Posts under ‘Politics’

I can’t say that I’m terribly surprised with the results of the race for the Senate in Massachusetts. The Democrats, trying very, very hard to be Republicans, just found out that they really shouldn’t try to be Republicans because they lost the support of all of the Independents who voted for them in 2008. [...]

By nature, I’m one who thinks humans are mostly good and that belief has led to severe disappointments over the years, most recently in February of this year. A number of years ago, a supervisor whom I was filling in for told me that he had a better understanding of human nature because he [...]

I’ve posted pieces by Chris Hedges before – a little goes a long way. But I’m sufficiently ticked off by Obama’s Afghanistan surge to post another of Hedges’ pieces and I’ve even borrowed the title of his article as the title of this post because I think it is provocative enough to catch [...]

Some will say that I’m beating a dead horse, that, yes, we all know you oppose Obama’s Afghanistan policy. True enough. But I think articles like the following, by Mark Perry, need to be distributed widely so that an informed citizenry (yes, that could be an oxymoron!) can better evaluate what is transpiring [...]

My last post was, as a friend has repeatedly told me in the past, shrill. In my defense, I was filled with despair when I posted it. When I wrote, “You lie!!!”, I meant it very seriously, on multiple counts, unlike Representative Joe Wilson’s outburst some weeks ago, who was only concerned with [...]

I’m sure I’m one of thousands who are posting this to their blogs. I’m sick …..

You’ve lost all credibility with me, Obama. I couldn’t stand to listen to Bush – now I can’t stand to listen to you, either. You lie!!!

On November 6, 2009, Dennis Kucinich (D – OH) issued the following statment. My sentiments, exactly:
“Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?
“The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. [...]

In the mindless patriotism everywhere on display on Veterans Day, the true cost of militarism is deliberately suppressed by the ruling class. If the facts in the following article, by Kelly B. Vlahos, were widely known, I have no doubt that the wars of aggression by the American Empire would be much more strongly [...]

This year, on Memorial Day, I posted a piece asking people not to thank me, as a veteran, for serving my country. I’ll repeat that for Veterans’ Day. This country’s gratitude does not extend to really taking care of veterans. Veterans’ Day should be a day of remembrance and reflection on the [...]

Obama lost my vote in 2012 when he decided to send an additional 34,000 troops to Afghanistan. I’m over him – he is a silver-tongued gutless marionette whose strings are being pulled by the military-industrial complex and Wall Street. Truman had the cojones to face down Gen. MacArthur over the Korean War but [...]