If it helps, I RElland do hereby apologize to any and all who have read my comments in the past that were against, insulting towards, or, was perceived as "Hillary Bashing".

I've been fairly quiet when it comes to the whole Obama-Wright controversy, and while I'm very proud of what was said by Barack Obama, there were things said, and done by the media that left me with a vague feeling of being... oh disturbed.

Then it hit me all once, before the speech actually, that what I was seeing was essentially the first amendment being used to CENSOR the first amendment.

More below the fold...

That's it.
No horror stories.
No sad stories.

So, Merry Christmas.

Why you might ask?
Simple. My candidate is going to win.
Yours is going to loose.
It's as simple as that.
Mine's in the bag.
And your's is going to be left holding the bag.

I could talk about how being so dependent on another nation like Iraq (where the money pours into and not one damn thing but death comes out) is actually a betrayal to the idea of being an independent nation and that it spits on the dreams of our founding fathers to be an independent nation from all other nations.
But I'll let that go to another diary.
Because well...

It comes down to this.
Continued funding just gets more Americans killed.

This is at MSNBC and is just coming in at both the Web Site and the news.
On vacation at his home in Maine, the Chief Justice was hospitalized as a precaution.

My apologies for this being a short diary. But I felt this should be written now.
For a number of years, I've heard many complaints about how the news rarely shows the harsh truths about the Iraq War and the thought that Americans would seriously turn against the war if they had the chance.
Well the door just opened. On Monday Night ABC World News showed graphic scenes of violence and destruction on it program about Iraq.

The footage shows U.S. troops called in to help after a Bradley fighting vehicle was blown up. ABC showed the upside-down vehicle in flames, noting that six American soldiers had died in it.

I think this might be a good idea... really...
From this diary about the email sent out by Rahm Emmanuel
http://www.dailykos.com/...

I think it might be the start of something good.
The fight about the defunding has been so totally consuming that it became a distraction.
So, let's look at the more subtle arts of defunding shall we.
And the reasons why certain offices should be defunded by Congress...

It's a simple one really.
But I didn't want to put this up as a diary so much as a debate of comments.

Debate Topic:
Al Gore and Michael Bloomberg as running mates.

Yes. It's GOOD bye!!! Why?
Well, it could be stuff like...

Some one.
Please tell me that I'm wrong.
And tell me why I'm wrong.
Because, really, I want to be wrong.

"We are fighting them over there, so we won't have to fight them over here."

It's an axiom now. It very likely is uttered in every Republican household with out even a thought to what that means.
I'll be honest, it took me all this time to connect the electrochemical "dots" in my own head as to just why this phrase kept pissing me off.
Keith Olbermann made comments to it. That it was ultimately a silly sentence because it really didn't mean anything.
And yet, I realized slowly, that it did mean something.
Follow me...

My fellow Americans, I bring you greetings!
I felt that it was time to explain a few things that seems to have been lost in all the talk about politics and recent wins by those who seemed to have misunderstood what has being going on in the past six years.

It's quite understandable that one might have misunderstood the viewpoints put forward by the current administration. But it's all quite easy to understand it, once you realize that, with the exception of the word use, America gave up electing "Presidents" six years ago.

The country elected something brand new.
It elected the Unitary Executive.
more after the jump

After today, I have to accept it.
The GOP and all their 35% followers have got it right.
The Democratic Party has no plans.
The never did.
The Murtha plan? What Murtha plan? That's just smoke and mirrors for cut and run. Just like they did in Vietnam!
Oh wait, I'm sorry, that was the Republican guy called Nixon!
Never mind.
But, just the same, they have no plans.

Now before you plan your pie throwing contests
follow me into the next section...

I cannot get rid of this. I cannot get rid of this feeling of sadness and ultimate disappointment. Not over WTC, not over 9-11, or any particular person.
The feeling, I can't get past, is the feeling that since we pulled back from the moon, we simply started dying as a country. Frankly, we've become too small.

The battle for the next fifty-first state continues each day unto infinity.
And 61% of the country has gotten tired of it.
Yet still you carry on, I have no doubt in trying to prove that Iraq is an important part of the 'fight for our freedoms'.
So... if you feel so badly about the idea of pulling out of Iraq...
Then go.

Some where in time, some children decided that they wanted to play a new game.
It's not new really. I saw it played quite a few times while growing up in the Midwestern states. (Iowa). It was a risk taker type of game, where you'd stand around with your friends and poke a hanging beehive. You set them off and you'd run laughing and all that.
At least until one of the kids got stung.
Yea, some kids in world really are kinda... less than bright.

But not once, did I ever see any of those kids come back and go after the beehive with a bat or club.
Guess I never met the one's who really lack an education!

He said a victory for Lamont will send a message to the country: "In the Democratic Party, there's no room for strong-on-security Dems." He said that would be disastrous for the Democrats. "You can't win in this country," he said, "unless you assure people" that you aren't going to compromise on national security. He said he has backed the war on terror because he never forgets about the "radical Islamic terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and want to do it again."

Nice Joe, real nice. You just told every CTer, voting against you, that they forgot 9/11 and don't care about national security.
Good one... for a neocon.
Is that what Joe really is folks? A kiss ass neocon who found that he was in the wrong party all this time?
Well Joe, here's one person's view point on 9/11 and what our current administration did that has earned such high praise.
To begin, It was stupid.