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Aijaz Ahmad courtesy of TheRealNews.comAt the AIPAC conference Barack Obama demonstrates he’s trying to outdo McCain and Bush on foreign policy.As stated in this video, who needs Neocons, when we have Liberals like this.Obama told AIPAC he will promote tough sanctions against Iran, whether the U.N. approves of them or not. Ahmad points out Bill Clinton implemented such sanctions as well, but he only pursued sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council.

Pepe Escobar from the Real News

Barack Obama has the same advisors Bill Clinton had when he implemented the “Oil For Food” program.

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Were the U.N. sanctions such a great thing? They didn’t do much to Saddam, but they did kill half a million Iraqi children. The U.N. sanctions denied basic necessities like medical equipment, antibiotics, vaccines, cancer medication, and morphine for dying cancer patients.

Iraq has a lot of cancer patients because the U.S. and Brittan used shells coated with depleted uranium while bombing Iraq, and they did it for years.

For more information please watch Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq by John Pilger

Also see:

George Galloway speak to Norm Colman

Senate Hearing 5/17/05

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Full Version of George Galloway Senate Hearing

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Tags: Barack Obama, Middle East by Amapola
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I believe this is some of the most important info on the FISA bill H.R. 6304

Glen Greenwald from Salon on Obama’s support for FISA

One of the most important things Glen Greenwald has to say (former Constitutional Layer) is

It is absolutely false that the only unconstitutional and destructive provision of this “compromise” bill is the telecom amnesty part. It’s true that most people working to defeat the Cheney/Rockefeller bill viewed opposition to telecom amnesty as the most politically potent way to defeat the bill, but the bill’s expansion of warrantless eavesdropping powers vested in the President, and its evisceration of safeguards against abuses of those powers, is at least as long-lasting and destructive as the telecom amnesty provisions. The bill legalizes many of the warrantless eavesdropping activities George Bush secretly and illegally ordered in 2001. Those warrantless eavesdropping powers violate core Fourth Amendment protections. And Barack Obama now supports all of it, and will vote it into law. Those are just facts.

Barack Obama is starting to exhibit a pattern of soft peddling and supporting really bad bills.

Another example is Barack Obama’s Senate vote for the Reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
Senate votes on the Reauth of the Patriot Act
Also Congress votes on the Reauth of the Patriot Act

Kucinich on why this FISA HR 6304 is so bad

Russ Feingold on why FISA HR 6304 is so bad

It looks like I will have to vote for Ralph Nader or Bob Barr for hope of change.

Ralph Nader

Bob Barr

Chuck Baldwin

Some people may want to look into Check Baldwin. Personally voting for a former member of the Moral Majority does not sound like a good idea. Although I believe morality is very important, I don’t want to elect someone who is going to try to legislate it.

ACLU Action Page on FISA

Who voted for the FISA bill in Congress

You can also get your representative’s information on Congress.org

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Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Barr, Dennis Kucinich, Politics, Ralph Nader by Amapola
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This is one area where I consider myself pretty conservative.

When I was in college 16 years ago, I knew a girl who was on welfare. The government paid for her apartment, daycare, and college. This was all because she got pregnant and the guy didn’t want to marry her.

After seeing the benefits she received, having a baby to get the same benefits looked really tempting. I wonder how many girls had less common sense than I did, and actually did have a baby so they would be all set.

I also had a relative who had a child every four years to stay on welfare. They all had different fathers, and she had five of them. She had started out around 20 and had the 5th one around 40. She seduced a teenage guy in her neighborhood for the last one. She probably should have gone to prison.

What is even more sad, is boys need fathers as a roll model. Some times they need someone to give them a kick in the butt. There are exceptions to every rule, but I have known many people with step parents: including my mother and my husband. In most cases they step parent treated them like a third class citizen. They didn’t love them the way they loved their own children.

I believe if you are going to have a child, the most important thing in the world you can do is raise that child well. It is our civic duty to raise our children well. The rest of society will have to deal with these people. There are exceptions to every statistic, but I do think this is something liberal people tend to downplay to the detriment of society.

Family values has nothing to do with religion. It has everything to do with logic.

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Tags: Family by Amapola
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