American Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesAmerican Values Alliance | Practical voice for progressive valuesWe didn't want this occasion to pass quietly by. The American Values Alliance blog has been in operation for two years, emerging in its present form on 31 July 2006 as a forum for discussion of the political, social and cultural news of the day.
In a comment on another post, Bob M, from South Shore Progressive (peace and blessings be on his noggin) asks "Would they (Hillaristas) really rather have a McSame presidency?"
Aside of the right wing hacks joking about Obama being concerned about the safety of Atlanta after the Russians invaded Georgia, we are watching the US to be shown as the paper tiger we have become.
We cannot win a war of ideology against Islamic extremists becuase we continue to feed them recruiting material with the War in Iraq, water boarding, Quantanimo, Abu Ghrab, Iran, etc. etc.
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I ran across a quote the other day that made me suspect George W. Bush has done more reading than I was giving him credit for:
“Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”—Hermann Goering
That last part is certainly worth keeping in mind in the next few months as McCain gets more and more desperate to discredit Obama’s position on the war in Iraq.
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(Deep breath)
At an April 6th fundraiser in San Francisco, Senator Obama took a question on possible running mates.
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I heard this story on NPR this morning, and thinking that the essence of the story was about censorship, I tracked it to learn more.
The Huffington Post reports that Jon Stewart--he of the Daily Show and anti-military snark--has spent the last three years quietly visiting soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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While I'm busily putting together the text and audio from today's event to share with you, I thought I'd start with an open thread for those of you who were in attendance to post your thoughts and observations from the Barack Obama Town Hall Meeting.
More to follow!
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File this one under the "No Foolin'" Category:
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NPR reported that Bush is visiting Africa, where villager are struggling with malaria. About time.
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John McCain's nomination as GOP candidate is locked in as Mitt Romney drops out of the presidential campaign.
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This is one blog post that left me very, very, terribly sad, thinking about the other solidiers who've done the same--even my brother, who shares the same, delightfully oddball references as Andy and who could have written a post like this while serving in Iraq 1. Having said all that, I can say I also laughed like a goon when I read it.
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Several years ago, I had the opportunity to attend a fund-raising event at which former Texas governor, the late Ann Richards, spoke. Most of what she had to say about Bush, who at that time had just defeated her in her second run for governor, was pretty funny, but in a more serious moment she predicted that he would one day make a run for the White House. Pay attention and you will see, she said, that if he’s good at anything, he’s good at saying the same things over and over and over, and his ability to do so is very effective. (I paraphrase loosely from memory here.)
We’ve seen plenty of examples of that in the past six years, but last Thursday’s address was certainly a prime one. Bush’s persistence in trotting out the threat of Al Queda terrorism to justify the war in Iraq may be the worst case in modern American history of the tail wagging the dog, but that’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
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