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 | New Movie and New Book on Barack Obama |
| David Bossie from the group Citizens United is running ads for his brand new movie on Barack Obama. He previously made a film about Hillary Clinton that is now less useful, given her exit from the presidential race. But don’t be surprised if it becomes relevant again in four years. In the meantime, Bossie and Citizens United are focusing their efforts on educating the public about the real Barack Obama. And in a few weeks his movie will be complemented by the upcoming book by three young autho | |
| In Response to the Cafferty File: Why Do Some Clinton Supporters Want To Derail Obama? |
| Oh, Jack, you grumpy fossil, still up to your old tricks. Why should we bother to respond to this question knowing you’ll never bother to report the correct answer. The better question is, why does Jack Cafferty still act clueless when he surely has a college education? Is common sense optional at CNN? The drive by hit squad media can resist no opportunity to treat Hillary Clinton or her 18,000,000 voters dismissively and disrespectfully. Jack, your latest piece is no exception. But since y | |
| Paycheck Fairness Act, Empowering Lawyers and Bureaucrats |
| The full House Committee on Education and Labor is marking up today (1 p.m.) H.R. 1338, the Paycheck Fairness Act, a gender pay equity bill. The Committee held its hearing on the legislation back in April 2007, and the bill had just been hanging around then, waiting for the politically propitious moment. So last Thursday, July 17, there was a Capitol Hill rally organized by Sen. Barbara Milkulski (D-MD) to make a push for the legislation and its Senate version (S. 766). Also speaking were Hous | |
| A Further Look at The Clinton Die Hards From PUMA |
| Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog provides follow up to the post yesterday on CNN’s report on the PUMA groups of Clinton supporters who would prefer to see McCain as opposed to Clinton be elected. CNN’s report quotes Webster Tarpley as believing “a McCain victory might be the best result if Obama is the Democratic nominee.” Steve provides some background on Tarpley: Tarpley is a LaRouchenik and a 9/11 truther who thinks Obama is a puppet of the Trilateral Commission and “the candidate of th | |
| 'Notha Phrase You Can't Say on ESPN: "Shuckin' and Jivin'"--Is It Racist? |
| By Debbie Schlussel First of all, the most offensive thing about Justin Timberlake using the phrase "shuckin' and jivin'" on ESPN's always boring ESPY Awards Show is that Timberlake even has a contract with ESPN (and that he was given full hosting duties). Whas' up wi' dat? Second, ESPN edited out the part in which Timberlake used the phrase "shuckin' and jivin'," saying it's offensive to Black people and has a history of being associated with slavery. But that's not correct. While it's inco | |
| Wall of Text |
| This is too good not to share. We need a few more who think like this to influence our youth and young adults. This is long but worth reading. This Texas lawyer, himself recipient of an Honorary Degree, is obviously opinionated, but to say what he does, in a commencement address a couple of weeks ago, in front of a class of Texas A & M graduates, and especially the faculty, is amazing. I would have loved to have been there just to see the faculty reaction. Commencement Address (Texas A&M) Da | |
| Obama to Meet with House Democrats Next Week |
| Sarah Lueck reports on Congress. Barack Obama will meet with House Democrats next Tuesday evening on Capitol Hill in. On Wednesay, Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe met with Democrats during their weekly meeting. It’s not Obama’s first trip to the House side of the Capitol since securing the nomination in early June, but it will be his first formal meeting with the Democratic Caucus. Obama last met with a group of uncommitted House Democrats in early May when he was still vying for th | |
| Obama To Open Field Office In Bend |
| Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign opened five field offices throughout Oregon Thursday, including one in downtown Bend. The Obama camp also announced they have plans to open more offices in the near future. The campaign will hold opening events today in Portland, Beaverton, Oregon City, Eugene and Bend. Tonight's opening in Bend will go down at 7 p.m. The office is located at 117 N.W. Oregon Ave., with Mayor Bruce Abernethy and Judy Stiegler, candidate for House District 54, as the featu | |
| McCain: Snags the Dalai Lama |
| Frustrated all week by the Obama Abroad Tour's stranglehold on the news cycles, McCain finally gets a break -- setting up a meeting in Aspen tomorrow with a world leader of his own, the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan spiritual leader is attending a conference, and McCain is scheduled to give a speech to a military audience. He has spoken out in the past, urging the Chinese leadership to show restraint in its behavior toward Tibet. Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton urged President Bush to boycott th | |
| Barack Obama: BS Artist |
| Powerline has come up with the perfect description for Obama in a post about his latest exaggeration/non-truth/lie about his “deeds” on the Senate Banking Committee: Campaigning in Israel yesterday, Obama held a press conference in Sderot. There he claimed membership on the Senate Banking Committee that passed the Dodd-Shelby Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2008. The Senate Banking Committe passed the bill out of committee last week by a vote of 19-2. Obama | |
| Surrender is in the Air in Iraq |
| And it's not us that's doing the surrendering. It's them. Three al Qaeda terrorists surrender. 1,100 turn themselves in for reconciliation in a single Iraqi province. Just a few months ago Hillary Clinton claimed we cannot win in Iraq--joining the... | |
| Obamas Open Up to People Magazine |
| Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race. Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters will be featured in the new issue of People magazine. The magazine will provide a rare look inside Obama’s three-story Chicago home. Malia, 10 years old, and Sasha, 7, must complete such chores as setting their own alarm clocks and making their beds before Dad will give them their $1-a-week allowance. The subject of the future “may come up when we’re out for a walk [with the girls] | |
| Poll: Latinos Favor Obama by Big Margin |
| A new poll suggests Hispanic voters favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a wide margin, the Associated Press is reporting The national poll, conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center, finds 66 percent of Hispanic registered voters who were surveyed support Obama, compared to 23 percent for John McCain. The other 11 percent are undecided. According to the poll, more than three-quarters of Latinos who voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries now say they are for Obama. Clinton | |
| Timelines |
| Thomas Barnett notes: Spray one apartment and the bugs move over to the next. Wherever there’s the least resistance or the most opportunity, you find them clustered. The Anbar awakening ruins al Qaeda’s long-term chances in Iraq, and so the clustering refocuses on Pakistan. With the surge succeeding in Iraq and Bush finally coming around to rapprochement with Iran, our re-direct on Afghanistan/Pakistan seems well underway for the next president. Joyner notes the piece and says: Of course, | |
| Meryl Yourish votes Bull! |
| BO has a problem taking a clear position. Meryl Yourish has no such problem: Obama is using the Holocaust to score rhetorical points. Mind you, he’s not the only person ever to have done so, but I’m calling bullshit on this quote: “I am always taken back to sort of the core question of humanity that the Holocaust raises. That is, on the one hand, man’s great capacity for evil, and on the other hand, our ability to come together to stop evil.” Stopping the Holocaust had absolutely nothing to | |
| FBI Confiscated Anne Hathaway’s Personal Diary |
| FBI Confiscated Anne Hathaway’s Personal Diary Anne Hathaway’s “intimate” diaries have been confiscated by FBI agents investigating her con-artist former lover, Raffaello Follieri. The Italian crook was jailed recently on all sorts of illegal shit, most notably, however, after captain dumbass attempted to sell Catholic Church property on behalf of the Vatican. LOL…wow. Anne Hathaway could be drawn deeper into the fraud scandal of her ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, now that FBI agents ha | |
| The Obama Experience |
| Coverage mixed back home in the Windy City as the Barackstar jets around. A breathless Lynn Sweet with amazing photos!!! Be still my heart. Then there's the reality of the Obama Health Care Plan in Chicago. Chicago Sun Times: While on the county payroll, a top urologist at Cook County Hospital solicited nearly $1 million from drug companies over the last decade for his private foundation. Dr. Paul S. Ray's pitch was that the money would go toward medical research and education. But most of the m | |
| Why Does Barack Obama Hate My Family? |
| July 11, 2008 Vilifying Black Men to Win Favor with the Man Why Does Barack Obama Hate My Family? By KEVIN ALEXANDER GRAY Addressing a congregation at the Apostolic Church of God, one of Chicago's largest black churches, on Father's Day, Barack Obama said: "Too many fathers are M.I.A., too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men." This was his "Sister Souljah" moment. Jus | |
| New Look to Daou Report |
| by eriposte The Daou Report has a new look. It's not run by Peter Daou, who is still working for Sen. Clinton. As the About page says: ...The Daou Report was hosted by Salon from February 2005 to April 2008, renamed the Blog Report in 2006 and managed by the ubiquitous Steve Benen after Peter joined Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It was relaunched in July, 2008, with editors and guest writers including Vanessa Valenti, Mark Leon Goldberg, Jessica Valenti, and Steve Benen. [Peter remains on l | |
| Funnies from Your Spam Mail Box |
| Funnies from Your Spam Mail Box Thursday 24 July 2008 @ 8:14 am So, I’m at work and a bit slow to get moving. I see over 8,000 spam in my spam folder. The vast majority of it is the run of the mill spam. BUT there are some that literally make me laugh out loud with their subject lines. Hey, if we have to endure the spam, we might as well get a giggle out it from time to time. And no, I don’t click on the links - no matter how enticing the subject might be. LOL Here are a few I discove | |
| Anne Hathaway Diaries Confiscated By FBI |
| Anne Hathaway once starred in The Princess Diaries. Who knew this princess' personal diaries would one day be confiscated by the FBI in its investigation of Raffaello Follieri? Federal agents took them during their second raid on the jackass' Trump Tower pad, the New York Daily News is reporting. Seeking to bolster their case against Raffaello Follieri, who has been charged with 11 counts of fraud and money laundering, agents took photos of him with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Pope John Paul I | |
| Deeper into the Edwards Scandal |
| I’ll use James’ post over at OTBto spring off of, because I’ve been thinkng about this for a couple of days: John Edwards has been spotted back together with his alleged mistress, Rielle Hunter James quotes the story, and then comments: This is the National Enquirer we’re talking about here, not the Washington Post. Then again, as Byron York points out, “the Rush Limbaugh oxycontin story was broken by the Enquirer, and the press ran with that one.” Indeed, the Enquirer breaks legitimate sc | |
| The Money Shot |
| The Western Wall’s bedrock place in American politics … t Of course, no moment as great as this one, 41 years ago. | |
| Sarah & Todd’s ultra-casual creative Arkansas wedding |
| The offbeat bride: Sarah / vintage clothier Her offbeat partner: Todd / Graphic designer Location & date of wedding: Clinton House Museum in Fayetteville, Arkansas. August 11, 2007 What made our wedding offbeat: We got married in a little old house by the University of Arkansas campus, where Bill & Hillary Clinton actually got married. Turns out, we were the first couple to get married there since them! The next morning we woke up to find ourselves as the cover story of the Northwest Ark | |
| McCain ‘08: Because He’s Old |
| Here’s something so dumb it’s brought me out of hiding to blog again: a column in the Chicago Tribune by McCain advisor Steven Calabresi arguing that Barack Obama is too young to be president. His argument: the Constitutional requirement that a president must be at least 35 was created in a time when life expectancy was shorter, ergo a president today should be 55 or 60. (Or, it goes without saying in the column, 72.) Support for the too-young argument: the three youngest presidents, Teddy Roos | |
| Money Erodes Trust: Lawrence Lessig at Netroots Nation |
| (Photo of Lawrence Lessig at Netroots Nation, 19 July 2008, by Wylie Maercklein) Money Erodes Trust: Lawrence Lessig at Netroots Nation Last night's local (Austin, TX) news was focused primarily on the impending approach of Hurricane Dolly, where it will hit landfall, and how it will affect Texas/Austin, especially in terms of weather and our terrible drought. I was intrigued, however, by a solid segment on the fact that Rita and Katrina both damaged oil production in the Gulf, with spills as | |
| Hypocrisy Alert: DNC Employees Receive Tax Free Gas In Denver In Possible Illegal Gift From City |
| Taxes Fine for You Lowly Peasants, Democrats Avoid Tax Pain At The Pump, Dem Mayor Lies About Republicans Earlier this year John McCain called for a gas tax holiday during the Summer in order to ease the burden of the cost of gasoline. Hillary Clinton agreed with the idea but Barack Obama and many other Democrats did not like it and decided it was not a good idea. It was a particularly sore item with regard to union workers in the construction industry who reminded Democrats that a cut in th | |
| Kim Gandy: It Bodes Ill for the Progress We've Made |
| Quote of the Day She was called a bitch, a witch, shrill, cackle, cleavage - all words that come to mind - and, what was it, thick ankles? . . The fact that that kind of sexism was so commonplace and so little remarked upon bodes ill for the progress that we've made as a society. . . I didn't expect it. I didn't. I expected a little bit. I expected some. But I didn't expect this level of venom directed at her from people in the mainstream media. I expect it from the fringe Fox News types, sure | |
| If Clinton donors don't donate to Obama, who's to stop 'em? |
| Remember all that unity-Unity stuff last month about the once-warring Democratic camps of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and how they were gonna come together for the good of the party. And Clinton got a lot of her top 100 fundraisers together in Washington's Mayflower Hotel to introduce them to the party's nominee-to-be, which wasn't her? The Ticket had to doublecheck the numbers, but our campaign finance expert Dan Morain confirms them: Last month out of that whopping $52 million that Oba | |
| FBI grabs Anne Hathaway’s diaries |
| FBI grabs Anne Hathaway’s diaries Anne Hathaway could be drawn deeper into the fraud scandal of her ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, now that FBI agents have seized the actress’ private journals, sources tells us. The agents confiscated the intimate diaries of the “Devil Wears Prada” star during another raid on Follieri’s $37,500-a-month Trump Tower pad, according to the sources. Seeking to bolster their case against the dashing Italian, who has been charged with 11 counts of fraud and mon | |
| PUMA 08 Conference: Denver and Beyond |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J18LNP2IseE Video by boowitch13 “Surrounded by Liars and Thieves” by Satellite Nation PUMA is having a Pre-Convention PUMA Conference to prepare and train people for Denver and beyond. If you plan to go to Denver and can also make it to DC — GO! I’ve included boowitch13’s fresh video, “Surrounded by Liars and Thieves,” for your viewing and motivational pleasure. Do I want to set the mood that the PUMA 08 Conference will be angry and vengeful like the t | |
| George Michael talks about his 20 year old depression. |
| George Michael has revealed that he had depression for 20 years. He said this during an interview in Good Morning America, on July 23. George Michael, 45, credited his music, for carrying him through his dark years of depression and shock. He related how the deaths of his boyfriend, Anselmo Feleppa, and his mother had affected him. He had grieved for 3 years over losing Feleppa to HIV. Then, his mother died and he mourned for her too. On Tuesday night, during a concert at Madison Square G | |
| Katie Couric claimed she was misquoted on sexism issue. |
| Katie Couric has been revealed as the world’s highest paid news anchor. She claimed that she was still a victim of sexism. Her salary, which was double that of her male rivals, has not made her completely satisfied. Katie Couric, 51, has a salary of around $15 million per annum. Her ratings are behind her rivals. Her claims of being victimized by sexism were criticized as her salary did not suggest that she was a victim of sexual bias. Katie Couric told an Israeli newspaper that she was i | |
| McCain vs Obama on JibJab |
| Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! The latest JibJab - God those guys are good. Tags: 2008 US Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Humour, JibJab, John McCain | |
| Obama Should Learn More |
| Obama Should Learn More July 24th, 2008 by Commoner Barack Obama, who has mysteriously gained over Hillary Clinton in the race to win the Democrat ticket to contend the presidential election of the sole power of the world to become the world’s most powerful man has getting it all wrong when it comes to the war against terror, and he seems to be following the footprints of his predecessor in a very clumsy way. White House contender Barack Obama has said that all options, diplomatic and milita | |
| Faithless Delegates- how PUMA wins the battle and loses the election. |
| Guest post by Patrick Mckinnion So, the primaries are over. At this time Sen. Obama is the presumed nominee, based on pledged delegates and pledged super delegates. Let’s look at the figures, as provided by Real Clear Politics Sen. Obama got 1766.5 pledged delegates out of 3434, and Sen. Clinton got 1639.5. Sen. Obama got 463 super-delegates out of 823, and Sen. Clinton got 257. This means Sen. Obama got 333 t | |
| Review: Kaylene Johnson's "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down" |
| Enthusiasm for reform-minded, fiscally prudent, and socially conservative Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has moved beyond the "buzz" stage to the point where it's now rolling thunder. On June 8th, after finishing several hours of internet research, I posted a long essay (with many photographs) entitled Would Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin be a grand slam as McCain's Veep? I'm not claiming any causal relationship, mind you, but consider the following events since then (in addition to my own short follow-up | |
| BlogHer Awards Big and Small |
| Now I hate to bring up a sensitive subject but if you didn't make it out to BlogHer last week you might be interested in a few of the things going down. Maybe the list will bring up painful issues about why you couldn't go (why don't I just give you a paper cut and pour lemon juice in it, right?) but then again maybe it will console you that there were things that were fine to miss in the land of cable cars and conferences. So without further ado I present my BlogHer 2008 awards: 1. Best Swag | |
| Barack Obama not so sure what Senate committee he's on |
| Maybe it's simple fatigue from the grueling pace of campaigning for American votes in the United States for 18 months and then campaigning for American votes all over the Middle East and Europe for nearly a week. He might need four years to rest up. Or maybe it's simply Barack Obama's advancing age. After age 28, you know, the body and mind start to go. And in only 13 years Obama will be 60. And endured two teenage girls. The freshman Illinois senator slipped up again Wednesday on his foreign | |
| REVIEW THE CONSERVATIVE REPLY |
| REVIEW THE CONSERVATIVE REPLY NY Post: Gossip | 3 hours ago 'WE THOUGHT she [Hillary Clinton] would be a steadier hand as president than Sen. Barack Obama would be, with more hawkish instincts and greater political realism," write the National Review editors, explaining why some conservatives have been... (...) continue reading » | |
| Katie Couric on Sexism |
| Erm, let me see: Katie Couric, the CBS evening news anchor who earns a reported $15 million a year, compared herself to failed presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton in an interview with Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. "I find myself in the last bastion of male dominance, and realising what [...] | |
| Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign still owes Bethlehem Area School District $15,082… |
| Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign still owes Bethlehem Area School District $15,082… | |
| Wake Up! Conservatives Initiate Battle in Their War on Contraception |
| Life is full of choices. We choose whether to get up on time or hit the snooze button, whether to reach for a donut or a salad, whether to take that job or go back to school, whether to drive or to walk, whether to stay up late or go to bed early, whether to raise a family or not, and so on and so on. We are faced with so many choices in our daily lives that it is often hard to recognize the ones that confront us every so often that are much bigger than ourselves. So let this serve as | |
| Obama in Berlin |
| 07.24.2008 00:45 am [ Barack Obama ] [ 2008 ] [ Democrats ] [ bloggers ] [ right-wing ] [ Republicans ] [ General ] Obama in Berlin BY TAYLOR MARSH This is the flier that had Patrick Ruffina pitching a fit. Obama has a bilingual page on his blog! Hide the children. But this analysis, for lack of a better word (via Yglesias), is frightening, though Jonah Goldberg would be proud. Russ Douthat is practically apoplectic. I'd really like to know which genius on | |
| A list to conjure with |
| We love lists, and this one was irresistable: The 50 most influential political people in Oregon, leaving aside the actual officeholders and candidates. Topping out: The governor’s chief of staff and the staff chief for the senior senator - sensible enough. Of the former, Chip Terhune: “If you want the attention of the governor, Terhune is the only in.” Of the latter, Josh Kardon: “When it comes to Oregon political strategy, no one does it better. That might explain why U.S. Sen. Hillary Clint | |
| Obama’s Appeal To Conservative Collegues |
| One of Obama’s strong points has been his consideration of all viewpoints, allowing him to transcend many of the differences between the left and right in order to seek solutions to today’s problems. This is certainly a needed change after eight years of someone as closed minded as George Bush in the White House (and for the benefit of those discussed in the previous two posts, one of the many reasons to stop Hillary Clinton was to prevent yet another four years of the same problem.) This is a | |
| Trying not to find your voice |
| Trying not to find your voice By Conor | July 23rd, 2008 | No Comments » Hey, look out the window! Is that some crazy rain or what? Is that the hurricane that I saw on CNN.com for a fleeting instant earlier today? Or is that in the Caribbean or something? (If it is in the Caribbean, I look like a total retard right now. Unless I can play the Global Warming card? Thats a pretty decent catch-all these days.) Due to our Stats midterm quickly approaching on Friday, I have not read the news for | |
| Younger Than Springtime by digby I |
| Younger Than Springtime by digby I love this. Via Maha, I see that right wingers are now arguing that Obama is too young to be president. The man is 47 years old. Old enough to be a grandfather. (But hey, I'm only four years older than him and I've been feeling pretty damned old lately so this is good news. I feel young again!) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, argue[s] that in choosing between different interpretations of the Constitution, we should select the one that will produce | |
| He Chose…Poorly. |
| We are mere days from learning who is to be picked as running mate for at least one, if not both presidential candidates. It will simultaneously mark the end of one candidates aspirations. The smart money is laying heavy odds that McCain will pick Mitt Romney to run in the number two position. This is the dream ticket for those folks who stayed glued to FOX News and the Weather Channel while cutting out the latest Charles Krauthammer column to stick on the fridge. This group of voters is | |
| WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama Leads By 6 Points But Obama And McCain Both Have Negatives |
| WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama Leads By 6 Points But Obama And McCain Both Have Negatives July 23rd, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that some 100 days before election day Democratic presumptive Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama has a six point lead — but both Obama and Republican presumptive Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain have their work cut out for them. Both have negatives: Obama because he’s a new political product on the national po | |
| Dobson's Flip |
| It may not be quite a flip-flop yet, but James Dobson has gone at least halfway. Although Dobson declared a few months ago that he could never vote for Republican John McCain, he now claimed he might: I never thought I would hear myself saying this. ... While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might.Yet, earlier this year, Dobson argued: I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.Dobson is now using what some call "the lesser of two evils" arg | |
| Obama In A Nutshell: Not So Pretty |
| From Obama WTF (What's The facts?: Obama in a Nutshell now includes 22 memorable quotes which capture the essence of BHO with great verbal efficiency and occasionally a wisp of wit. 1 "Mr Obama is spectacularly under-qualified to be President; he's been in the Senate for 25 months... there are probably craftsman repairing things in that building who have been there longer." Tim Hames, in Times of London, 2/12/07... writing about why America can't make Obama President 2 "As Obama's campaign is | |
| Obama In A Nutshell: Not So Pretty |
| From Obama WTF (What’s The facts?: Obama in a Nutshell now includes 22 memorable quotes which capture the essence of BHO with great verbal efficiency and occasionally a wisp of wit. 1 “Mr Obama is spectacularly under-qualified to be President; he’s been in the Senate for 25 months… there are probably craftsman repairing things in that building who have been there longer.” Tim Hames, in Times of London, 2/12/07… writing about why America can’t make Obama President 2 “As Obama’s campaign | |
| The Recurring Theme of Sexism, Misogyny and Stereotyping |
| Quote of the Day “We always tell our daughters you can do anything—but I think the sharp reality was portrayed in Hillary’s race. . . I think she lifted up the self esteem of women across the country, across the world. . [S]he helped all of us. I think she’d be an incredibly important pick for vice president.” -- Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D.-N.Y.) Rep. Maloney's remarks were made at a Lifetime Television-sponsored event on the topic of politics and feminism. The "sexism, misogyny and stereotyping | |
| John McCain Redwork Block Pattern |
| If you are a regular to the Black Threads blog, you know that I've shared free Redwork block patterns this Presidential Election season. One was of Senator Hillary Clinton and the other of Senator Barack Obama. I've been surprised by the feedback. One quilting guild will have a retreat in September. One of the retreat activities is themed "Campaign Rally!" Guild member Linda C asked if I would create a Senator John McCain redwork block so that each major political party can be represented. Hope | |
| Fiber Artists for Obama & Cherryl Floyd-Miller's Obama Quilting Story |
| Fabric CAN capture our times, thoughts, and feelings. The online group - Fiber Artists for Obama - are in the process of making a FIERCE quilt about their favorite candidate. Many members have designed a special block for the collective quilt being made, thanks to Diana Bracy's leadership in organizing the actual quilt. To the left is the block by Lisa Shepard Stewart. Do visit Cherryl FLoyd-Miller's blog for more photos of the quilt blocks. And, if you have five minutes, you MUST read Cherryl | |
| Just words, though some of them are blatant falsehoods |
| He is not even a member of that committee. Barack Obama apparently lives in some alternate Universe where everything he approves of, or which might be immediately politically expedient, happens because of Him. Think about it. This lie is so easily detected that Hillary Clinton wouldn't have dreamed of telling it. The only explanations are that a) Obama slips into alternate reality at such times, where the Senate Banking Committee actually is his committee, or b) he thinks we will believe it j | |
| On Faux, and Genuine, "Feminist/Womanist Perspectives" |
| Two weeks ago, OpenLeft initiated an effort to “diversify its front page” by publishing a series of posts which it described as being on the topic feminist and womanist perspectives on Hillary Clinton’s withdrawal from the race — and why this matters to progressives. After an excellent start with a post by Melissa McEwan, the experiment has failed. While OpenLeft maybe have “diversified” its front page by publishing the works of women (and African American women), it did so at the expense of t | |
| Dems: beware 'irrational exuberance' |
| by Matthew Hay Brown With little more than a hundred days before the elections, the chairmen of the House and Senate Democrats' campaign operations both said they would expand their majorities come November. But as they try to reach deeper into Republican strongholds, they said today, they were taking nothing for granted. "At this point, it's important that people understand - because there is a lot of sense out there that this is going to be another big wave election - that we are going into | |
| Re: John Edwards, Baby Daddy |
| I didn't mean to inaugurate a wide-ranging debate over the virtues of the tabloid press, but I do note that this story about extramarital whoopie and the resultant love child -- er, alleged -- has generated as much discussion here as anything this side of McCain's veepstakes. Sex and celebrities are an irresistible combination for the ordinary American, and big-time politicians are de facto celebrities. Frankly, I suspect Team Hillary has been pushing this Edwards scandal from the get-go -- fir | |
| NBC/WSJ Poll: Americans Want Out Of Iraq |
| Barack Obama has won the argument on Iraq. The latest NBC/WSJ Poll, released tonight, shows that 60% of the voters think a timetable is a good idea, and 30% think it's a bad idea. Arguments about the success of the surge are irrelevant. This is not helping John McCain, who is floundering and (out of frustration, presumably) lashing out at Obama and taking a ton of heat for it. It's getting so bad, even Business Week says John McCain's Brand has Jumped The Shark. Ouch. Back to the poll: Presi | |
| MASON HARRISON PROFILED IN HOMETOWN PAPER |
| Wednesday July 23, 2008 · AIM: crnctruthcaucus · Section: TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW… Mason Harrison gets up at 6 am every day, reads 50 blogs, and goes to bed at 3 a.m. (the same time of night Hillary Clinton takes phone calls on international relations). A very local-newspaperish-written profile on Harrison is in the Sonora-based Union Democrat | |
| Bob Novak, Republican Chump of the Week |
| Bob Novak, conservative columnist and chief media stooge for the McCain campaign and the GOP, admits that the McCain camp may have used him as a patsy to push the "VP selection this week" lie... Robert Novak's big story last night -- that Republican John McCain might be about to announce his running mate -- may have just been "a dodge" by the campaign to try and grab some headlines away from Democrat Barack Obama, Novak just conceded on Fox News Channel. Novak said he'd gotten the tip from a "ve | |
| Crick-worthy reading |
| Crick-worthy reading Submitted by Christian Grantham on July 23, 2008 - 2:47pm. Afternoon brain-grabbers. The Happiness Challenge '08 - Big Orange Michael A couple of years ago, Dana over at Pretty Purple Princess issued a challenge to the blogosphere for the month of August. It was called the Happiness Challenge and for the month of August, you were challenged to post something positive or something that made you happy or made you smile, etc. each day in your blog. Lonnell Matthews Re | |
| Quote-a-palooza |
| "In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride." - Benjamin Franklin "At this point it would take a willing suspension of disbelief to put any trust in the military judgment of... Barack Obama." - Paul Greenberg "The idea that four months before a presidential election a candidate can run through these countries, meet some world leaders, and claim experience in these matters may impress the liberal media, but to me, it exposes just how unprepared for th | |
| The case against the case against Evan Bayh |
| Yesterday saw Washington Post blogger extraordinaire Chris Cillizza post his "Case for Evan Bayh" as part of a series looking at the accepted leaders in the Democratic veepstakes. Love him or hate him, the argument is a strong one, and I think the Cillizzard's main point warrants repeating.If you believe, as The Fix does, that Obama faces a stark choice between a fresh face and a elder statesman in his vice presidential pick, then the only candidate being seriously considered who could bridge th | |
| Odds And Ends |
| Odds And Ends Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, widely considered a potential 2010 gubernatorial contender, is about to make a statewide push for a property tax cap. John McCain canceled both his lone press conference of the week (supposedly due to that pesky "scheduling") and a trip to an oil rig (weather). The McCain campaign sent a letter to The Times, urging the paper to run a full-page ad featuring his OpEd the paper rejected. Columnist Robert Novak was cited by police after he | |
| NOW-NYS: What Women Want from Obama |
| Okay, I am a serious fan of Marcia Pappas, president of New York State NOW. Pasted below is her latest press release. Did she forget anything? ALBANY, NY (07/22/2008; 2018)-- Obama must do more to gain women's vote than to simply tell us that he is the least of two evils. He must come bearing gifts! We are not talking about candy and flowers here. NOW-New York State is proposing a list of gifts he must bring: 1) Four or five Supreme Court Justices should be pro-choice women and all appointmen | |
| Taking A Page From Obama’s Playbook |
| Sports Edition!! Since I wrote about Obama hanging out and playing basketball ON YOUR DIME, here is another basketball related post. Some of you may have seen the “lowlights” from last night’s game between the LA Sparks and Detroit Shock. It all began when one player tripped over another player, and that player then plowed over the first player. All hell broke loose then, and it was a bench-clearing brawl. It was short-lived, but a brawl nonetheless. In the MIDST of it, the assistant coach of t | |
| thecheappop.com endorses Hillary Clinton as Vice President |
| thecheappop.com endorses Hillary Clinton as Vice President Posted by Jon Chattman on July 23rd, 2008 Look, everyone and their mother endorses a president. That’s why thecheappop.com is being bold enough to endorse a vice presidential candidate. Clinton brings leadership, experience, and integrity (yes, integrity) to any post she takes, so we’re hoping Obama selects her to be his running mate. If he did, it’d sort of be a Mega Powers of sorts - you know like when Hulk Hogan joined forces wit | |
| Cardinal Rigali: Protect Catholic Conscience |
| Cardinal Justin Rigali has written a letter to all members of the U.S. Congress defending conscience protections for pro-life health care workers. According to the cardinal, due to a lack of executive action some institutions may be violating conscience protection laws “without even knowing it.” Cardinal Rigali, who is Archbishop of Philadelphia and Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, wrote the July 18 letter in response to a New York Times a | |
| LabourHome Sale |
| Looks like the next round of drinks will be on you guys then; Jag and Alex! Just in case you haven’t heard, the new owner of the New Statesman has bought LabourHome - the grassroots blog that is for Labour what ConservativeHome is for the Tories. Well almost. I’ve spoken to Jag and Alex before about LabourHome and why it doesn’t follow ConservativeHome’s style of publishing. The answer was that LabourHome was resolutely aimed at giving the grassroots a direct voice - they power the content a | |
| New NBC/WSJ Poll Out Tonight |
| Permalink :: 12 Comments Tags: Iraq, Barack Obama, Election 08 (all tags) Barack Obama Trouncing McCain Among Unmarried Women by Todd Beeton, Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 03:56:34 PM EST At Take Back America this spring, Women's Voices Women Votes' Page Gardener discussed the importance of the unmarried women vote in 2008. One of her main points was that for the first time ever, there are almost as many unmarried women as married women, both at around 26% of the voting age population. Not only is | |
| Senator Clinton Voices Concern Over FDA Actions |
| Before she has even had time to brush the dust off of her shoes after leaving the campaign trail, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) is in the news again. This time for her reaction to the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that has sickened over 1200 people. As most people know, particularly those who ordered a BLT last month and got a BL, the FDA initially believed tomatoes were the source of the outbreak. Monday, the FDA announced that one jalapeno pepper sample had a positive geneti | |
| She Met Hillary Clinton |
| Cara over at Feministe was participating in a Planned Parenthood lobbying effort and quite unexpectantly, she met Hillary Clinton! And then *poof*! There she was! She just seemed to magically appear in the doorway like David Copperfield or something. And then she received a spontaneous standing ovation. For real — it totally wasn’t planned, but everyone in the room seemed to rise to their feet and begin applauding at exactly the same time. Go read her exciting (it is) story: I Met Hillary Cli | |
| Road Near Bills Stadium to be Named for Late Tim Russert |
| In a classy move by the Bills, the team is naming a stretch of Route 20A in Orchard Park for the late Tim Russert. The move is considered a tribute to the former “Meet the Press” host, who was a die-hard Bills fan. Russert passed away suddenly June 13th after suffering a heart attack. The legislation to re-name the road was introduced by New York Senator Hillary Clinton and senator Chuck Schumer. | |
| Reporters Flee Iraq As Casualties Plummet |
| The number of embedded reporters in Iraq has plummeted 74 percent over the past nine months, from 219 in September 2007 to a low of 58 in June, as U.S. troop casualties have plunged, according to Department Of Defense data analysis by CNSNews.com Staff Writer Kevin Mooney. U.S. casualties were down 84 percent in May and 75 percent in June from year-ago numbers, for example. The number of embedded reporters peaked in September 2007, the month Gen. David Petraeus testified in Congress that the s | |
| Another BLATANT Obama Lie |
| When does it end? When I say!!? During his "press conference" today, the Spawn of Brazilzebub told a bold-face lie, claiming he was on the Senate banking committee, which he is not! Watch the video and then head on over to No Quarter for a more in-depth look at this huge gaffe. Don't even bother with your comments Obamazoids because if you haven't noticed by now, I'm posting NONE of them. lol Get over it! --SUGAR | |
| Nightly Ramble:Why aren’t you dead?; John Edwards; They want us to lose; More |
| A .491 Blood Alcohol level? Why is this guy still breathing? And he was Driving? Profits at The New York Times are off 82%If I’m Rupert Murdoch I’m watching this one. Dolly visits Texas. No deaths, far as I know. I see John Edwards and Rielle Hunter are in the news again. I’ve seen less than desireable women, but this one actually makes Hillary Clinton look good. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, and say it was a bad photo of her…. we’ve all had those… usually un some form of ID | |
| The Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy |
| One of the nuttier arguments during this election campaign has been over Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Even after the birth certificate was released to the public, some right wingers and Clintonistas, which might be redundant, continued to deny this. (This reminds me of the manner in which many right wing sites continue to claim that John Kerry has never released his military records, even though they were both posted on line and inspected by the news media.) David Weigel of the libertaria | |
| The Sweet Illusion Of Socialism |
| By TERRY SATER [...] In April, when Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., was asked if presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama was a Marxist, he replied: “I must say, that’s a good question . . . I will tell you that during this campaign, I’ve learned some things about him, about the kind of environment from which he came ideologically. And I wouldn’t . . . I’d hesitate to say he’s a Marxist, but he’s got some positions that are far to the left of me and I think mainstream America.” It w | |
| Wyden urges feds to reconsider contraception policy |
| WASHINGTON -- Twenty-eight U.S. senators, including Ron Wyden, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, urged the Bush administration Wednesday to kill a proposed regulation that they say could cut off federal funding for commonly used contraceptives.... | |
| Israel Not Fooled: Israelis For Obama Has Just 57 Members--Only 6 Live in Israel |
| By Debbie Schlussel So, Barack Hussein Obama is on a world tour that, today, includes Israel. So, he's doing the obligatory photo ops at various Jewish religious sites to pretend he's really not as anti-Israel as his years of association with Edward Said, Ali Abunimah, Louis Farrakhan, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright tell us. Ditto for his multiple Nation of Islam staffers and desire to meet and negotiate with Iran--Israel's most lethal enemy--without preconditions. Well, guess what? Contrary to the | |
| “It’s Not Just Troops, It’s an Overall Strategy” |
| Barack Obama, who has no experience with or in the U.S. military, seems to think military requirements are solely this: “[Y]ou tell me what it is that we need in terms of boots on the ground, in terms of equipment, in terms of other capabilities that are gonna be required.” To Obama, the military is “man and machine.” It is obvious that Barack Obama doesn’t know the full history behind the political successes achieved by our military concurrent with the “surge” in troop numbers. It is clea | |
| NYT: Media Aren't Biased, Just Noticing Obama Looks 'Supreme' |
| On Wednesday, New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley rejected the notion of a pro-Obama bias as the junior senator from Illinois traveled abroad. The media wasn’t boosting Obama. They merely noticed the fact that he is "supremely confident" and looks like he’s already president. He is displaying "classic Kennedy style" and practicing "statesmanly restraint." McCain can’t complain about media bias because his stagecraft is "unflattering." The "effusion of coverage" is just "the news" that | |
| The Centering of Obama |
| Sen. Barack Obama’s move to the right, after having dished Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democrat presidential primary, has been variously described as traitorous by hot headed bloggers on the left and refinements by the senator’s apologists in the mainstream media. Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos website, marching orders central for leftist bloggers, is having second thoughts: “There is a line between 'moving to the center' and stabbing your allies in the back out of fear of being criticized. | |
| McCain’s Complaints About Obama’s Media Treatment Sounds A Little Like Hillary Clinton’s |
| John McCain is not happy with the way the media is going on about Barack Obama’s overseas trip, while his domestic goings-on are covered as mere blips on the news cycle radar. With all three evening news anchors in attendance, as well as the upper echelon of the press corps, Obama’s trip is being chronicled endlessly in newspapers and on television, with pictures coming back to the U.S. of Obama meeting with senior military leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan. McCain, meanwhile, is shown palling a | |
| Adviser: As President, Obama Would Only Prosecute ‘Egregious’ Bush Crimes |
| Presidencies are about looking forward, not backwards, so it was predictable that Barack Obama has signaled that, if elected, he would have no interest in investigating and prosecuting criminal acts during the previous administration. As predictable as Obama’s position is — Hillary Clinton and John Kerry would likely have held the same view under similar circumstances, and certainly John McCain supports it — it is deeply troubling because of the seriousness of the crimes in question, including | |
| McCain Wanted Victory; Obama Wanted Anything But |
| Yesterday in Rochester, New Hampshire, McCain said: This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign. It seems that way? Any honest appraisal demands it. Obama's profusion of views on Iraq are dizzying, but they have always had one unifying theme: victory is not an option. Obama opposed The Surge, he | |
| THE TITLE BOUT |
| Don Fowler, the former head of the DNC sent a letter to Democratic leaders and major contributors this week urging party unity. Intended to get resistant Hillary supporters on board, the unity letter is likely to produce the opposite effect. The letter repeatedly stated, “Barack Obama won. It’s over!” In other words, “Get over it,” or as an astute Clinton supporter put it, “Get in line, it’s not your time.” Mr. Fowler chided Hillary supporters, “I must confess a bit of fatigue and irrit | |
| McCain’s Complaints About Obama’s Media Treatment Remind Us of a Little Lady Called Hillary Clinton |
| Perhaps rightfully so, John McCain is not happy with the way the media is going on about Barack Obama’s overseas trip, while his domestic goings-on are covered as mere blips on the news cycle radar. With all three evening news anchors in attendance, as well as the upper echelon of the press corps, Obama’s trip is being chronicled endlessly in newspapers and on television, with pictures coming back to the U.S. of Obama meeting with senior military leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan. McCain, mean | |
| The Obama Machine |
| Is it just me, or could Barack Obama be the most skilled politician in a generation? If not more? I’m not talking about leadership, mind you. I’m talking about his ability to navigate this campaign with a poise and seamlessness that we haven’t seen anyone, not even Bill Clinton, manage in a long, long time. I was willing to assume his victory over Hillary Clinton was as much due to Clinton’s mistakes as Obama’s strengths as a politician. But after Obama’s beautifully stage-managed trip oversea | |
| Katie speaks... |
| Katie Couric: “I find myself in the last bastion of male dominance, and realizing what Hillary Clinton might have realized not long ago: that sexism in the American society is more common than racism, and certainly more acceptable or forgivable. In any case, I think my post and Hillary’s race are important steps in the right direction.” * If I had a dick I could make out what she's saying, but, unfortunately I have a 'gina. You have to accept me and forgive me for that, unless your a minority. | |
| Let's make a deal |
| Tony Rezko has been convicted on 16 counts. "Tony Rezko — the high-flying developer and fast-food magnate who was once a major campaign fund-raiser for Gov. Blagojevich and Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and one of the governor’s closest advisers — is now a convicted felon." The verdict, reached after deliberations that spanned 12 days, could give federal authorities new ammunition in their probe of the governor’s campaign and his administration. They already have subpoenaed | |
| Hillary to quit, endorse Obama, says the NYT |
| Long rumored, but this time it is probably true that Hillary Clinton has thrown in the towel. The NYT reports: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will endorse Senator Barack Obama on Saturday, bringing a close to her 17-month campaign for the White House, aides said. Her decision came after Democrats urged her on Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama. Howard Wolfson, one of Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategists, and other aides said she would express support f | |
| Sent |
| University of Santa Clara Law School professor Steve Diamond asks, "who sent Barack Obama". He explains the context of the word "sent". In Chicago politics a key question has always been, who "sent" you? The classic phrase is ... from an anecdote of Abner Mikva's, the former White House Counsel (Pres. Clinton) ... As a young student ... he walked into the local committeman's office ... and was immediately asked: "Who sent you?" Mikva replied, "nobody sent me." And the retort came back from | |
| The night of the living dead |
| Here's Hillary's latest speech. After starting off by thanking Barack Obama for his contribution to raising an interest in politics, in a slow beginning that sounded like a concession, Clinton suddenly and sharply shifted to asking "who will be the strongest candidate?". Hillary argued that most of the 18 million "record-breaking" votes cast during the primary were for her. "Even when the pundits and nay-sayers" declared her dead, the small people kept her candidacy alive. You can see why t | |
| Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington |
| The LA Times describes how the heavens expressed themselves as Hillary reached the end of the road. On Wednesday afternoon, Hillary Rodham Clinton visited her Arlington, Va., campaign headquarters and disclosed that she would finally concede her long primary fight. That same afternoon, a fierce storm system developed over northern Virginia and unleashed a tempest of high winds, driving rain and even a tornado. The heavenly outburst was a fittingly symbolic expression of the anger and frustr | |
| Help Stop the Re-Definition of Contraception as Abortion |
| (© photo by Jill Posener) Help Stop the Re-Definition of Contraception as Abortion You'd think that the Bush administration's hatred of poor folks and the Foamy-Mouth Right's terror of being overrun by the reproductive capacities of brown people would find common ground in trying to make sure we/they have easy access to cheap birth control. You'd think, if rationality and logic were part of the equation. But the need to control women's bodies pounds a stronger drumbeat in those bulging veins | |
| Link Dump |
| Too busy to actually blog, and I wanted to close some tabs, so here: 1. Copyright law sliderule: When it comes to copyright law, not knowing the rules can get you in a lot of hot water, but figuring out the rules can be just as frustrating. Luckily, the American Library Association has created a simple tool that tells you whether or not you need to hunt down a rights owner to use a book, movie, song, or other work in a project. 2. Clinton's Debt Reveals Flaws in Campaign Finance Laws: An inte | |
| The View Women Drool over Michelle Obama |
| Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Flag as Offensive The View Women Drool over Michelle Obama Posted by Shogrensus on Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:12:47 AM Michelle Obama- MO- was on the View today- the women were downright giddy- Whoopi spilled her coffee... The most interesting segment had Whoopi declaring how delighted she was to have a Black woman on the news who has teeth and who doesn't have gold rimming the teeth she does have. I had not noticed that there was a regular depiction | |
| When Has Even a Blue-Dog Democrat Crossed the Line? |
| On June 24, I sent State Senator David Boswell, the Democratic candidate for retiring Rep. Ron Lewis' Second District Congressional seat, an email asking Senator Boswell his position on five issues. The last issue was this: Publicly endorsing Barack Obama and enthusiastically campaigning for him. On July 11, I received Senator Boswell's response. His answer to the last issue, on publicly endorsing Barack Obama and campaigning for him, is, in full: "I am proud to be a Democrat." Really, Senat | |
| Supreme Court |
| Robert Barnes & Kevin Merida of the Washington Post have an article entitled “Activists Want ‘True Liberal’ For High Court.” To me, the article underscores that true liberals are barely recognizable in public life today. It suggests Hillary Clinton as a “true liberal.” That she is considered the “far left” or anywhere near it is mildly amusing to me. In Europe, I dare say she’d be fairly comfortable in the conservative parties. Part of the problem is defining what “liberal” might mean. To me, i | |
| More VP speculation |
| There's a lot of chatter about John McCain picking a running mate very soon to redirect the media's attention from Barack Obama's foreign trip. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's star has fallen because of revelations that she used the levers of state power to try to punish a former brother-in-law. Why do elected officials think they can get away with stuff like this? I suppose the answer is that many do get away with it, but it's still bizarre that she would abuse the power of her office with so mu | |
| DNC Musical Guest Update |
| DNC Musical Guest Update A few weeks ago I beat Denver Post gossip columnist Bill Husted to the punch in reporting that Bruce Springsteen was free from Aug. 24 to Aug. 30 and could be coming to the DNC. Last week, I beat him by a day in reporting Kanye West, reggae/hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean and the rap/rock fusion band N.E.R.D. were scheduled to perform at DNC events. Today, Husted beats me with some DNC musical guest news I haven't heard about: The Temptations will be performing for thre | |
| Decoding Obama on Iraq by Anthony Arnove |
| Dandelion Salad by Anthony Arnove socialistworker.org July 22, 2008 On July 14, the New York Times featured an op-ed by Barack Obama laying out his “plan for Iraq.” But Obama’s position on Iraq is carefully crafted to sound antiwar, while providing a vehicle for the U.S. to pursue a different strategy in the Middle East. SocialistWorker.org columnist Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, examines Obama’s proposal, point by point, to see what the Democratic presidential | |
| [IMG Daily Kos] |
| Diary Comments Ratings Gift Subscription Blogroll Recs Files Website: http://www.dailykos.com Bush looks to abandon fake ranch. No longer needs prop by kos Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 07:25:13 PM PDT Hee hee. We always knew he'd never stay there as the political necessity would disappear. From video smuggled out of a private fundraiser: Then, making light of the foreclosure crisis, he said: "And then we got a housing issue... not in Houston, and evidently not in Dallas, because La | |
| The Slippery Slope of Obama's Socialism |
| "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, But under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day, America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas,U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate in the 1940sSenator Barack Obama is NOT the most Liberal person in the Senate, he is the MOST SOCIALIST person in the Senate. Look at the facts, socialized medicine for everybody, government college educat | |
| Republican Policy: Keep Women Barefoot and Pregnant |
| ... When Republicans say they want to reduce/stop abortions in this country what they seemingly want to do is to reduce the number of non-pregnant women. I don't know how you can conclude anything else when you take a look at their policies. First Up: Paying, or rather, not paying for birth control Surely one way to reduce the number of abortions is to increase access to birth control. (How many times have you heard a Rethuglican harp that women use abortion as birth control?) And yet we se | |
| Insomniac quick hits II |
| George W. Obama: Jim Geraghty identifies what would be an Obama Bushism, if such things were being observed and tallied: “You know, it’s always a bad practice to say ‘always’ or ‘never.’” — Obama, speaking in Amman I know another: “Only a Sith speaks in absolutes.” But I never could stay awake through that movie. Hot Air finds another. The verbal gaffes must be because Obama is tired. I can accept that; traveling knocks the crap out of me, and Obama really is “only human”. But I can’t h | |
| US Opinion: Are voters who don’t support Obama racists? The twisted logic of Political Correctness |
| US Opinion: Are voters who don’t support Obama racists? The twisted logic of Political Correctness Family Security Matters KT McFarland New York Governor David Paterson gave one of the keynote addresses at the NAACP’s 99th annual convention at Cincinnati last week. According to one newspaper account he “suggested that the defeat of Senator Obama in the presidential election would be a victory for racism in America.” Huh????? Is Governor Paterson implying that anyone who votes against Barack | |
| Michelle Obama - A Biography |
| by Terry Fisher The well educated daughter of hard working parents that did not have the benefit of high education, Michelle Obama was born in Chicago, Illinois on 17 January, 1964. Her father, Fraser Robinson, was a city water plant operator and her mother Marian a secretary. Michelle was raised in a typically normal home, along with her brother Craig, who is 16 months older. Craig is also a success story, with a history in men’s basketball - he is currently Oregon State Beavers men’s basketba | |
| Senators Introduce Bill Requiring Access to Voter Registration for Veterans |
| U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) today introduced a bill to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide voter registration services to veterans in the department’s care. The senators introduced the legislation after receiving a response from Veterans Affairs Secretary James B. Peake earlier this month, again denying the senators’ request that Secretary Peake designate VA facilities as voter registration agencies. Senators Harry Reid (D-NV), Barack Obam | |
| Senate Bill Introduced to Require VA to Provide Access to Voter Registration |
| Senate Bill Introduced to Require VA to Provide Access to Voter Registration New from National Issues - Federal Legislation By Senator Dianne Feinstein Media Release July 22, 2008 Legislation would give veterans access to voter registration services at VA facilities U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) today introduced a bill to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide voter registration services to veterans in the departme | |
| Poor Katie. Now that we have gotten rid of racism she wants us to work on our sexism. |
| I was going to post about the "Breck" Boy's alleged affair and love child tonight, but then I saw the following little gem from A-merry-ca's sweetheart: "The corporate pressure and the ratings terror are intensifying all the time, and the situation is not simple. I find myself in the last bastion of male dominance, and realizing what Hillary Clinton might have realized not long ago: that sexism in the American society is more common than racism, and certainly more acceptable or forgivable. | |
| The Narcissism Epidemic |
| Jan Hoffman wrote an interesting piece about the the new "go-to diagnosis" for bloggers, columnists and TV therapists. JAMIE LYNN SPEARS is a narcissist, to say nothing of her older sister. So is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bill, too! Clearly, the word was created with A-Rod in mind. And who can forget Eliot Spitzer? But please, let’s forget this month’s narcissist du headline, Peter Cook, the philandering ex-husband of the model Christie Brinkley. Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, is a.. | |
| BUYER BEWARE! What You Would Get In a |
| BUYER BEWARE! What You Would Get In a Vice-President Romney Posted by Gregg on Jul 20, 2008 @ 23:06 (Hint: A demagogue who has already changed history) GUEST COLUMN BY GREGG JACKSON + JOHN HASKINS RFFM.org When Ann Coulter endorsed Mitt Romney she called the former Massachusetts governor “manifestly our best candidate” — though the paper for which she is “chief legal correspondent,” Human Events, ranked Romney the #8 RINO (Republican In Name Only) in the nation in 2005. GOP establishment p | |
| HHS: All Women Are Pregnant, So Birth Control? No. Not Yours. |
| HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion - Yahoo! News. Just because I hear Hillary Clinton say it, doesn't mean I'm going to actually believe it. Less so, actually. However, it does appear that HHS is moving to redefine a couple of things. To put it in English, it'sa variant ... | |
| NYT Reporter 'Surprised' by McCain Op-Ed Rejection |
| When a writer for the New York Times questions his own paper, for refusing to publish an editorial by John McCain, and a former Clinton press secretary questions the "balance" of the coverage of Obama’s foreign tour, you know the media has reached a bias tilting point. On Tuesday night's "Hardball," New York Times political writer John Harwood said of the Times decision to spike a McCain editorial: "I was surprised that they did not take it, especially having just run Barack Obama." And form | |
| Someone Should Tell McCain That Hillary Lost |
| Permalink :: 9 Comments Tags: 2008 presidential election, john mccain, barack obama, hillary clinton (all tags) The Politico Links McCain's Gaffes And His Age by Todd Beeton, Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 05:15:09 PM EST Over the course of the primary battle, the Obama campaign effectively injected a somewhat subtle meme about Hillary Clinton into the ether, namely that she'll do or say anything to win (which had the benefit of being a pre-existing meme to begin with.) Whether it was a post- | |
| What Is It With Good-Looking Dems And Ugly Women? |
| First we had Bill Clinton with Hillary. [IMG hillary_clinton[1].jpg] Then there was John Kerry with Teresa. [IMG teresa_heinz[1].jpg] Barack is, of course, married to Michelle. And not to be left out, it now appears that John Edwards is stepping out on his dying wife with this. Pretty sad, isn't it. H/T Don Surber || Greg, 06:19 PM || | |
| Changes |
| Yes, as you can doubtless see, we’re changing the basic layout. I’ve found a template I can work with, and will be doing that for a few days. Mostly I’m trying to bring the color and font setup over from the old template while allowing the tech additions the new one allows. The old template was based on Wordpress version 1.5, and a lot of changes have happened since then…. it took a fair amount of upkeep. This new one looks like it’ll be easier for me. As for looks; eh…. It’s getting there. | |
