Five years ago, George W. Bush decided to launch a war against Iraq. Only his confessor, or psychotherapist, would know what inner – or heavenly- voice compelled him to do so. But it is now beyond doubt that Mr. Bush, having failed to find a credible pretext for invading a sovereign country, decided to fabricate the evidence (WMD, collaboration with Al Queda, etc.) and commit American troops to a war that has done immeasurable damage to America. Over 4100 American soldiers have died, tens of thousands of troops have been horribly injured, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed and over 2 million refugees created by this enormous strategic blunder. All to gratify Mr. Bush’s pathetic need to prove his mettle.
Now consider the prospect of John McCain and Sarah Palin in the White House. Both candidates have demonstrated a stupefying propensity to lie about their experience, and their positions on issues of paramount importance to our country. There is not a shadow of a doubt in my mind, and now in the minds of many voters, that McCain/Palin would follow George W. Bush’s sordid example and baldly fabricate whatever “evidence” they need to justify actions that advance their pinch-minded ideology. Responding to God’s will by invading Iran, perhaps? We cannot let candidates like this, candidates who sneer at facts that conflict with their views, to control the levers of power in this country.
Think Bush was a disaster? This feckless pair would make Bush look like a piker.
Tell me please, one lie that either Governor Sarah Palin or Senator John McCain has said about their experience for Vice president and President respectively.
As for experience, what experience does Senator Obama bring to the table. Oh, and please don’t give me the line about being a “Community Organizer”, because I too have been a “Community Organizer”.
You’re mind is a shadow
Leave SARA PALIN ALONE !
Are you referring to me with the comment, “You’re mind is a shadow”? If so, please tell me how and in what way that is the case.
Roadwarrior: perhaps you have not been aware of Gov. Palin’s bogus claims of “thanks but no thanks” on the infamous bridge to nowhere as evidence of her “reformer” credentials. All politicians have dirty hands on earmarks, but Palin has made this claim – immediately debunked – as a cornerstone of her character, and her qualifications as VP. And yet, she and Sen. McCain continue to assert what has been overwhelmingly proven as untrue, and revealed as such in, e.g., the Wall St. Journal. This is not the casual embellishment of the politician, but a pathological lie. Such a pathology can only become worse when the culprit is given real power. Electing these people would be enormously damaging to our country.
Roadwarrior: Forgot to add that I applaud your service as a community organizer, without any knowledge of what the service involved. Why on earth would you belittle your service?
I think McCain found her at a church pot luck inviting people to her Tupperware party. I loved her High School delivery of an acceptance speech. Jay Leno’s writer’s couldn’t have set her up for more.
🙂 Leave Sarah Palin alone, you say? Afraid I can’t do that. She has, in my humble opinion, treated us all with enormous disrespect by repeating, over and over and over again, a verifiable lie about her “reformer” credentials. She, and her cohort John McCain truly do believe we are all too stupid to bother checking the facts of her claims. I don’t want another pathological liar anywhere near the White House
Rantcaster: Read this article from CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/10/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4437806.shtml
I will highlight an interesting fact here: ““The fact is that Sarah Palin is one of the few governors that actually got religion on this and said, ‘Hey, this is stupid. This is killing us,'” said Coburn. “Here’s the point to take away: The ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ in Alaska got killed because of Sarah Palin.”
McCain was a cosponsor of an amendment that Coburn tried to push through that would have moved the money from Alaska to Louisiana to repair the I-10 freeway damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Joseph Biden (D-Del.) opposed that amendment. Biden and Obama, said Coburn, “voted for [the bridge earmark] every time it came up because they played the game on earmarks. Remember what the appropriators said: ‘If you don’t vote for this, your earmarks are next. We’ll come after your earmarks.’ That was the veiled threat.””
Now, who is for earmarking? Yes Palin originally supported the bridge, but then thought better of herself, and opposed it. Senator Obama continually supported it like he did other wasteful spending.
Roadwarrior:
Well, of course a Republican spokesperson would have that view. But the evidence is beyond overwhelming, from media sources on both the liberal (NY Times) and conservative (Wall St. Journal) sides, that Palin was actively supporting the bridge before it became an obvious embarrassment. She took the money anyway in the end. Is that a “reformer”? The point of the debate here is not about earmarks per se. Every pollitician, on both sides of the aisle, has baggage on that issue. Palin and her GOP handlers, however, tried to craft a heroic reformer image out of a claim that was verifiably not true. This behaviour should send up warning signals to every voter in America. I can easily see her fabricating “intelligence” about an imminent invasion of Ukraine by Russia as a pretext for preemptive nuking of Moscow (that would be the “Bush Doctrine” of which Ms. Palin seems to be blissfully unaware).