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Nick de Cusa

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Qui en sait un peu sur Bob Barr ?

Il doit y avoir erreur:

Barr 5%, Nader 2% in national Zogby poll

August 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments

An online Zogby poll of 2,020 likely voters across the U.S. conducted August 29-30 (+/- 2.2%) shows Libertarian Bob Barr at five percent and independent Ralph Nader at two in a four-way race. Barr draws two percent of Democrats, four percent of Republicans, and 11 percent of independents; Nader draws one percent of Democrats, one percent of Republicans, and four percent of independents.

In the four-way race, Barack Obama takes 44%, John McCain 43%; but if Barr and Nader are omitted, McCain leads Obama, 47% to 45%.

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/…nal-zogby-poll/

José

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Je me demande quels effets cela pourrait avoir sur l'avis que les gens ont de Sarah Palin.

McCain connaissait ce "détail" avant de choisir sa colistière.

Toast

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En regardant sur les blogs francophones ce qui été dit de Palin, je suis tombé sur un cousin de Ptit Suisse, se fendant d'un article qui montre le visage des grands démocrates que nous avons en Europe.

http://rienquelaverite.blog.tdg.ch/archive/2008/08/31/sarah-palin-et-son-qi-d-huitre.html ://http://rienquelaverite.blog.tdg.ch/…-d-huitre.html

Rassure-moi, tu n'as pas trouvé cet article intelligent tout de même ? (ou sinon je n'ai pas saisi tes propos)

Nick de Cusa

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Dans la série il doit y avoir erreur:

Libertarian Barr close to double digits in Ohio

Friday August 29 2008, 11:08am

A Zogby International poll released Aug. 22 showed Libertarian Bob Barr is drawing support from 8 percent of the Ohio's voters. (The poll placed Barack Obama at 41 percent and John McCain at 36 percent, Ralph Nader at 1 percent and "Not Sure/Other" at 13 percent.)

It's just one poll, but members of the Ohio Libertarian Party are pleased and hope the poll numbers show they can become a player in state politics.

The party's chairman, Kevin Knedler, told me party members have come up with an answer for people who say voting for Barr will "waste" their vote. If Barr can get 5 percent of the vote on Nov. 4, "he will give us ballot access for the first time in the history of this party through the ballot box," Knedler said.

Libertarians generally want to sharply cut taxes and the size of government, withdraw from Iraq as quickly as possible, oppose the Patriot Act, want to end the War on Drugs, oppose restrictions on gun ownership and want to end the federal government's role in education.

Barr will be in Columbus at 6 p.m. Saturday to greet supporters; details here.

He'll likely return to Ohio, Knedler said.

"They are keenly aware that other than New Hampshire, he is polling higher in Ohio than any other state in the north," Knedler said.

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2…mmunitycomments

S'il est vrai que l'Ohio est son meilleur Etat du Nord, alors ça veut dire que sa gueule ne revient pas aux Paulistes d'Idaho et d'Alaska.

José

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Je me demande quels effets cela pourrait avoir sur l'avis que les gens ont de Sarah Palin.

Pour l'instant, les évangélistes semblent très bien le prendre :

Dobson on Bristol Palin's Pregnancy

ABC News | 09/01/2008 | Jake Tapper

Dr. James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family issued the following statement:

"In the 32-year history of Focus on the Family, we have offered prayer, counseling and resource assistance to tens of thousands of parents and children in the same situation the Palins are now facing. We have always encouraged the parents to love and support their children and always advised the girls to see their pregnancies through, even though there will of course be challenges along the way. That is what the Palins are doing, and they should be commended once again for not just talking about their pro-life and pro-family values, but living them out even in the midst of trying circumstances.

"Being a Christian does not mean you're perfect. Nor does it mean your children are perfect. But it does mean there is forgiveness and restoration when we confess our imperfections to the Lord. I've been the beneficiary of that forgiveness and restoration in my own life countless times, as I'm sure the Palins have.

"The media are already trying to spin this as evidence Gov. Palin is a 'hypocrite,' but all it really means is that she and her family are human. They are in my prayers and those of millions of Americans."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2072570/posts

Ash

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Ca y est, la chasse à la sorcière est lancée !

Via PF :

Rions un peu avec Guysen

http://www.guysen.com/articles.php?sid=7919

Mc Cain désigne Sarah Palin comme colistier

Par Simon Green pour Guysen International News

Dimanche 31 août 2008 à 08:18

Le candidat républicain à la Présidence des Etats-Unis, John Mc Cain a surpris tout le monde. Après avoir entretenu le suspense autour du choix de son colistier jusqu’à la dernière minute, il a finalement désigné Sarah Palin, mère de cinq enfants et gouverneure de l’Etat d’Alaska, pour être sa vice-présidente.

Femme connue pour son conservatisme, Sarah Palin est une adversaire acharnée de l’avortement et milite activement pour le droit du port d’armes.

Si John Mc Cain devait être élu, elle serait la première femme à occuper le poste de Vice-présidente de l’histoire de l’Amérique.

Les experts politiques aux Etats-Unis interprètent cette nomination comme un signal envoyé à l’électorat le plus conservateur du parti républicain refroidi par les positions centristes et parfois décalées adoptées par John Mc Cain.

Sarah Palin devrait donc apporter un nouveau souffle à la campagne de l’ancien héros du Vietnam.

Néanmoins ce choix est loin de ravir toute la classe politique.

Robert Wexsler, membre du congrès américain et démocrate, a déclaré dans un communiqué que la nomination de Sarah Palin « était une insulte faite à tous les juifs d’Amérique ».

Dans son message, celui-ci indique que Sarah Palin avait soutenu en 2000, lors de la présidentielle, le candidat conservateur Pat Bioknen [Ha!Ha!Ha! On sent la retranscription phonétique au téléphone de l'agence] « un antisémite déclaré et admirateur d’Adolf Hitler qui a des opinions détestables à l’égard de l’Etat d’Israël ». [On peut dire qu'avec Guysen on s'avance en terrain sécurisé]

Robert Wexsler a accusé John Mc Cain d’avoir commis une grave erreur de jugement en choisissant Sarah Palin « qui s’est souvent alliée avec les politiciens américains les plus anti-israéliens ».

Au parti républicain, on souligne que la seule raison qui a poussé John Mc Cain à opter pour Sarah Palin est de tenter de récolter les voix des anciennes supportrices d’Hillary Clinton qui rêvaient de voir une femme à la Maison Blanche.

Un pari risqué au regard des idées défendues par Sarah Palin, alors que les femmes ont tendance à se situer plus à gauche de l’échiquier politique.

Mais quoi qu'il en soit, Sarah Palin elle est l'une des personnalités publiques les plus populaires aux Etats-Unis. D'après un sondage pour le compte du 'Anchorage Daily News', 80 % des sondés pensent en effet que Sarah Palin incarne l'éthique de la réforme et la volonté d'une vie publique propre.

Sep 3, 2008 22:03 | Updated Sep 4, 2008 2:55

Good for the Jews

By RON KAMPEAS

A small Israeli flag propped up on a window frame. A Pat Buchanan button sported briefly as a courtesy. A prospective son-in-law with a biblical name.

Little about the Frozen North is Jewish outside the realm of fiction (see Mordechai Richler, Michael Chabon, Northern Exposure), so when Republicans pitch Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's vice presidential pick, to the Jews and Democrats try to undermine her, both sides tend to reach.

Picking through the trivia and smears for substance, there's this: Palin, 44, has genuinely warm relations with her Jewish constituents - 6,000 or so - and appears to have a fondness for Israel. She also comes down on the strongly conservative side on social issues where Jews tend to trend liberal.

"Governor Palin has established a great relationship with the Jewish community over the years and has attended several of our Jewish cultural gala events," Rabbi Yosef Greenberg, the director of Chabad-Lubavitch in Anchorage, wrote in an e-mail after McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee and longtime Arizona senator, announced that she was joining his ticket.

"Governor Palin also had plans to visit Israel with members of the Jewish community, however, for technical reasons, the visit has not occurred yet."

Palin is likeable enough that she got props from Ethan Berkowitz, the Jewish former minority leader in the Alaska House of Representatives who appears poised to become the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives since Nick Begich disappeared in a snowstorm in 1972.

"I like her and this is an exciting day for Alaska," said Berkowitz.

REPUBLICANS HAVE been scouring the archives to uncover evidence of Palin's outreach to Jews and to Israel.

Her single substantive act is signing a resolution in June marking 60 years of Alaska-Israel relations, launched improbably in 1948 when Alaska Airlines helped shepherd thousands of Yemeni Jews to Israel. However, she did not initiate the legislation: Its major mover was John Harris, the speaker of the Alaska House.

The paucity of material led the Republican Jewish Coalition to tout the appearance of a small Israeli flag propped against a window of the state Capitol in an online video in which Palin touts the virtues of hiking Juneau.

In an e-mail blast, RJC executive director Matt Brooks offered the screengrab as an answer for "those of you who have had questions regarding Sarah Palin and her views on Israel."

IN A seemingly equal bit of stretching in the other direction, some Democrats played up an Associated Press report that Palin - then the mayor of the small Alaska town of Wasilla - had sported a Buchanan button in 1999 when the Reform Party candidate visited there.

"John McCain's decision to select a vice presidential running mate that endorsed Pat Buchanan for President in 2000 is a direct affront to all Jewish Americans," said an e-mail blast from the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the Democratic nominee for president, quoting U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), Obama's top Jewish surrogate. "Pat Buchanan is a Nazi sympathizer with a uniquely atrocious record on Israel, even going as far as to denounce bringing former Nazi soldiers to justice and praising Adolf Hitler for his 'great courage.' "

The problem was that Palin had corrected the record as soon as the AP report appeared, noting in a letter to a local newspaper that had published the account that she wore the button as a courtesy. In fact, in the 2000 election, during the GOP primaries, she was an official of the Steve Forbes campaign.

The hunger for Palin-Jewish news extended beyond partisan politics. Pulses quickened among some in the Israeli media when the McCain campaign revealed Monday that Palin's 17-year old unmarried daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and that her fiance's name is Levi. (It was revealed later that his last name is Johnston, so no seders in the immediate Palin family future.)

The National Jewish Democratic Council focused on a more substantive difference between Palin and the U.S. Jewish community: her staunch social conservatism.

"For a party which claims it is trying to reach out to the Jewish community, McCain's pick is particularly strange," NJDC director Ira Forman said in a statement. "On a broad range of issues, most strikingly on the issue of women's reproductive freedom, she is totally out of step with Jewish public opinion. The gulf between Palin's public policy positions and the American Jewish community is best illustrated by the fact that the Christian Coalition of America was one of the strongest advocates of her selection."

Palin backs abortion only in cases where a woman's life is at risk, opposes stem cell research and believes creationism should be taught in schools alongside evolution.

PERHAPS THE most damning feature of her resume on Jewish issues is its thinness - her broader problem as well. Berkowitz, the Jewish congressional candidate, poked a little fun at the resume by citing Palin's enthusiasm for guns and hunting.

"As far as Republican vice presidents go, she will be a much better shot than Dick Cheney," he said. "But this is John McCain's choice and an insight in terms of his judgment."

Ben Chouake, who heads NORPAC, a New Jersey-based pro-Israel political action committee and one who is close to the McCain campaign, says he learned that McCain favored Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the one-time Democrat and Al Gore's vice-presidential pick in 2000, until the last minute but caved to arguments that Lieberman would alienate the Republican Party's conservative base.

"I don't know anything about her, but I'm not concerned because she is the governor, who is someone with executive experience," said Chouake.

Palin has served less than two years as governor and, as NJDC noted, has "zero foreign policy experience."

Greenberg, the Chabad rabbi who has not endorsed a candidate, suggests that she makes up in soul what she lacks in experience, referring to her fifth child, Trig, a Down syndrome baby born just four months ago.

"I was personally impressed by Governor Palin's remarks of hope and faith when she gave birth to a child with special needs," he said. "We all feel that the Governor is a remarkable, energetic, and good person."

Staff writer Jacob Berkman contributed to this report from New York. (JTA)

Bref, un très bon choix que cette Palin :icon_up:

José

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Bref, un très bon choix que cette Palin :icon_up:
September 03, 2008

McCain Pick is Paying Off Big Time

By Patrick Buchanan

The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge.

McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time.

The sensational selection in Dayton, Ohio, stepped all over the big story from Denver -- Barack Obama's powerful address to 85,000 cheering folks in Mile High Stadium, and 35 million nationally, a speech that vaulted him from a 2-point deficit early in the week to an 8-point margin. Barack had never before reached 49 percent against McCain.

As the Democrats were being rudely stepped on, however, Palin ignited an explosion of enthusiasm among conservatives, Evangelicals, traditional Catholics, gun owners and Right to Lifers not seen in decades.

By passing over his friends Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, and picking Palin, McCain has given himself a fighting chance of winning the White House that, before Friday morning, seemed to be slipping away. Indeed, the bristling reaction on the left testifies to Democratic fears that the choice of Palin could indeed be a game-changer in 2008.

Liberals howl that Palin has no experience, no qualifications to be president of the United States. But the lady has more executive experience than McCain, Joe Biden and Obama put together.

None of them has ever started or run a business as Palin did. None of them has run a giant state like Alaska, which is larger than California and Texas put together. And though Alaska is not populous, Gov. Palin has as many constituents as Nancy Pelosi or Biden.

She has no foreign policy experience, we are told. And though Alaska's neighbors are Canada and Russia, the point is valid. But from the day she takes office, Palin will get daily briefings and sit on the National Security Council with the president and secretaries of state, treasury and defense.

She will be up to speed in her first year.

And her experience as governor of Alaska, dealing with the oil industry and pipeline agreements with Canada, certainly compares favorably with that of Barack Obama, a community organizer who dealt in the mommy issues of food stamps and rent subsidies.

Where Obama has poodled along with the Daley Machine, Palin routed the Republican establishment, challenging and ousting a sitting GOP governor before defeating a former Democratic governor to become the first female and youngest governor in state history.

For his boldness in choosing Palin, McCain deserves enormous credit. He has made an extraordinary gesture to conservatives and the party base, offering his old antagonists a partner's share in his presidency. And his decision is likely to be rewarded with a massive and enthusiastic turnout for the McCain-Palin ticket. Rarely has this writer encountered such an outburst of enthusiasm on the right.

In choosing Palin, McCain may also have changed the course of history as much as Ike did with his choice of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan did with his choice of George H.W. Bush. For should this ticket win, Palin will eclipse every other Republican as heir apparent to the presidency and will have her own power base among Lifers, Evangelicals, gun folks and conservatives -- wholly independent of President McCain.

A traditional conservative on social issues, Palin has become, overnight, the most priceless political asset the movement has. Look for the neocons to move with all deliberate speed to take her into their camp by pressing upon her advisers and staff, and steering her into the AEI-Weekly Standard-War Party orbit.

Indeed, if McCain defeats Barack, 2012 could see women on both national tickets, and given McCain's age and the possibility he intends to serve a single term, women at the top of both -- Sarah vs. Hillary.

The arrival of Palin on the national scene, with her youth, charisma and vitality, probably also portends a changing of the guard in Washington.

With Republicans having zero chance of capturing either House, and but a slim chance of avoiding losses in both, a Vice President Palin, with her reputation as a rebel and reformer, would surely inspire similar revolts in the Republican caucuses.

As Thomas Jefferson said, from time to time, a little rebellion in the political world is as necessary as storms in the physical.

The Palin nomination could backfire, but it is hard to see how. She has passed her first test, her introduction to the nation, with wit and grace. And the Obama-Biden ticket, having already alienated millions of women with the disrespecting of Hillary, is unlikely to start attacking another woman whose sole offense is that she had just been given the chance to break the glass ceiling at the national level.

Her nomination, which will bring the Republican right home, also frees up McCain to appeal to moderates and liberals, which has long been his stock in trade.

With his selection of Sarah Palin, John McCain has not only shaken up this election, he may have helped shape the future of the United States -- and much for the better.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/…a_new_girl.html

Blueglasnost

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… qui peut même lui servir s'il s'y prend bien.

Oui, en faisant passer Palin pour quelqu'un de plus "humain" qui n'est pas dépourvue de défauts, mais cela pourrait aussi faire fuir les ultra-conservateurs. Pari risqué, mais McCain doit savoir ce qu'il fait, ce qui ne semble pas être le cas d'Obama avec son choix irraisonné de prendre Joe Biden comme colistier…

Nick de Cusa

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Elle ne pourra pas faire mieux que le sortant:

KBR inquiry broader

Federal bribery investigation goes beyond single case in Nigeria

By DAVID IVANOVICH Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

Sept. 4, 2008, 10:57PM

WASHINGTON — The federal government's investigation of Houston-based KBR and bribery payments extends beyond the scheme to win contracts to build a large natural gas liquefaction plant in Nigeria, regulatory filings show.

The government has told KBR and its former parent, Halliburton Co., it has uncovered evidence of improper payments made to Nigerian officials in connection with a KBR-managed project in Nigeria for Shell, Halliburton noted in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Investigators also are looking into possible evidence of payments connected to unnamed energy service projects in Nigeria, as well as other programs in other countries, according to the Halliburton filing.

"We are reviewing a number of more recently discovered documents related to KBR's activities in countries outside of Nigeria," Halliburton noted in its filing.

Shell and KBR officials have vowed to continue cooperating with an investigation which has dragged on for years and spans at least three continents.

"Shell takes its compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act very seriously," Shell spokesman Shaun Wiggins said. KBR spokeswoman Heather Browne said her company will not tolerate illegal or unethical behavior.

Halliburton officials would not comment on the bribery investigation.

The bribery probe entered into a new phase Wednesday, when Albert "Jack" Stanley, a former chairman of what was then known as Kellogg Brown & Root, admitted he participated in a decadelong scheme to pay $182 million worth of bribes to land contracts to build a $6 billion gas liquefaction plant on Nigeria's Bonny Island.

Stanley, 65, of Houston, served as Kellogg Brown & Root's senior representative on a Madeira, Portugal-based consortium known as TSKJ, which was awarded four separate contracts for work on that complex.

And with Stanley's plea agreement, federal prosecutors now have a cooperating witness who could point fingers at any other company insiders who might have been involved in the illegal activity.

"This is the beginning, really, for Halliburton," said Alexandra Wrage, president of TRACE International, a nonprofit association that provides companies advice on how to comply with bribery laws.

"This almost raises as many questions as it resolves," Wrage said. "I think we're seeing just the first chapter."

As head of what was then a wholly owned subsidiary of Halliburton, Stanley reported to then-Halliburton President Dave Lesar. Lesar, in turn, answered to then-Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney.

Vice President Cheney's office, citing "pending litigation," has refused to say whether he has been questioned about the bribery case.

Jacob Frenkel, a Maryland attorney with experience both prosecuting and defending clients accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, doubts federal investigators would have attempted to question the vice president.

"By virtue of the existence of someone in between (Stanley and Cheney), it is highly unlikely that they would have taken steps to interview the vice president," said Frenkel, who specializes in securities enforcement and white-collar crime.

Indeed, it's possible Cheney will never be questioned, Frenkel said.

"If the amount of information known at one level was minimal, this could very well not hit the Cheney radar screen," he said.

While much of the bribery scheme, as outlined in Justice Department and SEC court filings, took place before Halliburton acquired the entity with an interest in the TSKJ consortium in 1998 and after Cheney had left Halliburton in 2000, some did occur during his watch.

In March 1999, Stanley and others at KBR, together with other joint venture officials, met with a Nigerian representative in London to negotiate a bribery amount.

And "Stanley and others agreed to pay $32.5 million," the SEC said in court filings. And within days, the joint venture was awarded a $1.2 billion contract.

david.ivanovich@chron.com

Venant du Houston Chronicle en plus, ouch!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5984596.html

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L'Immonde bat des records de démagogie en publiant cet article de pure propagande assimilant le Parti Républicain au franquisme :

http://www.lemonde.fr/elections-americaine…459_829254.html

Comment les républicains ont démoli le New Deal

LE MONDE | 25.08.08 |

(…)

Les politologues ont noté un mouvement de polarisation de la vie publique : les hommes et femmes politiques gravitaient vers les extrémités de l'éventail droite-gauche; de plus en plus, "démocrate" et "républicain" devenaient respectivement synonymes de "libéral" et "conservateur". Ces évolutions sont toujours à l'œuvre : aujourd'hui, l'inégalité des revenus est aussi forte que dans les années 1920 et la polarisation politique plus tranchée qu'à toute autre époque. (…)

LA POLITIQUE DE L'INÉGALITÉ

Pour comprendre comment George W. Bush et Dick Cheney ont fini par gouverner le pays, il faut remonter le temps d'un demi-siècle, et partir des années où la National Review, dont le rédacteur en chef était le jeune William F. Buckley, défendait le droit du Sud à interdire aux Noirs de voter – "la communauté blanche en a le droit parce qu'elle est, pour le moment, la race avancée" – et qualifiait élogieusement le généralissime Francisco Franco, qui avait renversé un gouvernement démocratiquement élu au nom de l'Eglise et de la propriété, d'"authentique héros national". Le petit mouvement qu'on appelait alors "nouveau conservatisme" était essentiellement une réaction de protestation contre la décision de Dwight Eisenhower et d'autres dirigeants républicains de faire la paix avec l'héritage de Franklin Roosevelt.

Au fil des ans, ce petit mouvement a grandi pour devenir une force politique puissante, baptisée par ses partisans comme par ses adversaires le "conservatisme de mouvement". C'est un réseau de personnes et d'institutions qui s'étend bien au-delà de la "vie politique" au sens habituel. En plus du parti républicain et de ses personnalités, le conservatisme de mouvement comprend des groupes de presse et de télévision, des instituts de réflexion (think tanks), des maisons d'édition, etc. Il est possible de faire une carrière complète à l'intérieur de ce réseau, et certains le font, avec la certitude tranquille de voir leur fidélité politique récompensée quoi qu'il arrive. Un libéral qui aurait salopé une guerre puis violé les règles éthiques pour enrichir sa maîtresse pourrait s'inquiéter de ses perspectives d'avenir. Paul Wolfowitz avait un fauteuil qui l'attendait à l'American Enterprise Institute.

(…)

L'argent est la colle forte du conservatisme de mouvement, essentiellement financé par une poignée de super-riches et un certain nombre de grandes entreprises qui ont quelque chose à gagner à la montée de l'inégalité, à la suppression de la fiscalité progressive, à l'abrogation de l'Etat-providence – bref, à un New Deal à l'envers. Revenir à la période antérieure aux politiques économiques qui limitent l'inégalité est, au fond, la raison d'être du conservatisme de mouvement. Grover Norquist, militant antifiscal qui est l'une de ses grandes figures, a confié un jour qu'il voulait ramener l'Amérique à ce qu'elle était "avant Teddy Roosevelt, l'époque où les socialistes sont arrivés au pouvoir. L'impôt sur le revenu, l'impôt sur la mort (nom donné par les conservateurs de mouvement pour les droits de succession), la réglementation, tout ça".

Puisqu'il a pour but, en dernière analyse, d'abolir des politiques qui frappent une toute petite élite très fortunée, le conservatisme de mouvement est foncièrement antidémocratique. Mais, si vive qu'ait pu être l'admiration de ses fondateurs pour les méthodes du généralissime Franco, aux Etats-Unis, la route du pouvoir passe par les élections. L'argent serait loin d'affluer à ce point si les donateurs potentiels croyaient encore, comme ils avaient toutes les raisons de le croire au lendemain de la défaite cuisante de Barry Goldwater en 1964, que proposer des mesures économiques aggravant l'inégalité était un suicide politique. Le conservatisme de mouvement est passé des marges de la politique américaine à son centre nerveux parce qu'il s'est révélé capable de gagner des élections. (…)

Le conservatisme de mouvement a encore l'argent de son côté, mais cela n'a jamais suffi. Si tout reste possible dans l'élection présidentielle de 2008, on peut raisonnablement imaginer qu'en 2009 les Etats-Unis auront un président démocrate et une majorité démocrate solide au Congrès. De plus, si cette nouvelle majorité existe, elle sera beaucoup plus cohérente idéologiquement que la majorité démocrate des deux premières années de Bill Clinton, qui était une alliance difficile entre des libéraux du Nord et des conservateurs du Sud.

D'où la question : cette nouvelle majorité, que doit-elle faire? Ma réponse : elle doit, pour le bien du pays, suivre une politique résolument progressiste. Expansion de la sécurité sociale et réduction de l'inégalité. Un nouveau New Deal. Le coup d'envoi de ce programme, l'équivalent de la Caisse des retraites publiques au XXIe siècle, doit être l'assurance-maladie universelle – que tous les autres pays avancés ont déjà.

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Si mcCain passe, je vais rire, rire, rire, en lisant les pleurnichements et les grincements de dents de la presse franchouille.

Ce sera bon.

Rincevent

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À décharge de pankkake, pour lui, une femelle de l'homme, c'est ça :

chii09.jpg

C'est malin, maintenant l'écran de pankakke est bon à nettoyer. :icon_up:

LeSanton

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Me too.

Cette presse semble en ce moment se rendre compte que l'élection d'Obama n'est pas faite; alors que tout allait pour le mieux pour les démocrates (sondages de Bush au plus bas, majorité démocrate au Congrès, candidats démocrates noir et femme emblématiques du politicaly correctness), bref, alors que tout baignait, ce manche d'Obama ne fait au mieux que jeu égal avec McCain dans les sondages à moins de 3 mois des élections générales!

On va regretter Hillary, c'est sûr!

(voir hier, par exemple, les pathétiques interventions d'un Pascal Boniface expliquant que McCain et Palin ne sauraient gagner parce que représentant l'Amérique fondamentaliste et rétrograde face à la Lumière et au Bien en la personne d'Obama…)

LeSanton

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Effectivement:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-16-poll-congress_N.htm

"When people are unhappy about the state of leadership, they don't differentiate between Congress and the president,"

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