John Edwards Too Inconsistent

Getting to this point in researching the backgrounds of all of the candidates, and what they say and do now, this candidate was one of the ones that I secretly hoped I would find to withstand the test. Sadly, and to my chagrin, John Edwards failed, and failed big.

While it may be that Edwards would probably do the most out of all the candidates to help the poor, one can not overlook Edwards' voting record in the Senate, and the impact that those votes had on us as a nation.

For instance, he voted to authorize the Patriot Act, use of force against Iraq, didn't vote at all to condemn the torture at Abu Gharib, and those three votes only touch upon the record.

Edwards presents himself as the champion of the American worker. But this is inconsistent with his voting twice in one day back in Nov. 1999 against raising the minimum wage, and almost to the day one year later, voting to normalize trade relations with China. Also not voting in workers' interest as late as 2003, he voted no on S. 3694, a bill designed to empower people to be able to sue if an unusual delay in service resulted in death or serious harm to a patient, called for insurers to have external reviews in denial of services claims, provide access to services from specialists that are outside of a person's network, and would bar insurers from denying service due to a person's genetic predisposition to certain diseases.

Voting in favor of the Bankruptcy Reform Act in 2000, one has to wonder if Edwards even read this weird hodgepodge law before he voted on it. The bill, Big Business' wet dream come true, makes it extremely hard to file bankruptcy, forces those that are broke to pay for credit classes, and somehow ties all of this into the production of meth. Hey, I didn't write the thing, Rep. George Gekas did. It's another one of those bills that makes one wonder who actually read it before voting for it.

Voted in favor of Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, the unfunded mandate slapped in the face of every state and proven to be an unmitigated failure.

These and other votes that John Edwards took suggest that he is willing to go along with the stronger voices in the pack in order to not make waves. This point is suggested even more strongly when one considers that Edwards missed many votes that are still impacting us today. That strikes me as very lawyerly. Vote against the interests of a certain segment of society, but then come out as their champion.

I didn't even bother with the fact that his campaign tried to stop the University Of North Carolina's newspaper, The Tar Heel, from reporting on the fact that Edwards has his campaign headquarters in Chapel Hill, a glamorous, ritzy area that caters to only the rich. They demanded that the University pull the story, remove a video report that aired on it's daily news show, and take the video off of YouTube, or else face the 'punishment' of not having any more access to Edwards or his campaign staff. This disturbs me more than any vote, his making money through his investment in a company that denied Katrina claims, even as he was claiming to be doing all he could to help the victims, because it is eerily similar to the censorship that permeates the current administration.

The other argument that people are making in favor of Edwards is that he'll do something about the environment. But, wouldn't that mean he'd have to give up his Cadillac SRX, SUV, and pickup truck?

The last item that I'll include here, and there are many that I haven't, is actually in the form of a question. This champion of the little guy, this worker of wonders for the poor has to answer this one question if he is to be believed. Why didn't he do anything at all to help the victims of AIDS in his home state of North Carolina? N.C. has one of the worst records in the country in following Part 2 of the Ryan White Act, which gives funding to under insured and uninsured AIDS victims, so they can receive life saving medicine. A virtual death sentence without this medicine, Edwards, despite repeated attempts by hospice providers, AIDS advocates, and health care workers, did absolutely nothing to help his own state get more funding for the victims of this disease, and in fact, refused to even answer queries about his silence. Was this a little bit of religious pontificating from Edwards? You know, God's wrath and all that? Kind of reminds one of a Republicrat. Play to the base, while also playing to the fanatical right.

This one is a no brainer to me, and so I'll break my analysis down as this: John Edwards is a lawyer first, a politician second, and blows the same way as the prevailing political winds. He can and has been bullied into voting with the right wingers, to the detriment of his constituents. He will say one thing, make promises, do feel good photo ops, but when it comes time to deliver, he'll do whatever makes him LOOK the best, hoping, like most lawyers do, that no one actually fact checks him. Gonna sue Me now John?

Like I said, I didn't really want to write this one. I wanted to believe in the place called Hope again. But hope is fleeting when we depend on the phonies and the fakes in the political arena, and Edwards is one of them. Batmanchester

Romney's Debacles

In looking behind Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, it quickly became obvious to even a casual observer that Romney has left a trail of wreckage wherever he went. Whether it was in his business dealings, or government service, there are plenty of people's lives that have been destroyed by the callous disregard for human decency exhibited by this slickster. That powerful statement is backed up by facts, and that's what we're going to take a look at now. Ready to read another book? Ok. Good. Let's turn the page.

One particular item kept popping up in various research that I was doing, and everything kept pointing to fraud, bribery, law breaking, theft, and witness intimidation. Mitt Romney has studiously avoided talking about his time as owner of Bain Capital, which was before he ran for Governor of Massachusetts, but we're going to rip that old sore wide open. The media won't, so we must.

In 2001, the online company known as eToys.com was filing for bankruptcy. The Court appointed the law firms of TBF for the creditor's counsel, and MNAT to the side of the debtor's. Hired as what we would call a middle man, was the firm CLI, owned by Steven Haas. Haas's job was to facilitate the liquidation of eToys assetts. Sounds simple enough so far. Not so. In order to save space, I won't bore you with details, but to say that Haas got the proverbial shaft doesn't do this story justice. The original plan put forth by the courts was to sell off all of eToys assests for 5 million dollars, but Haas managed to auction it for 45 million, fully expecting his cut, which would have amounted to 3 million dollars. It never worked out that way due to one person, yes, that's right, Mitt Romney. See, unknown to Haas, Barry Gold, working under Romney at Bain, was also working for TBF, the creditor's counsel. This clear conflict of interest was brought up by Haas, who was offered a bribe of 800,000 dollars to go away. He refused, and went to the Dept. Of Justice, who stonewalled an investigation while TBF went ahead with their plans to finish selling off eToys assets to Bain (owned by Romney), for tens of millions of dollars less than Haas had arranged. Mr. Haas, to this day, has been after DOJ to investigate, but even after several of the players in this shill game were exposed and confessed to perjury,among other charges, DOJ still refuses to investigate, which is their responsibility under the bankruptcy laws. Who would have the clout in this game to stop a DOJ investigation? You figure that one out.

To this day, Romney refuses to disclose his assets concerning Bain, or it's offshore credit affiliate, SanKaty Advisors. How much of that money is Romney not paying taxes on? Full disclosure? Hardly.

Moving on to the Romney campaign for Massachusetts Governor, we can look at all of his neo-con talking points about fiscal responsibility, reducing taxes, all without cutting core services, etc. Once in office, the shell shocked people of the Common Wealth soon found out what a neo-con means by fiscal responsibility. Romney proceeded to do the exact opposite of what he promised and slashed local services, decimated the budgets for human services, public safety, education, elderly prescription drug coverage, homeless services, and other critical areas. When even the Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation started to try to reign in Romney's reckless disregard for his fellow man, he went on his 'sales pitch' reform tour, but the people of Massachusetts weren't buying. At the same time he was doing all of this, he cut taxes for the wealthy in Massachusetts.

But Mitt wasn't done yet. He shoved 'Universal Health Care' down the throats of the people of his state, and forced it through the state legislature. What it is, and is now being dismantled as quickly as possible now that Romney is gone, is a huge giveaway to the insurance industry that paid to elect him Governor. This plan dictates that if you live in the state of Mass. you must have health insurance, whether you can afford it or not. This is also the plan that Hillary wants to bring to the entire nation, and of which I wrote about several months back. When this plan was shoved through, Romney became hated by the people of the surrounding states, because this plan of his was devised as a cynical way to get the poor to leave Mass. and go into neighboring states. And that's exactly what happened. People were having to choose between paying health care premiums, especially after Romney tore up the laws, and deregulated the Mass. insurance industry, and buying food, or paying rent. The penalty for not having insurance became 1,000 dollars, higher than the fine for most misdemeanor crimes in the state. He so decimated the available money that was to go to something called the Free Care Pool, designed to make sure no one got caught in this three card monte game, that now Governor Deval Patrick is trying to figure out a way to save the program, but admits it may have to be eliminated. Which will drive even more people into neighboring states. Good job Mitt.

Never mind the fact that as an owner at Bain Capital, Romney helped to puts literally untold thousands of Americans out of work. He accomplished this by buying out ailing companies, (in much the same way that Carlyle does,) bulking up their portfolios, then selling them out at an inflated price, which causes the collapse of the company and closing it's doors. The list of companies is quite long, and can be easily researched by anyone with a mind to do so.

The list of complaints about Romney goes on and on and on, but one place, that just looks at the tip of the iceberg, is a blog roll of Romney's deeds and lies located at romneyisafraud dot blogspot dot com.

Analysis? Mitt Romney is a charlatan, who will say anything that a particular audience wants to hear, but once he gets what he wants, he does the exact opposite. Even his campaign itself offers nothing of substance, but sticks to the tired talking points rally cries, which are decieving, and just meant to fire people up over nothing. This guy would be a disastrous President, period. If you'd like to know some more about good old Mitt, read the Oct. 19th edition of Rolling Stone. The story on Mitt Romney in the Politics section is quite compelling, and easy to read. That story, in and of itself, should give all Romney supporters pause. No. Sad to report, Romney is just not the one. Batmanchester

The Obama Candidate

Having spent so much time researching this candidate for President that I nearly exhausted myself, I can honestly report back to you that I tried as hard as one could to find 'dirt' on this guy, but have come up with little more than conjecture, rumor, speculations, and outright falsehoods. Never in a million years would I have imagined myself writing this in the manner it's being written, but the truth is the truth, there's no avoiding it. Every one is guilty of something, aren't they? Possibly, but then again, maybe not Obama.

Right wing media pundits have tried time and again to smear Obama, from the innuendos about 'shady' land deals and cronyism during his time as a state legislator in Illinois, all the way to trying to spin the origins of his name. Believing the spin myself, I thought this was going to be a slam dunk, almost like the war in Iraq, but have found instead that there may actually be an honest politician in the so called top tier of this Presidential race.

Tracing Obama's political career, and knowing the ways of Chicago politics, I just knew that Obama was dirty, and so I started with the obvious land deal accusations, only to find they were perfectly legal, and no wrong doing had occurred. The worst thing any one could actually come up with was an accusation that he had given the son of a political supporter a job, and labeled it cronyism. As far as I can tell, again, strictly conjecture on the part of our responsible media.

All sides have taken shots at Obama's 'lightweight' law maker status, but a perusal of the Thomas Register shows Obama has introduced legislation that helps the people of this country, in the forms of S.1194, S. 1426, S. 1920, and S. 3988, which are bills to better regulate the tracking of spent nuclear rods, make sure we all have safe drinking water, establish a renewable diesel standard, and improve services and health care for veterans. Do I have to tell you who voted against every one of these measures? Yep. The neo-cons.

Indeed, it has been the Clinton campaign, more than any other, who has resorted to the politics of the smear than any other candidate thus far. It was the Clinton campaign's staff people who came up with the patent falsehood that Obama's past proves that he is anti-Jewish, anti-White, and that Obama's past schooling was at a 'madrassa' that taught Obama that all non Muslims had no rights.

It has been suggested by 'experts' that Obama is a 'Manchurian' candidate, who will lead us all down the road to Mecca, but again, these attacks come with absolutely no proof of any Obama connection to the Muslim faith, other than the fact that he studied it. His Christian faith has been attacked as a 'cover', again without anything to back it up, and the church that he attends has been so closely scrutinized, one would think it was a terrorist cell.

We can also examine the fact that Obama did indeed accept PAC money in the past, and has been taken to task by a slew of hypocritical candidates who themselves have so many PAC contributions they can't possibly lead our nation without any sense of 'owing' themselves to support a PAC agenda. But these PAC contributions were when Obama was running for the Illinois legislature, and not while he's running for President. The distinction seems to fall on deaf ears though, as critics always try to paint Obama as being in the pocket of Big Business. It's just not true. I looked. And Looked. And looked some more. Like I said, I wanted to find dirt here, but came away convinced that it was me who needed to change the way that I was viewing this entire debate.

My analysis? Obama is as crooked as a Sunday school teacher, and actually does have a lot to offer in the change in Washington category. He also has a good grasp on the finer points of diplomacy, has proven that he can withstand assaults on his character, has a plan to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and maybe even get people in this country to start talking about the future again, instead of quibbling over petty issues.

That being said though, I personally reserve the right to revisit this issue, which I will, and to do a complete flip flop if facts so merit. This shouldn't be read as an endorsement of Obama either, just that maybe this guy is the real deal, and is worth a second look, beyond the color of his skin.

Lastly, maybe the media needs to stop trying so hard to discredit someone who may actually have what it takes to lead, but that would mean having to accept that the American people do not like the current status quo, and actually want change in this country, and the way that we conduct business. I see that change here, in this man's campaign, and am cautiously optimistic about his chances in the primaries. If anyone can actually PROVE some type of wrongdoing, let them speak up, but if not, then let's give each candidate a fair tree shaking, and see what drops out. Kind of like what I'm about to do to good old Mitt, for whom I only had to stand under his tree, and watch the skeletons fall by themselves. Batmanchester

Mr. Super 9/11 Rudy

Giuliani. Just the name brings back memories of New York City, my birth place, and the city that I grew up in, but left over 20 years ago. I had never really paid much attention to local politics in those days, but Koch was still mayor when I departed that scene to make my way to sunny California. But forget about my history, this is about Super Rudy, the saviour of our nation from the boogeymen in the shadows, who wait to drive fear into the very heart of our nation. Let's put aside all of the 9/11 talk. Let's forget the fact that this is the man who placed the Emergency Response Center IN the WTC, against the advice of his own people. Let's put aside his running for President on the souls of dead Americans, both civilian and soldier alike, or the fact that had their been no terror attack, Rudy would have gone down in flames as mayor of N.Y., due to his tyrannical rule over the city.

Instead we'll concentrate on some facts and numbers that Rudy constantly lies about, and the numbers that just pop into his head, and spew out of his mouth like so much wasted air. Let's open the book, shall we?

Rudy loves to tout himself as the mayor who cleaned up N.Y. He claims to have instituted programs such as Community Policing that helped curb crime in N.Y.'s inner city neighborhoods. This is a patent falsehood that no one in MSM has bothered to dispute, but the facts are clearly evident. Before Giuliani came into office, it was actually Mayor Dinkins who started the Community Policing Program in N.Y. by hiring Dr. Lee Brown, who started his career with the San Jose, California police, before moving on to become sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon, which is where he came up with the concept of community policing. It was so successful, that he was hired by the city of Houston as Police Chief, where his programs helped to transform that city's entire police department.

Tapped by then Mayor Dinkins to be the N.Y. Police Commissioner, Mr. Brown proceeded to implement his strategies in the inner city neighborhoods that led to the greatest reduction of crime in the city's history, even as the national crime rates were skyrocketing. After Brown, came Police Commissioner Bratton, who furthered Brown's program's and was actually featured on the cover of Time magazine, but was summarily fired by Super Rudy afterwards, for daring to take the spotlight away from the mayor himself. Giuliani merely inherited a program that was already in place when he took office, but now claims to have started the program himself. This is misleading at best, and a patent lie at worst.

What Rudy doesn't like to talk about is the fact that under his administration, incidents of police brutality went virtually unchecked altogether, rising 41 per cent, and he even fought off many complaints of abuse by trying to block investigations into the exact number of incidents.

In his also touted 'welfare for work' program, Rudy loves to tout figures that show that he moved almost 500,000 people off of the welfare rolls. Well, he might have, but not in the way you think. He instituted his 'welfare for work' program by declaring that everyone who receives a welfare check had to work in exchange for that check. In the case of single mothers, he made no distinction at all, and didn't care if they had access to child care. Some mothers tried to bring their kids to their designated job sites, but that wasn't allowed, so they ended up being kicked off of the welfare rolls for not showing up for work. Such compassion! And so, homelessness rose, shelters became overwhelmed, and Rudy had his gestapo forces kicking the homeless out of city parks, in violation of N.Y. law. Law? Who cares what the State Supreme Court says! Not to mention the fact that using this 'welfare for work' was tantamount to slavery due to the fact that an average workweek of 40 hours pared against the average welfare check meant that those people were toiling for Rudy for an average of $2.80 an hour.

Rudy, following the standard neo-con vision, also cut taxes for the rich in N.Y., while still presiding over a population that held 1 in 5 New Yorkers below the poverty line, well above the national average.

But let's examine one of his latest statements that has drawn the ire of many Europeans. He recently said this: “My chance of surviving prostate cancer – and, thank God, I was cured of it – in the United States? 82 per cent. My chance of surviving prostate cancer in England? Only 44 per cent under socialised medicine.” This blatant falsehood was refuted by England's Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, who said that Rudy should get his facts straight before spouting off. The national figure for survival of early detection of prostate cancer in England is actually 74.7 per cent, and rising.

Lastly, even though I could continue to write about Rudy's misconduct and outright fraud during his tenures as prosector and mayor, New Yorkers themselves will remember the photo op storm trooper assault on the financial firm of Princeton/Newport, that involved fifty federal marshalls armed with automatic weapons. Or his having two investment bankers hauled off of the trading floor in handcuffs. All were later exonerated of any wrongdoing, but Super Rudy has yet to apologize for his overzeolous nazi tactics. We could also ask Rudy about his involvement with the security firm he still works for and uses to protect him while out campaigning. This is a clear violation of election laws, but who cares? They all do it, so what's the big deal?

Let's just say that if you walk down the streets of N.Y., and ask the average person walking down the street their thoughts on Super Rudy, be prepared for an angry tirade of epithets. No. Rudy is just another tyrannical neo-con, who was a bumbling buffon as mayor, and as President, would be another in a long line of neo-cons who want nothing more than to take ALL of your rights away. Batmanchester

Such A Booo-Tiful Debate

A ghost most notably absent,

a voice that no one heard,

the witch's voice the constant,

the questions patently absurd,

The discussion of our freedoms,

spoken only by the elf,

for what the cost of sheikdoms,

are lost within myself,

The werewolf howled and cried foul,

at the attacks on witch's brew,

whilst the mummy sat back with a growl,

and said " Here's what you must do,"

A knight strode forth with darkened candor,

assuring we could cope,

and that he was our national bander,

who was giving us some hope,

A unicorn a' championed,

the worker's right to pay,

all but drowned out as all were frightened,

when the witch began to say,

"Nothing's off the table!,"

shrilling screeching voice,

war drums to enable,

but she really had no choice,

"Impeach! Impeach!" cried the elf,

as the others looked away,

no other voice would lend itself,

to oppose the king who still holds sway,

One voice stood for reason,

but his message was a' hidin'

the devils' in the details,

and his time he is a' bidin,

So witchs' scowls, and werewolves' howls,

still brought silence from the ghost,

For all the other creatures' fouls,

this silence disturbs the most,

What say did we learn, or discover on last night?,

A'freezing yet still we burn, for freedom we will fight,

When the lever a'comes your turn, let's set this dance alight,

with sacrifice and return, to freedom's true birthright.................

A little Halloween ditty to confuse everyone, but not if you read what's in between the lines. Have a safe and happy Halloween everyone. Don't trick or treat! Have a party at your house, a neighbor's house, or somewhere where everyone knows everyone else. It's too dangerous in this day and age. Inspecting candy has become moot, as you may not notice the smallest needle hole that can go through the best wrapped candy package. All are welcome to email me their unwanted chocolate bars! Batmanchester

The Crimes Of Hillary Clinton

Watching the MSM jump on the Hillary bandwagon for months now, not ever bringing up the subject of past accusations, past fines by the election commission, or anything that went on during her tenure as First Lady, I thought that maybe it was time that we all had a reality check on the darling about to be crowned queen of the United States by the media.

First, let me say that I don't support any of the candidates, except for maybe Ron Paul, but even that support is waning in light of recent revelations. Just the facts here, no spin.

Beginning with the about to break Peter Paul scandal, and the forthcoming movie that proves, in my mind, serious violations of both election laws and of ethical conduct, the one part of that tale that sticks out in my mind is the part of the movie in which Mrs. Clinton is on tape, with a roomful of witnesses, clearly involved in the upcoming fundraiser for her Senate race every step of the way. When the few media outlets tried to get to the bottom of what happened, there were denials from both Clintons that they even knew the man, which was an obvious lie. But let's dismiss that entire affair as a former business partner with an axe to grind.

Moving along, and bearing in mind that we are looking for a refreshing breath of honesty in American politics, here's a question that Hillary will not answer. In 1978, Clinton invested 1,000 dollars in cattle futures at the Chicago Mercantile exchange. In ten months time, she walked away with over 100,000 dollars, a sum so high, its a return of 10,000 per cent. Why won't she answer this question?

How does Mrs. Clinton explain away her fingerprints being on the missing billing records from the office of Vince Foster, who committed 'suicide', during the Whitewater investigation?

Were you aware that at the end of former President Clinton's term, that all of those 140 pardons he doled out like school yard candy were all the work of Hillary's brothers, Anthony and Hugh Rodham? Or that they actually brokered these deals for huge sums of money? How much did Hillary and Bill benefit from these deals? No answer.

David Rosen, Clinton's former campaign manager, has testified in court, under oath, that Mrs. Clinton knew all about 2 million dollars in illegal campaign contributions, but has consistently denied all knowledge of any such money.

Also, let's not forget the ethics violation complaints filed by Judicial Watch against Hillary since 2001. All but forgotten in the rush to crown this woman and continue the dynastic rule over our people, are the little things. Such as the 190,000 dollars worth of flatware, furniture, clothing, jewelry, etc., some of which came directly from Denise Rich, the wife of pardoned criminal, Marc Rich. These gifts received and accepted by Mrs. Clinton are clear violations of Senate rule 35.1, but why quibble about the small change?

Let's ask her about her current campaign and the money she's proudly receiving from lobbyists, Corporate interests, and hucksters. She doesn't like to talk about any of this, except to say that this is the way it's done in America. Oh? So, deceit, lying to the people, not showing up almost all of this month at her Senate job to vote on critical issues, breaking laws, sending goon squads after your detractors, defrauding the elderly, (see May 25th edition of the Corruption Chronicles), accepting millions of dollars in contributions from known criminals, (May 3rd edition, Corruption Chronicles) having a La Raza head as a major player in your campaign for President, clearly indicating that she could care less about the people's wishes on the subject of illegal immigration, and so many other things that add up to this being the most corrupt Democratic candidate in a slew of corrupt candidates, tells us to shun this woman and run the other way. Bush-Lite? Oh no. Not correct at all. This is Bush in female form and the only ones that should vote for her are the same people who want a continuation of the Bush agenda. If you'd like to know what's really going on in American politics, some good sources of information are Judicial Watch, (an equal opportunity political basher), The Corruption Chronicles, or the anti web pages of any of the candidates. They all have them, such as Hillary Watch, etc.

And so, we must decide who is telling the truth, as the people look fondly back to the relative prosperity of the 90's. But as we look back in time, don't fall for the rose colored glasses, soothing approach shucked out there by the Clinton campaign. Remember something called NAFTA, CAFATA, and other 'free trade' agreements signed into law by her husband. And her answer during the MSNBC debate in which she hemmed and hawed when asked about her policies on this should she become President. This push for Hillary is nothing more than a three card monte shill game being played by both the media and the corporations to sighingly placate the people with someone who looks like a duck, walks like a duck, but is really a rat. Batmanchester

Can You Hear Us Now, Mr. Bush?

Today, in cities across the United States, from San Francisco, Seattle, and points west, all across the nation to the east coast cities of New York, and Boston, hundreds of thousands of people marched through the streets, demanding an end to the war in Iraq.

Curiously, of all the mainstream media on scene, the only one to report on the day's happenings so far is MSNBC. The rest of MSM is completely silent on an issue that brings back memories of the Vietnam era, and sends shudders down the spine of every neo-con in the land. The people are fed up.

Diverse groups, from both sides of the aisle came together today to end the slaughter of our military, on a day when newspapers across the nation report on the story of the brigade that was interviewed in Iraq, and who declared that Iraq wasn't worth another American soldier's life. Can you hear the people yet, Mr. Bush? Are you starting to get the old Nixonian/Johnson fear of a rising populace, who finally sees what you have done?

Also not reported by MSM, but carried in newspapers the world over, was the rapid departure of former SecDef. Donald Rumsfeld from France yesterday, after a human rights group filed charges against him, and according to French law, they were bound to investigate and possibly even arrest old Rummy. Yes. That's right. The war criminals aren't going to be able to go anywhere now, because they are so hated the world over, that everywhere they go, charges get filed against them for violations of the Geneva Convention.

Back to the protests. San Francisco papers are all abuzz about the protests, even citing a protest in small town Tennessee where weapons are made. Salt Lake City, Denver, Philly, all over Florida, the Dakotas. Can we sit and dismiss this as more 'liberal' protests? Not hardly, considering where half of these were held. Right in the heartland. Right smack dead in red state territory.

Mr. Bush, you've lost your base. What type of democracy do you think to spread when 70 per cent of your own people are screaming at you to listen, but you ignore them? Why, after 9/11, did you use an exact quote from Hitler himself, to try to ensure a nationalistic fervor among the people of our great nation? Because of profits for corporations? That's called fascism Mr. Bush, and you sir, are the biggest fascist in the world today, apart from your toad of a vice-president.

The people are speaking very loud and very clear. No more war. No bombing Iran. We know you won't listen, but history will record that you were the President who tried to lead the fascist take over of the United States.

Can that be the reason behind the big push to crown the queen? You know, maybe due to the fact that she and all of you think alike and are all just as corrupt together. Kind of a lesser of two evils type of arrangement? Not happening. The media can distort the truth all they want, but that camp is starting to worry, especially with the new revelations coming out about the election fraud, and the felonies committed by the Clinton campaign during her run for the Senate.

No more war, Mr. Bush. Take care of your own people, Mr. 'Compassionate Christian." Or the people will march until you do hear us. To everyone who marched today, and are still out in the streets, a big Salute! Batmanchester