Comments on: McCain Defends Lobbyists Working For Him

Says Advisers Who Are Lobbyists Are "Honorable"; Declines Further Comment On New York Times Article

[ioweign]

I was disappointed to hear that Mr. McCain expressed a wish for Mr. Castro%u2019s death. %u201CI hope he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon,%u201D McCain told a town-hall style meeting of about 150 people, referring to the communist who died in 1883.

Many believe that wishing death to others is not the kind of thing that good Christians do.
Posted by CBS_Oliver at 06:29 PM : Feb 22, 2008

Stop being such a whining lying hypocrite.

Posted by jowand at 10:02 PM : Feb 22, 2008


Hmmm, what did YOU say....

[arr967]

Typical Republican Arrogance. They''re going down this fall. Toodles Repub''s! OBAMA ''08!

[watcher269-2009]

David M. Walker, The Comptroller General of the United States and %u201Chead of the Government Accountability Office, announced Friday that he will resign in March to lead a new foundation focused on long-term public policy challenges%u2026 Walker, 56, has repeatedly warned that the government faces a long-term fiscal crisis as the baby-boom generation retires, driving up spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.%u201D%u2026

%u201CAs GAO chief, Walker has warned that the government is ignoring threats to the nation%u2019s long-term fiscal security.%u201D The latest audit of the federal debt have revealed that %u201Cdeficit spending and promised benefits for federal entitlement programs have put every man, woman, and child in the United States on the hook for $175,000%u201D. This is exclusive of the personal debt that each person may carry.
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[watcher269-2009]

Since debt slavery came into effect by the passing of the Bankruptcy Bill, this basically means that everyone in the United States is essentially a slave to the banking institutions since interest continues to accumulate on this debt. Now that personal debts are no longer cleared upon declaring bankruptcy, almost every person in the United States will die a slave.

How did the United States economy become so devastated and the populace so indebted? The Federal Reserve and the Military-industrial complex have most of the answers. The American lifestyle has the rest.

The simplest remedy to the American financial crisis is to change the American lifestyle from %u201Cthe person(s) who accumulate the most possessions %u2018win%u2019 the game%u201D to the person(s) who accumulate the most amount of goodwill %u2018win%u2019 the game. The reason that this has to happen is because %u201Cthe carrying capacity of the planet will not continue to support%u201D the American lifestyle. It is unsustainable, both economically and environmentally.

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[tbweb]

The New York Times has actually obscured the real story with its claims of a McCain romantic link which is not the real story at all! The real story is McCains lobbyist ties! McCain attacks and rails against lobbyist on a regular basis and has a Holier than Thou attitude about it. Now we find out his entire staff are lobbyist, each and every one of them and those that are not are employed by lobbyist! How ironic is that? Now McCain claims his lobbyist are of a pure breed, he doesn''t have "bad" lobbyist around him! lol Oh give me a break! This is like saying I smoke but my cigarettes have a lower nicotine count. Lobbyist are bad, smoking is bad, there are no good cigarettes and likewise no good lobbyist! C''mon John, double speak? The romantic claims are hiding the real story here!

[watcher269-2009]

The second remedy is to eliminate the Military-industrial complex. %u201CUSA is responsible for 48 per cent%u201D of the world%u2019s total military spending, consuming over 41% of %u201CUS tax payer%u2019s money%u201D, not including hidden costs. When a country spends almost half its income on warfare, then it is doomed to economic oblivion and every other public priority, from healthcare to education and community development to social programs must be cut.

The most important cure for what ails the US economy is to dismantle The Federal Reserve: A private banking institution headed by private individuals who represent conglomerate and the financial elite who act as %u201Cfiscal agents for the U.S. Treasury%u201D. They decide how much money is in circulation, they print it, sell it to the United States Federal Government who in turn distributes it to the American people. In return they get all the interest, paid for with American taxes.

If you think this is absurd then you are not alone. John F. Kennedy tried to "strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power" before he was assassinated, and more recently, presidential hopeful Ron Paul had a few choice words for Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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[watcher269-2009]

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How large is the economic crisis that has hit the United States? With the discontinuance of M3 and the apparent flooding of US dollars into the economy by creating money "Out of Thin Air", the US currency has been devalued to the point where %u201Ccentral banks and finance ministries (of other countries) are setting up obstacles to keep the falling dollar from threatening company profits and economic growth.%u201D The ultimate question is, how long are other countries going to be able to keep the American economy from collapsing in on itself, specially since there is "talk of a worst recession since the 1930s."

2008 should be a very interesting year.

[twocanpete]

Can you say VICKIGATE?!

twocanpete

[homespunlady]

The question is WHAT IS the REAL job of President of the United States?
IS it RELIGIOUS Determiner? NO!
Is it OIL REPRESENTATIVE? NO!
Is it a Corporate shill doing the bidding of the highest bidding LOBBYIST? NO!
Is it DICTATOR? NO!
Is it REWRITER of the CONSTITUTION? NO!

It is to carry out the DUTIES outlined in the CONSTITUTION!
Along with it the President is the IMAGE of the US that the world uses as a template of what an American is.
The President REPRESENTS the American PEOPLE - NOT RULES them!

Somewhere along the line that understanding has been LOST.

The result is what President Eisenhower WARNED this nation against - ABDICATING RIGHTS and POWER to the SOULLESS CORPORATE "Military-Industrial Complex".

Corporations now have FAR MORE RIGHTS than individual people WITH souls.

The Proof is in all the DISPLACED PEOPLE due to some CORPORATE Land and/or MONEY Grab or some RESCINDED health promise, or some INANE law that gave NATIONAL RESOURCES or legal PREFERENCE to those SOULLESS CORPORATIONS over REAL citizens then HIDES WHO is REALLY controlling our nation behind CLOSED CORPORATE RUN POLITICAL CURTAINS.

It''s a National Shame that the so many in the world believes our current LEADERS are nothing more than ELITIST CONTROLLED CORPORATION prostitutes.

Right or wrong, HOPE seems to be ALL the AVERAGE citizen soon will be left with - IF that - if we don''t WAKE-UP and "just say no" to liars, turncoats and sellouts.

[homespunlady]

McCain himself just seems too easily manipulated - a perfect PUPPET for the type of people that do that sort of thing.
His history is too littered with questionable friends and situations like the Keating Scandal which was like today - A BANKING and REAL ESTATE FRAUD and ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES problem.

Ultimately, even though he SAYS he''s distanced himself from such activity; he KEEPS showing up covered in this type of mud. Washing it off through good connections won''t hide it if you keep jumping back into the pigsty of lobbyist control.