https://www.dailykos.com/user/jamminjer25/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:21:17 +0000 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:21:17 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/7/790735/-The-background-being-used-for-the-Frontline-Special <p>Is a wonderful looking thing. Not the ad per se (though it's fine), just the aesthetics of a nice border-wrap around the main content is quite attractive.</p> rss@dailykos.com (jamminjer25) Sitelayout _790735 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:44:39 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/22/568762/-REPOST-Obama-Eisenhower-08-Updated <p>This was something I posted about six months ago, and was promptly shouted down by the majority of the Kossacks, but in light of <a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/22/susan-eisenhower-leaving-gop-for-good-cites-mccains-rove-style-politics/">this</a> news today, I thought I'd re-post it:</p> rss@dailykos.com (jamminjer25) Barack Obama BarackObama John McCain JohnMcCain susaneisenhower Vice President VicePresident _568762 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:10:35 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/9/549061/-Obama-the-left-s-romanticism-with-defeat-REPOST <p>I'm sick and tired of reading all the lefty blogs freaking out that Obama isn't a mindless surrogate for every one of the netroots' pet policy-positions. He's not a living breathing manifestation of the liberal movement, he's a shrewd and brilliant progressive politician. Liberal ideological purity has been causing us to eat our own for decades, and I'm sick of losing. &nbsp;</p> <p>If Kos, HuffPost, Think Progress, Crooks &amp; Liars, Jesus General, MoveOn etc keep this shit up, defeating a 72 year old war-monger guaranteed to continue the policies of the most unpopular president in modern memory will turn into a bizarre curiosity that historians look back at and say <em>"Wow...how could Obama have possibly lost?"</em>.</p> rss@dailykos.com (jamminjer25) Election Netroots Obama Purity _549061 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:27:23 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/1/544972/-Obama-the-left-s-romanticism-with-defeat <p>I'm sick and tired of reading all the lefty blogs freaking out that Obama isn't a mindless surrogate for every one of the netroots' pet policy-positions. He's not a living breathing manifestation of the liberal movement, he's a shrewd and brilliant progressive politician. Liberal ideological purity has been causing us to eat our own for decades, and I'm sick of losing. &nbsp;</p> <p>If Kos, HuffPost, Think Progress, Crooks &amp; Liars, Jesus General, MoveOn etc keep this shit up, defeating a 72 year old war-monger guaranteed to continue the policies of the most unpopular president in modern memory will turn into a bizarre curiosity that historians look back at and say <em>"Wow...how could Obama have possibly lost?"</em>.</p> rss@dailykos.com (jamminjer25) Election Netroots Obama Purity _544972 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:08:53 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/19/538675/-HBO-s-Recount-Useful-Scene <p>I've tried so many times to explain the complexity of the circumstances surrounding everything that happened in Florida--back in 2000 (and, really, in 2004 as well)--to people like my mother and some of my other musician friends; and, being that they're really not political junkies, they usually just stare at me blankly. ;)</p> <p>Anyway, this scene from Recount has done the trick. &nbsp;Leary, despite his foul language (although I find that hillarious), explains the problems with punch-card voting succinctly, yet simply. Plus, the added CGI effects actually showing the processes going on inside the votermatic were genius.</p> <p>So with the 2008 election right around the corner, this single clip has done more to inform and energize a lot of the 'casually-political' people I know to be a little extra diligent before stepping into the voting booth. To ask questions like "Has all the CHAD been cleaned out of this machine?" or "Is there a reason why you only have two machines for this entire district?" etc.</p> rss@dailykos.com (jamminjer25) 2000election AlGore Chad DennisLeary Florida George W Bush GeorgeWBush HBO JamesBaker KevinSpacey Recount WarrenChristopher _538675 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:16:31 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/11/534218/-To-the-wingnuts-pretending-Obama-isn-t-really-black <p>Apparently, wingnuttia's new talking point is something along the lines of "well, Obama isn't <em>completely</em> black, so therefore there's nothing historic about his nomination,"; the point being I guess to reassure racists that their hatred of Obama is not really racist because he's not <em>really</em> black...or something. Whatever. Anyway, I realize this is just another part of the steady little drip, drip, drip of insidious innuendos for the feeble minded morons that make up the GOP base, but I feel the need to say this because no lie has ever been corrected from ignoring it.</p> rss@dailykos.com (jamminjer25) Barack Obama BarackObama Race Racism right-wing RightWing _534218 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:58:31 +0000