Obama fights Fear mongering with Funny monologue… and a coconut cream pie!

Barack Obama speaks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner

Obama likes Pie. Do you like pie too?

McCain the Maverick Dictator

Not to belabor the point but, John McCain may just be the candidate of fascism. Here are a video of the old POW survivor slipping up and saying what’s really on his mind. First, he offhandedly mentions a sentiment George Bush had laughed off: the aspiration of becoming dictator of the United States. A dictator is “a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession”. Is that why America invaded Iraq? To overthrow a dictator?

McCain Suspends Democratic Process, Could the Election be Cancelled?

McCain announced he is suspending his campaign for President until the financial crisis is over and urges the Democrats to do the same. The proposed $700 Billion bailout may not solve the crisis. If it doesn’t, this could effectively mean, the 2008 president elections would be cancelled all together. Couple that possibility with the military preparation for martial law on American soil, and you have the possible end of democracy. What was mere conspiracy theory and paranoia a a month ago is beginning to look like a reality.

 

Apparently, Barack Obama called McCain first and made the suggestion of canceling the their upcoming debate. McCain quickly went to the press and upped the anty.

Impeach Bush: War Crimes and Treason

John Cusack, a real American Hero

Does anyone remember the internet campaign to elect John Cusack for President? You know a movement was real if you bought the t-shirt, right?  ”Cusack For Prez” ”He made the tough decisions in Grosse Pointe Blank. He couldn’t be bought in Eight Men Out. He’s cooler than John Malkovich. And we like his politics so far.” That was the slogan, but the old website, cusackforpresident.com, is gone. Maybe it’s time to give it another go. Maybe a Cusack/Nader ticket. American needs a healthy 3rd party option. The following is a sample of Mr. Cusack’s political potential…    http://rawstory.com/news/2008/John_Cusack_movie_takes_on_war_0329.html 

John Cusack was on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and spoke about his upcoming film, War. Inc., which according to Cusack focuses on the military-industrial complex.The film, says Cusack, differs from other films inspired by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because, it “has a much more absurdist take on [war].”Cusack added, “some things are so vicious if you didn’t look at them through a different lens you couldn’t get out of bed. And certainly the war profiteering, immorality and illegality of this disastrous, free-market Utopian enterprise out there is certainly well-documented.”While explaining that the film shares similar themes as those found in Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine, Cusack said, “the very core things that make up our government like wars or interrogation or border patrol, jailing, any of those types of things that you would think would be sacred things that would happen with the state are now being turned into for-profit enterprises. And if you want all these things to be, if you want corporate ethics to be our national interest, then you have the situation we’re in now. But right now, when you think that we’ve out sourced everything to interrogation, which means torture is a cost-plus enterprise, I think you can see a complete spiritual bankruptcy to this whole neo-con movement. It’s a nightmare beyond anything you can really imagine.”Maher asked if these issues were just a result of a neo-conservative movement and Bush administration or evidence of a “rot in America itself that is a lot deeper.”Cusack responded, “Yeah, I do think the issue goes deeper, a lot deeper.”Adding later, “Some of these truths are so horrible you don’t want to think about that, but it’s just — I mean the gig’s up. If guys who are statesmen on CNN are also sitting on the board and are shareholders in some of the most profitable defense contractors in the world and they publicly make the case to go to war, got to war, then create a new market with the war, come back and speak evangelically about free markets that aren’t free, these aren’t particularly subtle fact and the stock prices jump 145% and their companies are awarded $2.3 billion contract. After a while you have to expose and shame and indict and hopefully convict the participants in this illegal immoral ideology.”    

 

Message To Ralph Nader

  

If you want to attack an unstoppable, relentless force–and are unafraid of assuming the voice of a “legion” of people when you are clearly just another doofus with broadband–this whole “manifesto delivered by Speak N’ Spell to spooky techno music” genre appears to be all the rage. We caved immediately to its creepy, earnest aesthetic….We just out-and-out stole some of this footage for this from the trailer for a tremendous movie about Nader called “An Unreasonable Man.” You should check it out: http://www.anunreasonableman.com/ If the filmmakers would like to sue, they are welcome to a percentage of our youtube hits. Gentlemen, name your price.