John McCain believes we’re better off economically today than we were eight years ago.

The American people know that’s not true — they’re feeling the effects of high gas prices, lost jobs, and a housing crisis. Voters continually rank the economy as their biggest concern.

So this week we’re planning to release our first national television ad of the presidential race to show the American people just how wrong John McCain is on the economy. We’re also strengthening our local organizing efforts to make sure the American people really know how little John McCain understands the economy.

We need $500,000 to help pay for ads like the one we plan to air this week, fund organizers in your state and build a national infrastructure to help Hillary or Barack win the White House.

Can you help us raise $500,000? If you can, then millions of Americans will get to see and hear the real John McCain in his own words — and we’ll be building for victory in November.

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The Trillion-Dollar War
Yesterday’s Democratic debate about flag lapel pins didn’t leave much time for issues like the deficit and the sky-rocketing cost of the war in Iraq. In her Reason magazine cover story, Veronique de Rugy writes, “At the end of December, Congress approved $70 billion in bridge funding—a down payment to cover the gap between the beginning of the fiscal year and the passage of the actual appropriation bill—to keep financing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Legislators at the time were still chewing on the rest of President George W. Bush’s request for a fiscal year 2008 war budget of $196 billion. Should that funding be appropriated—and if recent history is any guide, it certainly will—then the total price tag for America’s present wars will rise to at least $822 billion, approximately 80 percent of which will be spent on Iraq. That surpasses the cost of the Vietnam War ($670 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars). And the Iraq portion dwarfs the $50 billion to $60 billion cost predicted at the outset of the war by Mitch Daniels, then director of the Office of Management and Budget.

By Ian Jobling
On the night of April 12, vandals tagged three homes, a mailbox, a dumpster, and 15 vehicles in a Denver suburb with the words ‘BROWN PRIDE,’ a Hispanic racialist slogan. Slapstick Politics, a Denver blog, notes that the Denver Post, which printed the photograph to the right, merely stated that the neighborhood had been tagged with graffiti, without mentioning what the graffiti said or speculating about its meaning or source. Even more egregiously, a local TV news report photographed the graffiti in such a way that you couldn’t read it. (The news video is here on the right hand side of the page.) The report speculates that the vandalism may have been gang-related, but does not mention that it was certainly Hispanic-related.

The blogger, El Presidente, asks, ‘If White Pride or anti-Semitic symbols had been spraypainted over quite a large swath of property (remember, just one word at a university has the moonbats up in a rage), would the local MSM have conveniently ignored this fact?’

You have follow that train of thought a bit further if you really want to understand what’s going on here and to appreciate the full measure of the media’s perfidy. If someone had tagged a neighborhood with ‘White Pride,’ the story would not only have been put on the front page of Denver newspapers and been picked up by the national media, but the vandalism would have been interpreted it as the expression of a desire for racial domination and ethnic cleansing, a terrifying prospect. In short, the media did their best to sweep a threat of ethnic cleansing under the rug. We only know it happened because a story on vandalism has to be accompanied by a photograph.

Republican John McCain is trying to find separation from the failed policies of the Republican Party as personified by George W. Bush as he heads into the general election.  The failed policies of the GOP go well beyond Bush however to all those Governors, state legislators and Members of the House and Senate in Washington who also aspire to class warfare, deregulation, smaller government and privatization of public services for private profit. 

I think I am understanding this process a bit better. If I was the president for a day, it would not be enough time to really get the problems solved but as a peon in this world. I can see from the crowd that we need a president who is going to focus on us.

Have you ever noticed that the President is like the father or a mother if Hillary gets her way. We grew up vying for the attention of our parents but they were always so preoccupied with getting a promotion, or if we had younger siblings, if our brothers/sisters were ok, whether the bills were getting paid. Now maybe I am being extreme but it seems that the President is always focusing on the other countries, trying to make them happy when in essence they could care less about us. if we were in distress tomorrow.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like had he lived?

Good question to ponder..

Contest for my entrecard friends…

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How do you see the world today if martin luther king jr was still alive?

John McCain Addresses the Christians United for Israel

July 18, 2007

U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) addressed the national convention of Christians United for Israel in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 17th. The remarks as prepared for delivery are below.

“Thank you for the honor of speaking before this gathering, and thank you for the work you do in support of the State of Israel. Your efforts are needed today more than ever, as it is harder to think of a time in recent memory when Israel’s national security has faced so many varied challenges.

“The Jewish state has, of course, experienced tough times before - indeed, they have perhaps been the norm rather than the exception. When one thinks back over the conflicts - 1948, the Six Day War, Yom Kippur, Lebanon,