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McCain and Microsoft.

On the other hand, John McCain told Wall Street Journal columnists at last year’s All Things Digital conference that he would select individuals for his cabinet who have “been a success and understands the issue,” specifically naming Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer.

Ballmer’s reputation for throwing chairs, sweaty theatrics on stage, vowing to “kill Google,” and his association of Linux with Communism played into blogger Kara Swisher’s reply, “Steve Ballmer, Secretary of State, right?” which elicited some laughs. McCain added, “How about ambassador to China, that would be good.”

Microsoft’s PR agency declined to comment on the possibility of its CEO leaving to join McCain’s cabinet. Ballmer lacks any public sector experience but the fact that he was the third person McCain’s thought to name as a potential cabinet member shouldn’t be surprising. Microsoft lobbies the government intensely and contributes more to political campaigns and special interests than any other tech company.




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I didn't know that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, the current Microsoft CEO are both Jewish.

Steve Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000.[1] Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. In Forbes 2008 World's Richest People ranking, Ballmer was ranked the 43rd richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $15 billion.


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tom check this out....McCain vs. McCain on Immigration reform

You can also see what Wesley Clark actually said and how the media manipulated it.

What Wesley Clark Really Said About John McCain


http://www.jedreport.com/2008/06/what-wesley-cla.html

A little more info for you

Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?
by systemfailure Wednesday, Apr. 09, 2003 at 1:43 AM


So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and who owns what you think.......

GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

Television Holdings:
* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).
The "MS" in MSNBC
means microsoft
The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

A little more info

And Karl Rove, the former political adviser to President Bush who is quietly consulting with McCain's top strategists, offered this piece of advice in his column in the Wall Street Journal. "Mr. McCain will be helped if he uses Mr. Obama's actions to paint his opponent as someone driven by an all-powerful instinct to look out only for himself," Rove wrote Thursday. "In a contest over who is willing to put principle above personal ambition and self-interest, John McCain, a war hero and a former POW, wins hands down."

Mark Rozell, a professor of political science at George Mason University, said the similarity of the attacks suggests a concerted effort to "build a picture" about Obama's character before the political newcomer has a chance to convince people of the truth of his rhetoric.

"These things are always orchestrated," Rozell said. "I have no doubt there has been a running conversation within Republican circles about what the theme should be in going after Obama and how that theme could be reinforced."

The new Republican theme moves the campaign argument away from policy disagreements -- of which there are many -- to the realm of character, where McCain aides think their candidate is untouchable. But the tactic has potential risks for McCain, who has said repeatedly over the past several months that he will run a "respectful" campaign that does not engage in the politics of personal destruction.


We have just caught on tom to how they play the game. They want to make something out of nothing and fire it up. Just pour water on it and forget it.

"People love Obama and will just keep sending him the MONEY."~Opal


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Oh my, I think I have a stalker from Switzerland. I think he is smittened on me he must like all my knowledge.


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Bush has broken 750 laws by always adding onto the bill himself before he signs them. He just has that power. He gave it to himself.


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Who Rules America?
The Alien Grip on Our News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken


http://www.natvan.com/who-rules-america/





As an example, consider the media treatment of Middle East news. Some editors or commentators are slavishly pro-Israel in their every utterance, while others seem nearly neutral. No one, however, dares suggest that the U.S. government is backing the wrong side in the Arab-Jewish conflict, or that 9-11 was a result of that support. Nor does anyone dare suggest that it served Jewish interests, rather than American interests, to send U.S. forces to cripple Iraq, Israel's principal rival in the Middle East. Thus, a spectrum of permissible opinion, from pro-Israel to nearly neutral, is established.

Another example is the media treatment of racial issues in the United States. Some commentators seem almost dispassionate in reporting news of racial strife, while others are emotionally partisan—with the partisanship always on the non-White side. All of the media spokesmen without exception, however, take the position that "multiculturalism" and racial mixing are here to stay and that they are good things.

Because there are differences in degree, however, most Americans fail to realize that they are being manipulated. Even the citizen who complains about "managed news" falls into the trap of thinking that because he is presented with an apparent spectrum of opinion he can escape the thought controllers' influence by believing the editor or commentator of his choice. It's a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation. Every point on the permissible spectrum of public opinion is acceptable to the media masters—and no impermissible fact or viewpoint is allowed any exposure at all, if they can prevent it.

The control of the opinion-molding media is nearly monolithic. All of the controlled media—television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, motion pictures—speak with a single voice, each reinforcing the other. Despite the appearance of variety, there is no real dissent, no alternative source of facts or ideas accessible to the great mass of people that might allow them to form opinions at odds with those of the media masters. They are presented with a single view of the world—a world in which every voice proclaims the equality of the races, the inerrant nature of the Jewish "Holocaust" tale, the wickedness of attempting to halt the flood of non-White aliens pouring across our borders, the danger of permitting citizens to keep and bear arms, the moral equivalence of all sexual orientations, and the desirability of a "pluralistic," cosmopolitan society rather than a homogeneous, White one. It is a view of the world designed by the media masters to suit their own ends—and the pressure to conform to that view is overwhelming. People adapt their opinions to it, vote in accord with it, and shape their lives to fit it.

And who are these all-powerful masters of the media? As we shall see, to a very large extent they are Jews. It isn't simply a matter of the media being controlled by profit-hungry capitalists, some of whom happen to be Jews. If that were the case, the ethnicity of the media masters would reflect, at least approximately, the ratio of rich Gentiles to rich Jews. Despite a few prominent exceptions, the preponderance of Jews in the media is so overwhelming that we are obliged to assume that it is due to more than mere happenstance.

Jewish Media-Control
PROFILE OF A JEWISH MEDIA BOSS

ONE THE WORLD’S WEALTHIEST AND MOST POWERFUL JEWISH MEDIA BOSSES SPEAKS OUT.

http://globalfire.tv/nj/04en/jews/saban.htm




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I admire your honesty. Sometimes it is much easier to talk the talk than walk the walk. I believe in live and let live.


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Gop Sharpens Attacks on Obama link cut of short I will post it again but if it says not found just type in Gop Sharpens Attacks on Obama

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/30/politics/

washingtonpost/main4218136.shtml


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We do have to remember that republicans had control of both houses and if anyone spoke against the war they were unpatriotic. Who bought that BS....fear, fear, fear is all people heard on the media. Remeber what happened to Max Cleveland over one vote, the same vote other Republicans voted for. And Tom Daschel who dared to speak out.

The republican strategy now and has been character assasination and fear mongering.

Dirty-Bomb politics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14474-2002Jun19.html

GOP Sharpens Attacks on Obama

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/30/politics/washingtonpost/main4218136.shtml

And Karl Rove, the former political adviser to President Bush who is quietly consulting with McCain's top strategists, offered this piece of advice in his column in the Wall Street Journal.

"Mr. McCain will be helped if he uses Mr. Obama's actions to paint his opponent as someone driven by an all-powerful instinct to look out only for himself," Rove wrote Thursday. "In a contest over who is willing to put principle above personal ambition and self-interest, John McCain, a war hero and a former POW, wins hands down."

Mark Rozell, a professor of political science at George Mason University, said the similarity of the attacks suggests a concerted effort to "build a picture" about Obama's character before the political newcomer has a chance to convince people of the truth of his rhetoric.

"These things are always orchestrated," Rozell said. "I have no doubt there has been a running conversation within Republican circles about what the theme should be in going after Obama and how that theme could be reinforced."

Is the media in on it? Solitare, if you read this is just struck me how often you talk about the media's role in our Government....and you are so right.

Mon Jun 30, 9:03 AM Pacific
What Wesley Clark Really Said About John McCain

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/06/what-wesley-cla.html

I say go Obama go and let the lobbyist loving McCain whine.


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David, that was one of the points I was trying to make about the emails being garbage and all over the internet, they are manipulating and fear mongering.


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I wasn't calling him garbage. I was calling what Leno said garbage.



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Wow! Save it for an idiot who cares. It seems you did have to pick the woman to take your anger out on. I didn't say all the stuff that you are angered about, but it seems you don't have the courage to confront a man. But for you info, if you misinterpreted I was calling what Leno said garbage and not you.


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Thank you BnaturAl, for expressing your opinion and anger at the garbage that started this thread. I swear people read stuff like that on the internet all the time and some cower down. I usually don't cower down from expressing my true feelings, even if I am angered but after a while of constantly being followed and insulted for everything I say, which is called bullying, it wears you down. And maybe I don't always express myself elequotely....one must always behave like a "lady" on CS



It is the same in politics. Kerry allowed them to define him as a flipflopper, then when he changed his stance they laughed even louder and called him a double flipflopper. They try to make their oppenents look bad to their own party. FLIPFLOP, could it be possible that people learn and still stand on the same prinicples. Could it be possible that they are going to corner you no matter what you do.
McCain won't do it. He is just a gentle ole war hero who is completely opposite of Bush if you can buy that he didn't sell his soul or him self in 2003 when he gave Bush that big ole hug at their crazy revival, I mean convention.

Karl Rove is still out there campainging for McCain. Rove laughs at the Senate Judiciary's sophena. why? Because he knows he can. I am positive that they do not want another party to take power. I thought I saw the worst in Florida when they fought like a bunch of hungry wolves to keep them from counting the votes. But that was just the beginning.




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This is anothter good link on how oil speculation has increased the cost of oil. If anyone is interested in how speculation is increasing oil there are many links as of today it is/has been exposed.

www.globalresearch.ca


‘Perhaps 60% of today’s oil price is pure speculation’

by F. William Engdahl

Global Research, May 2, 2008

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8878


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Yeah, I don't know if it would be THAT simple but I still put it out there and if people take the time to read it they will decide for themselves if there is any merit to it.

The Senate Committe on Homeland Security and Governmental affairs took it seriously enough and believe it to be true.


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Big corporations and large oil stock holders. It would be quite simple to most Americans wondering where's the jobs? Why is the cost of everything rising so much?


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Many people supporting Obama believe this will be the most important change he can make....to allow us us to keep our rights and liberties and make this country a nation of law again.

The following was posted above but it is so important it needs to be highlighted....

We already KNOW that the companies received some form of documentation, with some sort of legal determination.


But that’s not the question. The question is not whether these companies received a “document” from the White House. The question is, “were their actions legal?” It’s rather straightforward—surprisingly uncomplicated.


Either the companies were presented with a warrant, or they weren’t. Either the companies and the President acted outside of the rule of law, or they followed it. Either the underlying program was legal or it wasn’t.


Because of this legislation, none of the questions will be answered, Mr. President. Because of this so-called “compromise,” the judge’s hands will be tied, and the outcome of these cases will be predetermined. Because of this compromise, retroactive immunity will be granted and that, as they say, will be that. Case closed.


No court will rule on the legality of the telecommunications companies activities in participating in the president’s warrantless wiretapping program.



None of our fellow Americans will have their day in court.


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It was this..."Change you can believe in" followed by a big hehe.

Notice it is not we, it is you.


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I imagine you wouldn’t see much harm in voting to allow this practice to continue either.



But if you see a vast dragnet for millions of Americans’ private conversations, conducted by a government agency that acted without a warrant, acted outside of the rule of law—then, I believe, you’ll recognize what’s at stake here. You’ll see that what’s at stake is the sanctity of the law and the sanctity of our privacy. And you’ll probably come to a very different conclusion.


Maybe that sounds overdramatic. Perhaps some will ask, “What does it matter, at the end of the day, if a few corporations aren’t sued? These people sue each other all the time.”



Others may say, “This seems a small issue. Maybe the Administration went too far, but this seems like an isolated case.”



Indeed, Mr. President – as long as this case seems isolated and technical, they win. As long as it’s about another lawsuit buried in our legal system and nothing more, they win. The Administration is counting on the American people to see nothing bigger than that – “Nothing to see here.”



But there is plenty to see here, Mr. President – and it is so much more than a few phonecalls, a few companies, a few lawsuits.



What is at stake is nothing less than equal justice—justice that makes no exceptions. What is at stake is an open debate on security and liberty, and an end to warrantless, groundless spying.


This bill does not say, “Trust the American people; Trust the courts and judges and juries to come to just decisions.” Retroactive immunity sends a message that is crystal clear:



“Trust me.”



And that message comes straight from the mouth of this President. “Trust me.”



What is the basis for that trust? Classified documents, we are told, that prove the case for retroactive immunity beyond a shadow of a doubt.



But we’re not allowed to see them! I’ve served in this body for 27 years, and I’m not allowed to see them! Neither are a majority of my colleagues. We are all left in the dark.



I cannot speak for my colleagues—but I would never take “trust me” for an answer, not even in the best of times. Not even from a President on Mount Rushmore.



I can’t put it better than this:



“Trust me” government is government that asks that we concentrate our hopes and dreams on one man; that we trust him to do what’s best for us. My view of government places trust not in one person or one party, but in those values that transcend persons and parties.



Those words were not spoken by someone who took our nation’s security lightly, Mr. President. They were spoken by Ronald Reagan -- in 1980. They are every bit as true today, even if times of threat and fear blur our concept of transcendent values. Even if those who would exploit those times urge us to save our skins at any cost.







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