True the Vote booted from Columbus

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Tuesday November 06, 2012 · 8:25 AM PST

2012/11/06 · 08:25

Franklin County officials this morning denied the right-wing vote suppression group True the Vote the right to monitor 30 election sites because their appointments were improperly filed.

What a shame for those people, coming all the way here only to be told to go home.

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A letter to my Republican neighbors

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Saturday November 01, 2008 · 8:26 AM PDT

2008/11/01 · 08:26

For weeks, I have endured your smears and propaganda disguised as "helpful" e-mails. I have ignored them. I have done so partly because they came to my wife’s e-mail account and partly because I wanted to maintain neighborly relations, even if it keeping silent may contribute to an ulcer.

But I have had enough. The latest e-mail was typical. It said my wife should change the "Vote on Tuesday" sign she places at the entrance to our development to a "Vote for John McCain on Tuesday" sign. Then the e-mailer proceeded to explain how Obama was "OK with late-term abortions," sponsored a bill to promote them and promised "the first thing he would do" in office would be to sign the bill.

What a crock. Obama’s position is clear. He believes as President Clinton did, that abortions should be safe, legal and rare. He has said he would not oppose a ban of the (misnamed) partial-birth abortion if it allowed for exceptions for the health of the mother. We all know John McCain’s already-infamous "finger quote" response to that in the debate. If you really want to find the truth, go to fightthesmears.com. It’s all documented there.

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 6:48 PM PDT

2008/10/07 · 18:48

If you can't hit a ball off a tee, you shouldn't be president. And McCain's advisors are worthless. McCain had to hit a home run tonight. He had to be knowledgeable and human. He blew a chance at the latter right off the bat.

How hard would it have been for him when thanking Belmont and Brokaw to have at least acknowledged the death of Joe Biden's mother-in-law? Biden bent over backwards last week to call McCain a friend. What kind of friend doesn't acknowledge the loss of a relative? If he had extended his condolences to Biden, that would have made him seem gracious and, well, human. Instead, he just goes on to answer the question.

Just like Palin blew it by plowing ahead with her answer Thursday after Biden choked up when discussing his family tragedy, so did McCain by not acknowledging Jill Biden's mother's death. It was graceless and it was telling. But we already suspected as much.

Obama the new FDR

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 9:27 PM PDT

2008/09/29 · 21:27

I was a history major, and the Great Depression was always the most fascinating period of American history for me. I tried to imagine what it must have been like to have gone through the 1920s, to have been around when the country felt it was inextricably bound for continued prosperity, only to see the storm clouds gather quickly and see despair follow quickly. For just one day, I would have liked to have walked the streets of America in 1932 to observe the fear and disillusionment of the country. Now, unfortunately, I fear that we are headed down the same path.

I’m no economist – damn near flunked economics in college – but a reasonable intellect and decent common sense can see the ripple effects coming from what happened today and in the past eight years. Now we can only hope that Obama is the new FDR.

Oh, I have little doubt now that he will win the election. McCain’s gambit last week has backfired. He has no credibility on the only issue that now matters – the economy. Once Palin is unmasked on Thursday, McCain’s utter lack of judgment will be laid bare. But I fear this Obama victory that I have fervently wished for since January will be taking place under the worst circumstances

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 6:49 AM PDT

2008/09/26 · 06:49

None of us were around on March 4, 1933, but for the first time in my life, I can feel what that must have been like. That’s the day FDR was inaugurated just as the Great Depression was hitting its low point. Unfortunately for us, it is September 2008 and not January 2009. Barack Obama still has an election to win and then must wait 2½ months to take office.

By then, I fear it might be too late. By then, all of the promise we’ve seen in this remarkable man may have to be used to salvage what remains rather than build from a reasonable foundation.

Today will be an historic day, and not just because of the drama and uncertainty about the debate. It would surprise me if the stock market does not fall 500 points. It would not surprise me if it drops 1,000, or even dramatically more, if the framework for a bailout deal is not reached.

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 2:07 PM PDT

2008/09/07 · 14:07

We’ve done a lot of teeth-gnashing about how best to attack Sarah Palin. Lord knows she’s given us plenty of ammunition. But there’s been some hesitancy about going full throttle after her because, well, she’s a "Mother of Five with a Down syndrome baby," etc.

With the specter of disaffected Hillary voters still lurking, Obama supporters are understandably a little hesitant about going too hard after Palin. The good thing is, we don’t really have to, at least not directly.

Every lie, every far-right position, example of corruption of Palin’s should be framed not to attack Palin but instead pinned on McCain’s for picking her. Instead of saying, "Palin is unqualified or wrong because ..." we should say, "What kind of a candidate would pick somebody who is ...?" Because that really gets to the heart of the matter. This is not about Palin. It’s about McCain.

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 7:33 AM PST

2006/11/02 · 07:33

For the Republicans' 72-hour plan to work enough for Ken Blackwell to have even the slightest shot at upsetting Ted Strickland, Blackwell will have to get the biggest push from conservative churches. The most prominent is Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church in Columbus.

Churches are not allowed to directly endorse any candidate, but these are desperate times for Ohio Republicans and nothing would shock people who live here. We need to have people willing to go to these services on Sunday, armed with tape recorders, to make sure the Parsleys of Ohio don't cross the line and make sure they're held accountable if they do.

In the 2004 election, I had neighbor tell me he had gone to his church (not the Parsley one) and was lectured to by Zell Miller, Hannity and J.C. Watts about their duty to vote for Bush. It made my blood boil. That kind of stuff probably tipped the election to Bush. We must not let that happen again. It may be too difficult to organize a formal church watchdog list, but we do need to have to know what is said in the pulpits on Sunday.

Someone monitor Parsley in Ohio

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Friday April 28, 2006 · 9:16 PM PDT

2006/04/28 · 21:16

Ohio's gubernatorial primary is Tuesday, but a moment of truth will come Sunday. Ken Blackwell, darling of the Christian hard right, is counting on his fundies to win in a low-turnout primary over Jim Petro. Petro is bad, but Blackwell is in a class by himself.
This is what someone must do on Sunday: Perhaps Blackwell's most influential supporter is Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church in Columbus. Parsley cannot legally endorse Blackwell from the pulpit, and someone must be present to monitor Parsley to make sure that doesn't happen and raise a stink if he does cross the line.
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