A sixteen month timetable set by Obama is meaningless and dishonest when it is still conditional on the situation in Iraq. The “horizon” set by Bush is also without meaning because by definition it recedes as approached and thus never reached. McCain’s goal of 2013 is equally pointless since it is a dead giveaway that the surge apparently is not working and troop detainment could very well be extended for a hundred years. The real point is that it is clear no one h...
The “surge”is a misnomer; there was no dramatic counterinsurgency. It was more like “more cops on the streets” tactic, rather than the previous blunder of patrol cars [Humvees] vulnerable to IEDs. The surge troops, instead of handing out candy to children or repairing bombed out buildings, lavished malcontents with 300 bucks a month to “awaken” the incentive to police pockets of resistance in their neighborhoods. If you can’t fight th...
All the hoopla over ANWR, Arctic Ocean rights and offshore drilling is nothing but a ruse to delude the public into believing so-called energy independence will bring down the cost of gasoline and energy in general. Undisclosed is the oil industry’s motive that with the price of oil at an all-time high, profits will continue to grow like never before. There is no intention to ultimately reduce the price because there would be no incentive for the oil titans to explore f...
What does it mean really to bail-out financial entities at taxpayers’ expense as though the public is the ultimate in capitalization? In truth, they are debtors of multi-trillions, an immense share of which is held to the vests of foreign lenders. So, when it said that the Federal Reserve intervenes by subsidizing or lending billions to financial markets it is based on funny money backed by the treasuries of Saudi, Japan and China—the true source of capitalization. In reality...
If we pretty much concede to mandatory insurance on our homes and cars why then is it so hard to accept mandatory health insurance? We consent to multibillions for war, casinos, stadiums, luxury offices and apartments why is it so hard to demand modern railways, and safe bridges? We carry on the war on terrorism, yet how is it we leave our borders and neighborhoods vulnerable? In free trade is it really no concern of ours to insist that underdeveloped countries strive for decent liv...
In the beginning there was labor in order to survive. Later there were those who could not withstand back-breaking work and soon forged weaponry to control others to do the work for them. Out of this forced labor grew primeval civilization—the rule of men—subjugating the powerless to its bidding through the division of labor from which sprang the few with talent and skills developing a hierarchy of labor that increased productivity and its own limited stature though still under...
By swift boating McCain, General Clark learned it works only when undermining Democrats. Ironically Bush has made it easier for Obama to execute his timetable. Why would Hillary want to give up the powerful influence of New York State for the negative influence of a nation? Cap & Trade should be called what it is: Copout & Gain. Give up Guantanamo? Okay. In my backyard—no way. Death penalty for child rape wipes out the slim cha...
To the disappointment of the Obamacans, it is nevertheless just as well Barack has turned the page to Hillary’s southpaw centrism—and Bill’s for that matter. For had Obama continued the rhetoric in pandering to the non-pragmatic progressives, he would end up in the trash bin of McGovernites. The country conceivably is ready for change and a Black American not of the color of Wright and Jackson, it is definitely not prepared for the color of Move-on Quixotism. Actually Obama’s ori...
Primaries ought to be curtailed. We are bombarded with the same old emotive, repetitious prolixity without factual and practical substratum—not to mention outrageous $millions wasted in crisscrossing the country, TV ads, pointless debates for the exclusive pundits and YouTube to revel in. Candidates should have greater credentials, along with an elaborate multi-point position paper exposed to scrutiny, analysis. Each contestant should be required to hold press conferences defending his/her po...
The Washington Post’s economic guru accuses the primaries candidates in both parties of throwaway promises in the battle for the nation’s progeny. As an example, Hillary is “reclaiming the future for the nation’s children.” Samuelson suggests this is rubbish because he predicts: “today’s young workers and children are about to be engulfed by a massive income transfer from young to old.” He reasons that social security, Medicare and Medicaid primarily for the agéd is now 40% of the federal budget...
The new darling of the internet has broken his own record of raising over $4mil in a day over the internet by $6mil yesterday. It just goes to show that donations by credit card is a hell of a lot easier than checks in the mail. It doesn't seem to matter what the candidate Ron Paul stands for when the Libertarians and the Birch Society are in accord! How do you figure?
Ridiculous! Huckabee a frontrunner in Iowa—give me a break. Rather, he is a product of born-again zeal. The Christian Right is determined to keep alive its proselytizing the nation to messianic politics: even to the point of making Romney, who heretofore kept his Mormonism to himself, announce, as it were, his faith a close second to evangelism and modestly but consistently growing here and globally. Welcome to the automat of religious twists and turns. This shows the danger of Iowa’s...
Unlike Bill Clinton I did oppose the war in Iraq as proposed “from the beginning.” But like Bill Clinton I acknowledged that the Gulf War was ongoing. It was in a state of continual truce interrupted by numerous Saddam infringes such as Kuwait border troop movement and repeated offensives on the no-fly zones. To be sure Saddam was a blundering strategist, having had to agree to a truce, not to mention the truce with Iran debacle, and being a damnable nuisance. On the strength of its being ...
Hillary’s flipflop—undermining her governor’s stand on driver’s license for illegal immigrants—is a disappointment beyond belief. Her befuddled circumlocution was more than enough to defeat Spitzer’s proposal, which, granted needed pragmatic tweaking but at least it was an effort to face up to this insurmountable issue of what to do about the undocumented already here to stay.
Snowflake[Rumsfeld]: “Make sure the American people realize that they are surrounded by violent extremists.” This same useless propaganda is the basis once more for a presidential election as perceived by the prominent candidates of both parties, though the Republicans will relentlessly pursue it—particularly Giuliani if he wins the nomination. This same rhetoric was played out during the Korean and Vietnam wars in the guise of the domino theory and before then the McCarthy era to whip up a fr...