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Frank Schaeffer tells it like it is...

Dear Republican Leaders: The Republican Party has become the party dedicated to sabotaging the American future.

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. You combined the failed ideologies of the Religious Right, so-called free market deregulation and the Neoconservative love of war to light a fire that has consumed America. Now you have the nerve to criticize the "architect" America just hired -- President Obama -- to rebuild from the ashes. You do nothing constructive, just try to hinder the one person willing and able to fix the mess you created.

I used to be one of you. As recently as 2000 I worked to get Senator McCain elected in that year's primary. (McCain and Gen. Tommy Franks wrote glowing endorsements regarding my book about military service, AWOL.). I have a file of handwritten thank you notes from Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush I and II. In the 1970s and early 80s I hung out with Jack Kemp and bought into his "supply side" myth and even wrote a book he endorsed pushing his ideas.) There's more, but take it from me; my parents (evangelical leaders Francis and Edith Schaeffer) and I were about as tight with -- and useful to -- the Republican Party as anyone. We played a big part creating the Religious Right.

In the mid 1980s I left the Religious Right, after I realized just how very anti-American they are, (the theme I explore in my book Crazy For God). They wanted America to fail in order to prove they were right about America's "moral decline." Soon after McCain lost in 2000 I re-registered as an independent in disgust with W. Bush. But I still respected many Republicans. Not today.

How can anyone who loves our country support the Republicans now? Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan defined the modern conservatism that used to be what the Republican Party I belonged to was about. Today no actual conservative can be a Republican. Reagan would despise today's wholly negative Republican Party. And can you picture the gentlemanly and always polite Ronald Reagan, endorsing a radio hate-jock slob who crudely mocked a man with Parkinson's and who now says he wants an American president to fail?!

With people like Limbaugh as the loudmouth image of the Republican Party -- you need no enemies. But something far more serious has happened than an image problem: the Republican Party has become the party of obstruction at just the time when all Americans should be pulling together for the good of our country. Instead, Republicans are today's fifth column sabotaging American renewal.

President Obama has been in office barely 45 days and the Republican Party has the nerve to blame him for the economic and military cataclysm he inherited. I say economic and military cataclysm because without the needless war in Iraq you all backed we would not be in the economic mess we're in today. If that money had been spent here at home on renovating our infrastructure, taking us toward a green economy, putting our health-care system in order we'd be a very different situation. (Read the rest...)

The RNC CoatHanger Caper and Uterine Politics....

So this Week the Religious Right and Johnny McMaverick threw everyone a Estrogen Curveball. They have taken pandering to a whole new level...They have given up on Real Women that are educated hardworking and have functional brains.They are counting on the uneducated Evangelical Vote. They are counting on creating a Battlezone between Women in this Country. And their Choice was also set up to Silence the Men. For if men criticize The Choice, then the RNC will label them as Misogynist , and yet the irony is that McCain choosing this woman is bound to set this Country back 100 years.I call this Uterine Politics at it's finest.


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And they also have cleverly limited the dialogue, setting the Agenda , Preaching to us about Family Values and Moral Platitudes and dictating the Health and Well being of Women and Children while they trot out a "Female" Candidate that is deficient on all levels. We have been told "HER Family is off limits", that is fine , except if she is in office she will be making decisions about the bodies of Our Children and their ability to bear Children. She will be limiting their access to Sexual Education and Contraception.She would be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office, and WHO Knows what she would sign into law ? In Alaska she tried to ban books, and when the Librarian refused, she was threatened by her. NO ONE can have an Abortion according to Palin, NO Circumstance warrants it, even if a young girl has been raped by a relative and her health and well being was at risk, Palin believes the Health of the baby is more sacred.

I don't know about any of you, but as an Old Nurse, I have seen what happens when Sexual Health is not protected or respected. I have seen young girls die in Labor, and I have seen young men die of AIDS. There has been enough lives lost to Ignorant Decisions and Bad Policy Dictated by Morally Inept Zealots.

And yet when she trotted her family out on that Stage last Friday, I had More Questions than Answers, and alot of sympathy for the family, for the Children. I looked at her family and Bristol broke my heart, I watched her holding that baby and her eyes were tearfilled. I was not proud looking at her. I was worried for her children, and our Children.....I was filled with dread and worry. She hit the stage preaching Patriotism, talking about her son heading off to Iraq...while her teenage daughter clung to the baby. This is not the Kind of America I want to be a part of ,wrapped in a Flag and preaching the wonders of the Bible to people that have suffered through 8 years of Hell created by the Current Bible Thumper. In my mind What Bush has done is not what Good Christians Do.....it is beyond a Crime.I don't want to see these Religious Zealots do One More Thing In Our Name as a Country.

If This Woman were to be a part of the next administration, we can look forward to the Fifties again, and women sneaking off to other states and receiving Coathanger Abortions....And the Bigger Question Still hangs in the Air , WHO will care for the Unwanted Children, Because under George ALL Children have already been Left Behind.....Enough is Enough.Educate your friends.Sarah Palin is No Friend to Women. Do Learn more and share it far and wide about Her Record, Her "Service" and her Mistakes and yes, Her Sins.
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Crossposted this week at Sirens Chronicles and Watergate Summer.
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Music~ " Woman in Chains" Tears for Fears and Oleta Adams....a really beautiful haunting song about Women being imprisoned in Their Lives and Their Bodies.

The Grand Spectacle

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(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)

250 Protesters Arrested, Including Amy Goodman

Looking from the opposite side of this other world
Wondering what it is that they must truly think of us

The mind awakens to their jarring ovation
And thoughts swoop in like dark winged beasts

I see them calling, “God damns you to hell!”

They shouldn’t tell peacekeepers that their voices can’t soar
They shouldn’t try breaking those who see the ugliness of their fears
They shouldn’t damn an outstretched hand while offering raging teeth
in exchange
And smile as they bring such reckless blades to neck
Because we will not kneel down and wait

Lions charging across the plains
Feel their razor claws as they seek the fearful ground
And thrusting wild boars come crashing
A victim’s quivering lips that have turned their hearts pale
Of cradling fear held up like a frozen hand

And their god will return to find them this way



© 2008 mrp/tpm

Rolling along "Q"... Quasar9

No Way. No How. No McCain.

BEFORE:

Clinton takes spotlight at convention

Clinton Supporters Discuss Supporting Obama

Clinton fans deaf to words of healing

As Clinton backers steer toward apparent nominee, a few signal problems

Hillary supporters still lagging

Bill Clinton Undercuts Barack Obama

O'Reilly: Danger in Denver

Democrats set for Clinton moment

AFTER:

Clinton makes strong case for Obama

No Way. No How. No McCain.

Clinton urges party to back Obama

No Way. No How. No McCain.

Clinton delivers ringing call for Democratic unity

No Way. No How. No McCain.

Clinton Delivers Emphatic Plea for Unity

No Way. No How. No McCain.

Gee… The headlines sure look different than before Hillary’s speech, huh, Wally?

What did we expect, a bar fight, a WWF smack down, a Jerry Springer moment?

The obvious underpinning of all the negative pontificating before she spoke was pure, adulterated hype meant to sell newspapers and get the advertisers to line up and maybe help Ann Coulter write another useless book. With the MSM going all apeshit over the Clintons, go figure, one might have thought that Bill and Hillary were actually thinking what the mainstream media and the RNC and Rove wanted us to think they were thinking. Hmmm? As it turns out, however, they weren't.

Hillary gave a very powerful speech tonight; a resounding message of we are united. A call to hold hands and sing Kumbaya…

Yes. In some way I meant that last line in a patronizing, smart-assery sort of way, but, in another part of my brain, I truly think that that is, metaphorically speaking, what took place during her speech. Not because the Democratic party and the country were fragmented, but because the American people, despite the last eight years, see through the bullshit that is tossed around and recycled into what is essentially pandering and they choose their own moments. You’d think that after all these years the powers that be would have learned this lesson? I suppose they have their noses too far up the money changer’s asses to grasp the not so subtle message.

“No Way. No How. No McCain.” It’ll fit on a t-shirt and it’s rather idiomatic, if you live in the US of A! Can’t beat that…

With that said… We urgently need to change this countries political thinking. It is not a two party system. It is a United Constitutional Democratic Republic- for the people, by the people and of the people. There are more viewpoints than conservative and liberal. Than conservative and progressive. There are more diversities. There are other parties. Other ideas and ideals. Other considerations besides Republican and Democrat.

Corporations are not a people. The Military Industrial Complex, aside from the men and women in uniform, are not a people. Big Pharma is not a people. Big Oil is not a people.

On the other hand… Teachers, Brick Layers, Fire Fighters, Engineers, Factory Workers, Nurses, Doctors, Lawyers, Coaches, Actors, Writers, Retirees, Athletes, Hair Dressers, Farmers, Dental Assistants, Restaurant Workers, Pilots, Military Enlistees, Homemakers, Clerks, Telemarketers, Artists, Singers, Dancers, Scientists, Preachers, Pianists, Violinists, Conductors, Surgeons, Bankers, Landscapers, Builders, Judges, Taxi Drivers, Disk Jockeys, Professors, Students, Architects, Street Walkers, Homeless, Jobless, Brown, White, Red, Yellow, Tan, Black, Gay, Straight, Bi, High, Low, Tall, Short, Skinny, Fat, Redheaded, Blonde, Brunette, Grey, Male, Female, Transgendered, Indian, African, Asian, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Atheist, Agnostic, and yes, even Politicians, are the people… These are the people(s) who, quite evidently, need to be represented by more than only two parties. Right?

Well come two thousand and nine I suggest that we begin to make that happen…for the good of our country and its peoples.

And, with that said, let me reiterate that I think Hillary gave a magnificently powerful and moving speech, and proved, yet again, that she has the skills, the intellect, and the grace to lead... I just don't want to be led...

The Desired Effect

Clinton takes spotlight at convention
Clinton Supporters Discuss Supporting Obama
Clinton fans deaf to words of healing
As Clinton backers steer toward apparent nominee, a few signal problems
Democrats unite at convention, but Hillary supporters still lagging
Bill Clinton Undercuts Barack Obama - AGAIN
O'Reilly: Danger in Denver
Democrats set for Clinton moment

OKAY! OKAY! ENOUGH ALREADY!
I GET IT! WE ALL GET IT!

(Maybe not everyone gets what the MSM and the RNC are doing here…but they should and they will!)
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The Clinton's have less to do with this hysteria than a select group of operatives and a complicit media. The Clintonite's who are saying they’ll vote for McCain instead, since Hill didn’t get the nod, have less to do with this spin than do those attempting to sell products to their listeners and readers, and the RNC, and Rove and his gang of thugs who want to frame the Denver Democratic National Convention, and by proxy the Democratic Party, as a raging cat/dog fight without a clue as how to govern.

Sure there are a few, a few mind you, of the Clinton loyalist guard still holding their breath like spoiled friggin' brats trying to get their way after having been told “NO” for the umpteenth time, but they are a minority in the Democratic Party. Get that? A minority. A small number compared to the whole. Got it?

It is an attempt by the RNC, and yes, the "mainstream" media, to bring about a desired “hysteria”.

"Oh my! What should we think? What is wrong with us? Why are we falling apart? We're so unorganized! We're split down the middle!”

What should you do? Start by telling anyone that is flapping such nonsense to STFU! It is not some quagmire! That’s the Republican Parties dilemma! It is not Barack, or Hillary or Bill’s predicament to hold! It is, however, going to be handed off to the next president to fix.

Let the RNC and Rove's minions suck wind and pontificate until their blue in the face and out of a job in 2009! The Democratic Party, and the country for that matter, are not split or in danger of implosion- the RNC and their respective party are.

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