Turmoil In The Democratic Party

20th May 2008

TURMOIL IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

I’ve been hearing and reading about problems inside the Democratic Party for several months, but these tribulations are not what concerns me the greatest; rather it is what I’m hearing from the voting public that heightens my anxieties.

Yes, we are desperate for a single candidate to appear victoriously rising to the challenges of organizing this election. Both candidates have strong qualities and they’ve both made enormous mistakes while on the campaign trail.

While I have comments to both Senators Clinton and Obama, the voting public needs to hear a couple of statements: Our current President Bush has put this nation in such a disastrous mess that I’m concerned anyone accepting the job may require one term to just to undo the harm caused by a greedy zealot. His administration has lied to the public numerous times to garner what they desired politically. We are loosing our sons, daughters, husbands and wives daily in two countries that not one person can authoritatively discern if we absolutely needed to be in either. I don’t even question if our presence has done well for the residences of Afghanistan and Iraq, because I know their liberation has been welcomed by the individual citizens. However, the good our soldiers have done, does nothing to alleviate the veracity of the Presidential administration that has engulfed this country in a war that has no ability of ever winning a victory – only loosing the lives of our valiant soldiers. This war has devastated what was a thriving US economy and perpetuated the destabilization of our economy via a confrontation over fossil fuels that will have the price of gasoline rising for the next few years exponentially. The actions of this President have decimated our Gross National Product while increasing our dependencies on imported commodities. We were once the greatest producing country in the world and now we are the neediest country in the world with President Bush attributing enormously to those changes.

Our current President catered recklessly to Corporate America giving to his petulant children all the riches within the US Treasury. This was payment in full for two terms of one Presidency that will go down as one of this great nation’s worst ever when the history books have reviewed his record. President Bush personally drained the once vibrant reputation of this great nation around the world and has ubiquitously tarnished our name to the point that it lies in the gutter with the remaining waste.

To those voters who are now saying that if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, they will not vote or they will vote for Senator McCain and to those voters who are now saying that if Senator Barrack Obama wins the Democratic nomination, they will not vote or will vote for Senator McCain; I question your resolve. If you feel as I do that the Presidential Administration currently in office has destroyed this country and thereby must be removed from influencing political efforts in the future; then how the hell can you vote for Mr. McCain. He is a Bush III and will continue every one of the current policies for an additional four years.

This country has been damaged and its citizens have been harmed far too much and a President that will usher in healing as well as changing our downward spiral into a positive change economically and spiritually. Threatening to pull a vote and even worst to vote for a candidate who will not only continue our downward spiral, but add to its velocity and longevity is incredulous. Not voting because your candidate is not amongst those viable for this election will only give weighted means to an already horrendous tenure of policy and practices we good citizens have endured, not to mention spits in the face of all those citizens around the world who fight for the freedom to choose their leaders.

No, our election systems are not perfect and I for one wish to push through with our new President a bill that would change the means of electing the President of the United States and place that right back into the hands of the American citizens as with the popular vote. Currently the popular vote is null and void giving way for the Delegate and Super Delegate votes as the means of choosing our President. This process has failed us greatly in the past two Presidential elections when the popular vote chose one candidate and the delegate/super delegate vote inducted into office a devastating example of a bad President. However, our right to vote for the ruler of the largest country in the world is a privilege that less than fifty percent of humanity can exercise, which I for one will not take for granted.

I understand that you might not agree with everything in any one candidate; however we must remain optimistic that as long as we move away from the politics as usual in Washington DC currently, then there can be hope for our future. If you feel that Clinton would be the better candidate and she is not the Democratic nominee, ask yourself if Obama can do the job better than President Bush? Likewise, if you feel that Obama would be a better aspirant, however he does not receive the Democratic nomination, would Clinton do a better job than President Bush? If your answer to either question is “Yes”, I don’t understand the statement that some would not vote or would cast their vote for McCain in an act of vengeance.

We are not voting for someone who will go away in a week or two if he/she is not liked. We are electing the President of the United States and their administration will direct the policy of this great nation. This election demands action from its citizens and moving this country to a better place then where we’ve been the previous eight years. I personally would vote for my dog, Jake, before I would vote for another Bush in the White House. McCain is exactly that…another Bush that will continue the eradication of the American economic landscape.

In closing a strong message needs to be sent to Senators Obama and Clinton. This vendetta as a campaign needs to come to a close. In the process of closing it down, both candidates needs to stop attacking each other and pull together (if you like the other or not) to build a cohesive party that has the stability and momentum to fight Senator McCain and to win the Presidency. Without making a determination on who I personally wish to win the Democratic nomination, at this time the candidate who is loosing momentum and delegates/super delegates should be the one who works on an exit strategy with a definitive and short time table. That means with the numbers as they are currently reported by the media, Senator Clinton needs to exit gracefully instead of pushing for new ground.

Your humble servant – Todd M. Dobson

Message to Georgia Governor Perdue

In Friday’s weekly radio broadcast “Morning in America” (WGKA radio), Governor Sunny Perdue became excited and told any Iraqi War critics to “Shut Up”.

His comments and the lack of professionalism astounded me because as a career politician, Mr. Perdue knows better than any one that the great state of Georgia has a State Constitution enabling any citizen the right to question his veracity. It not only gives me the rights to question any of our elected officials, but makes it incumbent on those politicians to respond to our concerns.

Governor Perdue should stop running his mouth and listen to the voice of his constituency when they tell him they are tired of having their sons, daughters, husbands, wives and spouses coming home in boxes. Mr. Perdue would be advised to listen when the people tell him that they want our great men and women fighting for our civil liberties to come home safe and sound but most importantly, soon. Mr. Perdue might want to rethink anchoring himself to a President who can’t even define a clear set of objectives for a war many feel should never have been waged in the first place.

So, Governor Perdue I am telling you – Shut Up and Listen to your people before you go the way of President Bush – Out of Office and Out of a Career!

A Message to President Bush & All Presidential Candidates

A Message to President Bush and All Presidential Candidates

Everyone needs to read the article “Most Muslims agree with Qaeda’s goals” posted in Kuwait Times on the 25^th of April 2007. I’ve pasted the article below in the event you are unable to read the post for yourselves. Open your minds and listen to the people for whom it is about.

We citizens of the United States of America feel that our freedoms are the just way of life. We feel that everyone chooses to be free over a government run by tyranny. But who among us is to say that the people of another country wants the same freedoms we share. Who among us can honestly walk in the shoes of the every day Muslims saying without a doubt, they wish to be free and they want to live as we do.

Do we not forget those were the reason we sought a life in the new world - America in the first place. We wanted to choose what religion we coveted. Who is to say that a man or woman who chooses to be a Muslim would rather live in our nation as apposed to Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Jordan, Turkey or any other Muslim nation.

Why is it hard for us to believe that a person choosing to be a Muslim wouldn’t want to reside in a country where the majority of its inhabitants also enjoy the same faith? I have no knowledge of the Muslim religion, but we cannot forget our own heritage and what brought us to America as we refused to let a King tell us what religion we wanted to practice.

With that being the case, we must leave Iraq and our evacuation will not be soon enough. We have lost enough brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, husbands and wives. Our intent has been murkier at best and our soul is no longer in the job. Our country is divided by the strife and our goals shift almost as easily as the sand flies through the air driven by wind.

I greatly sympathies with President Bush, who knows that the Iraqi Government is far too volatile to move forward on its own, however, they are requesting – yet demanding that we give them a time frame of our impending departure. We need to oblige with their request graciously and not belabor their country from moving forward at its own pace. We came to the region in hopes of peace for all humanity and we are now the cause of the greatest unrest. We don’t have the resources or the ability to keep the country of Iraq from becoming a Muslim controlled country and it should not be our intentions to do otherwise. Let the Iraqi Government get assistance from its neighboring countries that are very wealthy and can help develop the country in a manner they don’t object too. By doing so does not concede to an enemy unless we make it one. If we wish to gain ground with a developing country, allowing them to start making their own choices just as a parent allows their teenage child to start making his/her own decisions is a natural part of development. We must do what is right for the greater good in that region and open a peaceful doorway as we exit with pride.

If we are to have a good relationship with the Muslim parts of the world, we need to make strides to understand their faith. If we wish to have opened dialog with all Muslim run governments, we need to know where they derive their power from their religion just as 90% of North Americans do from theirs. There can only be discourse if the United States Government continues to push its agenda, beliefs and strategies onto a people who obviously don’t desire it. We tried this same tactic once before with the American Indians thinking that we can control them – we can make them disappear over time and we were wrong. Let’s not make the same mistakes with our Muslim neighbors. If we want to have better relationships with an opened dialog, them we must learn to love, honor and respect our differences. We can do so without impeding vulnerability and allow a more peaceful end to the last several years of strife.

Bring our troops home now!!!

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MjY5NTk4NTQ0/

Most Muslims agree with Qaeda's goals

Published Date: April 25, 2007

WASHINGTON: Most Muslims want US military forces out of the Middle East and Islamic countries, and many agree with Al-Qaeda's goals, if not its tactics, according to a public opinion poll conducted in Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan and Indonesia. "Most respondents have mixed feelings about Al-Qaeda," said a statement of the study's findings, conducted by the Washington-based nonprofit group WorldPublicOpinion.org and the University of Maryland.

"Large majorities agree with many of its goals, but believe that terrorist attacks on civilians are contrary to Islam." An average of 74 per cent of all those polled agreed with the goal of "push(ing) the US to remove its bases and military forces from all Islamic countries," said the poll. A full 91 per cent of Egyptians and 69 per cent of Moroccans said they approved of attacks against US soldiers in Iraq, while 61 per cent of Indonesians disapproved.

Pakistanis appeared divided on the matter, with 31 per cent for such attacks and 33 per cent against. The survey found similar responses with regard to US forces in Afghanistan and the Gulf. At least 70 per cent or more in all countries supported the goals of "stand(ing) up to Americans and affirm(ing) the dignity of the Islamic people," and "pressur(ing) the United States not to favor Israel," it said.

Those polled were asked whether they thought certain ideas were the goals of Al-Qaeda or groups inspired by the Osama bin Laden-led militant network, and then were asked to what extent they agreed or disagreed with those goals. Most agreed that Al-Qaeda goals included requiring a strict application of Islamic, or sharia, law in every Islamic country, pushing US military forces out of all Islamic countries, and keeping Western values out of Islamic countries-and most were supportive of those aims.

Asked about Al-Qaeda's attitudes and tactics in general, 25 per cent of Egyptians and 15 per cent of Indonesians said they "support Al-Qaeda's attacks on Americans and share its attitudes toward the US," along with nine per cent of Moroccans and 10 per cent of Pakistanis. Nearly one third of those polled in Egypt and Morocco said they agreed with "many of" Al-Qaeda's attitudes toward the United States but "oppose Al-Qaeda's attacks on Americans."

Less than one third, however, said they disagreed with both Al-Qaeda's attitudes and its attacks on Americans, with 31 per cent of Egyptians, 29 per cent of Indonesians, 26 per cent of Moroccans and 16 per cent in Pakistan. A large number of Pakistanis chose not to answer the question, with 68 per cent saying they refuse or do not know. Significant sections of the other groups also declined to answer, including 35 per cent of Moroccans, 32 per cent of Indonesians and 14 per cent of Egyptians.

A wider range of opinions was found regarding the question of suicide bombers and whether their actions could be justified often, sometimes, rarely or never. Forty-one per cent of Egyptians said "an attack in which a Muslim blows himself up while attacking an enemy" is often justified, while 19 per cent said "sometimes" and 28 per cent said "never." However, 68 per cent of Indonesians and 60 per cent of Pakistanis were strongly opposed to suicide tactics.

Most Egyptians, Indonesians and Moroccans said establishing a Palestinian state was not a US goal, and sweeping majorities in all countries-including 89 per cent in Egypt and 63 per cent in Morocco - responded that the United States was controlling most or nearly all of what happens in the world today. The poll was conducted from December to February through in-home interviews by native Arabic, Indonesian and Urdu language speakers with around 1,000 people in each country. The margin of error was between three and four per cent. - AFP

3^rd of September 2006

Does the US Government wish to Re-Define Family Next

Our elected officials across the United States have wasted the past eight years fighting a war, but it has little to do with foreign terrorist and every thing to do with their own form of terrorism. Yes! I wrote that correctly…the United States government with more than two hundred years of fighting for freedom is waging a war against some of its own citizens.

As stated in other bloggs, I am horrified that so much effort has been put in to fighting for basic common rights that the United States Constitution clearly gives every man, woman and child born a citizen in this great country. Our hate-filled officials go as far as to pass laws defining marriage as only the union between a man and a woman to ensure the sanctity of what, nobody really knows. It is funny because more than 80 percent of our elected officials are themselves in their second and third marriages. The audacity to believe after one, two, three or more marriages; they feel they are pious enough to tell the good citizens who they can and cannot love. They openly perpetuate hate and vile with every speech delivered against one last bastion of oppression - Homosexuality.

Where does this tyranny end? Who dictates our next lesson in life as we live the American Dream of a free country? Do we allow the government to start defining who can adopt our poor and destitute children? Some states and politicians have already begun this battle encapsulated within the rights to marry. These same people say one or two loving parents cannot give a stable environment to a child unless those parents are one man and one woman. Who cares that the children only require love and stability. This fact-less argument based on rants from those who believe they know what is best for these children, yet they themselves are not going to adopt or foster care for the scourge they deny a good home too. They argue the depravity of a single mother is bad, but nothing compared to the infraction of giving a child to two mothers or two fathers or even one parent that loves someone of the same sex. As if, heterosexuals are the basis of good parenting skills and love.

What is the next step? Is this government going to pass laws defining a family as a celebration between one man and one woman? If government intervention is immanent, do they forget single parent families or those consummated from illegal acts such as rape? Do we believe the government will stop here, why not censor what is printed and reported? Will they stop there or are we stepping closer too a dictatorship or socialist government.

Let me tell you all about the so-called one man and one-woman families the government wants everyone to have as an example. My mother married my father because he took her out after a betting his High School football buddies that he could score with her on the first date. He was the first male person who ever paid attention to her since her father was imprisoned for molesting her most of her life. She not only fell for the lines he gave her, but also the charm used to slip her out of her dress. Nine months later, they became parents and in the interim, they were married. They had four children together and the only thing that was worst than the physical abuse was the mental cruelty. Three of the four kids left home as soon as humanly possible, me including at the age of seventeen years old.

Our lives were nothing until we left home and even then, the pain and agony caused by years of abuse took many years too resolve. If this is what the government wants for those kids, they are better off in foster care. Loving parents have nothing to do with heterosexual or homosexual inclinations.

We need to stop our government from furthering the pain and agony caused to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender communities. We need to stop using our legal system to spread hate.

Our government needs to teach tolerance and acceptance rather than bigotry and hatred.

Continue this message and make it heard!