Hillary's big fib in Democratic debate

Hillary trotted out a whopper in Tuesday's Democratic debate when she said this this about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: "He stole very important information that has unfortunately fallen into a lot of the wrong hands," implying he cache of government documents exposing massive and illegal government surveillance on all Americans may have fallen into Russian or Chinese hands. That wasn't true...didn't happen. But in one sense she was... right. Snowden's revelations of illegal government spying did fall into hands of folks Uncle Sam never intended: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

And Bernie Sanders's position on the Le Affaire Snowden? He told a truth Clinton would never dare utter least she offend her friends in the war and surveillance party: “Snowden played a very important role in educating the American people to the degree in which our civil liberties and our constitutional rights are being undermined.”

One more reason I'm supporting Bernie Sanders for president.

The national security threat not mentioned

The Democratic debate last night exceeded expectations. The five candidates showed why they are the only ones who should even be running IN BOTH PARTIES. Many fascinating moments but one big disappointment. Though not unexpected, when asked what the biggest national security threat to US was, no one mentioned the obvious: the US war party, composed of civilian and military government officials, both elected and appointed; media war party propagandists, and those ubiquitous makers of US weapons of mass murder like cluster bombs and depleted uranium. They have all dragged US into a half dozen plus military interventions in the last 15 years that have squandered trillions while America crumbles, killed, maimed or displaced millions of innocents, and oh yes, all failed. To a greater or lesser degree, all five remain beholden to the American war party. Being anti war is a non-starter for presidential contenders, even Democrats.

Carson channeling Chauncey?

Talking Heads' heads continue spinning around trying to decipher the 14% poll numbers which have propelled Dr. Ben Carson into second place for GOP Prez contender, trailing only The Donald's 34%. The spinning stems from their astonishment over Carson's rising appeal every time he deadpans another idiotic nugget of imagined wisdom about handling the most powerful job on the planet. They would be wise to pop in the DVD 'Being There', the 1979 flick staring Peter Sellers as simple minded Chance, the gardener, who morphs, through truth starved elites into 'Chauncey Gardiner', a profound but mysterious guru who offers refreshing allegorical insights into our twisted and tangled world. Carson may have a stranger brain than any of the thousand or so he operated on, but for millions of angry, frustrated Republican dead-enders, he's the brilliant truth teller they've been waiting for.