I Heart Jesse Ventura

I think Jesse is one of the wisest persons in government. This guy cares about his
country and it’s citizens.

at Dave:

yes clinton got impeached because he lied under oath. . . about cheating on his wife

no bush did NOT get impeached for going to war. . . about lying on WMD

Dave, in regards to your comment “Hopefully Jesse won’t live to see the day where he no longer has the right to speak out against the current Government.”, I think that danger is much less likely now that the Bush/Cheney administration is over.

George W. Bush’s grandfather was part of a plot to overthrow America’s democratic form of government and replace it with a fascist one (see http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/53-index.html ). After his grandson, George W. Bush , had been office for a few years, I felt like the quote “that if fascism came to America it would come wrapped in the flag and whistling The Star Spangled Banner” was eerily prescient.

And as for “Hopefully Jesse won’t live to see the day where he has no choice but to wash his feet and pray to Allah five times a day or be put to death.”, I certainly wouldn’t want to live in such a society, but nor would I wish to live in a Christian theocracy. I found the previous administrations’ efforts to weaken the boundaries between church and state that America’s founding fathers realized were vital for a free society, troubling. And its use of a “faith-based agenda” to reward political cronies a misuse of the state’s power to favor religious groups that supported the administration politically (see http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0626-08.htm ).

I’ve also been troubled by so many Americans’ willingness to trade freedoms hard-won by those who came before us for a promise of security. As Benjamin Franklin said at our nation’s inception, “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security” and, in the end, they won’t have either.

And as for the Clinton and Monica Lewisnky affair, it was really about sex. The Republican party tried many other tactics to weaken the Clinton administration. The only one that gained traction was the one involving sex; something to titillate the public and hold its interest. He lied about his sex life. I suppose tabloid journalism’s coverage of the sex lives of celebrity’s has led many American’s to believe they are entitled to such information and the notion of discretion in such matters now seems old-fashioned.

On the other hand, Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction to take us into a war that has cost thousands of American lives and perhaps a half million or more Iraqi lives.

I thought Bush’s decisiveness in dealing with the Taliban who offered refuge to Al Quida laudable and I initially supported his toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime, but I became disillusioned when I learned how his administration had manipulated the American public to take us into war, was spying on us (feeling that it shouldn’t be subject to any judicial review, even if it was a rubber-stamp FISA court), and was tortuing prisoners, which it euphemistically termed “harsh interrogation” or “enhanced interrogation.”

I remember how outraged I was decades ago when I read Jeremiah Session’s “When Hell Was In Session” ( see http://www.amazon.com/When-Hell-Session-Jeremiah-Denton/dp/0966059727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243013655&sr=8-1 ) about how he was tortured by the Vietnamese. He was an American soldier captured and tortured by the Vietnamese, who later became an American senator (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton ). He was a Republican senator; it sickens me to now hear Republican political leaders endorsing the use of torture, with Lindsey Graham (R-SC) going so far as to say “I mean, one of the reasons these techniques have survived for about 500 years is apparently they work.”

Yes, they do work. Under torture people will eventually say whatever the torturer wants. That’s why so many confessed to having sex with the Devil during the Inquisition, even though they knew they would be burned alive once they said it. The fact that they all said essentially the same thing was proof for the inquisitors, but it was because most eventually figured out what the inquisitors wanted to hear or they died.

If you people don’t realize that what Jesse Ventura is saying is the truth, god help us all.

Ok…So who here thinks that President Bush never lied under oath? (by a show of hands)

Jesse is the man.. it hurts to hear the truth that this man speaks

Im sorry. Are we talking about Obama or Bush here?

Maybe you should consider impeaching Obama for taking you toward more government control of your health and life. No one smelled anything fishy when Bush threatened the public to go along with the bailout, that word was THREATENED. Or maybe Obama should be impeached for how he is using the Census to create districts that do not exist so some of his Klan can make BIG bucks, kind of like the latest bankers money well. Or maybe Obama should be impeached for how he is using the Census to knock people off the federal employment elgibility lists, mainly “whites”. Or maybe Obama should be impeached for a corrupt election, and your government tells you that corruption is so bad in Afghanistan? Clean up the corruption in America first, before America feels compelled to clean up other countries and sacrifice more lives in the name of war. McCain said it best when he told Bush the people are starting to catch on.

right on Jesse, you hit the nail right on the head…people do need to start waking up before its to late…

It’s nice to see someone like Jesse to stand up and speak the truth about things like this. Many americans are brainwashed, arrogant and naive about their government and believe what their told. If everyone did their own research and didn’t believe the government and general media like cnn, they might actually wake up.

Jesse should team up with Rand Paul for 2012 and get this country back on its feet.

Politicians are supposed to do what they feel, regardless of the next election??? Um, HELLO?? That is the exact problem nowadays! Politicians aren’t supposed to do what THEY want to do, they are supposed to do what their CONSTITUENTS want them to do. They aren’t supposed to go by their ever changing “feelings” of wanting to do this or that, this day or that day. They are supposed to do what they promised their constituents they would do when those same constituents elected them to office.

If I elected a democrat to office to stop the war, I DON’T WANT THEM TO GO WITH THEIR FEELINGS A YEAR LATER AND NOT STOP THE WAR!