Libertarians & Tea-partiers: Tools of the Corporate Elite

Libertarians and Tea-Partiers are creations of and funded by extreme right wing activists primarioly affiliated with the Republican party. The the stink of racism and sexism is very real.

"The anti-government fervor infusing the 2010 elections represents a political triumph for the Kochs. By giving money to “educate,” fund, and organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private agenda into a mass movement. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs fund, said, “The problem with the whole libertarian movement is that it’s been all chiefs and no Indians. There haven’t been any actual people, like voters, who give a crap about it. So

the problem for the Kochs has been trying to create a movement.” With the emergence of the Tea Party, he said, “everyone suddenly sees that for the first time there are Indians out there—people who can provide real ideological power.” The Kochs, he said, are “trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies.”

A Republican campaign consultant who has done research on behalf of Charles and David Koch said of the Tea Party, “The Koch brothers gave the money that founded it. It’s like they put the seeds in the ground. Then the rainstorm comes, and the frogs come out of the mud—and they’re our candidates!”

http://www.newyorker.com/.../2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama

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The bottom line on Obama.

 Obama is a war criminal.

 And Hillary is complicit in war crimes.

Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton
belong in the presidency.  Nor does Biden.
The proof is in the puddin'.

This is not slander, nor is this a smear.

Simple facts:

1.  Obama has engaged in at least five new extra-constitutional and illegal wars since taking office:  
These corporate wars feed the munitions industry by selling arms to both sides of US-sponsored wars.

2.  Barack surrendered to the insurance cartels on health care:  The usual suspects, who have been betting against the health of the American people for years... now set the rates, call the shots and are mandated payments... even from those who do not choose to purchase the product.
All this is done to preserve the corporate bottom line instead of serving public health needs. And thirty million Americans will not be provided any health care. 

3.  A surrender to transnational economic cartels on not only corporate
ambitions abroad... but also in supporting demonstrably unsafe offshore
drilling.  Obama also endorses fracking, allows regulatory neglect and agrees with precipitous and wrong-headed wilderness development by extraction industries. 

4.  A refusal to create jobs with justice by rebuilding our deteriorating infrastructure. 
Instead of investing in the American people, those who own the natural resources of the planet have convinced Obama to ship American jobs overseas. This  enhances short term corporate bottom lines, instead of taking care of the business of the American people.   

5.  Obama sacrificed an opportunity to shut down seven corporate wars of choice.

~These are not party issues: 
The current administration is corrupt.
The previous administration was corrupt.
We should throw the current bums out and prosecute them
and the previous corporate cons for crimes against the American people . 

Obama could shut down seven conflicts of choice,
implement non-profit single payer health care and
spend these peace and health dividends on
rebuilding ports, roads, bridges, and infrastructure.

All ships can rise, once we find the courage.



Obama stands in support of judicial homicide and claims 

a "right" to murder anyone, anywhere, anytime, for any
reason, or without having to provide any reason at all.
This must not stand.  

Criticism of Boehner has focused on his ties to lobbyists, especially

If impeachment were even possible, the removal of Obama and Biden leaves Representative John Bohner in charge until 2016.  He seeks a safer bet than the fatal and sion Obama has implemented.

Boehner is most criticized for his ties with the tobacco and banking industries.  has been skewered on Saturday Night Live, mocked for crying in public, as well as for his perennial tan. He has been re-elected to Congress 10 times.

Revolutionary Social Change & Civic-Engagement: Popular Resistance News

This week we are inspired by activists of all ages who are taking bold action and by the upcoming waves of resistance! This newsletter is also available on the web here.

This week we are inspired by activists of all ages who are taking bold action and by the upcoming waves of resistance! Stopping Torture and Injustice towards Prisoners Seventy-nine year old Margaretta D’Arcy of Ireland is absolutely steadfast in her refusal to be complicit with allowing US planes to use Ireland’s airport for extraordinary rendition. In this moving TV interview after her release from prison, she wore an orange jumpsuit in solidarity with the prisoners in Guantanamo. You can still join the Friday Fast for Justice to increase awareness of the injustice there. The Friday Fast also remembers prisoners in the US who are tortured with solitary confinement. You can stop further abuse by letting the California prison system know that long term solitary confinement should be stopped. The deadline for comment is April 3. This past week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, visited long-time political prisoner Leonard Peltier. And PFC Manning’s lawyer David Coomb’s wrote an update in which he says that she did not receive “a fair trial and a just result.” Both Peltier and Manning continue to demand justice with the realization that what happened to them can happen to anyone. Sayyaf Jamal, the youngest person in the case of the execution today. He’s a medical student. It doesn’t look like Cecily McMillan will get a fair trial. Judge Ronald Zweibel denied her lawyer access to information necessary to support her case. She faces 7 years and goes to trial on April 7 in New York City for elbowing a police officer who grabbed her breast from behind as she was leaving Zuccotti Park. Another important campaign is to stop the outrageous sentencing in Egypt. The court gave the death penalty to 529 activists. CODEPINK held a protest at the Egyptian Embassy to spread the word. Please share this campaign with your contacts. Taking Matters into Our Own Hands When the government fails to act appropriately, then it is up to us. Members of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance have been trying to bring a criminal complaint against Obama, Brennan and others about the drone program. The US Attorney’s response this week was to refuse them entry to her building although the rest of the public was allowed in. With tax season upon us, some are choosing to refuse paying for our criminal wars through war tax resistance. A new type of tax resistance is against our for-profit health system that siphons hundreds of billions of public dollars away from actual care. Some are choosing to be Conscientious Objectors to Obamacare. This past week was the celebration of the New Year in Afghanistan. The Afghan Peace Volunteers wish for a world without borders. They invite you to meet them through Skype to share dreams. Another positive note is that support for Palestinians is growing. A UN human rights investigator accused Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ and practicing apartheid. And Loyola University in Chicago became the first Catholic university to join the BDS movement. Resistance to Ecological Destruction There is so much strong resistance happening against the extreme energy extraction economy that it is hard to cover this past week in one newsletter. Of note are growing movements in Vermont against a pipeline, a rally and petition in New York for divestment from fossil fuels and students in Massachusetts planning a walk out for divestment on Monday. A tar sands megaload was turned away from the Cheyenne River Sioux lands by the tribal council after one person decided to block the truck and many more saw his tweets and joined him. In British Columbia, Enbridge is exerting tremendous effort in a small town to gain approval of their pipeline, but the townspeople are fighting back. The Quebec Cree are working to preserve close to 10,000 acres of land. First Nations in Canada are trying to stop the Northern Gateway Pipeline. The “Wall of Women” is blocking a pipeline that Kinder Morgan plans to build. And in the US, the Cowboy Indian Alliance is heading to DC to protest the northern portion of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Great Climate March is on its way across the US to raise awareness of climate change. Check their website to see if they will come close to you. Anti-fracking activists in Pennsylvania were hit with maximum bail last week for a blockade action. They need donations. Twelve people were found guilty after their protest of the Pilgrim Nuclear Plant. And Popular Resistance is partnering in a campaign, Clean Up the Mines!, to halt all further uranium mining until the thousands of abandoned mines that continue to poison us are properly cleaned up. Taking a Stand against the Neoliberal Agenda The policies that privatize everything possible while cutting our public programs have in common that they are part of an overall neoliberal economic model. Last week we told you that #FedUp was holding a first action to take money creation out of the hands of private banks. Here is their report. United Students against Sweatshops are on tour to force Teach for America, part of the attack on education, off their campuses. Hundreds of students and faculty rallied at the University of Southern Maine this week against cuts. And bus drivers in Vermont were successful in stopping a harmful city resolution after they overtook City Hall. Poverty is growing in the US. Paul Bucheit writes this week that official poverty would be much higher if we used accurate measurements that reflected the current cost of food, housing, health care and education. He finds that almost half of all Americans hold zero wealth because of debt. Nearly a third of student loans are thought to be in default. Considering that we are in a huge stock market bubble and both the Federal Reserve and China are cutting back on cash infusions, economists are forecasting another financial collapse this year. While the current crises are frightening, they are also opportunities to join together in both protest of harmful policies and the creation of new systems that meet our basic needs. This spring we see that happening through the #WaveOfAction and the Global Climate Convergence. Across the country and around the world, movements for social, economic and environmental justice are connecting their struggles. It is an exciting time. We encourage you to find some way to get involved.

More issues and ideas from Occupy:  http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/occupation
Occupy Portland:  http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/occupyportland
http://theissueslist.blogspot.com/2013/08/small-wisdom.html

Small Wisdom

Small Wisdom:  http://theissueslist.blogspot.com/2013/08/small-wisdom.html

“The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours,
 and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

“I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being–-not by any approximation in thought, but by being. I want to be and not be ashamed of being.”
― Therese Doucet, A Lost Argument

“From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
― Mark Twain

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes

“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
― Anaïs Nin, Journals Of Anais Nin Volume 3

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”
― Robert Browninghttp://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/de-beauvoir-simone.jpg

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy

with the last honesty and truth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
― Bob Dylan

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

Bradley Manning & Edward Snowden: Where do we go from here?

~Mr. Obama... The time has come to walk the talk.

Thursday, August 1, 2013 8:59:27 PM

solidarity, human rights, peace, justice ... 

“I believed that if the general public, especially
 the American public, had access to the information
 contained within [the military’s own databases], 
 it could spark a domestic debate on the role of 
 the military and our foreign policy in general 
 as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.” 

Bradley Manning

"Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up? He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world. He says that he does not want to live in a world where there isn’t any privacy. He says that he does not want to live in a world where everything that he says and does is recorded.

Thanks to Snowden, we now know that the U.S. government has been spying on us to a degree that most people would have never even dared to imagine. Up until now, the general public has known very little about the U.S. government spy grid that knows almost everything about us. But making this information public is going to cost Edward Snowden everything."

"Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."


http://my.opera.com/WritingResource.org/blog/
It is now time for Mr. Obama to do the right thing and walk the talk.

No Justice, No Peace. March to Remember Trayvon

Zimmerman Walks!

http://www.writingresource.info/criticalissues/

    It's open season on young black men in America.
                Walking while black is illegal.
    No Justice, No Peace.
        Time to March.
https://www.facebook.com/events/188737014629259/

Rally, Speakout, March for Justice for Trayvon!

July 14 at 4:00pm in PDT

Penninsula Park, N. Ainsworth & Albina

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George Zimmerman ignored the dispatcher's instruction to leave Trayvon alone.  He then tracked down the 17 year-old kid because he was black.  Trayvon was unarmed and just walking home.

http://my.opera.com/WritingResource.org/blog/2013/07/14/no-justice-no-peace-zimmerman-walked-and-its-time-to-march

 George accosted the young man and after a scuffle pulled a gun on him. Instead of ending the fight, he decided to shoot the young man, because he knew he could get away with it. George was found not guilty of any crime, but a 17 year old kid who committed no crime is dead.  He was guilty of walking while black.

We are all Trayvon and cannot let this injustice stand.  No Justice, No Peace.
                             Time to stand up, March, Speak Out, and Demand Justice.

                                           http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/

The United Fascist State

There has already been a "fascist takeover." The Demagogues and Republicons represent corporate interests and enforce those ambitions by attacking, invading, occupying and exploiting nations abroad while stifling dissent and curtailing civil rights at home.  The United States executive branch, both houses of congress, and the U.S. judiciary are bought and paid for by transnational economic cartels.

1.  Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. This technique was used extensively when ratcheting up attacks during the Iraq war.
       President Barack Obama delivers "New Nationalism" Address on the Economy at Osawatomie High School, Kansas, on 6 December 2011.  http://www.youtube.com/embed/W_oEWrBKHTA

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." These people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. "Rendering" is a prime example.
       http://www.newcivilisation.com/home/2254/international-affairs/guantanamo-anniversary-confirms-us-exceptionalism-and-disdain-of-human-rights/

3. Identification of Enemies or Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.  The people of Iran have become scapegoats while right wing syncophants advochttp://theissueslist.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-united-fascist-state.htmlate war with Iran.

4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.  The G.W. Bush administration bankrupted every state in the union and drove us into economic crisis with unfunded wars of choice. Obama embraces the Bush agenda.

5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sexism-pervade-white-house/story?id=14559177#.Ucht4_FhJ4w  

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common. Obama's recent moves for absolute control of the media have become a real concern.  http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read

7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.     http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-embrace-obamas-controversial-picks-for-national-security-team/

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions. All three Abrahamic traditions oppose wars of choice, but Bush and Obama, while claiming religious fealty, continued to pursue platforms based in endless war.  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2009/0122/p01s02-usgn.html

9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.  http://clearingthefogradio.org/escalation-protecting-corporate-interests-terrorism-in-the-us/

10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed. Union membership is dwindling, now around 8% http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120902/articles/120909952

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is curtailed or openly attacked.
nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/whither-moral-courage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.  (DHS & NSA)   http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130523/OPINION03/305230086/Obama-staff-has-lost-sense-balance-over-leaks-obsession

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
Fortune 500 firms often pay nothing for our US timber and oil.
theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/edward-snowden-and-booz-how-privatizing-leads-to-crony-corruption/277052/

14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
 http://harpers.org/archive/2005/08/none-dare-call-it-stolen/

Notes:  http://rense.com/general37/fascism.htm

Is Lars from Mars?

Anyone who believes Obama has the support of 70% of the country has been listening to too much talk radio or mainstream media.

Entertainment is not news. And Gitmo is an international disgrace.

But Lars Larson is not a news analyst, not by a long shot. His is a sick form of entertainment embraced by the semi-literate and abysmally misinformed. A huge part of Obama's election did come about because of his race, but this was certainly not the primary factor. Follow the money.

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”   ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lars is wont to judge Obama by the color of his skin. I find Obama's character lacking. He's not stupid, which makes him either a moral coward or a thug.

Obama was elected because the corporate cons played on the fears and apprehensions of the American people. He got the anti-Romney vote, the corporate vote, Republican votes, and the political spin machines convinced people that voting for a third party was voting for Romney. They were wrong.

There is nothing “great” about Obama except his oratorical skills. When it comes down to substance and integrity, he has none. He sold out the people who supported peace, justice and freedom and sucked up to the people who continue to deliver endless war, judicial homicide, drone war crimes and corporate hegemony. I find nothing wonderful about four news wars, no kindness in putting corporate cons in charge of health care delivery, and absolute cowardice in his abject surrender to the right wing. Anyone who finds courage in the murder of innocents is simply not paying attention.

Obama is not a “left wing hack,” unless you are willing to buy into the most transparent of the corporate spin. He governs like a right wing Republican war hawk. It was never Obama's intention to "bring our races together." He intended to get elected... and now he is a very rich man.

Lars Larson, however, is not speaking anything resembling truth, he is appealing to incipient racism. Most people really can't handle the truth. (One of Clint's better lines.) The truth is Obama could not be farther from left and stands to the right of Ronnie Reagan, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Romney, Rumsfeld, et al.

The fact that Obama is a jerk with no scruples is not what makes Lars a bigot. Lars established his credentials as a bigot years ago.

“How many times have we heard Lars and his ilk insist they are not racist? "I'm not racist, but ... ." The hell with "but." There is no "but." The argument is clear: We cannot give amnesty to "illegal aliens" because they are "guys like this." Or -- at the very least and to be far more charitable than they deserve -- because the masses of brown hordes invading our country include a disproportionate number of "guys like this."

"We must stop illegal immigrants because they will rape our children!"

Lars excels at issuing reactionary bile on his program, but this little snotty remark -- with its overtly racist insinuation , tucked away on his web site -- goes quite a bit further. It is something to remember the next time you hear, "I'm not racist, but ... ." With a comment like this, he proudly aligns himself with the most extreme right-wing elements in this country, openly fascistic elements. He endears himself even to those racists he may be given to condemn on the air. But let's cut the bullshit, please. These guys speak the same language. They know the code.

The beauty of Larson's undiluted bit of venom is that is so pure. There is no code, no wink-and-nod. It is clear what he means, and he means what he says: we can't let "guys like this" in our country BECAUSE they are "like this," -- they are guys prone to raping 10-year-old girls! If that were actually true, how could one possibly argue against building a 20-foot wall topped with razor wire and a moat full of alligators along the entire U.S.-Mexican border?

Larson likes to boast, cigar in hand, that he speaks for true American conservatives, not Republicans in Name Only, but the real deal, those lost souls who worship Reagan. On that, I'll take him at his word. If one wants to understand the dark heart of darkness that beats vibrantly within the Republican Party, I present to you their unofficial spokesman: Lars Larson of KXL radio, Oregon's own right-wing, racist pig.

Yes, racist. Racist to the core.”

~Lyle Wallace

And I am sorry Walter Perkins, but Obama fooled you again. He is a notch above average intelligence, absolutely insincere, and the furthest thing from authentic. He sold us out on health care, peace, fixing infrastructure and has not even bothered to address our failing schools.

And his claim that illegal assassinations and drone warfare are justice has lost us any credibility for years to come. The bottom line is his embrace of judicial homicide as a “good thing.” It is this surrender of integrity which allows him to condone endless war while he talks about peace. He talks the talk, but when the cameras are turned off, he turns tail, takes the money and runs in the opposite direction.

Obama was reelected in spite of the color of his skin. When you are running against a Romney, the fear factor is pretty high and many Americans, during the flim-flam of a national campaign, can be cowed into voting for the so-called “lesser evil.” But it is time for us to stop settling for evil and demand integrity.

George Bush, the problem child of the Bush family, did very little. His claim to ignorance was valid. During the Cheney-Bush presidency... Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney, John R Bolton, Colin Powell, Elliott Abrams, James Woolsey, and Richard Perle ran the show.


But Obama, by talking left and leading from the right has been much worse for this nation than Bush. He added four more wars, drones, offshore drilling, and letting off profiteers and lawbreakers to Bush's mere two war road show.

Lars is a racist and he plays on fears related to incipient racism... but Obama is either a coward or compromised. His intransigence, aggression, embrace of endless war, failure to lead, and attacks on the American people have crippled this nation, forfeited any legitimacy we might have established, and leave a sad legacy of war, coffins, crime and chaos. We can do better.