http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 24 May 2013 03:48:04 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:48:04 I know about his intelligence and educational background, and the opposition can continue to under-estimate him for all I care. The machinery they have put in place to discredit Obama has probably been their own un-doing, like when movie stars and politicians starting believing their own publicity.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/42 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:25:45 You've got the other R out there, though, too, [Rove] writing revisionist history. Neither one of these punks has any compunction about lying.

And aren't former House Leader Tom Delay and Ken Blackwell (failed OH SOS and candidate for Governor) organizing some new "think" tank to saturate the ai... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/41 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:04:09 I purposely do not go into threads that read "Recommend if..."

If a thread is compelling enough to stand on its own, that is an accomplishment. If a thread gets recommended, it should truly be something special or important.

Please don't ask me to recommend your post; I undoubtedly won't.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/40 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:16:36 I recently had a very depressing conversation with my mother, who had just read Obama Nation by the Kenyan man who just got deported for trying to incite violence against the leadership in his own county. This is the same cynical opportunist that wrote "Unfit for Command," about John Kerry when the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/39 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:58:55 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/38 Thu, 22 May 2008 17:20:41 I don't even think they need to tell us the details of everything they will do; what I am looking for is an informed, rational, and common-sense approach to making policies and solving problems and keeping us safe. And I want someone I can trust. I wouldn't trust Hillary Clinton further than the n... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/37 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:53:01 i'm a woman, i've been looking for excuses to vote for her for months. I cant get over the time she stood up on the Senate floor and asked Senator Byrd for some of his allotted speaking time to talk about whether or not to let George Bush have unilateral, unprecedented authority to proclaim a "war.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/36 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:41:33 revised edition by Kent State University Press (2007) now available.

clarification on edit: the title is, simply, Ohio Politics.

It's a collection of essays by various scholars and journalists, about all three branches of government, and it includes a chapter on legislators in Washington (ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/35 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:39:28 harmful. I have the urge to be more circumspect about this particular election, however. If you read George Knepper's classic book [i]Ohio and Its People[/i], you get a real sense of the historic tensions and conflict in Ohio, whether it be over politics, religion, or regional development. Ohioan... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/34 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:06:51 "we get things done when we work together," makes so much sense, doesn't it?

A weirdly smiling Republican Mike DeWine speaks, a Republican part of the Republican machine that routinely shuts Democrats out of committee discussions and assignments, disallows Democratic legislation to move forward f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/30 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:21:17 The gubenatorial candidates have finally decided the Cleveland debate(On edit, I now see there are others scheduled for Cincinnati, Columbus and Youngstown, which is better, I think, than having them all in Cleveland).

I think some debates could be held in more rural areas like Wooster, where cut... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/29 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:37:29 This is good information. Pass it on....

Good to see old friends doing good.


CHRONICLE NEWS 8/17/06 VIDEO CLIP

http://www.chroniclet.com/Daily%20Pages/081706head6.html#video


by Stephen Szucs
The Chronicle-Telegram
ELYRIA — County Democrats came out swinging for gubernatorial ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/27 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:35:33 From the Columbus Dispatch
Thursday, August 17, 2006

To me, this report makes it sound like the Pryce camp is getting worried:

[i]President Clinton’s former press secretary came to Columbus yesterday to talk up Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy’s chances of ousting seven-term Rep. Deborah Pryce, R-U... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/26 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:39:54 1. There is, always will be, some portion of the work force that has to work for minimum wage. The same forces that hold down wages overall (globalization, illegal foreign workers, union-busting, etc.) operate to assure that some workers always will be on the lowest rung of the ladder.

RESPONSE: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/25 Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:47:59 "Consultant takes two sides," from The Plain Dealer on Wed, July 5, 2006, by Mark Naymik:


"Veteran political consultant Arnold Pinkney, has been hired by The Ohio Democratic Party 'to help coordinate its statewide campaigns,' including gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland’s....

"Meanwhile,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/24 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:25:19 ‘65 PERCENT SOLUTION’
School plan favored by Blackwell called gimmick
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Catherine Candisky and Jim Siegel
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Let the R's get bogged down in minutiae for once:

"A school-funding plan implemented by four states and embraced by Ohio Republican gu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/23 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:05:28 Brown and his friend John Ryan will get chewed up this weekend for taking a tour against the "special interests."

Here is some of my dissective thinking:
generally...
1) Special interests is now at best an over-used term.
2) The term special interests was started by right wing Republicans to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/22 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:49:10 , and messed it up, for your contributions to this forum. I am not upset with you in any way; on the contrary, you help keep me caught up.

After reading headlines this morning, there it was again, though, the same tired old message, this time from Nancy Pelosi, evidently trying to shake things u... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/21 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:05:05 Strickland can't even respond properly to Blackwells' statement that Democrats think Government is God (see PD politics blog 6/21/06).

It's hopeless, I think, unless some of us start to raise holy hell. On top of this, the Brown campaign is totally disorganized.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/20 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:49:50 ....need to do it. I keep recommending the book "What Liberal Media?" because it describes in there how and where these operatives generate their talking points.

Liberals need to set up their own think tanks, their own radio and television shows, and buy up some papers and internet space.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/19 Fri, 26 May 2006 21:55:37 This is the point Senator Miller was trying to make when he was cut off (I have taken the following paragraph from Wilkpedia, because I dont have a written version of his remarks):

"Lincoln himself had declared he had no constitutional authority to free the slaves. In addition, freeing slaves was... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/18 Fri, 26 May 2006 14:03:12 http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/05/26/20060526-A4-00.html

http://www.ohiochannel.org/index.cfm?action=media.legislative_session_details&program_id=25&session_id=76801&clip_file_name=V05242006S_4&start_time=01:05:53... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/17 Fri, 26 May 2006 10:46:06 May 25, 5:36 PM EDT, from AP, published in the Wooster Daily Record



"The roll call by which a legislative and congressional redistricting plan failed to get the three-fifths majority it needed in the Ohio House to land on the November ballot. There are 60 Republicans in 39 Democrats in the Ho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/16 Thu, 25 May 2006 20:22:54 Driving back to Ohio from Texas, I thought I heard on the radio that the Mississippi legislature was proposing a one-year cooling off period for couples who have children, before they could be granted a divorce. I heard some interesting suggestions, like maybe people should wait a year before getti... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/15 Thu, 18 May 2006 09:20:20 Capri Cafaro can clean up her policy notebook and run again in the 13th in two years.

Labor can deliver candidates; unfortunately, these candidates are, for the most parts, losers, in the end.

And, we all lose on this one. To me it's an unfortunate case of the democratic process turning on it... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/poli speak/14 Wed, 03 May 2006 07:04:30