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Monday June 22, 2009 · 10:01 AM PDT

2009/06/22 · 10:01

We are making some progress in spreading the word about our support for a public option in health care via Twitter but it is still NOT nearly enough.

I am sure millions of Twitter users who Do Not Read dkos or other progressive blogs support a public option like we do. We just have not tapped into the potential of bringing that support together online and making the issue one of Twitter's Trending Topics.

If you want to amplify EXPONENTIALLY the message about a Public Option for Health Care get a Twitter account (or go there if you already have one), spread the word via news or Action items, and use the hashtag #publicoption

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Monday January 19, 2009 · 12:02 PM PST

2009/01/19 · 12:02

Yesterday greendem diaried about what many consider to have been the most emotional moment of yesterday's concert at the Lincoln Memorial: Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen leading a chorus of "This Land is Your Land".

However, something funny happened this morning on our way to Freedom.

As some of you may have noticed the video is not there anymore. HBO demanded that YouTube removed it.

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 8:58 AM PDT

2008/10/13 · 08:58

I will be out of town on Nov 4th so I decided to go and vote early this past Saturday. I live in Northern VA and voting places are now open daily and on Saturdays for absentee "in person" voting. My two sons were visiting from college and we all went together to vote.

We arrived at the voting site (Fairfax County Gov Ctr) at about 10 AM and outside the building we found a very nice woman at a table with an Obama sign giving out sample ballots for the Dem tickets (three Congressional Districts vote here). We took three sample ballots, thanked her and went inside. We saw no sign of the McCain people anywhere around which I thought was strange since every time I have voted before around here I have always seen people from the two parties.

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Thursday July 03, 2008 · 7:37 PM PDT

2008/07/03 · 19:37

This is Glenn Greenwald's take on the statement Obama made this afternoon.

"This statement has so many equivocations and vague claims as to be worthless. In a society that lives under the rule of law, government officials and corporations which break our laws are held accountable by courts of law, not by vague promises from politicians of some future "review" and "recommendation" process grounded in claims that we can trust the Leader to do the right thing, whatever he decides in his sole discretion and infinite wisdom that might be."

This is his conclusion, and I have to say that after reading the whole thing I entirely agree.

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 8:48 AM PDT

2008/06/20 · 08:48

I called the Obama campaign yesterday and asked one of the volunteers if the candidate was going to make a a public statement about the FISA vote that is coming up today in the House.

He told me he did not know but that they had been getting lots of call about this subject.

I told him to pass along the message that I believed it was a critical time for Obama to show leadership on one of the most important issues of our time: the shredding of the 4th Ammendment of the Constitution.
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Lawsuit may undermine Obama's chances in Nevada (Updated)

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Saturday January 12, 2008 · 8:31 AM PST

2008/01/12 · 08:31

The NYT is reporting this morning that

Nevada’s state teachers union and six Las Vegas area residents filed a lawsuit late Friday that could make it harder for many members of the state’s huge hotel workers union to vote in the hotly contested Jan. 19 Democratic caucus in Nevada.

The lawsuit challenges a decision last year to create at-large precincts inside nine Las Vegas resorts on caucus day. These precincts are critical for hotel workers to vote since the Nevada caucuses are at noon and workers cannot leave work to return to their home precincts to vote... (more under the fold)

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Thursday December 20, 2007 · 12:49 PM PST

2007/12/20 · 12:49

I find it interesting that on the same day that Tancredo is "Deported from Republican Primary", an important piece of news that is not being reported prominently by any of the major media outlets, Reuters chooses to report as major news for most of the day in their main website that there is an immigration clash that is hurting McCain because of his support for immigration.

I don't know much about Tim Gaynor, the author of the Reuters piece, but I guess someone forgot to tell him that the politician who represents the biggest symbol of that supposed clash is no longer relevant in the primaries.

He also should take a look at the many polls that show that only 15 percent of Americans rank immigration as one of the top three issues of concern to them, and that "a strong bipartisan majority -- 60 percent -- favors allowing illegal immigrants who have not committed crimes to become citizens if they pay fines, learn English and meet other requirements".

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Monday September 24, 2007 · 10:42 AM PDT

2007/09/24 · 10:42

If your are like me (an avid consumer of information) you probably read many blogs and follow several news sites every day.

Since I cannot spend several hours a day reading blogs and news, I subscribe to RSS feeds and use a feed reader (I use Google Reader nowadays). This way I can browse titles and brief descriptions and read only posts that interest me and important breaking news.

DKos is one of my favorites sites and I follow it almost religiously (follow me under the fold)

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Not really, I don't use RSS

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It doesn't matter to me, I use RSS but I usually prefer to visit the site

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RSS what!?

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The prelude to war with Iran: enter the MSM

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Friday February 09, 2007 · 10:06 PM PST

2007/02/09 · 22:06

I know that many of us have been waiting for that turning point when the undercurrent of rumors about a war with Iran that accompanies our feeling that something really bad is inexorably building up finally reaches the point when the MSM openly becomes part of the buildup. Something a la Judith Miller and NYT stories about Irak to attempt to affect public opinion in a campaign of disinformation.

I am afraid we are finally reaching that point after reading Michael Gordon's piece today in the NYT titled "Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran".

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Monday October 09, 2006 · 10:53 AM PDT

2006/10/09 · 10:53

After months of campaigning and barely acknowledging the existence of a Hispanic constituency in Virginia, Jim Webb, democratic candidate for Senate has finally reached out to the Hispanic community four weeks before the November election.

In an email circulated today to registered supporters, the Webb campaign asks:

"Hola! fellow Webb for Senate volunteers...are you interested in Latino voter outreach?"

My answers would be "Are you?, "What took you so long?", " and "Why now when we are only four weeks before election day?".

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Has the US military pushback against Cheney already started?

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Monday August 14, 2006 · 11:39 AM PDT

2006/08/14 · 11:39

The top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, Major General William Caldwell, refuted today an early assertion by the U.S. Ambassador to this country, Zalmay Khalilzad, that Iran is stirring trouble in Iraq.

Caldwell said today

There is nothing that we definitively have found to say that there are any Iranians operating within the country of Iraq.

Last week Khalilzad told the press that...

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Blair faces revolt at home

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Saturday July 29, 2006 · 7:44 PM PDT

2006/07/29 · 19:44

British newspapers are reporting today Sunday that Tony Blair is facing the most serious open Cabinet revolt since the Iraq war. According to The Guardian Observer, Blair was facing

...a full-scale cabinet rebellion last night over the Middle East crisis after his former Foreign Secretary [Jack Straw] warned that Israel's actions risked destabilising all of Lebanon.

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