LIE OF THE WEEK: 03-28-2008

Senator Hillary Clinton on continuing her impossible presidential campaign:

"I believe a spirited contest is good for the Democratic Party and will strengthen the eventual nominee. We will have a united party behind whomever that nominee is. ... I look forward to campaigning over the next several months."

THE TRUTH: Senator Clinton has already lost any chance of winning her party's nomination for the presidency and the only way she could still claim a victory is through one of her underhanded tactics becoming a death blow to Senator Obama's career. There is no way the Democratic Party will be united after her divisive tactics, especially the race-baiting she has done to lure some racists to vote for her as well as her constant positioning as the female candidate to motivate single issue feminists in her direction. These voters will never come back around to vote for Obama after all of the propaganda spread against him by the Clinton campaign (and also by the Republican 527's in the fall). The Clintons have stooped to a new low in this campaign, proving that all of their "values" are nothing but window dressing when they stand in the way of winning a campaign. They have also made sure that if they don't win, no other Democrat will win either, possibly as an attempt to allow for another run against an incumbent Republican in four years.

COLUMN: 03-26-2008

As much as the Clintons would like it to be true, Chelsea's proclamation that the Lewinsky affair is "none of your business" is simply not true. Ignoring the sexual harassment part of the issue (for a moment anyway), personal immorality is part of a personal's overall moral character and someone who is immoral in their personal life should be judged as immoral by the public when deciding how to vote. Even if we buy their spin that personal morality has nothing to do with public office, let's not forget that President Clinton lied about his affair with his employee Monica Lewinsky when testifying in a sexual harassment lawsuit by a former employee Paula Jones. In establishing a long term pattern of abuse of power when dealing with sexual propositioning of employees, the plaintiffs were very justified in their actions and Senator Clinton's lies at the time about being the target of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" were proven to be completely untrue. It's sad to see that the Clinton's have passed on their lack of morality to the next generation of their family and we can only hope that it's not passed on to the next generation of Americans as a whole.

LIE OF THE WEEK: 03-21-2008

President Bush on the 5th anniversary of the War in Iraq:

"War critics can no longer credibly argue that we are losing in Iraq, so now they argue the war costs too much."

THE TRUTH: We are no longer considered to be "losing" in Iraq because we are looking at it in relative terms - we cannot win militarily and have only reduced the amount of violence from the horrific levels of the past two years. The political steps needed to actually achieve a victory are extremely slow in coming and may not happen at all. Most importantly, although the American military is by-far the strongest force on the planet, the main factor affecting the war is the turnaround in the Sunni forces who decided that it made more sense to get what they could out of the political system rather than compromising all morality and aligning themselves with the maniacal killers of Al-Qaeda and fighting out a battle they will eventually lose. Thus, we are not losing, but we are also not winning. On the topic of war costs, President Bush should be called out by the media on his administration's complete dishonesty in this regard. They original provided an estimate of $60 billion for the entire war effort and it has already been 10 times that amount in terms of actual costs, without accounting for secondary costs for health issues for veterans, increased spending on failing military recruitment efforts, etc. The war does cost too much, it's hurt the current and future economy (since it's based mostly on unrestrained government borrowing) and was a mistake to begin with. No amount of spin will erase this ultimate example of the legacy of the Bush administration as being all about mistaken idealogical policies.

COLUMN: 03-19-2008

Senator Obama is right to distance himself from his former pastor's remarks without completely disowning him. Too many demagogues get away with turning these types of situations into media circuses that force artificial contrition and resignations. But the fact is that it is the Clinton campaign's dirty tricks that are causing this media focus right now because they continue to desperately search for any way to sink Obama's rising ship. The Clintons would apparently prefer to cause Obama to lose the presidency to McCain rather than give up in the face of a mathematically impossible chance of winning. This is sad because, for the first time in many generations, the two parties appear to have supported candidates who are out-of-step with the corrupt insiders of each party and are instead following the will of the American people while adhering to their values. Rather than allowing an interesting McCain versus Obama general election debate to occur, the Clintons now appear ready to continue to use every dishonest and disgusting political tactic in their playbook in an attempt to salvage their obvious rejection by the majority of Democratic Party voters. America will surely see a brighter day when they are no longer a factor on the political scene.

LIE OF THE WEEK: 03-14-2008

Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro on Senator Obama's lead in the Democratic Party primary race:

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is."

THE TRUTH: Senator Obama has succeeded in this election despite lingering racism in our society, not because of his race. What's most ironic is that Senator Clinton's supporters have been playing this race card repeatedly while she is, in fact, the person who has benefited most from her status as a woman and as the wife of a former governor and U.S. President. Would she have been elected to the Senate from New York (where she never lived until just before the election) had she not been married to Bill Clinton and stayed with him during his many infidelities? Would she be a contender for the presidency had she left him when he was Attorney General or Governor of Arkansas after so many affairs (as she should have done if she had any moral sense and not just a drive to gain power)? Senator Clinton has played up being the "female candidate" enormously and many single-issue people have unfortunately latched onto this despite her many negatives. Senator Obama has shied away from being the "black candidate" to avoid alienating most Americans and only gained the votes of the majority of African-Americans after he proved he could win in states without a sizable minority population. Senator Clinton should be repudiated for her tactics and will surely be punished by the majority of Americans in the general election should her underhanded ways garner her the Democratic Party nomination.

COLUMN: 03-12-2008

It's a sad day for justice in America. Revelations of New York Governor Elliott Spitzer's involvement with a prostitution ring will unfortunately be his legacy unless a miraculous comeback occurs in the future. All of the good he did in terms of confronting monopolies and Wall Street corruption (and it was a lot of good) will be forgotten and propagandized by his enemies as the evil actions of a hypocrite. There doesn't appear to anyone waiting in the wings to take on this role and so the corruption will continue to reign as long as there is money to be gained and the only checks and balances will be the recessions that will occur when some large investors cash in their gains at the expense of many others (such as the current situation with the failure of bad mortgages).

LIE OF THE WEEK: 03-07-2008

Senator Hillary Clinton on her victories in Ohio and Texas Democratic primaries:

"We're going on, we're going strong, and we're going all the way. Ohio has written a new chapter in the history of this campaign and we're just getting started."

THE TRUTH: Senator Clinton's very slight majorities in her primary victories on Tuesday gave her a tiny lead in the delegates awarded that night and eliminated her chance of catching up in the overall delegate count. The only thing getting started that night was the beginning of the end of her campaign. Despite using every underhanded tactic to try to sway the process in her favor, she has absolutely no chance of catching up, but it's doubtful that she will ever be honorable enough to bow out of the election and let the choice of the American people represent them in the fall election against the Republican nominee.

COLUMN: 03-05-2008

It's good to see Governor Mike Huckabee finally dropped out of the race for the Republican Party nomination for president after Senator John McCain claimed enough delegates to guarantee himself the nomination. Unlike some of the other candidates who dropped out earlier (especially Giuiliani, Romney, and Fred Thompson), Huckabee would be a good president and has a proven track record of honest politics based on the needs of his constituents while sticking to his core values. He has, unfortunately, lost a lot of credibility (and probably any chance of getting the vice-presidential nomination) by staying in the race long after it was mathematically impossible for him to win. It's really hard to understand why he did this - some possibilities include an ego driven by public attention (not shown by his previous record) or (also unlikely) being pushed by the corrupt insiders who are so upset by McCain's victory that they wanted to continue to challenge him in the hopes that something unusual would happen to cause him to lose the nomination. In any case, Huckabee dropping out finally gives an opportunity for McCain to showcase his truly conservative record to the public without being challenged by ridiculous assertions that his not towing the party line makes him a liberal. Perhaps this will turn into some enthusiasm from the majority of Americans who are conservatives and this enthusiasm may yet translate into another defeat for liberalism in this fall's election.