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Joe Lieberman is a Republican, not a Democrat and not an Independent. Moreover, on national security issues, he's aligned with the most unbalanced fringe of the neocon philosophy. He should be kicked off the caucus and try to get reelected when his term is up as a Republican. Good luck with that.
It seems like a number of polls indicate that Arizona, McCain's adopted home state is about to become a pink state-a state that has gone from certainly going for McCain to just leaning McCain. This seems to be the main reason for the McCain kamikaze kamikaze decision to bring in the Rev.Wright non-issue on top of the Obama Is Affiliating With Terrorists non-issue and Obama Is Anti-American. McCain is doing very poorly in states that just a few weeks ago were considered safely red, and if he ends up losing or even winning Arizona by only a narrow margin, McCain would die of shame and embarrassment.
I remember a conversation from around 1981 with an old friend who got to know Buchanan while serving in D.C. for a few years as a naval liaison during the Nixon administration. He said that he had been repeatedly shocked at how racist and anti-Jewish Buchanan was. Buchanan was obsessed with, and terrified of the prospect of whites and Christians becoming a minority in the US. Buchanan would say that this was an Anglo-white nation, colonized by whites/for whites, and agonized over allowing non-whites to emigrate to the US. He would tell my friend that "dark' people who want to live in America should move to places like Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and that Jews are dangerous because of their "natural affinity" for Communism and because they control the world's financial institutions and don't respect Christianity(Pat didn't realize that my friend was actually Jewish). Over the years, Pat, unlike his sister Bay, has lost some of his rough edges, but at his core he has maintained his racist, anti-Semite, nativist, isolationist and xenophobic instincts.
Pat Buchanan grew up as a disciple and admirer of Father Charles Edward Coughlin. His lifelong racism, anti-Semitic feelings and nativistic instincts all stem from his admiration of the infamous Father Coughlin, who was revered as a saint in the Buchanan D.C. household when Pat and Bay were growing up.
The Eva Braun of the Glen.
He used to play poker with Bill Ayers.
not only would Jesus deck you with a left hook, he would then proceed to pee on you and call County Mental Health to come get you.
Nance, you may love Jesus, but he certainly hates you. If he ever ran into you, he would no doubt deck you with a devastating left hook.
not marching into Baghdad was one of the few intelligent decisions George H W Bush made during his 4 years in office. If the US hadn't meddled in other countries affairs, toppled regimes at will and kept feudal regimes in power thinking it's an empire that has an inherited right to global dominance, we wouldn't be attacked by terrorists who are financed by money we are paying to Saudi Arabia for oil we need because we are unwilling to conserve and develop alternative energy sources. I have many issues with Colin Powell, not the least of which is his poor judgement in deciding to become a Republican and his fraudulent infamous speech at the U.N. in 2002, but I believe in redemption, and endorsing Obama is a good first step.
before crazy Michelle Bachman gets on MSNBC to tell us that Colin Powell plays poker with Bill Ayers, is a far left America hater who should be investigated for hating the country that's been so good to him?
Actually, you should even look at the "I refused to be released from captivity before my comrades" and perceive it for what it actuallywas. Only prisoners who cooperated with their captors had been rewarded that privilege. A number of his fellow POW, including former Republican Rep. Bob Dornan claimed that McCain was a 'bird" who cooperated with his capturers and was never tortured. An early release would have meant a likely court-martial, possibly for treasonand no chance of a political career.
But if you research John McCain, you find out that he actually never was a man of honor. If you read the latest Rolling Stones article on him, even if you disregard half as unreliable, you must reach a conclusion that McCain has always been anything but honorable. The real McCain seems to be a spoiled privileged brat who was a beneficiary of blatant nepotism since childhood, cruel, hotheaded, nasty and dishonest. Cox and her peers have decided to worship a myth that doesn't actually exist in reality.
First Gordon Liddy and his co-felons and now Joe Wurzelbacher who is employed as an unlicensed worker who peforms plumbing functions, makes less than 40,000 per anum, was never going to buy any $250,000 business unless the GOP bought it for him and would actually get a tax break under President Obama's plan. Joe of course has been a GOP plant from the beginning. Just listen to his moronic babbling against Social Security and for the war on Iraq.
On a more serious note, can you imagine electing to the White House a person who voted with Bush 90% of the time? Anybody who voted with Bush even 5% of the time needs to be locked up in an asylum for the criminally insane or at least sent over to the Hague to face war crimes charges..