Political Theater

It is on every cable news channel and its damn interesting. Especially right now, its all here for the viewing on your favorite news channel. The ultimate scripted and unscripted reality show.

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George Bush Gives Partisan Endorsement Of John McCain From White House

So tonight Geoge W. Bush our President gave a partisan speech for the RNC from the White House. In this speech he Voiced his support for John McCain and trashed Democrats and the "Angry Left". Now this is the President, Our President. The White House is Our house, that we let the President reside in. That house belongs to the whole Country, Republicans and Democrats.



The fact that he used the White House, Our house, to voice his partisan views and trash half the Country in the process is deplorable, yet for him expected. Party business should not be conducted in Our House. If he wants to go to his private residence and make his endorsement speeches that fine, but to use the office and house of the people to endorse his candidate is really a slap in the face to about half or more of this Country who do not share his views.



I personally find it apalling but I am not suprised. This is how George Bush operates and this is who he is. The people he cares about, are the people that support him. Anyone else, they don't matter. George Bush trashed half of his Country tonight, from the White House, Our house. He did this to endorse John McCain who it seems thinks this is appropriate also.



I think this is just another way that John McCain will continue with Bush Business as usual.



The White House should be used to conduct the business of the people, and I mean all the people. Partisan business should not be conducted in Our House. What George Bush did tonight was not right and should not be looked over.

Ron Suskind : How The White House Lied To Invade Iraq

Remember Ron Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He also has tapes of all the interviews of his sources.





The White house of course denies any of this...

Iraq's Prime Minister Supports Obama's Withdrawl Timetable

So today I woke up to this good news from the Prime Minister of Iraq...

When asked in and interview with SPIEGEL when he thinks US troops should leave Iraq, Maliki responded "as soon as possible, as far as we are concerned." He then continued: "US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes."

Maliki was careful to back away from outright support for Obama. "Of course, this is by no means an election endorsement. Who they choose as their president is the Americans' business," he said. But then, apparently referring to Republican candidate John McCain's more open-ended Iraq policy, Maliki said: "Those who operate on the premise of short time periods in Iraq today are being more realistic. Artificially prolonging the tenure of US troops in Iraq would cause problems."

I wonder how John McCain and the White House will try and spin this one? Is McCain now going to say he can get the troops out in 12 months? I'm sure the Prime Minister will be getting a phone call from the White House soon demanding answers. Most likely after some pressure there will be a retraction or claims of a misquote, that is until the next one. Maybe this is politics to gain more leverage with the White House in their current U.S. troop status agreements. Maybe he is being serious. I think he is being serious, and the pressure from the White House did come because he is now claiming he was "misquoted", unlikely, his statement seemed real clear to me.

So this brings about a great question why do the Republicans want to keep staying there? I mean if the "surge" worked so well and things are so great and the Prime Minister and the people want us gone, Why are we trying to stay? Oil, Permanent Bases I think are the reasons why and the whole purpose of this new status agreement. To lock the next President in just in case he doesn't share bush's crazed ideology. We have not locked up the oil yet. I guarantee as soon as our companies have the oil locked up and there is a few permanent bases there. The Republicans will finally want to leave. But at what costs? How many deaths should we accept for oil before we finally put our foot down?

Who In The White House Said Go Break The Law

Ok one more, For those of you paying attention to the whole F.I.S.A debacle, Here is what happened in the Senate today. Pat Leahy has it right, It's not about the telcoms as much as it is, Who in the white house said break the law. We have to do something so it does not happen again...