McCain: racist, bigot & homophobe

It is now abundantly clear that McCain’s only campaign strategy is “vote for me I’m White”.

Even though racism and the Republican “Southern Strategy” elected Ronald Regan as President two times he managed to cloak racist code words in patriotic themes. But there was no YouTube and bloggers during Regan’s election or even Junior Bush’s elections.

The demographics in the South have changed dramatically with an influx of “Yankees” and immigrants. Many of the hard core racists in both rural Northern and Southern areas have literally died and will continue to die off. The Republican “Southern Strategy” may be dying with them.

With McCain's storied temper maybe all we need to do is wait for McCain's "Macaca-YouTube moment" and hope that the South has learned that the war is over and black people are no longer their slaves.
Jim

Jim

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McCain: racist, bigot & homophobe
Created 08/01/2008 - 7:14am
John McCain, a member of the House of Representatives in the mid-1980s, often held court at a table near the bar at Bullfeathers, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, telling jokes and matching hangers-on drink by drink.
As a Capitol Hill chief of staff, I often drank at Bullfeathers and was invited to join the throng at McCain's table one evening. A few minutes listening to the racism, bigotry and homophobia of the Arizona Congressman told me all I needed to know.
McCain loved to tell jokes about lesbians, blacks, Hispanics and the Vietnamese community that occupied a large section of Arlington County, Virginia, just south of the District of Columbia.
Of course, McCain didn't use polite language in the jokes: He used names like "fags" or "queers" or "dykes" or "niggers" or "spics" or "wetbacks" or "gooks."
A typical McCain joke (overheard at Bullfeathers):
Two dykes are talking at a bar and one leaves. As she walks toward the door, the other watches her leave and says out loud: "God, I've love to eat her out."
Two men are standing near by and one turns to the other and says: "I'd like to do the same. Guess that makes me a dyke."
Or another (also overheard at Bullfeathers):
Question: Why does Mexican beer have two "X's" on the label?
Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer.
(McCain has a documented history of lesbian jokes [1]. He's also come under fire for other jokes about rape [2].)
Exampe:
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
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Exxon's second-quarter profit breaks its own record

I think that Exxon is also pumping cash into McCain’s and the Republican’s campaigns.

"Exxon is pumping cash, not oil," said Judy Dugan, research director at Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog. "The big oil companies are wallowing in cash, and Exxon is the most aggressive in buying back its stock instead of taking the risks it should to both find new oil and develop new forms of energy."
Jim Pitcherella
From the Los Angeles Times
Exxon's second-quarter profit breaks its own record
The oil giant brings in $11.68 billion, the largest profit for a U.S. company, and still fails to meet analysts' expectations. Critics say Exxon and others aren't doing enough to reduce gas prices.
By Elizabeth Douglass
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

August 1, 2008

Exxon Mobil Corp. today posted second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion, once again topping its own record for the biggest profit ever by a U.S. corporation.

Still, the massive profit by the world's largest publicly traded oil company pleased hardly anyone. Production fell during the quarter, and financial analysts had been expecting better earnings -- two factors that helped push the company's stock down $2.49 to $81.89 at 3:15 Eastern time.

Activists renewed their complaints that Exxon and other oil companies weren't investing enough to find new oil that would bring pump prices down, instead preferring to drill for wealth on Wall Street by purchasing their own stock.

Read more at
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-exxon1-2008aug01,0,849528.story

John McCain made a stone cold error on the "surge"

After a series of forgetful jumbles of history and geography by McCain, I think the American people may indeed “make a judgment”; that is that we may have a second Republican Presidential candidate with incipient Alzheimer’s disease. The question is will the press continue to try hiding McCain’s flubs or not.

There is also of course the possibility that McCain will forget he is a Presidential Candidate.

From the Huffington Post VIDEO:
"During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the "surge" strategy in Iraq. In an interview with anchor Katie Couric, the Arizona Republican said, inaccurately, that the surge strategy was responsible for the much-touted "Anbar Awakening," in which Sunni sheiks turned against Al Qaeda, helping in turn to reduce violence in the country."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/22/mccain-gets-history-of-th_n_114419.html

McCain confused again

The last time I looked there was no border between Iraq and Pakistan.

Good thing he has a limo driver otherwise he might get lost on the way home.
Jim

McCain Defends Czechoslovakia, A Non-Existent Country -- Again
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/mccain-references-non-exi_n_112650.html

McCain Owns First Foreign Policy Gaffe During Obama's Iraq Trip (VIDEO)
And it was McCain who owns the first big gaffe of the trip -- appearing to confuse Iraq and Afghanistan.
Asked by ABC's Diane Sawyer Monday morning whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded:
"I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border," said McCain, R-Ariz., said on "Good Morning America

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/21/mccain-owns-first-foreign_n_114013.html

I would highly recommend the book McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers by Misha Glenny

I would highly recommend the book McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers by Misha Glenny
Bodley Head £20, pp426

It is about international organized crime but it foreshadows some of the political, financial, national security and energy crisis that we now face.

Although is not the direct cause of the explosion of organized crime, the Republican Conservative Deregulation Agenda promoted by Bush, Rove and McCain has an unintentional effect on the rapid spread of international organized crime.

Much of the explosion of international organized crime is due the break up of the Soviet Union. International organized crime is now the primary industry of several countries and a high percentage of the economy of many others.

Our financial institutions had not begun to fail when McMafia was published in 2006 but the seeds for failure are evident. The manipulation of our financial institutions by organized crime syndicates when no one was watching is a major cause of our economic crisis.

It is now impossible to lead a normal life in the USA and not be touched in some manner by international organized crime in your daily living.
Jim

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Police show up at Encino IndyMac branch as waiting customers clash

This is only the beginning. Wait until ordinary people understand to what extent international organized crime, the Mafia and Mafiya has dipped into our banks and lending institutions. A lot can happen when people are handed piles of other people’s money and no one is looking in an age when billions of dollars can be transferred electronically in microseconds.

Carl Rove and the Nuevo Robber Barons need to stand down while Democrats sweep the country with a New, New Deal. We need to bring back regulated industry and financial institutions. In a few years we might be able to sing; “Happy Days are Here Again”. That is, if the USA survives intact from the devastation that Republican Conservatism has brought us.

I don’t think that it will happen but, If China decides that we are too poor of a financial risk and cashes out, our money will be basically worthless and the USA and the “Experiment in Democracy” are finished.
Jim

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From the Los Angeles Times
Police show up at Encino IndyMac branch as waiting customers clash
People in line seeking to withdraw their money are told to remain calm or face arrest. A disruption reportedly occurs when some try to cut in line outside the failed institution.
By Andrea Chang and Andrew Blankstein
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

11:17 AM PDT, July 15, 2008

Los Angeles police were dispatched to an IndyMac Bank branch in Encino this morning when customers waiting to withdraw money became agitated after several people tried to cut in line on the second day of the failed institution's federal takeover.

Police told customers to remain calm or face arrest as they tried to withdraw their money.

Three police units were dispatched shortly after 8 a.m. amid reports of a disruption outside the branch in the 17000 block of Ventura Boulevard, LAPD spokeswoman April Harding said.

Harding said that as many as 80 people were waiting outside the bank when several people tried to cut in line.

Order was quickly restored and private security guards stood watch over the line, with police acting as backup. As a precaution, the LAPD sent a squad car to another IndyMac branch in Northridge, although no incidents were reported there, Harding said.

As the morning wore on, customers leaned over a metal railing separating them from a row of security guards and yelled complaints. The main point of contention surrounded a sign-up list that was started late Monday after many customers gave up and left for the day.

"He promised us there would not be a list," one woman yelled at a security guard. "We don't know who to believe!"

As tensions rose, customers began pointing fingers at one another and trying to cut in line.

"Listen to me, lady," Mahvash Barjasteh, 51, a loan broker from Woodland Hills said to a guard. "I was in front of him."

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-indymac16-2008jul16,0,1217522.story