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If I had the time to pick apart the VOA McCain endorsement, I would still be here long after Obama's votes make him president next week, but I don't. And that's the good news; VOA's editorial staff's opinion-- or whomever is responsible for drinking the red kool-aid that created the delusional glowing assesment of him (omitting Palin, I guess) -- is NOT shared by millions of Americans who likley read more then the winger posts on this site.
Perhaps if more like me had not been driven away by the personal attacks masquerading as critical thinking-- and hence as devoid of actual integrity as those who wrote them-- more actual facts could have replaced the email/Limbaugh/FOX (RNC) strategery and VOA's staff could have more from which to glean it's opinions. But who am I kidding. I know how proud the winger contingency feels about its ability to read from myriad sources (regardless of those sources all drawing from a small handful of winger think-tanks masqueradaing as independent thinkiers). There is no excuse for ignorance in the camp of the so-called infinitely well-informed.
The fight over winger ideology vs free-thought is simply one such battle that here on VOA, to me, was simply not worth waging.
As time wears on after the wholesale rout of the Republicans from government this upcoming Tuesday, and yes Obama makes a few mistakes, I and many like me will still be doing the work of decontrutcing the failed ideology behind the bankrupt Republican facade which has well, left us bankrupt, while wingers will continue to claim their ideology only failed because "true" Republicans/conservatives failed to REALLY undo the ills of liberalism, to REALLY nominate the right guy (Romney) and to REALLY finish the job. Republicans will still NOT GET that it was never a referendum on Obama but on their failed policy. Never on Obama-- but on an utter rejection of Republicanism. And never about McCain (the guy who took the nomination after Huckabee split the vote) but about utter rejection of Me First Economics.
Even Republican incomes will go up, the fiscal crises will get some stability, America will again regain respect internationally, and the budget be balanced BUT thier rallying cry will still be "TAXES, SOCIALISM, I-ME-MINE! MINE!!! MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Difference: NO one will be listening. It won't matter. Life will feel good again and the comparison will have been proven: Dems-- life gets good for everyone-- Repubs-- life gets good for cronies. Most people aren't Republican cronies. Guess what? Dems win...another forty years.
Enjoy the dreaming boys, coz your Party is over. Sigh.
VOA Endorsement of McCain
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Posted By: CLB Posted on: Oct. 31, 2008 at 9:25 AM  22 Comments
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 11:28:16 AM
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| They refused to listen CLB for eight long years (or more depending on how you interpret the beginning of the "movement"). Now that we are pointing the ship of state once again toward the rising sun on the horizon, it is our turn to turn a deaf ear to these bankrupt policies as they disappear in the smoke of the flaming McCrash campaign, the last vestige of influence (such as it is) they will have.
Let the cleanup of the crash site begin!
As a reflection on how things can change, however, and at the risk of repeating repeating myself, allow me to repeat repeat myself.
I admired McCain as we entered the Bush Dark Ages. I would have seriously considered supporting that man for the presidency.
His sense of humor was attractive. I met him and talked with him at one of his book signings. He was very impressive.
But some of his humor that has surfaced during the campaign reveals a darker side that had not been illuminated heretofore.
And I don’t know about you, but I have been put off by the way he ignores Cindy and by implication treats her with less than the respect she is entitled to.
And then there is his first wife Carol, whom I was not aware of until the last few months of this campaign. The way he has treated these two women is suggestive of the man.
As this campaign has worn on, the picture I had of John McCain has faded, and an old canvass is bleeding through – and it is not a pretty picture.
That picture is painted afresh on the canvass of his campaign, without question the dirtiest and worst organized effort I have ever witnessed.
If that is our preview of how he would govern our nation, you and all Americans should be moving, nay running to the polls to vote for Obama-Biden. A vote for McCain-Palin is a vote for four years of descent from the Bush Hell into utter Chaos combined with more of the same Bush Hell. |
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 11:40:42 AM
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[This is a reply to comment by AZ Moderate on Oct. 31, 2008 at 11:28:16 AM]
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 11:28:16 AM They refused to listen CLB for eight long years (or more depending on how you interpret the beginning of the Now that we are pointing the ship of state once again toward the rising sun on the horizon, it is our turn to turn a deaf ear to these... View this Comment WHO WOKE HIM UP??!!! |
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 11:59:38 AM
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 12:17:38 PM
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| I have to make a slight modification to my original article. It suggests that all the VOA editors are 'wingers'. That is not true. Some MAY be, or not. Reading the endorsement I found the rationalles offered, particularly ones casting doubt on Obama's character via associations with ACORN-- members and administrators of which I have found more than adequately explaining charges against the organization (even from FOX admissions) as misleading and untrue-- alarming in their baseless nature yet used to justify an otherwise rational-sounding argument. Logical reasoning alone does not guarantee truth. In fact, logical reasoning based on half-truth and lies has led to the murders of good people in genocides and witch-burnings across history. Pentacostal witch-hunters are getting women burned alive even in Africa today! So although I attack conservative ideology as bankrupt-- and I do, and the VOA editors as perhaps supporters of the same-- and I do-- it is as much the half-truths and character assasination I am condemming as the argument against Obama (and therefore supporting a man who has consistently contorted who and what he may have been pre-2000 to the unrecognizable Republican Candidate McCain he is today). I wonder, if the editor's had all the facts about both men, instead of half-facts about both, come to the same conclusion? Or given all the facts about both, would the predisposed biases of their collective thinking still biased them against only one? We can't know. I would like to think more information would have at least predisposed them to a more well-informed (and therefore impossible) reason to choose an ambitious crackpot running with a religious wingnut (neither of which seem able to conjugate full sentences, therefore unlikely able to work through full thoughts) over a Harvard graduate who beat the pants of THE CLINTONS (no small feat) running with an experienced adult. |
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 12:32:48 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by AZ Moderate on Oct. 31, 2008 at 11:28:16 AM]
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 11:28:16 AM They refused to listen CLB for eight long years (or more depending on how you interpret the beginning of the Now that we are pointing the ship of state once again toward the rising sun on the horizon, it is our turn to turn a deaf ear to these... View this Comment For those interested in the future, this website is interesting: http://www.whitehouse2.org/ The website originator writes: About the site goes to a Youtube video explaining the site use. I think it's a great idea, and that's what I want to point out. Perhaps we have finally arrived at a time for populist ideas to get a hearing. I'm no idealist. I think the Obama presidency will be fraught with problems, but they will be related to fixing existing issues not creating new ones by being bent on the ideological destruction of liberalism. And I think many Obama supporters my find he delivers below their expectations ON SOME ISSUES, in the short run. For me the excitment lies in the seeming willingness of this administration to get involved with voters and it looks like whitehouse2 is a neat place to get some practice and ideas for even more interactive tools. |
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 02:14:20 PM
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| Senator McCredible has turned in a truly incredible performance during this campaign. It is fair enough to expect that any administration of his would be just as incredible, and infinitely more damaging to America.
America First is a whole lot more than a slogan and paper signs. Those paper signs should read Party First or Campaign First or McCain First. What a CROCK! And it is so indicative of the propaganda store-front hiding the back-office dark shenanigans of that is the hallmark of the Bu$hite regime.
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 02:14:26 PM
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| I can't imagine why you would think VONA would care what you think. ITS A HEADLINE not a comment seeking post! Geesh! Am I the only one who looks at it this way? Way is it not posted on the side bar as other articles? |
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 02:16:34 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by My 2 cents on Oct. 31, 2008 at 02:14:26 PM]
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 02:14:26 PM I can't imagine why you would think VONA would care what you think. ITS A HEADLINE not a comment seeking post! Geesh! Am I the only one who looks at it this way? Way is it not posted on the side bar as other... View this Comment Correction, should have read Why is it not posted...... |
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 05:53:34 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by CLB on Oct. 31, 2008 at 12:32:48 PM]
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Oct. 31, 2008 at 12:32:48 PM For those interested in the future, this website is interesting: The website originator writes: White House 2 is completely independent of the U.S. government, the official White House website at whitehouse.gov, and any political party. The only... View this Comment CLB So you have taken your ball and gone home? Perhaps you could employ the same tactics as "The One" You could "chill" the free speach of those with whom you disagree. Or you could put on your costume and go trick or treating. |
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You betcha CLB.
Obama and his team understand the problem, and McBush doesn't.
McBush is now talking about holding up home prices, or making a price floor! Talk about yer socialism.
Obama and his team are talking jobs. Jobs are everything in an economy. We got 22 million under Clinton, with raising wages. We got 4.2 mil under Bush and falling, and wages are falling.
Jobs solve every one of the crises we're facing:
Home prices - lenders aren't doing NINJA loans anymore, and they're coming down on stated income deals. More jobs, with bigger paychecks solve that problem.
Social Security - fewer workers paying less FICA means less money going into the system, with a fixed amount going out. More jobs means more FICA taxes means solvency.
10 trillion in debt - more jobs, means more revenue for the goverment, means once the economy turns around we can start paying off the debt again - like we did under Clinton.
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