My right wing cousinUpdated

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Thursday August 27, 2009 · 7:32 PM PDT

2009/08/27 · 19:32

Well, I didn't intend to get into a Facebook feud with my cousin, but in my defense, SHE STARTED IT. Seriously, I was feeling very emotional about the death of Senator Kennedy, & read something about how some opposing health insurance reform would now use his death to excuse killing it.

Background on the principals is that I regularly post links & videos about health insurance reform on Facebook, much to the dismay of the friends and family, who likely tire of it, but I continue mostly because I'm very passionate about good reform but find it easier to have civil discourse with people who know me, know my kids, and who might be more inclined to at least listen to someone they can put a face to. As much as I love reading liberal blogs, I'm a prolific lurker. I usually don't find much daylight between the way I feel and those who post on the sites I read & respect. But I really don't have the stomach for right-wing sites, or the amazingly vitriolic comments sections of newspapers. So it's Facebook.

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How'd I do?

85 votes Vote Now!

How'd I do?

Effective

7 votes

You blew it!

11 votes

Great job!

7 votes

You can't argue with crazy.

56 votes

Pie

4 votes

Deficit Hawks....STFU (a rant)

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Tuesday July 21, 2009 · 4:39 PM PDT

2009/07/21 · 16:39

Where were all of these deficit hawks during the 8 years Bush blew through an inherited budget surplus & exploded the national debt in giveaways to war contractors & Cheney's oil buddies?
Are they offended that now, in a liquidity trap, when monetary policy can't inflate demand (because interest rates are already near zero) when deficit spending is NECESSARY to match the gap in demand, that we choose to use that dubious opportunity to create or enhance social programs that raise the tide for all of us?

Does running a deficit only bother them if we choose to spend money on badly needed infrastructure projects & support for bankrupt states that cannot run in the red, or that we're preventing massive layoffs of teachers, cops, & firefighters?

Where the f**k were you, and why are you crying now?

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 9:33 AM PST

2009/02/06 · 09:33

I do urge everyone to write and call your Senators and Congressmen to support the stimulus package. This is so important, nearly as important as getting President Obama elected in the first place. This is my letter to one of my Senators, George Voinovich (R-OH).

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Sunday March 16, 2008 · 10:53 AM PDT

2008/03/16 · 10:53

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

For the last few days, the MSM has been all over the Reverend Jeremiah Wright story. They've exclaimed how radical he is, his long relationship with Barack Obama, and Barack's subsequent Guilt by Association. They dredge up old fears and smears of Barack & Michelle's alleged and demonstrably false "patriotism problems" and decry how terrible was the rhetoric in those 15-20 second sound bites, how angry, divisive and sharp the contrast with a candidate soaring on a platform of hope and inclusion. On the left, ignoring for a second the glee exuding from the most fervent and fevered of Clinton supporters, we hear concern that its fodder for the right wing echo chamber, a clarion call for the 527's come the general, and that it raises serious questions about Barack Obama's judgement, something that has been considered a strength and a recurring theme of the Obama campaign.

And it's all bullshit. We're all just seeing our shadows.

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Sunday February 17, 2008 · 3:12 PM PST

2008/02/17 · 15:12

If you're not from Northeast Ohio, and Stark County, in particular, you may not be familiar with the Canton Rep. (And for good reason...) Serving Stark County and the city of Canton, Ohio, it is our local fish-wrap, and, good or bad, has a tiny bit of influence on local opinion. The online site, cantonrep.com, has a lively comments section that can be bitterly partisan, raucous, and (sometimes) even a little bit insightful. It's worth checking out, if only for a chuckle...

Progressives here have had a tough row to hoe, to say the least, but the defeat of Mayor Creighton to Jamie Healy last fall, and the retirement of long-time incumbant Ralph Regula has made us godless, wild-eyed liberals here in Stark County feel a little bit hopeful. More on the endorsement and a little bit of the demographics of the Hall of Fame City below the fold...

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Monday February 11, 2008 · 6:40 PM PST

2008/02/11 · 18:40

I know I'm not the only one here a little tired of candidate diaries. I think it's fantastic everyone is so passionate about "their" candidate. I feel the same way. I'm a Barack Obama supporter. I, for the first time in my life, donated money to his campaign over the weekend. Money I know I likely couldn't afford to spend, even in the small amount I gave. Barack Obama is the one I'll vote for on March 4th here in Ohio, but it could just as easily be for Hillary Clinton, and for the same reasons. I, for one, just don't believe the minute differences between the candidates policies are as decisive as others here most adamantly profess. But, like I said, this isn't a candidate diary...

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 12:32 PM PST

2008/02/07 · 12:32

She is incredibly angry with me because I support Senator Obama. She says that I won't vote for Hillary because she's a "girl". She blames me that her mother will also likely vote for Barack come March 4th. (How could she?!) No matter how many times I tell her that if she were to get the nomination, I'd have a Hillary sign in our front yard so big you could see it from space, that I'd plaster my car with Hillary stickers, and that a vote for Barack, at least in my family and I suspect with most Democrats, is not a vote against Hillary, but a vote for Barack Obama, a person I believe in, am inspired by and whom I believe has the very best chance of implementing the policies I think are important. It's certainly not because she's a "girl"!

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Am I crushing my daughter's dreams?

324 votes Vote Now!

Am I crushing my daughter's dreams?

Yes, you heartless bastard!

45 votes

Yes, but you should still vote for Obama & call it "collateral damage"

44 votes

No, but you should vote for Hillary

5 votes

No, you're exactly right and you are a wonderful father! (ego-stroke)

172 votes

And this is any of my business....how...?

58 votes

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My right wing cousinUpdated

Deficit Hawks....STFU (a rant)

My letter to My Senator

Seeing Our Shadow

The Canton Repository Endorses Obama

"Like Hope, But Different"

My ten year old daughter is pissed at me.

My right wing cousin*Updated*

Deficit Hawks....STFU (a rant)

My letter to My Senator

Seeing Our Shadow

The Canton Repository Endorses Obama

"Like Hope, But Different"

My ten year old daughter is pissed at me.

My right wing cousinUpdated