The Truth Session

Obama gave his State of the Union Address this week, and let’s just say that if you’re at all in touch with the realities of politics, it did not come as a shock. He claims that rather than fighting “the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades,” like politics, its time for a “common sense” approach which will not build this nation another “mountain of debt.”

“Let’s meet our responsibility to the people who sent us here,” says the President. “To do that, we have to recognize that we face more than a deficit of dollars right now. We face a deficit of trust — deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years.” Sadly True. It is time for greater transparency, accountability, and a realistic sense of feasibility.

After the recent fall in obama’s popularity pole, I guess he’s figured out that talking loud and doing nothing only works in the movies. Calling for change, as his campaign, is all well and good, but don’t make the people thing that change will happen over night.

Obama, getting this message, reminds the country that change is a process that takes time. It’s a process that requires assistance from both sides of the isle, and one that without total support from within the nation and from our friendly nation states is impossible.

He understands the nation’s mood. While healthcare is important, he did make the claim that job creation was the top priority of his administration. To this end he has made countless strides toward job creation and job assurance.

2009 marked the start of the modern day depression. Jobs have disappeared, the nations unemployment rate is above 10 percent millions do not have proper health care, and people are so frustrated that they have stopped seeking a better life.

Wake up Barak! If you are not careful, the lyrics of the national anthem will be changing. Pride and loyalty will be replaced with self-preservation. I hear it now.

I was born by the river in a little tent
And just like the river, I’ve been running ever since
It’s been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come

It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die
I don’t know what’s up there beyond the sky
It’s been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come

I go to the movie, and I go downtown
Somebody keep telling me “Don’t hang around”
It’s been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come

Then I go to my brother and I say, “Brother, help me please”
But he winds up knocking me back down on my knees

There’ve been times that I’ve thought I couldn’t last for long
But now I think I’m able to carry on
It’s been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come.

By: maria M

Edward Moore Kennedy, Senator, leader, and amazing politician lost his battle with cancer on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The senator had been battling .brain cancer for approximately a year, and he is survived by his wife Victoria, his sister Jean Kennedy Smith, and his three children. In a statement, Kennedy’s family thanked “everyone who gave him care and support over this last year.”

Kenedy will be remembered for his tireless efforts to promote equality and social justice. During his tenure as the distinguished senator from Massachusetts, Kennedy held many formidable positions including committee assignment to: The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; The Joint Economic Committee; and the Committee on Armed Services. Kennedy was the second most senior senator after President Pro-tempore Robert Bird, and the third longest office hold after SEN Bird, and Strom Thurmond.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose wife, Maria Shriver, was Kennedy’s niece, said in a statement: “He was known to the world as the Lion of the Senate, a champion of social justice, and a political icon. Most importantly, he was the rock of our family: a loving husband, father, brother and uncle.”

Editor’s Note:
The Truth Session Morns the loss of a great man. – kevin W Editor in Cheif.

There is currently a lot of coverage of the town hall meetings regarding the up coming passage of a national health care bill. While there is much being debated in the current legislation that does not please me, president Obama realizes that something must be done, and he is trying to do just that … something. Which is much more than anyone else is doing.

There is a lot of anger in the country, but something that we Should all be able to agree on, is that Something Must be done. Not necessarily this year, but at the very least, pretty damn soon.

We as a country should be able to agree on this, but surprisingly, we can not. Over the last two days, I have seen many congress people shouted down and booed when they said quite correctly, that our health care needed improving. The argument against health care reform, seams to be mainly that we have the best health care in the world, so why mess with it, and we don’t want to be like Sweden.

First of all, lets assume that the good old USA does have the best health care in the world, a claim which could not be more false. But if it was true, so what? Just because your system is the best, does not mean your system is perfect. As this is the United States of America, and not the United States of Heaven, there is always room for improvement. So to anyone that does not want to make things better, if you are happy, fine, congratulations.
but for the other 300 million or so, we could use improvement in some areas. I just saw a congress woman state that we do not have the best health care in the world, and she was nearly booed off the stage.

These hundreds of booing bozos, annoyed me so much, I decided to do a little research, and write this article at three o’clock in the morning.
I realize, that many are happy with their health care, but being one of those pesky logical people, I went to the experts on health.

The last study of the 190 odd nations by the World Health Organization, was in 2000, and it was revised in 2007. Not much changed in those seven years, countries did not move by more than one or two places.
according to the WHO, The top five countries for good health care were starting with the best -

Politicians spout off about equal rights for all and protected this and that. For some reason, we do not believe a muslam family in Northern VA felt protected. Federal agents upon information received and without duely constituted warrent invaded a home in 2002 and placed a family in feer. The real problem we have here, is that the federal agents didn’t find as much as a sausage. Here is what we saw as reported by the Associated Press:

Published: May 7, 2009

A federal appeals court has upheld the government’s search for evidence of terrorist support at a northern Virginia home.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that federal agents acted reasonably when they broke down the door of a Muslim family’s home in Herndon, entered with guns drawn and handcuffed Aysha Unus and her teenage daughter Hanaa during the four-hour search.

The raid was one of several conducted in the area in 2002, months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It did not result in any charges.

The appeals court rejected the family’s claims of false imprisonment, assault and battery and unconstitutional search and seizure.

We feel that this type of action is reprehensible, and that the judges that have been picked to stand as arbitors must have forgotten the legal precedents that made our constitution what a necessary document it is. Citizens are citizens, and their rights, regardless of what threat you may perceive, must be protected as much as possible.

By now, we have all probably seen the commercial advertising the legal tender coins featuring the face of President elect Barack Obama. It’s a great commercial, very patriotic sounding, and yes, Obama did change history by becoming the USA’s first black president. I however never felt an urge to buy them, and I HOPE no one else does either.

My first thought, and yes, I did vote for Obama, was why now? Sure he won, but to put him on a collectors coin that in theory could be spent anywhere in America before he even takes office and does anything good or bad, seemed to me to be way premature. Weather my opinion is right or wrong, No One should buy these coins.

The United States Mint, the very organization which the commercial says made these coins, have put out a disclaimer, warning everyone, that the coins are NOT made by the United States Mint, and that most if not all of the gold is plastic. THIS IS A COMPLETE FRAUD!!!

After the disaster of the Bush administration during which, the patriotic thing to do was to inflict pain and spy upon the innocent, We can all hope that President Elect Barack Obama will some day deserve to be placed upon a special collectors coin. We just had one of the worst presidents in our history, we could certainly use one of the best to follow him. However, We must wait at least until Obama has had a chance to be sworn in and do something good or bad before we start honoring him with a special coin, something which most certainly his predecessor will never have!

It is my sincere hope, that the perpetrators of this blatant fraud, will be given the jail cell Bush should have had, and that the money spent by the happy patriots on their fraud, is returned to them with interest right out of the criminal’s pockets.

The now famous Joe the Plummer from Ohio, seems to be popping up in every sentence spoken by someone with the McCain campaign. All this attention has truly helped MR. Plummer, since Everyone now knows who he is, Fox news is asking him about foreign policy issues on Israel, He may have a career as a country singer, he may run for congress ETC.

I wonder, if perhaps good old Joe perhaps hasn’t gotten something even better.

We have been seeing a lot of MR. Plummer or what ever his name is lately, and a lot of Sarah Palin. However, we have been seeing fairly little of MR. Palin. MRS. Palin sure seems happy when she mentions Joe The Plummer, and just seems ecstatic when she is with him. Could it be that our all American Joe has gotten what every man wants? Even more than music and book deals, just to get laid by a pretty girl?

He sure seems happy, She sure seems happy, where is MR. Palin.

I wonder.

By J. Nichols: At least twice now, at rallies for either McCain or Palin when ever Obama is mentioned, this cry is heard. “Kill him, Kill Him.” Thankfully, each time this has happened, both John and Sarah like Barock stopped what they had been saying, and reprimanded those terrorists who had been calling for the cold blooded murder of an American citizen.

OOPS, um, sorry, actually neither McCain or Palin stopped the rally.

When Barock Obama brought up McCain’s name, and people started to boo, (Barock Obama) Did stop what he had been talking about, and gently reprimand those who had been simply been booing. Saying: “No,no, we don’t need that.”

But when people at their rallies called for the murder of Barock Obama, Neither John McCain or Sarah Palin did anything. Absolutely nothing. Its like they turned a deaf ear to all around them and by their silence, virtually validate the claims.

Thus, they leave us with no alternative, but to believe, that they fall further behind in the poles, that they are both hoping for an American born terrorist to murder the man which the poles show that most Americans want to be their forty-fourth president. I can not believe, knowing McCain’s patriotic history, that he approves these cries of which Sadom Hussein would very much approve.

However, McCain’s refusal to do anything, anything at all, leads one how ever reluctantly, to assume that both McCain and Palin at least secretly, want Obama dead.

The other day, when Congressman John Lewis, a former civil rights activist, made remarks that related McCain’s campaign to the campaign of Segregationist George Wallace, McCain had the nerve to call on Obama to distance himself and renounce Congressman Lewis.

Congressman Lewis, who has since offered regret for how his remarks have been taken, has just today, been proven correct.

Wallace ran a campaign based on hate, a campaign which sought to permanently divide the United States.

John McCain, is doing the exact same thing.

Usually, he has simply implied that if a Democrat wins the presidency, many Americans will die from a soon to follow terrorist attack.

Now, however, McCain has apparently chosen to cross a line, and completely embraced the racist and treasonist policies of the late George Wallace.

It is the hope of all freedom loving and patriotic Americans, that during the final debate tomorrow, McCain will say Something to assure the citizens of his own country, that if he wins the election, he will not spread hate and fear, for fear there will be, but that he in a complete reversal of our current hate mongering president, will seek to make us once again, the United, and not the Divided States of America.

For months now, we have been hearing how the military do not want to “surrender” by ending the war in Iraq per the desires of the civilian population. A report on CNN may if it is accurate, and continues to be accurate, disprove the claims of such people as George Bush “the younger” and John “The Weathervane” McCain. According to CNN, the active military (those serving over seas) have not been silent in this political debate.

Interesting in this case, is that the military, who we are constantly told want to finish the mission, have given more than six dollars to Obama for every dollar they have given to war hero John McCain.

We civilians are constantly reminded that the military represent the real champions of peace. They, more than we novel reading couch potatoes, understand that war is not glamorous and that it as close to Hell as we can come in this life. Even Senator McCain himself has said on a number of occasions that he hates war. Yet despite his assurances that he hates war, the title of hawk has always been pinned to The Maverick McCain.

Should this report be accurate, there may be proof that the military themselves may agree at least in part with the “liberals”. There is no doubt that John McCain is a hero that served his country with honor, something he is always quick to mention, and something that is expected to be an advantage over Senator Obama during this time of war. Although from his various comments, supporting a war, which according to many studies some by the pentagon itself, has done little if anything to abate terrorism around the world, John McCain may be on the verge at least in the eyes of the military of loosing his status as war hero. Certainly his actions were Heroic, but if he continues to back a war that if anything has strengthened our enemies and that is rapidly loosing support by Civilians and apparently the military as well, he will simply be thought by both civilians and military alike not as “war hero,” but as “former war hero.” Something, which during these difficult times may make all the difference

Just because one fought for his country, does not make that person infallible. Timothy McVeigh was a war hero, but I doubt anyone would argue today after 168 civilian deaths in Oklahoma City that he deserves the title.

I am in no way relating the Actions of John McCain with those of Timothy McVeigh. I wish simply to point out, that just because someone once was a hero, does not mean that he should always be considered as such.

McCain until very recently when he was defeated in the congress consistently opposed a bill, which would have given veterans additional benefits. Despite the bill’s having wide support on both sides of the isle, Veteran John McCain opposed the bill while nearly every other veteran in congress supported the bill.

Perhaps we civilians need to listen to the military that seem to have made up there minds that Obama is one of them, not their fellow veteran from Arizona.