Bush/Cheney/Rove & McCain seek to maintain power-by keeping nation in a cycle of hate & resentment

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John McCain's Party of Hate

By Brent Budowsky
August 16, 2008

Editor’s Note: To many Americans who expected better from John McCain, the surprise of Campaign 2008 is that the Republicans are operating almost exactly the same as they have in previous presidential election cycles -- relying on personal attacks, wedge issues, tough-guy talk, and media complacency.

In this essay, former Democratic congressional aide Brent Budowsky ponders this disturbing reality:

John McCain has become a candidate reduced to doing a Karl Rove imitation as a sleazy, divisive campaigner, while making bellicose pronouncements about war reminiscent of the childish Confederates at the beginning of “Gone With the Wind,” drinking their brandy and smoking their cigars with fantasies about the glorious war that they hunger to fight.

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Bush, Cheney, Rove and McCain seek to maintain their power over the presidency by keeping the nation in a cycle of hate and resentment. If they succeed again, if they continue in power for four more years, the future will be dark, dangerous and deadly indeed.

So, to any potential Ralph Nader supporters; to any Hillary Clinton supporters not yet certain about the stakes in electing Obama; to anyone with doubts about the danger to America’s future from four more years of neoconservative rightists having the power to wage World War III or to pack the Supreme Court with Scalias and Alitos or to continue bullying the mainstream media while intimidating dissent and demeaning our politics – consider this:

Look at what has already played out in Campaign 2008, consider the slanders, the bigotry, the wedge issues, and think what it will mean for America if those tactics prevail again.

more at:
http://consortiumnews.com/2008/081608a.html