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Democratic party officially merges with Republican party

by pissed
Did you all know that the democrats now approve of the war, the wall in Israel, and reject the kyoto agreement??

Neither did I! Our party has been INFILTRATED!!!!!!!
We must throw the bastards out!
Dems Delete Support For Kyoto Treaty in new Platform
In an initial draft of its 2004 platform, the Democratic Party has condemned the Bush's administration unilateral foreign policy approach but it has decided not to describe the war in Iraq as a mistake or to call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Half of the 60-page draft, which was released on Saturday, concerns national security. It charges the Bush administration has walked away from more than 100 years of American leadership in the world."

In a shift from the party's 2000 platform, the Democrats have dropped a reference to endorsing the Kyoto treaty on global warming. The platform also calls for the minimum wage to be raised from $5.15 an hour to $7 and for the roll back of tax cuts to the wealthiest 2 percent. In another shift from the Clinton/Gore years, the platform does not endorse the use of the death penalty.

On Israel, the platform explicitly endorses for the first time an independent Palestinian state but it also supports Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's controversial security measures.
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by vote for Nader
Although Nader is not very exciting, at least he is the ONLY politician who dares to criticize Israel. THAT is saying something. And the Palestine-Israel conflict IS the number one issue of the day in my book. The US must reverse its policy on unconditional support of Israel as the Jewish supremacist, ethnic-cleansing, anti-democratic, genocidal state that it is today in order to start on the road to peace. There must be justice before there is peace.

Bush = Kerry, so we must make a statement and vote for neither. I CANNOT and WILL NOT in good conscience any politician who condones Israel's ethnocentric, racist campaign against non-Jews in Palestine (or elsewhere). Our government supports Israel far beyond any other country in the world, and gives more money to Israel than even any of our own states. We actually fund terrorist Israel to continue its campaign against the indigenous non-Jewish Palestinians as Zionists continue to push for an even "Greater Israel" as a Jewish supremacist state. I find this morally repugnant and REFUSE to vote for any politician that condones this!
by reader
Edwards is Bilderberg. Kerry is too. Edwards is also one of the architects of Homeland Security. It's just a hand-off of the scepter.

This ticket was sealed long ago. The only question is which Neocon will make the cell phone call just before the election, and how they will do it.
In Windy's book that's the only issue. (Except of course for anti-Semitism.)
by Analyst
Would you please elaborate? Israel is genocidal? It performs acts of "ethnic cleansing?" I was always under the impression that Israel was much more tolerant than need be. It does what it can to survive, of course it's not perfect, but what else would you like for it to do? Your comments sound more like "I HATE JEWS, I HATE JEWS, I HATE JEWS." Why do I say this? You use terms such as "Zionists," not Israeli, a clear indication of anti-Semitism. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, to paraphrase of course, to be anti-zionist is to be anti-Semitic. Israel has done nothing but attempt to defend itself. Recent claims of "land-grabs," I apologize for the digression, even ones from years and years ago are hypocritical in their very nature. Israel is at war, it won those lands just as many other countries have in so many of their own wars. The Israelies do not intentionally, unless of course I missed something, go out to destroy all Muslims, to destroy all Christians, they do not even care about converting anyone to anything. Arab nations around Israel have, from the beginning, launched assault after assault on Israel. Should America support its ally? YES! Israel is surrounded by enemies that want not only it dismanteled but all of its inhabitants destroyed (as far as I know Israel has made no claim at such). Neither side is innocent in the conflict, especially with current Israeli policies, but to place all blame on Israel is anti-Semitic and reminds me somewhat of the language of the Nazis: All Jews Are Evil. I always saw myself voting for the Democratic party or possibly Nader. After reading a variety of articles, and your particular comments, I do not wish to vote for Nader, not in the least. As for the Democratic party, I'm leaning away from it. If the Democratic party has such a deeply rooted anti-Semitic wing, especially considering most American Jews are Democrats is hypocritical in my eyes and I want nothing to do with it. I'd rather be sent off to war than support such things.
by ME!
I'm basically an expert in the field of history and your view of the Israeli-Palestinian is completely anti-Semitic as well as plain WRONG! Both claims to the land are hypocritical because Britain promised the land to both groups at the same time. Both claims go even beyond Britain but it mostly stated there. Britain just needed both the Jewish and Muslim support in the wars it was facing. Britain then couldn't control the two feuding lands and gave it over to the UN and the UN split the land in a fair way and the Muslims REFUSED they didn’t' want PEACE. The UN kept coming up with plans and finally they came upon one that was decided by BOTH sides to be fair. And guess what...PALESTINE BROKE THE AGREEMENT WHICH IT AGREED TO ABIDE BY. War started once more and Israel took over most of the lands including the then neutral Jerusalem. Palestine got its ASS KICKED ROYALLY and then they cried about it. The UN got in the way one more time and made an agreement with Israel to relinquish some of the land and they did but as the law of spoils of war goes "you keep the land you conquered" Israel didn't have to give anything up. But it did, some of it. Of course, Israel kept Jerusalem, the holy land, and some of the other land. Israel has been TOO NICE if anything and should kick the Muslims out. Oh wait no they shouldn't because now I sound like you (Nader voter), a person who discriminates against religions because they lack knowledge of what really happened, but I actually know what really happened. And you know what I’m not against the Muslims, but they have gone too far, if you knew your history you would know that too. ALSO! You should like an anti-Semitic that has nothing to do and a voter that has no clue about politics. It sounds to me like you're an 18 year kid who just got the chance to vote and doesn't know crap about it. One of those people that seem to talk and know a lot but once you listen to what they say it’s total bullshit. Once again, I’m wrong, even an 18 year wouldn't make such a stupid mistake; my brother has more brains then to EVER say that. Stop picking on Jews, they've been through GENOICIDE AND SLAVERY not the other way around. In fact when African Americans say that Jews enslaved them, I like how they never mention that African slavery started in THEIR OWN COUNTRY BY THEIR OWN PEOPLE. Yup. And you know what as well? Most slaves became slaves by being captured and sold BY THEIR OWN PEOPLE. Take some courses in history and learn a thing or two before you speak. You know nothing about these agreements or these events.
Also stop going with the crowd and being anti-Semitic, it's not cool to discriminate and if you're going to (because I can't stop you) then at least know what you're talking about. By the way, Israel IS DEMOCRATIC!!! AND PALESTINE IS NOT!!!! Everything you said about Jews isn't true, they went through all that, and they are not it. Palestine is much more repressive and keeps their people in holes. Israel built a land out of nothing, instead of sitting in their nice hole-houses.
by ME!
The "Nader voter" above...you sound like the next Hitler. ALL HAIL HITLER! THE KILLER OF JEWS, THE DESTROYER OF DEMOCRACY, THE RAPER OF CULTURE.
A lot of people would say he's a "genius" and that's because they read books by the Nazi ancestors. He was criminally INSANE, tha's all, look at the facts not the fiction.
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