Until then we have to bridge the gap so that America doesn’t end up on the scrap heap of history.

Whoever controls the middle east controls the world.

This is true only so long as we stubbornly hang on to an increasingly problematic petroleum-based energy economy. Once we get away from that, we’re free from their control. And we stop funding the very people who are opposing us by sending them the wealth of America in return for their oil.

We would be in an entirely new geopolitical environment. We would be calling the shots again for our own nation.

It’s all about our unnecessary energy dependence. All of it.

Having said that, I think his latest commercial is great and my wife loved it even more.

Country First!!

The increased sophistication I was referring to has to do with the fact that people are less trusting in general now of televised media coverage, political advertising, and internet content. They descriminate better than they did four years ago because they’ve had four more years of experience with the methodologies of the new media. And certainly with political manipulation.

The McCain ads in question would have played a lot better four years ago. Now the term “swiftboating” is on the tip of everybody’s tongue–a verb that didn’t even exist four years past.

My guess is we won’t see the ads go national because the McCain team will analyze the feedback data and figure this out. Unless he’s picked a media team that’s still thinking four years in the past, of course.

So, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voted identically on each and every one of the cited roll call votes.

You can confirm any of them using the Congressional Roll Call Database found at this address:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes.xpd?year=2007

Obviously you have misinterpreted the nature of the cited votes cast by Barack Obama. Either that, or Hillary Clinton is as untrustworty a political chameleon as you believe Barack Obama to be.

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You Europeans smoke your faces off, too. Must be some pretty damn good cigarettes.

In the States, that would buy you a black market handgun, and you could kill yourself faster. You should come over here and take advantage of the exchange rate.

The key here, whether or not you believe the full committee chair, is that Obama didn’t even *try* to have any hearing … ever.

“4/21/05: Obama voted for HR 1268, war appropriations in the amount of approximately $81 billion. Much of this funding went to Blackwater USA and Halliburton and disappeared. Roll call 109 ”

“7/01/05: Obama voted for H.R. 2419, termed ‘The Nuclear Bill’ by environmental and peace groups. It provided billions for nuclear weapons activities, including nuclear bunker buster bombs. It contains full funding for Yucca Mountain, a threat to food and water in California, Nevada, Arizona and states across America. Roll call 172 .”

“9/26/05 & 9/28/05: Obama failed and refused to place a hold on the nomination of John Roberts, a supporter of permanent detention of Americans without trial, and of torture and military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees.”

“11/15/05: Obama voted for continued war, again. Roll call 326 was the vote on the Defense Authorization Act (S1042) which kept the war and war profiteering alive, restricted the right of habeas corpus and encouraged terrorism. Pursuant to his pattern, Obama voted for this. .”

“12/21/05: Obama confirmed his support for war by voting for the Conference Report on the Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2863), Roll call 366, which provided more funding to Halliburton and Blackwater. ”

“5/2/06: Obama voted for money for more war by voting for cloture on HR 4939, the emergency funding to Halliburton, Blackwater and other war profiteers. Roll call 103 .”

“5/4/06: Obama, again, voted to adopt HR4939: emergency funding to war profiteers. Roll call 112.”

“6/15/06: Obama, again, opposed withdrawal of the troops, by voting to table a motion to table a proposed amendment would have required the withdrawal of US. Armed Forces from Iraq and would have urged the convening of an Iraq summit (S Amdt 4269 to S. Amdt 4265 to S2766) Roll Call 174 ”

“6/22/06: Obama voted against withdrawing the troops by opposing the Kerry Amendment (S. Amdt 4442 to S 2766) to the National Defense Authorization Act. The amendment, which was rejected, would have brought our troops home. Roll Call 181 ”

“6/22/06: Obama voted for cloture (the last effective chance to stop) on the National Defense Authorization Act (S 2766), which provided massive amounts of funding to defense contractors to continue the killing in Iraq. Roll Call 183.”

“6/22/06: Obama again voted for continued war by voting to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (S 2766) for continued war funding. Roll Call 186 .

9/7/06: Obama voted to give more money to profiteers for more war (H..R. 5631). Roll Call 239 ”

“9/29/06: Obama voted vote for the conference report on more funding for war, HR 5631. Roll Call 261 .”

“11/16/06: Obama voted for nuclear proliferation in voting to pass HR 5682, a bill to exempt the United States-India Nuclear Proliferation Act from requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Roll Call 270 .”

“On March 28, 2007 and March 29th, 2007, he voted for cloture and passage of a bill designed to give Bush over $120 billion to continue the occupation for years to come (with a suspendable time table) and inclusive of funding that could be used to launch a war with Iran. Roll calls 117 and 126 …Obama’s record shows a minimum of 20 major pro-war votes…”

http://schotlinepress.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/support-grows-for-graham-burr-mccain-gi-bill/

http://crazypolitics.blogspot.com/2008/05/battling-over-gi-bill.html

and perhaps most famously

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0508/Obama_criticizes_absent_McCain_on_Senate_floor_McCain_hits_back_hard.html

“Don’t fall for it.” Pfft.

And the person who has advocated for our veterans’ receiving proper care at our VA hospitals has been Hillary Clinton. http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=1816

John McCain has done his share for our active and retired armed services personnel. To say that Obama has done more in his 143 days in the US Senate before he ran for office compared to McCain’s two decade career is ludicrous.