endorsed him when he ran for state senator. <br> <br> Obama didn't just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened to say some way out things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the kinds of people Barack Obama began seeking out in college -- members of the left, anti-American counter-culture. <br> <br> In Shelby Steele's brilliantly insightful book about Barack Obama -- "A Bound Man" -- it is painfully clear that Obama was one of those people seeking a racial identity that he had never really experienced in growing up in a white world. He was trying to become a convert to blackness, as it were -- and, like many converts, he went overboard. <br> <br> Nor has Obama changed in recent years. His voting record in the U.S. Senate is the furthest left of any Senator. There is a remarkable consistency in what Barack Obama has done over the years, despite inconsistencies in what he says. <br> <br> The irony is that Obama's sudden rise politically to the level of being the leading contender for his party's presidential nomination has required him to project an entirely different persona, that of a post-racial leader who can heal divisiveness and bring us all together. <br> <br> The ease with which he has accomplished this chameleon-like change, and entranced both white and black Democrats, is a tribute to the man's talent and a warning about his reliability. <br> <br> There is no evidence that Obama ever sought to educate himself on the views of people on the other end of the political spectrum, much less reach out to them. He reached out from the left to the far left. That's bringing us all together? <br> <br> Is "divisiveness" defined as disagreeing with the agenda of the left? Who on the left was ever called divisive by Obama before that became politically necessary in order to respond to revelations about Jeremiah Wright? <br> <br> One sign of Obama's verbal virtuosity was his equating a passing comment by his grandmother -- "a typical white person," he says -- with an organized campaign of public vilification of America in general and white America in particular, by Jeremiah Wright. <br> <br> Since all things are the same, except for the differences, and different except for the similarities, it is always possible to make things look similar verbally, however different they are in the real world. <br> <br> Among the many desperate gambits by defenders of Senator Obama and Jeremiah Wright is to say that Wright's words have a "resonance" in the black community. <br> <br> There was a time when the Ku Klux Klan's words had a resonance among whites, not only in the South but in other states. Some people joined the KKK in order to advance their political careers. Did that make it OK? Is it all just a matter of whose ox is gored? <br> <br> While many whites may be annoyed by Jeremiah Wright's words, a year from now most of them will probably have forgotten about him. But many blacks who absorb his toxic message can still be paying for it, big-time, for decades to come. <br> <br> Why should young blacks be expected to work to meet educational standards, or even behavioral standards, if they believe the message that all their problems are caused by whites, that the deck is stacked against them? That is ultimately a message of hopelessness, however much audacity it may have. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[Can't take the heat Obama, exposed at every turn. Sorry libturds, can't stop my posts with flags. They come back in spades.]]>
<![CDATA[Sure, the opinion of an anonymous wingnut CL poster matters SOOOOOOO much more than that of the current President of the Cannes Film Festival jury and two-time Academy Award winner lol <br> <br> <br> Reply to: comm-683236838@craigslist.org <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 11:26AM PDT <br> <br> <br> That mental midgen penn is a dumb actor who thinks his opinion matters to anyone and is completely mistaken about this.]]>
<![CDATA[ <br> Disses the commander in chief during war. <br> Disses small town Americans. <br> Refused to wear a flag lapel pin until it was an issue. <br> Endosed by America's enemies for a reason. <br> Campaign workers support Che the murderer. <br> His pastor of 20 years a raving anti-American goon. <br> His wife never proud of America. <br> Unrepentent American terrorist holds fund raiser for him and he attends. <br> <br> B. Hussein Obama is a fraud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[<font size="6">In just ... <br> <big><big><big><big><big> 250 days, </big></big></font> <br>Bush will go back where he came from. <br> <br> Happy trails! ]]>
<![CDATA[And if Obama's kid gets pregnant, then aborts, Obamas typical grandchild thrown under a bus as well. Obama offer no solutions to America's problems. Obamaican? how about Obamabortion.]]>
<![CDATA[Yeah, Obama can't hide from the fact that even though 70% of Americans want us out of Iraq, he stupidly spoke approvingly of us staying there 100 years! Obama CAN'T hide from that. It was Obama who said that, right? Or maybe... <br> <br> <br> Reply to: see below <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 11:40AM PDT <br> <br> <br> Barack Obama is proving this point day after day. he can't hide from the words of his own mouth.]]>
<![CDATA[Liberals keep making excuses. Blame Fox for every truthful statement. Make excuses for defining appeasement. What will Barack say to Iran? What will Barack do that the Europeans have not said to Iran? " Israel is a stinking corpse" " We will wipe this nation off the face of the Earth" <br> <br> Iran "I am sorry Barack, we will say nice things now." Fools <br> <br> The left has no credibility. The issue is front and center now, thanks you Bush. The Democrats offer zilch. The Democrats are good at defending their weak positions and trying to write them off as the correct way. Yeah, and my sh*t smells like roses.]]>
<![CDATA[Whenever you see a Google adword with Barack listed, click on it. It is not to support him but to spend their precious money they have invested in him. They pay everytime somebody clicks on a Barack ad. Keep clicking whenever you see it. Drain the swamp. The promote evil candidates, we promote spending their money.]]>
<![CDATA[maybe he should change his name to McChange ... let's call his best buddy & ask him what HE thinks ... why ... here's his best buddy right now ... YES ... Bush/McChange ... eight (8) more years ]]>
<![CDATA[Barack Obama is proving this point day after day. he can't hide from the words of his own mouth. He said he would meet with Iran's leaders without precondition. His policy is to tell them what has been told to them for the past 10 years. His policy is to offer a talk about stopping Nuclear program, sopping support of terror and recognize the Jewish state. He blames Bush for criticizing the weak Democrat positions. He has no experience. He talks and talks and talks but the only people who believe him are the ilk voting for him. His words are discounted by everybody else. He is a fraud, a liar, a spin meister. He is an elitists who thinks his sh*t doesn't stink. He bring no unity to the table. He brings no honesty to the table. There is no Change he offers. He is a product of the DNC, of the liberal media. Don't dare criticize him. Yeah right, more fantasy talk from the left. "George Bush knows" get off your elitist ass and give the office you are running for respect. President George Bush knows" is the proper way to address the leader, schmuck.]]>
<![CDATA[ <br> ============= <br> John McCain, opportunist (berkeley) <br> Reply to: comm-682850557@craigslist.org <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 6:39AM PDT <br> <br> <br> Four days after Arianna Huffington first reported it, John McCain’s 2000 VoteGate has become the election issue du jour. The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have all run stories confirming Huffington’s account that in 2000 a still steaming McCain did not vote for George W. Bush, the man who savaged him and his family during the Republican primaries. But as the fevered denials from his campaign show, the story of McCain’s hate-love relationship with Bush is the tale of Mr. Straght Talk’s tightrope walk from personal pride to political opportunism...................... more...]]>
<![CDATA[In the sence of christian charity, when did you last give anyone something they really Needed to help them UP† ? <br> <br> I don't mean just giving them a gift, they can't use, something you might not use, or stopped useing. That's not a gift! you have just handed off your Head Ack, to a person who can't take anymore head acks. That's as evil an Act as knowing some people are starving to death, and clame not to be able to do anything to help, your Bible lets you do evil, but I hate to tell you, there has to be a god to excuse you before your washed of your crimes. You don't get the right to bless yourselfs, that's not your job†; When you give only to recieve Praise, and pride. Forcing upon your self the Grantitude that you did not give. you are evil†;UNI&#937;&#8734;]]>
<![CDATA[Now McCain is projecting a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq by 2013 ... huh ... i could have SWORN that McCain said in New Hampshire that he'd be happy to have troops in Iraq for 100 years ... he sounds confused ... like he doesn't remember what he said a short while ago ... you don't think he's getting ... you know ... senile, do you? ... as in growingly incompetent? ... ]]>
<![CDATA[That mental midgen penn is a dumb actor who thinks his opinion matters to anyone and is completely mistaken about this.]]>
<![CDATA[Every Human is Responcible for his brothers keeping! <br> <br> Today so more than ever in mans existance. You buy something at the going or higher rate, those below your income are forced to suffer, forced into welfare. <br> <br> You all creat your own problems, and then look for enemies to blame them on, when is this world going to grow up? When are you going to stop listening to Moma, and Daddy, and see that their stupidity in the old world didn't work, and won't work ever?! When is the world going to wake? Maybe just in time to see themselves disentagrated into powder, Maybe that is befitting;UNI&#937;&#8734;]]>
<![CDATA[You Christian asshole, your Hatred of Humanity never seeces to amaze me. Who gave you the right to be god? <br> When do you denounce your throne? I'ld like to run for the position, because you've done a horable job in teaching Morality, and I want you out of the Alters of Mans Gods, and I want you gone. <br> You speak for all Religions who see the Patriot Act/Romans-13 as an act of God! You are the Devil instead, and quite insane. You need to live, you need to see the world the real Humanity that you want to buiry in the ground. You need to see for your own eye's instead of listening to the Preacher's Lies and Political Biase crap, do what Buddha did he desided to stop listening to the lies he was being told by his "servants" and desided to go live with his people, just to see for him self, the cruelty we've placed on all people, you included. <br> You don't get out of here alive either;UNI&#937;&#8734; <br> <br> <br> SOMA Art Seen Full of Sick Degenerate Kids Busy With Self Mutilation (Fashionable self hating artsy culture into peversity... ) <br> Reply to: see below <br> Date: 2008-05-16, 10:24AM PDT <br> <br> <br> Just saw a supposedly artsy photo magazine exhibit (at a popular rich kids SOMA gallery) of demented pictures that feature repulsive sick brats engaged in self mutilation and other twisted & psychotic behavior. Pictures of those fat tattoed sick looking woman (who've appeared in recent years.. who look like they came from a circus horror side show!) sick transexuals, and those skinny gender confused SF bicycle boys... all of them fashionably fascinated with perversity and their own self destruction. <br> <br> Unfortunately these very twisted self hating juvenile brats now dominate the SOMA & SF art community. <br> <br> Indeed lefty liberalism is a mental disorder!]]>
<![CDATA[<br> Today, Israel marks the 60th anniversary, according to the Hebrew calendar, of its founding. World leaders will endorse the event with a major international conference in Jerusalem on May 14-16, the actual date of its founding. It will be attended by United States President George W. Bush, former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, 12 heads of state, media and business tycoon Rupert Murdoch and Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin. The official celebrations—aeronautical displays, a naval review along the Mediterranean coast, and mass parachute drops—illustrate the character of Israel as a garrison state that polices the region on behalf of US imperialism. <br> <br> Despite the celebrations, not one of the commentators outside or within Israel has been able to disguise the deep sense of unease and disillusionment that pervades Israel. Many Israelis had opposed a flamboyant celebration: an online petition calling for a scaling back of expenditure achieved 90,000 signatures by the end of March against the original target of 10,000. As a result, the government was forced to announce that 35 percent of the $28 million budget—far less than the $70 million spent on the 50th anniversary in 1998—would be spent on educational, infrastructure and remembrance projects. Neither could commentators fail to contrast this with how the Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the squalid refugee camps of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, and in the Diaspora, regard the event. <br> <br> For them, the creation of Israel, which they call the Naqba, or catastrophe, is synonymous with the forcible expulsion and flight of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, and the start of a life of exile and poverty. Their property was expropriated and they were not allowed to return. Today, the original refugees and their descendants as well as those who became refugees after the 1967 war now number around 4.5 million. On the occasion of Israel’s anniversary, Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza face a three-day lockdown. Public sector workers and students will stop work at 11 a.m. to join rallies in the West Bank and Gaza. Sirens will start a two-minute silence at noon. <br> <br> More than a few commentators noted the contrast with Israel’s celebrations of the 50th anniversary, when many Israelis still harboured illusions that the 1993 Oslo Agreement offered the prospect of a truncated Palestinian state and thus peace with the Palestinians and their Arab neighbours. The Economist magazine noted that Israel’s future was “as uncertain as at any time in its 60-year history.” Michael Oren, an Israeli historian and senior fellow at the Shalem Centre think tank, asked pointedly, “How many countries in the world question whether they will still be around in 20 or 30 or 50 years time? Israel’s survival is nothing that we can take for granted.” Several factors underlie the deeply pessimistic mood, one was the disastrous war in Lebanon The inconclusive military result of the 2006 war in Lebanon was a debacle for Israel and sent a shudder through its ruling elite. The war was not merely to eliminate Hezbollah as a significant military and political force. It was also to further Washington’s strategic goal in Central Asia and the Middle East, under the cover of the “war on terrorism,” of controlling the region’s oil resources by targeting Iran. <br> <br> While Hezbollah suffered major losses, its defiant opposition to the Washington-backed bombardment by Israel, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 and many more injured, along with the destruction of much of Lebanon’s basic infrastructure, raised its stature throughout the Middle East. The US-backed Lebanese government was, in contrast, correctly viewed as a quisling regime of Washington. The debacle showed that Israel was totally unprepared for war against a guerrilla force armed with conventional weapons. It demonstrated the underlying weakness and vulnerability not only of Israel’s military, intelligence and civil defence services, but also the lack of popular support for the militarism of its political leadership. <br> <br> Israel’s military had grown used to fighting low-intensity operations against the Palestinians. It was not prepared, equipped and trained for long land-based operations against a more substantial military opponent. Moreover, a largely conscript army of young people, supplemented by older reservists, contained many soldiers that did not agree with the war and did not want to fight in it. Israel’s civil defences—its shelters and supplies in the northern cities and towns that came under attack from Hezbollah’s rockets—had all but disappeared as privatisation, deregulation and financial cutbacks, not to mention bribery and corruption, took their toll. While those citizens who had the money or family and friends in the south fled, the poor and the elderly were left with little or no protection or supplies. The government’s callous indifference to the plight of its citizens was one of the most important factors contributing to the popular pressure for the Winograd commission of inquiry, which lambasted the Kadima-Labour coalition government of Ehud Olmert for its conduct of the war. <br> <br> The situation in relation to the Palestinians, while apparently a “success” story for Israel, has produced widespread political disaffection among Israelis. <br> <br> Behind the smokescreen of the US-sponsored “peace process,” and with the complicity of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel has further consolidated its land-grab in the West Bank. The government has encircled Jerusalem with settlements that will make it impossible for Palestinians to live in and travel to and from Jerusalem, much less make any part of its capital in any putative state. It has turned the West Bank into a patchwork of disconnected enclaves, confining the Palestinians to 60 percent of the West Bank with 40 percent being off-limits due to the so-called Security Wall, military installations and roads linking the settlements to Israel—replete with 550 roadblocks making movement all but impossible and wrecking the economy. <br> <br> At the same time, Israel has waged war against the Gaza Strip, assassinated its opponents, killed hundreds of Palestinians and inflicted illegal and cruel collective punishment on the entire population. It has laid siege to Gaza in order to starve the Palestinians into submission. Cutting fuel supplies by 70 percent has led to power cuts, sporadic running water, and 30 million litres of sewage a day being dumped onto Gaza’s beaches. Two weeks ago, UNRWA was forced to stop distributing food aid for several days after its vehicles ran out of fuel. More than 80 percent of Gaza’s population relies on humanitarian assistance, with UN food aid going to about 1.1 million people. Once again, however, Israel’s inhuman and illegal actions against the Palestinians have served to increase support for Hamas and political Islam and have sickened the majority of Israelis who want a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians. <br> <br> The last, and in may ways most important, factor in generating the public unease surrounding the anniversary is the phenomenal growth of social differences in Israel as a result of the free-market policies pursued by successive governments. Privatisation, pension, and welfare reform, budget and tax cuts, and deregulation have turned the dream of the egalitarianism and collectivism, once proclaimed as the raison d’etre of a national home for the Jews, into a nightmare. Israel’s economy is entirely dependent upon financial support from the US and preferential trade agreements. Its high-tech industries, biotech, nanotech, smart materials, alternative energy and arms are geared towards the US and Europe. But while economic growth has been more than 3 percent a year for the last four years, Israel’s new wealth is highly concentrated. The Gini coefficient, measuring income inequality, has risen continually, ranking Israel as one of the most unequal states in the developed world. <br> <br> A National Insurance Institute report published last February showed that 20 percent of families live below the poverty line. Measures taken to force people off welfare and into work have provided employers with a new pool of cheap labour so that in the past five years the proportion of working poor—families with at least one wage earner—has risen by a third. Poverty among children has grown, reaching 36 percent last year, in part as a result of changes to the benefit system. The financial squeeze is affecting the middle-income groups as well. Home ownership is becoming increasingly unaffordable. New mortgages in 2006 were 50 percent lower than in 2003. Citizens’ advice bureaus are reportedly full of middle class people seeking legal and financial advice. As Yuval Elbashan, deputy manager of Yedid, a network of citizens groups, said, “The poor don’t have budgets to manage.” <br> <br> Because Israel is so heavily dependent on Washington’s subventions, this situation is set to worsen dramatically as the economic crisis takes its toll on the US budget. In addition to the growing social polarisation, Israel is split along ethnic, religious, and ideological lines. Fully 20 percent of the Israeli population are Arabs, who are treated as second-class citizens. Their refugee relatives cannot return to Israel, whereas Jews abroad automatically qualify for citizenship. They find it almost impossible to get jobs in industries proclaimed as “strategic,” such as electricity and water, or to lease land from the Jewish National Fund, despite a Supreme Court ruling in their favour. Their cities, towns and villages get less financial support from the state budget. <br> <br> Israeli commentators are full of dire warnings of a demographic time bomb. The higher birth rate among Israeli Palestinians and those on the West Bank and Gaza means that within 20 years there will be more Palestinians than Jews in Israel and the Occupied Territories, threatening the Jewish nature of the state that is so central to Zionism. There are also increasing conflicts between the religious and secular Jews in a country where the religious authorities control many aspects of social law such as citizenship, marriage and divorce. Far-right orthodox parties, and settler-based parties that play a key role in cobbling together coalition governments, have sought to extend the dictates of Jewish religious law over ever-wider areas of social life. <br> <br> Those Jews whose families came from the Middle East and North Africa are also treated as second-class citizens, when compared to those from Europe. Among the 1 million immigrants from Russia are more than 300,000 non-Jewish immigrants. Amongst these layers, the growing social polarisation and political disorientation have led to the growth of Israel’s own neo-Nazi movement. There have been 500 incidents of attacks and abuse in the last two years and there are reportedly several hundred mainly young neo-Nazis in Israel. A few weeks ago, four young Russian immigrants were sentenced to between 18 months and four years for assault and racism after filming one another beating-up ultra-orthodox Jews and homeless people. Another four members of the gang face similar charges. <br> <br> These social and political developments have undermined the central pillar of Zionism, its demand for national political unity against those deemed to be the external “enemies” of the Jewish people. As such, they threaten the country’s political and social stability. Some of Israel’s most important institutions are coming under pressure. Its role as a subcontractor for US imperialism means ever-greater military expenditure and ongoing conflict with its neighbours, particularly Iran and the Palestinians. But there is a growing reluctance to join the army. One quarter of the young men and women called up for national service evade it, citing religious exemption or mental health problems. A growing number of reservists are refusing to fight on moral grounds. <br> <br> There is also growing political, social and industrial unrest within Israel. The government is the representative of a corrupt and venal financial elite. It is widely reviled, with polls showing approval levels for Prime Minister Olmert at less than 10 percent. Olmert himself faces three investigations for corruption and could be charged as soon as the anniversary celebrations are over, making elections a near certainty. All this is a far cry from the secure economic future that the Zionist dream seemed to offer the Jewish people 60 years ago. It is this that underpins the increasing disillusionment with Israel today. <br> <br> A number of factors have led Israeli workers to identify with the Zionist state—particularly the Holocaust and Israel’s encirclement by hostile and despotic regimes. Despite this, there has always been—whatever the confusion within the working class—opposition to the oppression of the Palestinians and the desire for peace with their Arab neighbours. In the coming period, these sentiments will grow as class divisions within Israel become more pronounced. <br> <br> Such objectives, together with the securing of a decent standard of living for all Israeli citizens, can only be achieved by unifying the Arab and Jewish working class, cutting across the ethnic, religious and national divisions fostered by the bourgeoisie. It means waging a common struggle against the Israeli and Arab ruling elites and for the building of the United Socialist States of the Middle East. <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[Keep up the good work it is post like this that remind America hos sick Republicans are, and their willingness to lie about anything. <br> <br> Republicans = Zero Credibility you have even less.]]>
<![CDATA[And you are retarded, and you post proves it. ]]>
<![CDATA[Republicans = Zero Credibility]]>
<![CDATA[Just saw a supposedly artsy photo magazine exhibit (at a popular rich kids SOMA gallery) of demented pictures that feature repulsive sick brats engaged in self mutilation and other twisted & psychotic behavior. Pictures of those fat tattoed sick looking woman (who've appeared in recent years.. who look like they came from a circus horror side show!) sick transexuals, and those skinny gender confused SF bicycle boys... all of them fashionably fascinated with perversity and their own self destruction. <br> <br> Unfortunately these very twisted self hating juvenile brats now dominate the SOMA & SF art community. <br> <br> Indeed lefty liberalism is a mental disorder! <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[You fucking retards need to pick up a God Damn dictionary. Your first mistake was to put much credence in Bush's remarks. The man is unremarkable and not to savvy of a communicator. The definition of appeasement is: to make concessions to (a potential aggressor) usually at the sacrifice of principles. The key is "to make concessions". Now tell me who the fuck is calling for conciliations. As usual this board is full of dumbfucks who get thier views from Fox Dummy News or right wing radio retards. Wake the fuck up, the republikants are being exposed as the fucking war mongers and liars and as Bush shows rather stupid. Oh and if you don't lke me using "fuck" or "dumbfucks' to fucking bad. If Cheney Dick can use it I can too, Now go fuck yourself.]]>
<![CDATA["The strength, the freedom which proceed from intellectual power, from a superabundance of intellectual power, manifest themselves as skepticism. Men of fixed convictions do not count when it comes to determining what is fundamental in values and lack of values. Men of convictions are prisoners. They do not see far enough, they do not see what is below them: whereas a man who would talk to any purpose about value and non-value must be able to see five hundred convictions beneath him--and behind him. . . . A mind that aspires to great things, and that wills the means thereto, is necessarily skeptical." <br> Nietzsche <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[Have you been buying gas, lately? <br> <br> Have you been buying food, lately? <br> <br> Have you done anything, lately? <br> <br> If so, you're headed for life in a shipping container. So, be happy! This is the end result of excellent management in CA. Don't blame Arnold, blame yourselves and your Dumb-a-crat voting blocks. <br> <br> Then, go fuck yourselves along with all your queer "married" pals. <br> <br> ]]>
<![CDATA[Ha! Talk about guilty conscience? Bush's general remarks that "...we should never appease a terrorist..." show what Dumb-a-crats are, useless. If anything at all, former Pres. Charter could be the one to whom his remarks were aimed, but no, it's the blow out of Obama and others. Ha! What idiots. <br> <br> You know what? If that's how Dumb-a-crats are, I'll vote Republican now for sure. <br> ]]>
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<![CDATA[All those empty shipping containers do have a new use after all, housing! <br> <br> Considering the credit crunch and the mortgage melt-down, people will have new places to live and a whole new industry is popping up. They take those containers and make housing out of them! Fabulous! <br> <br> Some designs allow for the conversion to a floating home too. That's really nice. So, when things really go pop for you, you can always fall back on a steel box for a home. Hey, the Japanese have done this for years. <br> <br> Great! A whole new industry just in a knick of time, especially in CA, "the world's 7th leading economy!" Yeaaaaah! Of course, Boxer and others will have to forgo this transition as they are previously engaged with heavens only knows what. <br> <br> ]]>
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<![CDATA[I don't think your even bothered that you posted this responce without really knowing what is envolved, You all think just because you, American, Citizen, Patriot, BELEIVER IN GOD, that you will be OK from this unnatural ACT. You don't have a clue, to the emplacations of these words, Your stuck with it, 911 asured it's passing without oposition, and you can't get it off the Books now, it's part o