You Don’t Have a Clue What You Really Voted For, Do You?

***UPDATE***

Obama DOJ is adapting Bush’s “above the law” unitary executive theory in the San Francisco wiretapping case.

…. the Obama DOJ is now refusing to comply with the Judge’s order, actually arguing to the court that only the President can decide whether classified information can be used in a court proceeding… Greenwald

Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel – 2006

The Big Plan: Big Ideas for America by Rahm Emanuel

“It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us… We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.”

Obama’s transition website, the following appeared:

“Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.”

“He is a dual citizen of Israel, which his office  refused to deny when AFP inquired. Israel is the only nation where Americans can apply for and obtain citizenship without automatically renouncing U.S. citizenship.

What will America’s next target be under an Obama presidency? Sources close to Emanuel say that he has a “Zionist obsession with Iran.” AFP

Senator  John McCain – 1989

Senate Bill 781 National Service Act of 1989 – written and introduced by Senator John McCain

“… to develop a comprehensive, mandatory national service program … . This legislation will establish a program leading to a comprehensive, fair and mandatory system of COMMUNITY or military service to the nation. … This program will allow us to combine the responsibilities of citizenship with a concerted effort that addresses vital community and national defense needs that, otherwise, will be unmet in the years ahead.” (1)
“… that both men and women between 16 and 26 would be required to serve either in the community or in the military. They would serve 24 hours a month and two weeks during the year for two to four years.” (2)
(1) From McCain press-release April 13, 1989
(2) Arizona Daily Star April, 14 1989 page A-6

John McCain To The American Worker:”You Can’t Do It My Friend”

by Scott Creighton

(talking about undocumented, underpaid immigrants working for starvation wages) “They are the backbone of our economy” John (But…But…I Was A POW!) McCain

Now you know I don’t really get into pointing one way or the other these days on the upcoming election. Obama is just as much a part of this new “SuperClass” as McCain is. If you don’t know that you are fooling yourself. But, Europeanview over at TheZoo found something so indicative of what politics in this country is all about, I just had to put it up here.

Yes, John McCain is a simpleton elitist bastard; silver-spooned from birth by his Admiral Daddy and Grand-Pappy; silver-spooned through his Academy days because of his Admiral Daddy and Grand-Pappy; and even (by his OWN admission) silver-spooned by his captors in Vietnam for the very same reasons.

Now John McCain uses his family background, his POW experience (too bad we didn’t spend more time exposing The Real McCain POW experience awhile ago, huh?), and his heiress wife’s multi-millions to lead a life of leisure and pure excess while play-acting at being a Senator (and selling off his votes to the highest bidder. just look at his drilling flip-flop for proof: “Drill Here! Drill Now!” what a sellout).

In this audio recording of a stump speech, McCain is taught a valuable lesson; yesterdays insipid talking points piss people off.

It’s not only that our economy is collapsing, largely due to the fact that big business has allowed illegals to come to work in this country in the millions in order to reduce THEIR overhead and thus raise THEIR profit margins (and yes there are MANY other factors involved, don’t freak out, but the fact is, every other one of those factors ALSO involves choices that have been made at THE EXPENSE of the American Worker, in favor of the investor and CEO class. Our situation in this country shows that this entire philosophy of economics is deeply flawed: Milton Friedman’s policies are not self-sustaining, unless you employ the Police State in order to support them. Like China, for instance.), but then McCain goes on to say in the end, that Americans “can’t do these jobs“.

What does that say about what our leaders think of us as a nation?

This is what they USED to think of us, back when their corporate buddies didn’t tell them what to think. This is what made America Great. This attitude, right here, captured by Norman Rockwell.

This is what America USED to be: and now John McCain thinks we can’t pick lettuce?

This is “Rosie The Riveter” and she was a symbol for the war effort at home during WWII which was largely made up of women taking on traditional male jobs, previously thought of as work women couldn’t do.

Notice her “V” for victory button and her Red Cross signifying she gives blood for the war effort. You will also notice her UNION button, and several others.

This is what America WAS, IS, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE.

And the real problem for Mr. McCain and his other elitist bastard buddies, is that very soon, very soon, they are going to come to understand just how resilient and industrious the people of this nation can be, when they are finally fed up with being lied to and used by these mulit-millionaire puppets. Halliburton got it right. They got the fuck out when they did before Rosie up there got tired of being insulted by people like John McCain.

When asked about the possibility of invading the American mainland, Admiral Yamamoto said this:

“You cannot invade the mainland United States.
There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

“I fear we have awoken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”

 -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (“Tora!Tora!Tora!”)

The Real McCain:War Profiteer and “Put Option” Millionare

(The Vietnamese love McCain because, as they said, he was the strongest advocate in normalizing trade with them in the late ’80s and early ’90s. McCain just had to silence that little MIA/POW problem to do it. Well, as it turns out, his wife’s fortune at the time stood to gain from that deal since her company went into Vietnam and set up breweries there. They made millions off that and she apparently did the same off “put options” just prior to 9/11. This is why Cindy refused to release her tax information previously. Oh, BTW, her company also has contracts supplying the troops with bottled water and other supplies… in Iraq. No wonder he wants them to stay. Did I mention John’s son works for the same company? So his entire family fortune is heavily tied to the Iraq war.)

Federal agents: Cindy McCain’s full tax returns will show war profits, pre-9/11 insider trading, secret off-shore accounts linked to 1241 Class C Nevada corporation payoffs and bribes

from Tom Flocco

According to a high-placed federal agent actively based in Washington, DC who spoke with federal whistleblower Stewart Webb, Republican presidential candidate and Senate Armed Services Ranking Member John McCain’s wife Cindy Hensley McCain’s multiple undisclosed federal income tax returns will reveal millions in Iraq War military procurement contract profits involving Hensley & Co. (Hensley Beer), Mrs. McCain’s large Anheuser-Busch beer distribution firm.

In more shocking allegations which media and Democratic congressional leaders have failed to investigate, Thomas Heneghan, a U.S. intelligence authority with scores of federal contacts, said federal agents also know that Mrs. McCain made millions in insider short-sale profits involving Swiss re-insurance put option stock orders placed prior to the September 11 attacks-profits of death which have remained untaxed by the U.S. government and raise questions as to her 9/11 tip-off.

The Real McCain:Dumb as A Rock

Who says? John McCain…

and that is why he will win. Because the people that run this country want ignorant, controlable people in the White House. That’s what they want for the talking heads on the MSM newscasts as well. The dumber the better.

The Real McCain, Part One: Not a Fighter Pilot

by Scott Creighton

When those “progressives” of you out there refuse to entertain the notion that John McCain’s service record is far from “heroic”, I want you to understand just who it is you are helping. I will give you a hint; it isn’t Obama.

This is a mash-up of the corporate media’s vicious and unwarranted attacks on Gen. Wesley Clark for his comments on John McCain’s military record. When the corporation’s mouth-pieces all launch simultaneously in the same direction, from CNN to Fox News, with nearly the exact same talking-points, you can pretty much bet that there may be something more to the story that they don’t want people to look at. So that is what we are going to do now.

John McCain: War Hero or North Vietnam’s Go-To Collaborator?

(for my friends at TheZoo. It is not an insult to the service men and women of this country to talk about the nature of the service record of a potential president. But that is what those who want him elected would have you think. Much like when people call Israelis who stand up for the Palestinians, “self hating Jews” or tag anyone who questions the actions of the Likud Party as “anti-Semites”, McCain supporters in the media and even on blog sites will immediately render the “troop hater” label on those that address McCain’s rather questionable service record and the actualities of his POW story. But that doesn’t mean we have to give in to it by (falsely I believe) attributing “hero” status to this man. When you portray him as a hero or a “remarkable man” or an “American Patriot”, you play right into what McCain’s supporter want: a revised and scrubbed-up history of the real John McCain. You, progressive bloggers, become their tool. Much like the situation with impeachment, they actually have manipulated the context of the argument so much, that they have liberals and “progressives” arguing to the death to keep Bush and Cheney from being removed from office before they attack Iran. It is amazing how many sites buy into this propaganda simply because it comes from other “progressives”. These sites and these people have not yet learned that not all ”progressive” and democratic bloggers have the same agenda you do. As Valentine shows in this article, at the very root of what we know about McCain’s temper and his lust for power, is the truth about his service and his time as a POW. McCain is the son and grandson of military royalty who was terrified that his confession would be known to his family. But that didn’t stop him from making that confession and the others that followed. This is a very clear insight to a man who only respects power and who will give into whatever that power tells him to. We see this now in his behavior running for office. Nothing could be more important to understand about this man. And that is exactly why they have made it taboo to even talk about. Your argument is being shaped by his supporters and giving in to this cohersion is a dangerous mistake, if you think as I do that a McCain presidency is the last thing we need right now.)

by DOUGLAS VALENTINE from CounterPunch, here.

If you have no idea what war is about, thank your gods.  It is not what you see in Mel Gibson movies, nor is it hidden within the Big Lie Big Brother tells you about Pat Tillman’s heroic “Army of One” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When my father was in New Guinea with the 32nd Division in 1942, his fellow American soldiers would point their long Springfield rifles skywards and shoot at American pilots flying overhead.

“Glory Boys,” the long-suffering ground troops called them.

The pilots had comfortable quarters beside the airstrip in Port Moresby.  When orders for a mission came down, they’d climb in their planes, rattle down the runway, and soar over the Owen Stanley Mountains with the clouds in spotless uniforms, breathing fresh clean air.  The Glory Boys weren’t trapped in the broiling jungle, in the mud and pouring rain, their skin rotting away, chewed by ghastly insects, bitten by poisonous snakes, stricken with cerebral malaria, yellow fever, dysentery, and a host of unknown diseases delivered by unknown parasites.

If the Fly Boys perished, it was in a blaze of glory, not from a landmine, or a misdirected American mortar, or a Japanese bayonet in the brain.