"FWD: Hey, Bubba. Read this. Obama is a Mus-o-lim"

Here is the classic example of dirty politics; using the anonymity of the internet “win at any cost groups” post outrageous lies in the Joseph Goebbels tradition that if it’s repeated often enough it will be taken as truth. When a close friend gets it from another close friend who got it from another close friend et al with no-one being able to quote the source it spreads like the flu only with greater intensity because of its deliberate intent by playing on ignorance, fear and peer trust. Republicans are desperate and the evidence is mounting daily.

The Republican lie machine, thankfully, cannot overcome those who think critically and independently, weighing all sources in making their choices as facts cannot be extinguished with propaganda. The numbers of the lock-step, mindless who listen intently to Rush, Sean, Bill, etc for their cues is shifting with the demographic changes influenced by a new generation of thinking veterans.

I’m one of that group on the cusp that skews the demographics. I come from a military family in which we all served and I made a career of the military as did my father. I clearly see through John McCain as do those who recently served and serve now. McCain has proven to be no friend to the military and veterans by voting against increased benefits and funding at every opportunity. Clinging to the party playbook he claims to embrace service but fails to recognize sacrifice with endless war funding yet none for the new generation of service-disabled veterans created in Iraq.

Worse, he stated he would keep us in Iraq for one-hundred years or more shortly before we learned that the big western oil companies were to be granted no bid contracts by the Iraqi Oil Ministry on the heels of a contrived oil shortage from which they, his supporters/contributors, would benefit only further at our continuing expense at the pump and from every article made from petrol-chemicals while food prices rise as crops are diverted to bio-fuels for nothing but increased profit. Simply those serving now and for a generation or more would spill more blood for a war that was for oil, no matter what Bush, Cheney, McCain, Herger and their party claim.

This I find reprehensible from a career Navy officer who was a POW but I suspect that his attitude is the result of wealth (through marriage) and too many years in the senate both of which have disconnected him from his constituents as has his adherence to the party line to maintain a base of support that is not representative of the average American that pays more for everything while seeing their real income decrease daily through corporate greed. This is further evidenced by the “mortgage meltdown” that McCain’s party created by allowing the banking/lending industry to run wild without regulation or simple oversight.

A vote foe McCain is a vote for total ruin – period.

21-50. Out