By Larry Johnson
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Name: Larry Johnson
Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net
Site: http://NoQuarterUSA.net
About: Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on counterfeiting, smuggling and money laundering.
Mr. Johnson, who worked previously with the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, is a recognized expert in the fields of terrorism, aviation security, crisis and risk management.
Mr. Johnson has analyzed terrorist incidents for a variety of media including the Jim Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, ABC's Nightline, NBC's Today Show, the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC. Mr. Johnson has authored several articles for publications, including Security Management Magazine, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. He has lectured on terrorism and aviation security around the world, including the Center for Research and Strategic Studies at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He represented the U.S. Government at the July 1996 OSCE Terrorism Conference in Vienna, Austria.
From 1989 until October 1993, Larry Johnson served as a Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He managed crisis response operations for terrorist incidents throughout the world and he helped organize and direct the US Government’s debriefing of US citizens held in Kuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership the U.S. airlines and pilots agreed to match the US Government’s two million-dollar reward.
From 1985 through September 1989 Mr. Johnson worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his distinguished career, he received training in paramilitary operations, worked in the Directorate of Operations, served in the CIA’s Operation’s Center, and established himself as a prolific analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. In his final year with the CIA he received two Exceptional Performance Awards.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.See Authors Posts (873) on April 15, 2008 at 1:59 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, William Ayers
If I pitched Hollywood on a movie about a Democratic Presidential candidate who received public support from people considered to be terrorists while most of the electorate is worried about the “Global War on Terror,” I would be laughed out of the studio. “Too farfetched.” “Not believable.” Leave it to Barack Obama to bring the ridiculous and absurd to life.
First we had the inimitable William Ayers. An unrepentant member of the Weather Underground who has lamented in public that he did not plant enough bombs. Wild Bill helped stake Obama in his first Illinois campaign in 1995, raised funds, and rallied supporters. Later, Billy boy worked with Obama in steering funds to the Arab American Action Network (AAAN).
Well, it looks like the investment has paid off. Barack appears to be the favorite candidate of Hamas. Hamas, a radical Sunni terrorist group, just offered the equivalent of an unofficial endorsement. While this news comes courtesy of World Net Daily’s Jerusalem bureau chief, it appears to be real. Aaron Klein reports that Ahmad Yousuf, a top level Hamas official, said:
I understand American politics and this is the season for elections and everybody tries to sound like he’s a friend of the Israelis…so whatever [the] Israelis didn’t like they will take from all those candidates,” he said.
Yousuf said that in Hamas’ view, Obama has “a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with humiliation and arrogance.
Yousuf apparently did not get the invite to the fund raiser in San Francisco. In any event, Obama has stated on the record that:
Hamas a ‘terrorist organization’ that should remain isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel,” and Obama “told reporters he opposed Carter’s meeting with Hamas,” Yousuf “chalked up Obama’s statements to political posturing.
But this will not put the issue to rest. Count on the Republican 527s to focus on Barack’s ties to William Ayers and former PLO press flack, Rashid Khalidi (the head of the Arab American Action Network) and to highlight that a terrorist organization like Hamas trusts Obama. Do you think this is the kind of message that will inspire bitter midwesterners to grab their guns and pray to God? Just asking.
If I was a presidential candidate, I would not want to be known as the candidate that has support from the world terrorist community.
Aye… how quickly we have forgotten 9/11. How naive does this country have to be???
How can you clintonistas see the sky with all the black helicopters blocking your view?
Swish swish swish……
it’s not black helicopters, it’s the media. I don’t think Barack is funded by terrorists, if they’re funding him they’re wasting their money. Hillary has a much better chance at bringing peace to the middle east, he’ll have to watch his step to avoid encouraging something he wouldn’t want encouraged. But it’s rather funny that he isn’t called on who donates to him when he’s so sure that Hillary’s donors own-her. And he says you can’t say no to your bankers. This is want not being vetted lets candidates get away with. His words will be used against all of us if he’s our nom. If his supporters asked him to run a nicer campaign, maybe he wouldn’t face the same charges he’s made against her come November.
Delyon…..Take another hit of that US GOVT. ISSUE CRACK and relax….
Using Karl Rove and now World Net Daily to smear a Democrat?
LOL
Hey, we’re just getting him ready for the general.
Perhaps you didn’t see the Hamas Manifesto at his church’s website before they removed it. Then again….perhaps you did.
Step away from the Kool-Aid, easy now, open your eyes and SEE the terrorists Obama associates with, you can do it! It’s easy- they have been right there all along!!!!
Or maybe only us bitter gun toting bible thumping folks can see TRUTH when it is staring us right in the face!
I think you’re a Republican who really doesn’t give a damn about a Democrat winning this election.
Only a bitter gun-toting bible thumping moron Republican would claim Obama has ties to terrorists.
Barry? Is that you?
In the spirit of internet confessions…Beelzebud is really my wife Michelle…..Just wanted to clear that up……Love, Barry
They will claim he has considerable and extentive ties.
They claimed Max Cleland had ties–with nothing to even insinuate a connection closer than the sixth degree.
And Max Cleland got a first degree burns for his trouble from the sy-ops.
Pisses me off.
Obama has terrorist ties coming out the wazoo.
All those stockbrokers and secretaries murdered on 9.11 don’t matter, cause, you know, if they were really connected, they’d of been warned, and stayed away.
And the would be mediocre elites of this country, the Cheneys, the Bush’s, the Rove’s and the Obama’s, well, they’re all that matters, what’s a little corruption among friends, right, and DAMN! they do a GOOD job, losing wars, and such.
The point being why do we want to but corrupt terrorist profiting traitor Americans from any party in the White House, whether they’re Rove, or Obama, both supported by Carlyle, and the like?
None of those people have a clue.
put, not but, sorry.
Sen Obama I thought you were on the campaign trail!
Newsflash
Democrats go to Church and own guns too!
For the first time in 44 years I WILL NOT vote Democrat if Obama is on the ticket, or even considered for an executive position.
I am an American First - who has something you people seriously lack; that’s integrity, honesty, and principles.
Your ad hominem attacks do not work, because you have used them like teenagers do, and they are so overused they have ZERO impact.
If Rove and the Ghost of Atwater had the power to create a perfect strawman Democratic candidate to run against–they couldn’t have done much better than what Iowa and SC Democrats delivered to us.
He the perfect Democrat for them to beat in many ways.
I Hope Obama’s as good as Obama thinks he is.
No one is that good!
Yes they are.
Queen Brazile in emails to TM posters has referenced that Republican men were much more helpful to her in the past few years than any Democrat…
things that make you go hmmmnnn….
We tell the truth. Fools like you only think it is smearing.
Just another example of OBAMcCARTHYISM…..Facts become smears unless they are aimed at the Pink Lady…..Then they are facts.
The thing of it is, Mr Johnson is pointing out FACTS, which are what is “smearing” Obama.
I never met Auchi.
I don’t know Rezko.
I did not know about the people in my district freezing with no running water.
I was “clumsy” when saying rural “typical white people” are bitter, and fearful, including my grandmother. When challenged on what I said I included urban folks so every can be called a bigot, BUT ME.
I never was at those sermons, although I admit to stealing his words for my book.
Kalidi and Ayers didn’t hold fundraisers for me.
I would get all bothered by some Rebpub Rep calling me boy, instead of taking about my failure in a National Security drill.
I can’t bowl but don’t those shoes look cool.
I think endorsements like the
I never held a gun that would shoot straight.(Note to self; not too much aim is required with a shotgun.)
Hamas is a terrorist orginization, but I don’t mind if they raise funds for me.
I “am of two minds” on Tibet /China..until Hillary is for it.
I have a minder at Rezko’s trial ’cause I can’t think of anything else for him to do. And I love it when I pay people to sit on their ass.
Obama, get your popcorn ready ’cause rethugs won’t have to bring their own. And Mr. Johnson already has his.
No one is smearing Barack. His own words are just coming back to haunt him. A smear would be spouting untruths. Factually, Rove has not smeared Barack Obama. He has spoken about what Barack Obama has actually done in this campaign, and as a Democrat, I didn’t hear any smears. Shooting the messenger because you despise him doesn’t make his words any less true. In actuality, you are smearing Rove because you offer no factual rebuttals, just a negative dig at who the messenger is.
durn, you sure didn’t give a rip when hillary was torn apart. next!
Part of getting ripped apart is coping with getting ripped apart.
I think it’s funny, someone mentioned mind control, and MKULTRA, and not really, nothing that fancy, no tricks needed, just a constant pattern of harassment, and triggers, and some one’s psyche can be shot to shi*. Any given trigger can evoke 200 different occasions of pain over a lifetime, and all converge on that one moment, in the wink of an eye. Watch Barry reach for that cigarette, again, the fissure a little deeper.
And it’s not a long shot to say this isn’t used by others, including our enemies, to game our Presidents, our politicians, and other leaders, this understanding of the subconscious.
Disputing lies is mandatory, Obama lies like a rug, and is tripped up constantly. Healthy democracies feed on truth.
Clinton has stood up to this barrage, that is some iron in the mind.
This is why, in part, we want to elect the best candidates we can find.
Part of getting ripped apart is coping with getting ripped apart.
A great t shirt logo. Kinda’a like Forest and the
This is so not a good week to be Barrack Obama.
Oh, not to worry. Our MSM will NEVER report on this story.
What kind of barbituates will be available for all the Kool-Aid drinkers in detox??
The kind Rush loves.
The Republican 527’s must be salivating at this point. They don’t even have to make any shit up. The facts on Obama speak for themselves. I could never vote for him… to many questions about his associations, his religion, holes in his biography. I wonder how his candidacy will be viewed a few years from now… a bad joke maybe?
Right, I forgot. Hillary is an angel. Nope, no dirt there for them to dig up. She’s been vetted. VETTED!
Don’t worry folks, whoever the nominee is, there will be plenty of republican 527s to go around. Apparently there’s plenty of Kool-Aid as well. Drink up!
Clinton has been around long enough to piss off half the people.
At one level I resent the fact that she ran this year.I’d have prefered seeing Edwards, Richardson and Obama duke it out. A slightly newer batch of faces without the enormous baggage of a two term president to contend with. She commands a mix of residual loyalty and hatred that has become a toxic brew.
Salo… are you a…,..a.., a misogonist????
heh. Yes. more of a Roue though. On the weekend i’m a Cad.
And that would be funny to who other than your best bud ‘bama?
are you okay?
take that hatred and eat it!
Wow. You would think that everyone but Barry has some responsibility here … I am sure you’ve heard it before, but it appears to need repeating … don’t confuse the messenger with the message …. he’s just bringin’ it for someone else.
Do we now see a little more nervousness in the pro-Obama posters? What happened to all their confidence in Barack’s coronation?
Salaam Gaza!
Well Barack has them fooled as well don’t you know.
here’s what he said to AIPAC
Those “Palestinians” cling to their semtex, Allah and their settler hatred.
Here’s what he said to ANSWER
Those Isrealis cling to their Merkavas, Jahweh and their aparthied.
See, all things to all people. No contradiction there.
He is Arab…..not black. Smoke and mirrors.
That’s the strange thing that no one seems to mention. Obama is, by blood, mostly white (50%), then the other half is arab and african, but mostly arab. I read this somewhere that was not a consiracy or hate site, it was someone who had done the geneaology of his family.
Has nothing to do with claims that he is muslim, because anyone can be any religion with any heritage. And I never thought for a moment he was muslim (and frankly I could care less if he was)
OT: sorry but I just had to share this…to me it’s more than just indicative of the kool-aid syndrome. It’s just downright scary.
http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/dtwof-episode-526
Larry,
How are you going to reconcile all your rhetoric and anti-Barrack posturing when (as seems inevitable) Obama becomes the candidate of your adopted party?
Just wondering.
The only inevitable thing about Barack is that he and Lady Obama will probably be living somewhere in England this time next year. He’ll either be a visiting lecturer some where or writing a book. Michelle will be trying to figure out how to cut her losses with him because Michelle is not for losers. The girls will be doing better but still suffering from post Jerry Wright TSD and America will have its first woman president.
That’s easy. He’s not. He’s a Republican.
Is there some kind of cult-like reason that so many of you Obama people on the net enjoy using screen names such as 666 and a bastardized version of Beelzebub or his mephistopheles variations, while others of you so often enjoy calling yourselves some variation of Hussein? I was just wondering if you all think it endears you–or is it supposed to invoke fear in some kind of silly way?
Just curious.
The devil is very 60’s, isn’t it?
I keep getting a visual of a bunch of old guys in viet nam, with the helicopters closing in…
LOL!
dont forget the N.I.K.E. tag names too
very cliquish of them, dare i say elitist snark
Mephistopheles could cover it all in one name….
To everyone who accuses Larry and Susan of being Republican operatives, please keep this in mind. A good GOP operative would be (and is) sitting on this stuff and more. They DO NOT want to suffer from Premature Obama Ejection. He’s the guy they want to see come the GE.
Sure, they’re ready to dish out 20 years of Hillary hate… but that’s all just warmed up leftovers that the majority of Americans have heard before and rejected as boring. The main dish, the red meat, that’s some fresh Obama.
He’s the Daily Red-State Special.
“POE” that’s awsome
Give the man some Viagra..
PMS, thanks for the HO-HO.
POE…..Hmmmmm….Could this account for the ever present snarl on Michelle’s face…LOL
I’ve actually mapped out the calendar menu for the Bistro Obama.
It’s quite simple Spring Salads:
float the stories at least once in the Washington Times, New York Post and the rest of he Murdoch owned press. The Sun, The Times (London), WSJ, The Australian. Rope in a few Italian and French right wing papers. These sources are more or less credible mainline News outlets.
Summer Menu-soups
Then, as the Democratic convention approaches,
reinforce the stories that polled well increase the temperature. Chop some veggies and bring to boil.
Fall Menu–Steak Kebabs
Between the conventions hammer the steak, not just pound it. cut it up slice it put it on a spit in layers, let the fat sizzle, shave off the edges mix with roasted veggies. Oenly call Obama a traitorous foreigner and enjoy the smell of roast meat.
Winter–Pudding
taste those sweet corporate hand outs either way. A nice sweet cinnamony rice pud. Obama’s either defeated or he’s so petrified of the press and their overlords he does what ever the fuck he’s told.
“They DO NOT want to suffer from Premature Obama Ejection.”
Does this mean he’s the GOP’s virtual Viagra?
I wonder if Barack Hamas Obama sent Goolsbee to have a nice little chat with Yousuf.
SHHHHHHHHHH! This was SUPPOSE to remain under wraps until AFTER Mr. Hope got the nomination! Now you’ve really gone and done it, Larry. You’ve made the MSM’s job so much more difficult. Just one more story they have to not report on. Dammit.
Larry, you forgot Rezko and the ties there with Alsammae and Auchi, the Baathe party members and Obama’s own cousin in Kenya who had no problem torching all those people in the church for power!
So all you small towners, best get your rifles out and hang on tight, cuz Obama is a cummin and he is going to win no matter what, he’s a man on a mission and since no one believes his changing rhetoric, next step is eliminate all opposition!
Resevoirs are being pumped as we speak with kool aide, so beware, the day Obama has a commercial out to conserve water and not drink for a day, you know it is coming!
Will someone please explain to Larry King what Obama kool aide is please!
And lest we forget Dick Morris heading down to Kenya to help Obama’s cousin (Odinga) with that ill fated election strategy that resulted in all those deaths.
Why to hear the MSM tell the story, Dick happened to meet Odinga a party through a “mutual friend” and liked him so much he volunteered to travel to Kenya and work for free for a month or so (on a tourist visa, no less!)
Gosh.. I really really sure that Dick Morris would travel to Kenya and get involved in their politics just for a fun working vacation, and that Obama’s campaign didn’t pay him a cent (of the money that people donated for Obama) to make that happen. Yeah, right.
Oh.. where are the real journalists? You know.. the ones that used to work to uncover this stuff?
Oh Yeah, Odinga. Boy is HE a sore loser or what???????
sadly, i think they’re all dead. and i don’t see a move toward new ones coming up.
Catriley,
Take a look at the “Memorandum of Understanding” Odinga had with the Muslim Powers in Kenya - written as a legal document in American English!
Wonder where Odinga got a document like that in a country whose language is Swahili or Arabic?
Another “Italian Letter”?
It is still on some laptop somewhere.
Is a visit by Morris to Kenya tasked by Obama or Auchi or Rev’s house o’ holy?
Where is Frank when ya need him?
Imagine Obama as an intelligence asset…Pakistan, Jakarta, Kenya, Hawaii,
So.Cal, New York, Boston, Chicago. To bad he does not have balls.
What did I miss?, oh yeah his money trail extends into the middle east, via the court room doors of the Rezko court room
http://www.kippreport.com/article.php?articleid=1056&day=7
Siebel?
OT: Cause and effect;
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/
Great finds Teak!
Gotta get over to Eezko Watch more often.
Thanks for pointing these out.
Larry King is losing his grey matter. I saw him with Colbert the other night and it was pathetic.
It was pretty funny when he didn’t know what a bong was.
Such scary stuff, scary because it is SO REAL! Yet whenever this is mentioned, Obama supporters will dismiss this as right-wing talking points, and you as as wing-nut!
The other day there was a diary up at MyDD that was removed or purged after pressure because it talked about Carter’s meeting with Hamas.
I learned two very important lessons. Never, ever, criticize or question the Carter/Obama wing of the Democratic Party based upon what appears to be their coddling of terrorists over their concern for the security of Israel, and never, ever, even SUGGEST that one might be opposed to this naive position while being a genuine liberal/progressive in all other respects, because that is just not possible.
I’d swear some of his early supporters at Dkos were Republicans who knew about all this stuff and handed out TRs to keep it out of view and out of mind.
The Clinton people on the site thought she was going to win and didn’t take Obama seriously enough, and thr Edwards people were slowly dismantled by what nw seems like a professionally coordinated cull.
“TR’s?” Tiny Reds? I will lay my ignorance out here for all to see …
i think Troll Rated:TR
What is strange about Dkos’s early Obama supporters is that they are heavily associated with TRing pro Palestinian posters who were or verged on antisemetic commentary.
Phillygal, Geekesque are two that immediately spring to mind…anyone who showed up defending Ahmadinejad or Hamas etc was run out on a rail by what became the core nicknames associated with the Obama campaign.
There’s a poster at MyDD called Shergeld who idolizes Carter’s propalestinian sentiment, the palestinians and was one of Geekesque’s most bitter opponents. Shergeld is an Obama fanatic…so is Geek.
Looking at the patterns there that, the core IP freaks switched from supressing antisemetic commentary to calling all opponents of Obama racists. None of the core Obama patrol/former IP trollraters have commented on much of anything about Isreal since the primary started. They know a big segment of Obama’s supporters are likely to have a reflexive instinct to support Palestine–and are keeping mum about their own pro Israeli posting habits.
It’s always struck me as a very deceptive core group of commentators.
The more things change the more they stay the same I suppose.
btw I’d favour Israel in a war with the Arabs. The are a bit like the UK in WW2 facing the Germans. Although I also resent the wider geopolitical fall out that the west is forced to deal with by propping up the Israeli.
a further note.
On the net, most of the early support for the war was from posters who invoked the spectre of antisemetism among war opponents.
If I recall correctly you were objectively anti semetic if you opposed the war. It was(n’t) surprising to see so many of the nicknames that supported Obama turn out to be posters wh had previously made a career out of TRing anyone who supported the Palestinians or Iran.
it wa a fairly common tactic used to beat down opposition to invading Iraq….and it’s wormed its way into the Primary battle between Clinton and Obama.
Salo, have you read this month’s Atlantic on Israel?
I found it very interesting.
Israel is already in a war, a war without guns firing.
And it appears without change, they’re losing, just like the Cheney republican US.
Just game them asymmetrically to their death, and they destruct internally, just like their US component: corruption, violence, xenophobia, FEAR. Someone like Kristol speaks of using the politics of fear against the American people? How have they been used against the stupid republican neocons?
Shithead.
OTOH, the Atlantic article highlighted what I would refer to as more enlightened Israeli thinkers, those who understand answering violence with violence is internecine.
That is a very good sign.
personally i want more talk and less bluster. dialogue is a good thing, but i can’t see barry carrying it off very well.
The rational of being concerned about Israel and embracing those who embrace those who vow to wipe Jews off the face of the earth escapes me. Sorry …
…it’s a very odd combination of supporters. At some point someone will notice the contradictory nature of that core group a frankenstienian mishmash of proIsraeli and proPalestinian commentators. Or maybe each side won’t notice until October–thinking Obama is actually on their own side.
I agree with you 110%. That’s why we got to cook that baby and stick a fork in him good. Keep airing the shit out, Larry. Barack Obama has too many toxins to be our nominee.
Agreed, but it is daxn depressing how in the bag some are, George Snuggleupagus was on Dark Side -Hannity radio today saying HRC would need to win by 65% of the vote in PA to make a dent, how’s that for moving the goalposts?! He also said if Obama is ahead in dels that NO MATTER WHAT the Dem leadership and SDs will GIVE him the nomination, period.
So i guess we can all go home and stop playing now.
Oh yeah, AINT GONNA HAPPEN
IM WITH HILL TIL THE CONVENTION AND BEYOND
I think he is correct and that the dem leadership is intent on giving Obama the nomination even if he were behind in pledged delegates going into the convention. They are working like hell to keep it from getting that far though. I think they know damned well that Obama is going to lose in November but they are even more scared that if Hillary were the nominee she might just win. They’ve probably got a hell of a lot of reasons why the status quo should be maintained and Hillary is the one person who absolutely represents change. That woman wants universal health care and won’t rest until she gets it. Unlike the other bastards in the race she actually means what she says.
These nitwits aren’t the least bit interested in eliminating poverty, increasing median income, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, insuring that all Americans have access to decent jobs and housing, universal health care, and the list goes on. The epiphany I had this election cycle is that the Dems are even more cynical and disgusting than the GOP bastards. At least with the GOP they actually intend to enact their ideas with the exception of their tried and true cash cow that is pro-life.
Larry, I’m curious what the Serious people think of Obama and his ties to these radicals. Do you have a sense of what former State/CIA/military folks make of this guy? They must be paying attention.
If the general election winds up as McCain vs. Obama, what will you do?
cast a vote in Arizona that wouldn’t make any difference.
Write in Hillary
I’m writing in Hillary’s name. I’ve never voted Republican and don’t plan to start now, but I refuse to have Mr. Hope shoved down my throat by the DC elites. I’m sick of settling for the next best thing. I swallowed Kerry in ‘04 and I’m not doing it again.
I am so over the Democratic Party. They have opened my eyes. I’m finished with them if Hillary isn’t the nominee. You don’t disenfranchise millions of voters in 2 States and then claim victory when your opponent would have won with the votes of those disenfranchised voters. That’s just not how it works-sorry.
i’m voting mccain. i realize that may not be a popular view, but i think it’s the only way to ensure that obama doesn’t get elected. and the thought of obama getting elected sends shivers up my spine (and i don’t mean the kind chris matthews gets).
btw, i’ve voted dem since 72, usually straight ticket. voting repub is something i’ve never done before and is not something i will do easily. however, not voting or writing in hillary or whatever makes a statement but doesn’t do enough to ensure no obama in the white house. also, it will send a strong message to the dnc that they can’t pull this crap on us again. we can deal with four years of mccain then get a good dem in 2012.
jmho.
Vote downticket with good democrats, and do everything to cripple a McCain presidency.
But much will depend on how he presents himself.
If he’s just another mediocre corporate candidate, well, no thanks.
Wall Street, the mediocre middle aged corrupt men, are already fucked.
I agree with this to an extent but I am really, really fed up with the democratic party at this juncture. The dems having an overwhelming majority in congress just isn’t what it used to be. They don’t believe in their ideology anymore and they don’t have any fucking spine either. I am seriously considering voting a straight republican ticket.
I live in Texas and the republicans have done alright in my area. I prefer liberals but liberals are such pansies they have cowered away from the liberal moniker and now use the term “progressive” which essentially tells everybody that they are ashamed of or don’t believe in their ideas.