What the heck is a cone of silence? Like a game show McCain would be in a sound proof booth, unable to hear or watch the conversation on stage. That was meant to keep the discussion fair for both candidates. Well it didn’t happen.

OR WATCH HERE
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/
2008/08/17/rick.warren.forum.interview.cnn
?iref=videosearch

McCain was not in a sound proof room. Actually he was in his motorcade. McCain was in a car with a radio accompanied by a staff with blackberries. And now the “media” will take his word that he didn’t know Obama’s answers?? This is stupid. McCain has taken the low road throughout this campaign while stating he’s taking the high road. Now we are to take him at his word that he didn’t “listen in” to an event that would make or break him with Evangelicals?

And why are we having these “religious” tests anyway? Doesn’t anyone give a damn about the Constitution? Rick Warren is a Pastor. We are voting for President. So now we have to decide who won?? I’ll tell you who won. Rick Warren won. At $1,000 a ticket he won big. The American people and the US Constitution are the BIGGEST LOSERS.

I don’t dislike Rick Warren but I do believe this was a chance for him to elevate himself and he did.. Unfortunately he didn’t keep HIS word about having a fair forum. Why do we still trust MEGA CHURCH PASTORS?

We will likely get a text message this week announcing Obama’s VP choice. I want Biden and his big mouth. He’s a loose cannon because HE’S BRILLIANT. Biden is my pick and has been since he ran for the Top Job. He’s a little left of center and a foreign policy ENCYCLOPEDIA. That shuts down McCain’s’ EXPERIENCE crap instantly. GIVE ME MY BIDEN!

McCain will likely pick HIS VP the day after our Convention to steal the news cycle following a week of Democratic coverage. That’s smart, but who will he pick. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pick Bobby Jindal! 
SCROLL DOWN to MEET BOBBY Jindal
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/31/1236800.aspx

The BIGGER BADDER MORE DANGEROUS issue that is getting ZERO “News coverage” is the NeoCons total demise. They have been utterly WRONG on Russia, Iraq, Iran, China and now Pakistan and the only one calling them “imbeciles” is Paul Craig Roberts. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review
http://www.counterpunch.org

But we need to have a wedge issue to make this a complete cycle of Presidential politics. Abortion anyone? GOD. Bush had it ALL. The Presidency, The House, The Senate and The Supreme Court. Abortion is still legal. Case CLOSED.

There are rules however if she is serious about challenging the nomination of Barack Obama.  She has to sign a petition with a sufficient number of names on it, have her name put into nomination with a nominating speech and then have a seconding speech.  We’re watching but whatever happens stay calm.  Denver has set up PRISON WAREHOUSE.  Yes, Prison Warehouse for all your Prison needs!  Razor wire, metal cages but WITHOUT all the cumbersome attorneys. 

Obama deals with the smear machine.  A 41 page refutation of all the lies and smears in that Corsi “thing” is on his website. Read it here http://obama.3cdn.net/a74586f9067028c40a_5km6vrqwa.pdf  or get the summary here http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/corsi

Saturday Night, 8/16: The Church Meetin
Barack Obama and John McCain travel to the altar of 'values voters' 8-10PM ET.  You can watch on cable news outlets.  http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/13/evangelical.call/index.html

With inflation at a 17 year high http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/business/economy/15econ.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1218754938-n4Ye%20/ywx/SQxY52gsIXEA&pagewanted=print  Obama’s new ad couldn’t be better timed.

Watch it here http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/14/92445/0849

GRANDPA MCNASTY
Gramm's Back
He gave us the Enron Loophole and then called us a 'nation of whiners'.  Just weeks ago, John McCain was running away from him.  Now Phil Gramm returns to the McCain inner sanctum...as if he ever left.  This is more than a Flip.  It’s a giant FLOP for the American Economy.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/14/phil-gramm-attends-mccain-campaign-briefing/

COLD WAR 2!  We loved them as a downtrodden, broke ex-superpower. As a muscular, oil rich oligarchy re-imagining dreams of world hegemony? Not so much. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/europe/15policy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Well At Least She's Not On Vacation....Condi arrives in Tblisi.....to the Russians, she's powerless, to the French, she's too late.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081500621.html?hpid=topnews

SEE YOU IN SEATTLE!

We’ll get help from Washington Insider Brent Budowsky and an author for The Hill who is helping John Kerry with his new website www.TruthFightsBack.com and has also gone a round or two personally with Senator McCain.

Here’s Brents’ latest article
http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/08/14/john-mccain-on-russia-angry-bellicose-belligerent-and-extreme/

And we’ll talk to Paul Waldman a senior fellow at Media Matters, who heads up the debunking effort on the Corsi bombast.
WATCH PAUL ON LARRY KING LAST NIGHT HERE:
http://mediamatters.org/embed/larryking-20080813-corsi 

Jerome Corsi is a right wing lunatic.  Mary Matalin was Dick Cheney’s WH operative.  Now we are supposed to take Jerome Corsi seriously as an “author” and Mary Matalin seriously as HIS Publisher?  Jerome Corsi has called Muslims “Ragheads”,  Islam “Satanic”, Hillary Clinton a  “Fat Hog Lesbo”, John Kerry a “Communist”, Barack Obama a “drug dealer” and a person who is for “live birth abortion” ETC.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200408060010

One dirty little trick the Right Wing does well - Publish a screed without fact or fact checking, publish it and BUY IT IN BULK to get it on the NY Times Bestseller list.  People aren’t reading this book.  Right wing think tanks are BUYING this book in BULK.
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2008/08/full_court_press_corsi_obama_nation.php

Giving Jerome Corsi airtime is like giving airtime to one of Charles Mansons followers.  It’s a waste of air time, but people watch.  Today we’ll talk to Media Matters who has gone through this book page by page and finds 80 lies tied to footnotes that lead to bloggers posts and right wing nut bags.  Jerome Corsi is a man who lives in New Jersey and hates PERIOD.

The Georgia Russia battle
Georgia attacked South Osettia .  Russia had a DISPROPORTIONAL response.  Russia has been pissed off since Bush decided to put Star Wars technology in The Czech Republic.

McCain is being advised by a Lobbyist named Randy Scheunemann who is a registered foreign lobbyist for Georgia.  WHO IS HIS CLIENT?  The United States Republican Nominee for President OR a Foreign Nation?
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/13/mccain-adviser-got-money-from-georgia/

MORE background on how this started:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/2547451/Russia-Georgia-conflict-timeline.html

Here’s how it started
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/georgia/2547517/Georgia-Mikheil-Saakashvili-the-man-who-lost-it-all.html 

http://www.thestar.com/article/474543  NOTICE THE TIMELINE STARTS ON JULY 11TH

On July 10th Condi was in Georgia
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/rice-russia-should-stop-issuing-threats/81549/

If someone advertises No Cash, No Credit No Problem are they lending you money out of the goodness of their heart?   How can they lend you money when they know you have NO CASH and NO CREDIT?  America's Lowest Earners pull in $650 Billion every year for companies that prey on the working poor.
Today we examine how an entire industry of smarmy business, seedy practices and outright illegal activity is on the hunt for low income earners and their tiny bit of cash......and the slave-like consequences for those whole fall victim.

Poverty, Inc 
This Bill Moyers expose is a must see!
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/2008/08/poverty-inc.html

FROM POVERTY INC.
“There's a used car business out there that knows very well when it is selling a car to an individual that that individual will not likely be able to hold on to their car for the duration of their loan payment. And so therefore they'll return the car after a few months into the duration of the loan.

But that's OK with them because they've charged a high enough interest to cover the costs associated with that car being returned before the end of the loan.

In other words, Byrider has sold a car, made a profit on the loan and gotten the car back. What's more, BuisinessWeek would report that nearly half of Byrider's Albuquerque car sales don't result in a final payoff.”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_21/b4035001.htm

Meanwhile a quarter of large Corporations pay no taxes!!!

They use the same roads, services, airports, bridges that we do, and are protected by the same military but 3,565 large companies contribute nothing.

And nearly a third of them are FOREIGN OWNED. 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/MNC4129OFL.DTL&tsp=1

And we’ll look at how the Media is FINALLY picking up on what I saw a week ago.  John McCain is running Hillary’s campaign strategy.  Even going where Hillary would to her credit,  NOT go (although Mark Penn wanted her to go)  In McCain’s world It’s time to QUESTION OBAMA’S very citizenship and his AMERICAN VALUES.  IS HE AMERICAN ENOUGH?  Could someone PLEASE tell John McCain he was born in Panama and that Hawaii is a US State now?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008109754_campdig13.html

McCains’ Senior Foreign Policy Advisor is a Lobbyist for Georgia.  Randy Scheunemann, signed a $200,000 contract to continue providing strategic advice to the Georgian government in Washington.  And McCain’s solution for every conflict in the world?  BOMB!

And THAT’S not CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202932_pf.html
The DNC has started McCainPedia.  Find it here www.McCainPedia.org

THE WRECKING CREW IS BACK
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2008/08/13/democrats_ready_to_unload_on_m.html#
Finally the author of that piece of sleaze about John Kerry in 2004 “Unfit for Command” Swiftboater Jerome Corsi has a new book ObamaNation.  It’s full of lies and made up crap.  The Editor was Mary Matalin and the book is being purchased in BULK which means people “interested” in seeing the book get on the NY Times Bestseller list buy the book in BULK not to READ but to make it appear as if it’s flying off the shelves.  God these people are gross.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26168590/

TODAY in our Second Hour

Ron Suskind Exposes Bush Administration

The American Conservative agrees that a document connecting Al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq WAS forged, but by Doug Feith in the Office of Special Plans not by the CIA.
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/08/07
/suskind-revisited/
Suskind also divulges that there is an INTERROGATION ROOM in THE WHITE HOUSE and it has been used!

RUSSIA
Has Russia been showing the US its muscle outside of the XXIX Olympiad in order to dissuade an American attack on Iran?  Who knows, but there is a huge military buildup in the Persian Gulf area, according to many news sources. And Russia as well as China will be on Irans’ side if we attack.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9799
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=66352&sectionid=351020101
http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/08/11/special_report_kuwait
_readying_for_war_in_gulf/7724/

Who is Mikheil Saakashvili?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/world/europe/12saakashvili.html?em

Why did oil prices fall in the middle of Russia/Georgian conflict?
Speculators are driving down the price of oil as the bad economy goes global.  There is no connection to supply and demand.   
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=aGeI_05kktpA
&refer=africa
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8878

John McCain’s SPEECH on Russia-Georgia Conflict was lifted….Right out of WIKIPEDIA?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/11/did-mccain-campaign-lift-georgia-
speech-from-wikipedia/

Obama was prepared for what some in the media are calling a “3AM Moment”.  While McCain reads Wikipedia and consults his Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor who is a lobbyist for Georgia, Obama speaks to President Kaashvili and Condi before he speaks.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=azBtNvPun
2zk&refer=home

MCSAME is MORE BUSH but RUNS LIKE HILLARY!!
McCain’s campaign looks more and more like Hillary’s primary campaign these days.  Maybe they’ve seen these Clinton camp memos that were just exposed by The Atlantic.

The Fall Of Hillary Clinton
Atlantic Monthly posts campaign internal memos that chart the collapse
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200808u/clinton-memos

HERE IT COMES!
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

A new website started by a renowned Sports statistician has everyone talking.  FiveThirtyEight.com has Obama winning in what could be called a landslide of Electoral Votes, but not so much in the popular vote, which is all anyone is talking about.  The Electoral Vote is all that matters, just like Delegates were all that mattered in the Primaries.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/08/07/suskind-revisited/
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/07/american-conservative-it-was-feiths-office-not-cia-that-forged-the-habbush-letter/

But the next 10 weeks will be crucial if you’re interested in getting America back on track. The Economy continues to suck, Gas is still $4.00 gallon, two wars go unnoticed, wounded troops remain INVISIBLE (where are they?) and Bush is hanging with the Commies in China.

The Inflatable Tire Debate


McCain was in Florida yesterday crashing into minivans with the Straight Talk Express which by the way, has an OBAMA bumper sticker on it now! Sheesh. McCain needs an official campaign bumper scraper. I’m sure he find an illegal in Florida who will do it for AMNESTY. He’s for it ya know. Or is he against it? Well it’s Thursday, so I’ll have to check

He’s also FOR Off shore drilling, after being against it for 26 YEARS.

He was Against Torture, now he’s for it.

Against Warrantless Wiretapping now he’s for it

Against Tax Cuts then for tax cuts, then against tax cuts and now is FOR RAISING FICA taxes

Against Privitizing Social Security and now he’s FOR it

FOR protecting Abortion Rights now he’s against it

Against storing Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mountain now he’s for it

Against engaging in diplomacy with Hamas now he’s for it. Against diplomacy in Syria now he’s for it. Against going after Al Qaeda in Pakistan now he’s for it. Against talking to Iran and now he’s for it. Against talking to North Korea and now he’s for it. For Liberman-Warner to curb Global Warming now he’s Against it. Both FOR and AGAINST attacking Obamas’ former Pastor. Against inflating your tires and getting a tune up, now he’s for it. FOR disclosure of campaign donations, now he’s against it. For the Iraq War because it would be quick and easy now against anyone who said Iraq would be quick and easy. Thought we were on the RIGHT COURSE in Iraq in 2004 now says he’s always been against Rumsfelds strategy in Iraq. FOR gay marriage now he’s against it. For Affirmative Action until he was against it. Against a timetable for withdrawal until he was for it, For the troops until he voted repeatedly against their body armor, helmets, vest inserts, R&R at home after a one year deployment and Senator Webb’s GI Bill.

I’m getting dizzy. Wait…I need to breath.

Ok I’m back. How is this race even close? Smear ads and a black candidate. PERIOD.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15924.html

It can’t be on the “merits” of a McCain presidency. Here is his ENERGY PLAN

MCCAINS ENERGY PLAN

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/mccains-energy-plan-impro_b_117052.html

Here’s his Energy Plan
You get a $5,000 Tax Credit IF YOU BUY a ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS CAR? Huh?

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/17671aa4-2fe8-4008-859f-0ef1468e96f4.htm

You get a PRIZE if you invent an electric car!CALLS on automakers to make better cars! Eliminate subsidies for EthanolEnforce EXISTING CAFÉ standards

And of course his NEW STAND on Off Shore Drilling…He was against it before he was for it.

How does McCain rate on Middle Class issues?

http://www.themiddleclass.org/legislator/john-mccain-468?gclid=CJfP17mG_JQCFQnIsgodx36YqQ

McCain Fact Checked