Like I told you...
I'm not on his campaign. I'm not even a Democrat. I'm just sick and
tired of the Republican b/s and corrupt Congress. I'm not sailing
with the Republican Ship of Fools. This we can all agree on. I'm
yet to see Obama be pulled in front of an ethics committee or be
involved in dodgy deals. Give him a chance I say. At least the guy
is intelligent! McCain is pc-illiterate. Palin? A dim bulb with a
17-yr daughter that's pregnant! Yep. The father will drop out of
high school to become a father...flipping brilliant. Yet McCain says
she's inspiring to Americans. She abused her power in Alaska. She's
a complete flop as is Mr. War Hero. He's a tempermental fool that up
until recently said American is strong...workers are strong. Well,
the overwhelming majority of Americans disagree. They've never seen
America such a mess and its national debt so high. $10 trillion
dollars compliments of Bush's failed, perpetual wars. We are worse-
off now than ever. In fact, your household's share of this national
debt is now $86,000. How we doing?
I agree we as Americans have to come together to get government back
working for The People. But right now it's completely corrupt. The
trillion dollars in bailouts that the banks are now saying won't even
work! are simply plundering America's cash register. McCain admits
he doesn't understand economics and relies on jackasses like Graham
to guide him. Well, just remember it was these same Republicans that
when after lobbied by Wall St banks proposed legislation to change
the Glass-Steagall Act that would have prevented the current
disaster. That's right. Read about it here. Sure Clinton signed
it...because it was veto-proof...controlled by the Republicans. So
it is my point to bring clarity not hatred or argument. Information
is key.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act
George Bush will go down as THE WORST President in US history. You
must be one of the 1% that approves of him. He's a jackass. He is a
baffoon and clueless how to run a country. He listens to advisors
that benefit from the strings attached to his hands and mouth. He's
about as bright as McCain who graduated in the bottom 5 of his
class. The only reason the war hero came home from Vietnam was he
was an admiral's son. NVA referred to him as the Prince and couldn't
kill him like many other POWs. After professing his love for his
wife that got serious injured in car accident while waiting 7+years
for him...he dumped her for someone who could take his war hero
status to government. Then his true colors appear in Charles
Keating's disaster scandal. Watch the video and see the corruption
first hand. But back to Bush...the guy is a pathological liar and
should have been impeached. Pelosi doesn't have balls...period.
Bush is getting our men and women killed over there and the mess will
go on without him mopping it up. Disagree with me on Bush? The get
over there in Iraq or Afghanistan and get educated yourself. It's a
losing battle. Our soldiers aren't peace keepers or nation
builders. We're over there shooting rubber bullets and bean bags and
talking soft. These are warriors--trained killers. Yet they don't
even know who to kill to lead to victory. It's a frigging
morass...another Vietnam. McCain will tell you he'll end the wars
but like Nixon spend years unwinding a mess. Get our troops out. Go
talk to soldiers coming back if you don't get it.
Obama is going to win. There is no doubt in my mind. People need to
put fear behind and trust intelligence. These last 8 years we've
been lead by fools. Obama won't stand for it...neither will we. Get
our troops home and let's get building in our own backyard. We'll
drag the corrupt idiots one-by-one out of Congress and get moving in
the right direction.
And how's Republican Ted Stevens doing in Alaska with his corruption
cases?
Indictment
On July 29, 2008 Stevens was indicted by a federal grand jury on
seven counts of failing to properly report gifts. The charges relate
to renovations to his home and alleged gifts from VECO Corporation,
claimed to be worth more than $250,000. The indictment followed a
lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for possible corruption into
Alaskan politicians and was based on his relationship with Bill
Allen. Allen, then an oil service company executive, had earlier pled
guilty, with sentencing suspended pending his cooperation in
gathering evidence and giving testimony in other trials, to bribing
several Alaskan state legislators, including a disputed claim about
Stevens' son, former State Senator Ben Stevens. Stevens
declared, "I'm innocent," and pled not guilty to the charges in a
federal district court on July 31, 2008. Stevens asserted his right
to a speedy trial so that he could have the opportunity to promptly
clear his name and requested that the trial be held before the 2008
election.
US District Court Judge in Washington DC Emmet G. Sullivan, on
October 2, 2008 denied Steven's chief counsel, Brendan Sullivan's
mistrial petition due to allegations of withholding evidence by
prosecutors. Thus, the latter were admonished, and would submit
themselves for internal probe by the United States Department of
Justice. Brady v. Maryland requires prosecutors to give a defendant
all information for defense. Judge Sulllivan had earlier admonished
the prosecution for sending home to Alaska a witness who might have
helped the defense.
Home remodeling and VECO
May 29, 2007, the Anchorage Daily News reported that the FBI and a
federal grand jury were investigating an "extensive" remodeling
project at Stevens' home in Girdwood. Stevens' Alaska home was raided
by the FBI and IRS on July 30, 2007. The remodeling work doubled the
size of the modest home. Public records show that the house and
property is now 2,471 square feet (230 m2) and valued at about
$441,000 in 2007. The remodel in 2000 was organized by Bill Allen, a
founder of the VECO Corporation, an oil-field service company and has
been estimated to have cost VECO and its subcontractors $250,000 or
more. The residential contractor who finished the renovation for
VECO, Augie Paone, "believes the [Stevens'] remodeling could have
cost if all the work was done efficiently around $130,000 to
$150,000, close to the figure Stevens cited last year." The Stevens
paid $160,000 for the rennovations "and assumed that covered
everything.
In June, the Anchorage Daily News reported that a federal grand jury
in Washington, D.C., heard evidence in May about the expansion of
Stevens' Girdwood home and other matters connecting Stevens to Veco.n
In mid-June, FBI agents questioned several aides who work for Stevens
as part of the investigation. In July, Washingtonian magazine
reported that Stevens had hired "Washington's most powerful and
expensive lawyer", Brendan Sullivan Jr., in response to the
investigation. In 2006, during wiretapped conversations with Bill
Allen, Stevens expressed worries over potential misunderstandings and
legal complications arising from the sweeping federal investigations
into Alaskan politics. On the witness stand, "Allen testified that
Veco staff who had worked on his own house had charged 'way too
much,' leaving him uncertain how much to invoice Stevens for when he
had his staff work on the senator's house ... that he would be
embarrassed to bill Stevens for overpriced labor on the house, and
said he concealed some of the expense."
Former aide McCabe
The Justice Department is also examining whether federal funds that
Stevens steered to the Alaska SeaLife Center may have enriched a
former aide. Currently the United States Department of Commerce and
the Interior Department's inspector general are investigating "how
millions of dollars that Stevens (R-Alaska) obtained for the
nonprofit Alaska SeaLife Center were spent." According to CNN, "Among
the questions is how about $700,000 of nearly $4 million directed to
the National Park Service wound up being paid to companies associated
with Trevor McCabe, a former legislative director for Stevens."
Trident Seafoods
In 2007 Stevens added $3.5 million into a Senate spending bill to
help finance an airport to serve a remote Alaskan island. The
airstrip would connect the roughly 100 permanent residents of Akutan,
but the biggest beneficiary is the Seattle-based Trident Seafoods
Corp. that operates "one of the world's largest seafood processing
plants on the volcanic island in the Aleutians." In December 2006 a
federal grand jury investigating political corruption in Alaska
ordered Trident and other seafood companies to produce documents
about ties to the senator's son, former Alaska Fisheries Marketing
Board Chairman Ben Stevens. Trident's chief executive, Charles
Bundrant, is a longtime supporter of Sen. Stevens, and Bundrant with
his family contributed $17,300 since 1995 to Ted Stevens' political
campaigns and $10,800 to his leadership PAC while Bundrant also gave
$55,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Bob Penney
In September, The Hill reported that Stevens had "steered millions of
federal dollars to a sportfishing industry group founded by Bob
Penney, a longtime friend". In 1998, Stevens invested $15,000 in Utah
land deal managed by Penney; in 2004, Stevens sold his share of the
property for $150,000.