Wright was wrong, and now we have the Ayers (who was a terrorist when Obama was eight years old!) non-issue.
On the other hand, McCain's history of association with unsavory individuals and organizations has often been, at best, ill-chosen.
And sometimes it isn’t, i.e. McCain’s membership on the “US Council for World Freedom”
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I keep thinking about the American people that bought houses that they KNEW they couldn't afford. (if something looks too good to be true; it probably is) Is that a popular thing to say? no. But, there really is something to be said for personal responsibility. Having said that; those homeowners have already paid for their greed by losing those homes. They paid for their mistake. According to Sen. Pelosi; Congress is blameless in this mess. The one that whipped up the Bill that DE-REGULATED the Banks in the first place(Gramm-Leach-Blily Act of 1999) is the CURRENT Financial ADVISOR for Sen. John McCain! So, apparently, they are blameless in this mess too. Has Wall Street or the Government paid for their perfidy? no.
Please check out this link for an idea that might work for the Banks, Government AND Taxpayers!
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1843659,00.html?iid=digg_share
(hint)The American taxpayer might look more kindly on a financial bailout of this mess if it is WE who get the benefits and the ones who put us in this hole are actually punished!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=atiIm5LQRuNs&refer=home
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/21/short-on-economic-underst_n_82529.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24844889/
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/18/news/newsmakers/tully_gramm.fortune/index.htm
http://lonesomemongoose.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/phil-gramm-is-back-attends-
mccain-campaign-briefing-on-economics
http://lonesomemongoose.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/mccain-economic-adviser-phil-gramm-back-in-the-news-again/
http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/Chris%20Brown/blog/&blogId=3104
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/ 2008/08/14/phil-gramm-attends-mccain-campaign-briefing/print/
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1833106,00.html
The Texas Observer has a very complete article on the history of Phill Gramm - McCain's go-chair and economic mentor.
If there were justice in elections, this alone, would win Obama the race.
Check it out and PLEASE go Digg it and get others to Digg it too.
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2767
Quote from Gramm:
“The work of this Congress will be seen as a watershed where we turned away from an outmoded Depression-era approach to financial regulation and adopted a framework that will position our financial services industry to be world leaders into the new century,” Gramm said.
"Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation." (Contingencies Magazine)
“[McCain] wants to run health care like they've been running Wall Street. I know some folks on Main Street who aren't going to think that's such a good idea." (Washington Post, Sept. 21, 2008)
Practicing What He Preaches – Holding McCain AccountableMcCain has repeatedly said this past week that the McCain-Palin administration will “bring transparency and accountability to Wall Street.” (Kansas City Star, Sept. 15, 2008) Because of McCain’s calls for “transparency and accountability” on Wall Street, I find it important to hold McCain accountable for what he is not telling the American people. “[E]ight years ago, [Phil]Gramm, then a Republican senator chairing the Senate banking committee, slipped a 262-page bill into a gargantuan, must-pass spending measure. Gramm's legislation, written with the help of financial industry lobbyists, essentially removed newfangled financial products called swaps from any regulation. Credit default swaps are basically insurance policies that cover the losses on investments, and they have been at the heart of the subprime meltdown because they have enabled large financial institutions to turn risky loans into risky securities that could be packaged and sold to other institutions.” It is this bill that has been blamed for the subprime lending crisis, the crisis that destroyed our housing market, led to our record high foreclosure rate and jump-started our downward spiraling economy. (Mother Jones, Sept. 15, 2008)Gramm was also responsible for the “Enron Loophole” which prevented federal government oversight of Enron's electronic energy trading. “Such favors proved very expensive to consumers but profitable to the Gramms. Enron CEO Ken Lay chaired Gramm's 1992 re-election campaign, and wife Wendy Gramm spent years on the Enron board, earning as much as $1.8 million, according to Public Citizen, a consumer advocate.” (Houston Chronicle, Sept. 18, 2008)Despite Gramm’s clear hand in our subprime mortgage crisis and the fact that Gramm’s bill was directly responsible for the Enron Loophole that resulted in the notorious Enron disaster, McCain chose Gramm to be chairman of his campaign and a top economic adviser until Gramm went so far as to dismiss Americans worried about the economy as “whiners” at which point McCain supposedly dumped Gramm.(Mother Jones, Sept. 15, 2008) Last month Gramm attended a meeting of McCain's top supporters in Aspen and at a dinner that day, McCain pointed out Gramm and showered him with praise. As early as last week, Ron Paul revealed that Gramm, now an exec for Swiss banking giant UBS, had contacted him in order to get Paul to support McCain, but Paul dismissed Gramm, the man responsible for initiating the Enron Loophole and our subprime lending crisis all with the drafting of a single bill. For a man demanding “transparency” and “accountability” from Wall Street, it seems to me McCain should be “transparent” and “accountable” to the American people. You would think that the Americans who have lost their homes as a result of our subprime mortgage crisis would have a different feeling about McCain if they knew how closely he was tied to the man who engineered the problem that led them to lose their homes. At the very least, McCain’s claims that he will help the American people is called into question by his sense of judgment in choosing to refer to Gramm on issues of the economy – when Gramm has done so much to bring about the economic decline that is forcing Americans to struggle and when he has been so callous as to call average American families struggling to make ends meet in our fledgling economy “whiners,” at the very minimum, McCain should distance himself from Gramm to prove that he is on the side of American middle and working-class families. Yet, he hasn’t even taken that small step to stand up for the average American.As Lynn Turner, a former chief SEC accountant said, "If McCain gets in, we'll have more of the same deregulatory mess. I like John McCain, but given what I know about Phil Gramm, I wouldn't vote for McCain." If the American people knew about Phil Gramm and knew about McCain’s ties to Phil Gramm, I have a feeling most of them would feel exactly the same way. I suppose this explain why this isn’t a topic of conversation by McCain and Palin at their rallies or interviews. (Mother Jones, July/August)Small Government = Bigger GovernmentMcCain and Palin have continuously touted the Republican belief that America benefits most from smaller government, less regulation and states handling their own matters without excessive federal oversight. Yet, it is this continued deregulation that has caused our banking and insurance industries to slowly unravel. It is this deregulation that has forced our government to take over AIG, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae; the push for excessive deregulation of these industries backfired and left us with even more government control and regulation. And if McCain wants to apply the same deregulation to our American healthcare system, how can we expect it to fare any better? If there is a saving grace to this economic crisis coming weeks before the election, it is that we have been alerted to how this deregulation has endangered our finance, banking and insurance industries and, if McCain is elected, how our healthcare system will face a similar peril.
Learn about McCain's choice of advisors and the gift he gave all of us!
"Who's to blame for the biggest financial catastrophe of our time? There are plenty of culprits, but one candidate for lead perp is former Sen. Phil Gramm. Eight years ago, as part of a decades-long anti-regulatory crusade, Gramm pulled a sly legislative maneuver that greased the way to the multibillion-dollar subprime meltdown. Yet has Gramm been banished from the corridors of power? Reviled as the villain who bankrupted Middle America? Hardly. Now a well-paid executive at a Swiss bank, Gramm cochairs Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign and advises the Republican candidate on economic matters. He's been mentioned as a possible Treasury secretary should McCain win. That's right: A guy who helped screw up the global financial system could end up in charge of US economic policy. Talk about a market failure."
Read more
Posted on MotherJones Blog:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9718_mccain_lehman_crisis_gramm.html
We need to let people know that McCain and his advisor Gramm are on the inside of this financial mess...they cannot and will not fix it! Please pass this along to your republican and independent friends.
McCain Blasts Wall Street Failure, Neglects To Mention His Adviser Helped Cause It
As the news broke of the Lehman Brothers meltdown and the rest of the latest financial crisis, John McCain, speaking at a campaign rally in Florida on Monday, angrily declared,
We will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. This is a failure.
And in a statement released by his campaign, McCain called for greater "transparency and accountability" on Wall Street.
If McCain wants to hold someone accountable for the failure in transparency and accountability that led to the current calamity, he should turn to his good friend and adviser, Phil Gramm.
As Mother Jones reported in June, eight years ago, Gramm, then a Republican senator chairing the Senate banking committee, slipped a 262-page bill into a gargantuan, must-pass spending measure. Gramm's legislation, written with the help of financial industry lobbyists, essentially removed newfangled financial products called swaps from any regulation. Credit default swaps are basically insurance policies that cover the losses on investments, and they have been at the heart of the subprime meltdown because they have enabled large financial institutions to turn risky loans into risky securities that could be packaged and sold to other institutions.
Lehman's collapse threatens the financial markets because of swaps. From Bloomberg:
Bond-default risk soared worldwide as the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. sparked concern than the $62 trillion credit-derivatives market will unravel....
Lehman, the fourth-largest securities firm until last week, has been one of the 10 largest counterparties in the market for credit-default swaps, according to a 2007 report by Fitch Ratings. The market, which is unregulated and has no central exchange where prices are disclosed, has been the fastest-growing type of so-called over-the-counter derivative, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
"The immediate problem is the derivative default swaps market, in which a plethora of institutional accounts and dealer accounts are at risk,'' Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California, said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio yesterday. "It induces a tremendous amount of volatility and uncertainty.''
Barclays Capital analysts have estimated that if a financial institution with $2 trillion in credit-default swap trades were to fail, it might trigger between $36 billion and $47 billion in losses for institutions that traded with the firm. So the Lehman fiasco--caused in part by the use of unregulated swaps--could lead to ruin elsewhere in the economy.
Gramm is responsible for the rise of the wild and woolly $62 trillion swaps market. And he was chairman of the McCain campaign and a top economic adviser for McCain--until he dismissed Americans worried about the economy as "whiners." After that comment, McCain dumped Gramm. But was Gramm truly excommunicated from McCain land? Last month, he attended a meeting of McCain's top supporters in Aspen, Colorado. And at a dinner that day, McCain singled out Gramm for praise. Last week, failed Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul revealed that Gramm, now an exec for Swiss banking giant UBS (which also lost billions of dollars due to subprime loans and swaps), had recently called him as part of a McCain effort to win Paul's endorsement. Paul turned Gramm down. (Both Gramm and Paul are Texas Republicans.) Gramm's Paul-courting effort seems to indicate that the fellow who has done much to cause the current financial troubles (and who was once considered a possible Treasury secretary should McCain win the White House) is back in the good graces of the McCain campaign.
Shortly after McCain promised he would "clean up" Wall Street, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, his running mate, appeared at a Colorado rally on Monday morning and proclaimed that "John McCain and I will put an end to the abuses in Washington and Wall Street that have resulted in this financial crisis." She promised a McCain administration would "reform the way Wall Street does business." (She was short on details and spent more time discussing Colorado sports stars from Alaska.) What neither she nor McCain has explained is how they plan to be able to reform Wall Street when they are being assisted by 177 lobbyists and the guy who greased the way to the current crisis with a backroom legislative maneuver. If McCain and Palin are serious about never putting America "in this position again," they ought to consider seriously writing down any economic advice they get from Phil Gramm. ******
By the way, both McCain and Palin decried golden parachutes for CEOs. What might Carly Fiorina, a top McCain adviser and surrogate, think of that? She received a $21 million severance package when she was forced out as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, after her not-so-successful stint there--and the value of her golden parachute eventually reached $42 million.
This is already being called "Black Monday," a day that saw a further stock market plunge on news of the bankruptcy of venerable Lehman Brothers and the proposed fire sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America.
With the financial markets in turmoil, no clear end to the crises in credit and housing, and the economy called by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan the worst he's ever seen, the damage of eight years of Republican rule is apparent.
In response to today’s developments, John McCain angrily said "we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. This is a failure."
Fine words, but he neglected to mention that this disaster was made possible by his close friend, Phil Gramm. Gramm was chairman of McCain’s campaign and a top economic advisor until he dismissed Americans worried about the economy as “whiners.”
John McCain would give tax breaks to the rich (annual incomes over $5,000,000), big corporations, Oil compaines, Energy companies and especially Banks.
BUT... not one penny to the middle class. He and his economics tutor Phil Gramm who have made the word "Foreclosure" an everyday part of our vocabulary, STILL believe in the trickle down theory, which, after 30 years of congressional and, mostly, republican control has only trickled into the pockets of the already very wealthy few.
McCain and his chum Phil Gramm (and his wife) have given us THE KEATING FIVE, Massive bank failures and MILLIONS of folks, just like you'n me a fear of foreclosure that is only one paycheck away. And don't forget Enron and the Enron Loophole courtesy of Mrs.Gramm (yes, a woman)
As a result of the Keating Five debacle, John McCain was labeled as having "POOR JUDGEMENT" by the Senate Ethics Committee ! It's not likely to have improved over the 19 years since. Look at his choice of Ms.Palin for VP ! And how he picked her. Instead of Joe Lieberman ? !!!
John McCain may(?) be a maverick by HIS definition (90, 95, 100% voting record supporting G.Bush and his evil sidekick, the currently invisible but undeniably arrogant R.Chaney)...
But is it your definition ? And is his voting record and his judgement and his temper (tantrums) a good thing ? For you ? For me ? For ALL America and All Americans ?
Mrs.Palin is a woman who made HER CHOICE to bring a handicapped child into the world. But she would deny ALL OTHER WOMEN ANY CHOICE AT ALL ! Just like Communist China, she wants to make all your decisions for you. In America. Land of the Free ??? SHE IS A RELIGOUS TERRORIST !
Our Supreme Court will not be reversing Roe v Wade. There will NOT be a constitutional amendment. This issue is a smoke screen.
There has been a court decision that "Creationism" or "Intelligent Design" is a religous doctrine and that it is NOT permissible in our public schools. That Mrs.Palin supports this view demonstrates her irrationality. Do we really want someone this delusional a heartbeat away from being able to start a Nuclear WAR ? With Russia ?
more later, after I hear the mindless, irrational ravings of a religous terrorist tonight...
(it's hard listening to the lies...)
Not to mention the stupidity and let us not forget the irrationality too...
Did I forget mindless ...
But that's what republicans do from George Bush on down to all the wannabe's and their shills and sycophants like the always stupid Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity to comedian Rush Limbaugh who just signed his new employment contract for $38,000,000 american dollars. I guess that means he's not middle class so he's probably gonna get another tax break of some kind.
Depending on the responses (if any?) some of this stuff will be moved off the front page...
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Scared, but sweating it out...
I wrote this piece a couple of weeks ago. Since then, Gramm has stepped down from his position with the other candidate's campaign. Nevertheless, the fact remains of how far removed the republican party is from main street and the challenges the American public is facing in this economy.
Abrazos,
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El pueblo estadounidense "es una nación de llorones" dijo Phil Gramm
Por Aracely Panameño
11 de julio de 2008
Phil Gramm, co-presidente de la campaña presidencial del Senador John McCain, desde el jueves esta tratando de defender y suavizar su comentario. Gramm es senador jubilado de Texas y asesor económico del candidato presidencial republicano McCain. Reportes noticieros citaron a Gramm diciendo que "el pueblo estadounidense esta en una recesión mental y es una nación de llorones." McCain había considerado Gramm posible candidato a secretario de la tesorería nacional en su administración si él es elegido presidente en noviembre.
Pero el impacto económico personal y nacional que se esta sufriendo en los Estados Unidos es real y no un producto de la imaginación como lo sugiere el comentario de Gramm. En el sector de vivienda por ejemplo, el presidente de la Banca Federal, Ben Bernanke recientemente sugirió que los propietarios de vivienda en riesgo de embargo hipotecario no pueden ser ayudados ya que la mayoría de ellos tienen una hipoteca mucho mayor que el valor de la casa. El supone que hasta 2.2 millones de viviendas serán embargadas para fines del 2008. Por tanto, él sugiere la necesidad de estabilizar el mercado hipotecario para prevenir mayor devaluación.
Por su parte, las compañías Fannie Mae y Freddie Mac han reportado perdidas históricas que posiblemente las forcé a una posición financiera negativa en los próximos días. El precio de ambas acciones en la bolsa de valores ha abajo mas del 50% de su valor y están circulando rumores de un rescate federal de ambas.
En Prince William County, VA, como en muchos otros condados y jurisdicciones devastados económicamente a través de la nación, Sally Doe (su nombre ha sido cambiado para proteger su identidad), es una mujer anglo sajona profesional con maestría en administración de empresas y experiencia en la industria de servicios financieros y como maestra, me escribió lo siguiente: "Le estoy escribiendo para pedirle que me ayude a encontrar trabajo. Vivo en Dale City y estoy desempleada desde diciembre. Ya se me terminaron los ahorros y no tengo más dinero para pagar mi hipoteca ni las utilidades y los otros gastos de la casa. Para colmo, mi esposo acaba de tener una operación para remover cáncer de su próstata. Le agradecería mucho si me ayuda."
La historia de Sally no es única en Prince William. Aparte del estatus angustioso de la economía, el gobierno local empeoro la situación cuando hace un año decidió atacar a la comunidad inmigrante. En una semana, entre el 28 de diciembre y el 4 de enero, se registraron dos mil embargos hipotecarios forzados por el éxodo de los inmigrantes indocumentados que buscaron refugio en otros condados vecinos. Otras familias que se marcharon eran residentes legales y ciudadanos que decidieron no vivir en un ambiente tan hostil.
De cualquier manera, el pueblo estadounidense no merece más ataques ni insultos de los líderes del partido republicano. Comentarios como estos indican lo removido que están los republicanos de la realidad del pueblo trabajador que esta luchando por mantener su empleo, su casa, y poner comida sobre la mesa para su familia.
Por eso yo digo, Obamanos!
For the past six years of relentless media pounding, the malleable public mind has been rendered into mush, brow-beaten into accepting the premise for the invasion and occupation of Iraq as, somehow, in fact, being based on a legitimate war. It is not a war and never has been. If you proceed from a false assumption, you will end up with a false argument. In this case, any reference to the term ‘Surge’ is a misnomer, and by default, an attempted extension to justify an already illicit deed. Therefore, any argument for, or against any kind of SURGE as working, or not, is simply a vain, elaborate attempt to mask and justify the mass slaughter and displacement of millions of people the current misconception has already left in its wake. This can not be dismissed, or condoned by a simple play on words. The architects should not be allowed, so easily, to wash from their hands the spilt innocent blood and wryly walk away!
Iraq never attacked the U.S., nor did it ever pose a threat. It was already occupied; cornered and bludgeoned by an already ongoing occupation initiated by Bush I. Bush II simply utilized the chaos that issued forth from the psychodrama of 9/11, as a means to escalate its belligerence against the Iraqi people to satisfy neocon agenda, seize the oil fields and restore U.S. Dollar supremacy. The U.S. Congress never declared war against Iraq, it simply signed off, giving Bush abusive powers to escalate existing aggressions of occupation; technically it has been nothing more than a congressionally sanctioned police action from the very beginning.
Now that the neocon warmongers wish to play a shell game with a ‘redeployment’ of troops from one illicit invasion: Iraq; transferring the focal point of its aggression by escalating those actions into the, long forgotten, initial invasion of Afghanistan, perhaps it would benefit all if we were to revisit the timeline encompassing the events of: Cheney/Enron – Taliban – Afghanistan – leading up to 9/11.
The Enron scandal runs so deep into the Bush/Cheney regime that evidence shows Enron may have been a major factor in Bush/Cheney complicity in 9/11 as pretext for the present "global war on terror" a war for the control of Central Asian oil, gas reserves and pipelines implicating the Bush/Cheney neocon regime in both the Enron scandal and 9/11, as Enron also had its interests in the Afghanistan/Central Asia energy grab.
From 2001 to 2003, Dick Cheney continued to openly break the law by defying GAO requests to turn over his records of meetings with Enron. The General Accounting Office decided not to challenge a judge's decision to dismiss the watchdog agency's lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force.
The decision by GAO ended a nearly two-year battle with the White House over documents detailing meetings Cheney held with the National Energy Policy Development Group in 2001. The meetings resulted in the president's national energy policy and many of the officials there came from Enron Corp., the Houston-based energy company that filed for bankruptcy in December 2001 amid accusations of hidden debt, inflated profits and improper accounting methods.
There are indications that Enron and the White House were working closely with the Taliban -- including Osama bin Laden -- up to weeks before the Sept. 11 attack. Why was the bin Laden family, swiftly whisked out of the country, immediately following the events of 9/11?
The Bush Oil Team, and their neocon drivers can momentarily rely on the support of the interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, may think that war and oil profits mix, but there is simply too much evidence that the War in Afghanistan was primarily about building UNOCAL's pipeline, not about fighting terrorism.
How does McCain fit into the Enron ball game? Following Enron’s collapse in December of 2001, it was McCain’s financial guru, Phil Graam, the evil genius of world high-way robbery, whose UBS interests scavenged the remnants of Enron’s energy and oil interests throughout the Middle East. In other words, the chameleon UBS is the new Enron. (The following material will allow you to see the Enron scandal and its ties to Bush-Cheney in a whole new light: Center for Research on Globalization.)
Since the Democrats continue buckling under the weight of their own invertebrate skeletal structure when it comes to defending the Constitution, perhaps the public would best be served, by enlisting the services of those members of courage, who still have eyes, ears and a backbone; to investigate Cheney’s Enron agenda prior to 9/11 and the secretive deals between Big Oil, Bush, and the Taliban in the early months of 2001. If the spineless majority continues to lay prostrate in the face of such questions, perhaps we should raise the specter of their own criminal malfeasance.
What ever the opinions may be regarding the sanitized version for its causes, much weight outside of the anointed pronouncements, suggest that 9/11 may very well have been a rouge GLADIO-CIA styled false-flag operation utilized to ignite the necessary psychodrama that has permeated, and swept the public mind into accepting the all consuming ‘global war on terror’, a bloody cover for imperial madness…money and power!
Think Oliver North type covert ops run by then VP (CIA) Bush-I, in sleepy Reagan’s basement, but this time, Cheney’s basement, along with all of the same Iran/Contra neocon planners. A pliable Bush II, still a complicit traitor, has simply been the epitome of Marx’s ‘useful idiot’ for the neocon agenda, to plunge the world into a clash of civilizations and force into existence a fascist order.
GLADIO - false-flag operations are quite frightening as they are, in fact, quite real! Many will ask, "Well, what happened to the passengers seen boarding the aircraft?" These folks are psyops specialists, mind-benders, who study deception and distraction. My response is, "how did the famous magician, David Copperfield, manage to make the statue of liberty disappear before a, massive, live audience?"Interestingly, numerous NORAD, and its eastern counterpart, NEADS gamers, were performing live, what if, hijacking scenarios at that very same precise moment; to add a fog of confusion, the actual event was piggybacked into these live games. Suspicion has it that the 'aircraft' may have been outfitted with a DARPA designed electronics mechanism 'Global Hawk', which had the capacity for disabling and over-riding onboard pilot control of the craft and placing it into the hands of a remote crew. (Webster Tarpley - 9/11 Synthetic Terror-Made in USA) “Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state.” - James Jesus Angelton - Director of CIA Counter Intelligence (1954-74)“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” - William Colby - Director of the CIA (1973-76)
The corporate media, along with its PR firms, have done a masterful job in turning upside down the intended original meaning for the idiom ‘conspiracy’. With the association of negative thought patterns, evoked by images bound to such statements as: fringe, lunatic, left-wing, conspiracy-nut, etc, the public mind has been convincingly conjured into suspecting that it is the truth seeker that is fact the conspirator instead. The negative coloring of the word ‘conspiracy’ has effectively become a psychological repellant to any serious prying; as something beyond the pale of ordinary, rational thought; unworthy of consideration; a subliminal mental stop sign, impugning the rational mind that only lunatics and fringe elements dwell therein! Very effective indeed!
The fact of the matter is that history is replete with conspiracies. The American Revolution was a conspiracy against the King of England, a premiere example.
Con – meaning against; Spire – from the Latin, to breath -- giving us the result: to breathe against; from this, have evolved terms such as: con-job, con-artist, or confidence man, all of which are individual conspirators. The only difference being that, a conspiracy involves a 'group' of individual confidence men, or con-artists – think big, think Federal Reserve and Wall Street, both involve 'consumer confidence'. The con builds its subject’s confidence, for the purpose of bilking the supplicant out of something that it has; something of value and which the con desires to take by slight of hand. In 1913, when the money powers centralized their control, consecrated in the creature of the Federal Reserve, the popular press from that bygone era criticized it as a, “den of vipers and thieves”, in other words, a sanctuary of con-artists.
If you tell a little lie, you’ll get caught, but if you tell a BIG lie, and tell it often enough it and teach it as the truth, eventually it will be perceived and accepted by all as the truth. (In other words, the larger and more magnificent the con, the more difficult it is to see through it, especially if it is sanctioned and cloaked in the respectable shroud of one’s own government.)
I’d be willing to venture a ten-fold return on your every dollar, that there are currently, and have been from the very beginning, numerous false-flag fires set off all over the Middle East landscape. To this bloody thought process, the ends justify what ever means are at its disposal.
If these things are not openly vetted, the House can only remain under the dark cloud it has gathered itself under, while innocent blood continues to spill and scream from the ground to haunt the ears of the living.
I say, reopen the investigations into Enron/Cheney (currently, morphed into the UBS of McCain/Gramm/Cheney) because this might very well be the thread to pull that will unravel the cloak, which was 9/11.
In 43 BCE, Cicero spoke these words to the Senate: A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is well known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
Peace, Best Wishes and Hope
Referenced Material-----
Afghanistan, the Taliban and the Bush Oil Team
ENRON Entanglements to UNOCAL Taliban to Texas and Controlling Afghanistan
UBS Is Enron
GLADIO-Death Plan for Democracy
The Flight of the Global Hawk
The Power of Nightmares - Why We Fight
9/11 Synthetic Terror-Made in the USA
The Annotico Report (former president of Italy, Francesco Cossiga, reveals 9/11 as rouge GLADIO-CIA op)
I realize that at times, in the heat of a campaign battle that things get turned upside down, and we sometimes forget why we are here. The news today reported that Obama supporters were upset that Obama didn't go out and clobber McCain over the head for a surrogates Gaffe. I sat there blinking at the TV when I heard this. It never once occurred to me that Maybe I even should be upset. Obama hit McCain with it yesterday but not today, because he was on message? So he's not going for the jugglar and he is once again raising above the fray. And Obama supporters are upset? Why? Because he's not conducting politics as usual? I fail to understand why people are upset. In my mind Obama is being Obama. He is a reconciler, a Uniter, and look how bad Hillary looked when she went after Barack. It hurt her to go negative. So Barack stays mostly on message and positive, and giving hope that he Really IS a different kind of politician. Maybe he just had some ingrained instint that the media, and others are beating up McCain for him. Maybe by pointing it out he'd just look so petty. Maybe Barack knows something we don't? I'm going to trust my future president and save my anger for The GOP and BUSH and focus on beating McCain. Rather than trying to get Obama to be mean and hateful. I think you can remember how unfair the Bitter thing was for Obama, and our guy is a Christian man who believes truly that there's a right way and a wrong way. A high road and a low road. Obama will take the high road and drag us all with him.
Obama 08
Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm called us a "nation of whiners."
In January of 2009, the whiners will be the few remaining Republicans in Congress!
McCain did make quite a few mistakes this week, and yet they have been underreported. Why?His economic adviser basically said that Americans are deluding themselves that we are at the beginning of a recession, that we are a "nation of whiners." McCain got caught in an awkward position when it turned out that Iraq's government is now calling for a timetable for withdrawal. And yet all we hear is how Jesse Jackson wants to cut Obama's "nuts" off.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/the-week-that-should-have_b_111983.html
We need to call the media on this discrepancy. Don't let them get away with it! Our candidate's chances hang in the balance.
When Obama got taken out of context about the "bitter" comment, I thought it sucked that his opponents were doing it.
Now Gramm (who may be an idiot, but that's not the point) makes an oral blunder, and here's Barrack to dish it out. And really, Gramm wasn't saying anything very different than Obama had expressed.
Complete hypocrisy! Isn't Obama supposed to be against this type of thing?
Obama should focus on the issues, and stay above the level that American presidential elections have sunk to.
