Listen to Sarah Palin laugh as an opponent is called a “Bitch,” a “Cancer,” and mocked for her weight by a radio talk show host….[Click here to listen]

Obama Ad - ‘No Change’

“No Change” discusses how John McCain’s choice for Vice President will not change the fact that he still desires to just offer four more years of the same failed Bush policies.

Notes:

1. La Times: McCain’s choice of Palin is a risk — She could attract conservative Christians but not necessarily the women who backed Hillary Clinton. And some voters may question McCain’s decision-making style.

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Hillary and Bill Clinton are still seething and are planning to “take a dump” at the Democratic convention later on this month, if their ROLE is not properly negotiated.

She told a gathering of supporters last week that she’s looking for a “strategy” for her delegates to have their voices heard and “respected” at the Democratic National Convention — and did not rule out the possibility of having her name placed into nomination at the convention alongside Sen. Barack Obama’s.

Time Magazine reports that while in public Clinton is doing everything she’s been asked to help Obama, behind the scenes she secretely wishes Obama should lose.

No matter how much they Tip-Toe around the issue, I strongly believe that their strategy (Clinton & Clinton) is to weaken Obama even further, in anticipation of running for office in 2012….[ MORE >> ]

Hillary is torn between two forces - one, is the “private wish” that McCain beats Obama this fall, and the other is “what-if Obama wins“….”how will we look if we don’t throw our ‘fake‘ support behind him?”

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Bill Clinton on the other hand seems to be very bitter that he was labeled a racist during the Democratic primary. Interviewed by ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia while on his world AIDS tour with his foundation, Mr. Clinton talked a bit about the role he played in the failed presidential bid of his wife. And he still seemed to be smoldering about his portrayal by the media and others….as a BIGOT.

“But I am not a racist,” he said. “I’ve never made a racist comment and I never attacked him (Obama) personally.” Asked if he thought Obama was ready to be president, Bill gave some lame excuse that “nobody is ever ready” and that the Constitution sets out qualifications for president.

Shut Up Bill!

What a selfish egomaniacal duo! Here are some illustrative comments.

I don’t place you in the same category as the despicable right-wing THUGS in the Republican party, but you did exhibit behavior that millions of black people construed as racism — and that’s the one big reason which precipitated your wife’s defeat. Had you behaved yourself in South Carolina, I believe we might be looking at a power-packed Clinton-Obama ticket.

Apologize and move on….you will be forgiven!

We have a much more venomous snake to beat down — The ReTHUGlican Hate-Machine, starring: John “Drill My Wife” McCain.

   THE REPUBLICAN CRIMINAL HATE-MACHINE — NOW HEADED BY JOHN MCCAIN
   [Clockwise: Sean Hannity, James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter,
   Glenn Beck, Greta Van Susteren]

   A Fellow Snake, ‘White-Nationalist’ THUG Pat Buchanan Skewers McCain
   

SPECIAL REFERENCES: evilgopbastards.com | Hawking Racism — Pat Buchanan’s latest book is a White Nationalist Screed

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   A USAToday Editorial: Accountability in Darfur

For five and a half years, government-backed forces in Sudan have committed unspeakable acts  — murder, rape, torching villages  — in the vast western province of Darfur. About a quarter of a million people have died, with millions displaced.

In 2004, the U.S. government condemned this for what it is: genocide. But efforts to stop it, even sending in thousands of international peacekeepers, haven’t ended the horror.

On Monday, the International Criminal Court, a tribunal set up in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2002 to prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity, took a bold action. Its prosecutor asked its judges to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on war crimes and genocide charges — the court’s first indictment of a sitting head of state. (Two others, Yugoslavia’s Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia’s Charles Taylor, were indicted by special nited Nations courts.)

The value of the criminal court’s extraordinary decision is that it continues a movement over the past decade of putting leaders of countries on notice that they might not get away with terrible crimes against their people. That trend gained momentum after Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, in which the world stood by as 800,000 were slaughtered.

Each new effort can also put new pressure on countries that do business with tyrants. China has lucrative oil deals with Sudan and is its main arms supplier. The indictment gives China additional incentive to use its leverage to burnish its image as it prepares to host next month’s Olympic Games.

The potential downside is that the indictment could provoke a backlash by al-Bashir. He has played a game of promising to comply with efforts to end the genocide, including allowing in foreign peacekeepers.

In reality, he has aided the horror. Now, he could end all pretense. Already, worrisome new attacks on peacekeepers include one last week in which seven were killed and 22 injured. The U.N. said Monday it was withdrawing some non-essential staff.

Al-Bashir certainly won’t hand himself over. He is more likely to model himself on a fellow African tyrant, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, who unleashed a murderous onslaught on anyone who opposes him after it became clear he would lose this year’s election.

Like Mugabe, al-Bashir might be counting on help from China and Russia. Both are frequently accused of human rights violations and fear international moves that infringe on national sovereignty. Appallingly, they used their U.N. Security Council vetoes last week to block new sanctions against Zimbabwe.

One organization might have more influence than the international court or U.N. on al-Bashir and Mugabe. That organization
is the African Union.

Its members, led by powerful South Africa, have behaved more like a cozy old boys’ network.
On Monday, they even asked the court to stop the indictment. They should be more concerned with getting the thugs in their club to stop the killing.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY:

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