Thomas, Obama admits he did inhale. What we don’t know is if he was peddling the stuff. Maybe we should ask “Arthur” where he gets his stash?

As for JSM, I’m not alone in being less than thrilled with the GOP nominee. Votes for him will be tandamount to a lesser-of-two-evils vote against BHO, and to rail against implementing socialist policies in this country.

Corporations and large businesses are the mainstay of the free market, entrepreneurship, plus integral suppliers of jobs to the masses. When we cross over to government as the largest employer, we are in a world of trouble.

So if you’re looking for those that despise corporations, and favor regulating-taxing-litigating them out of business, you’ll probably find fewer sympathizers here than you’d like.

Come on… Obama will say anything to get elected.

We can all keep pointing fingers, and I guess we will, until some day or other, this country gets put on lockdown and there’ll be no freedom or security for the Great Majority, whoever we are.

Everybody who knows how to read and can dial a phone needs to get their sleeves rolled up and start holding all levels of government, and all un-elected power-holders (such as corporations), ACCOUNTABLE–to us, all of us.

First off, of the 12 pieces of legislation linked, the Deployment of troops linked on Salon was not a GOP/Bush supported legislation. Duh… In that one, only a few of the radical progressives voted yes.

BHO did one of his two, rare GOP side stances on that deployment bill… but hardly bucking the DNC majority. He took that “risk” move with 23 other DNC members. wow… I’m impressed.

The *only* other time BHO voted with the GOP and against his liberal leadership was for the Patriot Act renewal. At that time, BHO again took *huge risks* being “bi-partisan” along with 33 other DNC members.

Wow… there’s a guy standing out from the crowd, and taking risks as a maverick for ya. NOT!

He was excluded from one of the 12, the AUMF, because he wasn’t a Senator. His personal opinion matters not because he was not privvy to intel the Senators had. He based his opinion on the same data you had as a private citizen.

BHO couldn’t even find it within himself to really take a risk and condemn MoveOn.org… for the Betrayus ad…. scumbucket that he is.

By contrast, Mac voted against his GOP peers in FISA, Mukasey, Kyl-Lieberman, and Protect America Act. Uh, that’s voting WITH the DNC, if you didn’t figure that out.

Other than MoveOn, which should have been a no brainer for any of them to vote yea, it is never low risk for a GOP candidate to cross the party when he’s seeking the nomination.

And those votes are accounting for the few fleetingCongressional moments in time BHO’s been around to participate. Now would you like to go back thru JSM’s prior 40 some odd years of bucking the GOP trend?

Whether you intended to affirm, or just didn’t read the links from your own link, you absolutely proved JSM is far more a “maverick” than BHO, the partisan/no risk guy.

I know that Solon.com… will send you to your fainting couch but you can easily check the accuracy of these votes at Powerline.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/01/30/bipartisanship/

As for McCain he will occasionally cross his party membership if the stakes are low enough but anything substantive (condemning moveon.org… for example ha ha) he will be a good little Republican and do as he’s told.

McCain the ‘maverick’ is a fiction.

Yet another invention of the alleged ‘liberal’ corporate media.

In fact, BHO’s record – scant as it is – has no “maverick” or bi-partisan/unity behavior.

Would that would be the same ‘MSM’ peddling the notion that John McCain is somehow a ‘maverick’ with a ’strong independent’ streak?

The fact of the matter is that while the MSM was pissed for a bit, within hours of the SCOTUS decision they were already back to spinning and ignoring the messiahs earlier statements that clearly show he flipped and flopped.

Can’t say that I’m surprised here, Curt. The largest reason our nation has a short memory span for current events is because the media has a politically expedient short memory span. The nation merely reflects our media “education”.

Mac/JSM is getting a bit of his own back. It was not so long ago that he was garnishing the rapt attentions and coverage that BHO (that’s Obama for the initial police…) enjoys today. It might be important to notice that favortism didn’t help JSM back then.

And a big congrats on attracting the eye of WaPo. FA is truly your creation and work. You should be proud to gain such notice in a world filled with countless numbers of blogs. I, for one, am very pleased to be part of your supporting staff, guy.