Just Sent in to Cafferty File @ CNN.com

Not as much as that Diebold's CEO promised to do wqhatever was necessary yo make sure Dubyuh won.

What is all that fuzz about stems Cells and M.J.Fox comments.. We're only trying to solve physical problems and keep people alive and away from diseases... For all those who cry out "We shouldn't play God" I would only ask them "What if they will not be allowed a simple RCR." Doesn't look the same.... WHAT !!! You're crazy you say.... What's the fuzz.... I'm only dying... "I will not play God and save you it's again my principles..." -So they say...- The problem is not stem cells...It's only brains that don't work properly... yours, Compy

If you believe in legal labor unions,

national parks,insured bank deposits, medicare,

medicade, a minimum wage, preservation of

wilderness and wildlife, and social security, you

are a liberal.

Jack I agree that Rumsfeld should be fired. The problem is not with him , it's with Bush. Bush is the perfect storm of bullheadness, stupity, and corruption. Remember we have a person in charge of our country, if who's name was not Bush, would not have the competance to be
an assistant manager of a Family Dollar store.

1. Soocial Security
2. Medicaid/medicare
3. Unemployment

Basicly fix the mess bush got us into!

Just because people come to see the President does not mean they agree with him. I think America saw the real Bush in the first debate with Kerry. He can not tell other men and women they have to stay a course. Cheney has no personality either to be mentoring and all ready arrogant person.
The only sensitive time I recall of our President was when he held the African American female when he realized Katrina had destroyed several places. We must try to forgive him -he was playing hide and seek from Cindy Sheenan.

A lot of Good Republican congressmen lost because
Bush could not make this dicision any faster then he responded to Katrina or 9/11-His statements were death knell to those who were showing unilateral
loyalty to Bush-I guess there is an elitist group
within an elitist administration

Hi Jack: Friday, November 10, 2006; 12:27: 05 PM

"{The salient point begins six paragraphs below. And that is only today's introduction. Somehow I feel you might enjoy what all I've written. But the important point centers around putting the country on a War Footing, and behave like we're in as grave a danger as WWII,

Don't blog this please. It is a rant but the War Footing argument is the heart of it. I'll be repeating some of the several pages I append from late late last night. This morning with my coffee and CNN I learned about the dozens of terrorist threats being tracked in Britain. I was going to save the several pages I wrote till like 5AM last night and think about i (and find out if I could e-mail you without being blogged. I don't really want it blogged. It is surely too long for CNN's purposes, I would guess.

I would have you distill the essence of it and present it as an alternative to those strategies being put forward among those being considered (e.g., a three-state federacy as espoused by Joe Biden). By the way Biden is ripe (matured enough) to be able to win the presidency and handle the office well; I'd be happy with Hillary also. She could make Bill Secretary of State, and we would have another eight years of the Clintons, which would be a good thing. I got one letter back from dozens of contacts I made with State Senators trying to get the suggestion to Colin Powell to ask Bush, who had shown himself capable of flexibility, to have Chirok invite him to Paris along with Putin, who proposed another 4 months but with military escort (a bayonet in the back of the Iraqi solder with a bayonet in the back of the inspectors. Bush's added requirement would be to send as many inspectors as we could train (black opts personnel) and press (also military in disguise) access to the streets of Bagdad. Dan had just gotten the second of the only two interviews with Sadam; having gotten the first 10 years earlier. He wanted to be embedded with the troops. He appeared on all three Iraqi TV networks; resistance fighters would surely have sidled up to him and he could help organize a coherent underground. So when Sadham woke up he would find himself at least partially occupied already. We could have secured so much information on Sadam's military infrastructure that we could really do damage with advanced targeting air launched rockets. A second rate idea, but food for thought.

Of all the people I contacted Kerry e-mailed me back stressing the need for a strong military? Kerry is just too out of it to be president. By the way I consider Gore was the national hero of that 2000 election. His eloquent concession speech was the one act that kept at least the facade of a Republic in tack.. So there were dirty tricks. Never mind that they were treasonous. The best speech of his career, worth in itself all the time he had devoted to public service. And guess what, Global Warming is no longer theoretical, and science and Katrina victims can well testify to. Someone said Gore was the smartest man he ever met. If he runs he should get that comedian who used to use a sofa and chair as a stage set, to make him feel at home, and be interviewed by Ed Bradley (sadly not possible now). Dan Rather had the same problem; still as a board under camera, relaxed, funny and smart at the kitchen table.

Bill Clinton from his new office in Harlem wrote me an positive acknowledgment of my efforts. As a matter of fact at that point I was forwarding new comments to various individuals on top of the last such e-mail. I had written Carter at some length suggesting that inasmuch as we started the League of Nations and the UN, we should start a non-political world organization to be called Word Civilization. Clinton would get his second term, so Rosalyn could rest easy, and he would be Ambassador at large. Who knows if my four short lines appended to the Carter letter, planted a seed at all, but in fact that is the role he has taken on, with the additional touch of genius of giving up on trying to wrest money from the greedy rich, but to invite the very rich & philanthropic to meet and come up with a plan of their own to execute. What a concept! How much fun to have a seat at the Monopoly board of philanthropy. No big donations, goal not met, not invited back.

Anyway I can say I foreshadowed his future direction. At the end of a panel discussion about the just completed 2nd Clinton Global Initiative, he summarized that it was agreed that we needed a better means of communication. I have a (physical) model I call The Paradigm for a New Millennium that represents the greatest advance in human communication since Gutenburg first employed moveable type. But the Federally mandated Departments of Rehabilitation in California and now in Washington state have completely subverted the law and denied my the services I need to get the thing produced.

Anyway I have a personal note from Bill Clinton, on vellum paper and (probably auto-signed) but at least, if he did not pen it himself, he picked a canned reply appropriate to what I was striving to accomplish. I just couldn't abide the idea of our army circling Baghdad and fighting street by street like a bad Tom Hanks (great actor) WWII movie, like surrounding Geri with trumpets and demolishing it with sound waves. I figured if I wrote directly to Colin Powell he would never see it; I felt I need an intermediary. I should have just sent him a telegram. "

*A week or so ago an individual was interviewed on CNN whom I hadn't seen on TV. He has the way to get out, and that is to go through, to a complete elimination of the Terrorists. When Truman decided to use the bomb he knew he was going to be killing civilians. He also knew we were at war and they started it, and civilian lives would be sacrificed anyway, on both sides.

This (bearded?) guy said first of all, we have to put this on a War Footing, like in WWII. Recruit 10-20,000 new troops, from places like Egypt and other Islamic or middle eastern countries that supported our attacks on Afghanistan after 9/ll and or in the first Gulf War. His point was they have as much at stake as we do). Seal off the borders between Syria and Iran (if they both share borders with Iraq:( Iran sending arms to Syria which funnels them into Iraq). And interdict any supplies from reaching Iraq.

Hire mercenary troops if necessary (my idea). Have women cease shaving their legs until all terrorists are dead or under control (my idea too).

This war is not like Vietnam. Everybody (with wits about them) knew it was a crock on the face of it. It is more like Japan, with fanatical worshippers of the Emperor eager to drag it out no matter the cost of life.

We need to, possibly, raise taxes, offer a bonus to new recruits and extra benefits to those already in the regular army. We need to sacrifice, ration gas, mandate working from home 4 days a week for those who job's consist mainly in using computers, including computer conference calls. Call for food and even armament donations from the citizenry. Wake the world up by ratcheting our own commitment. If we can't put more feet on the ground use what we have. Dresden bomb that city the terrorists have taken over.

We were not able to negotiate ourselves out of Vietnam; they'll be hell to pay for generations if we cut and run. The Iraqi army has no more stomach for fighting for their country that did the South Vietnamese.

This is a much more serious threat than either Japan or Germany posed, and it was only by will and wit and a great deal of good luck that we survived at all, let alone as complete victors.

Unconditional surrender; concentration camps (humane) for civilians, and military concentration camps for captured terrorists. until there is not an individual unaccounted for in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I had written about this much as a prelude to the many pages that follow that I finished about 5AM yesterday PST. The I hit a stray key and it disappeared. It may have been sent, and the long version as well.

I was going to hold off because as a blog it is too long, and I would rather you re-inject this bearded? gentlemen's tape and principles into the debate of what we do now. We couldn't expand the war because we don't have the troops, and Bush was fool enough to underestimate the will of a populace to protect its country, in spite of Vietnam and the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 (if that's applicable).

This bullshit about the Generals saying they have all the troops they need was always bullshit, and now of course it has come out into the open.
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Hi Jack: Friday, November 10, 2006; 12:42 PM

I watch CNN all this time, although I feel it has fueled the idea the best course of action is to get out of Iraq.
Personally I think President Bush should be tried for treason for many instances of such, along with Susan Harris and several Supreme Court members. Of course, his lawyer could always plea "non compus mentis"; just too stupid to appreciate what he has done.

As Bill Clinton recently said, we should never have gone into Iraq, but we need to proceed on the basis of the current situation.

A week or so ago I saw a fellow, with a black beard I seem to recall, for the first time on CNN. Going into Iraq may not have been such a bad idea, if we had had the resources without the draft. I managed to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam war, call be a draft dodger because for that war I certainly was.

Anyway this person (whom I seem to remember had a medium length black beard) provided the answer, which as I have noted in other instances was not really heard, nor was his advice listed among those being given by CNN analysts and Democrat VIPs.

He said we should put the country on a War footing. Politics helped keep us from "victory" in Vietnam, but the simple fact, from the Vietcong perspective, that they were fighting a civil war, and the Americans just made it a tougher row to hoe.

Study history, someone said recently, when asked for life advice (maybe from Ed Bradley).

Hi Jack: Friday, November 10, 2006; 12:42 PM.

I would never consider relying on the Iraqi Army as Bush has done. They are like the South Vietnamese, they didn't have the heart, for whatever reasons, to really fight for their independence.

It appears that calling the generation of WWII "the greatest generation" is not gratuitous after all.

Mr. black beard, as I seem to remember him, said we should Get On a War Footing, raise another 100,000 troops, or whatever, from places like Egypt and other Arab countries, and Nato. I would even hire mercenaries from all around the would from countries we could trust. And we should settle for nothing but complete disarmament of the militias, and keep a presence there as long as necessary...as we still do (I suppose) with Germany and Japan.

This is the The Third World War, but we are treating it like a police action. We need to eradicate all terrorist groups and ID everyone in the country we let out of concentration camps during the duration.

This fellow also said we should completely control traffic from Syria and Iran, or just put in a DMZ. Beyond stopping flows of weaponry into Iraq we would be well placed in the Middle East to take action against Iran and Syria if they pose a terrorist threat.

It was a tough call, but I can't gainsay Truman's decision to drop the A-Bomb on Japan. I would have dropped the first on on Mt. Fuji, defying the deeply held feeling in our crazy mentality that property is more important than people. And it would have served a better memorial to lives lost in war than the Hiroshima memorial. And one bomb might have made the point. The second I would drop on Tokyo, Fuck them, they started their war with us.

And fuck the terrorists. Like Dupont, or whoever, genocide is our most important product as a nation. The Indians managed to keep their soul intact, and a lot of their depopulation came from diseases we carried in. We ripped the black man's soul right out of him, and he still hasn't gotten it back, not really.

And fuck the hypocracy about Islam being a peace loving religion. I collect the high scriptures (translated) from all the world's great religions, and I am loath to throw any book out. I even kept my Scientology books, because even though immoral in their social teaching, L. Ron Hubbard had brought forth may valuable principles of Eastern thought and dressed them up in sort of a engineering terminology, and there are some real jewels in Scientology 8008.

I acquired a copy of the Koran, and, as is my wont, I opened it at random at various places. I did this some four or five times, after which I held it by a corner of one of its covers and walked it out to the trash. True, Islamic culture reached great heights in certain places, and lived in peace with Jews and Christians in Spain and elsewhere I suppose.

But this was after spreading by conversion or death. I haven't read it yet but Rushtie's The Satanic Verses did not emerge solely from his imagination.

We made a mistake in intervening in Vietnam, but Communism was the bugaboo then. This is not exactly the case here. Remember 9/11, the Cole and all the other terrorist attacks.

We need to eradicate terrorist completely. We are in a war now, the hell with politics. Dresden bomb Sadir city or wherever town taken over by the terrorists. Shut off the borders and completely take control of every inch of the country and go back in force to clean out Afghanistan. We are at war. We don't have to be measured. We have to take to it with the energy of the sacrifice given by the Greatest Generation.

We make so much of a dozen soldiers killed in battle, but accept with equanimity the larger toll taken on our roads in auto accidents.

There will be no peace in our time. We were smart and awfully lucky in numbers of incidents that we survived WWII.

One of the reasons Truman decided to drop the bomb was the fanaticism of the Japanese in their Emperor worship. We're looking at the same thing in Islamic countries. The Bible says homosexuality is an abomination in the sight of God, yet it is politically incorrect to demur from agreeing that the gay rights movement is analogous to the woman's rights and civil rights movement. To me, it obviously a part of the overall human experience, but then so is murder and rape, etc. Soon there will be a rapists rights movement; it's not their fault, it is the imperative of reproduction fueled by Testosterone, in a weirdly puritanical society. It is only human nature, after all.

We have made things worse by invading Iraq. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and we were in it till we secured total surrender.

Terrorists blew up the Twin Towers. We must be in it until we have every terrorist, or terrorist sympathizer, in a comprehensive database, after we have broken their will completely, and dethroned every cleric of this evil religion, and broken every terrorist cell. In a sense this war represents a massive police action, but here nations are involved, and that means nations have to be held accountable, including the constitutionally newly elected Iraqi
President. Does there constitution provide for treason?

I propose an amendment to add a coequal flag as our national flag, to fly with or apart with our beautiful Stars & Stripes. And that is one that was up for consideration at the time our red, white and blue was adopted.

And that is the flag with the venomous snake and the words "Don't Tread on Me!".

If we don't get on a war footing sooner or later nuclear bombs will enter the picture, and condemn future generation to mutations and sicknesses.

Frankly, I would respond to the terrorists by Dresden Bombing Mecca, maybe with a bunker busting bomb to minimize fallout and make the site into an unstable mass of quicksand and rubble.

The terrorists think that, because they don't have a homeland to be driven from, there is nothing we can really do. I have to hand it to Bin Laden, he attacked our most holy site, the World Trade Center. But he does not appreciate that secularism is nationally sacred to us, our Mecca; for only by secularism, and the government proscribed from involving itself in the establishment of a religion, can all religions live together in peace. You fly planes into our holy site. But you are not immune. We can and shall if called for disintegrate Mecca, then Medina, then level the Temple Mount and make it into a park where nations from all over the globe can plant trees.

His father, historians seem to fail to note, put together a stunning coalition of nations to fight the 1st Iraqi war. People said he should have gone into Bagdad then, but he kept his word and agreement with his allies, leaving a legacy of coalition building only a fool like his son could screw up so much that even our closest ally has sickened of it. Now Bush follows Tony Blair into oblivion.

And, having given up the high ground, what would have prevented the same thing that is happening now from developing then?

This bullshit about the generals saying they have all the troops they need. First of all, they are subordinate to civilian control. And what the hell do they know anyway. Thank God Truman had the sense to pull the cord on MacArthur, or we would still be fighting the Chinese instead of guarding a no man's land that seems increasing irrelevant, if North Korea can simply mortar Sole out of existence. Of course then we would just say "fuck it" and Nuke North Korea out of existence.

The generals have to say they have all the troops on the ground because they know they can't ask for more because we overreached, with our peacetime no-draft army (which is a good thing spoiled by an overreaching idiot).

The only solution is to get on a real war footing and punish the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan (& block arm imports into the area) until they are ready to surrender or we kill them. If they hide with civilians in towns or cities and there is no other way to get to them, Dresden bomb the cities out of existence. This in no a tea party - it is war, and we are doing as much damage to our soldiers and are nation as we would if we just accepted the fact that we a dealing with an intractable enemy and prosecute the was as a war (within the terms of the Geneva Convention, except in situations not covered in non-conventional warfare.

The Mormons renounced multiple wives some years ago. Let them change that hateful words of the Koran. Of course the Bible is replete with guiding the Hebrews to force out the populations of established countries.

The answers do not reside in the scriptures, because each will interpret them to their agenda in the most hypocritical way. The best we can do is "be a lamp unto yourselves", informed by history and the words of great men and teachers, and make secular decisions based on what we have come to understand as proper and right and fair in the world in which we live.

There will be no peace in our time. The terrorist threat along with the complication of nuclear weapons make destroying the terrorist culture as much as we did the myth of divinity of the Emperor of Japan.

I was against the Vietnam War because it was so palpably a trumped up phony call to arms, and I'd be damned before I would let someone hand me a rifle and shoot some stranger, of different culture, race, fighting on their own soil. We got in, we couldn't seem to find the door out, and finally ran like cowards. It was their country and they would not give it up to a colonizing force from across the sea. Sound familiar?

But this is different. It is fighting fanatic terrorists who will only be emboldened, along with their backers, to press their luck until we finally nuke them out of existence - and that day will come, probably with the next 9/11 type stunt.

Don't let our soldiers, believing in a more just cause that Vietnam certainly, die in vain. The Third World War has long since begun, and we've been in Iraq/Afghanistan longer than we were in Europe in WWII.

Put the space program on hold (I was nominated by my state Senator as one of two candidates for competitive appointment to the Air Force Academy. But I had an under-bite and was rejected. I've held DOD Top Secret and Special Black project clearances). But I am a peacenik at heart. But you have to hold your ground. When Christ said offer your other cheek I doubt very much he meant to take another slap. It was to show the perpetrator to himself, to shame him.

In the Bhagavad Gita ("Song of God") of the Hindu tradition Arjuna, disposed by his evil uncle years ago, sat down and lamented: "I cannot fight these, my own relatives." But his charioteer (Krishna, the Lord in disguise) chastised Arjuna saying his behavior was unbecoming, for there was never a time when you were not, nor I, nor any of these others; therefore fight, (as is your duty as a member of the warrior caste).

We have to get on a War footing and wipe this scourge of terrorism off the face of the earth. What is the yellow belly that keeps us, politically, from following the course we have been committed to (by ourselves in voting in Bush in the first place).

No three-state-federalism is going to end terrorism; because the terror comes from the hearts of those led down a false path by false teachers.

Because we don't want to pay the price. 9/11 should be seared in our brains, but it is old news. The fact that we are at war means nothing to us. We want it all without having to pay for it. Good against Evil is a constant battle, but we can prevail, as we have done many times in our short history, and move the world a little closer to the kind of world we would like to be able to show Christ (for example, in whatever form or rubric he appears, seen or unseen,
that we may say, this is how we invested the talents you gave us, a world of peace, justice, understanding & compassion.

Well, I'm not going to spell-check this; and you likely won't get through. It's been on my mind for a while, so I finally up-chucked.

It is not necessarily coherent, but I would urge you to find Mr. Black Beard and get his options in the general debate because, frankly, none of the others will work. I saw Joe Biden on Larry King a few months ago and I felt like prompting the guy sitting next to him - they were talking about the need for a true leader - to say, for example, like Mr. Biden here. His idea of partitioning Iraq into three federalized states has some merit; the problem being that they would fall too much under the influence of Iran and Syria or whoever all shares borders with them. He definitely is presidential material now that he hair implants have taken and he has matured. I'd be happy to see Hillary get the nomination as well, because we'd get another 4-8 years of his political savvy and experience and hard-earned compassion and understanding. Make him Chief of Staff or Secretary of State.

You news organizations keep saying too many people hate Hillary, but the polls don't seem to reflect it. And she is not only intelligent but also tough minded.

I took a long nap this afternoon so I am up with this. Make of it what you will.

We have to get on a war footing and convince Egypt and virtually every major country in the world to send troops and ourselves to stop playing patty cake. Time for the Democrats to get tough again. We used to be the tough party, the party of unions and justice for the little guy.

The republicans probably had more to do with 9/ll that anyone, with their McCarthy-istic attempts to derail Clinton from the very beginning of his presidency. And now when we really need coalition building, Bush has made that essentially impossible, squandering his father's legacy. Kerry can't think straight. Osama-bama is too young and inexperienced. I'd have John McCain for Secretary of Defense. The people who dislike Hillary do so, I suspect, because they are afraid of her power. Biden can express himself very well, and maintains a calm demeanor. Clinton was always smiling, "What a good boy am I." which I think was key to his success. Oh for a Winston Churchill, someone who could deliver body blows with his powerful eloquence.

And why did I never hear on CNN or anywhere, that that special prosecutor whatever his forgettable name was, was the one with the clearly prurient and warped interest in sex. He actually reported, wrote, that Clinton had stuck a cigar up Monica's privates. I mean, was I the only one to cringe at the arrogant, slimy personality he projected.

Is Anderson Cooper going to keep his day job? The first day I saw him filling in for Arron Brown(?) I knew he was about to move up. So did Arron and made a wry comment on Anderson doing too good a job. He knew it too.

Enjoy your sardonic persona; but come on Jack, Once we discover that the truth is already in us we are all at once our own original self.

I guess it goes to show that you project a sincerity that I would feel so free to bother you with such a rambling discourse.

I guess I'm saying I feel good about you; and enjoy your sardonic schtick.

I have a board game design that is "Better than Scrabble" & could be competitive with Wheel of Fortune as a TV game show.

I have another project the represents (potentially) the greatest advance in human communication since Gutenburg first employed moveable type.

It could be of use in helping resolve intractable international disputes, but it is much more than that. The Department of Rehabilitation in California (San Francisco) and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in Washington State (Mt. Vernon) are corrupt as hell, feeling free to break all kinds of laws. So I have to attend a Fair Hearing before I can take it to the authorities.

Anyway, wryly yours,

Bill

I am 65, on Social Security and have a question. How many men like me are willing to go to Iraq, pay our own way and support the Troops as they pull out of Iraq. Can we get about 50,000 of us old geezers to volunteer, without any cost to the Government?

One of the three basic tenets of the Baker Report is the setting of benchmarks and the reduction of funds/support if those benchmarks are not achieved. This sets-up a situation which encourages the insurgents to make sure that the govt. does not achieve any benchmark! The insurgents win - the govt becomes weaker through not getting further support!
What fuzzy thinking on the part of the Baker group - is this the best U.S. 'greybeards' can come-up with?
Pete

Baker-Hamilton group is not to save Iraq, It is to save the US. Mr. President, admit your were wrong going into Iraq, Admit you can not fix it, Pull the troops now and declare that you are a failure.

Samir Badri
Tempe Arizona

It is more apparent that the U.S. is becoming (or is) a puppet where Isreal and Saudi Arabia pull the strings.
Pete

Have anyone ever thought that the iraqi Prime minister (Maliki)may be waging a counter war against America by its laxy dazzy attitude towards the influence of the Iraqi army to step up his forces to take control of his own country. It seems to me that he(Malaki) is allowing the Iraqi army to sit idle while our American soldiers go on suicide missions.When its all said and done, can we trust Maliki? Hmmmmmm?

China is the number one probem to the U.S. Remember back in the 60's when they use to say China or Communism would take over the world with out fire a shot?
They knock out our communications, what kind of a threat would we be. We could'nt even fly a fighter jet with out our computers and satiltes. They own our computer tech. and now they know how to kock-out our communications. Plus how much money do we owe them now?
This President has put 300,000,000 Americans at risk by his arrigaunt bull-headness and his trumped up war in Iraq.
Question: Whey is the guy still President? Oh, ya the alternative is Cheney.

The White House is constantly responding to all criticism by ask stating it undercuts troop morale. How do the statements that we will be at war for 2 or 3 more administrations effect troop morale? Are they saying: You guys are a bunch of losers it will take 15 years to straighten this out? Are they saying: If you want to start a family wait ten years? Bill PA

Jack Cafferty :Ithink America voted on Nov 7 06 and the voice could not have been heard more louder,that this stubborn ,arrogant administration does not seem to interact with the american people that your time in Iraq is over ,;The war in Iraq is not achievable because they did not go there to protect the civilians ,but to bring contactors like Haliburton And others to try to form a bush and cheaney puppet show.Dear newly elected congress and senators alike the american people are tired of puppet shows of this arrogant administration besides rebuilding Iraq,and besides that this war in Iraq was Illegal because it did not wait for the second United Nations resolution on weapons of mass destruction that was not found why have this country go deeper in the hole from the last do nothing congress and start stepping to the plate and have this administration step down by starting the inpeachment proceadures of this failed Administration ,and start bringing are brave men and women home not in 08 but now the american people want and deserve an exit strategy that i believe will strenthen our country and not to be involved in Iraqs full blown civil war thnk you and God bless this Great country yours truly

The only thing more tragic than Bidens comments about Obama is Obama's response. The wise thing for Obama would have been to shrug it off and to let voters know he is more interested in the issues at hand. But instead he unwittingly played the race card, which is an all too familiar thing for African Americans to do.

I'm not too interested in either Bidden or Obama as presidential candidates, but as soon as I saw Obama siding himself with Jesse, Al Sharpton, Mosley, and others, it was a an instant turn-off.

I think he blew an opportunity to disassociate himself from the typical African American syndrome of inequality and show the American people that he is more interested in tending to the needs of the country. Instead he came across as being picked on.

Whats next, a boycott?

The only thing more tragic than Bidens comments about Obama is Obama's response. The wise thing for Obama would have been to shrug it off and to let voters know he is more interested in the issues at hand. But instead he unwittingly played the race card, which is an all too familiar thing for African Americans to do.

I'm not too interested in either Bidden or Obama as presidential candidates, but as soon as I saw Obama siding himself with Jesse, Al Sharpton, Mosley, and others, it was a an instant turn-off.

I think he blew an opportunity to disassociate himself from the typical African American syndrome of inequality and show the American people that he is more interested in tending to the needs of the country. Instead he came across as being picked on.

Whats next, a boycott?

It should be clear to all that the Congress, & Senate are in no rush to listen to the American Voters and actually do what the voters requested. Come the next election, if this situation continues, and I believe it will, I will vote them out, (All of them)( again, ) regardlees of party affiliation.

Yes, the new Democratic led Congress does deserve this boost in it's approval rating. For the first time in 6 years the Executive Branch and the Attorney General's office are being held accountable through the hearings process for their assaults on our Constitution. The importance of this should not be underestimated. For the first time in 6 years a substantive challenge has been mounted to the Iraq war and the destructive foreign policy of this administration. The importance of this should not be underestimated either. The reality is we voters ourselves are responsible for the lingering resistance of Republican legislators that is slowing the pace of positive change like raising the minimum wage and ending this war. For far too long too many of us have swallowed whole-heartedly the poisoned Kool Aide of this administration, and the remedy for this is painfully slow.

Jack lets nationalize the oil under public and government land.let the US army drill it . build 10 refineries and let the army corps of engineers run them. issue ration stamps for 80 gallons of gasoline per month at one dollar per gallon. if you need more then go to exxon. lets tell the big oil companies how we feel aout them by doing to them what they do to us. Nationalize.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag.... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

--Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Just a thought on the mess in Iraq. Why didn' t the advisors who surround Bush explain to him the problems the British had in the 20,s and later when that country invaded what was later named Iraq? History can teach us lessons if only we try a little research. However, Bush was determined to get Saddam and we, the American public as well as Congress failed to ask the important questlions. Again using history as a means to make ratlional decisions was ignored.

Hopefully, in "08, voters will take intellegence and character into consideration before choosing the next president. I only hope we can survive the Bush regime.

Emily

Is the rumor true that during the procedure they will insert a small window above the navel finally allowing Bush to see?

President Bush has labeled the combat in Iraqi, "a war on terrorists". How will we know when we win? Answer: Unconditional surrender document signed by Osoma Bin Laden on the flight deck of the Ronald Reagan?

I have not heard of anything so alarming as the way Michael Vick has treated dogs. He should be banned from football and spend his time working for the benefit of all animals. I hope the ASPCA will shut down the place where the treatment of dogs took place. He is far from being a "role model".

I am truly saddeded that a Congressman would waste valuable time on the floor saying the word "barbaric" at least three times and we all know the reference was to Michael Vick. Mr. Vick is innocent until proven guilty and I think that is truly unfair for him to be pre-jugded by a Congressman who is a former member of the Klu Klux Klan. Being a member of the Klu Klux Klan it truly BARBARIC!!!

"Studies have shown" when you talk about you "have information",critics say"your stealthy in your news comments.

When did President Bush cut funding to Interstate Roads & Bridges

I'd say probably about the time he started throwing money at Iraq in the name of something or other about weapons of mass destruction.

You will recall the man came into office with the country enjoying a surplus in funds. (Hm. And just exactly what is the National Debt these days?) What that means is that federally funded repairs to roads and bridges - or dams and levees, for that matter - have been curtailed.

So sorry, Virginia - I suspect there really is no Santa Claus, and I can't imagine what else will fall apart (or down) if there is no miraculous jolly old man to intervene.