Last minute YouTube clips; Barack Obama & John McCain & Truth

This is a pretty good Obama commercial in the form of an old beer ad:

Barackapella…a great rendition of “Yes We Can.”

John McCain vs. John McCain

Nothing better than a little Simpson’s to speak truth about power:

…and for truth TO power, the best of all time:

Scenes from the trail: Obama and McCain

Obama in St. Louis…over 100,000 there to hear the next President:

 

Political YouTube Viewing – Part II Palin, Obama, McCain

A few more fun clips for those following from near and far:

A fun clip from the genius, Edward Current (if you have a few minutes, take a look at his other works):

John McCain said in his book that he let “ambition get the best of him” when he sold out to South Carolina and pandered to the state about their confederate flag during the 2000 election.  Once a personality trait, always a personality trait:

I posted this previously, but it’s worth seeing again:

Debate Review Part II – Barack Obama vs. John McCain

The debate of a man who is 5-10 percentage points ahead and a man who has resorted to racist style politics didn’t end up too well for the man who is behind.  While McCain again did fine in getting his points across, his points happen to all coincide with current failed policies and his own failed ideas.

The striking points of the debate included the following:

McCain tried to accuse Barack Obama of not talking softly and carrying a big stick because he’d said out loud that he take out Bin Laden even if he (Bin Laden) was in Pakistan.

Barack hit back in saying that yes, he’ll kill Bin Laden if he’s in our sights, but McCain was the unstable person singing about bombing Iran to the tune of a beach boys song…which was not very presidential.  Furthermore, saying…”I’ll get him, I know how to get him…” isn’t a solution nor a plan.

The John McCain campain has spent the past few days trying to depict Barack Obama as some sort of terrorist.  If John really thinks Obama is a terrorist, and John McCain puts “country first,” then how is it possible that he could go through an entire debate not warning the country that Obama the terrorist isn’t the main point of your campain to save us as citizens of the United States of America.

In a country that has nearly been brought to its ruin by lobbyist pushing to deregulate Wall Street, the guy (McCain) whose campaign is run by 60 lobbyists, just lost the election.

John McCain: Napoleonic Complex & a Crook at Heart

The two most important links you’ll ever click about John McCain are below. Please take the time to read one and watch the other.  One is an incredible article that details John being much like Bush in that he was a crappy soldier, but due to his father’s clout, he defied his own stupidity.  The other details that same stupidity in the Senate and his involvement in the 80’s Financial Crisis.  As Joe Biden said, what’s past is prologue…and John’s given us all we need to know about his past.  I guess if we elect John McCain, we could get his THIRD financial scandal?  Considering his chief financial advisor deregulated the current market allowing them to conduct business in a dangerous way, I’d say we could expect it to occur again.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

http://www.keatingeconomics.com/

Barack Obama, John McCain, and Sarah Palin Political YouTube Viewing:

Just some light viewing in the sprint to the finish:

First, for a good laugh (or maybe to make you crap your pants), I thought you might like to know where Palin stands on…well…trying to complete a sentence coherently:

…another clip of her interview.  Katie does a good job of sifting through the bullshit and trying to get her to give an answer.  Palin says she can’t answer and will have to find the answers and “Bring ‘em to ya.”  Uh, how about you just haul your ass back to Alaska…we already know the answer, which is why it was being asked.  John isn’t for regulation, he says he’s “fundamentally a deregulator.”

This clip is of David Letterman on top of his game.  John McCain called David an hour before the show after Palin gave the awful interview above.  John told Dave he was going back to heroically save the economy.  Dave caught McCain on the internal CBS feed (that only a show like Letterman’s, also on CBS, would have access to) getting his make up put on to do a live Interview on the nightly news with Katie Couric so he could overshadow his mentally incompetant vice presidential nominee’s interview.  Watch and enjoy.

This clip from Letterman is almost as funny, both from the same week leading up to the first debate.  Bill Clinton was on Letterman, and then Chris Rock came out and was his normal funny self cracking jokes about the Clinton’s and Palin.

This a fun little post debate follow up set to music…so goofy that it’s almost cool:

I’m not sure why it links to a dumb article below talking about McCain being close in polls.  That article is over two weeks old, here’s a link the the latest polls…and it doesn’t look good for John:

Latest Polls

Debate Review: Barack Obama vs. John McCain

For the most part, last night’s debate was two men showing they both had a pretty good grasp on foreign policy.  However, when you’re the younger unknown like Barack Obama is, then going toe to toe with the older and supposedly more experienced man, then you’re actually winning.  Furthermore, when the older man has done nothing but plummet in the polls in the last week due to his party (and his chief financial advisor) crashing the economy, then any sort of close debate really means Barack scored a huge victory. 

The real defining moment of the debate was McCain desperately wanting to talk about “the surge” and Barack had none of it showing that McCain was actually to blame for our trillion dollar war in Iraq (watch the below clip):

Financial Markets Tumble; McCain Adviser is to Blame

McCain has called his chief economic adviser (and UBS lobbyist) one of the smartest people he knows, but he also happens to be the guy who deregulated Wall Street to allow it to drive the market and buy up the risky mortgages that have ruined the economy.  He also deregulated the energy markets which benefitted Enron while his wife was on the board of directors there.  Phil Gramm’s advice to John McCain…continue to deregulate, and John has pushed this very idea.  However, on a day when the markets are tumbling, John, who’s more and more becoming the master of deception rather than the straight talk express, is slamming the regulators to be like Obama.  How convenient.

Three old guys who know how to do favors for friends, and wreck the economy (McCain, Gramm, Cheney).

Hillary’s Last Minute Pander Will End the Race on May 6

Hillary Clinton latched on to John McCain’s gas tax holiday proposal in a last minute pander to get votes in her desperate attempt at a game changer in North Carolina. She’s gone as far to say that she doesn’t want to listen to the 99% of economists (that aren’t working for Shell Oil) who have said it is a dumb idea. When you increase demand for goods (by lowering the price), then those who are selling the good end up raising the price to profit from that increased demand, and thus, any suspension of the tax will be nullified by either the oil companies or retail gas station making up the difference. So, the taxpayer loses 9 Billion in funds to repair roads, the economy suffers from 300,000 lost construction worker jobs, the oil and gas retailers make more money, and the reliance on oil as a false commodity continues.

This suspension of reality is frighteningly similar to Bush not listening to “experts” about the ramifications of going to war in Iraq, scientists who warn about global warning, teachers who warn of the perils of No Child Left Behind, and or experts who point out that “teaching” abstinence in our schools only leads to more babies and sexually transmitted diseases. This latest pander to voters isn’t the only similarity Hillary has to our current President, but her trying to frighten voters with scare tactic ads and threatening Congress to join her worthless new policy plan with the Bush phrase, “You’re either with us or against us,” just cemented her spot in history as one of the lowest of the low politicians of our time.

This latest strategy will backfire in the worst way for Hillary. North Carolina will be a big loss and Indiana will be a small win, if at all. Super delegates have been slowly moving to Obama for the past two months and despite CNN ignoring four new Supers going to Obama on May 5 (going 18 hours without reporting this fact, but “reporting” that a poll changed one percent in a day”), the trickle is about to become a flood due to Hillary threatening to go nuclear twice in one week…once on the democratic party and once threatening to annihilate Iran (which was strange to threaten to kill innocent women and children considering she’d scolded Barack for saying he’d attack Al Quaeda leaders in Pakistan).

McCain’s gas tax holiday plan and his numerous gaffes including letting it slip out that we’re in Iraq for Oil is about to be dealt with head on.

See the gas tax plan get debunked below:

Oh, and for the 100th time in the past 100 days…Wolf Blitzer “reports” that he thinks his “dream ticket” idea may be a possibility. This guy is either a complete moron, or his CNN handlers have kidnapped his kids and are forcing him to continue to push what everyone in the world knows will never happen. Congrats for hitting 100 Wolf!!

Hillary Clinton and John McCain Want to Fire 300,000 Workers

Yes, it is true. In a time when John McCain and Hillary Clinton are trying in desperation to paint Barack Obama as an elitist and out of touch, these two vote panderers would like to cut out 9 billion dollars of the funds that fix our roads and bridges (you know, like the one that collapsed in Minnesota?), all so you the voter can save $25 dollars in gas over the summer. So, will firing 300,000 people really be worth $25 bucks to you?

It’s sickening that the continued argument (made/pushed by the oil companies) is about getting off of “foreign oil” as if where we buy the oil changes the supply or demand (and thus, the price). It’s sickening that instead of moving to a wind and solar based energy policy, we have politicians trying to bribe the public to make them okay with the high prices they’re paying.

Pandering to the voters to give tax cuts so we don’t have to pay for Medicare, health care, or a three trillion dollar war (other than the yearly 200 billion dollar annual interest payment from the loan we’ve taken from China) is one thing. Pandering for votes on suspending a tax cut so that voters can save $25 despite this hurting our roads and laying off highway workers is not only a joke, but shows zero leadership or judgement.

Maybe instead of spending $12 Billion/month in Iraq, McCain might want to subsidize electric cars and solar panels on homes. We’d be done with our need for oil in 20 years…and his promise to stay in Iraq for 100 years wouldn’t be needed.

Should these guys and 297,000 of their coworkers lose their jobs and further put the U.S. Economy at risk so Hillary and McCain can get a few votes in Kentucky?

‘We Brake when Hillary says “you’re fired!”‘

Media Has Finally Hit a New Low in “Reporting”

The media has shown it’s true spots recently in their “reporting” of what they consider to be news.  Whether it be in their worrying more about flag pins than three trillion dollar wars, or neighbors of Barrack that Bill Clinton pardoned; rather than a breaking economy due to a president that would rather borrow from the Chinese to pay for his 3 trillion dollar war, his second tax rebate/bribe to/of the American voter, or his bailouts of corporate magnates that were apparently unable to conduct payment shock analysis before they bought billions of dollars of loans whose sole risk was borrowers unable to make their payments that payment jump several years into the loan.

The media is so busy trying to cut costs that people who actually are “reporting” the news, i.e.: going out and asking serious questions, are losing their jobs.  Whether it’s through layoffs of hundreds of NY Times workers, or mergers and outsourcing (CBS may just rely on CNN?…thank goodness we’ve got Wolf on the job), or just hiring low level people who have no skill other than reading the news to host the spin doctors spewing false and irrelevant facts across the airwaves.

The obvious point is, the news has become nothing more than a business unit of the corporations that run them.  Much like a republican politician, there is too much money at stake for reality to creap into your television any more.  CNN is forced to report on Jeremiah Wright and Flag Pins just as republicans must hate gays because the Bible doesn’t say so (but the church and money does…more babies means more dowry!), love Exxon, and hate the environment (and appoint Exxon to oversee the environment to make it so), all because the money dictates that these things will happen.

The current push for corporations is to ensure someone who doesn’t take corporate bribes (i.e.: lobbyist donations) doesn’t get into the White House. The corporate media would like their ratings to continue to August because they’re certain any race with an old bag like McCain is going to put everyone to sleep. There’s also much more draw to Hillary imploding the Democratic party rather than Barack vs. McDud.

CNN is bursting at the seams to talk about flag pins and Barack’s former minister who doesn’t trust the government (maybe it has something to do about it lying to get us into a war with Vietnam, or lying about getting us into a war with Iraq,…today’s “Ticker” is that apparently Barack’s popularity is “fading.” Really, doesn’t fading imply that it’s going away forever?  This stunning analysis conducted by whoever the headline maker is looked at the daily poll that goes up and down and has switched leads between the candidates dozens of times in the past few months.  Apparently, since Hillary caugh up to Barack yesterday, it means all has faded.  However, if it goes back up at any point in the future, I guess that would mean that this was a bogus story that would need to be retracted.

Update:  (it’s been 10 seconds)  Gallup’s surprising release of another poll in their DAILY POLLING, Barack is back ahead…I guess that means Hillary is “fading.”  It was fun while it lasted.  CNN, keep the article, I’m sure you’ll be able to use it again within the next week (and save a few bucks in the process).

Update #2: CNN changes title of story, “Clinton, Obama, dead even.” I guess false headlines are only as good as the thousands who you were able to manipulate before the facts got in the way. Well, I guess it is “dead even” except for that 150 delegate lead that Obama has, but who’s counting? Unfortunately, not CNN…and unfortunately we can’t count on CNN for reality since they were bought by Time Warner who’s screwing us worse than they do with the cable bill. Question is, which business unit is perfoming and do we need more mindless, leggy or bearded know nothings on the case.

Which of these CNN talking heads would understand the first thing about how the war is (or more to the point, is not) being paid for, payment shock analysis, or anything not having to do with preachers, gays, or guns?

Hillary Clinton and Her Bogus Big State Argument

I’ve mentioned this bogus big state argument before, but to say that since one person wins one state in a democratic primary, that the other person will not, is such a house of cards argument, it makes you have to wonder why the media doesn’t shoot it down every time it is brought up. Obviously, they enjoy big bonuses brought in by American Idol style ratings.

If Barack is doing better than Clinton in polls now in California and about the same in New York (actually, a point better), then what does it matter that she won the primaries there, other than they weren’t enough to get her better than a second place finish in the overall competition for delegates. Oh, and when did the fact that delegates nominate give Hillary or Joe Scarborough the inclination that it matters what the popular vote that she’s also behind in matters?

It has become too painful to continue to see CNN, ABC and MSNBC hire all of their Republican/Clinton analysts (namely Tony Snow, Pat Buchanan, Joe Scarborough, and George Stephanopolous…oh and throw in Wolf for being a moron) to tell Democrats why Hillary is such a great nominee because she won Pennsylvania (not that they would have any bias to have one or the other candidate win!). Never Mind the fact that the state is more female than any other, never mind the fact that it is older than any state other than Florida, and never mind that Hillary Clinton does her best with old women.

Now, is that a fault of Hillary that she does well in that demographic? Of course not, but it seems every Mississipi, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana, South, Carolina, or Red State, or Caucus State, or states with an “A” in the name are states that don’t count in the general election if Hillary lost it. Not to mention that she sends out her surrogates to say Barack only wins because he’s black in those states (or that he has more “A’s” in his name than she does).

Nothing should surprise you any more, but now she doesn’t want to count popular vote in states that held Caucuses, but does in states where he wasn’t on the ballot (hmmm, this sounds very Bush 2000 of you Hillary).

CNN and MSNBC want you to trust these people to tell you it was really bad that Barrack didn’t win a closed democratic primary where 58% of the voters were women and believe that they have no bias in doing so. Never mind that the race was mathematically over after Wisconsin, their bonuses are based on how long Hillary stays in the race.

Pat Buchanan (Nixon, Ford, & Regan adviser, MSNBC analyst and Clinton pusher)
Tony Snow (Fox New host, former Bush Communications Director…new CNN “analyst”)
Joe Scarborough (Host of ‘Morning Joe’, MSNBC “analyst”, former Republican Congressman and Clinton pusher)
George Stephanopolous (Host of ABC’s ‘This Week’, debate questioner/flag pin expert, Former Clinton Communications Director, also the guy who actually asked, “Sen. Obama, do you think Rev. Wright loves the country as much as you?”, but forgot to ask if Barack wanted to marry it.

McCain Gambling with Taxpayer Money

John McCain being entrenched with lobbyists aren’t the only hits he’s taken this week. His latest troubles are not only real time, but much more of a direct poke in the eye to the American taxpayer.

A quick summary of the linked article above is that John needed a healthy chunk of money to get his campaign back afloat and like Hillary Clinton, took out a loan to get it going again. Neither candidate is doing anything terribly shady by doing that (although Hillary’s loan coinciding with a $100 million donation made to her husband raised serious questions about the old school Clinton tactics to make a buck…made shadier by her refusal to release her tax returns after loaning herself money for her campaign).

McCain’s problem, is that after his campaign picked up a little steam, he needed a second loan. He did what most people would do, in December he refinanced his loan. However, lacking collateral to pay the loan back with if he tanked, the new wording of the loan required that McCain would be FORCED (by the language of the loan) to unnecessarily stay in the race and apply for federal campaign money so that taxpayers would be forced to pay back his loan, even though he and the bank would know he was done…or as the article states, “stay in even if he didn’t want to.”

Just to be clear, a potential President of the United States and CURRENT senator would be forced to take money from the U.S. Government at taxpayer expense even if he already had decided that he was ready to drop out. If that’s not selling your soul to the devil, I don’t know what is. I won’t even get into the irony of John not understanding why the economy is in the tank due to predatory lending practices, but let’s just say Fat Albert has nothing on the thickness of it.

Fat Albert supports Barack and preventative health care

As terrible as this sounds, it is made worse by the fact that in recent days McCain has been trying to slam Obama for not accepting the public financing that McCain was using to rig the system.

With every scandal, John McCain is losing the one or two arguments he may have been able to use against Barack in the fall. I expect tomorrow we’ll find out John was withholding armor for the troops.