have been outmaneuvered. Osama bin Laden used 9/11 to lure the US into a foolish war in Afghanistan, and then an illegal and disastrous invasion of Iraq. Thanks to out of control military spending and fraudulent no bid contracts for Cheney's corporate cabal, we have nearly doubled our nations debt to Tne Trillion Dollars (that's $10,000,000,000,000.00) during the Bush regime.

Now Iran, working thru the Shia government that we replaced Saddam Hussein's Sunni thugocracy with, has induced the Maliki government to ask the US to leave or agree to a time table. Bush is already on record as saying; "If they ask us to leave, we'll leave." This in spite of the plans for 59 permanent military bases, the largest embassy on earth, and a $5 billion entertainment complex including Tigris Woods Golf Course. Yeah, that's right, I ain't making this shit up.

WHy anyone want sto be the next president baffles me. Whoever it is will spend 99% ofhis time trying to clean up the most colossal mess in US history.

is only operative when giving The Finger to the little guy, beset with job loss, foreclosure, loss of health insurance, flood, famine, pestilence or death.

If a financial sector filled with scum-sucking over-paid assholes is threatened, then by God, the government will keep them safe.

Or Tanganyika . . . or British Honduras . . . or . . . .

to figure out how to fix THIS election. Maybe Florida will just purge ALL African-Americans from the ballot . . .

they would resign forthwith for aiding and abetting, both before and after the act, the criminality of the Bush Crime Family.

George Bush has publicly admitted ordering warrantless wiertaps . . . he merely claims the law does not apply to him. We know, thanks to the Red Cross, that the United States has committed war crimes, torture to be specific, in violation of US statutes and treaties. We know that the orders for such interrogation techniques came from the very top: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

We know that Congress is granted explicit power and responsiblity to impeach and remove the Executive if he commits high crimes or misdemeanors.

If and when the Bush criminals are brought before a tribunal, there should be space left in the dock for the Democrats who enabled and covered up the crimes.

Where would he look Czechoslaovakia? The Belgian Congo? Tanganyika? You know damn well he can't boot up the computer, put a new message on the answering machine, or figure out how to go to the last channel with the remote control.

talk big, but would wet their pants if they had to do any actual fighting. Both of these alchoholic creeps are totally bereft of empathy, and think only in terms of their own aggrandizement.

Put yourself in the CIA's position. There you are, workin' hard, trying to get a recommendation for promotion, when they ask you to waterboard some poor schmuck. So you do. And . . . HEY . . . this is kinda fun.

You're scaring the shit out of these powerless dweebs, they're shittin' and pissin' themselves every time they see a washcloth, they flinch when you wheel in the Diehard and the 8 gauge jumper cables . . . and the boss thinks you're doing a crackerjack job. Life is Good.

And then one morning you wake up early and you're lying in bed and you realize: HOLY FUCK, some people might think what I've been doing is ILLEGAL. CRIMINAL, even.

So you go into the boss and say, </>Chief, I hate to be a fucking wet blanker, but I ain't gonna hook up the jumper cales to Achmed's nutsack anymore until you get me some CYA paperwork from upstairs.

AND THE REST IS HISTORY.

The support of slavery by Baptist ministers. The Lutherans and the Holocaust. The conquest of the Americas and saving all those savage souls. The Inquisition. Those quaint Salem witch trials. The Crusades!! Jihad!!!

Given the track record, what's the possiblity of the ACLU or the DNC financing some pre-emptive litigation? Its my understanding that those persons denied free speech/assembly often prevailed in the follow-up trespassing actions, and in some cases even sought and got damages.

Like the instance of the 63 year old librarian last week getting rousted, it seems to me if the enforcement mechanism of the evil jerks, i.e., local police departments and cops, were put on notice that denial of constitutional rights will result in lawsuits naming the departments and the enforcing officers individually, perhaps the local cops wouldn't be quite so eager to do the bidding of their corporate overlords.

When you came home from 'Nam and saw that your loving wife had been injured in a terrible auto accident, causing her to lose 4-5 inches in height and marring her once attractive body, you threw her over like an old shoe when your current blond bimbo sashayed by with a purse full of campaign dollar$$$$$$$.

Face it senescent senior senator . . . you're old and crippled and ugly . . . and nobody loves you any more.

And Obama . . . well, Mr. Charisma is SMOKING HOT!!!!!

The US has damaged its international standing enough by bending over backwards for Israel. Its time for Israel to: 1. Stop spying on the US; 2. Stop meddling in our international relations (don't push us into any more wars, AIPAC); and 3. worry about solving their problems with the Palestinians in an equitable manner.

Obama will win: ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, DE, PA, MD, DC, VA, NC, OH, MI, IA, IL, WI, MN, MO, CO, NM, CA, OR, WA, HI.

He MAY win: FL, MT, AR, AK, GA, IN and AZ.

If . . . he's alive in November.