RNC 2004 vs DNC 2008

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Thursday August 28, 2008 · 12:36 PM PDT

2008/08/28 · 12:36

Hi there - I'm htat33, mostly a lurker, occasional commentor and very occasional diarist. I wanted to quickly chat about the extreme contrasts I noted between this year's Democratic Convention and the Republican Convention of 2004. In 2004 we Dems nominated a decorated Vietnam Vet, John Kerry - a man deocrated not just for valor but also for injuries sustained in the War. And of course in 2008 the Republicans are on the verge of nominating their own Vietnam War hero - John McCain.

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Tuesday February 21, 2006 · 1:26 PM PST

2006/02/21 · 13:26

An earlier diary spoke to reaching the legendary Bubbas of America and a commenter mentioned that its not so much the Bubbas but the Joe Six Packs we need to address. And I think that is exactly right. The term "Bubba" has a lot of negative connotations to many of us - think of less avuncular Larry the Cable Guy types. This type of character is simply not gonna vote for the Democratic Party folks - they are lost to us. However, the legendary Joe Six Pack - now that is a voter composite that we SHOULD be snaring in droves. But we are not. Let me point out that every single meeting I have attended of my local Democratic club has featured in attendance a typical blue collar, white suburban working guy - the legendary Joe Six Pack. So these voters are reachable. So let's examine a typical Joe Six Pack: Read More

Practicality versus Ideology

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Wednesday February 08, 2006 · 1:25 PM PST

2006/02/08 · 13:25

I have been accused in private conversation and in message board discussions of being an "ideologue" for a variety of positions I hold: opposition to the War in Iraq, a die hard belief in free speech and the 1st Amendment, a belief in a woman's reproductive rights, a belief in a right to privacy, a belief that the death penalty is costly, a non deterrant and immoral, and a belief that although we certainly have a right to bear arms (a right I have exercised my entire life, by the way) this right in no way means anyone should be able to purchase automatic or semi-automatic weaponry at anytime they choose. Read More

My Response to a Friend in Hungary

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Thursday July 28, 2005 · 11:35 AM PDT

2005/07/28 · 11:35

A friend sent this email to a few of us old gradeschool/highschool buddies:

"As the summer moves along and the days pass since my birthday (this past Sunday, 24 July), my thoughts reflect on how things are here and how they might be back where you guys are. There's been a fair bit of antiamericanism being kicked around on this continent, enough for a local university to offer a program of study on the subject. It's actually reached the stage where I identify myself as Irish if a dodgy character asks
me where I'm from. On my recent trip to Croatia, particularly so. On your side of the lake, I get the sense from the NYTimes website that support for the war has dropped off and that people recognise they were fed a lot of bull in the beginning re why the whole thing was warranted. But the US economy continues to swell, so much so that tax revenue was up significantly despite Bush's tax cuts.

So where are yall's thoughts re the status of your country and its place in the universe, or at least the world? Let's hear from everyone."

And my response: Read More

First Diary: Slate Magazine Votes and a rant

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Wednesday October 27, 2004 · 11:07 AM PDT

2004/10/27 · 11:07

Hello All -
Longtime lurker and very infrequent poster, htat33, here at your service. The Daily Kos is such a fine bit of internet grassroots activism that I have rarely felt the need to pipe up, but reading today's Slate Magazine online article just made feel the need to vent.

Read the article:

http://www.slate.com/id/2108714/

What's great about the article is that Slate allowed staff other than writing contributors to speak their minds. And the staff is overwhelmingly pro-Kerry. Those comments demonstrate the array of contempt for the failed Bush policies as well as admiration (some glowing, some grudging, some barely) for Kerry the man and Kerry the politician.

But one of the few pro-Bush comments jumped out at me, and boy is it a doozy: Read More

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RNC 2004 vs DNC 2008

Its Not the Bubbas: Its the Joe Six Packs

Practicality versus Ideology

My Response to a Friend in Hungary

First Diary: Slate Magazine Votes and a rant