Ben - 4 more years.

[blazespinnaker]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082403291.html

[metalman]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082403291.html

the look of shock on my face...



my brain feels so white and clean after reading this wash post story. more! more!

[audrey_girl]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

well, well, well... more Change we can believe in

what a fraud

well, at least there is someone who isn't suffering complete amnesia about this

God bless you Cindy...

[MulaMan]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

Cindy Sheenan will now get time Fox News..I may need actually need to watch that, LOL, and I'll bet the brain washed Fox News crowd will still not understand how retarded they are. LOL.

[ThePythonicCow]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

Cindy Sheenan will now get time Fox News..I may need actually need to watch that, LOL, and I'll bet the brain washed Fox News crowd will still not understand how retarded they are. LOL.

Note to self: If MulaMan ever warmly praises some post of mine, make haste to settle my affairs, for the end is neigh.

Note to MulaMan: I watch Fox News, I am not retarted, and if I knew a good brain cleansing service, I would recommend it to your consideration.

[Slimprofits]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

the look of shock on my face...

This is meant to be sarcasm correct? Because as I recall it, when the poster Bill and I were discussing this elsewhere on the forum about three weeks ago and I conceded that it appeared Bernanke would be replaced, your only comment was to remind us that EJ had predicted it first.

[bpr]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

This really pisses me off.

For the last year, Democrats have been trying to make nice with Republicans, most recently with healthcare. Did the Republican majority EVER reach across the aisle?

What a bunch of pansies.

This is the worst of it.

They've continued Bush's mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They've held onto his tax policies.

Now, they're going to keep Bernanke on as Chariman for an additional FOUR YEARS?

Just long enough to hand over the presidency?

How stupid can this party be? He's the perfect scapegoat.

I'm really speechless.

EDIT: So, when is Specter going to become a Republican again? We should start a pool.

[unlucky]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

Ben has missed his chance to escape with his historical reputation intact. If he had gotten out now, he would have been forever remembered as the man who saved the financial system and prevented Great Depression II. Whatever comes next would have been firmly blamed on Obama and his appointees.

[vinoveri]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

Ben has missed his chance to escape with his historical reputation intact. If he had gotten out now, he would have been forever remembered as the man who saved the financial system and prevented Great Depression II. Whatever comes next would have been firmly blamed on Obama and his appointees.

maybe, just maybe, he knows something you don't ...:rolleyes:

[ricket]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

Ben has missed his chance to escape with his historical reputation intact. If he had gotten out now, he would have been forever remembered as the man who saved the financial system and prevented Great Depression II. Whatever comes next would have been firmly blamed on Obama and his appointees.

Or at least the ones that have been *appointed* anyways...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ointments.html

More than seven months into his first year in office the government is grappling with issues ranging from cyber-security to health care and educational reform with a severe shortage of senior officials. Out of 543 positions in the upper ranks of government, only 236, or 43 per cent, have been confirmed by the Senate, according to the White House Transition Project. A further 83 are awaiting confirmation.

[Raz]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

Cindy Sheenan will now get time Fox News..I may need actually need to watch that, LOL, and I'll bet the brain washed Fox News crowd will still not understand how retarded they are. LOL.

Fox couldn't possibly hurt you. Your brain is in desperate need of washing out. Adding some grey matter would also help.

Try these websites. They're certain to be more to your liking than iTulip.

http://jefflikestorant.blogspot.com/

http://www.dailykos.com/

http://moveon.org/

http://www.alternet.org/

http://jdeq.typepad.com/jerrys_thoug...d-people-.html

(Most offer free attacks on Christians and a catalogue of insults as well !)

You should find plenty there to keep your tiny mind occupied.

[D-Mack]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

well, well, well... more Change we can believe in

what a fraud

well, at least there is someone who isn't suffering complete amnesia about this

God bless you Cindy...

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
We Have the Moral High Ground by Cindy Sheehan

"Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love...” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1958

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal…” Dr. King, 1967


I remember back in the good ol’ days of 2005 and 2006 when being against the wars was not only politically correct, but it was very popular. I remember receiving dozens of awards, uncountable accolades and even was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Those were the halcyon days of the anti-war movement before the Democrats took over the government (off of the backs of the anti-war movement) and it became anathema to be against the wars and I became unpopular on all sides. I guess at that point, I could have gone with the flow and pretended to support the violence so I could remain popular, but I think I have to fiercely hold on to my core values whether I am “liked” or not.

Killing is wrong no matter if it is state-sanction murder or otherwise. Period. Not too much more to say on that subject, except what I quote above from Dr. King.

However, while the so-called left is obsessed over supporting a very crappy Democratic health care plan, people in far away countries are being deprived of their health and very lives by the Obama Regime’s continuation of Bush’s ruinous foreign policy.

I was never dismayed when the so-called right attacked me and called me names for protesting Bush. However, something inside me gets a little sick when I hear people who claim to be peace activists supporting the Obama Administration’s foreign policy, a policy that is not like Bush’s in the fact that it’s much worse.

I have been called a “racist” from the so-called left. In these people’s opinion, I was totally justified in protesting Bush, but I am a racist for protesting the same policies under Obama. When I opposed Bush’s policies, I was called traitor, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and other names I cannot print. Name-calling is a great way to shut down critical thinking and discussion. And, not to mention, I think the murder of innocent life in the Iraq-Af-Pak regions is racist and morally corrupt.

There are many people in this country who oppose Obama because they’re racist, but I am not one of them. I oppose Obama’s policies because they are wrong…again, period!

One cannot obfuscate when innocent lives are being destroyed, here and abroad. We cannot allow “political reality” to get in the way of morality. Human sacrifice is not worth the political reality. Violence, killing, war and more war are NEVER the solution to any problem. Period.

If Obama has violent shadow forces around him pulling him in the direction of violence, which begets more violence and more resistance; then we, especially people in the peace or anti-war movements need to gather and organize to pull him in the direction towards peaceful conflict resolution and solutions that aren’t based on exploiting people’s fears, anxieties or ignorance.

I am going to Martha’s Vineyard because we have the moral high ground. The war supporters aren’t going to protest Obama’s wars. They are strangely silent over his foreign policy, unless they are praising it.

I am going to Martha’s Vineyard because someone has to speak for the babies of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan that do not deserve the horrible fate that has been handed to them by the US Military Industrial Complex. The voiceless need a voice, and even if I am called every name in the book by all sides, I will speak up for them.

I am going to Martha’s Vineyard because so many people have been blinded to the fact that the system has momentum that rolls on and over and around no matter who is the titular head of the system.

Let's just pretend that elections are fair in this country and my candidate, Cynthia McKinney, won for president. If she wasn’t able to rein in the systemic violence, then I would be going wherever she vacationed to protest her policies, too. I guess at that point, I would not only be called “racist,” but I would be called a “self-hating female.”

In a recent conversation someone was trying to convince me that I should not be so stridently opposed to Obama’s policies and I responded that today 75 people were killed and 300 people were wounded in a bomb blast in Iraq and 26 mostly women and children were killed in a wedding party in Afghanistan this week and she said: “Oh, that wouldn’t be acceptable if it happened here.”

And that ‘s the problem: it’s not acceptable if it happens anywhere, to anybody, no matter who is President of the USA.

Not only is the death toll mounting for innocent civilians but also is once again climbing for our troops.

While the “festivities” are occurring on Martha’s Vineyard next week, there are families all over the world who will never again be able to fully feel festive. Ahhhh…. everyone should just stand down, relax and sip an Obamarita on the beach…Hope reigns once again in The Empire.

And, yes, we are going to Martha’s Vineyard to get attention. We vehemently want to call attention to all of the points I have made above.

Even though there is a small anti-war, peace movement in this country, there still is one and this movement has the moral high ground and punditry, personal attacks, glitzy marketing, or “political realities won’t drown us out.

Members of Dr. King's own caucus tried to convince him not to publicly speak out against the Vietnam war, and that's when he delivered his brilliant Beyond Vietnam speech at the Riverside Church in NYC exactly one year before he was assassinated. That speech was in response to the critics. Dr. King took the moral high ground when he said: "There comes a time when silence is betrayal."

That time has now come, once again. By our silence we are betraying humanity.

Love the President or hate him, or anywhere in between, but we must speak out loudly and without any timidity against the institutional violence of the US Empire.
Posted by Cindy Sheehan at 11:32 AM


http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot...-by-cindy.html

Now that the foundation funded anti-war movement sleeps I wonder if something organic can grow.

[D-Mack]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

Why is zero hedge talking about 7 more years ?

Bernanke to print dollars for seven more years, as Obama is set to announce a $2 trillion increase to budget deficit (FT)
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/frontrunning-august-25

[c1ue]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

So guess either Jim Willie was wrong about the Chinese ordering the White House to not renew Bernanke or the White House is telling its larger creditor "F**k off"

[Starving Steve]

Re: Ben - 4 more years.

Now that the foundation funded anti-war movement sleeps I wonder if something organic can grow.

You posted: "Killing is wrong, if it is state-sanctioned. Period."

So does this post mean killing the Taliban is wrong now? Killing the Hitlerite-filth in Europe during WWII was wrong?

Do you mean to tell me that the world can reason with Islamo-fascists?
--- that you can reason with Hamas and Hesbollah, Alcaide and the Islamic Republic of Iran?????????????????????????????????????

Yes, I was part of the anti-war movement in the 1960s, but certain wars are needed, just to survive, PERIOD. The Vietnam War was totally wrong and totally unnecessary, but the War on Terrorism now is absolutely necessary, whether we like war or not.

After what I see is going on now in Tehran ( i.e, the mass executions of anti-regime protesters this past week by the Govn't of Iran), war with Iran to clean-out the Islamo-fascists would be wonderful.

The world rids itself of fascists by exterminating them, PERIOD. End of story.