2008 Presidential Race

As you see, we have a new Banner representing the possible candidates that those of us at like seriously WTF?! find suitable for this coming election. In the coming weeks and months we will be giving you in depth analysis, and maybe even some interviews, with the nominees as we attempt to determine who is our best choice for President.

The following are the respective candidate's websites.
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This is a lil item that the Chris Dodd campaign came up with for the various debates and this is last night's times for the debate. Sadly former Senator and everyone's favorite crazy old man, Mike Gravel, was not invited to the debate. Debate organizers excluded former Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska on grounds that he did not meet fundraising and polling thresholds.

Right, you hate the fact that this old man calls you out for giving the front runners more time, in some case 3 times more time, then the rest of the candidates. Chris Dodd is quickly moving up my list of men who need to be considered for the Vice Presidential nomination. I think the man is starting to show a backbone in this election, and in Congress.

At least one of these politicians are evolving.

A noun's a special kind of word,

My hat goes off this morning to Presidential Candidate Joe Biden of Delaware. Yes, I know it's a boring stat, but at least this man has watch School House Rock and knows how Rudy Guliani makes a sentence.

Biden: “…And the irony is, Rudy Giuliani, probably the most under qualified person since George Bush to seek the presidency, is here - talking about any of the people here. Rudy Giuliani. I mean think about it, Rudy Giuliani, there’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun and a verb and 9/11 and I mean, there’s nothing else. There’s nothing else.”

Click the link for the video, fucking money.

FEC going after Colbert?

You'd think there would be FAR more dirty connections between our lovable slimeball politicians and corporate interests to keep the FEC busy, but apparently they do have time to go after a Faux-News star as well!

Alas, in our utopian society all our politicians are clean as a whistle, so the FEC is free to go after others as it sees fit.

Which brings us to Colbert...

If his campaign plays out the way he's indicated that it will, Comedy Central and Colbert's sponsor, Doritos, could be violating federal laws that bar corporations from backing political campaigns, election law experts say.

Now, the practical, corporate-hating, politician mistrusting part of me would normally salute this gesture as this is obviously corporate interest involved in a "presidential" campaign... But at the same time, is this really the right fight for the FEC to be pursuing right now?

You mean to tell me that of all the candidates running for President right now, Stephen Colbert is a concern to the FEC over some zesty tasty nacho chips, that he as a candidate enjoys, but he as a host endorses?

Side Note: DC&H and I are going to see how difficult it may be to get Colbert on the ballot in Vermont... DC&H has already done the research on forms and amount of signatures, but I'm thinking with Vermont's open primary system it shouldn't be that difficult to get him to be the top republican candidate on the ballot (ala, Fred Tuttle).














Remember Kids, D is for Dinky!

HE'S DOING IT!

Al Gore, officially too qualified to be president...

Its official.

The rumors had been circling for weeks if not months that it would happen, but Former President (yes I'm aware of the horrendous job the "Supremes" did, so I will refer to him as such) Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The win is also likely add further fuel to a burgeoning movement in the United States for Gore to run for president in 2008, which he has so far said he does not plan to do.

Now, this is quite a mixed blessing for a lot of different reasons... First off we are all incredibly proud of Former President Gore for continuing on this quest of his that started so long ago and finally seeing some fruits of his labor come to bloom. This is not to take anything away from this journey that he has been on most his life...

But damnit Al... You just made yourself way too damn smart for the average american to vote for you... I mean, you were already there when you ran against the idiot boy king but you still could have pulled that election off if you hadn't listened so damn much to those idiots around you. Granted, Shrum and company did wonders for Clinton when they WERE genius minds in the political spectrum, but they lost that ability soon after and just assumed they were still geniuses (which, was so pathetically false).

It is really sad, but the second Al ran for office, the right-wing political machine will go back to reminding people how little they would have to talk about with Al at the dinner table, or while watching a football game while knocking back a few "Buds" (I resisted the urge to mention that stupid event in which a bunch of glorified truck drivers keep making left hand turns all day, whats it called, NeckCar?).

I mean, we get the democracy, and the government we deserve. In a lot of ways, that is why we are demeaned so much overseas, since those idiots in power reflect extremely poorly on us (but damnit, we put them there!).

I'm still hoping for a last second Al Gore run here... If only because I don't think I can stomach the leading two options in Clinton or Obama... Edwards would be fine for me, but something about the treachery of the Democratic party in its "selection" phase (Howard Dean anyone?) tells me that anyone that gets in either Clinton or Obama's way will be dealt with with another malfunctioning Microphone...

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My Greatest Fear

There is apparently a book out that was just released on paperback called Armed Madhouse By Greg Palast. The link is a book review by Mark Groubert on C&L and it brings to the forefront my biggest fear in the coming year.

The line that works best for me is the following:

Anti-conspiracy theorists in the media kept demanding a ‘smoking gun’. There is no smoking gun – just thousands of spent rounds of ammunition.

The numbers don't lie, the Democrats won the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections. Both times the vote was stolen by the Republican Party, then I'm sure they saw it as doing what was best for America. Perhaps it was even a vision by God that told you to lead America to providence.

It frightens the hell out of me that this next election could also be stolen and those in power in the Democratic party will do nothing to stop it. I think Hunter must have saw some of this coming, it very well be the reason he left us, he couldn't stand the bullshit anymore and he was too old to fight it.

This country has been hi-jacked by a power that has been unseen by most people, but that is because they are blind. One merely has to open his eyes and see the corruption and hypocrisy going on inside this beltway. From far away folks merely shrug their shoulders and tell themselves that this is merely the way things work. People blindly follow what they are told because we have become a country too lazy to think anymore.

Think about it, a recent study just showed a third of American's still believe that Sadaam was directly involved with the terror attacks on 9/11. This has been disproved time and time again to the point where even the White House admits there was no connection. Yet the Republican Propaganda Network still says it so folks still believe. You won't find it surprising to also know that 40% of Republicans polled believed that very lie. How sad is it that people can't even listen and hear the truth anymore?

We are getting dangerously close to Big Brother, Escape From LA, or any other dystopia story you know of. JFK once said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." How far off are we from that very point? How much more are the people of America willing to stand as corporations and political machines rape and murder this great nation? People didn't even blink an eye when their civil liberties were taken away, why should they care if their votes are outsourced to the highest bider.

Nothing terrifies me and saddens me then this possibility. I can only hope that the powers of justice, of right and integrity can overcome this blight that has seemingly taken hold of our country. A country whose past isn't perfect as we were taught, we are not the sparkling ivory tower they would have you believe. Our hands are covered in blood over what we have done over the centuries. It seems every generation we realize this, but we seem to have forgotten. We are a great nation, we are the land of opportunity, and we must take it back from the barons who attempt to steal it away from us as if this was a child's game.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. -HST