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Obamas Full Terrorism Speech: Sharpens Contrast With Hillary On Foreign Policy | TPMCafe

I was watching the PBS show with Charlie Rose interviewing Al Gore, Mr. Gore has interesting things to say about the environment and global warming in particular. This show was no exemption to the plea for everyone to do something. This show added the plea for all Americans to stop bush (I won’t capitalize his name). It added something I thought is interesting, a Gore/Obama run for president.

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Obama Makes Vow to End Iraq Conflict

Barack Obama would have my vote if I thought the U.S. System wasn’t for sale and would allow the vote of the people to choose and not the supreme court i.e. 2000. No other candidate I’ve heard so far as to date gives a date for withdrawal from Iraq, in this case the March 2008 date voted by Congress.

Wired News: Online Voting Clicks in Estonia
I believe in the democratic system one person one vote. I’ve been down on it since 2000 when I believe the election was stolen from the one person. I live overseas and have stopped voting but a system introduced in Estonia for online voting seems to b a step in the right direction. Take a gander and see if you agree. One part of the article I’d like to re-print here has the description on why to move forward with the idea:

Physical voting stations can be disrupted, he noted. Absentee ballots can be stolen, or fraudulently submitted. Long lines can produce the equivalent of denial of service attacks. Certainly the experience of the United States with confusing and mismarked paper ballots, contested recounts, and poorly designed voting machines have shown that non-internet systems are far from perfect, he said.

The Raw Story | ‘Timid’ Congress drives GQ correspondent to draft six articles of impeachment for Vice President Cheney

It takes more than just blogging about the obvious. A well thought article is what it takes to impeach anyone with power, especially the Vice-President of the U.S. I commend the author and I hope that many others will read the words of true freedom. his administration has imprisoned many people on the globe, it’s time to pay the bill.

To summarize:

“Over the past six years, as the country has spiraled into military misadventure, fiscal madness, and environmental meltdown, the vice president has not merely been wrong about the issues; he has been duplicitous, deceitful, and deliberately destructive to the American democracy,” Hylton writes.

“These things can no longer be denied by rational minds: That in the buildup to war in Iraq, the vice president, lacking confidence in the true casus belli, conspired to invent additional ones, misrepresenting the available intelligence, crafting new ‘intelligence,’ and then spreading these falsehoods to the public, perverting the democratic process that he is sworn to uphold,” Hylton adds.

What the Democrats’ win means for tech; I’m a computer geek maybe my background graduating university with a BS in Computer Engineering gives it away.  I’ve been embarrassed lately being an American while I live and work in Tokyo, Japan.  This last election filled me hope that positive thing we all need to be started soon can be done.  Also my voting record that I vote Democratic but there have been exemptions when I felt the Democrat running for president was a danger (can you say Mondale). Bush is a danger but we have the new Congress to offset his lunacy.  This leads to a thought I’ve had recently that the US’s check and balance system is a great system but that should extend that to the parties in the ruling class ("ruling class" in the US sounds impossible but we’ve had 2 Bushes in the white house, another on the way?).  So I’m going on a limb that I endorse a Republican in ‘08 I endorse John McCain. He’s a vet (like me), a fiscally conservative (unlike Bush), and a funny guy (ever seen him on The Daily Show?).  While I searched the web for an example to link to I found this and that gave me a laugh.  So think of what I said and remember the old days.

Election, Election time to elect the leaders in the free world! NOT!  As you may know, I’m outside the norm living here as an American in Tokyo, you might have seen the HBO special, "Hacking Democracy" and it made think, "why bother.  I have mailed in my vote in the last elections in a state that I voted with the majority".  Didn’t count but my voice was heard (I think).  This special basically says it would’t have mattered anyway.  All of you out there be the boss and tell government you work for you.

Democracy shouldn’t need saving but the U.S., the old man of democracy, has not been respectful of the rights that democracy offers. I am an American living in Tokyo, Japan and I made sure that my vote was heard. But in the electoral college system no single vote is heard. I voted in a state were bush wasn’t a close second but that didn’t matter just as in 2000. I digress, here’s an article on remedial democracy for those who want to be spoon fed information but I’m not talking to that audience now. It seems to me that someone who reads blogs wants information. I’m getting completely off track but this topic gets to me. It’s embarrassing around election time to explain to my Japanese friends what is meant by American democracy but watch as it becomes a joke as 50% vote. This time make a difference get involved and vote in November I already sent mine in.Wired News: Saving Democracy With Web 2.0

I leave the US 7 years ago and this is the mess I find. It’s not just bush but you all share the resonsibility, for shame. You have a chance in November to fix what wrong. Fix please

Crooks and Liars » Countdown Special Comment: Death of Habeas Corpus: “Your words are lies, Sir.”
Keith Olbermann

I’ve seen too much Fox news, even 5 min is too much. I live in Tokyo, Japan and have for the last 6-7 years but I still pay attention to what is going on in the US. I saw a Fox attack of President Bill Clinton and saw the beating they got for it, hurray for the left. I just saw a political analyst on youTube that eloquently put into word of what I’m saying here. Please view this and take any power that Bush might have and put it in the hands that might do some good.