Thpfft !!!! My Candidate Is Better Than Yours
Fri Jun 01, 2007 at 01:18:15 PM PDT
I’ve read bits and pieces of the various diaries and flame wars over Obama and Edwards, touting Hillary, praising Richardson, laughing at Biden, etc..., one thing remains perfectly clear to me -- all of you are backing the wrong candidate.
Face it, if you want honesty, integrity, a fire in the belly, good solid foreign policy and domestic policy credentials -- and good hair (don't underestimate the hair factor folks) -- then you need to look to someone who currently isn't in the Democratic field.
What Democrats really want is a candidate who is equal part wonk and equal part rock star; a candidate who will inspire you to fight the good fight, who cares about his fellow Americans, who will get serious about getting us off of our dependence on oil and fossil fuels, who simply can communicate in complete sentences.
Well, IMHO, while all of the Democratic candidates can speak in complete sentences, they’re all missing that "something" special, i.e., they don’t go to "11". There is one potential candidate out there though who is both a true rock star, a policy wonk, and potentially a quality presidential candidate.
More on the flip.
Is TV Actor Fred Thompson hiring Tim 'caging' Griffin for his presidential campaign?
Thu May 31, 2007 at 07:52:59 AM PDT
TV Actor Fred Thompson, soon to be the the newest entrant (he'll officially announce around July 4th) into the Republican Presidential peanut gallery has apparently decided to the ways of Karl Rove and add caging to his stable of dirty election tactics. Rumor has it (as reported by the Wall Street Journal and picked up by TPM Muckraker) that Tim "Caging" Griffin may be joining the Thompson campaign. The allegations about Mr. Griffin's involvement in "caging" activities for the Bush/Cheney campaign come directly from Monica Goodling's Judiciary committee testimony.
Additionally, she alleged, McNulty did not disclose the extent of his knowledge about allegations that Griffin had been involved in "caging" African-American votes during the 2004 elections, and inaccurately described the Justice Department's assessment of a commission that reviewed candidates to become U.S. Attorney in California.
More on the flip.
Ok, where are the chain emails promoting Democratic values and messages?
Mon Sep 11, 2006 at 08:10:27 AM PDT
I'm not one to write diaries but I think that this question, posed in an open thread, has the potential to get unwieldy if there are enough responses.
Why is it that the vast majority of chain/junk emails forwarded through the tubes of the internets by friends, family, acquaintances, and co-workers seem to contain right-wing talking points, even if made subtlety? Many of us have seen the ones about immigration, taxes, protecting the flag, the national anthem, religion in schools, etc... I'm sure we'll be on the receiving end of a new batch blaming Clinton for 9-11 soon. So what I'm wondering is why there aren't more of these types of emails coming from the Democratic side?
More on the flip.
Bush Must Pay A Political Price For Illegally Spying On Americans Now
Fri Jan 27, 2006 at 11:56:35 AM PDT
From purely a political perspective President Bush does not deserve to have Judge Alito confirmed by the Senate.
No President who has arguably violated the United States Constitution and therefore committed impeachable offenses deserves the privilege of appointing any person to the judiciary. Scholars and politicians on both sides of the aisle strongly believe that President Bush's policy of spying on Americans without a warrant is a violation of the law and the Constitution and, if true, rises to the level of an impeachable offense. So long as President Bush refuses to come clean on the spying allegations, so long as Bush remains tainted by accusations of violating the very Constitution he swore to defend, he is unworthy of the honor of appointing any person to the judiciary. Let Bush prove that he didn't violate his oath of office before his political appointments are given consideration on the merits.
It Is GOTV Time Again
Wed Nov 02, 2005 at 08:05:23 PM PDT
Election Day is right Around the Corner
This coming Tuesday, November 8th, local off year elections are happening in many places around the country. Turnout is even more important in off-year elections so, if you're stuck for something to do this weekend, volunteer to help a local candidate in any way that you can. Phone banking, assembling drop-off literature, dropping off literature, and, on election day, poll watching, calling voters who didn't vote before the polls close, and perhaps even driving people to the polls.
Anonymous leaks text of draft Bush speech (satire)
Mon Jun 27, 2005 at 01:40:07 PM PDT
Straight from the presses on the
internets is a Plame style
leak preview of Bush's Tuesday night Speech. It lays out the administrations future strategery for Iraq and the war on terror and answers questions about our successes in Iraq. The speech also defends Karl Rove, and otherwise sets new standards in the annals of American political rhetoric. So folks, be sure to watch this speech instead of ESPN2's scheduled bullfrog jumping tournament or the reruns of Scrubs and get ready for some good old fashioned American speechifying.
This Was Printed By The Moonie Times/UPI?????
Tue Jun 14, 2005 at 01:46:26 PM PDT
Ok, I had to share this because I almost spit my soda all over my computer monitor when I saw it.
A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.
Can the right to off-duty privacy be used as a wedge issue?
Mon Jun 13, 2005 at 12:44:11 PM PDT
Off-duty behavior can affect job
Some companies are cracking down on employees' off-duty behavior, raising questions about how far employers should go in policing what workers do on their own time.
This ties in nicely with kos' discussion about core principles and the Democratic Party, the privacy plank in particular.
Scalia and Thomas disagree on something [Wine Sales]
Mon May 16, 2005 at 09:46:39 AM PDT
and Ken Starr does something that even a wine drinking Democrat can agree with. (Ken Starr is not mentioned in the article but he was advocating for the out-of-state wineries trying to sell in Michigan and New York).
Has hell frozen over? There's no snow in DC.
Maybe Thomas is just a beer guy while Scalia likes his Wine. Who knows.
Court Lets Wine Lovers Buy Out-Of-State link
From the "This is cool but...well, uh" file [technology]
Fri May 13, 2005 at 06:34:27 AM PDT
JFK on being a liberal
Tue Feb 22, 2005 at 11:04:38 AM PDT
JFK on being a liberal - countering the GOP spin that JFK was conservative in the mold of today's GOP
At Eloy's suggestion, I have decided to make this comment that I wrote for this diary into a diary by itself. I have added to my original comment.
I wrote this comment/diary to refute an argument made by a person named Frances Rice that appeared in a letter to the (Sarasota) Herald Tribune
First, you need to evaluate Kennedy and his definition of liberalism in his own words, not the words as interpreted by a "conservative".
Chicago Sun-Times hit piece on Democratic Leaning Blogosphere
Tue Feb 15, 2005 at 07:47:20 AM PDT
Not that we should expect any less from the right-wing leaning Chicago Sun-Times, but this article is yet another attempt by the RWCM to smear the Democratic leaning blogosphere, while falsely depicting the right-wing blogosphere as a community full of good intentions rather than hatred of Democrats.
Internet bile backfired on Bush-haters
February 15, 2005
BY MICHAEL BARONE
Supreme Court Punts on Guantanamo Bay Question
Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 09:42:57 AM PDT
Supreme Court Punts on Guantanamo Bay Question
I don't mean to distract from all of the Condi fireworks but here's more of nothing from our fainthearted Supreme Court. I know that there's a method to this madness and perhaps the reason they declined without comment really is because the matter is coming up in an appeals court (the appellant tried to speed things up by filing an appeal with SCOTUS).
But after Thomas' recent comment that his loyalty doesn't lie to the USA and its citizens or our Constitution I have no confidence that this court will look to check the overreaching by BushCo and wouldn't be surprised if "decline to hear without comment" is the answer that this guy gets when his matter comes before the court again.
A quote from the story is below the fold.
Tommy Thompson's farewell letter to Dept. of HHS
Fri Dec 03, 2004 at 12:28:39 PM PDT
Nothing particularly insightful, witty, or worthy of
breaking headline here, but the stuff below the fold should be good for a few laughs or grrrs depending on your mood.
I'll just say that the person who sent this to me said that they can't believe how 'they' spin things as accomplishments that really are not accomplishments.
Too me, Thompson's and Bush's science legacy will be seen as a joke consisting of reduced research funding (NIH's budget was CUT by about 500 million this year) and an embracement of bad science for political/religious reasons.
Good riddance TT. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Big Brother Bush Wants Black Boxes In Your Car`
Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 01:19:22 PM PDT
Ok, this is from Fox
Privacy Experts Shun Black Boxes, but it's still an example of the ever creeping loss of privacy in our country, not to mention the utter disrespect that the so-called conservatives have for individual privacy.
WASHINGTON -- Some safety and privacy experts are reacting with apprehension, others with all out condemnation over a recent ruling by the National Transportation Safety Board (search) to require electronic data recorders or "black boxes" in all new cars manufactured in the United States.
"I take offense that this personal property of individuals is now being designed by the federal government," said Jim Harper, privacy attorney and editor of Privacilla.org.
More below the fold.
Our Answer May Be In Robert F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign
Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 06:03:41 PM PDT
Maybe we need to study Robert F. Kennedy's Presidential run and platform. I actually started to think of this on Election Day, when I bought an old RFK For President campaign button from a guy selling old Presidential Campaign buttons on the corner of 19th and M streets in Washington D.C.
I really think that we can learn something about how to deal with this 'values' issue by looking to the past a bit. I also think that to some degree it will help us understand just how the Republicans have done it, because I get this feeling that this is exactly where the 'compassionate conservative' name was drawn from (though in practice Bush has been anything but compassionate).
There's more below the fold
YAHOO AP: Study: Terror Warnings Up [Bush] Approval Ratings
Tue Oct 26, 2004 at 05:41:33 PM PDT
We all knew this, but should rate this story at yahoo
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/terror_warnings_popularity
By WILLIAM KATES, Associated Press Writer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - When the government issues a terror warning, the president's approval rating increases an average of nearly three points, a Cornell University sociologist says.
"The social theories predict it, and anecdotally we know it to be true. Now we have statistical science to confirm it," said Robb Willer, assistant director of Cornell's Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory.
On average, a terror warning prompted a 2.75 point increase in President George Bush (news - web sites)'s approval rating the following week, said Willer, who published his study in Current Research in Social Psychology, a peer-reviewed online journal.
Rate this thing up, comment on their message board, and lets drive this point home so that Ridge keeps his grubby little hands off of the technicolor bullshit system until it really is necessary. It's time for Ridge to act like a responsible adult and make Bush go cold turkey on his fear fix.
