CIVILIANISM PODCAST

So many Republican policies are just illogical. The U.S. economy is in trouble, and jobs are in trouble. We need to take away the health care burden from companies that are trying to employ people and put it on the government where it belongs. And speaking of the economy; people might not understand NAFTA, but they understand job losses, and there were a lot of them in February — 63,000. Hundreds of thousands of “marginal” workers have also given up the search for jobs and are now paying their bills with their credit cards. What happens when they can’t make the payments?
Republican economic politics hurt the American worker and they just don’t make any sense. This is why we need to get Republicans out of office and convince our Republican friends to stop voting against their own best interests. Soon gas will be so expensive we will all have to ride bikes everywhere we go, or not go anywhere. Another bad byproduct of the Iraq occupation, our meddling in the Middle East and the weak dollar.

The peace process between Gaza and Israel needs to be brokered by the U.S. more fairly and evenly. So far, the situation is not being helped with our bias towards Israel all the time. And this will come as no big surprise; from DemocracyNow.org

“Obama & Clinton Express Support for Israel’s Actions in Gaza — On the campaign trail, both Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have voiced support for Israel following its attack on Gaza. Obama said, “The violence in Gaza is the result of Hamas’s decision to launch rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, and Israel has a right to defend itself.” Clinton issued a similar statement, saying, “I deplore and condemn the Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel, including the city of Ashkelon. Israel has the right to defend its citizens.”

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey will appear on an upcoming airing of CLOUT (Air America Radio) to go public with his announcement calling for a Permanent 9/11 committee.

Here is the video of AAR host Richard Greene’s announcement

Big Coal’s Futuregen was killed off by our very own government, and last week was the end of the loans program for coal plants, which has been suspended now probably forever. Good for the environment — bad for jobs!
Loans Program for Coal Suspended

Here is Bush’s environmental speech where he does not talk about coal, but rather wind and solar power.

Here is Bush’s veto of the veto to end separate, secret CIA “enhanced interrogation” techniques.
Message to the House of Representatives
I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 2082, the “Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008.”

Samantha Power, humanitarian, author and former Obama aide, called Senator Clinton a “monster” and was forced to resign by the Obama campaign last week. I have some excerpts from her remarkable BBC interview, and her Telegraph interview is here.

Our U.S. embassy in Iraq is now going to cost us $700 million? What are they thinking?

Thanks to Theo for his voicemail on what happened in Florida before their primary. Will Michigan and Florida redo their primaries and who will pay for it?

Big thanks to Bill B. and Samantha N. for their reports on the Texas caucuses from last week.

If you live in Pennsylvania, give me a call and tell me who you like for a candidate this year!

VOICEMAIL NUMBER/comment line: 320-300-4273

And, President Obama calls Hillary for help at the end of the podcast.

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A discussion with Texans on their upcoming primary and caucus, the two remaining Democratic candidates, and politics. Also, a brief explanation on my viewpoint of Clinton’s war resolution vote of 2002. You can find her speech explaining the vote here, or better yet, you can listen to me reading it with my analysis.

In part, it states: “A vote for it is not a vote to rush to war; it is a vote that puts awesome responsibility in the hands of our President and we say to him – use these powers wisely and as a last resort.”

At nearly the same time, Barack Obama was giving a speech that started out: “Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an anti-war rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances.

The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil. I don’t oppose all wars.”

As an anti-war person, I don’t think the Civil War was necessary either. Other countries ended slavery by making it illegal, not by fighting a long and bloody war. So it’s clear that neither Democratic candidate is anti-war.

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I’m leaving Skype on on Tuesday night (03/04) if you want to report on your primary or anything else, you can call in. If I get any reports they will be recorded and included in the next podcast.
The number to call is 320-300-4273. Voicemail comments are welcome too, which may be played in the podcast.

[tags]election, 2008, primary, caucus, Texas, Ohio, Clinton, Obama, Brazil, war resolution[/tags]