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From today’s http://davidswanson.org/ email…

SHOES FOR BUSH: This Wednesday, 11 a.m., at White House

Please join CODE PINK: Women for Peace, AfterDowningStreet, and Democrats.com this Wednesday, December 17, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at Lafayette Square Park in front of the White House.  We will have with us a large supply of shoes labeled with the names of Iraqis who have died in Bush’s war.  We encourage you to bring your old shoes as well.  Come rally with us in solidarity with the Iraqi people to demand an immediate and complete end to the occupation of Iraq.

Read press advisory from CODE PINK:
http://warisacrime.org/node/38242

Watch and discuss video of Iraqi journalist Montadhar Al-Zaydi throwing shoes at Bush:
http://warisacrime.org/node/38229

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Last week’s historical election was a great accomplishment, but it is only the first step in reclaiming our nation and re-establishing a government which is truly of, by, and for We The People.  Our job is not done.

In the midst of the Great Depression of the 30s, several titans of American industry approached General Smedley Butler in hopes that he would be willing to lead a military overthrow of the U.S. government.  These men – including Prescott Bush – were traitors by every definition of the word, literal and figurative.

Instead of cooperating, General Butler reported the plot to FDR; however, since the cooperation of these rich and powerful men was needed for the passage of the desperately needed New Deal, he struck a deal with them rather than prosecuting: if they dropped all political opposition to his plan, he would not have them charged, and their crimes would be swept under the rug.  It was a politically expedient, understandable, practical decision. However, it also left the avarice-driven criminals running free amongst us. Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, and here we are.

Richard Nixon did not get away with his “if the President does it, it’s not illegal” modus operandi, but he was pardoned, the full truth will never be known, and far too many guilty parties were never held accountable. They were left free to become operatives in future administrations, and here we are.

While the much-loved, charming and well-meaning (but ill-equipped) Ronald Reagan smiled for the cameras, a shadow government wheeled and dealed, arranged for the overthrow of duly democratically elected leaders of other countries when they refused to play ball with ours, and even equipped and funded TERRORISTS in South America and the Middle East. Most were pardoned, left free to rise to positions of power again, and here we are.

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…specific, established facts were reversed in the Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin presidential race?

If John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review; and Barack Obama had finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class…

If McCain had only married once; and Obama were the divorcee…

If Obama were the candidate who had left his first wife after a severe, disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards…

If Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair with her while he was still married…

If Cindy McCain had graduated from Harvard; and Michelle Obama were the wife who not only became addicted to pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization…

If the Obamas had paraded five children across a stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant, teenage daughter…

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The latest from Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Films team: four videos that reveal McCain’s positions on four crucial issues: the environment, the economy, tax cuts, and women’s rights…

McCain’s Green Economy: Drill, Baby, Drill

John McCain: Economic Disaster

The Haves & Have-Mores: Why the Rich Love McCain’s Tax Plan

Women: The REAL McCain is Anti-Choice

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Yesterday’s email from Steve Heller (a.k.a. “The Diebold Whistleblower”)…

Urgent Call to Action! Contact Obama Campaign and DNC,Demand Action to Stop Illegal Voter Purges

Our colleagues at The BRAD BLOG have recently blogged about a CBS Evening News report on illegal voter purges going on in at least 19 states, including key battleground states. Scores of thousands of voters have been purged from the rolls.

As explained by CBS News, these secret voter purges are illegal. A report by the non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice explains that under the National Voter Registration Act, it’s illegal to conduct systematic voter purges within 90 days of a federal election.

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…by the Flagpole

From the “THAT’S what we’re talkin’ about!” department…

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Oh, sorry, that expression is SO last-century. That credo is as quaint and outdated as our ratty old Constitution. It doesn’t apply anymore, since The World Changed™. Time for us to get with The Program.

Hail der Shrubbenführer!

From TheDenverChannel.com: “The Denver police union is selling T-shirts that poke fun at protesters at last month’s Democratic National Convention, but the main target isn’t laughing. …”

Neither am I.

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