McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” and the math of war
Citizen – “George Bush has talked of staying in Iraq for 50 years…”
McCain – “Maybe a hundred, thats fine with me”
5 years of war:
-4,000 casualties
-$3 trillion in debt
100 years of war:
-80,000 casualties
-$60 trillion in debt
Make the right decision america, please!!
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Ron Paul: Feds don’t see what’s coming – Texas Straight Talk
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Duration : 0:5:49
Peter Schiff Interview on Straight Talk 1/4
Peter Schiff Interview on Straight Talk 12/19/2008 1/4
Duration : 0:7:56
Mccain in the Membrane (Part 1) Keith Olbermann reveals lies of Sarah Palin and John Mccain
A new daily feature on Countdown with Keith Olbermann: The most outrageous or false statement made by John Mccain, Sarah Palin, or on behalf of their campaign.
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This nation is facing real challenges on the economy, health care, jobs and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are significant differences between how Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain would address them. But McCain’s recent campaign ads suggest the most vital issues are whether Obama wanted to teach sex education to kindergarten children and whether he derided the Republican’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, by talking about lipstick on a pig.
McCain’s straight talk has become a toxic mix of lies and double-speak. It is leaving a permanent stain on his reputation for integrity, and it is a short-term strategy that eventually will backfire with the very types of independent-thinking voters that were so attracted to him.
The sex education ad says that Obama supported “comprehensive sex education” for kindergarten children. Graphics then appear with a voice-over saying: “Learning about sex before learning to read?”
The facts: Obama, while a state lawmaker in Illinois, supported a measure to provide older students with age and developmentally appropriate sex education. Younger children, such as those kindergarten-age, would be taught “age-appropriate” things such as how to protect themselves from sexual predators. The legislation was widely backed by the state PTA and the Illinois Public Health Association. Parents could choose to opt out of any instruction for their children.
As to the lipstick-on-a-pig controversy: Obama used the phrase, which he had used before, to attack McCain’s claim that he’ll reform Washington while retaining the policies of President Bush. After using the lipstick-on-a-pig phrase, Obama said, “You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.”
McCain’s…more than willing in this election to put his name on campaign lies. The leader who says he would rather lose an election than lose a war now risks losing his reputation in an attempt to win the White House.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article808444.ece
I know the MSM demands that we move on from the fact that someone who could be president next January has a list of public lies so extensive and indisputable that the McCain campaign has still not been able to rebut or even address any one of them, while fencing her off from the press and refusing to hold a press conference to clear the air on so many murky questions of fact that get to the core of whether this person is fit to be vice-president or president.
So for the record, let it be known that the candidate for vice-president for the GOP is a compulsive, repetitive, demonstrable liar. If you follow the links, here is the proof. I repeat: proof:
- She has lied about the Bridge To Nowhere. She ran for office favoring it, wore a sweatshirt defending it, and only gave it up when the federal congress, Senator McCain in particular, went ballistic. She kept the money anyway and favors funding Don Young’s Way, at twice the cost of the original bridge.
- She has lied about her firing of the town librarian and police chief of Wasilla, Alaska.
- She has lied about pressure on Alaska’s public safety commissioner to fire her ex-brother-in-law.
- She has lied about her previous statements on climate change.
- She has lied about Alaska’s contribution to America’s oil and gas production.
- She has lied about when she asked her daughters for their permission for her to run for vice-president.
- She has lied about the actual progress in constructing a natural gas pipeline from Alaska.
- She has lied about Obama’s position on habeas corpus.
- She has lied about her alleged tolerance of homosexuality.
- She has lied about the use or non-use of a TelePrompter at the St Paul convention.
- She has lied about her alleged pay-cut as mayor of Wasilla.
- She has lied about what Alaska’s state scientists concluded about the health of the polar bear population in Alaska.
You cannot trust a word she says. On anything.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-twelve-odd.html#more
Duration : 0:8:48
Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk 3/29/10: Healthcare and Economic Realities
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With passage of last weeks bill, the American people are now the unhappy recipients of Washingtons disastrous prescription for healthcare reform. Congressional leaders relied on highly dubious budget predictions, faulty market assumptions, and outright fantasy to convince a slim majority that this major expansion of government somehow will reduce federal spending. This legislation is just the next step towards universal, single payer healthcare, which many see as a human right. Of course, this right must be produced by the labor of other people, meaning theft and coercion by government is necessary to produce and distribute it.
Those who understand Austrian economic theory know that this new model of healthcare will cause major problems down the road, as it has in every nation that ignores economic realities. The more government involves itself in medicine, the worse healthcare will get: quality of care will diminish as the system struggles to contain rising costs, while shortages and long waiting times for treatment will become more and more commonplace.
Consider what would happen if car insurance worked the way health insurance does. What if it was determined that gasoline was a right, and should be covered by your car insurance policy? Perhaps every gas station would have to hire a small army of bureaucrats to file reimbursement claims to insurance companies for every tank of gas sold! What would that kind of system do to the costs of running a gas station? How would that affect the prices of both gasoline and car insurance? Yet this is exactly the type of system Congress is now expanding in health insurance. In a free market system, health insurance would serve as true insurance against serious injuries or illness, not as a convoluted system of third party payments for routine doctor visits and every minor illness.
While proponents of this reform continue to defy all logic and reason by claiming it will save money, I worry about cataclysmic economic events. Already investors are more reluctant to buy US Treasuries, fearing that the healthcare bill, along with other spending, will cause government debt to explode to default levels. I had the opportunity last week to address my concerns with both Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, especially about the potential for the coming serious inflation. I am not optimistic that these important decision makers truly understand what is coming, why it is coming, and how best to deal with it.
The Federal Reserve finds itself in an unprecedented and unenviable position. To keep up with government spending and corporate irresponsibility, it has increased the monetary base by nearly $1.5 trillion since September of 2008. Excess bank reserves remain at historically high levels, and the Fed’s balance sheet has ballooned to over $2 trillion. If the Fed pulls this excess liquidity out of the system, it risks collapsing banks that rely on the newly created money. However, if the Fed fails to pull this excess liquidity out of the system we risk tipping into hyperinflation. This is where central banking inevitably has led us.
The idea that a handful of brilliant minds can somehow steer an economy is fatal to economic growth and stability. The Soviet Union’s economy failed because of its central economic planning, and the U.S. economy will suffer the same fate if we continue down the path toward more centralized control. We need to bring back sound money and free markets- yes, even in healthcare- if we hope to soften the economic blows coming our way.
Duration : 0:4:10
Peter Schiff Interview on Straight Talk 3/4
Peter Schiff Interview on Straight Talk 12/19/2008 3/4
Duration : 0:7:57
1-11-10_Ron Paul – AIG bailout, Geithner Shenanigans
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Duration : 0:3:57
Mccain’s erratic campaign: Straight Talk Express crashes
A story from Michael Kinsley about John McCain at the craps table seems to me a perfect allegory for John McCain’s current campaign:
“McCain immediately turned to the woman and said between clenched teeth: ‘DON’T TOUCH ME.’ The woman started to explain…McCain interrupted her: ‘DON’T TOUCH ME,’ he repeated viciously. The woman again tried to explain. ‘DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU’RE TALKING TO?’ McCain continued, his voice rising and his hands now raised in the ‘bring it on’ position. He was red-faced. By this time all the action at the table had stopped. I was completely shocked. McCain had totally lost it, and in the space of about ten seconds. ‘Sir, you must be courteous to the other players at the table,’ the pit boss said to McCain. “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? ASK ANYBODY AROUND HERE WHO I AM.”
Fair or not, this adds a little color to the speculations as to whether McCain just so passionately hates Obama that he can’t bring himself to treat him with anything but barely concealed contempt.
I’m honestly beginning to think that McCain is… unhinged. Not by a lot, but by enough. In addition to stories like this, I can’t help but look at the McCain/Palin campaign’s sudden, apparently random focus on Obama and Ayers — in the middle of a complete economic meltdown, no less — and think, what the hell? Yes, I know that campaigns have strategies, and tactics, and phalanxes of people who sit down and game out what the candidates should be talking about, every minute of every day, but you have to be a special kind of “out of touch” to all but ignore a worldwide financial panic and spend your time instead talking to Hannity about the suspicious ancient hieroglyphics you’ve dug up that shows your opponent went to some guy’s house for a party once, or was on a board with him, or whatever the they’re going on at now that proves they’re secretly best buds or something. Fine, we get it — negative campaigning. But now, with no dearth of urgent actual issues to be attended to?
Really? You really think that’s the most important thing you could be talking about, right now? What — are you high on cough syrup?
I also think you have to be more than a little nuts — or at least very, very bitter — to be egging on crowds to the extent that both Palin and McCain have been. The last week has seen Republican rallies turn into screaming hate-fests, celebrations of the notion that the other candidate is a terrorist, or is anti-American, or is a danger to the nation or the like: stuff that the Secret Service really, really dislikes, and would generally put a stop to if it wasn’t their own charges leading the rhetoric. From Palin, I’d expect it. She’s proven herself at this point to be dumb as a f–king rock, and has a history of being bitterly, viciously mean in service of whatever it is she wants. She probably thinks the rallies are a hoot.
McCain I would have presumed a bit more from. Yes, he’s had these craps-table outbursts and the like, but this prolonged, truly spiteful turn is positively creepy, and, I’ll just say it, not something you would expect from a man whose self-esteem is so apparently inseparable from his notions of his own military honor. It seems an emotional collapse, almost Shakespearian; the antihero, foiled in life one too many times, turns into a plotting, mean-spirited beast, determined to pull the whole world down around his ears if he can’t get what he wants.
He’s having a temper-tantrum, that’s what it is, but on a world stage. He’s directing his entire campaign, his entire party, every supporter he can reach into a face-reddening, arm-flailing, carpet-kicking group temper tantrum, simply because the polls came back that show him running out of other options.
Is this like the craps table incident, writ large? Is it the way McCain is prone to act, when he’s losing or feels cornered? I don’t know, but if this is the way he runs his campaign when under stress, I don’t want him anywhere near the White House, much less in it. The only thing worse than the incompetent, hyper-aggressive foreign policy of the neoconservatives would be that same neoconservative foreign policy tethered to an unpredictable man-child prone to fits of irrational rage. At least Bush was too lazy to get into more than two wars: with McCain, we’d be starting wars based on what he had for breakfast each day.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/10/24954/379/486/625988
Duration : 0:8:32
McCain-Palin – When I Move Up (Parody Music Video)
“When I Move Up” is a parody of the Pussycat Dolls’ hit 2008 song “When I Grow Up.” The PCD are in no way affiliated with this production.
This music video expresses some of my views on the McCain-Palin ticket (with a comedic flair). I submit this video in hopes that viewers will do some thorough research on the candidates prior to voting this fall.
Clearly I am supporting the Obama-Biden ticket for the November 2008 election. Let me just point out that I do not think McCain and Palin are bad people – just not right for our country at this crucial moment in time.
Thank you.
Song Lyrics:
(Sarah Palin)
Men think I’m sexy.
I don’t need a resume.
See every time they turn around
I show my baby.
And I’m a WOMAN!
So you girls know how to vote.
I’m gonna be vice president.
Don’t laugh – it’s no joke!
(John McCain)
Now I got a confession –
I picked Palin out o’ desperation.
I promised myself that I’d do anything
for Hillary’s groupies to vote for me.
So I ain’t complaining.
And I’ll talk her up again.
We know you’re much too dumb to think for yourself.
(Cindy McCain)
Don’t you know where Alaska is?
It’s almost Russia’s little sis.
So she’s got experience, you could say.
(John McCain)
When I move up,
I wanna keep the war.
I wanna be like Bush,
wanna take away rights
When I move up,
I wanna fight the world,
ban being gay,
and support the rich whites!
When I move up
Things’ll change, you see.
More theocracy
and Christianity!
When I move up,
fair and clean.
Start a new war as I step out on the scene.
(Sarah Palin and Voters)
Be careful who you vote for cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it.
Be careful who you vote for cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it.
Get it?
(Sarah Palin)
Did I mention I’m a woman?
And that I shoot animals for fun?
I don’t want planned parenthood or abortion.
Who cares if you were raped?
You’d better keep your son!
(John McCain)
So I ain’t complaining.
Wait – what’s my position again?
I’m a dinosaur so I forget sometimes.
I know! I’ll borrow Georgie’s brain.
Heck! Our ideas are the same.
Palin’s taking over if I’m not okay.
When I move up
I wanna keep the war.
I wanna be like Bush,
wanna take away rights.
When I move up,
I wanna fight the world,
ban being gay,
and support the rich whites!
When I move up,
be out of touch
with American needs,
but doesn’t matter much.
When I move up,
fair and clean.
Start a new war as I step out on the scene.
(Sarah Palin and Voters)
Be careful who you vote for cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it.
Be careful who you vote for cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it.
Get it?
(Sarah Palin)
I was a beauty queen
and I’m a hockey mother.
My daughter’s preggers so I made the boyfriend propose to her.
My family’s in disarray,
but really that’s okay.
I’ll have more time for them once I’ve become the vice president.
(John McCain and Sarah Palin)
When we move up
we wanna keep the war.
We wanna be like Bush,
wanna take away rights.
When we move up,
We wanna fight the world,
ban being gay,
and support the rich whites!
When we move up,
fasten your seatbelt!
The straight-talk express
is heading straight to hell.
When we move up,
fair and clean.
Start a new war as we step out on the scene.
(Sarah Palin and Voters)
Be careful who you vote for cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it.
Be careful who you vote for cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it,
cause you just might get it.
Get it?
Duration : 0:4:24
Neil Cavuto Blasts John McCain: “MCCAIN IS LOSING BECAUSE HE HAS NO ECONOMIC CONVICTIONS”
On FBC’s Cavuto show, Neil Cavuto lambasted John McCain over his economic policies, or lack thereof. It’s a searing commentary on McCain’s nonsensical approach and the shifting positions he has taken during his campaign.
Cavuto: Frankly, neither of your numbers adds up. But Ive come to see a consistent pattern in Obama’s. For the life of me, Senator Straight Talk, I see no such straight thing with yours.
{snip}
You rail against big government, yet continue to push cockamamie spending plans that make a mockery of it. That’s why you’re losing right now, Senator McCain.
Not because you don’t have the courage of your convictions. But because on economic matters, you have no convictions, period
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Obviously Cavuto disagrees with Obama’s economic policies, but explains that he’s been consistent throughout his entire candidacy. McCain on the other hand shouts “Socialism” at Obama while embracing the same philosophy as Obama for the most part where convenient. Or, he just doesn’t know that much about the economy.
* “I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.” (November 2005)
Cavuto just rips McCain apart in his “The Deal” segment.
John McCain, I figured out today why you’re losing. Your positions are always changing.
You voted for the $700 billion rescue package. Yet today lumped your opponent with the Bush Administration for essentially pushing the same package.
What’s the deal with the Straight Talk Express?
Duration : 0:2:15