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Phil

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Ron Paul ne quittera pas la course tant qu'il a de l'argent. Le but n'est pas de gagner mais de faire passer le message.

^^pour les mordus.

PS: ne faudrait-il pas commencer un sujet spéciale Ron Paul ? car ici on ne parle que de lui…

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William White

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McCain's bad G-8 judgment call

Booting Moscow out of the group of wealthy democracies would deal a major blow to U.S.-Russia relations.

By Madeleine K. Albright and William J. Perry

July 9, 2008

This week's Group of 8 meeting in Japan raises some important questions about Sen. John McCain's approach to the art of diplomacy. McCain has suggested that Russia be kicked out of the G-8 because of its government's retreat from democracy in recent years. This is the kind of proposal one might expect from a party candidate seeking to differentiate himself from the policies of an unpopular predecessor. It is not, however, a good idea.

The problem is not in McCain's analysis but in his proposed remedy.

Yes, Russia has moved away from the principles that caused it to be invited to join what was the G-7 during the 1990s. Under the leadership of Russia's former president and current prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, power has been centralized at the expense of the parliament, regional governments, the courts, the media and civil society. Russia goes through the motions of democracy, but the reality has been lost. The question is how the United States, and the West in general, should respond.

McCain favors booting Russia out of the wealthy-democracies forum, but he does not say what this would accomplish other than dramatizing, for a moment, our disappointment with Russia's domestic policies.

In any case, the senator's proposal is as unrealistic as it would be counterproductive because the United States does not wield a veto over G-8 membership. Next year's G-8 host, Italy, and the following year's, Canada, are unlikely to exclude Russia. To press for Russia's exclusion will only divide us from our democratic allies in the G-8. It is also largely meaningless when it comes to shunning or shaming Moscow: Russia's role as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council is both irrevocable and far more significant than its inclusion within the largely powerless G-8.

The truth is that we still have an abundant amount of diplomatic business to do with Russia. We have a common interest in fighting terrorism, preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons, securing nuclear materials everywhere, reducing nuclear stockpiles, maintaining stability in Afghanistan and Central Asia, developing new security arrangements in East Asia and improving prospects for peace in the Middle East. Russia must also be included in any comprehensive discussion of global energy and environmental issues.

The next U.S. president will have no choice but to seek Russia's cooperation on a range of vital issues even while managing the differences that are sure to arise. We will have a far better chance of succeeding if our disagreements on matters of substance -- the future of NATO, for example -- are not aggravated unnecessarily by questions of symbolism and protocol. We cannot expect help from a government we are attempting to blackball, nor would it be in our interest to push Russia further in the direction of an alliance of autocracies with such countries as China and Iran.

As the recent apparent breakthroughs with North Korea bear witness, even the Bush administration has learned that effective diplomacy requires a willingness to sit down with hostile governments. During the Cold War, presidents from both political parties engaged in high-profile summitry with Soviet counterparts. Today's Russia, though troublesome, is a far less destructive force in world affairs than its communist predecessor.

The cause of Russian democracy, meanwhile, may have been set back, but it is not yet defeated. It is hard to see how ending the Russian government's exposure to the influence of the world's leading democracies would improve either its handling of global concerns or its willingness to respect the rights of its people.

McCain is correct to be concerned about Russia's leadership. He is wrong to think that withdrawing an invitation to G-8 meetings is the answer. We need more diplomatic engagement with Moscow, not less; more pressure from other democracies, not less; and more patience in forging a productive and sustainable relationship with Russia's people, not an abrupt surrender that would be viewed by many Russians as an insult to their country.

Madeleine K. Albright served as secretary of State and William J. Perry served as secretary of Defense under President Clinton. Albright is now a principal of the Albright Group. Perry is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and co-director of the Preventive Defense Project.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/o…0,6457259.story

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Ash

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The Dangers of Neo-Conservative Economic Policies

The dangers inherent in the foreign policy advocated by the neo-conservatives are well known. While many Americans have become increasingly aware of those dangers, far less attention has been focused on the dangers of neo-conservative economic policies. This issue is of critical importance right now, because many are mistakenly pointing their fingers at the free market as the culprit behind our current economic plight.

There are only a few in elected office who have any real loyalty to free markets and limited government. The agenda of neo-conservatives in the economy calls for a very active central government. Indeed, while there are some neo-conservatives who continue to use the rhetoric of limited government, and who oppose increases in the federal income tax as a way to maintain the political benefits that apply to those who talk about free markets, it is now the neo-conservatives who promote fiat monetary policies even more than those on the liberal left.

While I have been a strong proponent of cutting taxes on all Americans, and therefore supported the tax reductions offered by President Bush, the neo-cons argue that tax rate reduction alone is the key to “getting the government out of the way” of economic growth. Moreover, they invariably argue for tax reductions targeted toward the wealthy, and toward multinational corporations.

Over the years, I have offered several tax plans designed to assist hard working middle-class Americans to pay for their needs, whether these needs be health-care related, educational or to pay the costs of fuel. A few years back when I introduced one such bill, a prominent Republican approached me on the House Floor and asked, half in anger and half in amazement “why did you do that?” Shortly after that, the committee chairman at the time, also a Republican, sent out a release strongly attacking my tax cut bill.

So, while the liberal economic agenda includes more taxes and spending, the neo-con economic program simply looks to target some tax cuts to preferred groups, but ignore the economic big picture. The neo-con economic agenda is to “borrow and spend” and it is that agenda, even more than the tax and spend ways of many liberals, that has cast us in economic peril at this time.

Simply, on spending, the neo-cons and the liberals share views, just as they share similar views on foreign policy. While each side tries to claim the mantle of change, reality is that more of the same is not change.

The fiat monetary policy we now follow is the most significant factor contributing to our economic peril, and it is central to the neo-con agenda. As we hear new calls to empower the Federal Reserve Board, we should be aware that underlying all neo-conservative policies is the idea of monetary inflation. Inflation is the technique used to pay for the regulatory-state and the costs of policing the world.

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Posted by Ron Paul (07-28-2008, 01:08 PM) filed under Monetary

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Saucer

Saucer

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On attaque pas un vétéran aussi facilement. :icon_up:

Et puis, les politiques américains ont toujours une longueur d'avance en matière de com'.

Ils ont bien compris que le bashing pouvait être contre-productif.

Ca, il n'y a que les journalistes et les politiques français pour penser qu'on peut orienter une opinion en martelant sans cesse la même chose.

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Blueglasnost

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On attaque pas un vétéran aussi facilement. :doigt:

Et puis, les politiques américains ont toujours une longueur d'avance en matière de com'.

Ils ont bien compris que le bashing pouvait être contre-productif.

Ca, il n'y a que les journalistes et les politiques français pour penser qu'on peut orienter une opinion en martelant sans cesse la même chose.

L'appelation de "journalistes" est quelque peu généreuse à mon goût :icon_up:

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Taranne

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McCain comes out punching

The Republican used the first presidential forum to try out his debate tactics against Obama: hit hard and fast

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* Jeremy Lott

In Rick Warren's introduction to the presidential candidates forum – the first attended by both John McCain and Barack Obama as nominees - at his Saddleback Church in California on Saturday night, the bestselling author and pastor spoke for his congregation, saying: "We believe in the separation of church and state."

Warren quickly added that this did not mean that they had suddenly decided to embrace a "separation of faith and politics." That would be especially foolish at a time when US politicians are desperate for religious votes.

During the lead up to the event, Warren had come under fire from both secular liberals and religious conservatives. Leftists caricatured the pastor as a goatee-wearing Jerry Falwell. Would-be friends worried that he was auditioning for the part of the next Billy Graham. That is, they worried that he was becoming a man of fuzzy causes and a candidate for the role of inoffensive counselor to America's presidents.

The pastor's performance gave both sides ammunition for criticism. Those who dislike God talk couldn't have been happy that Warren coaxed senator Barack Obama to confess "Jesus Christ died for my sins and I am redeemed through him" and to hope that he might be able to "carry out in some small way what He intends." And when senator John McCain declared himself "saved and forgiven" and called America a nation "founded on Judeo-Christian values and principles"? Nails on a chalkboard never sounded so sweet.

Rather than question the nation's current military commitments, Warren needled the candidates about how they would further involve America in his favourite causes. These pet preoccupations ranged from halting genocide to curbing human trafficking to promoting adoption.

Warren disclosed to the audience, "Both these guys are my friends." He passed over the chance to ask hard follow-up questions. He began his one-on-one interview with Obama by joking "If you were a tree…" In fact, the candidates tried to cover up for the puffball nature of some of the queries by pretending they were real stumpers.

This was surprising because Warren is no intellectual slouch. Last year when he went up against atheist wunderkind Sam Harris in Newsweek, he proved an able debater with a real talent for bloodying his opponent. If he'd decided to turn up the heat on the candidates, they'd have felt it.

Perhaps he took it easy because they flattered him. McCain quoted from Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Life, claiming that it was essentially his own campaign message. Obama contrasted the sales of his own books with Warren's phenomenal publishing juggernaut. "I haven't sold 25 million books but I've been selling some books lately," the Democrat said.

Either that or Warren simply doesn't have a strong preference either way. From their answers it's clear that we're about to get a purpose-driven president. Obama would expand healthcare and other programmes domestically, and raise taxes to pay for them. Except for Iraq, Obama is bullish on the benefits of American action abroad.

And readers will no doubt be shocked to learn that McCain wants a more belligerent foreign policy and professed a willingness to follow Osama bin Laden to the very gates of Hades.

The real surprise of the night was McCain's entrée into domestic issues. Warren asked: when is a fetus "entitled to human rights"? "At the moment of conception" McCain answered, without blinking. (Obama had danced around the issue, calling the determination of when life begins "above my pay grade.") McCain also began to pivot away from his past support for government funding of embryo destructive stem cell research by saying he is "wildly optimistic" about research to make skin mimic embryonic stem cells.

Warren asked what current Supreme Court justice McCain might not have appointed. The Arizona senator named justices Souter, Stevens, Ginsburg, and Breyer - the entire liberal wing of the Court. And he called Bush appointees justices Alito and Roberts "two of my most recent favorites."

McCain offered a sweeping embrace of school choice, calling it a "civil rights issue." On energy issues, he said "We gotta do everything." "Everything," included a mix of more subsidies for hybrid cars, more offshore oil exploration, and more nuclear power plants. He proposed large tax credits for children and for healthcare, condemned efforts to increase unionisation by eliminating secret ballots, and railed against high taxes and "class warfare" generally. The crowd loved it.

It could be a preview of things to come. If this new crusading conservative McCain shows up at the presidential debates in October, will Obama be the one left hoping for help from a higher power?

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Sous-Commandant Marco

Sous-Commandant Marco

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McCain confirme qu'il est un arriviste qui s'est soigneusement débarrassé de tous ceux qui auraient pu l'empêcher d'avancer dans sa carrière:

"How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-54…saved-life.html

Il avait déjà fait le même coup avec sa première femme, dont il divorça pour épouser une riche héritière. Hélas, il semble bien que cette crapule sera bientôt à la Maison Blanche.

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Taranne

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Le camp de McCain scandalisé par un concert de Madonna le liant à Hitler

AFP 25.08.08 | 03h44

L'équipe de campagne de John McCain a protesté avec vigueur dimanche contre Madonna après une mise en scène d'un concert de la chanteuse qui semblait comparer le candidat républicain à la Maison Blanche à Adolf Hitler et au président zimbabwéen Robert Mugabe.

"Les comparaisons sont tout à la fois scandaleuses, inacceptables et de nature à diviser", a déclaré le porte-parole de M. McCain, Tucker Bounds, dans un communiqué cité par la chaîne Fox News.

"Cela montre clairement que lorsqu'il s'agit de soutenir Barack Obama, ses amies les célébrités mondiales n'hésitent pas à avoir recours à des dénigrements et à des attaques inacceptables", a-t-il dit.

Lors du lancement de sa tournée mondiale "Sticky and sweet" samedi à Cardiff (Grande-Bretagne), la superstar de la chanson, connue tant pour son sens de la provocation que pour ses attaques passées contre le président républicain George W. Bush, avait chanté la chanson "Get Stupid", alors que défilaient en arrière-plan des photos de destruction, puis de Hitler, M. Mugabe et McCain.

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Bastiat

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Si tu crois que tous les gens issus d'universités prestigieuses sont des lumières, tu te goures !

Pour avoir côtoyer des étudiants de l'université d'Oxford, je peux te dire que beaucoup d'entres eux sont des petits branleurs ignorants et arrogants :icon_up:

A en croire Karl Rove dans politique internationale, ce n'est pas vraiment ça…

http://www.politiqueinternationale.com/rev…p;content=texte

Karl Rove - Je voudrais leur dire que George W. Bush est un intellectuel ! Preuve en sont ses diplômes de Yale et de Harvard.
Je ne vois pas comment, en étant idiot, il aurait pu obtenir un « Bachelor of Arts » en histoire américaine de la prestigieuse université de Yale et un master en Business Administration de Harvard ! Je suis toujours surpris de voir que si peu de gens sont au courant de la réalité et que certains se permettent de le présenter comme un ignare.

S. B. - Pourquoi cet aspect de la personnalité de George W. Bush est-il à ce point méconnu ?

K. R. - Je crois qu'il ne déteste pas être sous-estimé. Et s'il se montre si discret à propos des prestigieux diplômes qu'il a obtenus, c'est tout simplement parce qu'il adore être considéré comme un Texan moyen ! Mais même en tenant compte de cette exagération de l'aspect « populaire » de sa personnalité, je n'arrive pas à comprendre comment on peut penser qu'il serait idiot.
Au contraire, il est supérieurement intelligent ! Je le connais maintenant depuis trente-cinq ans et je suis toujours aussi impressionné par sa mémoire et par sa culture.
Je peux vous dire que j'ai intérêt à me rappeler tout ce que je dis dans nos conversations, car il se souvient de tout. Son esprit enregistre et analyse en permanence une quantité d'informations phénoménale. Un jour, en 1997, alors que nous étions dans un tout petit village texan, George W. Bush, qui venait d'être élu gouverneur, a reconnu un type qu'il avait croisé vingt ans auparavant… et se rappelait même qu'il avait trois enfants ! Tout le monde était sidéré.

S. B. - Sauf erreur, la lecture fait même l'objet d'une compétition entre le président et vous…

K. R. - Effectivement, nous faisons depuis deux ans un concours de lecture.
J'ai gagné l'année dernière : j'ai lu 110 livres et lui 94…
Et je mène encore cette année ! Ce qui n'est pas facile car George W. Bush est un grand liseur. Il est vraiment étonnant de voir qu'un homme dont l'emploi du temps est aussi chargé arrive à lire deux livres par semaine en moyenne. Encore une fois, comment peut-on le prendre pour un crétin ?

S. B. - Quelle est donc la vraie personnalité de George W. Bush ?

K. R. - Sa personnalité comporte deux aspects complémentaires, ce qui présente de nombreux avantages. Primo, je vous l'ai dit, le président a un cerveau bien organisé ; mais, secundo,
contrairement à l'immense majorité des intellectuels de la côte Est, il a su rester très accessible.
La plupart de ses camarades de Yale et de Harvard seraient tout simplement incapables de communiquer avec l'Américain ordinaire comme il le fait. Sa facilité à s'adresser à ses compatriotes découle de l'éducation qu'il a reçue et de l'État où il a grandi.
Contrairement à tous ces snobs de la côte Est, George W. Bush est capable de mettre son orgueil en sourdine.
C'est ce qui explique que certains - et, en premier lieu, les intellectuels de l'Upper East Side (2) - aient tendance à le sous-estimer. Il y a d'ailleurs un livre qui s'intitule Misunderestimated (3).

Voilà ça me parait plus réaliste.

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Taranne

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McCain uses Vietnam ordeal against jibes over wealth

Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:11pm EDT

By Andrew Gray

BURBANK, California (Reuters) - John McCain, who often invokes his ordeal as a Vietnam war prisoner to show his devotion to his country as he runs for U.S. president, drew on the experience again on Monday -- this time to deflect sniping over the number of houses he owns.

McCain's Democratic rival Barack Obama last week accused the Republican senator of being out of touch with ordinary people after he was unable to say in an interview how many houses were owned by him and his wife Cindy, a wealthy heiress to a beer distributorship.

In an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, McCain, 71, said his priority was to keep Americans in their homes in tough economic times.

Then he recalled his Vietnam experience.

"I spent 5 1/2 years in a prison cell without -- I didn't have a house. I didn't have a kitchen table. I didn't have a table. I didn't have a chair," he said.

"I spent those 5 1/2 years … not because I wanted to get a house when I got out."

U.S. HOUSING WOES

Rising energy prices and the faltering economy have become central issues in the race for the White House. The next president will inherit problems including a mortgage crisis that has cost many Americans their homes.

McCain said he was prepared to deal with that and sought to play down the controversy over his family's assets.

"I'm proud of my record of service to this country and it has nothing to do with houses. What it has to do with (is) putting Americans in houses and keeping them in their homes. And that's what I know how to do," he said to loud cheers from the studio audience.

On the show the Arizona senator listed four homes he and his wife have -- one in the Washington area, two in Arizona and one in California. Media reports and Democrats have said the couple have at least seven properties when investments are included.

McCain said he was proud of the way his wife's father had built up a large business after fighting in World War Two.

With the Democrats engaged in their convention in Denver this week that will formally nominate Obama and the Republicans due to meet next week, polls show the two candidates locked in a dead heat in the popular vote. McCain predicted a tight finish in the November 4 election

Obama's house in the affluent Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park is worth more than $1.5 million, and he has made millions from the publication of two autobiographical books.

(Editing by David Storey)

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Jeeves

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Quelqu'un de compétent en économie ne serait peut-être pas superflu non plus, car McCain est passable dans ce domaine, de son propre aveu…

Une idée de femme républicaine, ayant une certaine légitimité en économie? Ou un homme noir sinon?

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