Un-effin'-believable

It wasn’t bad enough that the McPalin campaign had not been addressing the cries of “kill him”, “traitor” or “terrorist” being shouted at their rallies, now they’ve come out and, in essence, endorsed all the hatred.

Politico’s Ben Smith reports this from McCain spokesman Brian Rogers; “Barack Obama’s attacks on Americans who support John McCain reveal far more about him than they do about John McCain. It is clear that Barack Obama just doesn’t understand regular people and the issues they care about. He dismisses hardworking middle class Americans as clinging to guns and religion, while at the same time attacking average Americans at McCain rallies who are angry at Washington, Wall Street and the status quo.”

Then you have this from McCain senior adviser Nicolle Wallace; “Barack Obama's assault on our supporters is insulting and unsurprising. These are the same people Obama called 'bitter' and attacked for 'clinging to guns' and faith. He fails to understand that people are angry at corrupt practices in Washington and Wall Street and he fails to understand that America's working families are not 'clinging' to anything other than the sincere hope that Washington will be reformed from top to bottom. […] Attacking our supporters is a new low for the campaign that's run more millions of dollars of negative ads than any other in history.” What!!?? Are you fucking kidding me??? What nerve… what stupidity… what hatred! You dare say Obama doesn’t understand people when your campaign is ignoring the economic crisis to incite this kind of crap…

Shouting "Terrorist" and "Kill Him" does not show anger at the economy and reform of government, all it shows is a pure hatred for Obama and the McCain Campaign should be condemning it not condoning it.

And Obama was not assaulting McCain's supporters when he spoke about these rallies, he was merely stating that the McCain campaign is stoking anger and division.

So let me get this straight; the McPalin camps says that if you're angry, it's OK to slander someone and incite a crowd to such levels of anger that would incite violence against an individual, and to call them onto the carpet for it is “an assault”?

Give me a break.

THAT is un-American, and the gop should be ashamed of themselves that they’re candidate is behaving in this fashion.

And as far as McCain’s honor is concerned, I ask what honor? McCain has no more honor… each time they ignored this idiotic behavior it guaranteed it would happen again… now that they’re endorsing it, it will grow larger and larger.

Is McCain ready to accept responsibility if the unthinkable happens? I doubt it, but it’s now clearly on his shoulders, and for someone who alleges he’s a man of honor, his campaign is so-far off the track that if he loses next month, he should immediately retire from the Senate, go home to Arizona and play canasta…

McCain; you’ve failed.

Katz is on notice

Earlier this week I wrote a post (‘Sad and Pathetic’) about the Department of Veterans Affairs deliberately withholding information about the suicide risk among veterans by giving false numbers staggeringly lower than the true numbers.

The post also described how the head of the department, Dr. Ira Katz, sent emails to others in the department in a desperate attempt to hide the truth from not only the media, but the American public as well.

The plan didn’t work as the emails were discovered/leaked to CBS news… and now the Karma is coming back to kick Katz in the ass as Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) are now calling for his resignation.

Akaka wrote to Michael Kussman, the Undersecretary for Health;

“Dr. Katz’s personal conduct and professional judgment have been called into question by his response to the mental health needs of veterans, and in particular to veteran suicides. I believe veterans, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, would be best served by his immediate resignation.”

Sen. Murray asked VA Deputy Secretary Gordon Mansfield;

“How do we trust what you’re saying when every time we turn around we find out that what you’re saying publicly is different from what you’re saying privately? How can we trust what you’re saying today?”

Katz behavior is, again, sad and pathetic. For someone who supposedly took the Hippocratic Oath when he became a doctor, Katz isn’t acting the part.

Says the Oath;

“I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.”

He seems to have forgotten it, hasn’t he?
Dr. Katz… you’re on notice. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

On second thought; let it. Hard.

Karma, baby!

I believe in karma, especially in the world of politics and if you try to screw the people, Karma will eventually catch up to you and you'll get your comeuppance.

Well, it's finally happened...

Since the 2008 Presidential campaigns began, republicans have been changing their party affiliations in some states in order to throw a wrench into the Democrat's primary process, whether it is by way of pushing the stronger candidate out of the way so the lesser candidate – the candidate that the polls tell them will lose to their candidate – wins that state.

Hell, even Rush “OxyContin” Limbaugh told his followers to do it, and do it they did in Ohio, and now some, if not all, may face legal action.

Now travel south where approximately 9,000 people in Kentucky have switched their political affiliation since Jan. 1st so they could vote on the Democratic ticket.

And now? Now they're beginning to get a taste of their own disenfranchisement while realizing that their switch won't help their party one bit.

In what can easily be attributed to Karma, thousands of Kentuckians that have switched political party affiliation from republican to Democrat or Independent over the past three months – most likely in a vain attempt to sway the Democratic presidential primary – are finding themselves out of luck.

The state's Secretary of State, Trey Grayson, repeated this week that Kentucky law forbids people who switch parties after December 31st from voting in the presidential primary.

Oops.

Greyson also said that he has been telling all election officials in the state to warn political groups and campaign workers that encouraging Republicans and Independents to switch to the Democratic Party will be of no benefit in the primary because they won't be able to vote.

Despite that, some 9,000 people have changed parties since January 1 and as a result have given up their right to vote.

Acting like true Republicans, I guess these people didn't fully think their plan through, huh?

Karma, baby!