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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