EXCELLENT COMMENTARY

McCain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why Are the Media Looking the Other Way?, by Arianna Huffington: "Isn't it interesting how, after largely ignoring the issue for the last 30 years, during which the GOP consistently outfundraised and outspent Democrats in election after election, the media are suddenly all atwitter about whether the campaign finance system is 'basically fair'? How dare Obama inspire 1.5 million donors, giving an average of $197 apiece, to help him raise more money than McCain?" Read this article...

Time for a Grand Inquest into Bush's High Crimes, by ROBERT L. BOROSAGE: "We have witnessed a staggering abuse of power by this president. Even former Bush Justice Department officials now charge President Bush with trampling the Constitution. Bush has claimed the prerogative to declare an endless war without congressional approval, to designate someone an enemy without cause, to proceed to wiretap them without warrant, arrest or kidnap them at will, jail them without a hearing, hold them indefinitely, interrogate them intensively (read torture), bring them to trial outside the US court system. He claims that executive privilege exempts his aides -- even the aides of his aides and his vice president's aides -- from congressional investigation. He claims the right to amend or negate congressional laws with a statement upon signing them. And much more." Read this article...

Advice for the next president, by Sen. Russ Feingold: "When the next president approaches the podium in January, he inevitably will have ideas about how to address the nation’s problems and how to move this country forward. But while an inaugural address is a moment to look ahead, whoever is elected in November will have to acknowledge what has come before. That’s because the next president won’t be following on the heels of just any administration; he will arrive in the wake of a series of historic abuses of executive power." Read this article...

The baseless, and failed, "move to the center" cliché, by Glenn Greenwald: "As the 2008 election approaches, the Democrats' position has strengthened further still. In fact, in attempting to determine the best targets for the $325,000 we have raised so far to target Bush-enabling Democrats in Congress, the most difficult obstacle by far has been to find even a single Democratic incumbent who is vulnerable. Not only does it appear that they all are likely to be re-elected, it's actually difficult to identify ones who have any real chance of losing. That's how weakened the GOP brand is and how vehemently the country has rejected their ideology and politics -- in every realm, including national security. So what, then, is the basis for the almost-unanimously held Beltway conventional view that Democrats generally, and Barack Obama particularly, will be politically endangered unless they adopt the Bush/Cheney approach to Terrorism and National Security, which -- for some reason -- is called "moving to the Center"? There doesn't appear to be any basis for that view. It's just an unexamined relic from past times, the immovable, uncritical assumption of Beltway strategists and pundits who can't accept that it isn't 1972 anymore -- or even 2002." Read this article...

Defending the President as Tyrant, by Robert Parry: Which is why it was stunning to watch the June 26 hearing before the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution as two representatives of George W. Bush's presidency responded with disdain when pressed on the administration's extraordinary vision of an all-powerful Executive operating without legal limits." Read this article...

The Hedonists of Power, by Chris Hedges: "Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers. The popular media are courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are courtiers. Our pundits and experts are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games. We are being had." Read this article...

The Obama Problem, by JASON ROSENBAUM: "In the last week, Barack Obama has handed progressives a string of stinging rebukes. First, he all but capitulated on the issue of retroactive immunity for lawbreaking telecom companies by endorsing the FISA "compromise." Next came his disagreement with the Supreme Court ruling that the death penalty shouldn't be imposed for rape. And then his flip on the heels of the Supreme Court ruling allowing the sale of handguns in DC...So, what are progressives to do? As has been evident for some time now, Obama is only loosely affected by progressive pressure. While he has moved left on some important issues, overall he has bigger constituencies to please, and he will do what he wants." Read this article...

Swirlies
The economy, in a word, by Bryan Zepp Jamieson: "Inflation is far worse than what they are copping to. Fuel prices have doubled, groceries are up 50%, and mortgage payments have caused hundreds of thousands of defaults and foreclosures. That's just in the past year." Read this article...

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IMPORTANT NOTICES

URGE THE SENATE NOT TO SIGN ONTO THE HOUSE VERSION OF FISA: Call your Democratic senators now and tell them not to support the compromise FISA bill that should get a vote next week. It will be up to the Dems in the Senate to prevent a further erosion of our 4th Amendment rights.

WHAT'S NEW

Global Warming as Security Issue: Intelligence Report Sees Threat: "One of the biggest conundrums facing lawmakers is that solutions to global warming often hurt another of their top priorities: ensuring the availability of affordable energy, for example. But on Wednesday, as the U.S. intelligence agencies weighed in, they heard about the cost of doing nothing: It may incubate terrorism and civil conflict." Read more of this story...

Israeli building seen as threat to peace: "In the six months since President George W. Bush launched his late-term diplomatic initiative at Annapolis, Md., Israel has dramatically accelerated the construction of homes on land central to any peace deal with the Palestinians. In the 11 months before the Annapolis meeting, Israel sought bids to build fewer than 100 homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel took from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War, according to Israeli government figures. Since Annapolis, Israel has asked companies to start building more than 1,700 homes, a 1,600% increase." Read more of this story...

Senate panel questions border agents' seizure of laptops: "U.S. border agents are copying and seizing the contents of laptops, cell phones and digital cameras from U.S. and foreign travelers entering the United States, witnesses told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday. The extent of this practice is unknown despite requests to the Department of Homeland Security from the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution and several nonprofit agencies." Read more of this story...

D.N.C. Sues McCain Over Campaign Loan: "The Democratic National Committee filed suit today in U.S. District Court in Washington challenging Senator John McCain’s decision to opt out of the federal public financing system in his primary race. In an ongoing — and complicated — drama between the D.N.C. and Mr. McCain, the Democratic committee said that Mr. McCain should not have been permitted to forgo federal funds in his primary race since he had used the promise of receiving those funds as collateral for a bank loan to his campaign." Read more of this story...

Military Chief: US Doesn't Have Enough Troops To Send To Afghanistan: "The nation's top military officer said yesterday that more U.S. troops are needed in Afghanistan to tamp down an increasingly violent insurgency, but that the Pentagon does not have sufficient forces to send because they are committed to the war in Iraq." Read more of this story...

Obama Voters Protest His Switch on Telecom Immunity: "Senator Barack Obama’s decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants has led to an intense backlash among some of his most ardent supporters. Thousands of them are now using the same grass-roots organizing tools previously mastered by the Obama campaign to organize a protest against his decision." Read more of this story...

Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps: "A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the “exclusive” means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government’s claim that the president’s constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped that law. The judge, Vaughn R. Walker, the chief judge for the Northern District of California, made his findings in a ruling on a lawsuit brought by an Oregon charity. The group says it has evidence of an illegal wiretap used against it by the National Security Agency under the secret surveillance program established by President Bush after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." Read more of this story...

U.S. spies on Iraqi army, sources say
Satellites are allegedly being used to track the American-backed force after breakdowns in trust and coordination.: "Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the American-backed Iraqi army, current and former U.S. officials say. The stepped-up surveillance reflects breakdowns in trust and coordination between the two forces. Officials said it was part of an expanded intelligence effort launched after American commanders were surprised by the timing of the Iraqi army's violent push into Basra three months ago." Read more of this story...

McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia: "The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States. Carl H. Lindner Jr., the billionaire Cincinnati businessman, was CEO of Chiquita Brands International from 1984 to 2001, and remained on the company's board of directors until May 2002. Beginning under his tenure, Chiquita executives paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC), which is described by George Washington University's National Security Archive as an 'illegal right-wing anti-guerrilla group tied to many of the country's most notorious civilian massacres.'" Read more of this story...

Hispanic Voters Solidly Behind Obama: "Hispanic registered voters' support for Barack Obama for president remained consistent and strong in June, with Obama leading John McCain by 59% to 29% among this group." Read more of this story...

Pentagon Official Warns of Israeli Attack on Iran
U.S. Offical Sees Two 'Red Lines' That Could Prompt Strike: "Senior Pentagon officials are concerned that Israel could carry out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of the year, an action that would have enormous security and economic repercussions for the United States and the rest of the world. A senior defense official told ABC News there is an "increasing likelihood" that Israel will carry out such an attack, a move that likely would prompt Iranian retaliation against, not just Israel, but against the United States as well." Read more of this story...

Some on left target McCain's war record: "But farther to the left — and among some of McCain's conservative enemies as well — harsher attacks are circulating. Critics have accused McCain of war crimes for bombing targets in Hanoi in the 1960s. A widely read liberal blog on Sunday accused McCain of "disloyalty" during his captivity in Vietnam for his coerced participation in propaganda films and interviews after he had been tortured.
'A lot of people don't know ... that McCain made a propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity,' wrote Americablog.com's John Aravosis. 'Putting that bit of disloyalty aside, what exactly is McCain's military experience that prepares him for being commander in chief?'" Read more of this story...

Records sought at McCain advisor's bank: "This can't be good for the campaign of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain. The IRS is trying to serve a summons on Swiss bank UBS AG seeking information on U.S. taxpayers who may have used the bank to gin up records to avoid billions in taxes on offshore investments. Top McCain economic advisor Phil Gramm is vice chairman of UBS' U.S. division which already has drawn unflattering scrutiny for writing off big losses in subprime mortgage-backed securities." Read more of this story...

Obama to expand Bush's faith based programs: "Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans to expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy — support some ability to hire and fire based on faith." Read more of this story...

McCains Defaulted On Home Taxes For Last Four Years, Newsweek Reports: "Newsweek is set to publish a highly embarrassing report on Sen. John McCain, revealing that the McCains have failed to pay taxes on their beach-front condo in La Jolla, California, for the last four years and are currently in default, The Huffington Post has learned. Under California law, once a residential property is in default for five years, it can be sold at a tax sale to recover the unpaid taxes for the taxpayers." Read more of this story...

Lieberman: U.S. May Be Attacked In 2009
McCain Supporter Says Terrorists Have Tested New Presidents By Launching Attacks In First Year Of Term: Senior Iraqi government officials said Saturday that a U.S. Special Forces counterterrorism unit conducted the raid that reportedly killed a relative of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, touching off a high-stakes diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iraq. U.S. military officials in Baghdad had no comment for the second day in a row, an unusual position for a command that typically releases information on combat operations within 24 hours." Read more of this story...

Crisis grows in Iraq over U.S. raid that killed Maliki relative: "In describing the reasons he believes the Republicans' presumptive nominee for president would be better prepared than the Democrats' to lead the nation next January, Sen. Joe Lieberman said that history shows the United States would likely face a terrorist attack in 2009. 'Our enemies will test the new president early,' Lieberman, I-Conn., told Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer. 'Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration.'" Read more of this story...

Dick Cheney 'tried to block North Korea nuclear deal'
Vice President Dick Cheney fought furiously to block efforts by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to strike a controversial US compromise deal with North Korea over the communist state's nuclear programme, the Telegraph has learned.: "'The exchanges between Cheney's office and Rice's people at State got very testy. But ultimately Condi had the President's ear and persuaded him that his legacy would be stronger if they reached a deal with Pyongyang,' said a Pentagon adviser who was briefed on the battle." Read more of this story...

Scientist Is Paid Millions by U.S. in Anthrax Suit: "The Justice Department announced Friday that it would pay $4.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Steven J. Hatfill, a former Army biodefense researcher intensively investigated as a “person of interest” in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001." Read more of this story...

BUSHSPEAK

"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three nonfatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 14, 2001

"The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming." --discussing his anti-Al Gore advertisement in an interview with The New York Times, September 2, 2000

"What I'm suggesting to you is, if you can't name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you're not capable of what you do. But the truth of the matter is you are, whether you can or not."--as quoted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 6, 1999

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