hem now.” That’s good advice, I think, and it’s the advice I wish the Kerry camp had followed in 2004. The book is full of lies sourced from blog posts, lacking any verification at all. It’s pretty breathtaking that this book found a publisher, even if Mary Matalin is the editor. Media Matters has a rundown of the problems in the book, if you’re interested in the grizzly details.One thing I wanted to mention, though, was that I don’t think we can be too harsh on the Kerry campaign – at least in this instance. They saw that they had two strategies, to fight it as hard as they could, or to ignore it and just let it blow away. I can sympathize with their dilemma. The issue was nonsense and a lie, after all. But it obviously turned out to be a major miscalculation. As anyone who was ever picked on knows, the strategy your mom will tell you is, “Just don’t respond to them. All they're looking for is attention.” I don’t know how many of you have tried this particular tack, but in my experience, it’s not a winning solution. The Kerry campaign was trying to stay above the fray, and they stayed so far above it that they didn’t notice it was costing them an election.The Obama camp seems to be taking advice from dad this time, and instead of just walking away, hitting Corsi right in the nose. If something that’s nothing more than a stitched together tissue of false blog posts and misleading information can debut at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, it’s really the only solution that makes much sense. I hope it works out for Obama a bit better than it did for Kerry.
  It seems like Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is bragging about his ground game just about every day. (OK, it's more than once a day.) But his Republican rival John McCain hasn't been distracted because he's too busy boasting about his own efforts to take the White House. His campaign's latest effort is "McCain Nation" day, which takes place across the country today. The campaign is urging supporters to get together at house parties and larger venues -- including five locations in Central and Southwest Ohio - to talk strategy and spread McCain's "Country First" message. As a bonus, supporters will be able to participate in a conference call with a top campaign adviser hosted by McCain's wife, Cindy.
 The Clintons have returned in force. Just like Caesar at Pharsalus, you think you have them pinned down and starved out, then you drop your guard for a moment and for the throat they go. In this case, they just got Hillary’s name entered as a possible Convention nominee.  The New York Daily News reported recently that Clinton had asked not to be nominated. But at a fundraiser last week in California, Clinton told supporters she was looking for a way to recognize them at the convention. “I happen to believe that we will come out stronger if people feel that their voices were heard and their views respected, she said. “I think that is a very big part of how we actually come out unified.”  That “way” will just happen to be a parade of division, a muttering chorus of doubt like a bad case of tinitis.Colbert was right. This isn’t just “catharsis.” It’s a whole damn Greek drama.Why the DNC allowed this to happen is beyond me - like we need more mania, arrogance, disunity, incompetence, nostalgia, avarice, back-biting and partisanship in this campaign. It certainly isn’t for the cause of banding behind Barack, as recent events have shown.First we had Bill using an ABC exclusive interview opportunity to gripe about the primaries and deny that Obama’s ready to be President: Then it came out that, behind closed doors, Hillary had encouraged her supporters in “PUMA” (Party Unity My Ass) to find some way to express the will to nominate her at the convention. All this is occurring with the backdrop of The Atlantic having published the e-mails of the Clinton campaign; e-mails that reveal:  Above all, this irony emerges: Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence—on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to “do the job from Day One.” In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles’ heel.  Also clarified was the strategy of the Clinton campaign against Obama - that being to always be on the attack; to go for his person, not his policies; to cast him as “foreign” and not Americans. These are the very strategies of the GOP, and they are attacks that the Clintons have never refuted - have, in fact, only underhandedly stoked. It is no surprise that they are attacks that still have edge and venom to them.What is a surprise is that all of this amounts to the DNC and the Obama campaign spotlighting the Clintons at the Convention. Given key speaking slots - even for Chelsea - and central billing on the schedule, they will be dominating the coverage with their controversy, their undermining unpredictability, their swaggering spitefulness. Already they’ve managed to secure a rotten plank in the DNC platform, one emetically toxic to the cause of feminism, that as much as states that Hillary’s primary loss was due not to Obama’s excellence but to “demeaning portrayals of women [that] cheapen our debates, dampen the dreams of our daughters, and deny us the contributions of many.” How proponents of the Clinton position cannot see that their planned “protest’s” tawdry emotionalism, passive-aggression and self-indulgent divisiveness would be pathetic regardless of gender is beyond me. That they are not only allowed, but even endorsed, and transformed into an animus to accuse media bias and therefore dismiss the failings of the disgusting Clinton campaign as non-existent is a slash through the hamstrings for both women’s equality and political progress.It is likely that the foundation of the Convention will be further cracked as the insurgent cries of PUMA get to voice their open-throated outrage that their cult idol, Clinton, did not triumph - or in the hopes that she still will.Why the Democrats are not preventing this, and letting the isolated and bankrupt Clintons just starve away in a pit of their plummeting poll numbers, is beyond me. They are putting the knife to their outstretched throats for the sake of some nebulous loyalty to the wheezing machine of the past. They just don’t get it - the last thing this xenophobic feeding frenzy of a race needs is more blood in the water.Why they don’t get it is one of the chief reasons it took a city-annihilating hurricane, an economic topple, two debilitating and senseless wars, massive civil rights violations and a smattering of sex scandals to bring them back to something resembling power in 2006: The America of today does not crave complexity, revolutionary anger, minority sensitivity, heated debate and diversity.The America of the 21st century is scared, tired, hopeless.They want simple answers, unflagging positivity, overweaning pride, absolute loyalty and unity.Until the DNC gets this, they’re never going to really hold the throne. And if the ravenous Clintons - who have already muscled their way into turning the Convention into televised party suicide - have their way, that throne will be set on one of the prettiest and most promising pile of broken dreams we have seen in over a generation.
August 12, 2008 (LPAC)–By acting to defend Russian citizens against a terrorist-type attack by the Soros government of Georgia, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has delivered a decisive defeat to the British Empire, said Lyndon LaRouche today. Any capitulation by Russia to the criminal aggression by the Soros puppet government of Mikheil Saakashvili would have been tragic for civilization.Putin’s action was objectively required, LaRouche continued. He was absolutely correct. He and President Medvedev could see that the British Empire, with its U.S. appendages, and its tool George Soros, was heading to consolidate its world empire. The British, and Putin, knew that the only obstacle to their plan at this time, is Russia, with its thermonuclear capability. If Russia had submitted to the terms being dictated by the British, the world would have been on the road to World War III.Thus, Putin decided he had to draw the line. He acted decisively, and backed the British and the U.S. down. As a result, the Georgian puppet government has been destroyed, and a message has been delivered to the entire world.Some British thinkers got that message, LaRouche said, pointing to an article in the London Daily Telegraph of today by diplomatic editor David Blair. Blair writes that “by seizing the opportunity to pound Georgia with air strikes and military incursions, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s Prime Minister, is sending an emphatic message with global consequences. The curtain has fallen on the era when NATO steadily expanded into Eastern Europe and onwards to embrace the former republics of the Soviet Union–and Russia was able to respond with nothing more than bluster…. The balance of power in Europe has fundamentally changed….”What Russia faced was a Pearl Harbor-like sneak attack by the Soros administration of Georgia, an attack carried out by the tool of the Hitler-like Soros, with the aim of Hitler-like ethnic cleansing, LaRouche said. Putin saw the existential threat to Russia, and where it was leading, and he acted, as FDR did against Pearl Harbor. He knew that if he did not, the British Empire–faced with the dissolution of its world financial system–would have pressed on toward world war.The silly screams from the Bush Administration only testify to the effectiveness of the Putin action, LaRouche said. As for the Presidential candidates, the fact that Barack Obama is a bought-and-paid-for stooge for George Soros makes it hopeless that he could come to his senses. In the case of McCain, LaRouche said that he should stop being silly, and sit down and think, rather than shooting off his mouth.The Russian action against the Georgian provocation is a crucial turning point, LaRouche concluded. It reverses almost 20 years of history, during which the British Empire, through Soros and other agencies, moved to take advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union, to consolidate world empire. Through this entire period, the American people–the only other significant point of resistance–tragically capitulated, negotiating their own destruction, refusing to take the threat to their nation, and the world, seriously. How could Americans be so stupid as to tolerate Bush? How could they let Soros choose the Democratic Party presidential candidate?The key to victory over the enemy of mankind, the British Empire, is to refuse to compromise on fundamentals, to turn over the rules of the game, LaRouche said. That is the decision which Prime Minister Putin made, for the benefit of all mankind.Some people in Britain have gotten the message, LaRouche said. Now, it’s time the American people did as well. It’s time to destroy everything associated with the British Empire, especially its leading agents, the Hitler-like Soros, and Al Gore. Either this is done between now and the November election, or there won’t be a United States.news/2008/08/12/larouche-putin-was-right-he-acted-prevent-world-war-iii.html
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10 réactions  Le candidat démocrate ne possèderait plus que trois points d'avance sur son adversaire républicain, avec 46% des intentions de vote au niveau national contre 43%.  Selon un nouveau sondage, l'écart entre les deux prétendants à la Maison Blanche Barack Obama et John McCain se réduit au point que le candidat démocrate ne possède plus que trois points d'avance sur son adversaire républicain.Les chiffres du sondage publié mercredi 13 août par le Pew Research Center montrent que Barack Obama est crédité de 46% d'intentions de vote au niveau national contre 43% pour John McCain. Or, fin juin, une étude de ce même centre de recherche estimait que le candidat démocrate avait huit points d'avance sur son rival républicain (48% contre 40% des intentions de vote). A la mi-juillet, Barack Obama perdait déjà un peu de son avance : il ne disposait alors plus que de cinq points de plus que John McCain (47% contre 42%).Toutefois, le sondage quotidien de l'institut Gallup donnait, quant à lui, mercredi, six points d'avance à Barack Obama (48% contre 42%).
 When I sent out an email to this political group a few weeks ago, I expressed some concerns about why Obama was not kicking McCain’s ass despite that fact that he seemed to be doing everything right and McCain was making a fool of himself. I said then that I need a few more weeks to make up my mind about what is going on (if I could link to my email, I would do so here, but I can’t. So, just dig around in your brain, or trash folder, for a minute). After a lot of reviewing of all sorts of national and state-by-state polls, reading lots of commentary, and watching news spin, I have formed my opinion.  Over the past couple of weeks, the situation between McCain and Obama has been sort of reversed: McCain has been doing things “right” (pushing hard with his new attack message, taking the popular position on the gas tax holiday and offshore drilling, and sounding strong on defense when responding to Russia’s invasion of Georgia) and Obama has been slipping up (playing McCain’s game about the celebrity issue, “flip-flopping” on offshore drilling, getting criticism for his response to Russia).Yet, despite all of this, their numbers remain remarkably flat. In national polls they continue to dance up and down around the same range (with Obama 0-7 points ahead) and in the state-by-state polling, nothing decisive has been happening. So, what I conclude from all of this, and ultimately why Obama did not kick ass in July, is that the American people are just not paying attention right now. If this is true, then things will start changing rapidly next month. Once both candidates have picked VPs, had their conventions, and especially after the first debate on 9/26, folks will start paying attention again and the numbers should change rapidly. In that case, by early October, I should be able to make much better predictions about what election day will look like.Comments?
 “You cannot make a program that works for everyone only work for some Americans”, said Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.). She attended a protest, which was held outside of the Republican National Headquarters in Washington D.C, to celebrate Social Security’s 73rd birthday.Protesters were greeted by Republican National Headquarters employees handing out