Published July 3rd, 2008
McCain Has Struck Every Pose Imaginable When It Comes To Offshore Drilling
Stephen Colbert takes a look at Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s various positions on offshore drilling. From the June 25, 2008 show.
Archive for the ‘Liberal Politics’
Published June 17th, 2008
Two Dangerous Men
It is most appropriate that George W. Bush and John McCain are meeting behind closed doors because that’s where the two Bush terms were won. But we must remember not to attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. The good news is, what these two lack in leadership and integrity is made up for in arrogance and pig-headedness. (more…)
Published April 23rd, 2008
Jimmy Carter Still a Presidential Outsider
Former American President Jimmy Carter had always been atypical president. His personal life, his presidency, his political and humanitarian services are totally different than the rest of the American presidents. He has been “cut from a different clay”. He has been, and is still considered, a presidential outsider. Yet this does not change the fact that he is a real genuine humanitarian figure. (more…)
Published April 22nd, 2008
ACLU: Demand Accountability for Bush’s Top-Down Torture
In a national television interview on ABC News Friday night (April 11, 2008), President Bush directly admitted what we have suspected all along: The White House was deeply and intimately involved in decisions about the CIA’s use of torture.
For the first time, George W. Bush acknowledged that he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details of the CIA’s use of torture. “I’m aware that our national security team met on this issue and I approved,†he said. He also defended the use of waterboarding - simulated drowning where the victim feels like they are about to die. (more…)
Published April 21st, 2008
The Torture Agenda
On April 9, ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburgh broke an exclusive story on World News Tonight that provided new details surrounding how top Bush administration officials signed off on the use of harsh interrogation tactics in the “war on terror.”
Indeed, vice president Dick Cheney, secretary of state Colin Powell, attorney general John Ashcroft, CIA director George Tenet, and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, grouped in the National Security Council’s Principals Committee, gave the U.S. military and the CIA a green light to torture suspected al-Qaeda operatives and other “enemy combatants.” (more…)
