Daily Kos: Larry McAwful

Bush's "Nazi appeaser" was a Republican.

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 9:50 AM PDT

2008/05/15 · 09:50

We all heard Bush say that "an American senator" said he could have stopped Hitler from invading Poland, if only he'd been able to talk to him first. But Bush didn't name the guy, making it tough for us to put this comment in context. So: who was this senator?

My typical white grandmother

Larry McAwful

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Friday March 21, 2008 · 7:29 AM PDT

2008/03/21 · 07:29

So there's been a sudden dust-up surrounding Barack Obama's talk about how his white grandmother confessed that she felt jittery whenever a black man walked near her. Some have taken umbrage to how he referred to his grandmother as "a typical white woman." After he called her typical, he went on to say that she was a person who was made nervous by black men. Obviously this doesn't mean that Obama's suggesting that all white women are nervous around black people, but obviously the right wing is working hard to spin it that way.

I just woke up after a year of sleep!

Larry McAwful

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Tuesday February 19, 2008 · 8:23 AM PST

2008/02/19 · 08:23

I feel a little stiff, but refreshed. I took three Tylenol PMs instead of two. Better not do that again. Those things are strong.

The first thing I did, before picking up a newspaper or turning on the TV, was to jump on the DailyKos to sum up the last year's campaign events. It was pretty clear how things were going to turn out when I drifted off on the night of February 18, 2007, so I might as well recap.

Romney's out. So what does that mean for the Democrats?

Larry McAwful

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 8:08 PM PST

2008/02/07 · 20:08

As we all know by now, Willard "Mitt" Romney dropped out of the presidential race today because he wanted to make sure the leading Republican got a clear shot at keeping the White House in the Republicans' hands and not the terrorist dupes who are working hard to win it back. Obviously Willard's dropping out is going to have an effect on the Republican race, effectively making John McCain the Republican nominee, but will his effect have any effect on the Democratic race?

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74 votes Show Results

Independents will...

74 votes Vote Now!

Independents will...

break for Obama

53 votes

break for Clinton

4 votes

split between Obama and Clinton

3 votes

split between Obama and McCain

10 votes

split between Obama, Clinton and McCain

2 votes

be more likely to just stay home

2 votes

Delegate count: Obama leads in New Hampshire?

Larry McAwful

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Tuesday January 08, 2008 · 9:26 PM PST

2008/01/08 · 21:26

Okay, I'll pull no punches and I'll come right out and make it clear that I am not nor ever have been a Hillary Clinton supporter, fancier or even much of a tolerater of her. However, the TV told me that tonight she won the New Hampshire primary by 3%, more or less, and I believe it, in spite of what all the polls—even Clinton's internals—said. Well done, and I'll see you and your supporters at the next contest.

But apparently Barack Obama has scored 12 delegates from New Hampshire, while Hillary Clinton has 11 (and John Edwards has 4,) according to CNN's Delegate Scorecard. Now sure, a victory's a victory, and I'd rather see Obama have more delegates, but what's the deal here?

Horse-trading advantage for Obama

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Thursday January 03, 2008 · 10:30 AM PST

2008/01/03 · 10:30

It looks like the Obama's gaining ground in the second-place race. While Edwards generally leads as the favorite second-choice candidate for Iowa caucusgoers, Obama's been picking up recommendations from the back of the pack: "Vote for me first, then vote for Obama if that doesn't work out."

Poll: Having a beer with a candidate.

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Tuesday January 01, 2008 · 6:52 AM PST

2008/01/01 · 06:52

You often hear people say that voters will go for a candidate whom they'd like to have a beer with for some reason, and that's the way they'll wind up voting. In 2004, slightly more voters seemed to want to have a beer with a recovering alcoholic than a stiff drink with a stiff Democrat—and we wound up with a president who's really someone to drink about!

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89 votes Show Results

Which presidential candidate would you most like to have a beer with?

89 votes Vote Now!

Which presidential candidate would you most like to have a beer with?

Joe Biden

21 votes

Hillary Clinton

3 votes

Chris Dodd

4 votes

John Edwards

23 votes

Rudy Giuliani

2 votes

Mike Gravel

5 votes

Mike Huckabee

2 votes

Duncan Hunter

0 votes

Dennis Kucinich

4 votes

John McCain

0 votes

Barack Obama

17 votes

Ron Paul

1 vote

Bill Richardson

2 votes

Willard "Mitt" Romney

3 votes

Freddie Thompson

2 votes

Away in a WalMart

Larry McAwful

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Friday December 21, 2007 · 5:01 AM PST

2007/12/21 · 05:01

Here's a Christmas song I wrote a couple of years ago. I wrote the words, but not the music. But you can probably figure that out.

Let's remember those less fortunate than us this Christmas season—and let's remember those who are on the board of directors for the big box giant: remember them because they're the ones who are too willing to forget about you and everyone else.

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77 votes Show Results

I shop at WalMart...

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I shop at WalMart...

never.

43 votes

sometimes, and I feel bad about it.

23 votes

sometimes. So what?

4 votes

because it's really my only local option.

3 votes

whenever I want. Quit whinging, you populist liberal!

4 votes

The presidency is not an "all boys' club"

Larry McAwful

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Monday November 05, 2007 · 8:00 AM PST

2007/11/05 · 08:00

Sure, all 42 of the people who have sat in the Oval Office have been men. And sure, this is the first time we've had a female in the running who might actually win a major party's nomination (because Shirley Chisholm, Elizabeth Dole and Carole Moseley-Braun never had a serious shot, despite these candidates' varying merits.) But just because a woman has never been president doesn't make the presidency an "all-boys' club."

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90 votes Show Results

The eligible woman I'd like most to vote for president is

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The eligible woman I'd like most to vote for president is

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)

28 votes

Gov. Jodi Rell (R-CT)

0 votes

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

1 vote

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)

0 votes

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)

0 votes

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)

2 votes

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)

1 vote

Rep. Stephanie Herseth (D-SD)

1 vote

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS)

23 votes

Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ)

2 votes

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)

21 votes

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)

2 votes

Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK)

4 votes

Gov. Linda Lingle (R-HI)

1 vote

How the hell did you miss [see my response below]

4 votes

Watching September 11: 2001 through 2003.

Larry McAwful

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Tuesday September 11, 2007 · 8:25 AM PDT

2007/09/11 · 08:25

I was in the World Trade Center's underground plaza half an hour before the first plane hit. My train came in from New Jersey at that stop. I was in the office fifteen minutes before the first plane hit.

We evacuated the building after the second one hit. No one seemed to think anything of it until the second one; it was just a curious one-off. I was stranded in Manhattan until about 4:00, when I finally caught a ferry back across the Hudson River and walked three miles home to the west side of Jersey City.

Presidential bumper stickers.

Larry McAwful

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Saturday September 08, 2007 · 8:57 PM PDT

2007/09/08 · 20:57

Last month I drove from Boston to southern New Jersey to Cape Cod and back to Boston on an extended weekend. Along these mostly blue stretches of highway, I saw a number of bumper stickers that were residuals from last year's elections. I saw cars with bumper stickers for Sheldon Whitehouse, Ned Lamont, Ben Cardin, Bob Casey, Peter Welch and Jim Webb. I saw a few old Kerry/Edwards stickers but no Bush/Cheney stickers, and only one other Republican sticker—for Chris Shays. It's nice to see all this action on the part of Democrats and nearly none for Republicans.

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The 2008 presidential candidate whose name I've most frequently seen on bumper stickers so far is...

487 votes Vote Now!

The 2008 presidential candidate whose name I've most frequently seen on bumper stickers so far is...

Joe Biden

1 vote

Sam Brownback

0 votes

Hillary Clinton

15 votes

Chris Dodd

0 votes

John Edwards

19 votes

Rudy Giuliani

1 vote

Mike Huckabee

0 votes

Dennis Kucinich

4 votes

John McCain

1 vote

Barack Obama

43 votes

Ron Paul

399 votes

Bill Richardson

1 vote

Mitt "The Hair" Romney

0 votes

Tom Tancredo

0 votes

Freddie Thompson

3 votes

Why Republicans fear the YouTube debates

Larry McAwful

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Wednesday August 01, 2007 · 7:13 AM PDT

2007/08/01 · 07:13

Last week, CNN and YouTube hosted a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates. It featured questions recorded on film by citizens and played live before the candidates, to which they responded. Some of the questions were ridiculous, and the most ridiculous were weeded out beforehand, but overall the result was interesting and received warmly by the candidates and the media. I was on vacation when it aired so I couldn't catch it, but because it was on YouTube, all the footage was made available later online, allowing me to catch up. The wonders of the age!

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