NJ blogger/veteran demands GOP candidate be truthful about military service

I don't like to make a big deal out of my military service.  I mention it from time to time, of course.  I'm not ashamed of it.  I spent six years in the US Navy as an electriction - four years on board the USS Saipan.  I made two extended deployments - the first ended with OPERATION: Sharp Edge and the second was a part of the wrap-up of OPERATION: Desert Storm.  Among the awards I received for my service are the Kuwait Liberation Medal and the Southwest Asia Service Medal.

I mention it now because I have become part of the news-cycle in the race for New Jersey's Third Congressional District.  It began last Tuesday when GOP candidate Chris Meyers blasted Democratic State Senator John Adler for describing bloggers as "citizen-soldiers".  

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<B>A Note of Thanks Regarding The New Yorker Cover</B>

From: Friends of  Bill O'Reilly
To: SWIFTBOAT XXXXX:

The most dramatic political advertising coup of 2008.
An ingenious concept and perfect execution.

An  inspired person must have come up with the idea of  buying the the New Yorker cover.  Whatever the cost  -- which must be astronomical --  it's worth it.

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McCain Bashing in the General: "POWs for Honor"?

I hope that the current silence regarding McCain's POW weaknesses is a result of some deliberate stalling by the Democratic Party.  I think Democrats have a Swiftboat opportunity in their sights this year, although this one would actually be based on the truth about a presidential candidate's service in Vietnam.

The best way to do this would probably be an "independent" PAC using Vietnam vets and POWs who know McCain, or who are still pissed at him for screwing the POW/MIAs over in 1992, and/or for embracing his former captors for photo ops during his 1993 trip to Vietnam.

A Google search of "McCain POW Vietnam," brings up an even balance of criticism and praise.  The gist of the criticism is that McCain traded other POWs for more comfortable conditions; that he was never tortured; that in 1992 he stonewalled the release of POW documents (which people still looking for their loved ones needed, if only to better approach closure) because they would have included transcripts of his interviews with the NV (in which he is alleged to have traded info for comfort); and, of course, the fact (which he doesn't deny) that he signed a statement confessing to war crimes in exchange for his freedom.

Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain (http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmcc ain.com/) is a clearinghouse for a lot of this stuff (and some farfetched theories that McCain is literally a Manchurian Candidate).  I would just love to see it turned on him.  And unlike the SBVFT, these guys have been going after McCain since the early 90s, including during his primary campaign in 1999.  They have an established record and are well-known in the POW/MIA community.

The disadvantage this tack would have in comparison to SBVFT is that this is based on an ugly truth, rather than an senstational lie.  The infotainers on cable and the networks tend to prefer their scandals factually and morally simple, with the facts debatable and moral consequences binary.  The print media might be able to run with the moral consequences if McCain was in fact a very poor POW, but TV can't hold a thought for more than 90 seconds.  I hate McCain and think he has about as much courage, strength, and character as Khruschev, but I can't say that I wouldn't have cracked, too.  Then again, I would've ruled out a career in politics based on a war hero myth if I had admitted to being a terrorist just so I could go home.

I'm guessing that some of the criticism is true (with the exception of those who believe he is actually a Communist droid).  His record at Annapolis shows that he didn't take military service very seriously during those formative years, and his situation in the military (McCain's father was commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific, including Vietnam, during the war) is essentially analagous to W's position in politics and industry--both their daddies ruled the world and the privileges they got made them soft.

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Democrats: The Swiftboating has started

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Andrew Sullivan at Atlantic Online has called it.

The Swiftboating of Barack Obama has started.

Apparently the guy behind it is Lee Habeeb.

I have done some checking on him and he is a arab christian connected to right wing talk shows.

I'm listing a link to Andrew Sullivan's blog that references who has started it today:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/th e_daily_dish/2008/03/the-swift-boati.htm l

Rather the incendiary video -- which also includes footage of Malcolm X, the U.S. Olympians who raised their hand in the black power salute and the song "Fight the Power" -- is in part the amateur work of Lee Habeeb.
A co-founder and former producer of the Laura Ingraham Show, Habeeb is the director of strategic content at Salem Radio Network, the conservative talk radio powerhouse that airs programs hosted by figures such as Bill Bennett and Hugh Hewitt.

As Democrats we must strongly unite in this moment to defeat the swiftboat of one of our own.

Action Required-

Send this link to everyone you know.

Do research on the people concerned.

If you have information on them, then post it here.

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Obama Supporter Says That Bill Clinton is a Rapist. Why?

A certain frequent poster here, not a diarist, he's never written one as far as I can tell, has twice written comments in the last day that said that President Bill Clinton is a rapist.

The first time he did this, I wrote to him enraged and he came back and made the same charge again. Later, I started to wonder how it was that at a Democratic blog, a supporter of another candidate was publicly making such a vicious, hate filled accusation.

God damn it.

I knew, just knew, from day one of Obama's campaign when that slime Robert Gibbs, threw out the disproved right wing media smear that "the Clintons had sold out the Lincoln bedroom", that it was team Obamas plan to use the right wing playbook to take down Senator Clinton. And also, that this would eventually, inevitably lead to exactly this kind of charge being used in our own Democratic Primaries.

{Anyone reading the comments around the net - at various sites - can see that Obama supporters are doing exactly this, repeating this and every other loony charge ever made about Hillary or Bill by News Max, Bob Barr, the Freepers or Judicial Watch etc.  Rush's attacks are too mild for these Obama fans with their "new style of campaigning.}

Obviously, I am not saying that the Obama campaign is encouraging its supporters to post comments around the Net saying that President Clinton is a rapist. Of course not. But, let me show you how this works and how we end up at that point.

Let's look at how team Obama works with the political media and uses the Republican - MSM narrative about the Clintons to try to win the nomination.

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Obama himself has called Hillary a "dissembler". {aka she is a liar}

Michelle Obama has repeatedly said "if you cant take care of YOUR house, you cant take care of the White House."  She repeats this line even after the media flap over whether she had meant it as a reference to the Clintons personal lives.   At the time of this controversy, she denied this, but of course, by continuing to still use this line, saying it over and over again, shows that is Exactly what she means by it.  

Obama keeps saying we cant "relive the fights of the nineties" - more Obama code for - Clinton got blowjobs.  

The Obama campaign has said how many times that the Clintons represent the kind of politician that have sold your interests to corporations. While at the same time, they take the same amount of money, from the very same type of people and corporations.  But the Obama campaign then far from subtly implies, that the difference is that the Clintons are unethical, while they are not.

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Is it any surprise that among the more unbalanced Obama supporters like the poster ***** , that his charges that President Clinton is a rapist - now easily follow his charge that "Hillary Inc." is a corrupted corporate sellout?

It is a sad thing to watch so many people buy into right wing attackss that we Democrats fought so hard against. That these slanders are now presented by a Dem candidate is a damned disgrace. That these tactics and a Candidate are pushed by a devious and ruthless pair of Chicago consultants such as Axlrod and Gibbs is no shock. {note:  see how Obama and Axelrod worked with and leaked to the chicago media dirty divorce and police records about their 2004 Senate primary opponent Hull.  They destroyed him and then lied and denied any role in this act whatsoever. Since that time, both the Chicago Tribune and Daily News have admitted it was the Obama camp that sent them these documents}.

The irony that the Obama team that did this now runs under the cloak of "a new kind of campaigning" and charges Hillary herself of making vile attack after attack is rich indeed.

For six weeks now, since the NBC Russert-Williams debate in Philly, the political media have been in full bore - we WILL get the Clintons mode.   Many Obama supporters think this is in response to a "great campaign " being run out of Chicago.  No, sorry folks, take it from one who has fought with these media clowns before - that is not what is going on here. they are not FOR Obama, they are AGAINST the Clintons. Big difference.

You see, the default position for the political media is ALWAYS attack the strongest Dem and coddle even the weakest Republican.  Always.  2004, 2000...  Clinton, Gore, Mondale, Carter...  Reagan - Bush.  Hello?

Its a corporate media people and they know what their job is.  

Any "Democrat" who thinks that having Chris Matthews behind your candidate is a good thing for our Party doesnt have a clue about what is really going on here.

Remember this political media is the same crowd that supported an impeachment, basically a domestic coup, over the President doing what they themselves and half of male Washington does all the time - have an affair with a willing partner.   But, today they laugh at the concept that Bush Jr has done enough wrong to warrant similar treatment.  Their idea of "high crimes and misdemeanors" includes getting caught lying about a blowjob but not about getting caught lying about WMDs and who blew up the twin towers.  They think THAT is a very funny joke.

This is the same political media that ran a two year "war against Gore" and lied - over and over again - to the American people - with GOP sprouted charges that - Al Gore was a liar.    How ironic huh?

This is the same political media that didnt say a word when the "yuppie riot" put on by Trent Lott staffers stopped the counting of ballots in Dade County and allowed the Bush forces to deny tens of thousands of people their vote...in an election that was decided by a few hundred.  

This is the same political media crowd who allowed the Supreme Court Five to STEAL that Presidential election and then told the American people....see, Democracy works.

This is the same political media, that when Bush took office, pushed the GOP line that those dirty Clintons, those dirty Democrats, had emptied out and stolen everything from Air Force One and cleaned out and stolen hundreds of pieces of furniture and art from the White House itself.  Oh and taken the "W" keys off of hundreds of computer keyboards over in the OEOB.  Months later, when the GAO itself said that these stories were completely false, this political media buried that story on page A23....down in the corner where you wouldnt notice it.  This is also where they buried the story about the "consortium's" review of the Florida recount that showed that Gore won that state under every possible recount plan...both by district, county and entire state.  But your political media took their interpretation of that story from the spinners in the WH and buried the actual report also on page 23...down in the corner where you wouldnt notice it.

2004.  Kerrey is swiftboated and Dan Rather has to resign because George Bush went AWOL from the Texas National Guard .  What role did your national political media in those stories?  Nuff said.

This is the same political media that now lauds Obama while they continually bash on Hillary.

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This has been Gibbs and Axelrod and Obama plan from the get go.  Win the nomination by "enabling" the media to destroy Hillary.

But there is a flaw in this horrid, cynical plan of the high ups in team Obama.  Democrats MUST understand that the media hasnt decided to place Obama in the White House, instead, they are working to keep the Clintons out of it.

As soon as the GOP settles on McCain or Rudy or Thompson or Romney, they will switch the narrative completely around and talk about how important experience, gravitas and being a real red blooded "traditional" male is to being the POTUS.

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Any Obama supporter just "shocked" at the kindergarten flap wont know what hit them if Obama becomes our nominee.   Wait till the GOP spins a narrative about how Obama's ADMITTED {that is key} cocaine and "hard drug abuse" interconnects to his support to give early release from prison of "tens of thousands" of dangerous crack addicts and dealers onto YOUR streets.  At the same time he also wants to BAN YOU AND YOUR FAMILY from legally OWNING a hand gun to protect itself from these same violent felons and monsters that Obama himself will be setting free.

Forget the drug dealer bit from the last 2 days, the GOP attack would be much more sophisticated and would be meant to both anger and TERRIFY voters.

Just because the Clinton campaign has been guilted into making Sheehen walk the plank for even mentioning this problem at the corners, dont think the GOP wont push exactly this sort of script. This "narrative" and others just as harsh and worse will come directly from RNC headquarters and the political
MEDIA WILL BUY INTO AND REPEAT EVERY WORD AND CHARGE.

Think the GOP and your political media can be shamed like a Democrat can be?  
The 2004 election. JK. Hello?!   A frigging silver star, a DSC, 3 purple hearts.  Swiftboating.  OK?  Nuff said.

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The Obama campaign is now running against Hillary hand in hand with the political media and pushing and encouraging their slanders and narratives about the Clintons and in effect, ALL Democrats as they do this.

Again is it any wonder that the foolish nadrite poster says that President Clinton is a Rapist?   Its the natural result of a campaign that started out by saying that WE DEMOCRATS had sold out the White House itself.

Its beyond pathetic. Beyond horrible.  

The most bizarre part of this, the most tragic, is that even after it became understood how the media and the GOP colluded in 2000, after all that happened in the election of 2004, after the birth of the political net and the "reality based community", some people still cant see what will naturally follow if Obama would be chosen as the nominee.  

Your political media are two faced lying jackals. Unlike the oft repeated false charges about Hillary, these people really are - bought and paid for.

As my friend the Daily Howler recently wrote,

"in the 2000 primaries, the political media went after a Democrat {Gore} and tried to destroy his campaign and take him out as a candidate and they almost succeeded, this time it is possible they may actually get away with it".

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Lets mix metaphors.  Maybe that will get the sightless to see.

Though Obama has sprouted wings and risen and now soars with the political media's help and and blessings, he would be as doomed as an Icarus to fall as soon as a McCain or a Romney arises Phoenix like from the ashes of their troubled campaigns to take their proper place as manly men and and media anointed heroes.

One more. What can it hurt?

Today, Obama may be rising because of the media's sharp sabre, but if chosen, he would surely be later slain by the same corporate owned media's sword that now keeps his campaign alive and kicking. Live by it - Die by it.

And until it is sure that Omama will not be our Party's nominee, that same dangerous scimitar once named by Horace after a chap named Damocles, hangs over all Democrats heads, with the words "seven to two - unbeatable and unstoppable GOP Supreme Court Majority" deeply and vividly etched into its very, very sharp blade.

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