I've held back for a while, for no particular reason, on blogging in relation to the US presidential race, but time to change... As the candidates are falling into place, YouTube is becoming even more popular a channel for conveying political opinion...
I was mildly amused at McCain's comments re- Obama's Experience (see entire article here.)
CHICAGO (AP) - Republican John McCain accused Democrat BarackObama of inexperience and reckless judgment for saying Iran does not pose the same serious threat to the United States as the Soviet Union did in its day.
McCain made the attack Monday in Chicago, Obama's home turf.
"Such a statement betrays the depth of Senator Obama's inexperience and reckless judgment. These are very serious deficiencies for an American president to possess," McCain said in an appearance at the restaurant industry's annual meeting. My reason for such amusement, well, obviously Mr McCain believes that singing about bombing a sovereign territory dictates experience and sound judgment, something the rest of the world continually wishes an American president WOULD possess.
And because I have really enjoyed posting video this week, I through in this Robert Greenwalddoozy, on the aforementioned Senator...
I have recently been reading The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind which tells the interesting tale of the Cheney Doctrine. In essence the doctrine can be boiled down to one sentence, "if there is a 1% chance of something negative happening to America, then America must do whatever it takes to prevent that from happening." A chilling notion that barely meets any standard burden of proof, I mean there is at least a 1% chance of me having a drink tonight (OK it's much higher than that) I guess it's more a 1% chance of me NOT having a drink tonight, that doesn't mean the university tavern should close... (Terrible analogy I know)...
I wasn't overly concerned until I watched former undersecretary of defence (US) Douglas Feith being interviewed on The Daily Show. I've embedded both parts of the "uncut" (if it was uncut, I fail to see why there is two parts) interview, it seems to confirm Suskind's argument, especially towards the end where Feith proclaims something along the line of "Imagine what the pundits would be saying if we didn't invade Iraq and something happened..."
As Jon so eloquently puts it, I'm not entirely sure that you can invade a country based upon a "hypothetical"...
So apparently Treasurer Costello is annoyed that Opposition Leader Rudd met with a corrupt State Premier in 2005, the only Australian Premier to ever serve a gaol sentence, today it was announced that a certain Government Senator/Minister met with same corrupt premier, over a year after OLR did...
So to honor this monumental screw up of an attack by the G'ment on the Opposition, and then watching them get bitch slapped back courtesy of The Weekend Australian...
I've decided, today, (with a little help from my friends) to highlight the stupidity of the Australian Foreign Minister... Alex Downer...
Oh to be a fly on the wall when he got home after this doozy....
Oh and his little Confession to the Misguided Trio over his role in the AWB Scandal (Courtesy of Youtube/ausarma)
And to top it all off, a little doozy of a cover of Midnight Oil...
Update: About 3 hours after I posted this, the Minister involved with the former Premier resigned from his cabinet position, which, for the record, whilst some what admirable, means very little in an election year....
Update #2: I am aware that I may have used the word doozy, a few too many times in this post, I apologise...
