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WesDem
MEMORANDUM
TO: Interested Parties
FROM: Dana Singiser, Senior Advisor for the Women's Vote
DATE: August 18, 2008
RE: Does McCain have a Woman Problem?
In early June, the McCain campaign bragged about its intense effort to win over women voters. There's a good reason why.
Women have out-voted men in every election since 1964. In just the past two presidential election cycles, women have made up a growing majority of the electorate, making up 52% of the vote in 2000 (69.2 million voters), an...
Sen. John McCain, speaking to disabled veterans Saturday in Las Vegas, attacked his Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, for his foreign policy record, while also proposing a program that would allow veterans to acquire health care at private hospitals and not just through the Veterans Affairs Department.
The veterans, at Bally’s for their national convention, gave him a tepid reception, especially considering McCain’s life story. The Arizona senator was a Navy pilot shot down over Vietnam, ...
I was enjoying this kos diary so much I wanted to bring a bit of it here to DU. Please go look at the whole thing :)
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3,000 GIs MOB Barack in Baghdad
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I strongly disagree with this statement: "Obama doesn't see it as a valid critique relating to the presidency."
Obama doesn't see it as something he can say out loud, but his campaign surely looks at polls and sees that national security is showing up as the one strength McCain has against Obama.
Somebody needed to break open that strength and get it looked at in the light, not shaded by the patriotic protection racket, and that is what will come of Clark's pressure. Wes Clark can do it and ta...
What Gen. Clark Actually Said
Media Falsely Claim Clark Attacked McCain's Service
Clark Praised McCain's Service, While Saying it Wasn't a "Qualification to be President"
Washington, DC -- Today Media Matters for America called on members of the media to set the record straight concerning the remarks of retired Gen. Wesley Clark on Sen. John McCain's military record -- a record Clark praised while also saying that it wasn't a "qualification to be president." Many in the media have falsely cla...
Defending Wes Clark
by Lt Gen Robert G Gard
Mon Jun 30, 2008 at 03:53:37 PM PDT
The controversy over my colleague General Wesley Clark's comments on John McCain have generated a lot of media comment, much of it negative. I have known General Clark for many years: we served in the same Army and for the same country. He's a patriot. So to suppose that somehow Wesley Clark would denigrate John McCain's service to his country, while praising his bravery during the time that Senator McCain spent i...
I wish I could post this whole article, because a lot of people only read the snippets. It's worth reading for an understanding of Obama's direction on trade reform.
An Alternative Trade Policy
Presidential Hopeful Aims to Sustain a Middle Class
By Robert L. Borosage 06/26/2008
Where is Sen. Barack Obama on trade and globalization? ...
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The challenge is defining a sensible strategy to sustain a prosperous middle-class America in a global economy. ...
Obama, for all of his mixed signa...
John McCain expanding GI benefits to veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, skipped the vote on it, then skipped voting on the supplemental budget paying for it.
He skipped the vote on the , lauded by for its overwhelming 75-22 vote and as “a historic victory for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.”
McCain skipped the vote on the , which passed by an even more overwhelming 92 to 6.
, which passed by a 92-6 vote, authorized a new GI Bill, Gulf Coast and Midwest flood recovery funds and an extensio...
PUMA tried to disrupt the unity rally yesterday:
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But there were only five or six of them protesting, according to the , although there could have been others in the rally crowd.
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Four or five women from Massachusetts clustered near the press entrance to protest for Clinton, who they said is the real winner. The women, who met online on a website for PUMA - Party Unity My (A--) - held homemade signs that said "Hillary: People's Nominee" and another that showed Clinton being run o...
There is a different view of what Obama's advisors are about than Naomi Klein has. For one thing, in the economics team, the major influence is Richard Thaler, a behavioral economist. What that means is someone who looks at the small things in life that change the big things in life when people are eased into making better choices. For example, automatic bill-paying can stave off a bad credit rating or payroll deductions can build a savings account. Everyone wants to pay their bills on time and ...
He was on the board of directors of Acxiom starting December 2001. He registered as a lobbyist for them in May 2002. He lobbied for them around 4 or 5 months, as I recall, although he remained on the board into 2003. Somewhere on DU is a copy of his lobbyist registration forms. But before all this, when I was thinking of after 9/11, he was already "lobbying" without pay or a license, trying to help get a system in place to identify terrorists on airplanes that would be an improved version of the...
This one will live forever
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Bush's Third Term
Barack Obama will bring the change our country so desperately needs -- while John McCain is offering 4 more years of Bush. Join me in supporting Barack Obama for President. Click here to donate to his campaign today!
This year, we're facing the most important election in a generation. As Americans, we must ask ourselves which candidate will bring about the change our country so desperately needs. In my opinion, Barack Obama is the only candidate with the judgment to move our...
Frustrated by their inability to successfully call Barack Obama's character into question, his opponents have seized on the next best option -- attacking his wife.
Paul Waldman | June 24, 2008 | web only
From the moment Barack Obama began contemplating a presidential run, conservatives saw one thing about him they didn't like a bit: his wife. She had a career of her own. The way she kidded her husband about his morning breath suggested that theirs might actually be a marriage of equals. And mo...
Bipartisan Coalition Rejects Proposal to Create Separate Court System
Washington, DC - Today the Constitution Project condemned proposals to create a system of "national security courts" in a new white paper, "A Critique of 'National Security Courts.'" In recent years, and particularly in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush affirming the constitutional rights of "enemy combatants" to challenge their detentions through habeas corpus, several scholars and governmen...
Feminists for McCain? Not So Much
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How antichoice is John McCain? Let's leave the psychological tea leaves out of it and look at his record. In his four years in the House, from 1983 to 1986, he cast eleven votes on reproductive issues. Ten were antichoice. Of 119 such votes in the Senate, 115 were antichoice, including votes for the ban on so-called partial-birth abortions and for the "gag rule," which refuses funds to clinics abroad that so much as mention abortion. In 1999, the year h...
, Sen. Barack Obama sent a warning to the Federal Communications Commission, which had been ordered by a federal court and Congress to use caution revising its rules. The FCC wanted to drop multi-station ownership limitations and the ban on simultaneous ownership of print and broadcast media in a single market.
"I believe the FCC media-ownership rules remain necessary and are critical to the public interest," he said. "We should be doing more to encourage diversity in ownership in broadcast...
This week, into law the , providing tax relief to military families. The Act allows American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to remain eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, gives them tax breaks for buying homes, permits withdrawals from pension plans without penalty, and makes them eligible for the stimulus package.
on the HEART Act at which members of the military and their spouses explained the financial burdens facing military families with multiple deployments for the wars in Iraq an...
This seems to be my day for reading about veep choices.
An earlier thread on Gen. James Jones .
At a time when Obama is slamming McCain
Obama and McCain also clashed over energy policies. McCain accused his Democratic opponent of recycling impractical ideas by supporting a tax on windfall oil company profits. Obama criticized his rival's proposed energy plan which called for an end to a federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling.
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McCain's proposal to tap offshore reserves was a reve...
This is one of the best political videos I have ever seen.
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Not that anyone here would do such a god awful stupid thing.
The Obama Campaign Today – Monday, June 9
On tap for today:
Today in Raleigh, North Carolina, Obama launches his “Change that Works for You” Tour with a speech on the economy at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Doors open at 11:00 AM EDT. Watch for prepared remarks later on this morning.
After the speech, the campaign will host a conference call with our top economic advisors to discuss the tour and take questions.
In the kickoff speech, Obama will lay out the first part his economic vi...
SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- For the last six months, one of the media's most convenient -- and offensive -- narratives has been that Latinos wouldn't vote for Barack Obama because they refused to support an African-American for president.
Pundits, columnists and bloggers agreed and offered outlandish explanations mentioning everything from the turf wars between Latino and African-American gangs in U.S. cities to the fact that Latin America is full of countries where race and skin color can...
One Historic Night, Two Americas
By FRANK RICH
Published: June 8, 2008
WHEN Barack Obama achieved his historic victory on Tuesday night, the battle was joined between two Americas. Not John Edwards’s two Americas, divided between rich and poor. Not the Americas split by race, gender, party or ideology. What looms instead is an epic showdown between two wildly different visions of the country, from the ground up.
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The selling point of Mr. Obama’s vision of change is not doctrinaire li...
There has never been a more important election in my lifetime -- with a war waging, gas prices at record highs, our health care in crisis, and our nation's standing around the world severely diminished. I spent the last year traveling across the country talking to great Americans in Iowa, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, South Dakota, Indiana and many other places. They all agree on one thing: This country needs new leadership, and it's time for change.
Many of you in the Clark community ...
Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the Climate Change Bill
CHICAGO, IL — Today, Sen. Barack Obama released the following statement on the Climate Change Bill:
“As this week’s debate on climate change has unfolded, the American people and those watching us around the world had every reason to hope that we would act. Every credible scientist and expert believes action is necessary. This is critical and long overdue legislation that represents a good first step in addressing one of the most s...
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Some Democrats have worried that Latinos view Obama warily and will be drawn to Republican nominee John McCain, who has been popular in that community and has campaigned in it aggressively -- already airing Spanish-language radio ads in the heavily Latino battlegrounds of New Mexico and Nevada.
But there are signs that Obama begins the general election battle for Latinos with significant advantages.
A new Gallup Poll summary of surveys taken in May shows Obama winning 62% of Latino re...
McCain’s Senate office contacted Obama’s office Monday night asking to sign on to a bill opening federal government contracts to public scrutiny, according to three knowledgeable sources.
Before the call, Obama had been working on the measure primarily with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), an ardent proponent of eliminating wasteful government spending and an early supporter and longtime Senate ally of McCain’s.
After learning that Obama and Coburn were introducing the bill without his backing, M...
Here is a theory:
But I do think that the way that the Democratic campaign ends matters. Obama is going to have a rough go of things if a perception sets in amongst the silent majority of Clinton supporters that he stole the nomination from their girl. Clinton is categorically not going to win the Democratic nomination. It is too late for her campaign to do or say anything that might change that equation. But the tone of her campaign from this point forward could have a significant impact on O...
This is a thoughtful piece by Booman that goes beyond the current discussion. I encourage you to read the whole thing.
I want to tackle this RFK thing from a slightly different angle. Let's for the moment put aside all talk of assassination and look at this from the perspective of what she was asked. She was asked why people are asking her to drop out. We need to remind ourselves that she was attempting to answer that question. It's a question that asks her to step into a non-supporter's shoes...
July of 1999 would have been the end of Clark's three-year term as SACEUR, yes. However, he was not "relieved" or fired, as is often claimed. High level commanders, as I understand it are almost never "relieved" and Clark was not "relieved" - in fact, in 2005 when was relieved, "A spokesman said Army officials could find no case of another four-star general being relieved of duty in modern times."
Was Clark pushed out by SecDef Cohen and Gen. Shelton? Unquestionably.
The timeline is this:
Ju...
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 DU Donor 20367 posts Member since Wed Feb 11th 2004 Mexico I was "Jersey" on DU, Summer 2003-February 2004. I'm a writer and a Democrat. I believe more than ever that America needs Wes Clark. And Barack Obama.
Thanks to the lovely incapsulated for the Clark graphics. wes clark says
I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this. -Tulsa OK, January 29, 2004 We must assure investments in the technology infrastructure — the broadband and wireless access improved and modernized highway, air, and rail transportation systems, and the access to affordable, reliable sustainable energy essential to continuing economic development. We must have a real plan to achieve energy independence. And we need to do so without further damaging our fragile environment. In fact, sustainable energy and so-called green engineering provide major growth opportunities for American ingenuity, and we must move in that direction. - "Real State Of The Union," January 30, 2006 We need to really get to the bottom of the Abramoff scandal, we should have a special prosecutor appointed for that, we really need a congressional investigation of the whole business of the NSA wiretapping and how far that goes, there's been a lot of squirreling around the edges; we've never completed the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had - the evidence seems pretty clear to me, I've seen that for a long time. I think Americans are best served by a strong 2-party system and that's been out of whack and what I can do in 2006 is try to help the right Democrats get into office and that's what I'm going to do. - "This Week," March 5, 2006 2004 primary, how'd he do?
Clark entered the primary race a year or two after everybody else was running. He was a novice candidate who ran in a field that was 80% elected officials or former elected officials; experienced campaigners, in other words. The only other candidate without an election history had been a preacher-political activist since childhood, a very, very experienced campaigner.
So how did Clark do?
In a four-month long campaign, before withdrawing on 2/11/04 and endorsing Kerry, Clark competed in 13 states. He won Oklahoma over experienced campaigners. He came in second in Arizona, New Mexico and North Dakota ahead of experienced campaigners. Third in New Hampshire, Tennessee and Virginia ahead of experienced campaigners. Fourth in Missouri and South Carolina ahead of experienced campaigners. Fifth in Delaware, Maine, Michigan, and Washington ahead of experienced campaigners.
Since the day he dropped out in February 2004 and began campaigning non-stop for John Kerry, he's been campaigning for Democratic candidates all over the country. He's now a very experienced campaigner in his own right.
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