Repetition does not transform
a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I'm going to give you
back your Democratic Party, I'm going to
give you back the White House and I'm going to give you back your country."
Friday
18 January 2008
Deep End News
"We are the grassroots movement to change this country and we depend on you.
We depend on you reaching out to your friends and neighbors . . . "
Edwards:
Democratic race isn't 'two-way contest'
Daniel Nasaw, guardian
" . . . this round goes to Edwards."
Obama and the Reagan Wing of the Democratic Party
John Nichols, thenation
"I denounce it."
Edwards Demands Obama Repudiate His Ally's Ad Hitting Hillary
Greg Sargent, tpm -- w/video
Ad: 'Hillary Clinton does not respect our people'
Ben Smith, politico
Tech-t-t-terror:
God help us all.
Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells
Rick Weiss, washpostAndrew Pollack, nyt
Thursday
17 January 2008
Update: CNN
ticker archive link is down
-- use
democratic underground or
Democrats.comOn Thursday one town-hall supporter urged the crowd to directly complain to media outlets about the lack of coverage. Edwards said he agrees, and that it is time to speak out.
Barack Obama, 2006:
"I am absolutely certain that Connecticut's going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the United States Senate."
-- Obama Endorses Lieberman for Senate link
more Obama 2006 . . .
[W]hen he was running for the Senate, Mr. Obama stopped by to shake hands while Mr. Rezko, an immigrant from Syria, was entertaining Middle Eastern bankers considering an investment in one of his projects.
more Obama 2006 . . .
OnDeadline, usatoday: "Officials at the ["non-profit"] University of Chicago Hospitals say a promotion and large pay increase given to Sen. Barack Obama's wife shortly after the Democrat was elected to Congress were well-deserved boosts . . . when Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs and had her annual salary increased from $121,910 to $316,962."
"A lot of us are going to caucus for John."
"I think what we need in the next President of the United States is somebody with some guts and fight and determination."
Edwards rips Obama's Reagan remarks
Aaron Lewis, cbs
Edwards at Odds with Clinton and Obama Over Nuclear Power
Cristina Corbin, fox
AP: "Illinois' nuclear industry, which has thousands of tons of waste at its facilities awaiting opening of Yucca Mountain, has been a longtime backer of Obama. Executives and employees of Exelon have contributed more than $200,000 to Obama's campaigns since 2004, according to PoliticalMoneyLine.com."
"This looks like the same old nasty divisive politics that both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton denounced just two days ago," Edwards said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.Clinton, Obama camps argue over ads
Jim Kuhnhenn, AP
Josh Gerstein, latestpolitics:
... Clinton Defends Suit Over Nevada VotingJustin Gardner, donklephant w/video:
Bill Clinton Defends Disenfranchising Nevada Voters
"There's no doubt that Mother Davis was a fan of Bill Clinton the first time he ran for president, but after his less-than-compassionate welfare reform that put another coffin nail in the early childhood education for poor children, she wasn't such a fan anymore. And where was the child champion Hillary Clinton? She was hawking her ghost-written book, It Takes a Village."
Federal legal aid for poor spent on alcohol, staff loans, report says
AP
One day after the sudden departure of Wolfowitz Fraud Unit appointee . . .World Bank closes offices after bomb threat
Reuters
Dan Hamburg,
MEC Quarterly:"So here we are a decade and a half
later: National health care, first proposed
by Harry Truman in 1948, is still a dream.
And Hillary Clinton ranks
number two
among 100 senators in
contributions
from the
very industry
that beat her to a pulp! That shows that
she’s been to the woodshed, just like her husband ... Bill Clinton won the election in ’92
with populist rhetoric ... But as soon as the
election returns were in, he began singing
from a different hymnal."
"I found my own voice" ??
Kentucky Fried Hillary
Selma, Alabama -- 5 March 2007 youtube
Wednesday
16 January 2008
"The big thing, I think, is to determine if the paper ballot count, the hand count, matches the machine totals."
Democratic Ballot Recount Under Way In N.H.
wmur
This 2007 piece is one of those featured in David Sirota's
Call for Input in today's dailkos.
Voting Aye: "our" 1st District Congressman, C. Michael (Mike) Thompson,
of the Blue Dog Coalition . . ."In 2005, 20 "New" Democrats — another group billed as "conservative" — signed a letter demanding the passage of the original Bankruptcy Bill. Those Democrats had pocketed a combined $750,000 from the financial industry."Conservative, Or Just Plain Corrupt?
David Sirota
Mendocino CountySlow Locals . . .
Sheriff Department scandal starts to simmer:
"There's a lot of underlying issues," he said.
Techno-t-t-terror . . .
Don't look now, but . . .
Tuesday
15 January 2008
Reno Gazette-Journal poll, w/comments, here: RGB.comThink the Democratic presidential nomination fight is a two-way race
between Obama and Clinton? Guess again:
For the Blowhards Who Insist It's a Two-Way Race ...
David Sirota, credoaction
Accounts of the Electoral Death of John Edwards Are Perhaps Premature
theagonist
"If you had to give this honor to a white guy, LBJ was an odd choice, since he'd spent the 1964 Democratic convention scheming to prevent the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party from taking any Dixiecrat seats."
The passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was . . . a direct result of those hundreds of thousands of people marching in the streets across our country under Dr. King's leadership and not because "it took a president to get it done."
-- Clarence B. JonesHillary Clinton: Antichrist or Contrachrist?
CubbyChaser, ComedyCentral Indecision2008
"Which Democrat opposed NAFTA and other trade deals . . . "
14 January: Still Not a Two-Person Race
"Despite facing two $100 million candidates, we are only seven delegates behind. Even after
February 5th, 45% of delegates will have not been selected. Contests in Louisiana, Maryland,
Virginia will all be held the very next week. This race has just begun."
please . . .
Vote for John Edwards:
ACT, Comments #1352 and 1357 (page 28) at
politico.comhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7845.html
Monday
14 January:
Vote for John Edwards: Race row gives nasty edge to Clinton-Obama . . .
AFP
Paul Krugman, NYT, today:
John Edwards "has been driving his party's policy agenda. He's done it again on economic stimulus: last month, before the economic consensus turned as negative as it now has, he proposed a stimulus package including aid to unemployed workers, aid to cash-strapped state and local governments, public investment in alternative energy, and other measures."
Sunday
13 January 2008
"Those who believe that real change starts with Washington politicians have been in Washington too long and are living a fairy tale."
Edwards criticizes Clinton comments
Evan Berland, AP
Paul Rogat Loeb:
“The more you kind of defend it, the worse it gets.”
Mendocino County Slow Locals . . .
Two other deputies have filed complaints related to their service in Covelo.
Saturday
12 January 2008
"According to
icasualties.org, at least 3,921 U.S. troops have been killed since we were tricked into invading Iraq. Have Clinton and Obama completely forgotten about the war?"
“This could ... keep culinary members from voting.”Culinary union secretary-treasurer D. Taylor said the plaintiffs are using "Floridian Republican tactics to suppress cooks, housekeepers, people of color and women.""Clinton's state chairman is Rory Reid, a well-connected Clark County Commissioner whose father is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.""...pits white collar union against blue collar union ... "Culinary union officials dismiss the complaints as sour grapes from Clinton allies. "It's strange it's coming after our endorsement."
Roll Dem Bones: “Give me a break,” Clinton said. “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever heard.”
Journalist Sidney Blumenthal arrested: 70 mph in a 30 mph zone."This occurred on Monday the 7th and was not seen anywhere until today, the 12th."nashuatelegraph: Primary lingers as recount looms
AFP: "United States dead last, in providing timely and effective healthcare to its citizens."How California governor
"cuts the budget":
$147,900 a year for
deputy chief of staff, 28
Friday
11 January 2008
"Clinton's chief campaign strategist, Mark Penn, is CEO of a PR firm that prepped the Blackwater CEO for his recent congressional testimony, is aggressively involved in anti-union efforts, and has represented everyone from the Argentine military junta and Philip Morris to Union Carbide after the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
Clinton supported an Iran vote so reckless that Jim Webb called it "Dick Cheney's fondest Pipe Dream," and did so, according to her campaign insiders, because she was covering herself for the general election."
continued here . . .
more on Hilly-Billy's handlers, "Spinning Hillary Centrist" here
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007HR 1955/
S. 1959: California
1st District Rep Mike Thompson voted
for HR 1955See November 2, scroll down at link . . .
