Politics of Contrast - VP edition

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 1:20 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 13:20

Earlier in the week, georgia10 posted a diary sharing the results of a contest in the Big Tent to snag some tickets to see Obama at Invesco Field. The tickets were awarded to the person who came up with the best reply to the question:

Barack Obama is to John McCain as ___ is to ______.

. The ticket winners went to

Barack Obama is John McCain as Jay-Z is to Vanilla Ice.

and

Barack Obama is to John McCain as Lando Calrissian is to Emperor.

Are you guys ready to play the VP edition of the game? Answer this:

Joe Biden is to Sarah Palin as ___ is to ______.

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 1:01 AM PDT

2008/05/03 · 01:01

If we take the numbers Kos uses for the current delegate count, Clinton has 1,604 and Obama has 1,733. There are expected to be 4047 delegates - meaning to have a majority you need 2024 (though the number could be 2025 depending on the outcome of special elections in Mississippi and Louisiana. There are 710 delegates remaining.

Obama needs 291 more delegates, and Clinton needs 420; just like the number tally on the Dailykos frontpage.

Obama needs to win 41% of the outstanding delegates. Clinton needs to win 59%. It looks very close at first blush, but lets keep going through the primary season and see what the remaining superdelegates would have to do to end the contest. On the flip...

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Friday October 20, 2006 · 2:01 PM PDT

2006/10/20 · 14:01

The Daily News had a blurb about Senator Hillary Clinton today- about how she has been seen to wear a cross necklace. The article mentioned when they first published the photo, they got a lot of responses on their blog. A lot of responses pointed out the difference between a cross and a crucifix, but there were also a great deal of hate spewed forth towards the Senator:

The devil has been known to wear many faces -- simply changing a piece of religious bling from a Star of David to a cross is no sweat for this Machiavellian shape-shifter.
Fact is, as a liberal, she hates organized religion as much as she hates the military (which is plainly documented).

I'm not sure what the source of the Hillary-haters belief that Hillary is Jewish, but it seems to be a common theme.

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Freep this blog event with House Republicans

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Thursday October 20, 2005 · 10:06 AM PDT

2005/10/20 · 10:06

Care to share a piece of your mind with some members of the House of Representatives? Republicans are meeting with some bloggers in room H-144, "one of those beautiful ornate rooms in the Capitol". There are about a half dozen bloggers seated around the table. Read what the republicans are saying about blogs and their plans for the federal budget at http://blog.nam.org

While you're there, maybe share a snark or two. Let's give them a piece of our mind. Maybe some of it will sink into their "beautiful minds".

The Trial of Rumsfield, Gonzales and Tenet

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Monday September 19, 2005 · 1:58 PM PDT

2005/09/19 · 13:58

On Sunday, September 25th, there will be a mock trial of Rumsfield, Gonzales and Tenet. My understanding is that Martin Sheen will portray Donald Rumsfield. If you are in the D.C. area this weekend working with Cindy Sheehan, you might consider registering for these events, too, and attend as many as you can in concert with protesting the illegal war in Iraq.

The right to be free of torture is one of the most fundamental human rights recognized by the global community today. In the United States, torture has been deemed abhorrent to our values and legal principles since the framing of the constitution. Patrick Henry himself spoke passionately on the subject, insisting that the rack and the screw were barbaric practices which must be left behind in the Old World, "or we are lost and undone."

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WSJ editor advocates shooting looters

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 11:59 AM PDT

2005/09/01 · 11:59

Peggy Noonan, contributing editor to the Wall Street Journal, agrees with the opinion found in some wingnut blogs that looters should be shot. In today's
opinion, she writes:

As for the tragic piggism that is taking place on the streets of New Orleans, it is not unbelievable but it is unforgivable, and I hope the looters are shot.

She goes on to distinguish between those who are taking the basics like food and water and those who are stealing. Yet this is a woman who espouses she wants to protect life, and has disdain for those who want to end it. A woman who argued for keeping brain dead Terry Schiavo hooked up to tubes indefinitely with these words of how precious life is:

God made the world or he didn't.

God made you or he didn't.

If he did, your little human life is, and has been, touched by the divine. If this is true, it would be true of all humans, not only some. And so--again, if it is true--each human life is precious, of infinite value, worthy of great respect.

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Do Unto Pat Robertson

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Wednesday August 24, 2005 · 9:57 AM PDT

2005/08/24 · 09:57

Since we regularly witness Pat Robertson violating two Commandments such as keeping the Sabbath holy and bearing false witness against his neighbor, it should come as no surprise that this is not the first time that Pat Robertson has advocated assassination as the preferred method of resolving problems. It turns out assassination was Robertson's alternative to the whole Iraq qWagmire we're in now. Below the fold is an excerpt from Robertson's interview on MSNBC's Hardball from June 2004.
Update [2005-8-24 13:8:17 by deadinthewater]: Robertson lies and denies advocating assassination. Read More

Santorum will not run for President

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Tuesday July 26, 2005 · 2:15 PM PDT

2005/07/26 · 14:15

Despite the book tour, every liberal's favorite poster boy of what's wrong with the Republican party will not make a bid for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

From the Washington Post :

WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. Rick Santorum said Monday he has no intention to seek the presidency in 2008.

The Pennsylvania conservative, who recently wrote a book titled "It Takes a Family," said he couldn't imagine putting his family through another campaign after his re-election bid in 2006. Recent state polls show Democrat Bob Casey Jr. leading the two-term incumbent.

Now how come God didn't share this with me?

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Thursday June 23, 2005 · 10:13 PM PDT

2005/06/23 · 22:13

Following some entries on dailykos to Stars and Stripes, I was happy to see some rational voices expressed in the letters to the editors here and there.

I continued to read Stars & Stripes, and to follow some links, I came across this fascinating tidbit of information that I had not seen or heard before. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, George W. proclaimed that it was God Almighty himself that told him to go to war with Iraq:

According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush said: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."

Now I've prayed about this war, and about all the death and destruction, and I have to admit, God has never shared with me that this mess was all his idea.

Have any of you heard from about this?

Timing is everything

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Tuesday January 04, 2005 · 2:02 PM PST

2005/01/04 · 14:02

I was surprised to see this solicitation for money from The Institute on Religion and Democracy. When I opened the email, I expected to see a request to send money to an organization that is giving aid and comfort to the victims of the Tsunami. But what I found instead was money to help their organization. I didn't know much about these folks, but didn't think their positions on issues of importance to human suffering in the world looked very Christian. But I registered just to find out more. Was I shocked:

And we maintained a vigilant watch over the meetings of the left-leaning National Council of Churches (NCC).

At each of these events, and at others, IRD confronts the pro-homosexuality lobby, radical feminists, and socialist-leaning forces who only see the Church as another mechanism to advance a left-wing political agenda. Sometimes IRD is the only voice of opposition.

They believe that the vast left wing is using churches to advance their political agenda? Excuse me? I think we all know who is using the church to advance political agendas, and it's not the left. Below the fold is the entire solicitation. Read More

King County looking for 162 more Ballots in WA Gov Race

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Friday December 17, 2004 · 8:59 AM PST

2004/12/17 · 08:59

Heard this on the morning radio... the story below is from King 5 TV's website.

King County election officials will enter a locked "cage" in a warehouse this morning to look for a plastic mail tray they believe contains up to 162 misplaced absentee ballots.

Elections Director Dean Logan said the ballots, like 573 other ballots that were improperly rejected, were set aside because workers couldn't find voter signatures that corresponded to them.

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Tuesday November 16, 2004 · 10:25 AM PST

2004/11/16 · 10:25

There was at least one Democratic candidate for U.S. President who could clearly articulate values without pandering to religion. Robert Kennedy, US Senator, said in an address at the University of Kansas, 1968:

"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

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