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Thursday April 02, 2009 · 3:44 PM PDT

2009/04/02 · 15:44

Would anyone care to take a crack at a wittily written reply to this piece of right wing propaganda (forwarded to me by a libertarian leaning friend)?

The analogy is very poor, to my mind, but I'm not feeling properly glib to come up with an appropriately cutting response.

The message is beneath the fold.

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Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 7:06 PM PDT

2008/03/12 · 19:06

Here is the link.

WASHINGTON — The Florida Democratic Party plans to move forward with a June 3 vote-by-mail primary to restore the state's role in the presidential race, a top state Democrat said Wednesday.

State Sen. Steven Geller said a formal announcement would come Thursday or Friday.

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Sunday March 09, 2008 · 5:52 PM PDT

2008/03/09 · 17:52

My wife had ABC World News Sunday on in the other room as I was working, and I had to rewind the DVR and listen again to something ABC flack Mark Halperin said before I was sure I heard what I thought I'd heard.

Paraphrasing, and referring to the uncommitted superdelegates, "They're looking for what Al Davis said in football 'Just win, baby.' They're not necessarily looking for the candidate with the most elected delegates, which would be Obama, or the most states, which is Clinton..."

I don't have a video link, I couldn't find video evidence of Halperin's hackery documented on the abcnews website - they did have video of his interview, but it (conveniently?) doesn't include the section where he lies on camera.

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 12:36 PM PST

2008/03/07 · 12:36

As we know, Samantha Powers has resigned her position in the Obama campaign for inappropriate remarks she made to a reporter. The campaign has repudiated her statement and accepted her resignation. This is the correct way to respond, with class.

Howard Wolfson, a Clinton campaign advisor, made derogatory remarks about Senator Obama and Ken Starr. When asked about them, how did she reply?

"I am very focused on this campaign and you know, you’ve made the comparison between those two," she said. When a reporter pointed out that her spokesman actually made the comparison she said, "Well, I think that one is and ad hominem attack and the other is a historical reference."

The reporter countered, "But he said that 'I don’t know how anyone who can imitate Ken Starr can win the Democratic presidential nomination.'"

"Well, I think that is a true statement," Clinton responded.

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Thursday March 06, 2008 · 4:11 PM PST

2008/03/06 · 16:11

With Senator Clinton's narrow delegate pickups in Ohio and Rhode Island and narrow delegate deficits in Texas and Vermont, today's Clinton campaign meme is, again, that the delegations from Florida and Michigan should be seated.

"There has to be a way to make them count."

Further, Democratic Senator Ben Nelson of Florida has written a letter to DNC Chair Howard Dean requesting that the DNC pay for a re-vote.

Dean's response?

"[The DNC's] job now is to elect the President of the United States and we're not going to have the resources to run a primary in Michigan or Florida," Dean said on CNN's American Morning Thursday. "So we hope they can comply with the rules, but they're going to have to figure out how to pay for it."

Uh, yeah.

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Tuesday March 04, 2008 · 11:25 PM PST

2008/03/04 · 23:25

Yeah, so reading through all "the sky is falling" diaries in here is enough to make me chuckle through the pain of having the primary process continue past tonight. Like many, I was hoping tonight's results would wrap things up and we could start healing the wounds that have been opened here and within the party in general during another fractious primary season.

But it was not to be. Oh well.

Democracy is messy, and to paraphrase a quip you've doubtless heard, it's the worst possible system for picking leaders - except all the other ways of doing so.

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I will vote for Senator Clinton

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Friday February 15, 2008 · 10:13 AM PST

2008/02/15 · 10:13

I will vote for Senator Hillary Clinton... in the general election, should she be the Democratic candidate, whatever the convoluted electoral process it would take for her to be the nominee.

Now don't get me wrong here. There are a lot more than 27 reasons for democrats to be unhappy with the behavior of Senator Clinton in this campaign. She is not my first choice. In fact, she's my last choice.

But no way am I voting for a Republican, or a Green, or anyone else. And I am not staying home.

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Thursday February 14, 2008 · 2:28 PM PST

2008/02/14 · 14:28

I just ran across this in the end of an article in the New York Times:

But Mrs. Clinton faces another problem there in the form of that state’s unusual delegation allocation rules. Delegates are allocated to state senatorial districts based on Democratic voter turn-out in the last election. Bruce Buchanan, a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Austin, noted that in the last election, turnout was low in predominantly Hispanic districts and unusually high in urban African-American districts.

That means more delegates will be available in districts that, based on the results so far, could be expected to go heavily for Mr. Obama.

Very interesting. Even should Texas have high turnout in areas with demographics in which Senator Clinton has traditionally done well, she may end up with fewer delegates than expected.

A message to '08 presidential candidates

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Sunday August 20, 2006 · 2:11 PM PDT

2006/08/20 · 14:11

There's a lot of talk about the 2008 democratic primary calendar changes, and New Hampshire's elected officials pledging to move their primary up in accordance with the state law which requires they be seven days before any other vote (Iowa's caucuses aren't interpreted as votes and thus don't count).

It's very undemocratic and selfish of New Hampshire to always go first. That's why the DNC passed a measure to strip the won delegates from any candidate who campaigns in a state that jumps ahead in the calendar (read: New Hampshire). Seems like a reasonable response.

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OR-GOV: Kulongoski Widens Lead 45%-35%

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Thursday August 03, 2006 · 1:36 PM PDT

2006/08/03 · 13:36

I figured it was about time for more polling in the Oregon governor's race to be coming out, and lo, a new Rasmussen poll has been released today.

It's good news for the state of Oregon, sort of. It looks like we'll get another 4 years of Ted, which, as mediocre as that's likely to be based on his performance the last 4 years, is a relief to anyone who's aware of Saxton's positions.

Saxton would be a disaster for Oregon. Hypothetically, he might win in Utah, but he's a little too far to the right to be electable in the south.

Attention: DMCA+ Legislation Coming

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Tuesday April 25, 2006 · 2:32 PM PDT

2006/04/25 · 14:32

This article on news.com is disturbing:

For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite. A proposed copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers.

Is anyone fighting this? It strikes me as more of the usual - congressional activity in favor of lobbyists and their big corporation employers, not the people who elect them.

Democratic Frame: Naming Our Roadmap

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Friday October 14, 2005 · 6:44 PM PDT

2005/10/14 · 18:44

So apparently there's this problem of democrats not having something to call the amorphous hairball that's slowly coming together which represents the todo list upon successful election in 2006 and beyond.

Meteor Blades is right on in suggesting that it's a grevious error to use the republican meme of Contract with America. That's their monikor, they created it, and they own it. Nothing would be more confusing for people than to hear that phrase coming from the lips of liberals/progressives.

That said, take the poll. Maybe we can come up with something catchy.

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