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P.M. Carpenter
THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter
The presidential race has narrowed so dreadfully that even the foreign press has been moved to remind us that we Americans are supposed to be a people of optimism -- a national trait whose reputation is suffering precisely because of Gloomy John's unexpected competitiveness. Asked, for instance, the Economist this weekend in so many words: What in bloody hell are you people thinking? Although the more pertinent question might be, of course, Do American voters think at all? Sometimes, in answer to this, I'm inclined to reflect on the philosophical complacency of a long past, thoroughly drug-addled acquaintance who would respond to virtually any inquiry on virtually any subject with, "Hey, it's your world, doc, I'm just a squirrel." I don'
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Submitted by mark karlin on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 8:41am.
EditorBlog
White House Plans "False Flag" Operations to Trigger War with Iran, and the Corporate Media Ignores Such a Criminal Enterprise As If It Were Anthrax THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG Mark Karlin Editor and Publisher August 4, 2008 Technorati Tags: EditorBlog False Flag Operations Iran White House War
Submitted by Chad on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 9:33am.
Be-Elected
To no one's surprise, magically, Michigan and Florida will have full voting power in the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, as he wrote to the credentials committee: "As these delegates go about the important business of the Convention, I believe Party unity calls for the delegates from Florida and Michigan to be able to participate fully alongside the delegates from the other states and territories. Accordingly, I ask that the Credentials Committee, when it meets on August 24 to approve the delegates for the National Convention, pass a resolution that would entitle each delegate from Florida and Michigan to cast a full vote.''
And since Obama will be the nominee, the states will get what he wants: a full vote. Michigan and Florida were awarded half votes in a day-long process on May 31. Technorati Tags: Be-Elected Chad Rubel 2008 race Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Michigan Florida DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 10:06am.
Tony Peyser
It's now time for redrawing the political map:
Vote for the wake-up call or vote for the nap VERSE CASE SCENARIO Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, "Blue State Jukebox." He was a daily cartoonist for the L.A. Times from 1994 to 1997. You can e-mail Tony at tonypeyser@yahoo.com. Technorati Tags: Tony Peyser Barack Obama John McCain wake-up call nap
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 10:54am.
Barbara's Daily Buzz
BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE The tale we’re being fed by the Bush Administration and mainstream corporate media could not read better than if it were a novel penned by Robert Ludlum himself -- the only difference being exactly who is the villain, exactly who is responsible! This government has told so many lies and is so out of control in the march on “world domination” that it lends credence and support to “this government” being the ultimate culprit in the saga of “Anthrax and the mad scientist”! Technorati Tags: Barbara's Daily Buzz Anthrax Exorcism McCain Attack Ad Racism
Submitted by Chad on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 10:57am.
Be-Elected
I realize you have been waiting all weekend for the stirring conclusion of my take on "Swing Vote." As you remember from last Friday, I took a look at the prominent political movie of the summer (okay, it's been a slow summer) to see if something might come from it. Well, $10.50 and close to 2 hours later, there are some fragments to take out of this. (Needless to say, there are SPOILERS to come, so you have been warned.) The scenario of the movie is captivating: what if it came down to one vote for president and what would happen. The question the movie tries to answer is "What if this happened and the person left to decide was extremely clueless about the life around him?" Kevin Costner plays Earnest "Bud" Johnson, a man who is an alcoholic, single father living in a trailer and working in an egg factory in the middle of a small town in New Mexico. His life has been sliding, hence the extensive drinking he does. Early in the movie, he is concerned about what might happen if his daughter gets sick since they don't have health insurance. Yet that doesn't seem to be a reason for him to think about how politics can relate. Technorati Tags: Be-Elected Chad Rubel voting elections Swing Vote Kevin Costner presidential debate real Americans
Submitted by meg on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 1:04pm.
Analysis
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White
One of the finest and most laudable goals of the Bush Administration seems to have gone the way of promises to revamp Social Security and capture Osama bin Ladin. However, despite the millions affected worldwide, it doesn't sound like we'll hear much about it this campaign season. With a broken economy and an intractable war, modern slavery isn't at the top of most people's issue list. But that doesn't mean nothing is happening; it's just not being widely reported. In its July 2008 audit report on the management of grant programs to assist victims of human trafficking released last week, the inspector general at the Justice Department had several alarming criticisms. Technorati Tags: Analysis slavery human trafficking bush justice department
Submitted by AmyW on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 2:42pm.
Be-Elected
BE ELECTED
by Amy Weiss
The presumptive Democratic nominee was born 47 years ago today in Honolulu. In those 47 years he's received a bachelor's and a law degree from Ivy League institutions, become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, worked as a community organizer, a civil rights lawyer and a constitutional law professor at a prestigious university, and served the public first as an Illinois state senator for seven years and now as a U.S. senator for four.
"Age" and "experience" are often two reasons, sometimes lumped together, given as criticism of Obama and his readiness to lead. So now that he's a mature 47, is he old enough to be president?
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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 3:32pm.
Dave Lindorff
Some people are expressing consternation and disbelief at a report by journalist Seymour Hersh that Vice President Dick Cheney had discussed the idea in his office of having some Navy Seals dress up as Iranians, and then put them in faked Iranian speedboats to make a fake attack on U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf. The ensuing faked battle, with fake Iranians shooting at U.S. ships and U.S. ships firing back, he suggested, could be used to spark a war between the U.S. and Iran. I don't know why people would find it hard to believe that this vice president would think up an idea like having Americans shoot at other Americans in the interest of his own warped view of national security. After all, this is a guy who shoots his own friends. Technorati Tags: Dave Lindorff Bush Cheney. Iraq Iran unjustified war
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 08/04/2008 - 4:47pm.
Interviews
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW Let me just give you one statistic gleaned from the recent special issue of The Nation on inequality, and that is that the richest 1% of Americans has more wealth collectively than the poorest 90% of Americans. That's a wild maldistribution of wealth. -- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation
* * * Barbara Ehrenreich is one of our great progressive journalists who looks into the issue and that word the Democratic Party is afraid to say: "class."
You know -- as in the wealthy class are leaving the rest of us in the dust, particularly the working class, the middle class and the poor. She is under-appreciated in the U.S. as far as we are concerned, probably because she speaks about how our two-party system has made the wealthier even more obscenely rich while the rest of us are left behind.
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