Audio Archive > Podcasts > Cabale News Service > [February 07 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: I Don't Mean To Sound 'Hope'-Less But I've Had These Hopes And Inspirations Before - Why Barack Obama's 'Hope' Urges Me Towards Hillary Clinton
Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service[February 07 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: I Don't Mean To Sound 'Hope'-Less But I've Had These Hopes And Inspirations Before - Why Barack Obama's 'Hope' Urges Me Towards Hillary Clinton (February 7, 2008)
In The News: Dog bites man (cf. Not News) on the floor of the Senate: Senate Rethuglicans block any version of the Economic Stimulus package that would include the elderly, veterans, and poor. Details.
President Bush will veto the Farm Bill unless a 'loophole' for immigrant farmworkers is closed.
John McCain is going to the Conservative p a c today with his sales pitch. There is disgruntled talk of running a 3rd party due to McCain's ascendancy. More.
The Obama campaign say no more debates if they can help it. Apparently their candidate has quite the image, but content may be lacking.
Hillary Clinton has loaned her campaign $5 million. Her donors have already maxxed out and Obama has held off taking big contributions... Until his non-corporate gift image is cemented?
Also see: The Legacy of Bush II
Posted on Feb 5, 2008 (Truthdig)
By Robert Scheer (Los Angeles Times)
Curb your enthusiasm.
Even if your favored candidate did well on Super Tuesday, ask yourself if he or she will seriously challenge the bloated military budget that President Bush has proposed for 2009. If not, military spending will rise to a level exceeding any other year since the end of World War II, and there will be precious little left over to improve education and medical research, fight poverty, protect the environment or do anything else a decent person might care about. You cannot spend well over $700 billion on "national security," running what the White House predicts will be more than $400 billion in annual deficits for the next two years, and yet find the money to improve the quality of life on the home front.
The conventional wisdom espoused by the mass media is that Bush's budget is a lame-duck DOA contrivance, but that assumption is wrong. The 9/11 attacks have been shamefully exploited by the military-industrial complex with bipartisan support to ramp up military expenditures beyond Cold War levels. This irrational spending spree, which accounts for more than half of all federal discretionary spending, is not likely to end with Bush's departure. Which one of the likely winners from either party would lead the battle to cut the military budget, and where would the winner find support in Congress? Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have treated the military budget as sacrosanct with their Senate votes and their campaign rhetoric. Clinton is particularly clear on the record as favoring spending more, not less, on the military.
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