Thank God It's Over

Well I am happy that the election is over and elated that McCain/Palin were defeated because I believed in my heart that they would have continued on with the Bush policies and McCain with his temper and his inability to understand economics would have continued to spend money and would have continued to give his rich pals all the tax breaks and we would have been expected to foot the bill just like Bush and his criminal rich pals have done for the last eight years.

McCain I believe would have also had us involved in another war with Iran in short order because he made it very clear that he supported war rather than sit down with our enemies and try to negotiate a peace and as a father with a son in the Marines and a step-son in the Army, this was not acceptable to me, there are always other options than war, we have lost to many lives on both sides, we should have never invaded Iraq in the first place and it is time for Iraq to take responsibility for it own future and for us to bring our troops home and let them get on with it.

McCain never really did address what he would do as far as helping out the lower/middle class citizens when it came to tax relief, providing health insurance for those of us that cannot afford it, his answer to the energy problems was "Drill Baby Drill" which absolutely made no sense at all, he never did make it clear on how soon we could expect to see our troops withdrawn from Iraq and I not once heard him offer any solutions to how to rid ourselves of the Federal Reserve which is sucking this country dry and preparing to throw us into a depression that make 1929 look like a picnic.

As far as Palin is concerned, I just want her to go away, she was never qualified for the position she was running for and everytime she opened her mouth she showed how inexperienced she really was when in came to economics and her understanding of world events and of the issues that impacted the lower and middle class citizens of this country.

She insulted the American public by trying to portray herself as just another citizen, a hockey mom and joe sixpack type of person, bullshit, she was a elitist who could never understand what it is like to struggle to pay the bills,feed the kids, clothe and educate them and just try to live from day to day in this economy,this woman was clueless and I hope the citizens of Alaska realize what kind of person she really is and hopefully she will not be re-elected and will just fade away into the wilderness of Alaska and never be heard of again, I can always hope, lol.

President Elect Oboma has a difficult job ahead and I hope that he is up to the job, he promised many things and I will be watching closely and plan on letting my congressman and the Obama administration know when I don't think he is fulfilling his promises.

Now I know many people will say " Like they are going to listen to what you say" and maybe they are right but I feel if you just sit by and say nothing then nothing will happen, thats what we did with Bush and he damn near ruined this country, so I plan on not being one of those on the sidelines that bitches all the time and when asked what they did to solve the problem they use the excuse I used above.

Not this time, citizens need to get involved and speak out when they see things going wrong, hold your elected officials responsible when they don't do what we want them to do and that includes Oboma when he strays from what he said he was going to do.

Remember, we as voters put these people in power and WE can remove them in the next election and you need to remind them of this when you talk or write to them, let them know you are watching and INSIST they do what YOU as their employer expect them to do.

During Obama's first term I want to see the following done:

A. Impeachment of George W. Bush and no Pardon to be issued.

B. Impeachment of Dick Chaney and Rice and all the members of
the administration that were involved in the criminal actions of
the last eight years.

C. Repeal the 16th Amendment that formed the Federal Reserve
and go back to a Gold/Silver standard, take the power away from
the bankers that are running our government and ruining our
country and then bring criminal charges against the persons in
charge of the Federal Reserve that have defrauded the American
for decades.

D. Provide Healthcare which is affordable to the citizens and hold
those people in the Insurance and Prescription Drug cartels
responsible for their criminal actions as it relates to price fixing
and defrauding the consumers of this great nation.

E. Break the hold that foreign countries have on us when it comes
to oil and also hold American Companies feet to the fire when
they ship jobs overseas to avoid paying taxes and obtaining cheap
labor so they don't have to pay a decent wage to a American
worker.

F. Give all the benifits back to the Vetrans that have been stolen
from us over the years and fulfill the promise to take care of
those that took care of us when they were called on, treat them
like the hero's they are give them the best medical treatment
for wounds recieved in the line of duty, in other words, do what
is right for those that sacrificed so much so we could all be free.

I have more, but my fingers are tired so I will stop for now and I pray that we can get through the tough times ahead and hopefully we will have a brighter future now that Bush and his cronies will no longer be in a position to ruin this great nation any further,

Stick a fork in the Republicans, they are done!

As with all groups that lie and attempt to decieve, the truth wins  out and we are seeing that now as McCains campaign is falling apart because it is based on un-truths and outright deception.

When I listen to McCain speak on the economy I can clearly see that he has no idea how the middle and lower class cope with the day to day struggle to survive because how can a man who owns seven homes (if that is correct, since he can't seem to remember) even begin to relate to us that have lost our homes and will never be able to own again because of the damage done to our credit.

I wonder when the last time McCain sat down across from his wife at the kitchen table with the bills spread out in front of them and discussed what bills they could afford to pay and still be able to put food on the table until the next paycheck and keep the electricity on for another month, and I wonder if McCain and his wife have had to go without his meds for his melanoma because they just don't have the money because they don't have medical insurance.

Tell me how this man can claim to know what the people are going through, he has been a member of the elite all his life for god's sake, his father was a Admiral in the Navy, do you think this man has ever had to struggle to make it in life, cmon....the one time he was on his own was when he bailed out over the very city he had just bombed and was captured!

I would urge you all to look into this chapter of McCains life and listen and read what his fellow prisoners thought of his time as a prisoner, he keeps saying he has been tested and he is a Maverick, I think not.

McCain cannot make up his mind on any plan for the economy because he keeps changing plans every time he is challanged on his plans, first he says the economy is basicly strong, next day he says it is a disaster, cmon McCain make up your mind, which is it?

McCain tried to play the hero and supposedly suspended his campaign (which he never did) and rushed back to Washington to take control and solve the bailout issue, WRONG, the only thing he did was piss everybody off and made himself look like the bumbling fool he is.

Members of his own party came out and said the only reason he came back was for a photo op and he even managed to screw that up and ended up looking confused and resentful when his own party refused to follow his leadership because he offered nothing new as far as any plan to deal with the issues at hand.

McCain offers nothing new in leadership for this country, he cannot refute that he has followed the Bush agenda 90% of the time over the last eight years, that he voted YES for four out of five Bush budgets and when you listen to him speak he sounds exactly like Bush over the last eight years and that is what is killing his campaign even though he keeps trying to distance himself  he can't because he admires Bush and will continue with the same policies that have brought this country to the brink of destruction because of a war that we should have never started and because of Bush's desire to be King of America and McCain is no different.

McCain's choice of Palin as his VP shows that the man is not in touch with the American people and that he does not think through ideas before he acts on them, the only reason he put Palin on the ticket was to attract the female followers of Clinton and it failed misrably, he never looked into Palins background or he would have known this woman was not what she appeared to be.

Palin has damaged McCain's campaign beyond repair because she is not fit to be the Vice-President, she has been found to have abused her powers while in office by using her office to bring pressure on people to fire her ex-brother-in-law, by charging the taxpayers for living in her OWN residence plus charging the taxpayers for her family going on trips with her when THEY were not invited or needed at the function she was attending, she is no Mavrick, she has been doing exactly what she says she is fighting against.

So should we be shocked when we find out she spent $ 150,000.00  on clothing, this from the Walmart Hockey Mom, give me a break, she is not the person she wants you to think she is, this is a ambitious woman who will do anything it takes to get where she wants to go and if it has to be on the backs of the American taxpayer, so be it.

Now we see her giving interviews where she trys to summon fake tears and emotion when she trys to defend her position, now she says she has been unfairly treated by the press, bullshit, she has been exposed for the fraud she is and now she will try to position herself for the 2012 elections because she knows that the American voters have seen her for what she is and god willing she will never see the inside of the White House unless she is part of a tour group.

The American people have suffered enough under the Republicans rule, now it is time for change and I can only pray that Obama can deliver on the promises he has made and he sticks to the plans he has put before the people and that he does not fall under the spell of Washington and become just another corrupt power hungry politician as we have seen happen time and time again.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a COWARD

During a press confrence I heard Nancy Pelosi talk tough and say " The party is over" and tried to play politics and when the Republicans responded and called her on her speech she hid behind the male politicians and would not even defend what she had said earlier.

No wonder congress is screwed up if this is the type of leadership we have up on the hill, if you say something at least have the courage to step up and defend what you say, don't stand there and let the " BOYS" speak for and defend you, you coward.

I for one am glad the Bailout Bill failed, I truly believe this was a attempt by Bush to take over the economics of this country so as to throw this country into chaos so that he (Bush) could make himself and his fat cat buddies richer before he left office and he failed because for once the American voters stood up and said NO.

I contacted my Congressman and my senators and I told them if they voted yes for this Bush bill that I would start a grass roots movement myself to make sure that everyone of them that voted for the bill would be voted out of office, I am sick and tired of these duly elected politicians doing want they want and not being held responsible.

As Pelosi said "Party Over" as far as I am concerned, if Congress and the Senate don't do the will of the people then vote their ass out and get someone that will vote the way you the voter want them to.

Americans are not stupid as you think congress

I have sat here for two days and listened to several congressmen and congresswomen talk about the bailout bill that is up for consideration.

I can't count how many times I have heard them say that it is important the American voter realize how important this bill is and frankly I am sick and tired of these over bloated windbags take it for granted that we the citizens of this country have to be spoken down to like a bunch of little children.

I for one understand the severity of the crisis but I am beginning to seriously doubt if the members of congress understand how some us really feel about the issue.

I can only speak for myself and frankly I feel the ones that are going to be impacted the worst are the ones that caused the whole damn thing in the first place.

I am on disability, I already lost my home, I have no health insurance, I will probably die before I ever see a dime of a retirement, my sons are or will be in the military and have chosen the military as a career so hopefuly they will be able to support themselves, I don't have to worry about a car because I can't drive, I don't eat much because of my diseases, so in truth tell me how much worse can it get?

The ones that are in a panic are the ones that have all the above and stand to lose the most and because of their greed they now find themselves being forced to confront the fact they may lose it all because they wanted the riches and the power and now they want the taxpayer to bail them out so they can keep it all....well the way I feel about it is this....

TOUGH SHIT....you didn't give a damn about the taxpayer when you were living the high life,eating the best food, sending your kids to the best schools you could buy, driving the most expensive cars you could find, making sure you grabbed enough money any way you could so you could leave something behind for the family, dressing to kill, in other words living the high life and had no worries.

Now you could loose it all and I don't have a bit of sympathy for you, welcome to our world and I hope you enjoy having to live from paycheck to paycheck, I hope you have to struggle to feed yourself and watch your kids go without, maybe the next time you won't be so greedy and will stop and think for a minute before you walk by that taxpayer who may need a little help.

So after all that, this is what I say to congress "HELL NO on the bailout bill, I worked and payed taxes for 43 years and I will be damned if I will allow you to hand it out to a bunch of fat cats that have prayed on citizens for decades"

Bush is holding a gun to the american citizens heads and saying " Give me $700 Billion dollars or I will make your life misrable" as far as I am concerned go ahead and pull the trigger because you don't scare me, if the markets fail they fail, let what will be, be!!!

Palin Not as Diverse as she claims

I came across this article today and was not shocked at what it reveals, Palin is about to implode as more and more background information comes to light, as the old saying goes "Turn the lights on and the cockroaches run for the dark", I see Palin running for cover.

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media
http://www.alternet.org/story/100219

Sarah Palin admittedly hasn't had much of a track record when it comes to acknowledging -- let alone promoting -- diversity during her short tenure as Alaska governor. She's on record with a terse utterance on hate crimes legislation and on cultural diversity. But Palin's skimpy track record and paucity of words on diversity is relatively tame compared to the far more damaging accusation that's making the rounds.

On April 29, 14 black leaders in Alaska, including prominent ministers, NAACP officials, and community activists, met with Palin to voice their complaint over minority hiring and job opportunities. During the meeting she allegedly said that she didn't have to hire any blacks. Even more damning, she purportedly said that she didn't intend to hire any.

Gwen Alexander, president of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska, initially reported Palin's quip. This charge is so racially incendiary that it sounded like yet another one of the legion of Palin urban legends that have fueled the cyber gossip mill from the moment Republican presidential contender John McCain put her on his ticket. The charge had to be confirmed or denied. If Governor Palin or any other public official flatly said that they had no intention to hire blacks, that would be politically unpardonable. And for a potential vice-president, it would and should be the kiss of death.

In a phone message to this writer, Megan Stapleton, a Palin spokesperson with the McCain-Palin campaign committee, vehemently denied that Palin ever said that she would not hire blacks. Sharon Leighow, communications spokesperson in the Alaska governor's office, also disputed the allegation. She said that Palin's press secretary was part African-American and that two of her senior advisors were Filipino and Korean.

Leighow was also adamant that Palin did not hire staff persons based on color, but solely on talent and skill. As she put it, "Governor Palin is totally color-blind."

But in a phone conversation, Gwen Alexander of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska stuck by her contention that Palin made the racially charged retort. She also charged that Palin did not support or even officially acknowledge the group's annual Juneteenth Commemoration.

June 19 is celebrated as the date of slave emancipation in Texas. Alaska is one of 13 states that has designated it an official holiday. Other Alaska governors have sent the traditional greetings and acknowledgements to the Society. Alexander says Palin snubbed the group.

The unofficial charge, then, is that Palin is insensitive to the state's African Americans, and that includes refusing to hire and appoint African Americans. That charge is hotly disputed by Palin's staff and they cite names and numbers to back it up. But apart from the veracity of the charge and the denial, Palin's statement that she's absolutely color-blind when it comes to hiring does set off warning bells.

The color-blind argument strikes at the heart of the continuing debate over what and how far public officials should go to insure that their staffs and their appointments truly represent the broadest diversity possible. Officials must make a concerted outreach effort to make that happen. A color-blind posture more often than not has been nothing but a convenient excuse not to seek out, hire or promote African Americans and other minorities in their administration, no matter how qualified.

Diversity is a major issue this election. It's implicit in Democratic rival Barack Obama's White House run. It's explicit in Ward Connerly's anti-affirmative initiative on the ballot in three states this November. Obama opposes it. McCain backs it, and so does Palin.

Palin's commitment to diversity is no small point in Alaska. According to the 2000 Census figures, blacks make up officially about 4 percent of the state population. But those who self-identify as at least part African-American bump up the percentage much higher. When American Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos, and Asians are taken together, minorities make up about one quarter of Alaska's population. This makes the state one of the most ethnically diverse in the nation. Diversity must be more than a word that an Alaska governor pays campaign lip service to and then ignores.

Palin's campaign and gubernatorial spokespersons say the charge that she is hostile to blacks and minorities is unfair. That may well be true. But according to those black leaders in Alaska who challenged Palin on her administration's minority hiring practices, the charge is much deserved.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His new book is The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House (Middle Passage Press, February 2008).

© 2008 New America Media All rights reserved.

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Palins Smokescreen

Palins agreement to co-opererate with the Personnel Board of the State of Alaska is nothing short of a political slight of hand to make it appear that she has finaly agreed to a investigation.

As the Govenor of Alaska she appoints and oversees the Personnel Board, talk about putting the fox in the hen house, lol.

The Personnel Board investigation is nothing short of a dog and pony show for those people naive enough to think that this board would be impartial and fair to their BOSS!!!!

Palin should co-operate with the Legislative Investigation which is the only official investigation of her abuse of power, but of course she will never do that because she can't control them like she can the Personnel Board which she can definintly influence. 

McCain & Palin Business as Usual

Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) and AFL-CIO Executive Board member, recently published the following on Huffington Post.

For advocates of improvements in health care, retirement security, and such fairness issues as pay equity, there’s a lot at stake in the November election.

Amidst the worst economic crisis in this nation since the 1930s, the prospect of a John McCain-Sarah Palin administration hardly offers much confidence for the future. Here’s 10 reasons why:

1. Bye-bye employer health benefits.

McCain wants to move people who get health benefits on the job from group employer coverage to the individual private market. He’d get there by taxing current health care benefits. The steep rise in taxes would prompt many younger, healthier employees to give up their coverage. Left with the least healthy, and thus most expensive workers—which wrecks any notion of a risk pool—the current trickle of employers dropping health benefits would become an avalanche. The Dallas Morning News cites analysts warning it could “lead to the death of company-provided health plans.”

2. Your rapidly shrinking insurance coverage.

To supposedly offset the tax increase, McCain is offering a tax credit to buy private insurance. But the credit is less than half the present national average for family premiums not counting deductibles, co-pays, doctor’s fees, and the 101 other ways the health care industry finds to extract money out of your pocket. The tax credit is also not indexed to inflation, nor does McCain propose to put any limits on how much insurers can charge. Look for even more people to buy junk insurance plans with few covered services that are too expensive to ever use.

3. Getting rid of those pesky consumer protections.

McCain wants to allow insurers to evade all existing state minimum standards on what health services insurance companies must cover. In California alone, for example, that would mean an end to such basic requirements that McCain probably considers frills, as independent medical review of care denials, minimum hospital stays for new moms, access to colorectal, cervical cancer, and prostrate cancer screenings, breast reconstruction, diabetic supplies, direct access to an OB/GYN, and hospice care.

4. What problem of the uninsured?

To conservative health care economists, like John Goodman, a McCain adviser, the problem is apparently not that people don’t have health coverage, it’s the public embarrassment of those unseemly high numbers. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American as uninsured,” Goodman told The Dallas Morning News.

They’re really not uninsured, they can always go to the ER for care, said Goodman, ignoring what happens to people’s health when they have to wait to get emergency care. Though the McCain camp tried to distance themselves from the comment, it’s standard fare for Republicans; Goodman was virtually channeling President Bush who used nearly identical words a year ago….

While we’re at it, one blogger recently wrote, “Maybe the way to solve our vexing cancer problem is to just stop calling it cancer.”

5. Social What Security.

McCain has called the financing system of Social Security “a disgrace,” even though that is the way it operated for 80 years, and now he wants to encourage young people to divert their Social Security payments into risky Wall Street investments (meet Lehman Brothers), undermining the financial foundation of our national retirement program. He also says “all options” for Social Security cuts are on the table, including raising the retirement age and cutting benefits. And, of course, he was on board with the Bush privatization fiasco. Good thing we still have those stable and secure 401k plans.

6. Medicare’s promise, slip sliding away.

McCain was absent on the vote to repeal the Bush administration ban on government use of its bulk purchasing power to negotiate lower prices from drug companies for Medicare recipients. He’s been silent on the donut hole, under which seniors must pay 100 percent of the next $3,000 in drug costs after Medicare pays 75 percent of cost for the first $2,700, and mum on insurance industry price gouging in the Medicare Advantage program in which payments to private plans average 113 percent of the cost of care for comparable seniors in regular Medicare.

7. The “fundamentals of our economy are strong,” or maybe not.

On the day Wall Street was imploding Sept. 15, McCain said, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” It’s a safe bet the 59 percent of Americans who told pollsters in June they are having a “serious” financial problem struggling with medical bills, mortgage payments, food and gas bills, don’t share that sunny optimism. McCain also recently said, “It’s easy for me to go to Washington and frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have.” That seems evident.

8. What workplace discrimination?

McCain opposes two significant bills in Congress, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act, intended to end the disparity in pay between men and women. The Ledbetter bill is named for the woman who sued Goodyear Tire & Rubber for paying her less than male co-workers. She won a discrimination lawsuit. Then the case went to the Supreme Court, where it was, surprise, overturned on a technicality, which brings to mind…

9. If you like the Scalia-Thomas-Roberts-Alito court, just wait.

Quizzed about which Supreme Court judges he would not have appointed, McCain came up with the names of the four justices who have been most sympathetic to issues like workplace protections, women’s rights, and civil rights. In addition to the Ledbetter case, there have been numerous decisions by the present court intended to throw working people under the bus. At least two of the judges McCain finds most distasteful are likely to retire during the next administration.

10. How about that Vice President?

Oh, but Palin offers some reassurance, right. Well, maybe not. On health care, her most visible stance has been to rail against regulation and push to repeal the state’s certificate of need program, which is intended to protect community medical centers from being financially undercut by more profitable businesses such as boutique clinics and high-end surgery centers.

A Palin-McCain administration, as she puts it, might look a lot like the rest of her record in office and her performance on the campaign trail. Her less than forthright statements about earmarks and that infamous Bridge to Nowhere. Her heavy handed use of state executive powers for a personal vendetta. And, the decision of Wasilla, Ala., during Palin’s tenure as mayor, to charge victims of sexual assault for evidence-gathering medical exams.

Palin may provide gender balance in a McCain administration but looks to be in full lockstep with the philosophical and economic train wreck of the past eight years.

A McCain-Palin administration would likely to perpetuate that dismal record. If that’s an advance for women or men, count me out.

In my opinion, if elected these two would continue the same agenda as Bush has been for the last eight years and we all know how succusful that administration has been.