McCain has gone nuts. Comparing this situation to appeasing Hitler is so off the mark.

I liked Paul's response. McCain tried to hide behind the troops and Paul blew him out of the water. I'm a Dem but it's nice to see a Republican that isn't such a freekin sheep.

The rest of them only say, "Terrorists!, 9/11!, You can only support the troops by leaving them in the quagmire that is Iraq! Fear!"

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How sleazy can you get? Here is Hillary planting questions again but this time she is planting questions at the Republican Debate. (Kieth Kerr of the Clinton Gay/Lesbian steering committee). Edwards thought this was such a fine idea he had 2 people plant questions. ( A lady called Paperserenade that runs an Edwards web site and Leeann Anderson an activist who is an assistant to the steel workers union, who endorses Edwards.)

So
Is CNN a dishonest news organization.
or
Democrats are just being democrats and just can't help themselves but to cheat and lie.
OR
BOTH

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Yeah, McCain was really disgraceful in making those remarks. Saying he spoke with troops who pleaded to "let them win" comes across as particularly ludicrious in light of every poll that I've seen showing the rank and file's discontent with the war. The desertion rate seems to be another indicator that the military's enthusiasm for the situation in Iraq is tepid at best. But he was probably being narrowly truthful, because I imagine that his campaign made careful arrangements to have him meet with like-minded service members.

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Iraq is not WWII..!


If it is WWII then bin-Laden is Hitler and Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld let Hitler Escape at Tora Bora betraying America and every victim of 9/11..!


Why isn't McCain screaming for our letting bin-Laden Hitler escape along with Zawahiri and thousands of al-Qaeda and the Taliban as well..


Tora Bora is the Achilles heel to the War on Terror and Bush's 9/11 bullshit...Giuliani's too why aren't Giuliani or McCain outraged at this betrayal and failure and refusal to send only 6-800 Troops that the CIA and Special Forces were begging for to cut off bin-Laden's escape not to mention that Bush gave bin-laden a Truce for God's sake a truce for bin-laden and al-Qaeda why isn't McCain outraged over this being it's WWII..!

The Democrats are too stupid or dishonest themselves to be hammering Bush and the Republicans about the conspiracy and betrayal at Tora Bora..!


Simple as that..!

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That is a decidedly mixed reaction I saw ansd listened to. Many many (a majority?) of republicans would gladly send other people off to die for their right to party. Ron Paul is valuable to the democrats as he is forcing a rip in the usually ducks in a row republican primary process, particularly in regards to Iraq/Iran, but to suggest some sort of wholesale republican voter agreement with Ron Paul is silly. Someone at Alternet watched that video and comes up with "debate audaince boos mcain...." as a tag line? That is just stupid. The story is not republican agreement, it is republican DISS agreement.

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Having made a career out of little more than having been a pow (still, that's MUCH more than most republicans) McCain humiliates himself with his cheap and stupid remark to Ron Paul. Its the 'stabbed in the back' imagery so well used by Mr. Hitler in his campaign to cause division and engender racial and class divisions among his countrymen that reveal McCain's lack of civility and common sense. He has elevated himself into the pantheon of wing-nuthood.

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Senator McCain has no credibility. As a member of the "Keating Five", he derailed an investigation into the Savings and Loan disaster for years and cost the American taxpayers BILLIONS of DOLLARS, most of which went into the greedy pockets of VILE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS including Charles Keating and Neil Bush (sibling of the USURPER). This was a REAL CRIME, and the conservative republicans got away with it - and I believe the emboldened them to carry out the EXTREME RIP-OFF of OUR TREASURY carried out by the USURPER and HIS VILE MINIONS. McCain can simply GO TO HELL - Wait, with REPUBLICANS IN CHARGE, WE ARE ALL ALREADY THERE.

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Does Ron Paul support Universal health care??

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Sometimes I wonder if folks really pay attention to what Ron Paul says.. Maybe its merely that we as a nation have been locked in a paticular way of viewing things, that most people can't imagine a different way. The key word here is, States Rights. California wants enviromentally sound policy? States Rights. Texas wants abortion to be illegal? States Rights. Basically anything your state decides to enact as law and policy, is avaliable to you under Ron Paul. No more being forced to employ lower eductional standards, because the current sitting president demands that your children fall his ideals. Lastly, its a huge mistake to view Ron Paul through the whole left/right lense.

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Those are cheered McCain during his sorry outburst are likely among the 26% or so in all the polls who feel Shrub is doing a hellacious job in Iraq. And that number is thankfully ever dwindling.

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In 1913, the US Congress proposed and received state ratification for the 16th Amendment of the US Constitution. It says:

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment amoung the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

This was based on Artical I, Section 8, clause 1 of the US Constitution which specifies the power of Congress to impose taxes, duties, imposts and excises through legislation.

Those who claim the US federal income tax is illegal or unConstitutional have not a leg to stand on. How would the federal income tax have lasted almost an entire century if it were actually unconstitutional?

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I think he should've responded by telling McCain, "WWII was caused by IMPERIALISM. Germany abandoned the principle of just war to execute preemptive strikes against neighbors. Hitler always talked about how "we must attack them, before they attack us." He then proceeded to utilize "terrorists" as a means of finalizing the Nazi police state. Our involvement in WWII most likely led to the current American empire, which must be maintained to preserve the strength of the dollar. The Fiat Federal reserve system creates a need for oil liquidity, because the dollar is the default trading currency of oil around the world. If the US returned to a gold standard, we'd be able to stop the worst source of tyranny in the modern world: the US. Due to fiat currency, and a socialist, government regulated economy, we are slowly becoming a police state. We resemble Hitler more in our modern preemptive strikes than Iran does in transitioning its oil trading currency to Euros, and developing a nuclear program. John McCain. You are wrong."

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