Roy Carter is a retired teacher and football coach, with no political experience, who jumped into the race because he was tired of seeing his former students and players being sent off to fight in an illegal war.

His is truly a remarkable story and I'd personally be thrilled if you would consider voting for him.

Gov Dean is number one.

Hooray for Dennis Kucinich

Judge Grants Kucinich Entry to NV Debate

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gDnNS8D2ehuX_-DVhFZ3z3WK1vtgD8U5V07G0

Interesting.........I find it rather odd, all tis unity called for by the Democrats..and all i see is dis-unity..especialy from the minority candidates..................wouldnt it be ironic if the white guy gets the nomination?

I see the republicans, with all their twisted logic and so on uniting much better than the democrats.....................democrats have some soul searching to do...............

This seems like the perfect chance to remind everyone that Nancy Skinner, former talk show host at the Air America affiliate station in Detroit, is on the DFA Grassroots All-Star ballot this year after her impressive showing against the horrible Joe Knollenberg, a Bush valet from the word go, in 2006. 

Garnering the support of another former political opponent, Barack Obama from the Illinois primary for U.S. Senator, Nancy came from nowhere to lose to Know-nothing Knollenberg by a painfully scant 4 points.  This year, with our help, Joe won't even know what hit him.   It will be sweet.

Nancy is a big time Dean supporter, and even interviewed Jim on her show, before people knew what DFA was.  Join Joan Jett and me and vote to show your support.  Voting for Nancy is almost like dumping a waste basket full of water over Bill O'Reilly's head.  Thanks.

I support Roy Carter for Congress too.  He has been working hard since September to build a really strong organizational base from the grassroots up.  His campaign has brought energy and hope to the district as he works to defeat one of the most radically conservative Members of Congress.  People here in NC's 5th district know that it's time for a change and know that Roy Carter is the man to bring home the win.

I encourage everyone to visit his website at www.roycarterforcongress.com and then VOTE for him to be DFA's Grassroots Allstar.  He deserves the win!

CALIFORNIA IS VOTING!!! 

my absentee ballot was in the mail today--jan 14!  before this, my stink-o-meter was quivering, and i deliberated whether to send an email to sec of state debra bowen and to alert other calif voters on the net.  this has not been the first election when a late ballot was sent to my residence.  [calif does not consider postmark but the date and time of receipt of the marked ballot.]

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berkeley prof and npr commentator, robert reich, calls obama's stimulus plan the best of the dems.  reich was bill clinton's secretary of labor.  lol!

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spot-on, john nelson. 

it's nauseating what the clinton campaign has put out.  after bob johnson's signifying--communicating without speaking the words--then covering up the insinuation about drugs with community organizing...........gimme a break.  voters are not stupid, as bob johnson rightly began his speech.

hillary is intensely disliked on facebook, and this kind of campaigning will seal her fate with this demographic.  sorry, chels. 

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if hillary gets the nomination, we'll lose the mountain west and very likely the hard-won congressional seats which dean democrats fought for.  the latimes had a piece about this dislike of hillary some time ago. 

.I find it rather odd, all tis unity called for by the Democrats..and all i see is dis-unity..especialy from the minority candidates..........

And who do you call the minority candidates?

<> ........wouldnt it be ironic if the white guy gets the nomination?

You just can't help but inject skin pigmentation into the dialogue, can you? 

If hillary gets the nomination, we'll lose the mountain west and very likely the hard-won congressional seats which dean democrats fought for.

Nobody can know how others will vote. Electability is a canard. 

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Just knock it off with the racial innuendos. 

Mike is heading up the Gated Community Party's campaign effort this year.

I said that a long time ago too -- verbatim. In response to you saying just the opposite.

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 your exclusionary viewpoint. It's bad politics, if not just plain wrong.

hmm, notice how all the fairly new people are causing a rucus?

trolls maybe?

mike, keep on keeping on. We need your intelligence and wit.

linda wrote "mike, keep on keeping on. We need your intelligence and wit."

Well, he is funny.

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Hmmm linda, if you are referring to me, I have been a blogger here since the first. 

What is intelligent and witty about racism?

Hmmm linda, if you are referring to me, I have been a blogger here since the first.

I too wondered whom she was referring to along with whom Mike was referring earlier as the "minority candidates." 

Chellie Pingree (D-ME).

My ActBlue page for Chellie & Tom Allen~

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

Competing with five men in her CD#1 primary.

www.pingreeforcongress.com

First feminist Democrat in Maine's political history to serve in D.C. (vs. the two repulsive pieces of "red" complicit warmongering NeoCon crap we have down there in the Senate...Snowe & Collins).

Gooooooooooo, Chellie!

We can't let ourselves get to the point where we walk on eggs.  

Chellie on the Wexler's H. Res. 333 :

http://tinyurl.com/25foto

[...]

"As in the Watergate era, we are at a "teachable moment," when the public as well as the politicians and government officials would benefit from a full public investigation. There is a substantial body of information that suggests that the Bush administration has disregarded the rule of law it pledged to uphold. Our system of government, with its three distinct branches, was built to provide for accountability, and holding the president and his administration accountable should be a priority of this or any Congress. It is not a matter of political strategy or convenience, but an important safeguard of our democracy.

I support the members of Congress who are calling for hearings and was very glad to see my friend Mike Michaud send his letter. If I were in Congress, I believe I would be doing the same.
by: Chellie @ Mon Jan 14, 2008 at 16:50:30 PM CST"

from hanging chads to mispelling first names -- there is Florida :

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2008/01/14/barack_obama_spelled_wrong_in_central_fla/4242/

...

The little Dic (short for dictator) is ignoring the NIE report on Iran.

Keithie is on BTW./ 

rucus is OK.

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Roy Carter

> I've read a littl about Roy Carter...North Carolina, right?

We can't let ourselves get to the point where we walk on eggs.

>

Right, but we can listen.

8:25EST

Uh Oh.  Å HC/BO ticket is being discussed briefly.

It's getting too close to what I've been saying all along. 

I've asked this question and didn't receive an answer?  What would you Obama supporters to with a HC/BO ticket?  Would you vote?

Or would you prefer a JE/BO ticket?

I think BO would make a good VP. 

Nuff said.  But when I start hearing people already suggesting that maybe HC and BO should be on the ticket to draw in the most people as possible, I get the willies. 

I'll be watching tomorrow to see if BO and HC are a mutual admiration society.

This is good to see.

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When we broke the news that Bill Kristol would be joining the editorial pages of the New York TImes as a regular contributor, we called it "a move bound to create controversy." After a mistake-laden first effort, now the New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt has delivered his verdict: "[NYT Publisher] Sulzberger and [editorial page editor] Rosenthal made a mistake." Hoyt's reasoning:

On Fox News Sunday on June 25, 2006, Kristol said, "I think the attorney general has an absolute obligation to consider prosecution" of The New York Times for publishing an article that revealed a classified government program to sift the international banking transactions of thousands of Americans in a search for terrorists.

Publication of the article was controversial -- my predecessor as public editor first supported it and then changed his mind -- but Kristol's leap to prosecution smacked of intimidation and disregard for both the First Amendment and the role of a free press in monitoring a government that has a long history of throwing the cloak of national security and classification over its activities. This is not a person I would have rewarded with a regular spot in front of arguably the most elite audience in the nation.

Read Hoyt's entire argument here.       http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/14/nyt-public-editor-hiring_n_81326.html

Lately...there's been too much of this...

and not enough of this...

I'll take any combination of JE HC BO

but I am a unity Dem.  maybe a provocative one, but I can live with that.

I see and hear less division from the three than their dear supporters.

Reed in VT

Well, that is a sweet photo of the little rats, Reed.

 rats...whatever...lol

seashell wrote "I've asked this question and didn't receive an answer?  What would you Obama supporters to with a HC/BO ticket?  Would you vote?  Or would you prefer a JE/BO ticket?"

The question I remember is who would Obama supporters vote for if Obama was no longer a candidate. 

I saw two answers.  I said Edwards and Denise said Edwards.  rdorgan has always said he would support Edwards.

Chipmunks I supose.  I saw that on Puddle's blog.  I like the way you use it, too.

try hamsters methinks...

didn't snatch it from puddle but not surprised she has it : ) 

Bill Hedrick in the California 44th Congressional District is a very thoughtful, educated man with an unshakable moral compass, who will have a unique chance to send home current Republican Representative Ken Calvert who has voted in lockstep with Bush on every issue.

Bill has several children in Iraq or returned from Iraq. He supports the military but is against the Iraq war.  For his stance on other issues, visit his web site: www.hedrickforcongress.com. He is definitely a candidate worthy of your vote! Bill cares for people!

 SoCalDem

So many typos, so many keys!  :-)

Hillary's Crocodile Angst

Yesterday morning on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos there ran the names of 16 Americans -- some, mere boys -- killed in Iraq last week. Next week he'll run another list of Americans killed this week. So it has gone for nearly five years, with at least another year to go. Less quantifiable is the death of America's reputation and whatever honor she had regained after the needless obscenity of Vietnam.

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For there you sat, again, spinning the real "fairy tale" of this campaign: that your vote for the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq" was, despite the resolution's title, in actuality merely an authorization for the oxymoronic use of "diplomatic force."

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Some of your supporters now dismiss criticism of you as mere "Hillary-hating," which is a curious blend of both incisive truth and tactical diversion. Many, including some (and including myself) who greatly admired you prior to October 2002 do indeed "hate" what you became: an opportunistic jingoist when jingoism ruled, since going against the hard grain of hypernationalism at the time might spoil your later prospects for a White House run and make you appear "weak."

The irony, of course, is that it's now that you appear weak, having buckled under political pressure and supported an adventurism that virtually every thoughtful analyst said would cost the lives of thousands, drain the Treasury and destroy America's standing in the world.

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Yesterday, Hillary, you re-projected a recently discovered appeal with appeal: "I spend my time out on the campaign trail -- it’s usually about what I can do for somebody else. I'm very 'other' directed -- I don’t like talking about myself.... For me, it’s always about, 'What can I do for you? How can I help you?'"

Here's a thought. Go back to New York and pray for forgiveness -- from those 16 families who needlessly lost loved ones last week, and from the next batch of families who are about to lose theirs this week, in part because you didn't want to appear "weak."

http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/p_m_carpenters_commentary/2008/01/hillarys-crocod.html

ok Mike Cooper,

Coach Carter has one of my votes. I'm still perusing for two
more worthy souls....

Yesterday morning on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos there ran the names of 16 Americans

>  Each week it seems to me more and more about George, than honoring the dead.

seashell,

I certainly would support a Obama /Edwards ticket, or an Edwards/Obama ticket.  I would support Edwards if Obama is not the nominee.  But under no circumstances would I ever support a ticket in any shape or form with the Clinton name attached to it.

Tom, I think I asked both questions, Tom, but maybe it's half-timers!  LOL

I think most BO/JE supporters would vote for either one, altho BO supporters, on the whole, didn't respond....but....put HC and BO together and then what?

This possibility should be considered seriously and maybe even discussed here. 

This is a chess game and we need to be 4 moves ahead of what the CM wants.  Since most of us are either JE or BO advocatesm perhaps we should focus on keeping JE very viable, very.

I don't think Obama has any issues appealing to women voters (at least judging from this picture!) ...

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/...

My husband thought this was a great pic.

Judging by how this blog has really degenerated as of late..........I hope Howard Dean reads this and decides to chloroform it..............it serves no useful purpose anymore and therfore needs to be extinguished..............

The bickering here is pretty sad, and seeing that that Ive always regarded blogs and the inernet as "the paradise of cowards" who would never dare challenge their insults by backing them up.....I submit, that...just as a person does when two dogs are fighting..................just throw water on them............

Howard.............time to throw water on this blog.........the intelect level is borderline neanderthal.

I like Bill Clinton, and have an opposite opinion of republicans and the great conservative conspiracy, which aim to take them down. 

 And I don't think much of Dems who constantly spit and fume about the Clintons. 

Two peas in a pod. 

I'm going to vote for Nancy Skinner and Chellie Pingree on the advise of Tom and Mainefem, but cannot decide on a third.

Michael Ellis

>

You have always been one to diminish.

I've asked this question and didn't receive an answer?  What would you Obama supporters to with a HC/BO ticket?  Would you vote?

I've asked this question and didn't receive an answer?  What would you Obama Edwards supporters to with a HC/BO or BO/HC ticket?  Would you vote?

Those rattlesnakes seem to be getting along very well, thanjk you  -- especially since they're all about to be senselessly slaughtered. 

Chris,

Here are my choices in alpha order. I only wish that I could have choosen more. They're all wonderful and I intend, if at all possible, to help them all in some way.


Roy Carter (NC) He's really great! That Virginia Foxx is very very bad.

Gilda Reed (LA) We Need Reed! She's is sooo amazing.

Barry Welch (IN) Mike Pence has got to go. Go Rev. Welch!

-- especially since they're all about to be senselessly slaughtered.  

Oops. It looked like they were in a big barrel, but it seems to be a drain pipe. 

47.

Nada

Imn2Paine
Mon, 01/14/08
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Like I said paine..........."a cowards paradise"...................

Its rather funny wtching this blog self destruct...........and with that the Democratic party.................

Poor Howard................such a waste

We can't let ourselves get to the point where we walk on eggs.

I don't walk on eggs. I find I can make quite easily make any point without words and phrases that imply racism or sexism.

51. Nada

I'll wait till I get my sample ballot to decide how I'll vote since only then will I know who's even on it. With rare exceptions, I don't decide until I've seen the whole movie.

Michael Ellis

>

What?  Are you on the way out...again?  Do you want the, "please, don't go;-( You're such a special part of the blog.

But, then again, you're on to something...but it has been going on for some time now.

But, then again, maybe it is just undefinable chaos. 

ni unos ni otros

Matthews' sexist displays go beyond Clinton
Matthews has an extensive history of attacking Clinton, but his sexist commentary has hardly been limited to her. Read More

Its rather funny wtching this blog self destruct...........and with that the Democratic party.................

A little overblown for my tastes. 

59.

Your link doesn't work.

HC's wants the pro-lifer Evan Bayh as a running mate. Wait till all her pro-choice supporters in California hear that one. They don't it know yet. They're really going to hit the roof on that one. They may just start throwing their shoes. The members of the pro-choice movement in California were livid when they found out that some of the CA DNC female members where supporting pro-lifer Tim Rohmer for DNC Chair. When they found out they ran to support Gov. Dean and hounded the DNC members who were supporting Rohmer to change their votes.

Sorry, didn't verify the blue...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110011?f=h_top

It would be cool if Kucinich won the Michigan primary.

It would have cool (and more honest and sensible) for Moulitsas to order his minions to vote for Kucinich instead of Romney. 

But I expect there aren't as many who march to his orders as he possibly imagines. 

The arms uplifted photo of Billary is straight out of _Beloved_ (memories of Old Baby Sugg).

Blasphemous.

Thanks, Rae--Chellie's no sellout Second Wave feminist.

I'd bitch her out directly (seriously).

My ActBlue page for Tom & Chellie:

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

She came out (officially--in blogville) w/Rep. Mike Michaud on Wexler's H. Res. 333:

http://tinyurl.com/25foto

I chose John Laesh as my third (Chellie & Nancy Skinner, too).

Firedoglake/Blue America '08 & Chomsky endorse Laesh.

http://tinyurl.com/2ozduc

HC's wants the pro-lifer Evan Bayh as a running mate.

It does seem like a marriage made in Al From's Aspen lodge. 

MSNBC...Of course they don't actually have to ask him any questions...

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Good point.  And, in fact, Russert is the major duomo at Dem debates.  He's practicing for the general election debates.   

HC's wants the pro-lifer Evan Bayh as a running mate. Wait till all her pro-choice supporters in California hear that one.

>

God forbid! 

25.

seashell ~ "HC/BO ticket"

When hell freezes over!!

Nada, nada! 

Not gonna happen!!

48.

Amongst themselves only...but you knew that.

Maine has Rx Plus (reimported meds for elders from Canada) thanks to Chellie; as well as Clean Elections.

From 1997 (PBS Newshour):

http://tinyurl.com/2pbup6

Chellie's scrappy & resilient.

Thanks!

HC's wants the pro-lifer Evan Bayh as a running mate. Wait till all her pro-choice supporters in California hear that one.

>

God forbid! 

Some god won't forbid it, but Hillary's internal polling might. 

10 pm est...zzzville

Evan Bayh

Ain't no nominee gonna ask that dullard to be on their ticket.

I voted for Chellie, Nancy, and Linda Stender. Wish I could have voted for more.

HC's wants the pro-lifer Evan Bayh as a running mate.

If this is true, she has to be knocked out of the race.  She won't get MY vote.  

The only way this is going to work well for the party is to keep JE and BO strong, in first and second.

Winding up with HC is unthinkable.   Especially with Bayh.  Spread the word.

Susan, how do you know that she wants Bayh?  She'll lose the womens' vote if he's on the ticket.

If women don't start paying close attention to HC, they are headed for a rude awakening...so is the dem party if JE leaves. 

Ain't no nominee gonna ask that dullard to be on their ticket.

Hard to say. Bayh seems highly regarded in DLC circles. I assume Lieberpub is off the table.

'06 MotherJones interview w/Chellie (while Pres. of Common Cause):

http://tinyurl.com/2yhy3b

Maine Rx Plus today:

http://maine.gov/dhhs/mainerx/index.htm

Running in a primary against five men.

Let's all thank the corporations for this.  Notice that neither HC nor BO care.

Christopher Kutruff | NBC Blocks Kucinich From Debate
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011408R.shtml
Christopher Kutruff, writing for Truthout, says, "Two days after inviting Dennis Kucinich to Tuesday's January 15 presidential debates, NBC decided to change its previously announced criteria and exclude the Ohio congressman. The congressman said he is considering legal action against NBC for its policy reversal."

New thread.

42 - It does "sound' like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly are loud mouthing on here sometimes. 

44 - Thanks for the reminder.  Throughout all the triangulating, the Clintons are Democrats after all.  Compared to the Repugs, ya know.

If Clinton wins the nomination.

IF.

Obama won't sit in his Senate chair into old age, and Hillary needs him so that she can keep the wind in the Democrats sail.   She/we need Obama going forward.

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If Obama wins the nomination.

He might do well asking Biden to stand next to him.

maybe, maybe not. 

Hannah Pingree in our House Majority Leader (we have very few decent Dems. in the legislature).

Ugh. Sad.

http://www.maine.gov/legis/housedems/hpi...

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seashell, Dennis is going to be in the debate, he won the legal action.

sp=is.

Sorry, Hannah!

They co-own Nebo Lodge on North Haven, too. Not a helluva lot to do out there, re: employment survival!

http://www.nebolodge.com/index.html

42 - It does "sound' like Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly are loud mouthing on here sometimes.

Mike poisons the blog and then asks that it be done away with because it's poisonous. DFA could take a much less drastic action if they agree with him.

On a different note, 

I'm actually quite pleased with the unfamiliar names who have been dropping in a lot more as of late. We lose some, we gain some.

44.

Agree with every word.

Evening' folks. 

9:24 pm est

Hi Cc!! Sweet ones.

New Thread

Yes, Roy Carter is running in North Carolina's beautiful 5th district.

77.

seashell :-)
Mon, 01/14/08

I listen to lots of talk. I grew up in Indiana.

Chellie sounds scrappy, Mainefem:)

81.

Ronald Cloud
Mon, 01/14/08


I know a lot of moderate Republicans who vote Democratic all the time but they will never vote for a Clinton ever again.

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Okay.

At one time I posted that Bill Clinton's Presidential Victories might have been real
overnight nail biters if Ross Perot had not been on the ballot.

I thought that Bill Richardson was the best bet for cross over appeal.

I think any of the three remaining are going to have a real tough time getting to
271 electors.

I second that!  Please check Nancy out and give her your vote.  She came in second in the All Stars competition last year.  Let's help her win it all this time out.

Consider using this logo to help raise money for Nancy Skinner:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v241/SharonRB/Smartnreadysmaller-1.jpg

Oops -- here it is.

And here's a better one.  Sorry!