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.

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.

Dear Mr. Janos… President Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and other legalities involving Congress. Cheating on your wife isn’t a crime any more than pretending to be wrestling. And President Bush did not, nor can President Obama can’t “take” the country to war without Congress providing at least tacit approval, funding and political cover.

It helps if you know what the hell you’re talking about. Go get a college degree or something, would ya? Then pontificate. Not that it matters.

“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.” What the hell are you talking about? This man is a patriot.

Jesse speak the truth.

We need to speak out instead of being a bunch of sheeple blindly following whatever idiot that was put into power. If you think we are living in a democracy then you are a sheeple. The electoral college elects the president and not the people.

Every politician lies. Clinton was excellent at it. Bush was bad at it, but did it. Obama is very good at it. He should have just waited longer into his term to do so.

Jesse actually called him self out in his term. He campaigned on no new taxes pledge. He held a press conference well into the budget session saying essentially I lied. I can not do no new taxes with the hand that I am dealt. Therefore I am coming to the table to tell everyone just that and proposing a small tax hike.

Everyone lies…..I just wish politicians would come clean when they do so.