Cheney has always somehow maintained a teflon on himself. I don't understand how or why, but he's done it.

He's pure evil personified.

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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

It really is like watching bizarro world. Up really is down to them. It's amazing.

nalbar

This from an e-mail passed to me the other day. May be a bit too "tinfoil" for the BT crowd, but certainly food for though:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21117.htm

Twelve Reasons to Reject Obama

1. Obama publicly and repeatedly promises to escalate the US military intervention in Afghanistan, increasing the number of US troops, expanding their operations and engaging in systematic cross-border attacks.  In other words, Obama is a greater warmonger than Bush.

2. Obama publicly has declared that his regime will extend the `war against terrorism' by systematic, large-scale ground and air attacks on Pakistan, thus escalating the war to include villages, towns and cities deemed sympathetic to the Afghan resistance.

3. Obama opposes the withdrawal of US troops in Iraq in favor of redeployment; the relocation of US troops from combat zones to training and logistical positions, contingent on the military capability of the Iraqi Army to defeat the resistance.  Obama opposes a clearly defined deadline to withdraw US forces from Iraq because US troops in Iraq are essential to pursuing his overall policies in the Middle East, which include military confrontations with Iran, Syria and Southern Lebanon.

4. Obama has declared his unconditional support for the position of the pro-Israel Lobby and the colonial expansionist and bellicose policies of the Jewish state.  He has promised to back Israeli military attacks whatever the cost to the US.  His abject servility to Israel was evident in his speech at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington 2008.  Top advisers who have long and notorious links to the top echelons of the principle Zionist propaganda mills and the Presidents of the Leading Jewish American Organizations wrote the speech and formulate his Middle East policy.

5. Obama has promised to attack Iran if it continues to process uranium for its nuclear programs.  Twice, just weeks before the elections, Obama's running mate Joseph Biden spelled out a series of `points of conflict' (including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and North Korea) emphasizing that Obama `would respond forcefully'. Obama's senior Middle East advisers include leading Zionists like Dennis Ross, closely linked to the `Bipartisan Policy Center', which published a report serving as a blueprint for war with Iran. Obama's proposed offer to negotiate with Iran is little more than a pretext for issuing an ultimatum to Iran to surrender its sovereignty or face massive military assault.

6. Obama unconditionally supports Israel's expulsion of Palestinians and the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the leading cause of Middle East hostility, warfare and the discredit of US policy in the region.  With three dozen Israel-Firsters among his leading campaign organizers, top policy advisers, speech writers and among the likely candidates for cabinet positions, there is virtually no hope of `influencing from within' or `applying popular pressure' to change Obama's slavish submission to the Zionist Power Configuration.  By supporting Obama, the "progressive intellectuals" are, in effect, allies of his Zionist mentors.

7. On the domestic front, Obama's key economic advisers have impeccable Wall Street credentials. He gave  unquestioning and immediate endorsement to Treasury Secretary Paulson's $700 billion dollar taxpayer bailout of the richest investment banks in the US. Obama has failed to challenge Paulson or the banks over the use of Federal funds  for buyouts and acquisitions instead of loans and credit to producers and homeowners. Obama's backing of Paulson and the Wall Street bailout is matched by his meager proposals to suspend mortgage foreclosures for a three-month period, pending re-negotiations of interest payments.  Obama proposes to escalate transfers of government funds to mismanaged financial institutions and bankrupt capitalist corporations, in  efforts to save failed capitalism rather than pursue any new large-scale, long-term public investment programs which will generate well-paid employment for workers.

8. Obama's economic team has openly declared their embrace and practice of `free market' ideology and opposition to any effort to engage in large-scale injections of government funds in publicly-owned productive activity and social services in the face of wide-spread private sector failure, corruption and collapse.
   
9. Obama embraces failed private sector health plans, run and controlled by corporate insurance companies, conservative medical and hospital associations and Big Pharma.  He publicly rejects a universal national health program modeled after the successful Federal Medicare program in favor of inefficient, state-subsidized private for profit plans that are costly and beyond the means of over one third of US families.
   
10.  Obama is and continues to be an advocate for Big Agro and its highly subsidized and profitable ethanol program, which has increased food prices for millions in the US and for hundreds of millions in the world.

11. Obama advocates continuing the criminal embargo on Cuba, hostile confrontation with Venezuela's populist President Chavez and other Latin American reformers and the duplicitous policy of promoting protectionism at home and free market access to Latin America.  His key policy advicers on Latin America propose cosmetic changes in style and diplomacy but unrelenting support for re-asserting US hegemony.

12. Obama has not proposed, nor do his free market advisers and billionaire financial backers envision, any comprehensive plan or strategy to get us out of the deepening recession.  On the contrary, the course of piecemeal measures presented by Obama are internally inconsistent:  Fiscal austerity is incompatible with job creation; bailing out Wall Street drains funds from productive investment; and pursuing new wars undermine domestic recovery.

If you think on it, McCain Cheney are the perfect pair. I would love to watch them snarl at each other. If only McCain had picked him for the VP spot!

nalbar