Andree's boys are first.

Nancy Skinner deserves your vote in the 2008 Grassroots All-Star competion and here's why.  1) Joe Knollenberg is Bush administration factotum who couldn't find a principled vote with a map and compass; 2) She opposed Barack Obama in the Illinois primary for U.S. Senator in 2004 to prick his conscience and he still endorsed her candidacy for the House in 2006; 3) ChrisNYC is supporting her; 4) Joan Jett is in her camp; 5) Nancy has no qualms about telling right wing buffoons in the media like Bill O'Reilly where to stick it; 6) She is a unapologetic liberal; and 6) She is a U of M graduate.

Actually the last reason is just for me.  Come on, whose with me?  It won't cost you a thing and you can feel good doing it.

Nancy Skinner deserves your vote in the 2008 Grassroots All-Star competion and here's why

I preferred her over Obama in the 2004 IL Senate primary. 

Howard is first, as always.

This is degenerating into an AOL chat room.

Yes, I noticed that Sam left and I'm sad.

If I voted on voting records only, I wouldn't vote at all.

Please stop with the racist talk and Obama bashing....please.  Just stop it. 

bbl but perhaps much later - like 2AM when the bloggie is more civil. 

JE  is the best we've got to offer, IMO.

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Jo, I realize that the girls were not part of the campaign nor do I hold them against BO...still think it wasn't smart to insinuate a linkage but certainly wouldn't influence my vote.  And the kids were prolly just having fun.

I also wanted to mention that Nancy Skinner has been a vocal booster of Gov. Dean for a long time, both during his run for the presidential nomination and his tenure as DNC chair. 

Perhaps we could rally round getting rid of critters like this!

Jason Leopold | House Passes, Considers Evangelical Resolutions
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011408A.shtml
Jason Leopold, reporting for Truthout, writes: "A Republican congressman, who has spent the better part of the past two years on a mission to ensure Jesus Christ has a place in all aspects of federal government, has introduced a resolution to designate a week every year to honor the nation's 'rich spiritual, and religious history.'"

seashell wrote "This is degenerating into an AOL chat room."

I don't think that's strictly true.  I think it degenerated into one quite some time ago although, having never been to an AOL chat room, I'm not sure how I would know that if it's, in fact, the case.

I just voted for Skinner, Pingree, and Stender. I'm sure the others are great too, but I'm always a sucker for a pretty face.

Perhaps we could rally round getting rid of critters like this!

Let's wait to see how many DCDems go along with it. 

Sitka wrote "I just voted for Skinner, Pingree, and Stender."

Thanks for performing a good, honorable deed.  Maybe we are witnessing an early trend in the exit polling? 

If I voted on voting records only, I wouldn't vote at all.

They tell you more about what will happen than promises do. 

Years ago, in the early 90's, I would sometimes go to chat rooms. ..similar to the stuff going on here lately....

Thanks for performing a good, honorable deed.

You're welcome. But I don't need to be thanked for doing what I think is right. If I did, I'd be expecting thanks continuously.

They tell you more about what will happen than promises do.

Wide sweeping promises don't capture my attention.

And people are able to change and move outta the past....I'll go with my gut.  now gone   

Years ago, in the early 90's, I would sometimes go to chat rooms. ..similar to the stuff going on here lately...

And people are able to change and move outta the past...

Especially when the polls change.

And people are able to change and move outta the past...

Especially when the polls change.

And some don't need to since they were right in the first place. 

A comment on Michigan's photo ID Law:

My bride and I both voted early last Thursday at Port Huron City Hall. The very nice clerk asked neither of us for any ID--photo or otherwise, albeit we did show our voter cards.

I voted for a candidate other than HRC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WMG34cv0zM

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in Nevada it is a head count again

I voted for a candidate other than HRC.

I hope it was Kucinich since you've promted him here. 

in Nevada it is a head count again

Even heads need to be counted honestly. 

As Paul Krugman writes today in The New York Times:

"On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the front-runner, 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."

Christopher Hayes writes in The Nation:

"The fact remains that the Edwards campaign has set the domestic policy agenda for the entire field. He was the first with a bold universal health care plan, the first with an ambitious climate change proposal that called for cap-and-trade, and the leader on reforming predatory lending practices and raising the minimum wage to a level where it regains its lost purchasing power."

Hi Folks,

Just a quck drop in.  Since Hillary Clinton has been a topic, here's an excerpt from a piece in the Huffington Post on Friday.  I'll post the URL in the next post.  This describes here activist background.  

By the way, I'm not supporting Hillary Clinton, but I believe in getting the information out on all the canidates.

In her presidential campaign, she focuses on her accomplishments as an agent for change as First Lady and as a first-term Senator. She takes credit for a handful of legislative achievements. She rarely talks about her political activism in college, law school, and while serving as Arkansas' first lady. Although she was never a 1960s radical, she absorbed many of her generation's ideas about the need for progressive change.

After Rev. Martin Luther King was killed in 1968, Clinton, then a student government leader at Wellesley College, helped organize a two-day strike and worked closely with the few black students on campus to organize teach-ins and other activities to pressure the college to recruit more black students and faculty. That year, she traveled to New Hampshire for Sen. Eugene McCarthy's anti-war campaign for president. She wrote her senior thesis in 1969 about the legendary Saul Alinsky, the Chicago activist who is considered the founding father of community organizing. As part of her research, Clinton traveled to Chicago to interview Alinsky. She concluded her report by placing him in the political company of Socialist Eugene Debs, poet Walt Whitman and Martin Luther King Jr. - describing Alinsky as a champion of "the most radical of political faiths - democracy." (For several years, Wellesley agreed to keep the thesis under lock and key, in response to a request from Clinton. It is now available on-line and in the college library.)

She entered Yale Law School in 1969, one of the handful of women in her class. There, she worked with the attorney for Black Panthers accused of murder and clerked one summer for the left-wing lawyer Robert Treuhaft in Berkeley. In 1970, with a grant from the Law Student Civil Rights Research Council, she worked for the Washington Research Project, where she became friends with civil rights lawyer Marian Wright Edelman and began her ongoing interest in children's rights. Later, when Edelman founded the Children's Defense Fund, a liberal research and lobby group for children, Hillary Clinton to serve on its board from 1976 to 1992, and as its chair from 1986 to 1991.

In 1972, she and Bill Clinton, whom she'd met at Yale, worked on George McGovern's anti-war campaign for president. In 1974, while Bill was teaching law in Arkansas, she worked for Joan Doar, the House Judiciary Committee's special counsel, on the impeachment of Richard Nixon. When she got married in 1973, she continued to use her maiden name, Hillary Rodham, as did many feminists of her generation. But in 1980, when Bill lost his re-election bid for Governor of Arkansas and they both tried to adopt a more moderate image, she began using the name Clinton.

"Much more so than Obama, it was Edwards who forced a new style of politics, untethered by the fear and timidity of the 90s, adamant that liberalism was an electoral boon and economic justice a popular sentiment. Knowing they had to defend against his challenge, both Hillary and Obama edged closer to his appeal.

"It left the Democrats in a much stronger position overall, and forced them to argue for, and commit to, a much broader and more inspiring agenda than we otherwise might have seen."

Let's hope bickering like this blog has over candidates does not represent the country as a whole.

We have had some good candidates, most of whom have Republicans salivating. And we have a excellent opportunity of taking back the WH and have a Dem Congress to boot.

It is Dems who defeat themselves who are the problem. Whether we support Edwards or Obama is not the problem. The problem is us. We are only defeating ourselves by promoting "misinformation," and rumors that attack one of these candidates.

For me, I support Obama, but I could certainly live with Edwards as president. The only thing I could never accept or support is Clinton.

Let's just bash Clinton and leave the Obama or Edwards bashing up to the Republicans and the Clintons.

The essay is by Peter Dreier and is entitled "Hillary Should be the Next Edward Kennedy"

Here's the URL

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/hillary-clinton-should-be_b_80803.html

Sorry, but I don't know how to make it blue and alive.

Phil, 

That's pretty impressive about Edwards.  #23 #24. 

"Ask corporate lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients and the answer is almost always the same -- Democrat John Edwards. One business lobbyist said an Edwards presidency would be a 'disaster' for his well-heeled industrialist clients.

'I think Hillary is approachable. She knows where a lot of her funding has come from to be blunt,' said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Group Co., a market and policy analysis group."

The title is "Hillary Clinton Should Be the Next Ted Kennedy".

"On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the front-runner, has been driving his party's policy agenda.

"The fact remains that the Edwards campaign has set the domestic policy agenda for the entire field.

I've thought it was Kucinich keeping the rest honest. 

it was Edwards who forced a new style of politics, untethered by the fear and timidity of the 90s

By going along with the worst of Bush's agenda? Puhleeeeeeze! 

"Ask corporate lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients and the answer is almost always the same -- Democrat John Edwards. One business lobbyist said an Edwards presidency would be a 'disaster' for his well-heeled industrialist clients.

It goes from "Ask corporate lobbyists...." to "One business lobbyist said......." LOL

But I don't let people I disrespect, like lobbyists, tell me how to vote one way or another. 

Please vote for CLINT CURTIS FL-24

If we're going to promote our favorites in the Grassroots vote,

Please vote for Clint Curtis. He's running against Tom Feeney, one of the worse Republicans Florida has ever sent to Washington.

Let's just bash Clinton and leave the Obama or Edwards bashing up to the Republicans and the Clintons.

Better still, just tell the truth about all of their records and promises without smarmy flatitudes and baseless smears. 

Clint Curtis is the fellow with the info about "fixing" the voting software, right?  What ever happened with that?

Was it just a publicity stunt? 

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Yes, that's him. As a programmer for Wang & Co. he was approached by Feeney to fix the software in his district so that he would win.

Curtis refused. He was a Republican at the time, and switched parties shortly after Feeney won the race. It appears nothing was ever really done about it despite the evidence. Feeney has also been implimented in Abramoff stuff, but again, he walks free and is running again.

Curtis was at a meeting we were at two years ago held by the Florida Fair Voting group. He spoke and told all. Smart guy, nice personality. 

Feeney was one of the most corrupt politicians in Tallahassee when he was there as a legislator.

He had a hand in redistricting his own district so that it was leaned Republican, dumping the Democrats in other districts. His district has been changing and his reputation so tarnished so a Dem might have a good shot at it.

Clint Curtis ran against Feeney last election as well, but lost. We need to keep trying until the dirt gets swept out.

The VP of our little Dem Club here has dual citizenship by birth in America and Panama. She is planning on moving to Panama if Clinton wins the WH.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - A car driven by the daughter of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards was hit by another auto, but she wasn't injured.

The other driver, Carol Small of Durham, was cited by police for driving while impaired. The accident occurred while Cate Edwards was driving in downtown Chapel Hill on Friday afternoon, according to a police report.

"She was hit from behind by a drunk driver," John Edwards said when asked about the accident following a town hall event in Pawleys Island, S.C. "She's doing fine."

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Another excerpt about Hillary Clinton from today's Huffington Post.

Next I'll post title and URL

She claims that George W. Bush is the worst president we've ever had. Yet in her entire time in the Senate she has never led one successful fight against him. She has either lost every legislative battle on Iraq, or worse yet, been complicit. The vote to authorize the war was one thing, but how about all of the votes to continue and support Bush's war for all of the remaining years? Let alone every other issue on which Bush got exactly what he wanted, up to and including this year, when the Democrats and Senator Clinton were theoretically in charge.

I understand that leaders are supposed to lead. Yet, I have never seen Senator Clinton lead her fellow Democrats in a successful challenge of President Bush. Never. That's a pretty awful record.

Now, it would be one thing if George Bush was a popular president who was hard to defeat politically. But in fact, he is the opposite. He is the most deeply unpopular president of our lifetimes. And Hillary Clinton kept getting her ass kicked by that guy.

That's the real criticism that should be leveled against Hillary Clinton. Yet I have almost never seen anyone make this point on TV. Part of the reason for that, of course, is because her opponents, Barack Obama and John Edwards did no better in their time in the Senate. So, they are embarrassed into an awkward silence on the matter.

The reason I hold Senator Clinton to a higher standard, other than the fact that she has been there longer, is that she had the biggest name recognition and could have led her fellow Democrats -- but chose not to. Instead she chose accommodation and capitulation. That's a record worth criticizing, if anyone ever got around to it.

I love the media - now CNN and their pundits are making the Obama/Hillary fluff up sound like Howard's fault -- Howard they say should step in and stop the fighting for the good of the Democratic party.

The title is "The Real Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Cenk Uygur

URL                         http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-real-case-against-hil_b_81248.html 

Zoe Lofgren endorses Barack ObamaCongresswoman cites unity, 'hope for the world' in decision"Sen. Clinton and I are both baby boomers. We've both got plenty left to contribute to our country in the United States Congress. But I'm happy now to share the limelight with the next generation. I'm glad that someone with Barack Obama's intelligence, leadership and character can be our next President. It's time for a change." http://origin.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7968934?nclick_check=1

Clinton Receives Tepid Reception at MLK Event

But Mrs. Clinton’s appearance and remarks, before the Local 32BJ union in midtown Manhattan, were not exactly a smash. The audience, made up mostly of security guards, applauded steadily when she entered but did not roar – and there were a few scattered boos. Much of her speech was met with silence. Less than half of the room gave her a standing ovation when she left.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/clinton-receives-tepid-reception-at-mlk-event/

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Awesome news! I was just wondering yesterday how she'd lean. She was the first US Congress member that endorsed Howard during his run.

The Bush Administration argues that granting California's waiver request would establish a complicated "patchwork" of state regulation standards. But in reality, there are only two standards: the federal standard (which is the minimum standard) and the California standard, which is stronger.  14 other states have joined California and would use our higher standard, and 4 more states intend to do the same.  The federal government should encourage -- not stymie -- the efforts of 19 states, representing more than half of all Americans, to fight global warming. 

Last year, Administrator Johnson told our Committee that the EPA needed more time to make a decision on California's waiver request because it was "performing a rigorous analysis." However, according to an article in the Washington Post, the EPA Administrator ignored the advice of his technical and legal staff and denied our waiver request anyway.

It is outrageous that the Bush EPA has denied California's legitimate waiver request, overruling the advice of its own staffers.  We deserve to know why.

Why did EPA Administrator Johnson overrule all of his legal and technical experts?  What role did the White House, the automobile industry, and Vice President Cheney have in politicizing a decision that should have been based purely on science and legal precedent?

The EPA is accountable to Congress and to the people of the United States, and it's time for Administrator Johnson to tell us the truth.

Forward an email to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson now, demanding that he release all the documents about his decision and come clean with the American people!

Thank you for your help.

In Friendship,

Barbara Boxer
U.S. Senator

Snark! BBC World News just did a piece on the Hill/Obama fluff up. That dry Brit wit -- the reporter ended with a clip of Hillary nodding her head back and forth to church music and the reporter voices over something like ... "and Hillary Clinton shows that even a white woman has rhythm." LOL. Then the commentator/anchor said 'that last was a joke by the way.' Guess you have to spell it out for us.

This is 'out of context' b/c I wasn't really listening to the entire piece.

I'm getting more and more outraged at the campaign the Clinton's are running. But I'm tired of hearing the press say *Obama and Clinton are sparring*. No, THEY'RE not -- it's the dirty tricks of the Clintons.

It IS easy being green!

Nice article from today's Tribune with many tips to help the environment

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/c...

I voted for a candidate other than HRC.

I hope it was Kucinich since you've promted him here.

It was--only other choice other than uncommitted was Gravel

We shall see.

75% of Americans Says Country Is On Wrong Track, A Record High

If JE were in the lead, I would certainly say that the country was finally on the right track.  But that's me.

Oh my!  This is extraordinary news.

Daniel Barenboim, the world renowned Israeli pianist and conductor, has taken Palestinian citizenship and said he believed his rare new status could serve a model for peace between the two peoples. 1/14

"...if anyone's in doubt: yes, Edwards is pissing off the right people." -- grannyhelen

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As the primary process continues, amidst the daily barrage of broadsides fired from one campaign onto another, it's worth remembering that John Edwards is still talking about real issues.

John Edwards' campaign isn't about him. It's about us. It's about taking back power from the wealthy elites who want to run this country and putting it in our hands. It's about finally taking on the corporations that dominate more and more of the American economy. It's about challenging the system.

And it's pissing off the all right people.


Let's start with Rupert Murdoch. My, how John Edwards has pissed that man off.

Sure, Murdoch hates John Edwards because Edwards led the way amongst presidential candidates in pulling out of the Faux-news debates, helping expose his propaganda network for what it is.

But he hates John Edwards even more because John Edwards has spoken out publicly against the monopolization of America's media outlets into the hands of a small number of plutocrats like Murdoch. Murdoch's media empire fired back, calling Edwards a hypocrite, leaking confidential information, all in an attempt to smear John Edwards to avoid talking about the real issues.

Just look at the bile and vitriol spilling from these New York Post headlines. Two of the most savage attacks were directed as much as Nataline Sarkisyan and Elizabeth Edwards' as they were at Edwards.

Of course, Rupert Murdoch isn't the only right-wing corporatist to go after John Edwards with personal attacks.

Take the far-right Washington Times, for example. In the view of the editorial pages, Edwards is a "widely scorned" "sanctimonius hypocrite." All in all, the Times says, "Mr. Edwards's rank hypocrisy is boundless." On the bright side, he's "well-coifed" but "not ready for prime time."

Then there's that corporate wet dream, Mitt Romney, who apparently has quite a violent streak.

    Every time I listen to someone like John Edwards get on TV and say there are two Americas I just want to throw something at the TV. -- Willard

You see, the problem isn't that there actually are two Americas -- one populated by wealthy elites like Mitt Romney, the other by just about everybody else. The problem is that people like John Edwards talk about the inequity of it all, and some day, the American public might decide to shove a big fat FU right in Mitt Romney's face.

Hell, even the Republican party can't stand Mitt Romney, the corporate swine.

As jamess diaried, big business is putting John Edwards on notice.

    With the nation's economy increasingly becoming a volatile issue in the presidential campaign, the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce is about to issue one very tough promise to spend millions of dollars against candidates deemed to be anti-business. (Are you listening John Edwards?)

National Review, the rag read by the nation's conservative elite, just absolutely can't stand John Edwards. Byron York asks the probing question: "Is Edwards a phony?" Talk about expensive haircuts -- York knows a thing or two about those, I might guess. Rich Lowry affectionately (sic) calls John Edwards "The Hater" and accuses him of "unbridled hostility."

The grand-daddy of the entire crew of corporate warriors, one William F. Buckley, actually is an exception to the "if you fear, smear" rule of thumb. He understands that populism is a grave and serious danger to the plutocracy. So he does something almost unimaginable amongst these reactionaries: he actually engages Edwards on the issues. Sort of.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/1/12/155216/311 

Isn't this interesting?

For those of you who think the Democratic presidential nomination fight is just a two-way race between Obama and Clinton, check out this brand new poll from the Reno Gazette-Journal. Yup, that's right - it shows the Nevada caucus race a three-way, dead heat with John Edwards right in the mix.

Interestingly, this poll comes right on the heels of the Establishment viciously ratcheting up its angry attacks on the Edwards candidacy. Late last week, we saw a Reuters story headlined "Corporate Elite Fear Candidate Edwards" detailing how Wall Street moneymen and K Street lobbyists are frightened about Edwards populist, power-challenging message against greed and corruption. We also saw self-anointed Democratic "expert" Lawrence O'Donnell pen a fulminating screed demanding Edwards get out of the race - not surprising coming from a man who made his name running the U.S. Senate Finance Committee - long the most corrupt, lobbyist-ravaged panel in all of Washington (somehow, running the U.S. Congress's version of a pay-to-play casino now makes people credile "experts" in campaign strategy and political morality).

Contribute to John Edwards

— from Freedom Rider blog

Bravo to Ms. Magazine for making the right decision. It is a decision that will bring them unjustified criticism, but I hope they will not back down.

The American Jewish Congress submitted an ad to Ms. featuring the photos of three Israeli political leaders, President of the Supreme Court Dorit Beinish, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni and Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik. The text underneath the photos reads "This is Israel."

Ms. was right to reject the ad. The ad would be seen as a statement of support for the Israeli government. The Ms. mission of promoting women's rights around the world would be tainted if the magazine began making statements of support for Israel or for any other government. The ad implicitly does just that.

Of course, the AJC wasted no time in saying that the ad rejection showed "hostility to Israel." They also created a straw man by pointing out that Ms. has featured articles about Arab women and about Nancy Pelosi's leadership in Congress. The AJC would have a good point if they were referring to the acceptance of similar ads, but that is not the case. Instead they prove the flimsiness of their argument by comparing the apple of articles to the oranges of advertisements.

The real reason the AJC has its collective pants in a twist is because Ms. has written critically about Israel's foreign policy and about the plight of Palestinian women living under Israel's occupation. That is the true cause of the bogus outrage.

By the way, if the AJC is so eager to put the lives of Israeli women in the spotlight, they should submit an ad about Moshe Katsav. Katsav is the former president who resigned after being on the verge of indictment for raping two female employees. In return for sparing the government embarrassment, he was allowed to plead guilty to sexual harassment. His accusers now have no legal recourse.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/12133 

Chellie Pingree (running against *five men* in her CD#1 Maine primary), Nancy Skinner, and John Laesch (also endorsed by Blue America '08 & Noam Chomsky).

Chellie's a a tough progressive cookie.

She'll hopefully be Maine's first Democratic Rep. ever sent to D.C. (and the first feminist ever). Unlike those two pathetic not-at-all-"moderate" Senators we've got representing Maine (Collins & Snowe). Ugh.

www.pingreeforcongress.com

I support Chellie on my ActBlue page, natch:

http://www.actblue.com/page/mf

And Barb listed me twice on her supporter/endorsement page.

Oopsie. That's fine (one for Kiah--he can't type).

http://chelliepingree.com/chellie/endors...

Give 'em hell, Chellie!





FDL's Laesch thread today:

http://tinyurl.com/2ozduc

Layla Anwar is the pseudonym for an Iraqi blogger, in her early to mid-forties, who appears to be writing directly from Baghdad, right in the line of fire, so to speak. She comes from a secular, upper-middle class, Sunni background and remains loyal to Saddam Hussein. Unlike the blogger Baghdad Burning, Layla does not write for the American left. Rather, she writes to all Americans, including the American left, and condemns us all along with the Bush-Cheney regime. She indicts every single American for being a part of the destruction and devastation of her motherland. She writes to the enemy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080114/pl_nm/usa_politics_nevada_dc_4

Obama takes narrow lead over Clinton in Nevada

By Adam Tanner

2 hours, 23 minutes ago

RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a small lead over rival Hillary Clinton in Nevada ahead of Saturday's caucus, the party's next contest, according to a poll released on Monday.

A Reno Gazette-Journal poll of 500 likely caucus goers found 32 percent favoring Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, 30 percent for Clinton, a senator from New York, and 27 percent for former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.

...

Clinton had a strong lead in Nevada polls as recently as a month ago and has the backing of many in the Democratic party there.

Obama received a boost last week when the state's largest union, the Culinary Union, endorsed him and began urging its 60,000 members to show up in mass on Saturday.

Yet a lawsuit filed on Friday challenging caucus locations inside the famous Las Vegas casino hotels where many Culinary Union workers are employed could blunt the impact of union backing if the challenge is successful.

...

This is like a bat!

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I love the media - now CNN and their pundits are making the Obama/Hillary fluff up sound like Howard's fault -- Howard they say should step in and stop the fighting for the good of the Democratic party.

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I still remember at the 04 dem convention when Dean spoke to a crowd standing on their feet in raucus applause.

Hillary stayed seated, with a frown.

Looks like she had Dean envy, and still has it. 

Obama Damps Down Racial Controversy

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/obama-damps-dow.html

rae -

Well someone has to dampen it down when the one who started it -- Hillary -- won't (apologize).  Just like she won't (apologize) for her vote to authorize the U.S. to go to war (aka invasion) in Iraq.

Where Obama Stands on Poverty

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/01/obama-damps-dow.html

Both sides have dug themselves into heavily fortified positions over the past month from which they are refusing to shift.

It has become a test of wills and it is now a question of who will blink first.

Or alternatively, whether the Russian government will decide to use force to close the British Council's office in St Petersburg.

There was no way the Russians would tolerate such open defiance of a clear order issued last month for the St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg offices to shut down by the New Year.

The anger of the government was fully expressed in the abrupt summons of the British ambassador Sir Anthony Brenton to the foreign ministry in Moscow on Monday.

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Shows just how much class Obama has - thanks for posting.

Chellie:

Against Iraq from the get-go, prochoice always (not when it's convenient--ardent Second Waver feminist, single Mom--raised three kiddos (her adult daughter, Hannah, is our House Majority Leader!); sued the feds (and won) over our right to reimport "Canuck" drugs for senior citizens (inception of Maine Rx Plus program); pro net neutrality; formulated Maine's Clean Elections Act (for Gubernatorial, municipal, county, and state legislative races--took years); and is a pitbull w/deregulating the power of the MSM.

Most recently (termed out of ME Senate), was Pres. of Common Cause.

Co-Owner of Nebo Lodge (if you're visiting North Haven, ME--reserve well in advance during peak summahtime):

http://www.nebolodge.com/

Obama Damps Down Racial Controversy

The Clintons will ramp it right back up. They're out of real arguments. 

Most startling, only three candidates receiving major media attention were willing to provide specific issue information to voters:

    * Chris Dodd
    * John Edwards
    * Mike Gravel

That's some winning company Edwards is keeping. If I'm "throwing my vote away" (as no less a personage than Phil has called it) it might as well be for one who never voted for the worst of Bush's agenda. 

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Sorry wrong link.  Here it is:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/CGlh

By NOAH TRISTER, AP FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Darren McFadden isn't sticking around for another run at the Heisman Trophy. The Arkansas All-American announced Monday he'll skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft

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the news of the day

 (as no less a personage than Phil has called it)

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source?

I have advocated voting your heart and your head consistantly and in MI, I hope that means a Kucinich landslide, given the choices.

source?

Apparently my memory of what you've said is better than yours. You were referring to voting for Kucinich as a matter of principle as throwing it away. It makes sense if you now no longer think that not voting for the winner is a waste.

The problem isn't just with Hillary -- it' the former President who just won't shut the eff up.

The problem isn't just with Hillary -- it' the former President who just won't shut the eff up.

That's because his role in this campaign is the same as Elizabeth Edwards' has been -- the attack dog who can't be attacked back. 

I have advocated voting your heart and your head consistantly

That's exactly what I advocated in response to your assertion that voting for Kucinich is a wasted vote. In fact, I've been saying it for many months as I'm sure others would attest.

Hey guys new thread - with great news about Kucinich.

I have consistantly advocated the position of "my vote is my voice" and even went so far as advance an idea to the rules process to give every registered Democrat in America the exact same say in selecting the nominee.(with extended absentee ballot only voting)

If everyone voted their head and the heart; the party and its nominee would truly represent the members (and yes I do think the name on the line Democratic Party should be decided by Democrats).

the wasted vote is the one not cast

the wasted vote is the one not cast

I said that a long time ago too -- verbatim. 

Now i see why you like Edwards so much. He plagerizes others and tries to change his record. 

and even went so far as advance an idea to the rules process to give every registered Democrat in America the exact same say in selecting the nominee.

Yeah, I know all about exclusionary viewpoint. It's bad politics.