Of course McGovern is right, and CNN’s second best populist, Jack Cafferty (after Lou Dobbs) is right to advertise McGovern’s sentiments:
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I’ve heard more about Bush helping the AIDS epidemic in Africa than I did for what he did (or didn’t do) during Katrina. If there’s a time for the American government/people to step in with a helping hand, it’s when folks are waist deep in water, houses flooded. Priorities have gone by the wayside under this administration.
I’m glad Cafferty is there at CNN to give the people a voice every now and then. Some of those viewer emails had it on the nose. Most members of Congress are as complicit and guilty as the traitors in the White House. It was Congress who turned over their responsibility to declare war over to the executive branch. If they investigated Bush and Cheney, the fact of their own responsibility would be too close to home.
Well Ashley,
Consider you live in a country that spends hundreds of billions of dollars to fight wars of empire in far flung locations at the drop of a hat but has no idea how to find 20 million illegals or stop another 20 million from just running over the border.
Consider you live in a country that rushes into trade with china instead of Mexico and engages in outsourcing and then insourcing on a scale never before seen in the history of the world but can no longer care for 40 million of it’s own citizens.
And both parties do it.
Well Ashley,
Consider you live in a country that spends hundreds of billions of dollars to fight wars of empire in far flung locations at the drop of a hat but has no idea how to find 20 million illegals or stop another 20 million from just running over the border.
Consider you live in a country that rushes into trade with china instead of Mexico and engages in outsourcing and then insourcing on a scale never before seen in the history of the world but can no longer care for 40 million of it’s own citizens.
And both parties are responsible.
I have considered those things and so we agree. I’ve never been affiliated with a party since the first time I voted. I always have and will continue to vote for the candidate, based on the issues. I won’t throw my hands into the air, though. This land is made for you and me. There’s lots wrong. It’s not impossible to fix. Unfortunately, we tend to let the pot boil over before we take it off the eye.
Although it is great to hear the viewer emails and see the anger of americans, how many of them will still vote for the staus quo to keep the “other” party out of office? In at least the last three general elections, there have been good Constitution Party candidates. During the ongoing 2008 primaries we have a perfect example of this. Perhaps Obama’s strength is in his vote against giving the authority to the warmongering President to invade and occupy Iraq. Perhaps it is the disdain for Hillary Clinton. But, sirs, it is not a disdain for big centralized government from which all of the problems arise.
On the Republican side, the Grand Old Partisans have all but nominated one of the most if not the most liberal Republican Senators to fill the vacancy left by The most dictatorial presidents (IMO) since Lincoln. While the Democrats are sticking basically to their liberal, socialist platform, the Republicans are abandoning theirs and nominating a liberal themselves. Impeachment proceedings propagated by the Democrats would only implicate their own agendas which seem to align in many ways with those of the pseudo-conservatives.