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And just how does Obama being a community organizer fit into that.
Have we landed on the moon yet?
Tune in Tokyo!
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Nobody is awake, seriously.
I see at least a couple point bump in the polls. Barack Obama seems "too" athletic. I believe Brady's knee injury will make people sympathize with the way McCain hobbles around. Make them want to have a beer with him, you know? In one of his many homes. Because he's a regular guy.
And I think people believe Obama's athletic ability is elitist. How condescending is it to be in good shape? I resent his abs, because I used to have some and hope to again someday soon. But he has to be so smug abou...
Pitbull Owners Blast Palin
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who famously compared herself to a pitbull in her vice-presidential acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, appears to have antagonized a key voting bloc in the upcoming election, the nation's pitbull owners.
While Gov. Palin's assertion that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull was "lipstick" drew a loud ovation from the Republican faithful in St. Paul, it raised the ire of the Pitbull Anti-Defamation L...
I am curious about the DU pulse on this. :)
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Here is video of his 60 Minutes interview.
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It's about getting out the vote. This is our election to win. The polls don't take into account registration and turnout. If we keep enthusiasm up, and unite to beat McCain and gain definitive control of Congress, we will. No doubt about it. We just need to stay strong and keep working hard. -WB
"Nationwide, there are about 42 million registered Democrats and about 31 million Republicans, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press.
The Democrats have posted big gains in many c...
Paul has an excellent graph for this blog post too. -WB
I can’t wait to hear how the White House tries to spin today’s employment report. But to be fair, this is an odd slowdown, by historical norms: no clear decline in GDP, no months of 6-digit job losses. Instead, the economy is being slowly ground down.
What I suspect, however, is that this is what the 21st-century business cycle looks like. The sharp slumps of the past partly reflected an inflation-prone environment, in which the Fed occas...
I noticed he said that when he was younger he picked a few fights for the fun of it.
I don't think McCain has grown up much, judging by his support of the invasion of Iraq, which was an undoubtedly bad move.
I'd say McCain's stances towards both Russia and Iran are troubling. In fact, I think it's safe to say that McCain would start another Cold War with Russia and probably start an outright war with Iran.
Just for the fun of it? I don't know about that, but you can bet they'd be as ill-co...
Of the sort that puts what we have already seen to shame. Did you notice the "Superhero ticket" signs and the "Superwoman" ones.
By the time we get through with this election John McCain will be freaking Paul Bunyan and Palin will be Babe, the Blue Ox.
McCain will have single-handedly choked out Saddam Hussein while fighting corruption with his left pinkie and being Maverickish with his right pinkie. We'll hear how Putin and the Loch Ness Monster wet themselves at night thinking about McCain...
This is hilarious.
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In His Big Speech, McCain's 10 Energy Lies Top Palin's 4 Energy Lies
Joseph Romm
From McCain's prepared text we see the Arizona Senator easily top Palin's lies (see "In her big speech, Palin repeats the GOP's big energy lie -- plus three other energy lies, too"):
My fellow Americans, when I'm President, we're going to embark on the most ambitious national project in decades. We are going to stop sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much.
LIE #1: McCain has no plan...
You can sign up for it here.
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Seriously, people in small towns really don't talk like that. I'm a fricking farm hick from Montana, the only people I know who talk like that are in movies who have their dialogue written for them by people who think they know what a hick or redneck sounds like. You might have an eclectic, folksy phrase or two, sure, but people who purposesly make it a point to say "haberdasher" are usually doing so for reasons that are not authentic. Like say, trying to create a false image or persona for poli...
TOP TEN ACTIONS FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the nation's first and largest nonpartisan organization for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will attend both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. IAVA veterans will meet with delegates and convention guests, raising awareness about the most critical issues facing the 1.7 million Iraq and Afghanistan troops and veterans and highlighting our historic fight for the new GI Bill. With the ...
Responsibilities of a community organizer
by Elana Wolowitz, Wellstone Action
Last week in Denver, Democrats highlighted the biography of their party's presidential nominee, Barack Obama, and the fact that he got his start as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago.
One interesting twist this election year has been the nation's exposure to community organizing as a job, and as something that might help prepare an individual to lead. It's not surprising that much of the country ha...
Specifically I worked with some community organizing groups like Acorn and PIRG, back in 2006 when I was the Students Are Voting Everywhere (SAVE) Director at the University of Arizona. My boss, the student body president, was a Republican. Both Republican and Democrats worked together and we registered thousands of student voters.
It was a good experience and I was proud to be part of it, we helped raise awareness and get people interested in voting and we did it in a nonpartisan manner. Imag...
It's so mind-blowingly interesting. I have some other writing that I'm working on, but the incredulity of McCain picking Sarah "Who?" Palin as his VP nominee has overwhelmed me.
I think the day after the election, and it looks like it's Obama's to lose, you will see the real second guessing on her choice begin. Can you imagine getting some pissed off GOP officials on record about Sarah Palin if McCain gets stomped in November? Or one of the people passed over like Mitt Romney?
I'd like to go ...
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The extent that they try to puff up her credentials is the greatest entertainment ever. My favorite, and I made fun of it in a post earlier, is the attempt to bolster her foreign policy credentials. These same people who scoffed at Obama living overseas or being on the Foreign Relations committee now hail living near Russia and being governor for 1 1/2 years like the greatest thing ever. You'd think she just split the atom. And the Commander-in- Chief of the Alaska National Guard, you get the im...
She led the Alaskan National Guard to victory in the Battle of the Bulge during World War Two, liberating Granada in the process and further preventing Abdul Qader Khan from selling off more nuclear secrets to the Sandanistas who were meeting with Bin Ladin, Saddam and this girl I used to have a crush on in my writing class but who turned out to be a horrible jerk.
So I for one, applaud Sarah Palin's service to our country and her extensive national security background, as the survivor of a co...
Hey if Sarah Palin can claim her trip to an Irish airport as proof of her experience, then I can say that since I have been to the airports in Zurich and Frankfort that I have that experience too.
I am a Switzerland and Germany expert.
Other types of foreign policy expertise.
- As a member of the sovereign Blackfeet Nation, I am an expert in Indian policy, but also because of my close vicinity to the United States, I am an expert in the United States.
- I grew up less than an hour away fr...
And hell I just ran a fake campaign, plus I don't even know Kurovski's real name. About all I know is the K-Man is gay and is a big fan of Howard Dean. Which seems to be more than McCain new about Palin.
Honestly, I can't believe this guy. What a bonehead. I think he should just go off to Czechoslovakia or the Iraq-Pakistan border and call it a career.
It took Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier in baseball. Somebody who could hold their temper and go out and prove all the doubters wrong. He was the right man at the right time. Amazing that it turned out that way. Few people carry that innate gift inside of them. Knowing how to quell anger, and fight the battle the way it should be fought.
Barack Obama is like that. He's cool under fire. Insults roll off of him. If it were me, or probably any of us, I would have flipped out and went s...
That's a high water mark for him, as it says here. I think while Palin is compelling, she's still more of a "WTF" choice. Most people I've talked to are shocked if not perplexed that McCain picked her. Two Alaskan newspapers have questioned the choice and said she wasn't qualified.
McCain has run a campaign to try to win a daily news cycle in cheap ways. In the end, Obama had 38 million people watch probably the greatest speech of the last 50 years anyway. More people watched him than the open...
You'd think freakin' McCain split the atom and turned dog shit into chocolate ice cream with one wave of his hand.
I'd like to know why Bush and now McCain has started to echo Obama's positions on Iraq and Afghanistan?
I'd like to know why McCain continually conflates and confuses Sunni and Shia? I'd also like to know why McCain stood up 5 years ago and said that Sunni and Shia have no history of violence in Iraq?
Why did McCain continually say Iraq was going to be easy? Why did he buy int...
The theme of Day 2 of the RNC, according to AP, is “Reform.” The top-billed speaker is Rudi Giuliani.
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Rudy-Kerik '08
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I am making a short film, so I spent the lost couple hours filming a homeless Vietnam vet, I know. He's an interesting guy, has a gregarious personality. He has a college degree, was married and divorced and has a teenage daughter. He was addicted to painkillers at one time, after he had been injured by a hit and run driver while crossing the street. This is what first led to his homelessness.
He spent 3 weeks in a hospital and about a year rehabbing his injuries. In this time he had a girlfri...
Especially feminist women. In any group of people there are a few ignorant ones yes, but I have no doubt at all, that most women who are astute enough to vote aren't going to go running to John McCain because of Sarah Palin.
And, the vast majority of Hillary supporters know that McCain-Palin is about as anti-women's rights as it gets, while Obama-Biden are solid on all the issues that matter, from being pro-choice to fighting domestic violence.
I don't think there ever was a vast swath of ag...
I didn't get all the ones I wanted at the times I was putting them up, but I do have the big ones from each night, so you can all revisit them whenever you want. -Bill
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BITTER WORDS
For Lisa
There she was, only twenty, a little lady
with chestnut hair, sauntering past my eyes
and a row of desks, a big, black belt around
her hips, the briefest glance jolts my lightning
crashing; the monsoon drizzles her bitter words
A Navajo poet - or what I imagined was one-
once called her “the petite girl who always wore
the white dress,” a static, thunder-filled dress by
its own merit, but I sing Blackfeet warrior songs
in my urban, desert shower about that cinched belt
Those torrential words! Swarming ubiquitous while
I empathize her life, leafing through courage, finding
similarities which may join us at those hips, drunk on
minute memories we salvage together, intoxicated by
alcohol I will never taste, storming electrical sobriety
A German Pikuni, and an American Jew, I may love
her for that reason alone; So what would Hitler, White
Calf, TR and Ariel Sharon think? Surely,“ why the hell
not?” If only she’d be foolish enough to fall in love with
a man who would give her an oppressed drunk of a child
Then the desert blooms like Browning, Montana,
festive, ripe as Indian Days in summer time, Yet
I’m squalled over by bittersweet rain; longing to be
gripped like her belt. That I could definitely handle!
I would capture those words to a reservation home
We could ride around in my ugly green reservation car
except that the mechanic sold it, because I never paid to
get it from his shop, How embarrassing for her; a raging
tempest speechless! Blushing from white trash indigenous
shame. But, she is accustomed to disappointment anyway
Still, she is endearing: feminist yet fragile, opinionated and
reticent, her words contrasting strength and vulnerability;
this is when she is at her sexy, enthralling best, making me
forget I swore off of white girls, since my friend married
one for a month that did not last until death tore them apart
“You’re too much,” she says. This bad boy who is not one;
her brilliant, acrid words scorching smooth like Thunderbird
Now, I’ll leave where there are no monsoons, tightly cinched
black belts, and the big powwow is over, I’m finished. Bitter.
Raining. Remembering the days I made her bitter words laugh
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