ENOUGH!

I had no idea hearing Obama say "Enough" would actually bring me to tears, but I'm not ashamed to tell you, it did.

I was one of the biggest Hillary Clinton supporters out there. It was very hard for me to accept the end result of the primaries. However, I have to say - on the issues, the core issues - I do see Obama being a champion for many of those same core beliefs.

In watching ALL the debates - I would catch myself thinking, they truly are on the same side of the issues , just forced to split hairs on how to acheive the same goals.

Obama's speech brought me full circle.

Go Dennis!

Hillary Rocks!

Obama/Biden '08

Okay - so that takes care of that. I will miss the talking heads picking names out of the hat just to have something to talk about for the past week. It's entertaining watching them grasp for things to say when it's been all said, over and over and over again.

Biden was not my first choice - he's been my 2nd choice to Hillary all along. I'm not crazy about Obama - however, the more I hear him speak, it's obvious he's a very smart man. And quite frankly, the only reason I don't like him is because he took away the chance of having the first woman as a president. So - not a very good reason eh?

Hopefully together, if they should win - we will finally have a clear way out of the mess created by Bush Co called the Iraq War - Operation Freedom - Iraqi Freedom - and my personal favorite - this money pit, cluster fuck we should have never started in the first place.

Trouble the Water

I had just moved to MA about 2 weeks before Katrina hit. As I was unpacking and painting I had the TV on MSNBC all day long - this would be post Katrina.

Everyday when CA would call to see how things were going at the house - my first response was "What the hell are they waiting for - why aren't we doing something?" I was more than troubled by what I was witnessing by the hour. When Ray Nagin blasted the federal government for not stepping in, he almost put me in tears. Here was an American BEGGING, PLEADING for help to save other American lives and it appeared no one was listening. The stillness of nothing happening was haunting. I could only think, race was playing a factor in our lack of response. I never saw this happen in FLA when brother Jeb needed a helping hand from Uncle Sam.

Never in my wildest dreams, especially after September 11th, would I think our government would be so inept at helping these people. No food, no water, dead bodies floating in the streets. Once again, all of my dreams of what I thought this country stood for were shattered during those four days after Katrina hit.

I caught this trailer the other day - this movie appears to be a riviting view of what happened.

Pay Attention for 9 mins will ya?

R.I.P. Stephanie

I had the pleasure of watching her give a speech during Kerry's campaign 4 years ago. The lady could light up a room like no one. As on Ohioian, I KNOW I can say, she will be dearly missed. May you rest in peace Stephanie.

Ohio Rep. Tubbs Jones dies after aneurysm

CNN) -- Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives, died Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, medical officials said.
Tubbs Jones, who was in her fifth term representing parts of Cleveland and its suburbs, was 58.
She suffered the aneurysm Tuesday evening while driving in her home district in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a statement from her office said.

She was rushed to East Cleveland's Huron Hospital, where a team of doctors determined Wednesday morning that she had "very limited brain function," said Dr. Gus Kious, the hospital's chief of staff.

Wednesday afternoon, before Tubbs Jones died, Kious said that the aneurysm "an inaccessible part of her brain" and that she was in critical condition.

The congresswoman had a full day of activity Tuesday, according to the statement from her office, "including planning for an upcoming forum on electoral reform, scheduled for September 4, 2008, at Cleveland State University."

Tubbs Jones was a Democratic superdelegate and one of Hillary Clinton's most ardent supporters. She was scheduled to attend the Democratic National Convention next week in Denver, Colorado.

She was an early supporter of Clinton's White House bid but endorsed Barack Obama in June after the New York senator bowed out of the race.

Tubbs Jones, elected to Congress in 1998, would have turned 59 on September 10.
CNN's Alexander Mooney contributed to this report.
All AboutStephanie Tubbs Jones

Seriously Pelosi....IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS!

I've had it with Nancy Pelosi. What a POS she turned out to be. I tried to remain opened minded during her 60 minutes interview as I about fell off the couch when I heard the line
"Impeachment is off the table".

Here we are again only to find yet another lie, another revelation about our current regime in the US. At what point will our Congress get off it's ass and DO SOMETHING about the crimes of George W Bush and Dick Cheney? Read on Garth!

Tape: Top CIA Official Confesses To 9/11-Iraq War Forgery Came From White House
By: Nicole Belle on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 at 9:00 AM - PDT

A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new transcript of a conversation with the Central Intelligence Agency’s former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer.

The transcript was posted Friday by author Ron Suskind of an interview conducted in June. It comes on the heels of denials by both the White House and Richer of a claim Suskind made in his new book, The Way of The World. The book was leaked to Politico’s Mike Allen on Monday, and released Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the White House released a statement on Richer’s behalf. In it, Richer declared, “I never received direction from George Tenet or anyone else in my chain of command to fabricate a document … as outlined in Mr. Suskind’s book.”

The denial, however, directly contradicts Richer’s own remarks in the transcript.
“Now this is from the Vice President’s Office is how you remembered it–not from the president?” Suskind asked.

“No, no, no,” Richer replied, according to the transcript. “What I remember is George [Tenet] saying, ‘we got this from’–basically, from what George said was ‘downtown.’”

“Which is the White House?” Suskind asked.

“Yes,” Richer said. “But he did not–in my memory–never said president, vice president, or NSC.

Okay? But now–he may have hinted–just by the way he said it, it would have–cause almost all that stuff came from one place only: Scooter Libby and the shop around the vice president.”
“But he didn’t say that specifically,” Richer added. “I would naturally–I would probably stand on my, basically, my reputation and say it came from the vice president.”

“But there wasn’t anything in the writing that you remember saying the vice president,” Suskind continued.

“Nope,” Richer said.

“It just had the White House stationery.”

“Exactly right.”

Later, Richer added, “You know, if you’ve ever seen the vice president’s stationery, it’s on the White House letterhead. It may have said OVP (Office of the Vice President). I don’t remember that, so I don’t want to mislead you.”

Suskind posted the transcript at his blog, saying, “This posting is contrary to my practice across 25 years as a journalist. But the issues, in this matter, are simply too important to stand as discredited in any way.” It was first picked up by ThinkProgress and Congressional Quarterly’s Jeff Stein.

But wait, there’s more…

The bogus memo claimed that 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had received training in Baghdad but also discussed the arrival of a “shipment” from Niger, which the Administration claimed had supplied Iraq with yellowcake uranium — based on yet another forged document whose source remains uncertain.

The memo subsequently was treated as fact by the British Sunday Telegraph, and cited by William Safire in his New York Times column, providing fodder for Bush’s efforts to take the US to war. [..]

Today, The American Conservative also published a report saying that the forgery was actually produced by then-Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith’s Office of Special Plans, citing an unnamed intelligence source. The source reportedly added that Suskind’s overall claim “is correct.”

“My source also notes that Dick Cheney, who was behind the forgery, hated and mistrusted the Agency and would not have used it for such a sensitive assignment,” the magazine wrote. “Instead, he went to Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans and asked them to do the job.