King Idiot Is Back: Bush Speaks In Michigan On Torture
Bush The Clown made his first US appearance Thursday evening to a crowd of about 2,500 people for a meeting of the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan, held at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor.
And then it spoke:
“I vowed to take whatever steps that were necessary to protect you.”
And then it spoke … Again:
“The first thing you do is ask, what’s legal?” he said.
“What do the lawyers say is possible? I made the decision, within the law, to get information so I can say to myself, ‘I’ve done what it takes to do my duty to protect the American people.’ I can tell you that the information we got saved lives.”
He received a standing ovation from the crowd but not everyone in attendance was a fan. A handful of protesters from “World Can’t Wait.org” held signs and demanded that President Obama release torture photos and documents. They also say they want President Bush and his administration prosecuted for war crimes.
“These people are war criminals and we’re allowing him to speak at Michigan college and get paid $150,000. How does that make us feel in Michigan where we’re loosing all of our jobs and he’s getting paid $150,000 for a war criminal to speak?” asked Bush protester Bruce Fealk.
Bush and Clinton will be speaking together soon. Oh please.
IYFR: WAR CRIMINAL GEORGE!!
Senator Levin To Cheney: Your Memo’s “Bore False Witness”
UHOH … looks like “the DICK’S” been busted again.
Senator Carl Levin lambasted former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech last week for dishonestly claiming that the interrogation techniques he approved were not torture, and were not connected to Abu Ghraib — saying that Cheney “bore false witness”
“I do so as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which recently completed an 18-month investigation into the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, and produced a 200-page bipartisan report, which gives the lie to Mr. Cheney’s claims,” said Levin. “I do so because if the abusive interrogation techniques that he champions, the face of which were the pictures of abuse at Abu Ghraib, if they are once more seen as representative of America, our security will be severely set back.”
Global: Obama Most Popular Leader
What a difference a year makes.
NYT: President Barack Obama is by far the most popular world leader among people in major Western nations and is the one political figure on whom people consistently pin their hopes in the economic crisis, according to new polls conducted for the International Herald Tribune.
About 80 percent of people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain have a positive view of Mr. Obama, a ratio that declines only slightly, to about 70 percent, in the other two countries surveyed, Britain and the United States. The only politician who comes close is Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who gets a positive rating from two-thirds of those in Continental Europe but from only one-third of Brits and Americans.
“I believe there will be a rise in political extremism in the United States, particularly from the right, between now and the next presidential election,” said Robert J. Kepka of Addison, Illinois, one of the people surveyed who agreed to a follow-up interview by e-mail. He said he expected such a result, however, “not as a result of the current economic crisis, but rather the perceived erosion of conservative Christian values.”
Rewind 1970’s: Cheney and Rumsfeld Pressured CIA to Mislead Congress
An excellent story about the nefarious dealings of Cheney and Rummy back in the 70’s by Margie Burns from Online Journal
The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President Gerald Ford and Rumsfeld was Ford’s secretary of defense.
Cheney, having held a series of positions alongside Rumsfeld — starting under him in the Nixon administration — also became campaign manager for Ford’s reelection campaign. George H. W. Bush was head of the CIA, appointed by Jerry Ford when Ford switched Rumsfeld from White House chief of staff to secretary of defense.*
The mission of the three men was to protect the Ford presidency and some elements in the CIA from the Church Committee. According to researcher Lamar Waldron, they succeeded.
Waldron is co-author, with Thomas Hartmann, of Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, an exhaustively documented 800 pages compiling more than three decades of research into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. In two recent interviews of more than an hour each, Waldron discussed how much some things haven’t changed since before Watergate.
Full Story At Online Journal
Joe Sestak To Take On Spector
CONIFMED: Rep. Joe Sestak, (D-PA) intends to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) in the Pennsylvania Democratic primaries.
In a handwritten note from Sestak to a supporter asking for donations. Sestak’s sister, Meg Infantino, who works for Sestak for Congress, confirmed the report.
On CNN’s “The Situation Room.” Said Sestak:
Wolf, I personally have made a decision that I intend to get in this race with one other item. I haven’t sat down and had the time to sit down with my 8-year-old daughter or my wife to make sure that we are all ready to get in.
As I said weeks ago, I was disappointed that the Washington political establishment had decided to anoint someone for Pennsylvanians. And so I said I would wait and listen. And I’ve spent the last weeks going around Pennsylvania to see if others felt like me.
Obama, We’ve Got A Problem: North Korea
AP North Korea launched a tirade Wednesday against world powers threatening to punish it for conducting its second nuclear test, saying it is not afraid of sanctions and calling South Korea’s decision to join an operation to prevent the spread of weapons a declaration of war.
The North also has reportedly restarted its weapons-grade nuclear plant. It staged a rally in its capital, Pyongyang, on Tuesday to celebrate the test.
Fueling more tensions, North Korea has test-fired five short-range missiles over the past two days, South Korean officials confirmed.
The North has about 8,000 spent fuel rods which, if reprocessed, could allow it to harvest 13 to 18 pounds (six to eight kilograms) of plutonium enough to make at least one nuclear bomb, experts said. North Korea is believed to have enough plutonium for at least a half dozen atomic bombs.
A North Korean newspaper, Minju Joson, said in a commentary Wednesday that Pyongyang does not fear US repercussions.
“It is a laughable delusion for the United States to think that it can get us to kneel with sanctions,” it said. “We’ve been living under U.S. sanctions for decades, but have firmly safeguarded our ideology and system while moving our achievements forward. The U.S. sanctions policy toward North Korea is like striking a rock with a rotten egg.”
The isolated communist regime said through its official news agency that it would respond with military action if South Korea tries to stop or search any of its ships as part of the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative.
“Those who provoke (North Korea) once will not be able to escape its unimaginable and merciless punishment,” the North’s official news agency said.
Consumer Confidence WAY UP!
Biggest one month jump in 6 years!!
The Conference Board, an industry group, said on Tuesday its index of consumer attitudes jumped to 54.9 in May from a revised 40.8 in April, the biggest one-month jump since April 2003. Economists had been looking for a much smaller rise to 42.0.
Fewer Americans said jobs were “hard to get,” the survey found, with that measure slipping to 44.7 percent from 46.6 percent. Those saying jobs were plentiful climbed to a still meager 5.7 percent, but that was still higher than April’s 4.9 percent.
“Consumers are considerably less pessimistic than they were earlier this year,” said Lynn Franco, director of The Conference Board’s Consumer Research Center.
The data was in line with other evidence suggesting that, while the economy continues to contract in the current quarter, the pace of deterioration has abated somewhat.
U.S. stocks extended their rally after the data, with the Dow Jones industrial average up 120 points or 1.5 percent.
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