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Something you haven’t heard much about lately — health care

Teddy Roosevelt official presidential portrait

Since Teddy Roosevelt first started this long struggle for sensible health care reform over 100 years ago, big business has had it’s lackeys in the House and Senate argue that “now is not the time.”

Glad to see my Senators Bayh and Lugar are continuing the time-honored tradition of sacrificing the good of We the People to the corporate profiteers can continue to rake in obscene amounts of money at our expense.

FOX News lies! [gasp, I know you’re shocked]

But here’s some good documentation of some recent lies passed off as “fair and balanced” news. Watch the video and then go take action at Brave New Films.

Country First? That’s a First for McCain.

McCain tries more P.R. Spin

So John McCain’s handlers are trying a new tact to make him look like he’s not totally incompetent. “Country First” is his new slogan as he tries to show off his foreign policy expertise (I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Karl Rove was in the Black Sea region just before the Georgia/Russia dustup — and one of McCain’s lobbyists [also known as campaign advisers in the McCain camp] is the top lobbyist for the country of Georgia).

Because we know that John McCain has always put his country first. Like when American citizens were suffering and dying during Hurricane Katrina, let’s take a look at how John McCain was putting America first.

McCain and his buddy putting Country First during Hurricane Katrina. "Let them eat..." how does that old saying go?

Special thanks to Firedoglake for highlighting this issue.

The Antichrist Calling the Kettle Black

Appeared in the 1904 "Plays of our Forefathers by Charles Mills Gayley

John McCain’s latest desperate attempt to shift focus from issues to personal attacks is his despicable “The One” ad.

This is despicable on so many levels, but the most frightening is the way it tries to imply Barack Obama is the Antichrist as portrayed in the Left Behind series of books. The language used is clearly a conscious effort to send a secret message to the millions of readers of those books.

Of course calling your opponent the Antichrist is exactly the kind of thing you’d expect the real Antichrist to do.

‘A surprisingly immature politician’

Steve Benen has a very insightful piece on the McCain disaster-in-the-making over at Crooks and Liars. Take a look at: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/04/a-surprisingly-immature-politician/

Comparing George W. Bush to Caligula?

From today’s House Judiciary Committee meeting on the impeachment of George W. Bush.

Rabkin (George Mason University School of Law professor Jeremy Rabkin and Bush apologist) said. “You should all remind yourselves that the rest of the country is not necessarily in this same bubble in which people think it is reasonable to describe the president as if he were Caligula.”

And he’s right, that’s a ridiculous comparison. Caligula wasn’t afraid of horses.

The free market zealots: an analogy

Imagine a city experiencing a robbery spree and the free marketeer mayor decides the obvious solution to people having their homes broken into is to ban locks on the front doors to your home.

When the crime spree gets worse, he claims that his logic isn’t flawed, it just didn’t go far enough so he suggests they should now ban doors.

Welcome to McCain-enomics (the horrifying sequel to Reaganomics and Bush-enomics)

Soviet-style political prisoners in America

Free Don Siegelman

Okay, so Don Siegelman was the incumbent governor of Alabama. He went to bed on election night having won a narrow victory in his reelection.

But in the middle of the night, at a lone precinct in Alabama, after all the Democratic poll workers went home, some Republicans magically found thousands of new votes for the Republican in an electronic voting machine. The election was flipped.

He was warned not to rock the boat, but he proceeded to protest his stolen election. Luckily for Republicans, the wife of his opponents campaign manager was one of Bush’s special appointed federal prosecutors so Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama was charged with false crimes and actually sent to jail!

He actually was sent to jail by the wife of his opponent’s campaign manager!

This happened in America in the 21st century.

He’s out now, thanks to congress finally paying attention, but he still has enormous legal issues to be resolved thanks to Karl Rove and other friends of the Bush Administration.

Go to http://www.donsiegelman.org/ to find out more specific details and to donate to this patriotic American’s legal defense.

Jackson’s too late for cutting them off

Jesse Jackson recently said he wanted to cut Barak Obama’s n**ts off.

After Obama’s vote for the blatantly unconstitutional FISA bill that also happens to let our felonious president off the hook as well as granting retroactive immunity to telephone companies for felonies they committed in concert with the Bush Administration I’m starting to think someone beat Jesse Jackson to it.

Like many of his supporters, I’m livid with our candidate right now.

That being said, I still think we should all vote for him for president and I even think he will make a great president. I just wish he had shown a little more backbone or integrity with that FISA vote. As a constitutional scholar, I would have expected much more from Obama.

But even with such a big flaw, Barak Obama will bring a dignity and gravitas to the White House that we haven’t seen there in my lifetime.

And that’s something America desperately needs right now.