Middle Class Populist

Archive for May, 2008

Before I touch this subject I would like to present a “Middle Class Populist” perspective on the usage of American Military power! Never look at “both sides” of an issue! Doing so implies there are only two sides to an issue! We are getting caught up in the old Hawk vs. Dove Debates! Allow me to present a Maxim that most Americans, like it or not will agree with!

When dealing with rouge nations and terrorists if you do not KICK ASS then you are an ASS KISSER! The American people will approve the first and never the second! Both Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama know this!

However it is the misapplication of this maxim by George Bush that has kept us in Iraq! We are not kicking terrorist butt in Iraq only making money for Halliburton! If we want to kick terrorist ass then we should be winning the war with extensive use of our “Shock and Awe” Military Technology in Afghanistan. At least that is until CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS sell our technology to China and they export it for their profit! Worse still China may even use it against us directly! Make no mistake about it we can win in Iraq if it was in our national interest. A smart general knows his strengths and weakness and commits to a battlefield where he can maximize his strengths to the pursuit of his nation’s goals. Iraq does not meet that criteria but the Al Qaeda homeland on the Pakistani – Afghanistan border does meet that criteria!

Some time ago Barrack Obama said that he would launch a surgical strike (non-nuclear) against the Al Qaeda homeland in Pakistan if certain conditions were met:

• We had creditable intelligence that Osama Bin Laden was there
• And/or a Al Qaeda base camp was in use for a strike against our Homeland!
• The Pakistani Government did not want to take action.

Hillary Clinton said that this showed Obama’s inexperience as Pakistan was a nuclear nation! I find it very strange that when our Homeland is threatened by Al Qaeda Central, neither Hillary Clinton nor John McCain want to take decisive surgical action where it would count! Yet both are willing to bomb even nuke Iran if Iran struck Israel! I wonder if Hillary Clinton and John McCain have their priorities correct!

Why is Barrack Obama inexperienced and foolish for defending America’s Homeland Security against Al Qaeda Central but Hillary Clinton says it is ok to nuke Iran if a non-treaty friend is attacked! Guess they really want the Pro-Israel lobby now don’t they? We cannot allow Iran to have nuclear weapons – PERIOD! We cannot allow Israel or any Arab nation to be nuked by Iran.

We must extend a blanket of protection over both Israel and her Arab neighbors for two reasons:

1. We need to minimize the Middle Eastern nations’ need for the development of nuclear weapons. (Sure Israel already has them but at least not overtly).
2. We cannot allow Iran to gain control of these strategic sources of oil.

Yes that’s right going to war for oil is a necessity in our modern world! Going to war for oil company profits is not! Again this blog is written by a Middle Class Populist not a knee jerk PC Liberal! But let’s not forget George (never show up at his National Guard meetings) Bush! Just what kind of message is Bush sending Iran, if he wants to build an Anti-Missile System not in the United States but in Eastern Europe to defend it against rouge nukes from Iran?

This presumes that we are going to sit back and let Iran develop nukes! But then again since we are wasting our military and our budget in this great SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT IN Iraq we have no determent against Iran! Great work neo-cons!

The time has come for America’s Silent Majority to stand up and say no to Bush and McCain!

Yesterday I got involved in a heated discussion with a friend concerning the scenario of Barrack Obama being denied the nomination by the super-delegates. As you most likely know the scenario runs this way. Neither Barrack Obama nor Hillary Clinton receives the majority vote but Obama has the majority of elected delegates from the primaries and caucuses that occurred in states under the Democratic Party rules. However Hillary Clinton is a close second and convinces the unelected super-delegates to vote for her thus winning the nomination. While I believe Obama should win if he has the majority of elected delegates from the primaries and caucuses, he has stated on MSNBC’s “Meet The Press” that he would then accept Hillary Clinton as the winner and would not bolt the convention! (See Video Below)

I salute Barrack Obama for his team spirit but I wonder if the Republicans are only going to use this to hurt him and the Democratic Party by trying to up Hillary Clinton’s votes in the remaining elections. Prior to the Texas and Ohio votes Bill Clinton even said that Hillary Clinton’s campaign would end if she did not win in those states. I am sure Rush Limbaugh is having a good time with this! Just look at what Rush Limbaugh and his fellow travelers in the Republican Party want to happen. (See Video Below)

I think Hillary Clinton might make a good Vice Presidential candidate as she could be the mean spirited “Hit Babe” who in the words of one of her union supporters has “testicular fortitude”! Presidential Candidates usually try to leave the hard hitting nasty comments to their Vice Presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton might make an excellent choice!

One final note! Have you noticed that no one seems to mention the delegates from the other candidates who are no longer in the race! These are not super-delegates but elected and I do believe their votes do matter!

The Silent Majority wants this thing to end. We have a war in Iraq to end and a war in Afghanistan to win! Our economy is a mess thanks to Bush, his tax cuts for the rich and his SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq! The Middle Class must stand up and bring this nonsense to an end!

For most of the world today is May Day! The “Interantionale” is sung and the class interest of the working class is affirmed as transcendent to national interests. I find it amazing that while loyal American employees and unions correctly place loyalty to our nation above loyalty to economic class the same is not true of those effete snobs of the corporate class!

They accuse liberals of seeking to “redistribute wealth” while they seek to redistribute American jobs, technology and wealth globally. They seek to undermine the economic security of the American Middle Class while they act as the Real Estate Agents of the World, redistributing wealth and taking a usury level commission for their economic class! They do this irrespective of our national interests! They sing a “Corporate Internationale”. “EFFETE SNOBS OR THE WORLD UNITE”!

Take the case of Halliburton. They have an affiliate in Iran. You know the nice country that is sending armaments to kill and maim our brave troops in Iraq! They have also moved their Corporate CEO Head Quarters to Dubai! But they are just one example of many.

We live in an era of licentious permissiveness! These CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS renounce the nation and societal values that gave them incorporation, protection, growth and profit! Instead they choose to switch their “identity” from “American” to “Multinational”. When grilled that the technology they are giving the Chinese may be undermining internet freedom they whine with the sophistry of the cultural relativist! By building up China without changing her political structures, her military budget is benefited by the stronger economic base it rests upon. Not to mention the technology that they can acquire! This does not concern the CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS. Their economic class interests come first! They even sold China secret night vision technology!

Yet their fellow travelers in our government continue to make excuses while the CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS use off shore Headquarters to dodge their responsibilities to the nation that gave them birth! Guess who will be there to rediscover their “American Identity” when China becomes military threat to our nation? The very crisis they created with their off shoring and money lobbying into the decision making process of a free people! Slowly they import poverty into America strengthening their straggle hold against Individual Freedom. They will not rest until the Corporate Collective runs supreme in the decision halls of Congress! Universal Health Care is their enemy! Imagine that as you grow older you might have some freedom from the Corporate Collective that you work for! How dare you even consider changing corporations or God forbid becoming self employed!

While the bleeding hearts in the Republican Party and their fellow travellers in the Free Trade wing of the Democratic Party continue to work against the class interest of the Middle Class, our great Silent Majority must stand up to these effete snobs of globalization and replace Free Trade with Fair Trade! We need Universal Health Care and the elimination of the H1-b Visa program that is destroying the job market for technology workers!

The time has come to stand up for America and the Silent Majority against these effete snobs! We must assert Middle Class interests against those who sing the Republican Corporate Interantionale!