How can impeachment be off the table?
August 11, 2008 5:23 pm

clammyc at DailyKos

How can impeachment be off the table if there is proof that documents that linked al Qaeda to Saddam or documents that made the case for invading Iraq were forged by the Office of Special Plans/Doug Feith/Dick Cheney/Scooter Libby or whoever else may have forged them?  

Of course there were flat out denials of this by those close to the White House, as well as many rightist bloggers.  But they have denied other lies and actions that have been proven to have occurred (or not occurred), or said (or not said) when it comes to this administration and its’ enablers in Congress.

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Cokie Roberts smears Obama again for trip to "exotic" Hawaii
August 11, 2008 5:28 pm

Americablog

Seriously, Cokie is an idiot -- or someone who is freaked out by "exotic" people.

NOTE FROM JOHN: So what exactly is so exotic and foreign about Hawaii to Cokie Roberts anyway? The fact that the state is populated with dark-skinned people?

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Antichrist Superstar
August 11, 2008 8:10 pm

I guess the McCain Ad is hitting the high points of the Time LaHaye Left Behind series
which only speaks to "those who are in the know." (wink, wink)
How 'bout getting a fundamentalist brain transplant instead.

Amy Sullivan, Time Magazine

.........They will call him The One" flash across the screen. The Antichrist of the Left Behind books is a charismatic young political leader named Nicolae Carpathia who founds the One World religion (slogan: "We Are God") and promises to heal the world after a time of deep division. One of several Obama clips in the ad features the Senator saying, "A nation healed, a world repaired. We are the ones that we've been waiting for."

The visual images in the ad, which Davis says has been viewed even more than McCain's "Celeb" ad linking Obama to the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, also seem to evoke the cover art of several Left Behind books. But they're not the cartoonish images of clouds parting and shining light upon Obama that might be expected in an ad spoofing him as a messiah. Instead, the screen displays a sinister orange light surrounded by darkness and later the faint image of a staircase leading up to heaven........

........It's not hard to see how some Obama haters might be tempted to make the comparison. In the Left Behind books, Carpathia is a junior Senator who speaks several languages, is beloved by people around the world and fawned over by a press corps that cannot see his evil nature, and rises to absurd prominence after delivering just one major speech. Hmmh. But serious Antichrist theorists don't stop there. Everything from Obama's left-handedness to his positive rhetoric to his appearance on the cover of this magazine has been cited as evidence of his true identity. One chain e-mail claims that the Antichrist was prophesied to be "A man in his 40s of MUSLIM descent," which would indeed sound ominous if not for the fact that the Book of Revelation was written at least 400 years before the birth of Islam.

The speculation reached a fever pitch after Obama's European trip and the Berlin speech in which he called for global unity. Conservative Christian author Hal Lindsey declared in an essay on WorldNetDaily, "Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him — a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib ... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance." The conservative website RedState.com now sells mugs and T shirts that sport a large "O" with horns and the words "The Anti-Christ" underneath........

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Focus On Family Pulls Controversial Obama 'Rain' Video
August 12, 2008 5:31 pm

Focus on the Family Action has pulled a video from its Web site that had asked people to pray for "rain of biblical proportions" during Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field on Aug. 28.

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10 Things You Should and Should Not Do in This Bear Market
August 12, 2008 9:00 pm

EWT

1) Should you invest in real estate?

Uh, if you're even considering this notion, you should immediately begin searching for a highly recommended head shrinker........

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MehCain
August 12, 2008 9:06 pm

John Aravosis, Americablog

Every time I look at this photo I discover something new.

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Good Depression vs Great Depression
August 13, 2008 4:49 pm

This guy asserts that if we admit we are in a "depression" it would prevent a catastrophic "great" depression:

Paul B. Farrell
America needs a 'Good Depression'
Seven reasons a 'good' depression beats a new Great Depression

.......President Bush said he's a "war president." The American economy is a war economy driven by our warring soul. We spend 54% of the tax dollar on war, 47% of the world's total military spending. A half century ago President Eisenhower warned of this "military industrial complex" that's running America into bankruptcy.

Today, our economy thrives on war and disasters, generating such "spectacular profits that many people around the world" are convinced America's "rich and powerful must be deliberately causing catastrophes so that they can exploit them" says Naomi Klein in "Shock Doctrine."

Klein's snapshot of Wall Street's soul is disturbing: "An economic system that requires constant growth, while bucking almost all serious attempts at environmental regulation, generates a steady stream of disasters all on its own, whether military, economical or financial. The appetite for easy, short profits offered by purely speculative investment has turned the stock, currency and real estate markets into crisis-creation machines"

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One Third of New Owners Owe More Than House Is Worth
August 13, 2008 4:53 pm

Bloomberg

Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth, according to Zillow.com, an Internet provider of home valuations.

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I Approve This Message
August 13, 2008 8:55 pm

McCain Oil Politics

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Obama Camp Releases 41-Page Doc Debunking Smears By "Fringe Bigot" Corsi
August 14, 2008 8:50 pm

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The Public v. McCain
August 14, 2008 10:20 pm

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Matthew 25 - Families
August 15, 2008 6:39 pm

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Fox Attacks Game Show
August 15, 2008 7:51 pm

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CNN asks
August 16, 2008 9:56 pm

Americablog

It's interesting that CNN thinks it's fine to discuss whether Obama is the anti-Christ, but a discussion about John McCain's adultery, something we actually know to be true, is taboo. Unless of course, CNN think the concept of the anti-Christ is funny and light and silly, so it's okay to talk about. In that case, there are quite a few million Christians who might disagree with CNN's flippant attitude towards Christianity.

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Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain
August 17, 2008 5:29 pm

Jon Soltz

"Why do the troops hate the troops?"

Honestly, after years of hearing that if you don't support the Bush military policy, you don't support the troops, you have to wonder what the neo-cons will do now. Today, a study by the Center for Responsive Politics reported that members of the military are giving more donations to Senator Obama than Senator McCain, and when you just examine those troops who are deployed, Obama attracts more donations by a 6 to 1 factor.

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Death Before Tolerance or Equality
August 17, 2008 5:34 pm

The Daily Show’s Jason Jones sat down with Paul Cameron, one of the nation’s leading anti-gay activists, who said, “I think the country, on the aggregate, is safer without Bleu in the military.” Asked why, Cameron explained, “Guys don’t want to think about other guys, other fellas, ogling them in the shower or whatever.”

Jones responded, “I know I’d rather die in a terrorist attack than suffer through an uncomfortable shower with a gay.” Cameron grudgingly responded, “Yes.”

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