Those who oppose anything that Obama is trying to do and who display racism and bigotry, make me think it is the Civil War all over again. The Revenge of the South, if you will. I coined a new label for them. They are the NEOCONFEDERATES. If you read this, know that it is written by an old white lady who is more than sick of this kind of behavior. They offend, instigate, agitate and ultimately ruin everything for everyone.
I hope you use this word and spread it around. I hope that soon there will be some stats on them. i would like to know how many are there.
Maria (Mary) Kenez
You can Digg it: My_way to say GOODBYE to neocons, Bush and Cheney!
A picture from me to say goodbye from most bad president of US and all neocons.We can only hope many people will long enough remember. Bush had a lot bad gifts for the change! Let's take care the poor and normal people will not have to pay now too much after the rich made profit in good time!And what's with impeachment now?! What's with hidden knowledge of Sept. 11 2001?[ Maybe an explanation of picture: it's made like an "egg laying wool milk sow" a metaphorical-idiomatic term in Germany]
Yeah, and here you can see something new about neocons were bringing to us - for me to say: don't forgive Bush and neocons and there is still a lot to work of. We will and can do this too - Yes we can!I got now message too like "If anybody can clean up the mess bush left, it's President Obama." - Yes and Obama likes people helping still to do the work - help him! We were a big and strong movement and so people got knowledge back how strong people can be together! Whistleblower: Bush's NSA spied on EVERYONE (already 4255 Diggs) The NSA had access to ALL YOUR COMMUNICATIONS, regardless of who you were or whether or not you were communicating internationally.
December 18, 2008 -- Obama selects Dennis Blair as DNI
by Wayne Madsen @ waynemadsenreport.com
In a further slap in the face of progressives and human rights advocates, President-elect Barack Obama has selected retired Admiral Dennis Blair as the Director of National Intelligence, replacing retired Admiral Mike McConnell.
On December 1, 2008, WMR wrote the following about Blair in the DNI position:
"President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI), retired Admiral Dennis Blair, a former Pacific Command chief and Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Military Support, will ensure that the United States continues its neocon rhetorical babble on key foreign policy issues, especially those that relate to the Muslim world, including India and Indonesia.
SOURCE - http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
In a new interview with ABC News, Vice President Cheney claimed that the the case for war had nothing to do with whether Saddam Hussein had WMD; America would have invaded anyway. Today on MSNBC’s Hardball, right-wing commentator Frank Gaffney defended Cheney’s remarks, saying that the “real reason” the Bush administration wanted to invade Iraq was because Saddam was a “mortal threat” to the United States.
Host Chris Matthews was appalled that Gaffney seemed to feel no guilt or remorse than 4,000 Americans died because of the right wing’s mistakes. Gaffney replied that while it was “regrettable” anyone had to die, they “did have to die”:
MATTHEWS: You guys sold the war as a nuclear threat to the United States. A nuclear weapon was going to be delivered by a nuclear delivery device. It was going to take the weapon and drop it here. You sold every trick you could to get us into this war. Now you’re back pedaling. And I do find it astounding.............ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/16/gaffney-americans-die/
MATTHEWS: You guys sold the war as a nuclear threat to the United States. A nuclear weapon was going to be delivered by a nuclear delivery device. It was going to take the weapon and drop it here. You sold every trick you could to get us into this war. Now you’re back pedaling. And I do find it astounding.............
ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/16/gaffney-americans-die/
Prominent neoconservative: 4,000 Americans 'had to die'
Four thousand American troops "had to die" in Iraq, even if the United States knew Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, a prominent neoconservative said in a shocking interview on MSNBC Tuesday evening.Vice President Dick Cheney told ABC News earlier this week that the U.S. would have invaded Iraq regardless of whether or not they had weapons of mass destruction.Adding fire to Cheney's surprising comments Tuesday was prominent neoconservative and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney, who told MSNBC's Chris Matthews during Tuesday's 'Hardball' that the United States had to invade Iraq whether or not its intelligence was sound.........
ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Gaffney_4000_Americans_had_to_die_1217.html
The Undying Obsession with Black Family Values
Post-Racial Racism at the Post
By DEDRICK MUHAMMAD @ counterpunch.com
As we come closer to the "post-racial age" of a Barack Obama presidency, I am intrigued to find that post-racial racism is already being propagated in the pages of the Washington Post. In "An Enduring Crisis for the Black Family," Kay Hymowitz blames the economic disfranchisement of African Americans upon the personal behavior of Black people and the silence of Black leaders concerning this behavior. Ms. Hymowitz portrays the massive national growth of single parent homes as a Black pathology. She uses the real challenge of the breakdown in the traditional family to further stereotype and lay blame on African Americans for racial inequality in this country......
ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.counterpunch.org/muhammad12112008.html
Shiver Me Neocons
by Jeff Huber @ military.com | December 09, 2008
It was only a matter of time before Long Bill Kristol and his scurvy dogs of war used piracy as an excuse to goad young Mr. Bush into invading one last country before the door hits him. In the December 8 gurgitation of the Weekly Standard, Bill suggests that the best thing young Mr. Bush can do in his final days as commander in chief is send the Marines into Somalia to deep six those pesky buccaneers. Now: if we can't identify and capture pirates while they're plundering ships on the bounding main, I'd like to know how the yo-ho-ho Bill thinks the Marines can tell the pirates from the rest of the poor starving Somalis once they go ashore.
Bill also remarks how Bush can do the nation a service "by reminding Americans of our successes fighting the war on terror." One wonders if Bill is no fooling unaware that terrorists are on the verge of a sparking war between two nuclear powers, or that a congressionally mandated task force has reported that "it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013," or that, according to the respected analysts at the Rand Corporation, Mr. Bush's pursuit of a military-centric counter-terror strategy "has not undermined al Qaeda" and that the terrorist group "has remained a strong and competent organization."
One would hope that given the enormous influence he wields, Bill is at least partially cognizant of the world around him, that he just talks that way because he's a master of Socratic dialectic* who recites gibberish until people agree with him so he shuts up...........
ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,180858,00.html
Still Preparing to Attack Iran
The neoconservatives in the Obama era
by Robert Dreyfuss @ antiwar.com
What, exactly, does Barack Obama's mild-mannered choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, former Sen. Tom Daschle, have to do with neocons who want to bomb Iran?
A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects Barack Obama's proposed talks with Iran to fail – and they're already proposing an escalating set of measures instead. Some are meant to occur alongside any future talks. These include steps to enhance coordination with Israel, tougher sanctions against Iran, and a region-wide military buildup of U.S. strike forces, including the pre-positioning of military supplies within striking distance of that country...........
ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=13847
by Philip Weiss @ mondoweiss
Last night I was thinking about the Obama revolution, and how it's going to work out. All societies face revolutionary fervors; and in a democratic society we deal with them the way we just did: we bring in a total outsider. It's amazing to watch.
Obama's movement was built on outsider energy. Obama was incredibly scary to the Republican Jewish Coalition, and I mocked them all campaign long, but he must have been just as scary, or almost, to Marty Peretz and Rahm Emanuel. They surely worried that he had revolutionary zeal. He's too skinny to make anyone comfortable. They feared he would chase the moneychangers from the temple, re Israel/Palestine, and they acted shrewdly. Now they're all over him......
ENTIRE POST- http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/11/a-friend-asks-wheres-samantha-power-this-is-a-power-list-not-an--appointment-list-powers-in-good-shape-she-once-called-l.html#more
Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama
By William Pfaff
Since the triumph of Barack Obama, nearly every medium of news and political comment in the United States and abroad has carried a compendium of “challenges” and dangers facing the next president. Yet when these challenges are examined, they nearly all turn out to be potential opportunities.
So far as they are obstacles, they usually involve efforts by other governments to block the United States from continuing policies of the Bush government meant to manipulate or intimidate them.
The basic Bush policies—defense spending at levels higher than all the rest of the world combined, unilateralism, hostility to the United Nations and international law, advocacy of “preventive” wars, efforts to dominate the Middle East, constant pressure on Russia and what might be called contingent hostility toward China, opposition to European Union efforts at military cooperation—all have been promoted since the 1990s by nationalist and neoconservative Republicans acting through the conservative Washington think tanks..........
ARTICLE- http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081106_neocons_plot_to_co_opt_obama/
Martin Sieff in the Daily Beast calls Rahm Emanuel a "quasi-neocon-hawk" and points out that his middle name is Israel. This is why I pushed for a low Jewish vote for Obama. He got 78 percent. He didn't get the hard-core neocons. The absolute nuts. But because he got 80 percent, the generational shakeout between progressive Jewish voice and the liberal hawks didn't happen. The quasi-neocons are still with him....
ENTIRE POST- http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/11/emanuels-middle-name-is-israel-and-i-guess-so-is-obamas.html#more
