Palin is free to be the Party's main fundraiser to keep their house divided!

GOP watch: Republicans vs. Palin

Ever since that mistake Palin announced she was quitting her Post people were speculating why. It is obvious why, She was not picked by McCain for her Political prowess or her speaking ability. She was picked because she drew a crowd, something McCain could not do without her. Her gift of knowing nothing of consequence but being will to open mouth saying everything about nothing makes her a true Republican and a strong force of division.

McCain says Palin has a place in the party and she does but not as a Political nominee! She was freed up to accept a reported $12 million signing deal to write a book and now can be the Republican party's main fund raiser. Now they need someone to run for President in 2012! I am afraid of Romney and Jeb Bush. The Party sounds like a nightmare try to reoccur but sadly don't count them out.

First I ask again that Someone correct me if I am wrong but in my entire life I have never heard of someone in a political position like Palin's abandoning their post. No wait a minute strike that. I forgot about her fellow Republican Sanford fleeing to Argentina last week to see his soul mate. Of course Fox stupidly says she outsmarted herself I mean Democrats but to a normal thinking person she dummied herself into oblivion and I want to thank her.

Palin says she doesn't want to be a lame duck. A lame duck is a lame duck! Give me a blind! Anyway short term long term what's the diff? All the other long term lame duck Politicians have no problem with it and don't abandon their post, It does not matter she is going to fail at whatever she does but what the heck can she be thinking? Oh yeah I'm sorry she doesn't.

If she ever had a chance at a Political career she thankfully killed it. I know why she made her nutty move and it will end any desire to run for President despite the fools at Fox saying this was a brilliant move and she outsmarted the Left. Donations have started rushing in to her and you have to wonder why. She abandoned her post as Governor of a small town in Alaska, What is she going to do start a short career as a talk show host? A speaking outing to mindless right wing extremists? Is she getting out of Politics to be free to be a fool and whip people into a frenzy? Yes and write a book too. She will fail at whatever she does other than raise money and divide the Republican party further!

Palin has been an insult to all Women since McCain made the stupid mistake of picking the mindless Neanderthal as his running mate. I would thank him if so many fools didn't like her and foolishly say she was an ass I mean asset. From day one she was a kick in the face to Hillary Clinton and all very qualified intelligent female or any other Politician for that matter. She was an insult to all intelligent Americans. An insult to all our good sense. "I can see Russia from my house" She is an insult and should be gone forever. Bye Palin you dead fish!

Happily for me Paling has the ability to be the Party's number one fund raiser but she is sufficiently unknowledgeable in everything to keep the Republican party divided. Old school Republicans are never going to go for this new school small town Governor and community college Grad for any serious position in Government. I still firmly believe neither party is stupid enough to allow that to happen.


James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com

India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, US, all ready to negotiate Obama's war? Well Maybe!

Mehsud trapped, Mullah Omar now negotiating with Pakistan officials! India is now the key to Pakistan's lock on Afghanistan! As Pakistan encloses Baitullah Mehsud only now is Mullah Omar prepared to negotiate with the US. We knew Mehsud was harboring Mullah Omar and the rest of the important Taliban leaders including Bin Laden if he is still alive. With the squeeze on it appears all parties are ready to negotiate including the US. 1 militant dead in shootout in central Pakistan

FACTBOX - US drone strikes in Pakistan

No negotiating with so called terrorists, unless it is in your favor. With this war get increasingly more expensive and with a necessary large increase in Afghani forces doubling its size requiring Billions more called for necessitating larger American training forces and dollars this is very timely in what has become Obama's war. An Afghan face is needed but I still do not see it happening. Army 'in contact' with Mullah Omar | Pakistan | News | Newspaper ...

At this point the whole key appears to be accommodations between long time rivals Pakistan and India. I do not care what they have to do just make believe they want to see peace come to the area if possible and do whatever is necessary to see that happen. Independent monitors can be used to oversee adherence. This must be done. I have been very pleased with Pakistan's success in South Waziristan now everyone including the US must step up and come together.

Mullah Omar still has a $10 Billion Bounty on his head but the US is ready to talk with the So called terrorist leader along with the other 3 leaders. First I have to ask does that mean Pakistan collects the reward for The men the Pakistan has been in touch with since Soviet involvement 30 years ago? Just asking!

Anyway President Obama and Richard Holbrook are now ready to talk to Mullah Omar one of our number one enemies. Karzai has been reaching out to Mullah Omar and now the US can and may reach out to him and the rest of the Taliban leaders. They will do so only if they agree to lay down arms. I don't care what is takes. Lay down arms to get us out of there and pick them up later like Iraq!

Holbrook will not rule out anything. Holbrook said we can make a deal with anyone especially all four of the Taliban leaders trapped by Pakistan. They all have ties with Afghanistan and the ISI all the way back to the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan. Only demand: Lay down your arms and get involved with the Political process in Afghanistan. They may do that but they absolutely refuse to gave a Democracy. It is though a start to ending I Hope our involvement in what has become Obama's war but India must help. Just help India! Everyone!

James Joiner
Gardner' Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com

Teddy in his own words, HBO chronicle airs Monday night!

Ted Eulogizes Robert in Best Eulogy ever heard



This should be seen if you can see it as it is the entire life and career of Ted Kennedy. It chronicles his life from childhood to being "The lion of the Senate in his 46 year Senate career. He started out in the Senate as a young district Attorney. I was amazed while listening his first senatorial campaign debate.

He sounded just like JFK. Teddy started out as a celebrity talking about health care and it looks like he is going to leave the Senate the same way, a celebrity fighting for health care. If comprehensive health care is passed now it would be a fitting legacy to Teddy.

Nixon was obsessed with Teddy and the entire Kennedy clan. I would say he was jealous because he lost to JFK. Nixon spent a lot of time and is recorded trying to find something to pin on and hang him and his whole family. Despite his older Brother Joe's death as a pilot during WW2, JFK's assassination, RFK's assassination, Nixon was determined to pile more grief on Teddy and his family.

When Robert was killed there was a move to draft Teddy to take his place. Listen to the video of Teddy's eulogy to Robert. It is the most touching I have ever heard: My Brother need not be idealized! He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it. Some men see things as they are and say why. He dreamed things that never were and said why not?





James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com

Tehran is boiling over once again with shouts of death to the dictator and now Death to his son Mojtaba Khamenei!

4 weeks after the Government takeover Khamenei calls an election Iran is boiling over with anger once again as protestors of the election fraud use the 10 year commemoration of the bloody crackdown on Tehran University students known as the 18th of Tir to take to the streets once again. Knowing the brutality they have seen and promises of more of the same these people are exceptionally brave. They had no permit and in Iran especially today you know what that means.

Amid promises from Khamenei the IRG and the the Basil of en even more bloody protest crowds are smaller due to mass arrests and the brutality rained on those seeking the truth but protestors still come out. Only a few thousand of the hardiest now dare risk their lives and future prosecution but these people are angry and they came out!

In addition to the old chant of Death to the Dictator Khamenei has been added a new chant Death to Mojtaba Khamenei. He is said to be the head of Iran's security forces and has emerged as one of the driving forces behind the *government's crackdown. I can't see being any harder than Ayatollah Khamenei but Mojtaba is seen as more hard line than his father.

Khamenei is also lobbying for Mojtaba to be his replacement as the false Ayatollah. I do not see that happening because Formally, the position is supposed to be awarded by the assembly of experts, an elected group of clerics led by the most powerful rival to Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, Hashemi Rafsanjani. Mojtaba Khamenei gatekeeper to the Ayatollah

With international reporters kicked out or arrested pictures still continue to get out. Those people are super, super brave as we have discussed in the past Iran has the ability to track down the cell phone users once they devote time to it. I watched cnn as someone was taking pictures from a passing bus. The street corners were swarming with thugs groups of Basij with clubs and firing tear gas and numerous teams with clubs on motorcycles patrolling the streets.

The genie is out of the bottle and this story will not go away. Unbelievably to me they are still shouting Death to the Dictator! That is death to the false Ayatollah the once supreme leader who the people now know is the supreme liar, the supreme dictator. There were demonstrations amongst other places at Vanak square and Tehran university. When the crowds were dispersed with tear gas and clubs they melted into the streets to reemerge elsewhere, I am so proud of them and envious of their tenacity.

Tehran is pulsing with anger once again and we only see it because of brave citizens risking their lives hiding and taking pictures with their cell phones. With all international journalist jailed or kicked out the Government is determined to unbeknown to the world crush this and protesters are equally determined to continue this. This will take time and it will be a long struggle. These are Iranians this will not die it will simmer. Meanwhile we can condemn human rights violations for naught but we can just watch and pray for these people!
CRACKDOWN IN IRAN- Police Clash With Protesters On 18th of Tir ...

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com

Panetta says CIA concealed information but didn't Lie! Isn't concealing information lying?

Isn't concealing information lying? Panetta says it is not CIA policy to mislead Congress. What a lie! Isn't concealing information misleading? How are we supposed to believe the CIA? As far as I am concerned they have a long history of lying and it only got worse during the Bush misadministration. George Tenet was probably the worst liar in CIA history so Bush could attack Iraq.

I do not like Pelosi but yesterday Pelosi said in regard to the letter sent to Panetta to recant his statement that the CIA is not in the habit of misleading Congress that obviously the House has concerns about the CIA! Panetta has admitted to the house intelligence committee behind closed doors of misleading Congress several times over the last 8 years. What a surprise and of course Republican members of the committee deny it?

7 Democrats including Democratic members of the intelligence committee are signatories of the letter accusing the CIA of repeatedly lying misleading and concealing information from Congress. Representative Jan Shakowski wrote the letter and asked CIA Director Leon Panetta to take back the statement that the CIA is not in the practice of misleading Congress.
CIA director admitted lying to Congress, say Democrats

House Intel Chair: CIA has misled us for years

I have to tell you, to me by definition they would have to lie to Congress to keep things secret. I hate to say it but you can't trust or rely on those people! The letter came a day ahead of the Debate on the intelligence Bill. Supposedly this whole thing according to Republicans is to cover for Pelosi who last may accused the CIA of misleading her. Once again Republicans are trying to make the truth appear as a lie for their gain. They are purposely confusing us again!

In fact, the CIA has lied to members of Congress a number of times, detailed in Tim Weiner's history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes Here are just a few prominent instances:

In the 1950s, Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles, after being told by Senator Joseph McCarthy that the CIA was "neither sacrosanct nor immune from investigation," began waging a "down and dirty covert operation on McCarthy" which included attempting to bug his office and feeding his staff with disinformation "in order to discredit him."

Former CIA Director Richard Helms was convicted in 1977 of lying to Congress about the United States' role in overthrowing the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende. Allende was succeeded by brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet.

In 1982, Congress passed a law prohibiting the administration from ousting the leftist regime in Nicaragua. The CIA kept trying to overthrow the Sandinistas. CIA Director Bill Casey testified frequently before oversight committees Congress about the agency's covert action plans, during which he was often misleading. "Casey was guilty of Contempt of Congress from the day he was sworn in," Robert Gates, former head of the CIA and current Secretary of Defense, told Weiner. When the Iran Contra Scandal began to break, Casey lied to Congress, denying that they had traded arms for hostages with Iran.

On September 17, 2001, George Tenet told Congress that Iraq had provided al Qaeda with training in combat, bomb-making, and weapons of mass destruction. That information was based on a single source, the interrogation Ibn al-Shakh al Libi, who later recanted and whom we now know was tortured for that information. Tenet of course, hasn't recanted.

These are just some of the cases in which the CIA lied to Congress. In the context of a number of covert operations, the CIA has even lied to the President. This is part of the nature of what we, as a country ask them to do as an organization--the CIA is constantly being asked to engage in illegal behavior, punished when their analysis doesn't fit the preordained conclusions of whatever administration is in power, and then is exclusively blamed when the information comes out or the operations go sour. That's a regrettable state of affairs that says more about the hypocrisy of our leaders than it does about the committed men and women of the CIA.

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com