Good luck!! We'll see if any action is taken. They haven't listened to anything else the People have said in the last 8 years.
John McCain should be exposed for the cloaked fascist he really is. He'll go along with permanent war, the destruction of the economy (of which he has no knowledge), and societal upheaval is OK with him...the destruction of the Constitution and this country will be complete.
Reason0Politics1
· 1 year ago
Joe... great news on the delivery of the Signatures. ya never know. However, it's pretty damn near impossible to coax even a shred of Hope that any administrative or bureaucratic solution or effort won't be quickly and quietly, swept under the table. The handlers decide, we "feel" like we are participated.
Tammany Hall has given us our "choices" and nothing will likely change that. O, H, or J, mean nothing more than a continuation of business as usual. The ability to change the system by using that very same corrupt system is just a little too optimistic for me, Sir.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
God Luck Joe
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
Mr. Straight Talk Campaign Finance Laws, indeed. I'm hoping the traditional media will report this, but I'm not holding my breath. Remember, Mr. McCain supposedly has "a lot in the bank" with media who should be ripping him for his incompetence. Its what happened when he made MINOR news in his HUGE gaffe on mistaking Sunni's and Shi'ites.
1billinnj2
· 1 year ago
good morning. did they start impeachment hearings for bush and cheney yet?
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I'm still upset with the whole meme that McCain is some kind of huge American War hero. John Kerry was a war hero, but Republicans didn't repeat it and accentuate his message. No, they COMPLETELY trashed him. Remember the whole Purple Heart bandaids? One thing I get disgusted with is our MAJOR candidates, both Hillary and Obama repeating McCain is some kind of war hero who deserves all our respect. Uhhhh, the least they could do is just remain silent (neutral) on McCain. At this point in the campaign there should not be ONE DAMNED POSITIVE message repeated for McCain, and Democrats should start following the ALL TOO SUCCESSFUL GREAT COMMANDMENT Republicans employ. "THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK NEGATIVELY OF A FELLOW DEMOCRAT.'" If we truly want to win, and not destroy our party we need to hold our candidates to this kind of message discipline. Otherwise, we are just supporting them for nothing. Republicans aren't afraid to bloody our noses on ANY issue. They find our greatest stregth, like John Kerry's war hero status, and then LIE, CHEAT AND TRASH us on it. We, on the other hand, here Karl Rove claim McCain is some untouchable war hero, and then plant kisses on McCain's ass and offer to spend time during campaign stops to remind everyone what a "hero" John McCain is... We better wake up and start fighting NOW.
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
I think the way it works is that if the FEC doesn't act within a certain time (and it won't) the complaint can be filed in the regular court system. In the meantime, McCain keeps remains a criminal -- flaunting his lawless behavior -- giving everyone the finger.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
billinnj, if Congress had acted and impeached both Bush and Cheney, perhaps we wouldn't have Paulson giving a speech today about the Fed overseeing the entire US financial system. The corporations will have all the chess pieces, and it's going to be checkmate for the rest of us as the move to total fascism will be complete.
I don't expect Congress to do anything that will actually save this country. They've almost to a person been bought off by corporations and corporate interests.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
"Magginkat" is a man after my heart:
"boyhood in exclusive boarding schools
connections gained admittance to the U.S. Naval Academy
accepted into the prestigious naval flight training program over far better qualified officers
wrecked(crashed?) everything he touched...4 planes before being sent to Vietnam
Vietnam coward.... probably not tortured, sang like a canary for N. Vietnamese
rumors of numerous adulterous affairs....Goof Off - -Party boy
And on and on it goes.....................
From a conservative writer:
JOHN McCAIN - THE MOST FLAWED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HISTORY
Quit fighting Democrats & work to save this country from a third term of George Bush, the most incompetent, bumbling, fool to ever get near the Oval Office..... this is someone who seems to be as absent minded as Ronald Reagan in his last term. Do you want to wake up & discover that have not only Bush but the ill Reagan in office & four (8) more years of the rabid right? "
psst... Hillary and Obama... stop heaping praise on our party's competition. Hillary is far more guilty than Obama, by the way, she keeps claiming McCain would be some kind of acceptable choice, and even says he would be preferable to Obama. Our party leaders should have gone ballistic on the Clintons when they started that crap. I believe we can still win, but our party needs to borrow the whole "THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK ILLOF A FELLOW DEMOCRAT" and stick. Anyone who breaks this commandment should be BLACK BALLED. Which mean, if Hillary loses and brings Obama down with her, there should be NO Hillary run for President in four years. We've seen that game played before. If she loses and hurts Obama so badly that we actually allow McCain (Republicans) to destroy our nation further, she should pay for her speaking ill of fellow Democrats by NO SUPPORT in 2012. The scorched earth crap has got to end or we are going to lose our country and world. Protecting candidate's egos are less important than our nation's future.
MRBill30560
· 1 year ago
Uhh, I thought that since the Senate Dems wouldn't let the odious Hans Von Spakovski onto the FEC, it wasn't really functioning. And thus this complaint will be (unfortunately) rendered moot...
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I was touched to see the Atlanta Braves has decided to honor my father this season by placing his nickname "Beach" on their left sleeve for this season.
older and wiser, i know that there is no hope for impeachment hearings but i always hope for hope. they will start impeachment hearings when cheney and bush start bombing iran.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
McSame wants to get on board the Gravy Train and bring the old guard media along with him...it's the GOPer way.
he doesn't care one iota about this country.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
You are so correct, tlxintx. McSame is all about McSame... period. He would bring this country down to satisfy that ego of his.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Good morning. It's anoather lovely spring break day in Florida. It might rain later. Good luck with the signatures, mine's in there. Will the HeimatPolizei be knocking on my door soon?
maggiePA08
· 1 year ago
Thanks Joe. We are with you in signature and spirit!
EdNSted
· 1 year ago
Hang on. Lemme check the old crystal ball... Eenie-beenie, chili-weenie, the spirits are about to speak..."
This spirits say McCain will continue to ignore the campaign spending limits with impunity. The spirits say the FEC laughs at your puny complaint. The spirits say flying squirrel will be president.
EdNSted
· 1 year ago
What's up with Disqus? Does it just pick a random location to insert new comments?
grandma
· 1 year ago
Note to United States: Bush/Iraq is why you should never, ever, elect a president with a C+ average.
Note to United States II: Bush/Iraq is also why you should never, ever elect a president who has "senior moments" and scrambles the differences between Shiite and Sunni.
Its funny that when 99% of the Nationals fans booed President Bush when he threw out the first pitch, the media decided to report, "He was greeted by plenty of loud jeers, but also determined cheers, as if the fans in both camps were trying to outduel each other." BUT the only two fans determinedly cheering for him was Laura Bush and Lynne Cheney. You'd think they would note that?
......the Bush administration’s new proposal for financial reform, which will be formally announced today: it’s all about creating the appearance of responding to the current crisis, without actually doing anything substantive.
Hi John McCain, you are too old to be president, thanks for coming, see ya.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
LOL
The Bosnian girl who famously read a poem to Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 1996 visit to the war-torn country is shocked - and her countrymen infuriated - that the former first lady claimed to have dodged sniper fire that day.
Emina Bicakcic, now 20 and studying to become a doctor, told The Post she stood on the tarmac at the air base in Tuzla, greeted Clinton and even had time to share the lines of verse she'd written - all without fear of attack from an unseen enemy.
Hillary's going to have to learn to only exploit little girls who are no longer living.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
WASHINGTON -- Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama's side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is expected to endorse Sen. Obama Monday, according to a Democrat familiar with her plans. Meanwhile, North Carolina's seven Democratic House members are poised to endorse Sen. Obama as a group -- just one has so far -- before that state's May 6 primary, several Democrats say.
Helping to drive the endorsements is a fear that the Obama-Clinton contest has grown toxic and threatens the Democratic Party's chances against Republican John McCain in the fall.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned about $200,000 on the board of a Long Island subprime lender that charged prepayment penalties -- a practice that Clinton, a critic of the subprime industry, now seeks to eliminate.
Williams, who took over the reins of Clinton's campaign in early February, served as a director on the board of the Woodbury, N.Y.-based Delta Financial Corp. from April 2000 until the firm declared bankruptcy in December, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.
if the FEC is just another bushco do-nothing entity, who will enforce the rules on Saint McMoneyGrubber?
grandma
· 1 year ago
Chuck Todd on MSNBC now says Obama picking up 7 super delegates today.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Today Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection launch a bipartisan, $300 million, three-year campaign to push for climate change legislation. Some of the “We” campaign’s TV ads “will team up offbeat celebrity couples” who “share a belief that it is important to address climate change,” such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and former Speaker Newt Gingrich. View the debut ad here.
Hey, was the BBQ rib party done on the legal side or the illegal side of the campaign spending? Is there a way to figure that out?
Coming Undone
· 1 year ago
Hillary Vows to Stay in Race 100 Years
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stunned voters at a town hall meeting in Erie, Pennsylvania today by telling them that she was prepared to stay in the nomination fight for an additional century.
"How much longer will I stay in the race?" she responded to a voter's question. "Fifty years? How about one hundred years?"
When asked to clarify, Sen. Clinton replied, "I'll stay in this race for a thousand years. A million years. A billion years."
Sen. Clinton added that she was refusing to announce an exit strategy from the race because "that would send the wrong message to the enemy."
"More than most modern political figures, Sen. Clinton has been criticized regularly, often harshly, by the Trib. We disagreed with many of her policies and her actions in the past. We still disagree with some of her proposals.
The very morning that she came to the Trib, our editorial page raised questions about her campaign and criticized her on several other scores.
Reading that, a lesser politician -- one less self-assured, less informed on domestic and foreign issues, less confident of her positions -- might well have canceled the interview right then and there.
Sen. Clinton came to the Trib anyway and, for 90 minutes, answered questions.
Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her."
- Of course if it had been your boy Obama, you would praise him to the hilt.
What a scandal! The pictures of the English paper are despicable and make u throw up. A grey-haired old man is laying nude on the floor, hes tied. Hes moaning for lust. A blond whore is measuring his chest size, is looking for germs on his head. According to the paper, the man in the video is Max-Mosley. Unbelievable accusation: the sado-maso role play is similiar to the cruel Nazi examinations in concentrations camps.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
bernada
I followed the link, read it and read the comments. There is no spin from me, how do you equate comparing Clinton's talks with Scaife to talks with hostile nations to prevent war? Scaife was the power behind much of the Clinton woes in the 90's. He may have "changed his opinion" of Clinton during this primary season but do you honestly think a man that has donated millions of dollars to bring Bill and Hillary Clinton down is going to get all warm and fuzzy in a general election? I think not, but I could be wrong.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Bush is on an overseas visit. The man is desperately trying to salivation something positive for his presidential library. Good luck with that Georgie. They hate you more overseas than we do here in the USA.
And Israel marches on building "settlements" on the West Bank. We constantly here about Palestinian attacks on Israel, gee I wonder why? Israel continues to push Palestinians from their homeland, I think that would make me more than a little cranky.
Well there is nothing wrong with Israel running the biggest concentration camp on the planet....so what is your gripe?
misquetofarmer
· 1 year ago
I read this morning that the Bush Administration is Stirring up the largest financial reform plan since the Great Depression. This plan calls for the federal reserve to be awarded some broad powers. that are absolutely frightening. It would designate the federal reserve as the Market Stability Regulator. Giving it the power to examine the books of any financial institution that might pose a threat to the stability of the financial system not just banks. As they say the devil is in the details What exactly does the threat definition encompass. Does this mean that Wealthy individuals will be subjected to this law? Already we have seen the New York Governor taken down not only by his own foolishness but the SARS Law provided by the patriot act. This activity points to two different horrifying realities. One that the economy is much much worse than they are speaking of. Second is that to even suggest this kind of package tells me that they think there is a chance that some democrats my take the bait. and actually pass it.
expat_grenoble
· 1 year ago
I fail to understand how someone who "lost" 5 aircraft, was known as "songbird" during his Hanoi Hilton days, and failed to follow the prime directive to avoid capture and attempt escape at every opportunity can be called "hero". I offer respect for his service, but 20 combat hours over Viet Nam just does not equate to heroism when viewed against the thousands who spent and sacrificed as much if not more. Stop the references to "war hero". Rather it just be said he was a participant and involuntary spectator.
All Comments
John McCain should be exposed for the cloaked fascist he really is. He'll go along with permanent war, the destruction of the economy (of which he has no knowledge), and societal upheaval is OK with him...the destruction of the Constitution and this country will be complete.
Tammany Hall has given us our "choices" and nothing will likely change that. O, H, or J, mean nothing more than a continuation of business as usual. The ability to change the system by using that very same corrupt system is just a little too optimistic for me, Sir.
I don't expect Congress to do anything that will actually save this country. They've almost to a person been bought off by corporations and corporate interests.
"boyhood in exclusive boarding schools
connections gained admittance to the U.S. Naval Academy
accepted into the prestigious naval flight training program over far better qualified officers
wrecked(crashed?) everything he touched...4 planes before being sent to Vietnam
Vietnam coward.... probably not tortured, sang like a canary for N. Vietnamese
rumors of numerous adulterous affairs....Goof Off - -Party boy
And on and on it goes.....................
From a conservative writer:
JOHN McCAIN - THE MOST FLAWED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HISTORY
Roland C. Eyears http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6065
Quit fighting Democrats & work to save this country from a third term of George Bush, the most incompetent, bumbling, fool to ever get near the Oval Office..... this is someone who seems to be as absent minded as Ronald Reagan in his last term. Do you want to wake up & discover that have not only Bush but the ill Reagan in office & four (8) more years of the rabid right? "
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/du...
psst... Hillary and Obama... stop heaping praise on our party's competition. Hillary is far more guilty than Obama, by the way, she keeps claiming McCain would be some kind of acceptable choice, and even says he would be preferable to Obama. Our party leaders should have gone ballistic on the Clintons when they started that crap. I believe we can still win, but our party needs to borrow the whole "THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK ILLOF A FELLOW DEMOCRAT" and stick. Anyone who breaks this commandment should be BLACK BALLED. Which mean, if Hillary loses and brings Obama down with her, there should be NO Hillary run for President in four years. We've seen that game played before. If she loses and hurts Obama so badly that we actually allow McCain (Republicans) to destroy our nation further, she should pay for her speaking ill of fellow Democrats by NO SUPPORT in 2012. The scorched earth crap has got to end or we are going to lose our country and world. Protecting candidate's egos are less important than our nation's future.
My thoughts...
http://www.pinkpanthersblog.com/
he doesn't care one iota about this country.
This spirits say McCain will continue to ignore the campaign spending limits with impunity. The spirits say the FEC laughs at your puny complaint. The spirits say flying squirrel will be president.
Note to United States II: Bush/Iraq is also why you should never, ever elect a president who has "senior moments" and scrambles the differences between Shiite and Sunni.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/and-agai...
http://sports.aol.com/mlb/story/_a/bush-gets-fi...
If Bush had been shot at by a fan who just had his home foreclosed upon, the media would have reported his reception as "mixed."
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/pr...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/opinion/31kru...
The Bosnian girl who famously read a poem to Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 1996 visit to the war-torn country is shocked - and her countrymen infuriated - that the former first lady claimed to have dodged sniper fire that day.
Emina Bicakcic, now 20 and studying to become a doctor, told The Post she stood on the tarmac at the air base in Tuzla, greeted Clinton and even had time to share the lines of verse she'd written - all without fear of attack from an unseen enemy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/31/little...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is expected to endorse Sen. Obama Monday, according to a Democrat familiar with her plans. Meanwhile, North Carolina's seven Democratic House members are poised to endorse Sen. Obama as a group -- just one has so far -- before that state's May 6 primary, several Democrats say.
Helping to drive the endorsements is a fear that the Obama-Clinton contest has grown toxic and threatens the Democratic Party's chances against Republican John McCain in the fall.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120692054573175...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
Williams, who took over the reins of Clinton's campaign in early February, served as a director on the board of the Woodbury, N.Y.-based Delta Financial Corp. from April 2000 until the firm declared bankruptcy in December, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/29/clinto...
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/31/thinkfast-m...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stunned voters at a town hall meeting in Erie, Pennsylvania today by telling them that she was prepared to stay in the nomination fight for an additional century.
"How much longer will I stay in the race?" she responded to a voter's question. "Fifty years? How about one hundred years?"
When asked to clarify, Sen. Clinton replied, "I'll stay in this race for a thousand years. A million years. A billion years."
Sen. Clinton added that she was refusing to announce an exit strategy from the race because "that would send the wrong message to the enemy."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/hil...
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/012242.php
"More than most modern political figures, Sen. Clinton has been criticized regularly, often harshly, by the Trib. We disagreed with many of her policies and her actions in the past. We still disagree with some of her proposals.
The very morning that she came to the Trib, our editorial page raised questions about her campaign and criticized her on several other scores.
Reading that, a lesser politician -- one less self-assured, less informed on domestic and foreign issues, less confident of her positions -- might well have canceled the interview right then and there.
Sen. Clinton came to the Trib anyway and, for 90 minutes, answered questions.
Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her."
- Of course if it had been your boy Obama, you would praise him to the hilt.
What a scandal! The pictures of the English paper are despicable and make u throw up. A grey-haired old man is laying nude on the floor, hes tied. Hes moaning for lust. A blond whore is measuring his chest size, is looking for germs on his head. According to the paper, the man in the video is Max-Mosley. Unbelievable accusation: the sado-maso role play is similiar to the cruel Nazi examinations in concentrations camps.
I followed the link, read it and read the comments. There is no spin from me, how do you equate comparing Clinton's talks with Scaife to talks with hostile nations to prevent war? Scaife was the power behind much of the Clinton woes in the 90's. He may have "changed his opinion" of Clinton during this primary season but do you honestly think a man that has donated millions of dollars to bring Bill and Hillary Clinton down is going to get all warm and fuzzy in a general election? I think not, but I could be wrong.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080331/pl_nm/nato_...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080331/wl_nm/pales...