Mark Rudd and Bill Ayers - Abominable Petulance

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Friday June 05, 2009 · 1:14 PM PDT

2009/06/05 · 13:14

Mark Rudd has written a new book about his involvement in the 1960s and 1970s with Students for a Democratic Society ("SDS") and the Weather Underground, titled "Underground: My Life in SDS and Weatherman."

In the late 1960s, photographs of Rudd's touseled visage were featured in national magazines that were covering the Columbia University students, led by SDS, who took over college buildings to protest the Vietnam War and college plans to expand in African American neighborhoods. After Rudd was expelled by Columbia, he rabble-roused against the War and racism on college campuses in his role as the national head of SDS. Then he joined the Weathermen, a small, extreme faction of SDS -- to "go underground" and "make the revolution."

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Saturday June 14, 2008 · 7:03 AM PDT

2008/06/14 · 07:03

I remember how pissed off I was to read that the first donation I gave to John Edwards' campaign just happened to be the price of a haircut. (Yes, I know it was exaggerated, etc. But I was still pissed off, and it did slow my additional donations.)

Now I hear that in some fashion the Obama campaign MAY help pay off the debts of HRC's campaign. My feeling is, the Clintons have plenty and I see no reason why they should not spend it, or raise the money themselves, to pay their debts. Yes, I know it's not a generous/reconciling feeling, but it's there, at least for the moment.

Is there really any way to donate to help Obama and have some assurance that my donation will not be used, in part, to pay HRC's campaign debts? My guess is the answer is "no," and that answer isn't going to stop me donating, but I'm just a-wondering. Any thoughts?

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 11:42 AM PDT

2006/06/14 · 11:42

More than a year ago, markos suggested that people sign up to donate monthly to the Democratic National Committee by credit card. I did it, $25 a month, and it feels good, really good.

I wonder if other readers of DailyKos who do this would join me in recommending that EVERY DailyKos reader try this.

I heard Howard Dean say that more than 20,000 people are doing this now the DNC calls it "Democracy Bonds.". There is no reason in the world that this number should not QUINTUPLE.

Just try it - you'll like it! As mom used to say, "many hands make light work" -- in union there is strength!

The site for setting up this kind of donation is https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/democracybonds.

Katrina = Tora Bora Redux. Good story from NYT on How Bush Blew Catching Osama

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Tuesday September 13, 2005 · 8:05 AM PDT

2005/09/13 · 08:05

If this dramatic story has been posted elsewhere on dKOS, my apologies. I found it at cursor.org. The story shows a Katrina-type ineptitude by the Bush administration in December of 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/11TORABORA.html?pagewanted=print Excerpt: One of them was Brig. Gen. James N. Mattis, the commander of some 4,000 marines who had arrived in the Afghan theater by now. Mattis, along with another officer with whom I spoke, was convinced that with these numbers he could have surrounded and sealed off bin Laden's lair, as well as deployed troops to the most sensitive portions of the largely unpatrolled border with Pakistan. He argued strongly that he should be permitted to proceed to the Tora Bora caves. The general was turned down. An American intelligence official told me that the Bush administration later concluded that the refusal of Centcom to dispatch the marines - along with their failure to commit U.S. ground forces to Afghanistan generally - was the gravest error of the war."

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Wednesday February 11, 2004 · 5:49 PM PST

2004/02/11 · 17:49

"Seizing on a fresh report about the financing of critical ads, Democrat Howard Dean assailed front-runner John Kerry on Wednesday for being part of 'the corrupt political culture in Washington.'" It seems like just the other day Dean was calling Kerry a Republican.

I donated a good bit of money to Dean, but not on the impression that he would say these sort of ad hominem "holier-than-thou" things about other Democratic candidates.

Dean must realize that he has very little chance of getting the nomination. If he is staying in the race for anything other than spite, it has to be to help move a certain agenda forward -- but is alienating his active supporter base from the likely Democratic nominee a sensible part of that effort?

Whatever the reasoning, because Dean is a great person in so many ways -- it seems a little tragic. What do people think?

Baaaa . . . I went from Kerry to Clark to Dean to Kerry (so far)

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Friday January 30, 2004 · 4:58 PM PST

2004/01/30 · 16:58

I may be a sheep ...

I felt for most of this last year that I owed John Kerry one. I'm 58 and I remember Vietnam, in fact spent two years in prison as a draft resister, I'm quite proud of that, and I thought Kerry's willingness to speak out back then had earned him my support now -- plus he's been a very progressive vote in the Senate for a long time. That's what counts, not whether he's dull. In the one speech I saw six months ago on TV, Kerry looked pretty wooden. But the military record makes him good on looking strong after 9/11, which, I agree with what Clinton said, is what most people want in a leader in crisis times. So I sent some money to Kerry.

But then it seemed that the conventional wisdom was that Kerry was going nowhere, and "owing Kerry one" only goes so far. I sent Clark a little money, on the "strong" rationale, but with little enthusiam.

Then, a couple of months ago I think, it seemed that Dean, who is a breath of straight talk and fresh air, had put together a fundraising strategy and an appeal that would work. I donated to Dean and went to a Meetup.

Now it seems that Dean's theory/strategy wasn't able to do it in the real world, twice, despite more than plenty of money. After Iowa I sent a few more bucks to Kerry, I guess on electability -- and there is still the part about owing him one.

What's next -- who knows? Does this little personal arc of sheeplike inclination resonate with anyone?

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