The Genocide Olympics – (In)action item

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Thursday July 17, 2008 · 9:48 AM PDT

2008/07/17 · 09:48

The Beijing Olympics are 22 days away. I can't wait to catch the best athletes in the world compete against each other (exception: baseball, but the "athlete" label is only marginally applicable anyway). I am also excited about getting to watch all manner of sports that rarely make the airwaves in these parts, the presence of a half-dozen 24-hour sports channels in the cable line-up notwithstanding.

But I am not eager for the glory that China hopes the Olympics will bring to her, and for the media coverage sure to oblige. Setting aside Tibet, about which I cannot profess to know much, China’s support for the genocidal regime in Sudanand the murderous thugs in charge of Zimbabwe is grounds for shame, not glory.

The question is what to do.

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Will you boycott the opening ceremonies or the Olympics' corporate sponsors

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Will you boycott the opening ceremonies or the Olympics' corporate sponsors

I will boycott the ceremonies and the sponors

8 votes

I will boycott the ceremonies only

1 vote

I will boycott the sponsors only

4 votes

I will not boycott anything

11 votes

MoveOn shutters 527 effort

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 10:08 AM PDT

2008/06/20 · 10:08

TPM is reporting that MoveOn.org will not use 527s, in response to Obama's efforts to keep 527s out of the election. Obama wants the campaign to be about ordinary people, and not about loopholes where unaccoutnable big-time donors can tilt the playing field if they just flash enough cash.

This, my friends, is huge -- and it is a call for supporters to step up to the plate.

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 9:59 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 09:59

So now the DNC's punishment of Florida and Michigan for flouting party rules on the scheduling of their primaries is, according to Senator Clinton, somehow akin to the situation in Zimbabwe.

Wow.

I'm not sure there is anyone who shouldn't be gravely insulted by that comparison.

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Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 11:23 AM PDT

2008/05/13 · 11:23

After sifting through the absolutely horrifying stories about the Chinese earthquake and the refusal of the Burmese junta to let aid workers aid, it was a relief to get to the domestic politics section of the New York Times this morning.

There, however, I came across an article (buried back on page A18), A Usually Legal Practice That Wears Black Eyes that struck me as a little bit funny, a little bit sad, and as a big reminder about why Obama and his campaign are valuably different.

Basically, it's a story of the Clinton campaign's reliance on "street money" or "walking around money." The humor is that, in a move reminiscent of the plan to pay bloggers for pro-Clinton posts, the Clinton campaign essentially has to buy its support -- and it still lost. (Even if such measures -- and/or Obama's refusal to engage in them -- made the difference in Texas and Pennsylvania.)

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 11:45 AM PDT

2008/05/01 · 11:45

It has been a spring time of indignities, most especially for our nation's press. A new low was achieved today.

At the end of a somewhat rambling column in the NYT this morning, Gail Collins makes an analogy that sickened me to my core:

We're down to a race between the candidate who claims he will make the political process better but has yet to demonstrate exactly how that works, and the woman who claims she’s the only one who’s powerful enough to take on the Republican forces of darkness. Don Quixote vs. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both accompanied by their lieutenants — the men who think it’s all about them.

Did she just suggest that Hillary is like Buffy? In any way, shape, or form?

That is an outrage for which I just will not stand. It demands a resounding and immediate response.

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Whom does Hillary most resemble?

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Whom does Hillary most resemble?

Buffy

3 votes

Cordelia

12 votes

Anya

6 votes

Faith

14 votes

The Mayor

33 votes

Spike

5 votes

Mrs. Summers

1 vote

"Adam"

4 votes

add your own (see comments)

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Fight back against another 527 hatchet job

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Tuesday April 29, 2008 · 8:14 AM PDT

2008/04/29 · 08:14

They're at it again. The Orwellian-named "American Leadership Project," a collection of ad execs and career political hacks (with some help from some AFSCME) are running a new attack ad.

The ad is a classic 527 assault. It doesn't even mention Clinton at any point. Instead, it flimsily floats the claim that Obama doesn't "have a plan" to deal with the looming economic crisis. It is purely negative, although it laughably casts itself as informative (suggesting that one call the Obama campaign, although it provides no means for doing so).

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Thursday April 24, 2008 · 12:50 PM PDT

2008/04/24 · 12:50

Indiana?

Nope

North Carolina?

Nope

Guam? West Viginia? Puerto Rico?

Nope, nope, and nope

Then where?

(just make the jump)

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 6:47 AM PDT

2008/04/23 · 06:47

Here's my reaction to the prevailing Pennsylvania story – which is to say a close look at how the media does the Clinton’s spinning for her.

The examples of this are legion, but I’ll parse just one that is stuck in my head. The 8 a.m. lead-in to the news on NPR’s morning edition went something like this: "Good Morning. The pundits all said that Hillary Clinton needed a 10-point win in Pennsylvania last night to stay alive. And she won ... (pause)... by ten points."

As a statement goes, it is good copy – it is seemingly informative, captures what I would say is the conventional wisdom, and pithy to boot.

The only problem is that it is dead wrong on three accounts.

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Tuesday April 22, 2008 · 7:25 AM PDT

2008/04/22 · 07:25

[Note: this diary is cross posted on MyDD under my handle there, "NewHavenDave"]

Up until this morning, I -- an Obama supporter -- had grumbled about Clinton's kitchen sink, mudslinging strategy, but had steadfastly vowed that if it worked and she somehow got the nomination, I would still support her in November.

No longer.

If Clinton "wins", her reckless and genocidal nuclear deterrence policy will drive my out of the Democratic Party.

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 9:38 AM PDT

2008/04/15 · 09:38

This diary is a brief rant about NPR's Morning Edition has been with respect to its coverage of the Democratic nomination race.

I first really started to notice it in February, when ME's only Monday morning story following the previous weekend's Obama sweep of Washington, Nebraska, and Louisiana was a misleading one about racial polarization in the primaries. This was during pledge drive week, so I made my private pledge to redirect my public radio dollars to the local college station instead this year (WNHU, if you're keeping track).

And then there's been Cokie Robert's weekly segment -- cast as a "take on politics", but really strictly from a Washington Insider perspective that has failed to grasp the essence of Obama campaign from the start or throughout.

But this morning's show took the proverbial cake. Click here to listen. Details and my take on it after the jump.

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Thursday March 27, 2008 · 8:40 AM PDT

2008/03/27 · 08:40

(Before I begin I will acknowledge that the "they" in question -- the Clinton campaign -- have been making (stuff) up for a while now, as the Tall Tale from Tuzla sure illustrates).

But the latest claim, from some guy named Daniel Baer, stretches a key point of this campaign beyond its breaking point.

In the course of an opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, Baer, identified as a Clinton supporter, claims that the primary/caucus season is producing nothing more than a "virtual tie."

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 9:45 AM PDT

2008/03/14 · 09:45

I came across an interesting study that shows the Florida mail-in re-vote plan would feature a heavy bias against African-Americans.

The crux of it is that there is a startlingly high error rate in the addressses in the registration records. Errors that include bad or missing zip codes or missing apartment numbers are detectable, and are twice as likely to affect African-Americans as they are others.

In other words (since voting is involved), the mail-in revote plan isn't just bad, its unconstitutional!

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The Genocide Olympics – (In)action item

MoveOn shutters 527 effort

Zimbabwe? Really?

The sad thing was that the Times deemed it A18 material

Hillary is Buffy? Excuse Me?

Fight back against another 527 hatchet job

So the nomination battle all comes down to . . .

Don't believe the hype: Hillary failed

"Obliterate Iran"? HRC loses my hypothetical vote

Where have you gone Bob Edwards . . . io ?

A "virtual tie"? OK -- Now they're just making (stuff) up

Fla. vote-by-mail plan: Return to Sender!