I think this says a lot about how the major players in the mainstream press-think:
"...The Democrats were clueless on moral values.
John Kerry was a lousy candidate. A northerner can't win anymore. The Bush team was better at
manipulating the press. No one trusts the Democrats on national security. The gay marriage issue badly hurt the party. The Democrats need to move right, or left, or south, or undergo a personality transplant, or change the Constitution so Bill Clinton can run again.
But if 70,000 votes had shifted in Ohio, wouldn't journalists be floating similar theories about President Bush and the Republicans?
"We love doing the death of the parties and the
death of great movements," says Roger Simon of U.S. News & World Report. "It's just a good, sexy story to say, 'Are the Democrats through?' If we didn't write about process, my God, we'd have to start writing about POLICY."
Policy. That's code for the War Industry, Drug
Policy, poverty, crime, and REAL economic issues. Stuff they talk about on "Democracy Now" and other shows on the Left. The country has moved so far to the right, that centrist Policy discussion is considered "leftist." It's a
cliche, but if Richard Nixon ran his campaign this year, he'd be the most "liberal" candidate from California. The Left that impacted culture, like they did in the sixties, has been thrown out of the mainstream.
They call the "Defense" Industry, which is really
the War Industry, Middle-class welfare - the Southbay housing market here in SoCal collapsed
in the early 90s, mainly due to decreased spending from the government after the end of the Cold War. But they don't just make tanks and guns. Satellites that communicate TV shows and telephone calls, the space shuttle, supercomputers, etc. So we all do benefit, directly or indirectly- it's the place where many of great engineers find work. If you saw 'Bowling for Columbine,' Lockheed-Martin even ran a Welfare-to-Work program in Michigan
(the story about the 6 year old boy who shot his
classmate)...so it's a multi-faceted business that does anything to make a profit. The only goal is to make a profit, and WAR is the biggest money-maker.
We don't REALLY have free speech in America. There is no way anyone credible could talk about this in public. John Kerry wasn't a stooge for anyone, I think if he were running things, this would be a topic he would explore - but not in public.
Look what happened to Bill Clinton when he tried to cut some of the fat from the War Industry in the early 90s, they called him "weak on Defense," and Bush ran on a campaign to restore
"dignity" to the armed forces. Most people care more about their jobs, than what is right. You
gotta pay your rent.
Bin Laden and Saddam aren't "fakes" - they're just ex-girlfriends that saw we're full of shit and moved on. Bin Laden's most recent statement says as much - Bin Laden also said his plan is clear. Keep making us spend money on War till we're bankrupt - like Russia:
OBL: "...And even more dangerous and bitter for
America is that the mujahidin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan - with Allah's permission.
It is true that this shows that al-Qaida has gained, but on the other hand, it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something of which anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like
Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced. And it all shows that the real loser is ... you."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm
You know we're in trouble when the most honest discussion about what's happening in America is coming from a mass-murderer on the other side of the world!? No one discussed this part of Bin Laden's speech in any serious way when it came out, which tells us a lot.
We have to keep spending till other countries won't loan us anymore money - and it looks it's coming soon....
``A second-term for Bush doesn't bode well for the dollar,'' said Samarjit Shankar, director of global foreign-exchange strategy at Mellon Financial Corp. in Boston, which manages $625 billion.
``There's no way of convincing the market additional spending on the war can be paid for if you have a lower tax base. It's a fundamental mismatch between spending and revenue.''
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a6qeFkuWGzl0&refer=home
Eventually China and Japan will just see that they can't make any money loaning us money. They'll invest in the Euro. If Bush tax cuts remain permanent, it will mean the dollar becomes the peso.
And the terrorists will have won.
All we can do is pray that our leaders have
guidance.
PS -
"America's "Suez Moment"
The growing trade deficit threatens U.S. living
standards and makes the
country dangerously vulnerable to economic
extortion. The way out is to make
foreigners act more like us
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200401/schwenninger