Columnist - John Sammon
John McCain said Obama doesn’t seem to understand the price of failure in Iraq.

The price of failure in Iraq?

Let’s dissect this one statement. The price of failure? That means we can still fail. I thought McCain said the surge was a success. If we can still fail in Iraq, that means it (the surge) wasn’t very much of a success. Not a decisive success. It was a success, but not decisive. If it wasn’t decisive, how good was it? Let’s be generous to McCain and his philosophical mentor Bush and say the surge (flooding Baghdad with more troops) temporarily tamped down violence. In that one area.

A kind of band aid, it gives one the allusion temporarily that things are better, in one area of the country. Temporarily, it makes Bush and McCain look good. Or at least, better. The bad guys either lay low, or move their act somewhere else until the surge goes away.

If we can still fail in Iraq, if Obama is elected as McCain suggests, then how on the other hand can we achieve success? Though he hasn’t spelled anything out specifically because he doesn’t know himself, let’s once again be generous and assume McCain means “success” to mean a happy and prosperous and peaceful Iraq with a stable government.

When will that happen and how will it happen? Nobody knows.

McCain’s answer clearly is to achieve the middle. At least for the future. Keep troops in the country for the next fifty years. If we keep troops there, we haven’t succeeded, but we haven’t failed either. We’re still supposedly in control.
It’s the middle option. Neither success or failure. The status quo.

Like the surge, avoidance of failure gives the false impression we’re in control of the country, though not in compete control.

It’s an allusion, smoke and mirrors.

• McCain says he is the candidate for “change” (the new in-word).

• McCain is for offshore oil drilling in scenic areas (so is oil man Bush).

• McCain is the candidate for change.

• McCain is for a permanent occupation of Iraq (so is Bush).

• McCain is the candidate for change.

• McCain wants to let the free market somehow take care of global warming (so does Bush).Bush ignored global warming for eight years and finally last week admitted it’s a reality.

McCain is for change?

Where’s the change? Maybe McCain means pocket change.

McCain speaks in that humorless low monotone that hints he’s a determined man’s man (if you’re a hero singled out by destiny, you talk in a very serious manner). He drones on endlessly about how he was right in the very beginning and knew all the time the surge in Iraq would work even though Iraq was originally launched as a war to take out false weapons of mass destruction and is now explained as a war to end violence (the truth is whatever McCain says it is).

To McCain and Bush, change is to do nothing different, and success is simply to avoid failure, by failing from the very beginning and saying it isn’t (failure).

McCain is the candidate for no change.

Copyright 2008 Sammonsays.

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Al Gore: “After eight years even our cats and dogs know that elections matter.” “After eight years of incompetence, neglect and failure, we need change,” added Gore

In an email message to supporters prior to endorsing Barack Obama last night in Detroit, Michigan — Nobel Prize Winner and former US Vice-President, Al Gore said:

From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States.

Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges — including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our economy, and solving the climate crisis. Barack Obama is clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change to America.

This moment and this election are too important to let pass without taking action.

That’s why I am asking you to join me in showing your support by making a contribution to this campaign today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/gore

Over the past 18 months, Barack Obama has united a movement. He knows change does not come from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or Capitol Hill. It begins when people stand up and take action.

With the help of millions of supporters like you, Barack Obama will bring the change we so desperately need in order to solve our country’s most pressing problems.

If you’ve already contributed to this campaign, I ask that you consider making another contribution right now. If you haven’t, please take the next step and own a piece of this campaign today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/gore

On the issues that matter most, Barack Obama is clearly the right choice to lead our nation.

We have a lot of work to do in the next few months to elect Barack Obama president, and it begins by making a contribution to this campaign today.

Thank you for joining me,

Al Gore
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 Columnist - John Sammon
Barack Obama unfortunately has got assassination attempt written all over him. I wish I didn’t have to say this, but my clairvoyant sensors are ringing. Before you laugh, I wrote on my blog Sammonsays that “people would drown en mass” five days before Hurricane Katrina struck (titled Doomsday Five). Katrina was also a Category Five storm.

I also accurately predicted the outcome of the Iraq War six years ago, and the death of the TV Crocodile Hunter before they happened.

I could go on.

Obama has got several things about him to make me issue this warning (a new version of the Ides of March).

First, he’s personable and young. A prime target. Anyone promising change or a new direction runs more risk because they represent a threat to the old established business-as-usual moneyed interests. It also goes without saying that as the first African American president, Obama will become a target to every racist nut case.

America is a violent country. A country of haters. The most violent in the world.

Also, Democrats by their very nature consider themselves to be “populists.” That means they seem to like the so-called “common people,” and actually make physical attempts to go out among them and shake hands, which leaves them more vulnerable to assassination.

Republicans on the other hand tend to be more secretive. They believe in secret government. As a rule, they don’t like wading through crowds, “average” people for whom they often have disdain. Usually, the only time you see George Bush is when he waves walking across the lawn from his helicopter.

But it’s Obama’s perceived challenge to the fat cats that has me really worried, and my clairvoyant harp strings chiming.

The oil companies are strangling the American people, raising gas prices. They always explain that their to-infinity profits are simply a result of rewarding stock holders. But they’re killing the golden goose. Without knowing it.

Rising prices will cause Americans to seek other means of travel and boycott gasoline, which in turn will lessen global warming. Rising fuel prices will also cause other, new entrepreneurs to fill the gap by creating hybrid, electric and more fuel efficient cars.

Here’s a historical example. What happened in Prohibition when Americans were confronted with a situation (law) that to them was unacceptable? They found ways around it. They made their own booze.

Can’t you see the irony? In their greed and stupidity, oil company executives are (unwittingly) killing their own industry and helping the environment.

But back to Obama. Obama will try to rein in big oil. He may also attempt universal health care. This will put him on the hit list of moneyed interests.

For if the truth be known, in some ways, the oil company moguls and those in the insurance and health industry games are not that different from the Mafia and organized crime. They have lucrative windfalls they will fanatically protect. Billions are at stake.

Any political leader who attempts real change to the industrial, military, multi mega world conglomerate that America represents…will be viewed as a grave threat.

I’ll warn you all that Obama is a prime candidate for assassination. And it makes me sick to think about it.

I believe Obama will be the victim of an assassination attempt if he’s elected. That’s sad, because he may be the last, best hope we have to retain any semblance of our own humanity.

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Former US Vice President — Al Gore JR.
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Former Vice President Al Gore Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today along with a United Nations panel that monitors climate change for their work educating the world about global warming and advocating for political action to stop it.

News of Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize was received with delight across Europe, where President Bush is deeply unpopular.

“He’s the evidence that America is still capable of intelligent discourse,” said Peter Kellner, who heads the British polling firm YouGov. According to Kellner, opinion polls show that British people generally admire America and Americans but strongly dislike Bush.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Gore “inspirational,” and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he hoped Gore’s honor would encourage world leaders to “approach this challenge even more swiftly and decisively.”

…More!

This award of monumental prestige has breathed just a “whisper of resuscitation” on to the United States, a country in a “negative moral spiral,” in the eyes of the world.

King George Bush and Sheik Osama Bin Laden will go down in history, alongside blood-thirsty maggots like Hitler, Idi Amin and co. — as leaders responsible for unleashing the worst terror on humankind, in the last 100 years.

And both are going to get away with it, it seems!

The United Nations which since inception, has been primarily responsible for the prosecution of crimes against humanity should hold these two responsible in an International Criminal Court, for the commission of large scale atrocities against people of the United States and Iraq.

This is the only way to restore America’s lost moral glory, and re-establish much of the prestige that the number one nation in the world has lost in the last six years, operating under the clamps of a Republican THUG administration.

Al Gore looks scholarly, measured and passionate, while “King George” scoots like a frightened deer running amok — Recklessly spending tax payer money on a “war of lies,” and unleashing terror on immigrants to satisfy his ‘blood-thirsty’ right-wing loons.

Comedian Will Ferrell as ‘Bush’ on Global Warming
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As I write, the US Government agency ‘ICE’ in collaboration with local governments of intolerant and racist communities, mostly in southern United States, are in “duck” hunting season — they are unleashing terror on immigrants, causing untold suffering of immigrant families, especially those of “brown skin.”(Latinos)

One-Track minded bigots blinded with Racism and drunk with “Patriotism” are running amok atop pick-up trucks, draped in confederate flags, in the countryside. All because of Bush’s mis-handled domestic policies, catalyzed by the incessant cackling of “jingoistic propangandist extortionist” media pundits pontificating recklessly to the maniacally racist imbeciles in right-wing America — CNN’s self-appointed “populist,” the despicable “distortionist fabricationist,” Lou Dobbs comes to mind.

This bloodthirsty chorus by anti-immigration hate groups, politicians, and a paranoid media echoes in the belly of America with a ferocity that makes immigrants shudder like helpless Negro in 1920’s America.

Every time a Republican president is in power for a prolonged period of time, the “dormant fangs” or racism awaken with a roar that shakes the American psyche to the bone.

The Bush legacy of lies, “water-boarding,” “illegal-combatant torture,” military and police terror, war profiteering, and racist immigrant bashing, is in high gear — revving like a “Confederate Nascar machine.”

Run Al, Run …..to take back what legitimately belongs to you: “The White House.”

To those ReTHUGliMAGGOTS, the “Flat Earth ‘Confederate’ Society,” the “God People” a.k.a American Taliban Inc., the Minuteman plus all other extremists groups in America calling for physical and moral carnage — an overwhelming majority, and science agrees with Al Gore….so shove it!

God didn’t create Global Warming!!

This issue is sewn, sealed and posted at the feet of Al Gore — with 1.5 Million Dollars to boot!

Pay attention, you un-schooled “Bible Drunk” troglodytes, your “convenient lies” and conspiracy theories on Al Gore and Global Warming have been quashed, permanently!

OBITUARY

THE ReTHUGlican GORE DERANGEMENT SYNDROME

Fox ‘Clown’ News’ ‘Chief Fascist’ Sean Hannity Attacks Al Gore
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Note: Gore Derangement Syndrome - The biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.

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Malik ‘Zulu’ Shabazz SHUTS UP Fake News’ Oriental ‘ReTHUGliTOM
Sleazebag’ - Michelle Malkin
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