Charlie Gibson & ABC You Owe It To The Country To Ask Hard Questions

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 12:55 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 12:55

The decision by the McCain-Palin team to keep Sarah Palin away from the press is one of the most atrocious breaches of public faith seen in our lifetimes. If elected as Vice-President, Sarah Palin stands a statistically significant chance of becoming the President. 9 of 44 Vice-Presidents have become President. John McCain is 72 and has twice been treated for melanoma. Keeping her away from the press is a strategy designed to conceal her viewpoints from the American people and to prevent the citizens of this great country from having sufficient information to evaluate a vice-presidential candidate.

Sarah Palin must be questioned by Charlie Gibson as if she is to become the President. This may be one of the few opportunities for the American people to evaluate a potential President’s policies and her approach to governing. In my lifetime the major news networks have gone from the "fourth estate" to corporate shills for oligarchical capitalism. Corporate-owned ABC, you scored this "exclusive" interview with god only knows what promises. Break them all, please. This is your last chance to show us that the mainstream press in this country still serves the good of the citizenry, and not just its desire for profits.

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 3:38 PM PDT

2006/07/05 · 15:38

crossposted at Mothertalkers

Maybe you've heard about Amy Sutherland's column recently published in the NY Times entitled "What Shamu Taught Me About A Happy Marriage." It's been so popular that Maureen Dowd wrote another whole column about it published in today's NY Times.

I read it a few days ago, and I thought, "well I'm already using these tactics on my kids, is it that much of a jump to do it to my husband too?"

But then this morning I saw the headlines about North Korea, and had a whole new insight regarding the least reinforcing syndrome ("LRS"). Why don't we just ignore the crazy dictators of the world when the circumstances are right? (E.g., when they are not actually hurting anyone else and their actions seem designed to attract attention.) Read More

Sen. Schumer: Be a patriot, not a wimp

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Saturday January 28, 2006 · 3:32 PM PST

2006/01/28 · 15:32

Here is the e-mail I sent today to Senator Schumer calling upon him to support the filibuster.

Dear Senator:

Back in 1989, you were my Congressman when I lived in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. I remember going to a meeting of the Brooklyn Democrats where you spoke. You were young and enthusiastic (so was I, then) and you were so idealistic. With your stance against taking money from PACs and other special interests, I was profoundly impressed and thrilled to have such an ethical man as my representative.

I hope you haven't completely lost sight of that man in the intervening years. Now is the time to call upon him and to be a leader in the Senate in filibustering Samuel Alito. It is the ethical thing to do. Samuel Alito's views on government power would wreak havoc upon the traditional limited government of this great country. Any man who believes strip-searching 10 year old girls and shooting unarmed 15 year old boys in the back of head is a justified use of government power does not belong on our Supreme Court.

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