I dont think the worst thing about the Foley issue is his pedaphelia, Its the misuse of his position to lure aspiring youths to his bedside.
Abuse of power, corruption of unprecendeted scale and plain failure of the republicans is why they must be kicked to the curb.

 

I agree with One, for the most part, but....

I don't quite call what Foley did "pedohelia." I realize they were 'technicaly' still KIDS, but they were at least what?.... Seniors in H.S or college freshmen?? This is at least above the age of consent. To ME, I think of pedophelia as these sick bastards that abuse even pre-pubescent children (John Mark Karr comes to mind!)

But, the abuse of power is the main issue, and to a greater extent it is not just Foley's example of it, but rather how the GOP covered it up, ignored it, whatever.... for the purpose of MAINTAINING power over the Congress.

They KNEW what a scandal like this would cost them just before these MidTerm elections, and they were willing to go to ANY lengths to avoid losing control. They only got indignant once the story broke and they had no choice but to feign the Moral High Road.

IF and when it is proven that any or many of them knew about this more than a month ago, those individuals should be charged with being accomplices before AND after the fact in the crime of pedophelia. And, I sure hope Foley stands trial for it someday SOON, so that they CAN be.

 

...I think it is interesting to see foley so public and open about the whole issue..I imagine he is being paid alot of $$$ for the whole thing, and to keep it in the news...I would think when you are caught up in a career ending scandal, it would be best to stay out of the limelight...he will have enuf cash to retire to some out of the way place and pay for all the young men he wants...we are being fed what we are to know (and to react to) by the main-stream-media...I think if the Dems gain control, and do not start proceedings for treason (against the DC gang now) within 3 months, there should be a revolution...or we will just continue down the same road...

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230039721735

 

I dont agree, its not like he made myself 'available' for interview for a while...Wasnt his lawyer the first to talk to the press for him?

But I agree that Foley is OPEN and PUBLIC about THE HOLE :lol:

 

As opposed to re-electing the same scumbags that cause the problems to begin with? The scumbags that are in there now (from both parties) are the reason things are so f****D up.

Politics was never meant to be a career, and it is past time for new faces in gov't.

 

I do not blame the politicians at all.. they are opportunists and have been their whole lives. It's the apathy and the 2/3rds of buttwipes who cannot be bothered to get informed and join the process of SELF government. We deserved the representation that we get.

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2008 Democratic National Convention Agenda

Day One

7:00 a.m. Call to Order
7:01 a.m. National Anthem (Scratched by convention committee chair)
7:04 a.m. Pledge of Allegiance (Scratched by convention committee chair)
7:01 a.m. Invocation by Rev. Louis Farrakhan
7:05 a.m. Collection for the Nation of Islam
7:15 a.m. Theme Song, "The Internationale" by The Dixie Chicks
7:20 a.m. Chanting of "Kumbaya" – All, Led by Barbara Streisand
7:30 a.m. "Can’t We All Just Get Along?" – Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
8:00 a.m. "Effective Party Leadership" – Congressional Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
9:00 a.m. "Fundraising Techniques" – Jesse Jackson
10:45 a.m. Collection for the Rainbow Coalition
11:00 a.m. "International Diplomacy: Being a More Humble Member of the UN" – Madeline Albright
12:00 p.m. Lunch – Islamic Cuisine*
1:00 p.m. "Earth in the Balance: Becoming interested in more complex metaphors and their explanatory powers. In particular, trying to understand the origins of our modern world view, and its curious reliance on specialization and ever-narrower slices of the world around us into categories that are then themselves dissected, in an ongoing process of separation, into parts and sub-parts – a process that sometimes obliterates the connection to the whole and the appreciation for context and the deeper meanings that can't really be found in the atomized parts of the whole – and in exploring the roots of that way of looking at the world, finding a lot of metaphors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that came directly from the scientific revolution into the world of politics and culture and sociology. And how many of those metaphors are still with us." – Al Gore
4:00 p.m. "Using ‘Blue’ Words To Win Debates" – Barbara Streisand
4:05 p.m. "My Country, Right or Wrong, Is Always Wrong!!" – Suzan Serandon
5:00 p.m. "My Struggle: Federal Funding For Sandals for Gay Ex-nuns With a Foot Fetish" – Janet Reno
6:00 p.m. Dinner – Vegetarian Delight*
7:00 p.m. "Promoting Political and Class Harmony" – Sen. Ted Kennedy
8:00 p.m. "Beyond Abortion: Infanticide Up to 30 Days After Birth" – Jocelyn Elders
8:30 p.m. Collection for Planned Parenthood and NARL
8:45 p.m. "Can’t We All Just Get Along?" – CAIR
9:15 p.m. Chanting of "Kumbaya" – All, Led by Barbara Streisand
9:30 p.m. Adjourn Day One

After Hours Activities:
10:00 p.m. Night Swimming, with open bar, Hotel Olympic Pool – Sen. Ted Kennedy, Instructor
10:00 p.m. Midnight Basketball – Congressman Jesse Owens

Day Two

7:00 a.m. Call to Order
7:01 a.m. "Why Republicans Should Shut The F*&ฎ%$#! Up" – Barbara Streisand
7:04 a.m. "Toward a More Racially Harmonious Society" speech by Al Sharpton
8:00 a.m. "Those White Boys Really Did Rape Me" – Tawanna Brawley
8:30 a.m. "Can’t We All Just Get Along?" – CAIR
9:00 a.m. Chanting of "Kumbaya" – All, Led by Barbara Streisand
9:03 a.m. "Evil Doesn’t Really Exist" – Rev. Barry Lynn, People for the American Way
9:55 a.m. Collection for People for the American Way
10:00 a.m. "The Evil of the Republican Party" – Ted Kennedy
12:00 p.m. Lunch – Jamaican Cuisine*
1:00 p.m. "My Just War Theory" – Jeanine Garofalo
2:00 p.m. "What the Definition of ‘is’ Is" – Bill Clinton
4:30 p.m. "New Frontiers of Sex Education: Teaching the Joys of Anal Sex, K-12" – NEA, graphics provided by Larry Flynt
5:45 p.m. Collection for NAMBLA
6:00 p.m. Dinner – Soul Food*
7:00 p.m. Chanting of "Kumbaya" – All, Led by Barbara Streisand
7:05 p.m. "How to Achieve Peace in Our Time: The Benefits of Appeasement" – Jimmy Carter
8:30 p.m. (For Men Only) "Duty to Die: Euthanasia Fact or Fiction?" – Sen. Hillary Clinton
9:30 p.m. "Beyond Affirmative Action: Private Sector Hiree Selection by Government Committee" – Dept. of Labor
11:00 p.m. "Big Brother: Bush’s Secret Plan to Bug All Our Homes" – Janet Reno
12:00 a.m. "The Collectivist Approach: Why More Higher Taxes Equals More Prosperity" – Robert Reich
1:00 a.m. Adjourn Day Two

After Hours Activities:
1:15 a.m. – Ditto
1:15 a.m. – Ditto

Day Three

7:00 a.m. Call to Order
7:01 a.m. "Can’t We All Just Get Along?" – CAIR
7:31 a.m. Chanting of "Kumbaya" – All, Led by Barbara Streisand
7:33 a.m. "Rooting Out Government Corruption" – UN Secretary General Kofi Anon
8:30 a.m. "The Evils of Capitalism" – Patricia Heinz Kerry
10:00 a.m. "Curing Poverty: Teaching the Poor How to Invest in Commodities" – Sen. Hillary Clinton
12:00 p.m. Lunch – Kyzylian Cuisine with Low-Fat Yak Milk*
1:00 p.m. "Free Speech and Our Struggle For Religious Expression" – Nadine Strossen, Director of the ACLU
1:45 p.m. Collection for the ACLU
2:00 p.m. "The Sharks Are Still Looking For Dead Slaves Thrown Overboard" – Congressman Jesse Owens
2:00 p.m. "Reparations Now !" – Rev. Jesse Jackson
5:00 p.m. Chanting of "Kumbaya" – All, Led by Barbara Streisand
5:03 p.m. Collection for Slavery Reparations
5:57 p.m. "How My Faith Has Inspired Me" – Sen. John F. Kerry
6:00 p.m. Dinner – Tofu Surprise*
7:00 p.m. "My Fight Against the Rich and Powerful" – George Soros
9:00 p.m. Join Workshops
1:00 a.m. Adjourn Day Three

After Hours Activities:
1:15 a.m. – Ditto
1:15 a.m. – Ditto

Day Four

7:00 a.m. Call to Order
7:01 a.m. Chanting of "Kumbaya" – All, led by Barbara Streisand
7:04 a.m. Progress Through Co-Operative Bi-Partisanship – Sen. Robert Byrd
9:00 a.m. "It’s George Bush’s Fault, Stupid!" – James Carville
10:00 a.m. "Developing a More Effective Foreign Policy" – Michael Moore
11:00 a.m. "The Re-distributionist Approach to Prosperity" – Robert Reich
12:00 p.m. Lunch – Zulu Mulu*
1:00 p.m. Vice Presidential Nomination Speech – Al Gore
2:00 p.m. Vice Presidential Acceptance Speech – Sen. Robert F. Kerry
4:00 p.m. Presidential Nomination Speech – Sen. Hillary Clinton
6:30 p.m. Presidential Acceptance Speech – Sen. Hillary Rodham
8:30 p.m. Singing "I Am Woman!" – The Dixie Chicks
8:33 p.m. "Can’t We All Just Get Along?" – CAIR
9:03 p.m. Chanting of "Kumbaya" – All, led by Barbara Streisand
9:06 p.m. Closing Prayer by Louis Farrakhan
9:36 p.m. Collection for the Nation of Islam
10:00 p.m. Themesong, "The Internationale" – The Dixie Chicks
10:30 p.m. Flag burning ceremony (meet at front entrance of Convention Center)
10:45 p.m. Adjourn DNC and ON TO VICTORY!

*There is a MacDonald’s open 24/7 only a block from the center. See a convention administrator for directions.

Note: Times are to enable attendees to participate in each day's opening "Can’t We All Just Get Along?" and/or "Kumbaya"

Workshops:

Day One

7:45a.m. Stonewalling Court Nominees (all day, four days)

Day Two

7:45 a.m. Stonewalling Court Nominees (cont.)
7:45 a.m. Seminar on developing and selling an original Bush / Halliburton conspiracy theory (all day)

Day Three

7:45 a.m. Stonewalling Court Nominees (cont.)

Day Four

7:45 a.m. Stonewalling Court Nominees (cont.)

 

OUCH!!!

 

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...diebold01.html