Hello All:

While we liberals focus on Angels on the head of a pin, Ben Stein is writing in the Today's NY Times business section asking John McCain the question; "Do you have the guts to stand up to the myth makers and tax cutters and the rich?"

This is all made after he places a case that we have not been acting responsible managing our treasury since 1954. Have used tax cuts in ways only to delay raising the money to meet political promises and only while hiding the costs in ways that have collapsed the value of our dollar, made us subservient to the most despicable practicioners of all forms of inequality and will indenture our children on an equal opportunity basis.

This is not a liberal but a conservative liberatian commentator who understands wealth management.

Obama, Clinton and the black-brown divide...wake up, someone from the other perspective is giving a challenge to a hero that lately has not shown he has guts.

see NY Times Everybody's Business What McCain could do about taxes.

By BEN STEIN

Published: March 9, 2008

As we go about in some arenas, this is what our conferences of any size appear, issues have become a costume to be worn in the introduction of a drama wrestling match to control access to the god which we all seek...the annuity. It is a limited god which fears does not permit us to equitably share. Unfortunately, by consensus it is the only god we have.

Travis, when he asked, 'are you trying to replace me' stated it for what it has become throughout.

Go to the conservatives, their present costume (besides the defaced term "conservative") to hold the annuity is a hoax passed about of impending nuclear doom if we don't let their annuity agent continue their presence among those stone monuments that populate Washington and are adjacent to the most deteriorated neighborhoods in the U.S. The former costumes of Jesus, Compassion, Patriots, etc. have been discarded for not supporting their profligacy. A hero of the Petain mold is being formed to wear what will be the final campaign garb. Our only hope will be that he will bring a recipe for cold potato soup as our costs of energy will not permit it to be served warm.

Our perspectives in this blog are such that I’d be redundant to speak about the various costumes we of the other sides wear in the race for annuity.

Social issues of fairness, fair return, justice, empathy, compassion, equality and posterity are not and need not be race or gender based.

When we do, we play into the power of the bigots when we do and provide them wrestlers for their entertainment and continuity annuity.

This is a race among the people of velocity as the men of retro thinking sit on the side. Republicans have placed us the country in a isolated quagmire abroad and economically downward spire globally. As a former military ego is awarded the millstone of protecting the old by W today in the fashion of defeated French republic with Petain and failed Weimer with von whomever, lets us not forget that our vitality and ability to change our nation's path lies within the momentum of our races to Denver. Let the superdelegated lie fallow where they belong.

This is not just an election for a personality, it is about a wholesale replacement of a cabal at contempt with the nation and with the Constitution. If the Clintons are pandering to this then all should review keeping them on any financial retainer.

Joan;

Think you could use your access to the Senator from New York to ask her if she knows what time the first plane hit the World Trade Center or when the first wave of planes hit Pearl Harbor. 3am where?

Think she might be setting up a call center against early morning intruders in private homes? Is that a good use of the White House?

What in Ralph's position deserves to be learned and incorporated so he'll join the change? Obviously for him and those 500k who support him, there is something yet to be had with more value than just vehicle safety. Like McCain, another old ego, there is a piece of sand within that once taken away will relieve their grumpy tendencies.

All that follow John McCain must ask this basic question..what price shall be paid for his ego.

The Republican have populated themselves with a leadership that panders to its own ego. This is the zeitgeist of the Bush and Cheney - a spirit of the times that makes them unrecognizable even to their own colleagues. It now inhabits John McCain whose ego like the spirit within the biblical swineherder will take his followers to the precipice and on, if so enabled. He appears to be gathering a flock about the tents in which the swindlers dwell. His appeal will be among those most likely to run with Picket to the ridge line in Gettysburg, with Wall Street to 1929, with a corrupted pope to the Holy Land and with the Athenians to Syracuse.

A hero once is now the heir of Don Quioxti chasing the windmills of the modern Moors,now assisted by Anglo-Poncos, and filling our treasuries with IOUs to our true rivals. All as he promises - it will be a 100 years journey in the land of Ali Baba. What pillage to be had by all that ride in he name of....John McCain!

Bill Donohue has yet to figured out what the Elmer Gantrys are already exploiting.

Dear Joan:

It is good to come with the integrity of our word and especially our name. It stands above all titles.

Only a NY Times blog manager once insisted that I adjust mine to avoid confusion. I use William there just as I was known when the nuns ran the parochial archipelagoes.

Still can't understand why. I don't have access to Washington parties.

Bill Keller