No More Incumbents Presidential Race

Editor’s note: The first half of this blog was taken from the blog of Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT)

The current financial crisis facing our country has been caused by the extreme right-wing economic policies pursued by the Bush administration. These policies, which include huge tax breaks for the rich, unfettered free trade and the wholesale deregulation of commerce, have resulted in a massive redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the very wealthy.

The middle class has really been under assault. Since President Bush has been in office, nearly 6 million Americans have slipped into poverty, median family income for working Americans has declined by more than $2,000, more than 7 million Americans have lost their health insurance, over 4 million have lost their pensions, foreclosures are at an all time high, total consumer debt has more than doubled, and we have a national debt of over $9.7 trillion dollars.

While the middle class collapses, the richest people in this country have made out like bandits and have not had it so good since the 1920s. The top 0.1 percent now earn more money than the bottom 50 percent of Americans, and the top 1 percent own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. The wealthiest 400 people in our country saw their wealth increase by $670 billion while Bush has been president. In the midst of all of this, Bush lowered taxes on the very rich so that they are paying lower income tax rates than teachers, police officers or nurses.

Now, having mismanaged the economy for eight years as well as having lied about our situation by continually insisting, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong,” the Bush administration, six weeks before an election, wants the middle class of this country to spend many hundreds of billions on a bailout.

The wealthiest people, who have benefited from Bush’s policies and are in the best position to pay, are being asked for no sacrifice at all. This is absurd.

Second Half
The very same scum bags who vehemently decried regulation are now crying for it, bellowing from the rooftops from which their golden parachutes will safely glide them down.

The duplicity and malfeasance of the robber barons of Wall Street, aided by their sycophants in Congress (namely Phil Gram), have put all our futures in very serious jeopardy, perhaps triggering another Great Depression.

So when you’re debating what wild animal you’re going to eat for sustenance or what trash can you’re going to light for warmth, just remember that it is all “in your head,” so says Phil Gramm (a.k.a., the heavyweight champion of financial deregulation.) While Sarah Palin is pretending to know an iota about foreign policy, McCain should consult Charles Keating on the economy. Neo-liberal, laissez-fairest economics is proving to be quite a bitch. I blame not Wall Street, but dumbass Main Street, for they reelected privatization of every sector in 2004.

Three cheers for F.U.B.A.R!

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If getting vomit out of a Honda Odyssey and making baby formula less than five seconds with her eyes closed while shooting a polar bear cub with her ruby-red assault rifle makes you eligible to assume the presidency, then Sarah Palin is a shoe-in.

Ha! I can’t wait to see the “hockey mom” PTA leader debate Joe Biden. This is why the Repugs have truly lost their mojo, and not just because their anointed leader is ED: they are ignoring their own captious criticisms of Obama’s lacking experience in national security by selecting someone not eligible to be class president. Moreover, McCain is going with someone with elementary experience at best as a pointless pander to the 18 million disenfranchised Hillary supporters, and it aint working!

Once they learn that Sarah Palin opposes rape and incest exceptions for women seeking abortion, they completely write her off. Sarah Palin is to the movement for women’s equality what Steven Segal is to acting. She’s an extremist and an enemy to the cause that has been fought on her behalf. What confuses me beyond belief is if surface, cheerleading, nonthreatening appeal with shit for brains is what McCain was seeking, then he could’ve looked no further than his wife. You know she wasn’t properly vetted because they would’ve told McCain that he’s seeking a vice president, not a third piece of disposable eye candy.

How about that Cindy McCain? I swear she looked the Malibu Stacy patriotic collection. I still say that the award for most inadvertently funny speech goes to Mike Huckabee! All I heard was something about his Elvis and the electorate not deserving the right to carry desks around. All that was missing from that quintessentially southern nonsensical ramble was a park bench and a half eaten box of chocolates.

Now, her child’s accidental pregnancy shouldn’t be exploited–even though the Republicans thrive on opening up such non-issues–but I really wish they would stop saying that the Palins were ecstatic to hear the news. They were about as ecstatic when they heard the OJ verdict. Speaking of family values, a fellow blogger said that if your going to take on a super high power job…..maybe 5 kids isn’t the way to go. Her son may have down syndrome but she’s ****ing retarded. She is against abortion…. thus the Down Syndrome child that could have been detected in the first 6 weeks and spared this poor child an existence as a special needs kid with a mom who has better things to do.

As far as maverick and independent thinking goes, 2000 Senator McCain is dead. I believe I wrote about his slow descent to the lunatic fringe long ago when he embraced one time “agent of intolerance” Jerry Falwell. John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin was designed to pacify dyed-in-the-wool conservatives’ anxieties about many of McCain’s liberal impulses (campaign finance reform, immigration, etc.)and thus mobilize the Dobson, Bauer, and Buchanan crowd. In short, he swiftly threw the independent crowd under the cheap talk express and they aint coming back.

The NY Times already has an article of what really happened and why, according to sources in his campaign.

It pretty much alludes to the fact that the McCain camp was ready for Lieberman. Phil Graham was even pushing hard for this pick. But the judgment was finally made that the social conservative base would be outraged (the main issue being Lieberman is pro-choice) and their lack of support would too drastically undercut McCain’s chances.

She passed the crazy, conservative ideological litmus test with flying colors and that is why she’s there. The fact that she she’s hotter than Johnny’s temper, well, that’s what we call value-added.

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Whenever I encounter a story about left-leaning first-rate actors pretending to pontificate on the abstruse, byzantine issues I usually scoff sardonically seeing as I positively adore their profound work. But whenever I see and/or read about an unplumbed, mouth breathing C-rate actor with conservative leanings as always is the case, really pretending to pontificate on the abstruse, byzantine issues… my soul, brain, and heart all seem to want to collide with my taint. At the risk of dignifying a response to a man with nil credibility, if Norris was so au courant on the needs of our fighting men and women, wouldn’t he know that they are donating 6 to 1 in favor of Obama. That is pretty much all I can say in response to a guy who hawks exercise equipment at 3 am every nite. In fact, I am pretty sure that The Home Gym endorses Obama. In short, watching this man speak is like watching a really bad Chuck Norris movie. Arriana is sexier than ever, whereas Chuck just looked like he fell off the back of a Denny’s on wheels.

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So much has happened in the realm of politics in the past couple of weeks that to absorb it all without leading to an early coronary mishap is next to impossible. It would take a years supply of Ipecac just to digest this week. John Edwards, the way too good looking to be a politician who fights split ends more than poverty, officially ended his neutral reticence when he officially endorsed Obama as the candidate to hand John McCain his cut up and blendered political meat. Now does this seemingly carefully crafted endorsement imply that Obama will choose the cutesy southerner to once again use his geographical significance to balance the ticket? While North Carolina may prove to be a critical electoral grab, you can count on Barack choosing Edwards in as much as Edwards choosing to run with Obama. In other wards, the chances of that happening are about as likely as Hillary Clinton sharing the presidential bedroom with Bill. On the contrary, if Obama is going to be able to match McCain’s foreign policy experience, maddeningly illogical though it may be, he is going to have to pick the dude with the most gravitas and sharpest voice on foreign policy in the gang of 535. Joe Biden, of course being that man.

Now, many of you may be thinking, “why on earth would Obama choose the guy that thinks he’s clean and articulate?” The answer is simple. Joe Biden is a elder statesman with a gusto, wit and diplomatic prowess that goes unmatched. Moreover, choosing Joe Biden will allow him to stay to true to his ‘message of hope’ and ‘politics of civility,’ while Joe can excoriate McCain’s complete and utter lack of worldly vision. Shit – have you heard the man speak? The dude’s criticisms of bush’s failures and the fear-monger posturing of the neocons is so fucking poetic that it is only a mater of time when Hallmark catches up.

Some quotes from the man that inspired me to blog for him:

“Rudy Giuliani, probably the most under qualified man since George Bush to run for president…Rudy Giuliani?? I mean, think about it, There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence…a noun, a verb, and 9/11.” ~Joe Biden

On Bush comparing Barack Obama’s foreign policy to those who wished to appease the Nazis before World War II, Biden said “This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset . . . and make this kind of ridiculous statement. If he thinks this is appeasement, is he going to come back and fire his own cabinet?”

I don’t know about you, but this is the type of backbone that the Democratic nominee is going to need should he overcome the myriad of 527 attack ads (a.k.a “The Wright Express”). Hell, he might even convince the DNC to give the Donkey a spine.

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Barack Obama has been the subject of orchestrated attacks from right-wing media outlets over some comments he made regarding the political behavior of Pennsylvanian voters. Oh, wait, did I say right-wing media outlets? I really meant to say Hillary Clinton. Now, we are quite aware of the calculating nature and disingenuous posturing of Senator Clinton and how she’ll dissimulate her true political feelings on any given subject ( i.e., all the American idol contestants are winners) so as not to alienate a potential voter bloc (i.e., bitter bowlers). When she’s not gallantly dodging hostile Bosnian fire (no wonder 50 cent endorsed her), she’s fearlessly walking through fire to rescue sick puppies and orphans from being executed and devoured by Idi Amin. In short, Hillary will pretty much say anything to get elected.

However, I believe Hillary has reached a new level of a desperation or “computer glitch” in smearing her opponent as “elitist, divisive and out of touch with real Americans,” while she outdrinks Spuds McKenzie and reminisces about killing animals with her daddy.

In taking a page out of the Rovian handbook, Hillary is doing the job of every demagogic right-winger, and in doing so will only see her support wither should she magically secure the nomination. Her vitriolic reaction to Obama’s comments is reminiscent of when the chickenhawks excoriated John Kerry for his ‘getting bogged down in Iraq’ botched joke, although Obama was making a lucid political commentary and showed refreshing candor.

In an effort to plumb the depths of frustration on the part of people in small towns in particular, Obama said these folks often turn to religion, guns, and illegal immigrant bashing to vent their anger over economic uncertainty and fear. Sen. Hillary Clinton pounced on the man she’s been steadily losing ground to and denounced his comments as “elitist and condescending.” I only wonder if she crafted her responses while chugging decidedly blue-collar Crown Royal in one of her multi-million dollar mansions after taking a much needed rest from toiling over counting the $110 million that she and Bill made over the past seven years.

In an excellent show of political acumen, Obama was merely trying to explain why middle class Americans would vote against their own economic self-interest. If the economy is really the hot potato issue right behind celebrities in rehab, it is common sense that pretty much all middle-class small-town American would vote Democrats. After all, democrats want to lower taxes for the middle class, make health care and education more affordable, help solve the housing crisis, close tax loopholes for colossal MNCs and obscenely wealthy people to finance social services and finance social security and medicare, etc . . .

So then why do they vote for brain dead retards who pose as common brain dead retards all the while being an ivy league legacy elitist brain dead retard?

It’s because they know that the beltway is much too concerned with short termism and incrementalism in order to maintain incumbency. As Obama correctly stated, small-town middle-class American have seen their jobs going away for the last 25 years. Politicians have promised that these jobs would come back but they never have. Invariably, they all begin to think that Washington is ignoring them like a bill to ban strip clubs and is blatantly lying to them about economic issues. Consequently, they become some so overemotional that they turn to divisive social issues (guns, god , etc.).

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If there’s any indication that we are marred in chaos indefinitely, or as I put it ” up Shiite creek with no paddle,” it is in John McCain’s ludicrous statements from the stump (”A Hundred Years”). These startling statements reveal a man so detached from reality and so utterly afraid to confront Hilary and Obama on the economy, an issue he readily admits little knowledge of, that the so called maverick has no other choice but to tout the surge. Scary enough, a lot of Americans are still miserably uninformed when it comes to Iraq. For example, more Americans than ever before - 42 percent - say the troop surge in Iraq has made things better, the percentage of Americans who say the war is going well is now ten points higher than it was in September of last year and, worse yet, twenty-eight percent of Americans still believe Saddam was personally involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.

This radical and seemingly inconceivable disconnect implies that Americans aren’t paying attention, and why should they? The coverage of the war has dropped precipitously — down to 3 percent of available news space and air time this year, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Indeed, war coverage did make a comeback last week ( no Govs Gone Wild?) because of the American death toll reaching 4000, which I suppose reflects the media’s affinity for round,easy numbers (3,557 is fluff; bring out the horny governors!)

Enter Barack and Hillary (she still in it?)

In order to demystify the belief that the surge is working, Messrs. Barack and Hillary are going to have to do more than call for vague timetables. Rather, the candidates will have to constantly remind Americans of the astronomical costs for this monumental foreign policy blunder, link it to the crumbling domestic economy, and offer real and imaginative solutions in the face of a war hero while simultaneously highlighting McCain’s gaffes (the Iran/Sunni connection) on the issue. In short, they will have to demonstrate that gravitas and war hero status, although admirable and noteworthy, do not equate to sound and reasoned judgement.

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