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Friday June 29, 2007 · 12:15 PM PDT

2007/06/29 · 12:15

I want to begin my expressing my respect for the blog community at large. They provide a useful conduit for information, provide pressure to move issues and have emerged as a real source of people-power over the last few years (especially in the Progressive community).
I do believe however that Blogs are so rife with opinion and slant/spin that many of us have begun to discount information presented there as suspect. Because so many of the Blogs we read everyday are written by manipulative partisans consisting mostly of people trying to move their agenda along it reduces the impact of all Blogs.

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Blogs would be more effective if they left out the opinion...

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Blogs would be more effective if they left out the opinion...

No that's thier mission.

19 votes

Yes, I rarely take what I read in a blog as fact.

2 votes

I don't care...why are you wasting my time with this stupid premise.

5 votes

I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself...

MrBlue

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Friday May 04, 2007 · 1:31 PM PDT

2007/05/04 · 13:31

I watched most of the GOP debate last night and found it to be mainly a collection of sycophantic necrophiliacs with their noses snugly up a dead Presidents bottom at every opportunity (I read somewhere Gulliani invoked Reagan 19 times)...all this didn't surprise me one bit however, one moment actually shocked me.
When the moderator asked for a show of hands to see who on the stage DID NOT BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION...3 GOP hands shot up in the air!

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Who were the 3 candidates?

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Who were the 3 candidates?

Romney, Brownback, Huckabee

13 votes

Romney, Brownback, Tancredo

6 votes

Brownback, Huckabee, Tancredo

63 votes

Tancredo, Romney, Brownback

10 votes

Who cars..just the fact that ANY are that ignorant is cause for alarm!

53 votes

Democrats must contrast Bush stubborness with reasoned compromise

MrBlue

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Monday April 23, 2007 · 9:26 PM PDT

2007/04/23 · 21:26

It's obvious that American's, except for a shrinking few, have decided Bush is a poor leader. They view him as shallow and stubborn and hypocritical. They blame him for the war and Kartina, and a host of other messes his administration has bungled(and the blame is well placed!).
The Democrats find themselves riding the strongest wave of support in the country for Progressive ideas for more than a decade. The country is so sick of the way Bush and the Republicans have run the country over the last six years that the '08 elections are literally in the palm of our hands...http://

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How should Democrats handle the war funding impasse with Bush?

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How should Democrats handle the war funding impasse with Bush?

Stand tough and deny funding unless Bush signs the "date certain" appropriations bill

28 votes

Just give him a clean bill now and save the veto.

1 vote

Negotiate a compromise that allows both sides to claim victory.

1 vote

Who knows??

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The un-avoidable Iranian confrontation to come...soon!

MrBlue

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Friday March 23, 2007 · 3:40 PM PDT

2007/03/23 · 15:40

This danger has been alluded to but not emphasized nearly enough how likely a confrontation between the US and Iran (and ultimately the entire region)is...and will remain as long as US forces are deployed in Iraq. Today you see the beginnings of a dynamic that, left on it's own, will be the first in a series of escalating confrontations between Iranians and Coalition troops which is very likely to lead to our being drawn into a larger conflict...one which will make the current conflict seem like a walk in the park. Read More

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Can we get out of Iraq BEFORE this conflict spills into the surrounding region?

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Can we get out of Iraq BEFORE this conflict spills into the surrounding region?

NO...it's too late for that.

46 votes

Yes...as long as we're careful we can still avoid a wider conflict.

10 votes

We might avoid it, no thanks to that dipshit George W. Bush!

38 votes

I don't know...

6 votes

I don't care...

3 votes

Rove, God, and why NOW is the time to throw as much money as possible....

MrBlue

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Saturday October 14, 2006 · 11:50 AM PDT

2006/10/14 · 11:50

at the Democratic candidate of your choice!
The much maligned Dean 50 state strategy is poised to pay off big. Whether it was coincidence or prescience on his part in his decision as chairman to establish a ground game in all 50 states doesn't matter, the fact is a perfect storm of political tornadoes has hit the GOP at the worst possible time and we are poised to take full advatage of it.
It's just a few weeks before election day...and the winds are blowing hard in the faces of the Republican incumbents in Congress, real hard!
Just look at these polls and notice all the BLUE!
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DKos' TU's practice censorship, squash dissent.

MrBlue

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 7:54 AM PDT

2006/09/25 · 07:54

If you go to the DKos FAQ you'll find, near the very top of the long list of answers to frequently asked questions, a block quoted paragraph that explains the purpose or mission of this forum and who should be it's participants. It's kind of a mission statement. Just a quick paragraph to let new users and visitors know the reason for it's existence who should consider belonging and contributing here. It's not complicated...as a matter of fact it's elegantly simple. Read More

Democrats are blowing it but it's not too late!

MrBlue

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Thursday September 21, 2006 · 4:42 PM PDT

2006/09/21 · 16:42

I hate to be a party-pooper but let's get real...the Democrats are pissing away the best chance we've had to win big in an election cycle in a decade.
Cocky over-confidence, in-fighting, lack luster fund raising and extremism has gotten us into a real jam that may cost us dearly in November.
I cannot believe all the hip-hip-hoorah crap I keep hearing from this and other Democratic sites as if we've already won and all that's left is to do count the seats. We haven't won a damn thing and if we keep this up we won't carry even the House.
I am going to take heat for this diary (as usual) but frankly I'm tired of hearing from DKos and other blog sites how great Democrats are doing. We had enjoyed what looked like a nice cushion in the polls but those numbers weren't real and the current numbers, as they creep back to show a much closer set of races, prove we've got a lot of heavy lifting left to do. See a quote from the LAT that indicates the softening of our advantage(IMO it's actually a reflection of reality, I don't believe there ever was that big a cushion).
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What will actually WORK for Democrats (and what won't)

MrBlue

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Friday September 15, 2006 · 7:47 AM PDT

2006/09/15 · 07:47

I wrote a diary yesterday complaining that democrats should shy away from giving details about a withdrawal from Iraq and commented that giving specifics can only hurt our efforts in the mid-terms. I again got some heat from the DKos crowd but that's ok, I am used to it by now.
But to round out the discussion let me state what I think will work to the Dems advantage and help us capture the House (which is the best possible thing we can do to protect and ultimatly bring home our brave troops).
1. Don't let the GOP frame the discussion towards the single issue that still works for them which is terrorism. Stay on message about the dismal GOP track record on Iraq, the budget, Katrina, Social Security, etc...
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Dems could blow it on leaving Iraq with date certain

MrBlue

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Thursday September 14, 2006 · 10:55 AM PDT

2006/09/14 · 10:55

As I have been trying to explain for months here at DKos withdrawal from Iraq with a date certain is liable to lose us enough midterm elections to cost us control of Congress.
I am not going to go over all the reasons again (I've done that at length and been fried doing so) but just look over the poll results listed in the WSJ.

When offered a choice between a Republican who wants to maintain troop levels and a Democrat who wants to reduce them, voters choose the Democrat by a 53%-40% margin. If offered a choice between a Republican who wants to maintain troop levels and a Democrat seeking "immediate and orderly withdrawal," voters prefer the Republican by 48%-41%

MrBlue

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Wednesday July 19, 2006 · 6:33 PM PDT

2006/07/19 · 18:33

I think Democrats should HAMMER Bush and those in Congress who voted against the stem cell funding. What an outrage that we are not allowed to spend OUR money (Republicans tell us all the time how tax money is really OUR money!) on something that may save our lives and that the vast majority of tax payers are willing to support with Federal tax money.
It's a fucking outrage and it's shameless politics, but I hardly hear a word about it from Democrats except kinda weak-kneed support of the bill but steering clear of the even the word "embryo" so as not to offend the religious anti-abortion voters. Bullshit!
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More proof DailyKos "Cut and Run" approach hurts Dems

MrBlue

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Friday July 14, 2006 · 7:25 AM PDT

2006/07/14 · 07:25

Over the past few weeks I have been trying to explain to the DailyKos folks that making the withdrawl of troops thier major plank in the upcoming elections is a losing strategy and have been screwered royally for it. I tried to explain that taking the focus of our attacks off GOP and BushCo incompetence and mis-managment of the Government/War/debt/Civil liberties/etc towards a strategy touting immediate withdrawl that is not agreed upon by Americans (even Dems can't agree on this strategy) could sqaunder a huge advantage we'll have going into November was foolish and potentially disasterous. Read More

I say it again...Shut up about Iraq withdrawal right now! You're hurting Dems

MrBlue

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Sunday July 02, 2006 · 9:40 AM PDT

2006/07/02 · 09:40

A week or so ago I wrote a diary who's thrust was Sen. Kerry's and Sen. Feingold's amendment calling for a date certain for withdrawal of troops from Iraq was a foolish tactical move which will give an advantage to the Bush administration and GOP Congress in the mid-term elections. I also stated that Kerry's amendment took all the attention from a Sen. Levin/Reid amendment which also supported withdrawal but with no date certain and a more reasoned approach to the same goal which had broad Democratic support. I was castigated as a Troll, a wimp, as abandoning Democratic principles, a traitor and tacticly completely off-base...
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