Obama and the Cold War mentality

[billionaireby16]

It would require a President who is willing to be assassinated to make a real change....

[billionaireby16]

You all weren't there in 1960... JFK pandered just as Obama is doing... JFK flip-flopped just as Obama is doing... Ron Paul and other politicians never pandered and they never had a chance... Obama just needs a chance...

[lemonheartfly]

Iran's threat isnt a reality!?!? im open minded but not so much that my brains fall out!

[medartist01]

Obama's hopeless, he doesn't like war. What's his problem?? War's fantastic! We NEO-cons love to start em. We're not bound by the mentality that you need to negotiate a peaceful solution. Screw peace. Like my buddy in this video that laughs at these suggestions by Obama, we need to get real. We need to start another war fast. Nuclear if possible. But thank god McCain's temperament's a perfect pretext to starting a nuke war. 150,000 dead immediately. Cool. The GOP rules, man.

[PumaPumaPride]

RealNews, Im getting tired of your countless Obama bashing threads. Is this really Rela news or just a mouth piece for McCain?

[Neville6000]

No, this is The Real News trying to hammer into your head what's wrong with your new, shinning black prince and you being obdurate and stupid about it, instead of admitting the truth. When did you ever hear them supporting a warmongering Repug basket case like John McCain?

[SkinSinFilms]

It is therefore easy for elite factions to manipulate the population of this country because most people are unwise. Remember 75% of the population of this planet are only about 25 IQ points away from being morons. Essentially this is the Planet of the Apes where the Gorillas and Dr. Zaius are in charge and most everyone else is just a chimp. As a result all the real humans are rendered speechless and dumb-founded.

[djdede]

word!

only help here ist Ron Paul ;)

[SkinSinFilms]

Wow! One point he didn't touch though is understanding that part of America's problem is that it's puritan christian heritage helps delude the population and direct many of it's political policies. O'bama is a christian and a crusader. Christians believe many fundamental philisophical lies which affect a person's decision making. They then seek to proselytize these erroneous beliefs, justifying their behavior with the bible and believing they act for righteousness in the name of God.

[TiradeFaction]

What did I exactly say that you could not agree with more?

[lastnymleft]

Why should we have to speculate as to what Obama's positions are?

Why not vote for someone who states his positions clearly. Someone with a twenty year track record of voting EXACTLY as he speaks, which has been CONSISTENT for the twenty years. Someone whose position on any particular matter can be derived from the Constitution, even if you haven't actually heard them speak on the particular subject? Someone like Ron Paul.

This video was pretty scary, really.

[historywillabsolve]

will you stop shilling for your messiah Ron Paul, no one cares

[aetherdream]

Ron Paul (though) i didn't vote for him... did have some good points on US energy crisis. if either McCain or Obama took some of what he said to mind it would make their run alot more stronger.

[PersonalJesus348]

it makes sense that this country is conservative. No one will be willing to give up their guns but the other persons everyone is at the ready for that.

[TiradeFaction]

The united states is not too conservative, but apathetic and ignorant on politics in general. Most Americans do not have a strong political bias. And there is a reason why little change has ever happened by doing it in the ¨system¨.

[teemuruskeepaa]

Well, Professor Porter's logic does hold, that the cold-war mentality is present in the national security bureaucracy and with the voters, representing itself as a 45 % support for a war-like president, on the assumption that America needs to be prepared to invade other countries.

[TiradeFaction]

Well sort of, I think that has a lot to do with the misrepresentation and lies the mass media currently conducts over the American populace. That does not necessarily conclude that they are more conservative, just more paranoid, after all I have met people supportive of the war policy that are domestically left-progressive. and even with that 45%, that leaves a solid majority that swings the other way foreign policy wise.

[TiradeFaction]

After all, many of Obama´s supporters still think he is genuinely anti war. Many do not know he is a Brzezinski type hawk.

[gravelin08]

I love you brave Pepe Escobar for telling the people the truth about US foreign policy. Gareth Porter is wrong about support of Bush/McCain support. Now, percentage of warmongers embracing is only 25 to maximum of 30%. About the same percentage as those who want USA to turn away from policy of war permanently. Majority of Americans want US out of Iraq. Former Senator Mike Gravel tried to run for President. He was a peace candidate. He was removed from presidential debates by General Electric

[Mikey34549]

I'm going to write in Ron Paul on election day.

[TimberGeek]

That's cool, how does your state handle write ins? Absentee ballot or can you do it there at the polls?

[blunt1984]

You can do it at the polls with a paper ballot, but I'm not sure on the computer voting machines (I stupidly believed the Dems in '06 when they said they'd end the Iraq War, so I didn't really check to see how write-in's worked on the machine).

[TimberGeek]

In CT anounced write in candidates made it onto our old mechanical voting machines. In 2007 we switched over to the electronic mark optical scanner, but I assume that much will stay the same. I'm not 100% sure how they handle general write ins here either.

[blunt1984]

Me too. RP-write in, but I might think twice if Bob Barr or Ralph Nader is on my state's ballot.

"There isn't much of a difference (between Dems and GOP"

EXACTLY!

THEY'RE ALL CORPORATE/ZIONIST/NWO PUPPETS!

[TimberGeek]

Bob Barr may actually be on the ballot in all 50 states, $8 are pretty much assured. There is a court case pending in Oklahoma and the LP is currently in a last ditch fund raising and petitioning effort to get Bob Barr on the ballot in West Virginia. They have to shut it down if they don't raise ~$43,000 by close of business on Monday.

[blunt1984]

Yeah, I figured he might be, since there was a Libertarian candidate on my (Kansas) ballot in 2004.

[TiradeFaction]

Will you write him in as St. Paul?

[TimberGeek]

You never forget your first...

never mind, that's St. Pauli Girl.

:-D

[TiradeFaction]

Lol.