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05.07 YouthWorks Campaign Needs Support for Summer Jobs Books, Arts & Education
05.15 Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority" 05.15 Major Omissions Flaw Book on Global Economics 05.14 George W. Bush’s Other Undeclared War: NCLB 05.13 New Buchanan Book: Anglo-American Ascendancy Lost in Unnecessary Wars 04.30 A Litany of Horrors 04.17 Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" (Part II) Letters
Ref. : Letters to the editor Health & Environment
05.12 The World above 350 ppm CO2 04.28 Green Scare State Terrorism 04.21 Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World 04.16 WORLD FACING HUGE NEW CHALLENGE ON FOOD FRONT Ref. : Single-Payer FAQ Ref. : Environmental Health News Ref. : Sundance Channel's THE GREEN Ref. : What is Global Warming, and what can citizens do about it? Ref. : Global Warming Links Ref. : Health & Nutrition Links Media Watching
05.06 US Media Trivializes Campaign 2008 05.06 Death's Factotum: Michael Gordon and the Times Pour Pentagon Poison into Nation's Ear 05.05 TV News Blackout on Pentagon Pundits 05.05 Color-Coded: Jeremiah Wright and the Real Deal on Race 05.02 The Right's America-Hating Preacher 04.23 Pentagon Pundits 04.22 US News Media's Latest Disgrace 04.18 ABC's Debate Debacle 04.16 Reprising the Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman US Politics, Policy & Culture
05.14 Bush Operative Pushes Voter-ID Law 05.13 Hillary Clinton, John McCain and the "Stupid" Vote 05.13 McCain and the 'Unitary Executive' 05.09 The Democratic Presidential Race: A View from Pennsylvania 05.08 Serving the System: Corporate Control of U.S. Would Continue Under Obama 05.06 A Republican for Barack 05.05 Thinking About Voter Registrations 05.05 'Beware the Terrible Simplifiers' 05.01 U.S. Military Coordinated Day Of Prayer Events With Christian Right Group 04.30 John McCain Won’t Be Looking for the Union Label 04.30 Put Him Out With the Pastor! 04.25 Clinton Courted Racists in the Pennsylvania Primary 04.24 Groundbreaking Book Documents Widespread Election Fraud; Warns Elections Vulnerable to Theft 04.24 Triviamongering in the U.S. presidential race 04.24 Campaign 1988 Lives! 04.23 Hillary Clinton's Monstrous Threat 04.21 Brilliant Disguise: Bush Torture, Obama and The Boss 04.19 The Clintons, Triangulating with China 04.18 American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed 04.18 Are the Clintons Playing Joe McCarthy? 04.17 The Weather Underground 'Theme' US High Crimes & Incompetence
05.14 Falling Cedars: Fomenting War in Lebanon -- and Beyond 05.12 Armed Truce: Surging Into Slaughter on Sadr City's Jerusalem Street 05.10 Lost E-Mails Obscure 'Plame-gate' 05.09 Fallujah Revisited: Bush, Petraeus Prepare 'Cleansing' of Sadr City 05.09 Shoot, Kill, Lie, Repeat: America's New Moral Universe 05.07 Willing Executioners: America's Bipartisan Atrocity Deepens in Somalia 05.05 The Terror Master: Bush Orders Covert 'Surge' Against Iran, with Dem Support 05.01 American and Israeli War Crimes: Same Atrocities, Different Responses 04.30 Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts Cheney 04.29 Getting Over Scalia 04.29 The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War 04.28 The Torture Election 04.28 The Clock is Ticking for A US Attack on Iran 04.28 The Bush Team's Geneva Hypocrisy 04.25 New Terror War Atrocity: Beheading the Innocent for Bush in Somalia 04.23 Glorious Fruits of the War for Civilization 04.22 VA Tried to Conceal Extent of Attempted Veteran Suicides, Email Shows 04.21 What About the War, Benedict? 04.18 Updating Sami Al-Arian - His Ordeal Continues 04.16 Would Obama Hold Bush Accountable? Economics & Business
05.12 Thinking About Strategies 05.08 Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower 04.28 Thinking About Subtleties 04.23 The Oil Vice 04.22 The US Economy and the Costs of War 04.21 Thinking About Shakiness International
05.16 Africa Must Produce or Perish 05.16 Grow Them Young, Pay Them Well - Anti-Chavistas, That Is 05.12 Disturbing Stirrings - Ratcheting Up For War on Iran 05.05 Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering 05.02 Feeding Moloch: Last Barriers to War on Iran Come Down 05.01 The Iranian Chessboard 05.01 Blood Diamonds, Blood Oil and Blood Food 05.01 Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank 04.30 The Ignored Lessons on the Stupidity of War 04.24 Breaking the Silence - Israeli Soldiers Speak 04.23 What the Iraq War is about We are a non-profit Internet-only newspaper publication founded in 1973. Your donation is essential to our survival.
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COMMENTARY:A Republican for BarackMay 4, 2008I no longer consider myself a conservative or a Republican. Both terms have been completely corrupted and rendered meaningless by Cheney, Bush and Limbaugh.
Let me begin as I did in a previous effort back in January 2006 entitled, “A Republican for Gore.” It was that piece, reflecting upon Al Gore’s excellent assessment of the criminal Bush administration’s destruction of our Constitution and our political system, that had back then so impressed me. My apologies for this needed redundancy:
The closest definition of that term that I have most recently heard was communicated to me in the form of the highly intelligent responses from the Democratic Party’s frontrunner: Illinois Senator Barack Obama. I no longer consider myself a conservative or a Republican. Both terms have been completely corrupted and rendered meaningless by Cheney, Bush and Limbaugh. And although my American heart and soul are with Dr. Ron Paul—and as we all know, The Establishment and its voice, the mass media, won’t allow Paul to get anywhere near a microphone—I’m now pulling for Obama, assuming the Hillaroid hasn’t fixed the voting machines. Gore won the popular vote in 2000, but partisan rhetoric and a mentally unbalanced Supreme Court of Jesters (and voting machines) served to allow for Bush’s appointment, obviously The Establishment’s pick. Talks of global warming and carbon taxes just don’t sit well with Bush’s corporate energy buddies and probably not his military-industrial-security complex pals either. But Gore could easily have revitalized himself had he not gone off the deep end with his globaloney nonsense. In what is easily the most important election in this nation’s entire history, the three frontrunners are a horrible choice. Both the Hillaroid and McManiac need to be directed to a continuing education regimen for anger management for the remainder of their lives. The Hillaroid’s commitment of America and Americans to Israel was angrily expressed in the form of a very public and very ominous threat when she promised that as president she would “obliterate” Iran if the latter were to attack Israel even slightly. Every baby, child, old person, parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt, brother, sister, cat, dog and goldfish would be “obliterated!” Obama pointed this out to NBC bubblehead Tim Russert, citing this comment as a very bad choice of words and timing considering the present instability in the Middle East caused by Bush and his friends. Being interviewed on this past Sunday morning’s “Meet the Press,” Obama showed reserve and employed a marvelous choice of words and presented palatable hypothetical scenarios. Obama also managed to point out to Democrat Russert that their conversation didn’t even touch on assessing McManiac. Russert was more interested in getting Obama to speculate just when either he or the Hillaroid will toss in the towel. Now, just picture the Marxist man-hating witch should a military crisis develop in the neighborhood of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. And consider the Zionist program of feminizing America to turn the sexes against one another. Can you not see the Hillaroid’s furrowed brow? Can you not see her foot-stomping anger? How dare this assembled collection of “good old boys” and four-star idiots (e.g. Hayden, Betrayus) tell ME what to do? BOOM!!!! Senator Barack Obama’s greatest strength is his seemingly steady-at-the-helm approach to leadership, which I believe to be totally sincere. It is should be obvious to all that the Hillaroid and McManiac are trigger happy. And Obama made clear that should either of his opponents reach the White House after the election, it will just allow a continuation of the destruction of America already started and well underway by Cheney, Bush and Limbaugh. Senator Barack Obama’s greatest strength is his seemingly steady-at-the-helm approach to leadership, which I believe to be totally sincere. And as a long-time GOPer, and if threatened to the point where my life depended upon the choice between Hillary Clinton and Crazy John McCain, I’d go with Hillary! This is how badly the GOP has done itself in. It’s Clinton vs. Dole all over again! There is no Republican Party candidate that will emerge that cannot be linked to corruption and crooked politics save one: Dr. Ron Paul. Senator Barack Obama is therefore not my first choice, but neither is the GOP. They’ve jumped through hoops backwards in the last eight years with the Cheney-Bush war and money show. In politics, it’s always been a campaign call: “Time for a change!” Obama’s answers as regards Iran, Iraq, and for that matter, even Israel, were all right on! I’ll admit to not having watched the campaign debates orchestrated and choreographed by The Establishment’s mainstream media. Nothing said in these staged events was in any way useful. They were never meant to be useful. It is The Establishment’s way of getting the masses to accept the candidates that are picked to run. And if an American president is actually elected rather than appointed, and the elite’s first pick doesn’t win, then the second best will still serve the masters of the universe. Campaign rhetoric is, therefore, usually unimportant. But in Obama’s case, it clearly signals an alert, trained and quick mind. He is literally heads and shoulders above the Hillaroid and McManiac. © THEODORE E. LANG 5/4/08 All rights reserved. Ted Lang is a political analyst and freelance writer.
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