Posting History for arubyan
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| Universal "Had Enough?" Video Now Available | arubyan | 07/16/2006 | 1 | 2 | - | 27 |
| Stem Cells: Something for Everyone, A Comedy Tonight! | arubyan | 07/17/2006 | 8 | 7 | - | 89 |
| (POLL) What do you think this war is really about? | arubyan | 07/18/2006 | 13 | 1 | - | 42 |
| PA-08: Murphy for Congress (A "Had Enough?" video) | arubyan | 07/20/2006 | 3 | 1 | - | 7 |
| What's Next For Israel? | arubyan | 07/21/2006 | 112 | 4 | - | 31 |
| (POLL) Is Hezbollah's War Lebanon's War...Or Not? | arubyan | 07/22/2006 | 78 | 4 | - | 23 |
| Israel-Lebanon War: Democratic Talking Points | arubyan | 07/23/2006 | 24 | 3 | - | 22 |
| NJ-04: Carol Gay for Congress ("Had Enough?" video) | arubyan | 07/24/2006 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| (POLL) Dean & Democrats versus al-Maliki: A No-Brainer | arubyan | 07/27/2006 | 72 | 4 | - | 37 |
| (POLL) Missed Chance: Arab Public Opinion Swings To Hezbollah | arubyan | 07/28/2006 | 66 | 1 | - | 1 |
| (POLL) Qana: Not the first time it's happened | arubyan | 07/31/2006 | 41 | 1 | - | 21 |
| Israel: What Now? | arubyan | 08/13/2006 | 62 | 4 | - | 12 |
| Fourth Generation Warfare: "You have to hunt like a network to defeat a network." | arubyan | 08/15/2006 | 24 | 16 | - | 57 |
| Dueling Anniversaries: 9/11 versus Katrina | arubyan | 08/21/2006 | 14 | 8 | - | 42 |
| Bush: Hiding a Serious Heart Condition? | arubyan | 08/23/2006 | 36 | 20 | - | 55 |
| Screw The Polls: Watch Prediction Markets | arubyan | 08/25/2006 | 56 | 19 | - | 44 |
| Battle Lines Being Drawn: Nobody's Right If Everybody's Wrong | arubyan | 08/28/2006 | 3 | 4 | - | 75 |
| Don't Let Rove Use Our Heroes Against Us | arubyan | 09/01/2006 | 14 | 2 | - | 9 |
| It Can't Happen Here? Think Again. | arubyan | 09/21/2006 | 7 | 12 | - | 9 |
| Do the Democrats Have A Ground Game Like THIS One? | arubyan | 09/24/2006 | 47 | 12 | - | 48 |
| Who Will Win the Battle of the News Cycles? | arubyan | 09/25/2006 | 5 | 8 | - | 9 |
| Video: Has Bush Lost Control Of Iraq? | arubyan | 09/29/2006 | 5 | 6 | - | 17 |
| PredatorGate Update: The Redder They Are, The Harder They Fall | arubyan | 10/03/2006 | 7 | 2 | - | 8 |
| (Video) Vote Republican: Because Jesus Hates Democrats | arubyan | 10/06/2006 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| We'll Die In A Lake Of Fire Unless You Vote Republican | arubyan | 10/09/2006 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| What the Democrats and the Detroit Tigers Have In Common | arubyan | 10/16/2006 | 31 | 2 | - | 10 |
| NJ-04: Crum-believable! Colbert disses my ad for Carol Gay! | arubyan | 10/23/2006 | 15 | 16 | - | 45 |
| (Video) What we'll lose if Net Neutrality dies | arubyan | 10/30/2006 | 8 | 5 | - | 10 |
| Our Iraq Exit Strategy: The Once and Future Strongman? (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Is it possible that Iraq may again, sooner rather than later, be ruled by ... |
arubyan | 11/27/2006 | 8 | 4 | - | - |
| Top Ten High-Impact Diaries from arubyan (2006) Using jotter's methodology , I compiled a Top 10 list of my own highest-impact diaries at Daily Kos in 2006.
All of these diaries made jotter's daily list ... |
arubyan | 12/30/2006 | 7 | 2 | - | 9 |
| The Shared National Sacrifice Act of 2007 (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Bush speaks! And there you have it: The Iraq war is " |
arubyan | 01/11/2007 | 5 | 3 | - | 11 |
| Dickerson: “Obama isn't black” Say what? "Black," in our political and social reality, means those descended from West African slaves. Voluntary immigrants of African descent (even those descended from West Indian ... |
arubyan | 01/22/2007 | 68 | 7 | - | 8 |
| Go Viral: Take the “Bite Me” Pledge - End the War | arubyan | 01/25/2007 | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| Iraq War: The Long View Lots in the news today about Democratic tactical maneuvering (translation: "infighting") in Congress, re: the war: Senate Democrats (translation: "Biden") want to pass a measure ... |
arubyan | 02/23/2007 | 4 | 3 | - | 18 |
| Grand Illusion: Rudy's Leadership on 9/11 (Cross posted ... |
arubyan | 03/02/2007 | 7 | 6 | - | - |
| 2008/DOA: Welcome To My Nightmare I really believe that the US attorney story has nothing to do with the tamping-down of investigations into Republican corruption.
I think Cheney is moving the chess pieces into place to ... |
arubyan | 03/07/2007 | 8 | 2 | - | - |
| My Hillary Post, Wherein I Say: WTF? Recently, from James Wolcott: Just this morning Chris Matthews compared [Hillary Clinton] to Madame ... |
arubyan | 03/26/2007 | 142 | 2 | - | - |
| Note to Obama: We're Playing Poker, Not Chicken Obama fumbled the ball, seeming to say that if Bush vetoes the Iraq spending bill, the Senate will respond by ... |
arubyan | 04/02/2007 | 29 | 10 | - | 8 |
| Islamic Fundamentalism: If You Can't Beat Em, Join Em? Winning the war of ideas against Islamic fundamentalism isn't going to be easy. But when are some people going to realize that we can't win it if we become more like them?
Case in point: |
arubyan | 04/03/2007 | 7 | 3 | - | 22 |
| Why Bush Won't Veto The Iraq War Supplemental MSNBC asks: Are vetoes the key to a Bush recovery? The simple answer is "no" because I don't think he'll veto the Iraq spending bill.
... |
arubyan | 04/05/2007 | 72 | 5 | - | 39 |
| Maybe Gonzales Was Brilliant...And Everybody Missed It Count me among that small group of people who thinks AG Gonzalez is not leaving office any time soon. Yes, I saw the same hearings you did. But despite all their "calling for Gonzalez to resign," I ... |
arubyan | 04/21/2007 | 50 | 10 | - | 25 |
| Post-Veto: What The Dems Should Do Next OK, first things first: I was wrong.
Moving on... |
arubyan | 05/02/2007 | 135 | 6 | - | 8 |
| Why Edwards' Anti-Poverty Campaign Won’t Help Him I read this item about John Edwards and took it at face value: Democratic presidential candidate John ... |
arubyan | 05/09/2007 | 80 | 4 | - | - |
| Don't We All Deserve Levees That Work? When most people talk about the destruction of New Orleans, they think of Hurricane Katrina.
But it wasn't the hurricane that did it: it was the failure of the levees. And what happened in New ... |
arubyan | 05/10/2007 | 3 | 2 | - | 9 |
| Date Certain: Wake Me Up When September Ends So Obama and Clinton voted against the Iraq war supplemental, as did Pelosi.
But not Murtha : |
arubyan | 05/25/2007 | 8 | - | - | - |
| Who Decides When A Vote Is Meaningful Or Not? Which votes are meaningless and which (if any) make a difference? And who decides that anyway?
On one hand, you have the recent toothless war supplemental bill that lacked any kind of timeline and ... |
arubyan | 05/27/2007 | 7 | 1 | - | 11 |
| Political Science 101: It's All About "67+290" (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Let's stipulate that if the Democratic majority in Congress intends to ... |
arubyan | 05/29/2007 | 10 | 8 | - | 44 |
| Democrats Can't Win By Being Smarter Than Republicans (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
You heard me right. There is no correlation between being smarter ... |
arubyan | 06/27/2007 | 31 | 7 | - | 25 |
| Scooter Libby & Fred Thompson: A 30-sec Video Takedown The Libby commutation is bad on so many levels...
...not the least of which is his association with Fred Thompson. Here's something I pounded out last night that (I hope) will taint Thompson's name ... |
arubyan | 07/03/2007 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| Top 5 Reasons Why Rove Is Resigning (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Lots of speculation about why Rove is leaving now, but no one knows for sure. ... |
arubyan | 08/13/2007 | 44 | 15 | - | 17 |
| Time Magazine Does Rudy A Huge Favor This week, Time Magazine delivers a profile of Rudy Giuliani that couldn't have been better had it been written by Judi ... |
arubyan | 08/23/2007 | 16 | 5 | - | - |
| Hillary Is Right About The Terror Issue & GOP [Note: I originally wrote this as a response to this diary ; but I felt that it needed to be a diary on its own. If you feel that ... |
arubyan | 08/24/2007 | 82 | 18 | - | 12 |
| Hillary, The Terror Issue & The GOP (Part 2) [This is a follow-up to my earlier diary, Hillary Is Right About The Terror Issue & GOP .]
So many commenters have responded to ... |
arubyan | 08/26/2007 | 28 | 1 | - | - |
| Bush & Petraeus: Troops Dying For Their Vanity (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
General Petraeus is going to give his September report next week. And/But ... |
arubyan | 09/06/2007 | 5 | 6 | - | 12 |
| Edwards/Dylan Mashup Video: Courage To Bring Them Home (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
I made this using an online video mashup application ... |
arubyan | 09/16/2007 | 15 | 24 | - | 18 |
| POLL: Hillary's "American Health Choices Plan" I just got done reading nyceve's excellent diary on Sen. Clinton's "American Health Choices Plan." I read many of the comments. ... |
arubyan | 09/19/2007 | 61 | 5 | - | 9 |
| POLL: Bush and the Armenia Resolution I'd like to do a lightning poll on the White House response on HR 106 , aka "Affirmation of the United States Record on the ... |
arubyan | 10/10/2007 | 114 | 10 | - | 9 |
| (POLL) Iran War: Electoral Disaster for Dems? Yaakov Kirschen 's cartoon goes like this: "The optimists think that the US Presidential campaign will ... |
arubyan | 10/23/2007 | 71 | 6 | - | 10 |
| How To Win The Democratic Nomination [originally posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
... |
arubyan | 11/04/2007 | 7 | 1 | - | 10 |
| (POLL) Iraq Not An Issue in '08? [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
So suggests Newsweek's Fareed ... |
arubyan | 11/05/2007 | 2 | - | - | 9 |
| Obama On Race [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
You don't think of Iowa as having any significant sort of minority population. So ... |
arubyan | 11/26/2007 | 64 | 19 | - | 13 |
| Russia: What Happens There Won't Stay There [Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
As if the world, and our place in it, wasn't volatile enough, here comes the ... |
arubyan | 11/27/2007 | 21 | 6 | - | 11 |
| Romney's Mormonism Speech Fails to Deliver Willard Milton Romney had a pretty steep hill to climb when he made that address Thursday morning on his Mormon religion at the Bush Presidential Library in Texas.
Bottom line for Romney: he had ... |
arubyan | 12/06/2007 | 4 | 2 | - | 9 |
| Google Huckabee Rapist By now you know all about Mike Huckabee's shameful conduct in the Dumond parole scandal. In the latest bit that I read, |
arubyan | 12/07/2007 | 26 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Clinton: The Real Reason She May Yet Lose Any of the following might be considered a good reason why she may not win -- either in the primaries or in the general; but they aren't the real reason. |
arubyan | 12/09/2007 | 60 | 1 | - | - |
| Clinton or Obama? Trying to make a choice Hear me out. And for God's sake read all the way to the bottom before you shoot anyone in the face.
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On one hand, Clinton is the candidate best suited ... |
arubyan | 12/10/2007 | 202 | 9 | - | - |
| Edwards: Breaking your heart into a million tiny pieces (Continued from Monday's diary ).
Hey listen, before y'all get your hackles up, I like your guy; I voted for him not ... |
arubyan | 12/12/2007 | 108 | 4 | - | - |
| Rove: Obama "lazy" (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
I used to dissect frogs in high school. It was a dirty job, but we all had to do ... |
arubyan | 01/10/2008 | 106 | 17 | - | 37 |
| Bush: "You’ll all be dead by the end of this year." (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
It was a morning, not unlike this morning, at a stateside military base not ... |
arubyan | 01/14/2008 | 11 | 8 | - | 32 |
| Tax Rebate: What Would You Spend Yours On? Bush is talking about the need for an economic stimulus package -- lickety split and shoeshine Charlie.
Below the fold I'll do a quick and dirty ... |
arubyan | 01/18/2008 | 114 | 14 | - | 14 |
| Republican Louisiana Caucus: Paul Thwarted Yep, they had themselves a Republican caucus yesterday, down in my neck of the woods. The national media skipped ... |
arubyan | 01/23/2008 | 13 | 2 | - | 4 |
| The Clintons' Pick and Roll (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
If Obama loses the nomination, here's the headline that foreshadowed his loss (... |
arubyan | 01/24/2008 | 21 | 3 | - | 12 |
| LA-06: Kopplin for Congress My friend Andy Kopplin is running for Congress from the sixth district of Louisiana (Baton Rouge). Maybe you remember us: We're in the district that Rep. Richard Baker abandoned to become a million ... |
arubyan | 02/04/2008 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| The Dumbing of America? Don't Believe It Susan Jacoby has written an article in the Washington Post that is one of ... |
arubyan | 02/18/2008 | 17 | 4 | - | - |
| Huck/Rollins: Pushed the Button on McCain Campaign? In Mafia parlance a "button man" is a hit-man or mafia soldier. In The Godfather movies, Luca Brazzi was a button man, as was Willie Cicci : |
arubyan | 02/21/2008 | 30 | 4 | - | - |
| Nader: I'm In Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water: Ralph Nader is launching a third-party campaign for president. The consumer ... |
arubyan | 02/24/2008 | 129 | 12 | - | 14 |
| LA-06: Kopplin For Congress Andy Kopplin is running for the Dem nomination for Congress from Louisiana's 6th CD (Baton Rouge). You know the district: Republican Richard Baker abandoned it to become a million ... |
arubyan | 03/04/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | 10 |
| LA-06: Kopplin on Climate Change & Energy Andy Kopplin is running for the Dem nomination for Congress from Louisiana's 6th CD (Baton Rouge). You know the district: Republican Richard Baker abandoned it to become a million ... |
arubyan | 03/05/2008 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| GOP VP Hillary Clinton? I think Obama should spend the rest of the primary campaign running against the Republicans' McCain/Clinton ticket.
Hear me out... |
arubyan | 03/06/2008 | 34 | 1 | - | - |
| Obama: Stop Repeating Hillary's Mantra! It's Saturday morning -- not my preferred time to publish a diary. But go get a cup of coffee and pull up a chair. I have something I have to get off my chest. |
arubyan | 03/08/2008 | 33 | 6 | - | - |
| Are You in the Detroit/Ann Arbor Area Tomorrow? If so, I encourage you to attend the premiere, on U-Mich campus, of a new film: Life is for the Living , a documentary about the people, the ... |
arubyan | 03/11/2008 | 7 | 6 | - | - |
| Black Skin Eddie Izzard : All that people care about is the look, because there's figures on this. 70% of what people react to is the look, you know, |
arubyan | 03/12/2008 | 7 | 4 | - | - |
| Obama On Race: His Work is Cut Out For Him I've been saying it since before anybody else: race excites the base . This election (as so ... |
arubyan | 03/18/2008 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| How Do You Win Pennsylvania? So who wins Pennsylvania? Or more importantly, HOW do you win Pennsylvania? What will it take to win over those voters who, as one Dem consultant put it, " |
arubyan | 04/01/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| The “Watchdog Press” Don't Hunt No More I've always felt that the job of government is to keep an eye on business and the job of the independent press is to keep an eye on government. So when I see ... |
arubyan | 04/29/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| NBC/WSJ Poll: Bush Far Scarier Than Wright In their latest polling, NBC/WSJ has revealed that George W. Bush, not Rev. Wright, is on the minds of voters -- and they don't like what they feeling: |
arubyan | 04/30/2008 | 18 | 11 | - | 18 |
| West Virginia: Obama “not their kind of guy.” WTF? Jacki Schechner nails it:
Why is it we can't just call it like it is? White, uneducated, poor voters ... |
arubyan | 05/15/2008 | 42 | 15 | - | 11 |
| Mississippi River States: Win 'em, Win the WH? I have a pet theory about electability that holds true for all presidential elections reaching back to 1900: whoever wins a majority of the 10 states bordering the Mississippi River wins the election. |
arubyan | 05/17/2008 | 23 | 3 | - | 47 |
| What If Obama Picks Hillary? (POLL) I am an Obama man through and through but I have to ask the question: Is it better for Barack to have Hillary outside the tent pissing in, or inside the tent pissing out?
Before ... |
arubyan | 05/21/2008 | 188 | 8 | - | 37 |
| Democrats: Turn the Page Already (POLL) I've been out of town for the last several days visiting family. So I've followed the DNC meetings only somewhat and the Puerto Rican primary even less. I've been reading a few online blogs. And it ... |
arubyan | 06/02/2008 | 7 | 2 | - | - |
| McCain Internet Rumors: GOP Disinformation? (UPD. w/POLL) (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Plenty of diaries today, and earlier, ... |
arubyan | 06/12/2008 | 11 | 2 | - | 8 |
| Osama bin Laden & The Boston Massacre Could there be a more heinous villain in the popular mind than Osama bin Laden? No.
And/But the debate rages: if he should be captured alive, would he, should he, be ... |
arubyan | 06/19/2008 | 17 | 5 | - | - |
| Clark v. McCain: McCain's Losing & Here's Why (cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
I ... |
arubyan | 07/02/2008 | 28 | 22 | - | 29 |
| Gore, Nader, Bush...& Obama: The lessons of 2000 (POLL) Diarist Mark Adams makes some pretty good points about Obama's rightward move in a post over ... |
arubyan | 07/04/2008 | 14 | - | - | - |
| Bobby Jindal Raised from the Dead? (POLL) (Cross posted at E Pluribus Unum )
Jim ... |
arubyan | 07/10/2008 | 19 | 3 | - | - |
| McCain$$ + RNC$$ = GOP Bloodbath in House A lot has already been written about the McCain/RNC money advantage over Obama. But what doesn't get discussed is how this leaves Republican Congressional candidates high and dry.
Until today. |
arubyan | 07/11/2008 | 13 | 2 | - | - |
| Howard Dean Talks to My Son My son is a huge fan of Hillary Clinton and took it pretty hard when she lost to Barack Obama. He's even threatened to vote for John McCain. Well, Saturday the DNC and Howard Dean brought their cross- |
arubyan | 07/20/2008 | 10 | 22 | - | 37 |
| Noonan: There's a New (Old) Meme in Town [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
There's a new meme in town ... |
arubyan | 08/08/2008 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| “Governor, you're no Mahatma Gandhi.” (POLL) [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
So it's going to be Joe Biden.
Or not. |
arubyan | 08/14/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Obama-Doubters: Buy a Hat and Hang the F**k Onto It [cross posted at E Pluribus Unum ]
Unlike many others, I guess, I give Obama credit for ... |
arubyan | 08/19/2008 | 41 | 30 | - | 30 |