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Just what was the Keating Five? October 7, 2008Trust -- Who do you trust? It looks like the Bush administration with their constant lies and undermining the basic fabric of integrity of the country has finally crashed the economic system. It is clearly the Bush administration's follow up act to 9/11, but it's very hard to tell what is purposeful and what is out of their control. We know these are people whose ruthlessness knows no bound. They are not willing to give up power. They are certainly not going to turn over to Barack Obama just because a majority of Americans want that. The two-headed Bush-Cheney monster has set up a variety of new power mechanisms to allow them to seize absolute power, to quash uprisings to imprison thousands of people, to turn the military on the citizenry. But they also know that the inherent power of the people is much greater than their power. The power of the people, however, needs self-awareness, and overwhelming rage. Are we reaching that point? When do the frustrations of the people boil over and become uncontrollable? How much control does the Bush administration actually have over events? We know they are enormously power on a human scale. But there are certainly forces beyond them, forces they cannot control. They have now set off a financial calamity, through letting corruption and greed go crazy until they have undermined the trust in the system. And it just happens to be convenient for them to enable them to take a trillion dollars of the people's money to distribute to the fat cats as they see fit. But how much control do they actually have?They have all these legal mechanisms in place, concentration camps, the power to imprison anyone Bush wants without charges, the power to put soldiers on the streets, all the power any dictator needs. But a certain amount of their power relies on stealth. They have to pretend to be supporting democracy and freedom. When do they come out in the open and reveal their fangs? They are ready to clamp down with maximum force at any time. But there are no guarantees in real life, in living history. Will the people submit? No one really knows. Will the Bush administration finally push too far and cause people to push back? There are many signs that they plan to unleash further horrors on us in order to prevent any electoral movement from budging them from power. But they continue to try to maintain a balance, keep enough people ignorant, enough people happy, enough people cowed to keep chaos from taking over. A certain amount of chaos is in their favor. They derive their power from fear. But there is always a chance they will push too far and wake the sleeping giant. When your power is based on fear and you lie all the time and thumb your noses at people when you do it, it does eventually break down trust. And without trust, everything falls apart. What is money, anyway. It's a note that is worth something because we agree it is worth something, because we agree on it. When everything is lies, it seems that it eventually undermines even the value of that money. We are far from a barter system. Gold became a currency because there was always a market for it. People wanted it. Drugs and weapons serve as international currencies because of the same reason. But dollar bills, notes, have no inherent value. And numbers in computers have no inherent value. And now the bottom is falling out of the whole financial system. Where is the bottom? How far will it drop? The Bush administration seized power during a prosperous period and proceeded to follow the Hitler playbook in many ways. But Hitler used the financial calamity of 1930s Germany to his advantage. Bush succeeded in setting up all the mechanisms of power during relatively prosperous times. Now has he finally ushered in the financial calamity that it takes to complete his takeover? But once again, even when you are following the established playbook of the so-called Great Dictators, there is nothing sure. And most dictators and dictatorships do eventually fall. Unfortunately, however, many tyrants die peacefully in their own beds. The inherent power of the people is much more powerful than these tyrants. But is there enough self-awareness? Is there enough rage? Is there enough love of freedom, enough courage left? Bush's power is also based on corporate economic power. It is important to his base that the wheels of the economy keep turning, that the coffers of his corporate clients continue to be filled. So they need to keep the deception going, keep the tyranny undercover, keep the cattle happy and keep the consumers buying. That is something that may keep them from bringing their ruthlessness too far into the open, much as they would enjoy it. There is a limit to their power. Even if they control the voting machines, there is a limit to how much they can fix an election. It has to be fairly close. There's still enough free flow of information and resistance in the country that they cannot completely control the outcome of elections. Now Bush's anointed successor, John McCain, is waiting to take over the reins from Bush and continue the destruction. His main claim to being qualified is his status of being allegedly a hero because he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Why his status as a prisoner of war should confer any leadership ability, or managerial skills is obscure. McCain was a pilot. His father was an admiral. His grandfather was an admiral. McCain never commanded anything. His military records are well hidden now. We don't know why he did not rise to a leadership position in the military as his father and grandfather did. We do know that he wrecked several planes before he was shot down in Vietnam. I spoke to a Vietnam vet who was an infantryman a couple of days ago. He said, "I was a grunt. We were the guys on the ground doing the fighting. The pilots, they were guys who put on their nice clean uniforms and flew high over the country and bombed people down below, and then came back and their shoes were still shined. I don't think they give enough credit to the grunts. We were the ones really doing the work. McCain was a pretty boy, a flyboy, who never got his hand dirty, a lot like Bush really. We resented them."
October 3, 2008Duh-bate -- Here's a transcript of the "debate". International Herald Tribune (To the soundtrack of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.") Pat Buchanan on MSNBC going on and on about how Palin was so much more "attractive" than Biden. Duh. I guess so. She "won," he said, because she "connected with the American people." Not this American people. Yeah, she's cute, perky, if that's what you want in a president. There are much cuter women. And there certainly are much smarter, more humane women. She is manipulative, lying, she supports the corporate dictatorship, but pretends to be one of the little people. She tries to create a populist image, but supports the elitist, militarist policies of the Bush administration. She acts like she supports women's rights, but she clearly doesn't. Her language is very strange. Besides the "darn right" kind of cultivated folksiness, her grammar and logic is mangled and twisted. She repeated McCain's lie that when he said "the fundamentals of the economy are sound," he was really praising the American worker. That would mean that he was dodging the question that was being asked about the state of the economy, but they would rather that than for people to face the fact that he is barely able to utter a coherent sentence using economic terms. "Well, Joe, there you go again... now doggone it," she said, repeating Reagan's supposedly brilliant line in his debate with Carter, affecting cleaned up slang from 1940s America, "oh heck" and winking at the audience. Carrying that poor baby up on stage at 11 o'clock at night, like a prop. It's all carefully staged to create a certain image, to endear herself to a nostalgic, disillusioned America. And many people will no doubt buy it. She's a skilled speaker, performer, liar. McCain's "health care plan" will give you a $5,000 tax credit to buy your own health insurance, she said. But it's just a credit, it's not cash in hand. Unless you're making a certain amount of money and paying a certain amount of tax, that credit won't count for anything. She says it "won't cost the government anything." But it costs tax revenue if it does anything. McCain's plan also taxes health insurance benefits. And $5,000 may not buy a health insurance policy anyway. Palin ignored the questions and just recited her talking points. "Governor, please if you want to respond to what he said about Senator McCain's comments about health care?" Palin: "I would like to respond about the tax increases." She did this throughout the debate, even explaining, "I may not answer the questions the way you or the moderator wants, but I'm going to speak directly to the American people." Speak and wink. She says, "I don't want to argue about the causes" of global climate change, but she says we have to do something about it. That's very odd logic. If you want to stop something, isn't knowing what causes it the first step? She also repeated this line that she said to Katie Couric: "I'm not one to attribute every man -- activity of man to the changes in the climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities, but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet." This is backwards. She's talking about attributing climate change to the activities of man, but she says attributing "man -- activity of man to the changes in the climate," which is a reversal. Some circuit in her brain is reversed. Then she drifted on into generalities, "We've got to clean up this planet..." She referred to "the Talibani", presumably meaning the Taliban, and she said, "John McCain really knows how to win a war!" presumably something else he learned while being a prisoner of war during America's "first lost war".
September 27, 2008I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to Wall Street for which it stands, one dollar, ungettable ...-- Woody Guthrie I guess there are reasons why Obama let McCain get away with so much bullshit during the debate. McCain went on and on about some $3 million grant to study the DNA of bears in Montana as his big example of earmark spending and how he wants to cut the government's excess spending. And Obama let himself get put on the defensive over this bullshit. I wanted to leap onstage and say, "What about your lousy war, McCain, the one you supported and still support and said should go on 100 years? What are we dropping there, $10 billion a month?. That's ten thousand million every single week! And you're bellyaching about a single one-time expenditure of $3 million. (see the transcript) Maybe it's a dumb expense as you imply, maybe it's not. But let's get serious. That ten thousand million a week doesn't even count Afghanistan. And McCain is rattling his saber at Iran, Russia, North Korea. There's no war he doesn't love. And what's all this crap about "the surge worked"? Worked to accomplish what? To slightly diminish the hemorrhaging of an incalculable ongoing catastrophe. We're still droppiong $10 billion a week there. For what? What are your objectives? Besides making Halliburton and the oil companies rich? You said it would be easy. You said it would be short. You were full of shit. And you are full of shit because you are still pushing it, saying we need to stay there until we secure "victory". Iraq is a megacrime. There is no victory. The best we can do is to end it, somehow. But the public discourse in America is so distorted by the brainwashing media of the corporate warfare state, so twisted, that not only does McCain get away with sputtering nonsense, it's actually virtually impossible to get anywhere near reality in the debate. If you tried to talk about reality they'd throw you off the stage, or into a lunatic asylum. You can't get through a debate without saying, "America is the greatest country in the world!" and "Israel is our stalwart ally" (therefore we have to go to war against Iran), and did you notice that Obama now wears a flag in his lapel? Obama was such a gentleman, letting McCain get away with such massive distortions, omissions. Saying, "John was right" over and over. And of course the Rovians grabbed those clips and ran them in an ad saying that because Obama said McCain was right on several occasions, that means by logical inference that of course McCain is right about everything. Surely no one buys that logic, though his followers can go, "Yeah, gotcha. Go McCain!" Even they know that's not what Obama was saying. But then right after the debate we heard echoing throughout the punditsphere that Obama "won". That polls of viewers and of reporters gave him a huge edge. So maybe he was right to be such a gentleman. The pundits all parrot the same few lines, of course, and one of them was how McCain never looked at Obama. Never mind the omission of the cost of the war when they were talking budgeting, what really counts is that he didn't look at Obama. It all seems arbitrary to me. I would just as easily expect them to babble on about how bad it was that Obama looked at McCain. It would make as much sense. Of course I'm happy to hear McCain get panned, but it would be more enjoyable if it made sense.
September 24, 2008Victory is Impossible -- when your opponent controls the voting machines and the voting process. How much of a margin are elections won by? Usually a few percent. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. points out that the Republicans have maybe 30 different schemes to wipe Democratic voters off rolls, alter machine tallies, deny voters their right to vote. In Colorado, just one of these schemes has wiped 25 percent of voters off the rolls. Twenty-five percent! That's enough to swing almost any election. And the Repugs have many other schemes working simultaneously. The game is over. The good guys lost. Unless the voting issue is addressed. And even defining that is going to be a big battle. The Republicans are churning up a campaign against what they call "voter fraud", which means people voting twice, the opposite of what is really the problem, people's votes being eliminated from the process. So get used to it, another term of an unelected "president" stooge of the big power brokers, more of a corporatist, militarist, Orwellian, happy face fascism. All of this election campaign rigamarole is useless, a futile exercise, unless the election process issues are addressed. These guys are the power brokers of the world. They rule and they have for a long time. Bush and Cheney are on stage, the real rulers are behind. It's going to take a lot more to dislodge them than this carefully fenced-in election game we are now engaged in.
September 20, 2008The General on Palin -- US Army Brigadier General (retired) Janis L. Karpinski writes on Sarah Palin on Truthout. This woman can speak with some authority. As an Army Brigadier General and as a woman, she is in a position to say things no one else can, and she does, as when she refers to Palin's "come hither look". Whew! " Men want to screw her, literally - it is a fantasy of many men, particularly those in the high power, high profile assignments, and she knows it. She uses her sexuality, and men's vulnerability, to intimidate them and expose their weaknesses. They imagine what she is like in bed; they fantasize about screwing the vice president of the United States because they have never had this chance. They imagine what she is like as a sex object and they drool over possibilities, not necessarily thinking the fantasies will come to fruition, instead focusing on four years of possibilities. She projects the willingness to let them fantasize. She is not businesslike, rather power hungry and control-like, offering, subtly and directly, suggestions of her feistiness and daring men to try and conquer her. Somewhere in the mix, she attempts to say something noteworthy to demonstrate her readiness and capabilities to serve as the vice president of the United States. She wants to be seen as a sexual object because she has a track record of success using the same techniques at increasing levels of responsibilities." In regard to Palin's attempts to horn in on Hillary Clinton's success at nearly winning the nomination, Karpinski is disgusted. "Her personal comparisons to Hillary Clinton are insulting to Clinton. Senator Clinton did not stoop to use of her sexuality as a means of attracting votes or attention. She is articulate and stays on message, whether in the primaries or campaigning for Obama. Hillary's supporters, men and women, accepted her for her experience, her credentials and her qualifications, deservedly so, unlike Palin who is trying to steal mileage on the shirttails of Hillary. You can easily recollect memorable events of Hillary's campaign, but you will not remember her parading about or flirting with her supporters or the media. She did not behave in such a manner. Her wardrobe aside, Hillary Clinton was competing on a level playing field and behaved accordingly, like an intelligent, confident and capable candidate. This is what women hope for and seek to achieve. Sarah Palin's behavior sets our progress back by decades and encourages the fashionable use of sexuality as the tool to measure success."
September 17, 2008While America Sleeps -- Bob Herbert, a sane voice in a mad crowd, reminds us that while the TV news gabs away about lipstick on pigs and so forth, McCain is proposing a healthcare plan that will make healthcare in the U.S. even worse than it is for people who, unlike McCain, are not millionaires. Herbert says, "A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan... For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on." This will not be like the last eight years. It will be worse. It will be a 1984 world where the nation is always at war, the people are impoverished, history is constantly destroyed and remanufactured to suit Big Brother.
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October 11, 2008Rove is Behind the McCain Campaign -- It's Karl Rove, the dark svengali, pulling the strings behind the McCain campaign. According to Rolling Stong, "Ever since the nomination of Sarah Palin, Washington has been abuzz with rumors that Rove has been invited to help plot campaign strategy for McCain. His rise from the ashes is the scariest story of an already scary campaign season. Presidents come and go; they sit in a place where the law can still touch them, and they're subject to the vote once every four years. But Karl Rove is a revolutionary, a man who can't be stopped by anything except death and maybe - maybe - prison. Rove is trying to finish the work of Nixon and Bush: to achieve the supremacy of a peculiarly American form of Leninism, one that involves the drowning of the electoral process in idiot witch hunts and dirty tricks, the handing over of all policy to anyone with a dollar more than the next guy, and the total aggrandizement of incumbent power at the expense of an entire system of checks and balances. With Rove back in the mix, there's now a hell of a lot more at stake this November than there was when a batty, battle-scarred old poll-chaser like John McCain was the darkest figure on the ticket. Not to sound too alarmist, but Election Day now becomes a referendum on democracy itself."
October 5, 2008Ebert on Ohio 2004 -- Roger Ebert on Free For All. "I'm getting tired of being angry about the 2004 Presidential election. It is now clear enough that it may have been stolen. The vote totals in Ohio are particularly suspect. Florida in 2000 you know all about. But did you ever seriously focus on Ohio 2004? You perhaps have vague memories of a controversy about polling machines. And confused voters. And how the chairman of George Bush's Ohio campaign was the Secretary of State, in charge of overseeing the election. And how the state awarded a $100 million contract for voting machines to Diebold, whose chairman attended a strategy session at Bush's Texas ranch, hosted a $1,000-a-plate dinner for Bush in his mansion, and told the press he would do whatever he could to ensure that Bush won Ohio. You may have missed some details. Such as, that Kenneth Blackwell, the GOP Secretary of State/Campaign Manager decreed (1) that a vote not cast in your precinct would not be counted; (2) that all precinct lines be redrawn; (3) that the new precincts would be explained on the Secretary/Chairman's web site, which unfortunately was six months behind in being updated. Some voters actually found their way to the right place, such as a school gym, but didn't know that as many as four precincts were voting there, so that mathematically three of four were in the wrong lines and voted in the wrong precinct. Of course the Republicans efficiently informed their mailing and e-mail list members of correct voting sites."
October 1, 2008So Much News there's really no way to keep up with it. These are indeed strange times. Many developments on many fronts. Here are three links to articles about a lawsuit that is developing in Ohio over Karl Rove's election manipulation activities. See "Conspiracy Theorist" by Josh Mitteldorf, "Can Obama Win and Lose Ohio ...? and "Republican IT consultant subpoenaed in case alleging tampering with 2004 election". This is all very interesting stuff. The Bush mafia seems untouchable, they commit crimes with impunity constantly, thumb their noses at all laws, do whatever they want. God knows how many tricks they have up their sleeves that keep Rove, Bush, Cheney et. al smiling and smirking even as the law seems to close in on them. It seems possible that the law could some day catch up to them. Maybe.
September 26, 2008Mad John Spins Again -- The debate is on -- it's off -- it's on. Brave John McCain has decided to face the young Barack Obama after all. At least until further notice. The weary old heavyweight lifts his gloves one more time. Washington Post.So after eight years, McCain was the anointed one, designated by Bush to follow him, to make sure Bush's crimes would never be prosecuted. McCain announced his presidency, and no one cared. He trailed in the polls throughout 2007. He had sold his soul to George Bush. He was damaged goods. Hardly anyone wanted him for president. He'd lost his credibility. But then, surprisingly, when the voting machines started to click, he suddenly came to the front of the pack. There were oddities in the tallies and my suspicion is he had some help from Rove and company with the voting machines. So he became the nominee, but his support was always tepid, lackluster. He's uncharismatic. His reputation as a prisoner of war only goes so far in convincing that he's qualified to be president. Then he grabbed flashy Sarah Palin and for a while that was enough to distract attention from him and his dullness and his devotion to Bush, the war in Iraq and practically everything. Now about three weeks after that decision, faith in Palin is rapidly going down the toilet and McCain seeks more distrations. He tried to use the economic bailout crisis as an excuse to avoid debating Obama, because he knows he does not even have the vocabulary to address economic issues, which are on everyone's minds now. He made a bold stand: I will put my campaign on hold and not resume it until the crisis in Washington is solved! He went to Washington, did no good, had no effect and no one seemed to even want to play along with his theater. What is McCain doing here? they asked. So now he is saying, yes, we will go ahead with the debate, though yesterday I claimed it was a matter of patriotic principle that I not do the debate. Apparently his decision to duck the debate was looking like it would be more harmful than the worst possible performance in it. So John is on. The debate will roll. McCain changes course yet again. A guy who, when talking straight admitted he had little knowledge of economics, must now try to discuss it credibly, to present himself as the leader who can pull the country out of the economic disaster of the Bush looting of America. A guy who just last week reversed himself on practically everything he said about the economic situation once or twice, must now try to present an image of solidity to the public. As a political thinker he has no substance. He just parrots ideological platitudes and creates drama, as Chris Matthews put it, razzle dazzle. Even the Republicans in Congress do not see him as a leader. He's a phony, trumped up leader, not supported by a popular base, but only by the fraudulent Rovian machine. They didn't rally behind him when he dropped in on the disaster negotiations at the 11th hour. All these dramas are very Rovian. And they are effective in the short term. But the country has been swindled by Rovian politics for eight years now and is wearying of it. It may all be catching up to McCain. He's got to try to outrun it for 40 more days or so, to avoid being revealed under his mask as a fraud. But where can he run?
September 24, 2008Victory and Blah Blah Blah -- The Republicans like to talk about "victory" in Iraq. They like the sound of the word and hope it will get the masses stirred up. They conveniently forget everything leading up to this point, and hope the people do too. Talking about victory in Iraq is about as relevant as talking about victory in a burglary. Bush gave so many different excuses for invading Iraq no one even remembers what they finally settled on, or if they settled on anything. Lately they're trying to slip back to the "getting the guys who attacked us on 9/11" bit. How can you achieve victory when no one knows what the objective is? How do you achieve victory in a crime?September 19, 2008Palin On Top -- Scary Sarah has decided it will be a Palin-McCain administration. youtube.com
September 14, 2008That's Rich -- The Associated Press tells us that "Republicans fault both campaigns for negative ads." The Republicans are such brilliant prevaricators. They have an unmatched talent for twisting things. McCain and Palin have been just outright lying, reducing the debate to trivialities, being pure nasty with no substance, so now suddenly both campaigns are negative, according to the masters of political lying and cheating. Anyone who is not paying attention, or is a little dull-witted, would be fooled by this crap. That's what the Republicans count on. Yeah, both sides are worthless scum, no reason to vote at all. The fewer people go to the polls, the better Republicans like it. Scum rises, apparently. At least in the U.S. media system.
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 In the 21st Century, being naive to the workings of corporate media can get you killed. Chomsky For Beginners written by David Cogswell, illustrated by Paul Gordon, published by Writers and Readers, is a documentary comicbook about Noam Chomsky the man, the linguist and the political voice, but more than anything, it is a guide to media propaganda, how the corporate-owned mass media are designed not to inform you but to manipulate you for the benefit of the owners. Order Chomsky For Beginners from Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com
See also Existentialism For Beginners. 
Post Script, Fortunate Son: The Making of an American President by J.H. Hatfield, second paperback edition, published by Soft Skull Press, 2001 For more on the late J.H. Hatfield, who wrote the controversial Bush biography Fortunate Son: The Making of an American President, see below The following piece was written for the French and Spanish translations of J.H. Hatfield's Fortunate Son: The Making of an American President, published by Editions Timeli in Geneva, Switzerland. (See www.timeli.ch.)
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October 4, 2008The Economic Patriot Act -- Anthony Michael discusses his theory of "The Pre-Planned Financial/Economic 911 of 2008" at opednews.com, painting a scenario which compares this financial meltdown to 9/11 and this bailout to the Patriot Act. In this view, these two incidents become the bookends of the Bush administration, which Jim Hightower long ago labeled as the "corporate wet dream". Bush told us around the time he endorsed Johnny Boy McCain that he was far from finished and that he was going to go out with a bang, and he is fulfilling his word. I have no doubt there are even larger catastrophes awaiting us before he leaves office. This financial collapse is the pretext for essentially nationalizing the financial system under the corporate dictatorship as personified by the Bush regime, and giving Bush's boy Paulson. What they seek is to give Paulson nearly unlimited authority to spend tax money any way he wants without checks, oversight or accountability.
September 29, 2008Mad McCain -- E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post, writes that a month that began as McCain's ended as Obama's. "The post-Labor Day period has thus brought the campaign to an unexpected point. McCain, once the candidate of tested experience, must now battle the perception that he has become the riskier choice, a man too given to rash moves under pressure. Obama, whose very newness promised change but also raised doubts, has emerged as the cool and unruffled candidate who moves calmly but steadily forward."
September 26, 2008Not Helping -- A note to Bill Clinton from Paul Slansky: "Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House in the first place if it wasn't for your blow jobs, Bill, it seems obvious that you owe it to the people of this country, and especially to the parents whose kids died in the Iraq War that Gore would never have started, and to all the parents whose kids would be killed in the WarFest that would be a McCain/Palin -- sorry, Palin/McCain -- administration to do everything in your power to get Barack Obama elected." Huffingtonpost.comITEMS OF INTEREST September 21, 2008We're All Socialists Now -- So said Newsweek's Jonathan Alter on Friday's Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Now that the Bush administration has moved to nationalize the housing industry, seeking a trillion dollars from Congress to avert an economic cataclysm, it is a blatant, undeniable acknowledgement that the market cannot regulate itself. The Priests of Free Market Ideology are discredited. Free Market Fundamentalism is dead. Yes, the market has dynamics of its own, but no, it cannot self-regulate, self correct at every turn. It must have regulation and supervision. There must be laws and standards that must be followed. Free market anarchy leads to runaway corruption. Now that the Bush administration has acknowledged the fact in action, will it be acknowledged, or will they just pretend that nothing happened? And where do we go from here? New York Times
September 18, 2008No Change McCain -- According to the NY Times, "Polls taken after the Republican convention suggested that Mr. McCain had enjoyed a surge of support -- particularly among white women after his selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate -- but the latest poll indicates 'the Palin effect' was, at least so far, a limited burst of interest." According to polls, "McCain is seen by voters as far less likely to bring change to Washington than Senator Barack Obama. Mr. McCain is widely viewed as a 'typical Republican' who would continue or expand President Bush's policies."Featured Pieces
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