Will the Times report om the upcoming protests in the U.S. against the war ? Impeach.

Howard Dean is indeed first.

Back for a sec.

Clinton's former pastor is a child molester.  I say so what, as I say so what to Obama's reverend.  Who cares.

http://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1637676857

Wake up Democratic Loyalists!

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/03/7434/

No rational person who has watched Congressional Democrats since they took over Congress could possibly have expected them to do anything but what they always do: namely, whatever they’re told to do by the White House. The last thing they were ever going to do was stand their ground over Americans’ basic liberties and the rule of law, concepts about which they couldn’t possibly care less.

The whole drama they started when they refused to pass the Senate bill by the deadline was never about anything substantive. They were just throwing a little petulant tantrum because they felt they were being treated unfairly again because they were given only a few days to comply with the President’s orders, when they wanted a couple of weeks to comply.

These clowns don't deserve to govern

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This is significant..........I saw my first "smart car" in this area today........cool but quite small.....bloody good for him/her who was driving it.................

of course my sports car gets better gas mileage and our new prius comes in tomorrow.......still tho, good to see the return of the same motorist..............

The days of the truck and suv are just about over with gas going at $4/gallon this summer........

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Thanks sm, now that really solidifies it for Mccain...............its March, hope runs out and gets old in mid August I predict...........

Good morning!

NY Times has a profile on Barack's mother.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/pol...

Mike - We have quite a few Smart cars in our community. Also, one of the teachers at my son's school drives an electric car with a sticker that reads *I may not be able to pass you - but I pass every gas station*.

I love the teachers in this community - all anti war liberals.

Former Senator Bob Graham: Iraq War Vote - Commander in Chief Test.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/14...

Hillary failed the *threshold* test.

the financial markets are tanking.

bush is on tv saying these are interesting times.

you friggen putz.

my husband is now driving my honda to work 35 mpg.

the other cars will stay put for awhile.

Obama = fortunate confluence of genes

He raised himself, modeled himself on an imaginary father.  LOL 

10. Monica, why would you even say that about obama?? That is really mean. LOL

Old Democrats and the race vote. This is interesting although I believe Obama would still have the edge. I'm certain Clinton is pushing this and her race-baiting hasn't helped Obama for damn sure.

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do;jse...

Graham would make a good Obama VP.

I'd like to add that during the general Obama can get a lot of Indie support as well as moderate Republicans. And let's not forget the young people!!! He is the one who has caused so much enthusiasm this primary/caucus season.

Rasmussen: Obama hits 50%. Hallelujah!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3...

One more opinion of mine before I head out to take the beasty for a hike -- if this nomination is wrested away from Barack - I truly believe that a large percentage of AA voters as well as the young ones (sadly, my daughter included) will not vote in November.

Printable version Bear Stearns gets emergency funds US bank Bear Stearns has got emergency funding, in a move that raises fears that one of Wall Street's biggest names is on the verge of collapsing.

Really interesting piece by Andrew Sullivan:

The other obvious advantage that Obama has in facing the world and our enemies is his record on the Iraq War. He is the only major candidate to have clearly opposed it from the start. Whoever is in office in January 2009 will be tasked with redeploying forces in and out of Iraq, negotiating with neighboring states, engaging America’s estranged allies, tamping down regional violence. Obama’s interlocutors in Iraq and the Middle East would know that he never had suspicious motives toward Iraq, has no interest in occupying it indefinitely, and foresaw more clearly than most Americans the baleful consequences of long-term occupation.

This latter point is the most salient. The act of picking the next president will be in some ways a statement of America’s view of Iraq. Clinton is running as a centrist Democrat—voting for war, accepting the need for an occupation at least through her first term, while attempting to do triage as practically as possible. Obama is running as the clearer antiwar candidate. At the same time, Obama’s candidacy cannot fairly be cast as a McGovernite revival in tone or substance. He is not opposed to war as such. He is not opposed to the use of unilateral force, either—as demonstrated by his willingness to target al-Qaeda in Pakistan over the objections of the Pakistani government. He does not oppose the idea of democratization in the Muslim world as a general principle or the concept of nation building as such. He is not an isolationist, as his support for the campaign in Afghanistan proves.

For the rest (a LOT more): http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200...

From the above (I hope) link:

Obama’s mother was, in fact, born only five years earlier than Hillary Clinton. He did not politically come of age during the Vietnam era, and he is simply less afraid of the right wing than Clinton is, because he has emerged on the national stage during a period of conservative decadence and decline. And so, for example, he felt much freer than Clinton to say he was prepared to meet and hold talks with hostile world leaders in his first year in office. He has proposed sweeping middle-class tax cuts and opposed drastic reforms of Social Security, without being tarred as a fiscally reckless liberal. (Of course, such accusations are hard to make after the fiscal performance of today’s “conservatives.”) Even his more conservative positions—like his openness to bombing Pakistan, or his support for merit pay for public-school teachers—do not appear to emerge from a desire or need to credentialize himself with the right. He is among the first Democrats in a generation not to be afraid or ashamed of what they actually believe, which also gives them more freedom to move pragmatically to the right, if necessary. He does not smell, as Clinton does, of political fear.

Phil, it is some scary times in the U.S. and the putz was on tv this a.m. Trying to reassure the rich ones in nyc that everything is okee dokey. but he didn't get the memo.

He was meandering all over the place and even got to throw in 9/11 and the democrats being soft on terror.

Somebody take a cane and get him off the stage.

Neat article, at least she says it for me very well, by Lunda Obst on the Huffington Post.

Will post the URL and then an excerpt of the article.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynda-obst/women-of-my-generation-ha_b_91468.html

Darn, just don't know how to make the URL blue.

Tibet is a sad situation and not untypical of an aggressive, imperialistic power.  It's a mixed situation with the Chinese modernizing it and also occupying it.  The Western powers are going to do nothing; the Tibetans haven't a chance, and the Chinese will continue to absorb their cutlure.

Good grief, the name is Lynda Obst.  What is it about typing nowadays?

Well, it's beginning to look like Mi may have a primary. However, that is not the case in Fl. No plan is satisfactory to either candidate. amd it is looking more like if there is going to be any resolution, both candidates will have to sit down with, guess who? Howard Dean. Probably won't be one of Hillary's best days. Ha.

Here's the article:

Posted March 13, 2008 | 07:33 PM (EST)

Women of my generation have clearly lost their minds. Not that I can blame them, apparently being invisible and all. Now with Geraldine Ferraro making outrageous nut-jobber remarks she doesn't even seem to understand, and realizing our tragic generation was once proud of her as a "pioneer," you can see how deluded we are as wel

So I want my peers to meet an original (begged for him to run) pro-Barack boomer 50-something careerist woman, who chose Barack above and beyond -- hear me, Geraldine, you utter moron -- from the best field of Democratic candidates we've had for years, many of whom I've been big fans of forever, for their various courageous stands on Central America (Dodd,) Iraq (Biden, Richardson and Kucinic

But Hillary? Never liked her. Many of my best friends and favorite women have always felt the same. Something unsettling about her. A feminist? Maybe. But a compromised one, having risen to fame as the victim of Monica and having been famously on bimbo eruptions in her White House patrol. She was the destroyer of Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers, the very blue collar ladies she is now being saved by. Kind of yucky, really. And hanging in there, through all the humiliation, and that making her a star. Left a bad taste in my mouth. Moving on.

What about my generation's desperation that there will never be another female candidate? Why? Is our gender about to die out? Do you all know something I don't? I can understand the 80-year-olds, I guess. But to me, Hillary Clinton is merely the first credible candidate, and the most flawed. And the only one not to rise on her own coattails, which is the real reason she doesn't appeal to both me and many young, yes, in their own way, feminists. And what about Claire McCaskill? She's great! ...

Another issue is, you don't know what she really thinks. Did she vote that way on the war because it would make her look tough? Or is she really such a hawk? I know a lot of women who really believe she's a peacenik, but votes like a hawk because she has to look tough to men. I am not so sure. I think she's a hawk. But none of us know for sure. This is a problem for boomer Barack women like me, and young women, too.

And another thing. And I am not even going to get into how nutty her relationship is, and no, I don't want two for one. Al Gore didn't then, and I don't now. And it looked pretty ugly on the campaign trail so far. Anyway. This whole thing about being vetted: what's the hold up on her White House transcripts? Why withhold tax records, info on fundraising at the presidential library? Somehow I fear something lurking there in the bushes, pardon.

I hate when women identify as victims, act like victims, and love victims. And Hillary, as strong as she is, wins as a victim. That is the trajectory of her career. I am a victim. Punch. So why are women whining and the identifying with being the victim again? This is so un-Tina! Hillary was the victim of an oppressive media? Of being asked the first question? Poor baby. All that good coverage on Obama was about being the victor of 11 primaries in a row -- excuse us! And is Barack playing the victim of a real calumny? On Clinton's answer to the known question: "Are you a Muslim?" "Not as far as I know?" Are you not ashamed?

What are you talking about, unfair treatment? Compared to what?

And one last thing. What I saw that ugly week with Tex/Ohio, was a woman yelling, shrieking, mocking, changing her strategy every day. I can understand the desperation, but I can't understand smart women mistaking that for strength. When she said shame on you, I was ashamed. Does that make me a sexist? Since I am her peer and a woman? No, I wanted her to be strong but consistent, not lose her cool at 3 a.m. The way Senator Obama had behaved all week.

And now she is the killer of Hope. (It was just too delusional to manage). We are not that multi-racial post-oppression society that shocked the world and for a moment was its wonder. We are, thanks to Hillary's kitchen sink and staff, the same old America they thought we were. The racially charged, fractured America Bush & Rush left us with that Obama has the prescription to heal. The one that attracted us original believers during his miraculous 2004 convention speech then swept 11 primaries in a row and apparently had to be stopped (thanks, SNL). We are the broken polarized America she wants to rule, will to anything to rule.

That we have learned can't be ruled.

Which is why I was an original Barack Boomer Woman in the first place.

Graham would make a good Obama VP. 

I'm putting one of my two cents on Janet Napalitano of AZ and the other on Kathleen Sibelius of KS. Either would give those who support Hillary because she's female someone to vote for, as well put a state that otherwise would be in McSame's hip pocket into play.

As for McSame's VP, if I had another penny I'd put it on Joementum since they've been joined at hip in dozens of photo op since MoJoe bolted the party.

Claire McCaskill is great?

Unfortunately my vision of McCaskill is similar to the one I have of Hillary pouring champagne at the convention and glaring at Dean.

McCaskill, when asked by Chris Mathews what she thought of a possible presidency of Howard Dean, she through her head back and laughed heartily. It wasn't just an opinion, it was a slam intended to be noticed.

Again, it's a matter of judgement. Both acts are very revealing about their core beliefs.

http://www.counterpunch.org/santina03142008.html

The term “collaboration” is popularly considered to be a construct of WWII, but the phenomenon is certainly older than Judas and threads through recorded history to its penultimate high point in Vichy France after the German conquest in 1940. In Vichy France, the collaborators appeared in basically two forms: active and passive collaboration with the German masters. Simply stated, the active collaborators identified Jews and resisters for the Nazis to take to the concentration camps, and the passive collaborators watched it happen and made excuses about why they could do nothing about it. 

Through the power of her office, Speaker Pelosi’s collaboration with the White House Agenda has been both active and passive. For the sake of identification, the White House Agenda can be defined as: aggression overseas, suppression of dissent at home, and the transfer of wealth upward to the richest segment of society.

Let’s look at the practice of active collaboration through the categories of the White House Agenda. For starters, there’s Speaker Pelosi’s continued funding of undeclared wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the illegal occupation of Haiti, support of the Colombian government’s reign of terror, Israel’s scorched earth policy in Lebanon, and aggressive posturing toward countries like Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. In lockstep with imperial White House policy, Pelosi called the democratically-elected president of Venezuela a “thug” for stating that our questionably-elected president was promoting a “democracy of bombs.”

And, of course, the 500 pound gorilla: where are the impeachment hearings for grievous lies and heinous falsifications that led to the preemptive war on Iraq? Hundreds of thousands dead, thousands injured and wounded, millions displaced. No hearings. The carnage continues.

“Impeachment is not on the table,” Speaker Pelosi stated fourteen months ago and—bunker like--has continued to suffocate all efforts to bring the White House’s treasonable activities to the table.   

And yet there is no accountability in Washington. No one is held responsible for crimes against humanity. And no one will be held responsible as long as the Vichy Democrats remain in power. 

And yet some among us glory in the title of "Proud Democrat"

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Claire McCaskill is great?

Only if that term applies to DINOs. 

Hillary having to sit down with Howard Dean. Pay back is a bee otch.

And Howard says we have to play by the rules!!!

How great is that.

This guy needs an education. Want to help?

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24220...

One more superdelegate for Obama.  Melissa Schroeder from Wisconsin.

Sitka.....

I don't think it will be Jomentum with his liberal background on things other than the war.
I'm guessing Charlie Chris...Fl, charming, some Dems like him, conservative, and he's sneaky.

I think Adm. Fallon being forced out, lends more probability to trouble in Iran. I'm thinking the electorate would be looking for a five star General instead of a female Gov. Of course Sibelius could sedate the Repugs into not voting.

I don't think it will be Jomentum with his liberal background on things other than the war.
I'm guessing Charlie Chris...Fl, charming, some Dems like him, conservative, and he's sneaky.

It's very possible that McSame made such a deal with Crist in return for his support in advance of the FL primary. And it would probably lock down FL for him.

On the other hand, there are many stupid Democrats who would vote for McJoe and McJohn -- including the same ones in FL that Gore was fishing for in 2000.

Known for being unreasonably reasonable and exhaustively argumentative, corporate lawyers might not score with voters

Susan Lehman
The American Lawyer
March 13, 2008

Stiff, bloodless, sexless, excessively concerned with the appearance of impropriety, lawyers are not much fun at parties. This is particularly true of corporate lawyers. They are professionally risk-averse; relentlessly, unreasonably reasonable; people who look perpetually ready to pull another all-nighter in the library stacks. And they are trained to be exhaustively, expensively argumentative. The culture of corporate law is one in which rigorous attention to detail is richly rewarded, and in which no detail is more rigorously attended to than victory.

[...]

The Rose Law Firm was not the sort of place that the girls at Hillary Clinton's 1969 Wellesley College graduation would have expected her to end up. In the commencement speech that she delivered (which got her written up in Life magazine), Clinton bashed "competitive, corporate culture" -- "not for us," she said -- and described her Wellesley cohort's collective longing for "immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating modes of living."

[...]

It is hard to imagine that Hillary didn't know that she was being closely monitored and viciously mocked. Put in a similar situation, most people would crawl under a rock. But that's not what Hillary did. Instead, she went to work. She continued to lunch regularly with Hubbell and Foster at the Lafayette Hotel and was duly promoted to partner. She found her way onto the board of directors at TCBY Enterprises, Arkansas Children's Hospital Legal Services, Lafarge North America, and Wal-Mart, where her position as the company's only female director made her the object of even greater scrutiny.

 

He was meandering all over the place and even got to throw in 9/11 and the democrats being soft on terror.

I've never once watched Bush speak for longer than it took me to change the channel. But in the snippet I've heard several times he repeats, "I believe," several times in reference to the economy.

I'm sure it isn't lost on financial types that he either doesn't know or won't say what the facts are. And following Bush's beliefs is a proven path to disaster.

pat, if you have a comment box with tools, paste the URL and then highlight it.  This will activate the link box, 5th from the left.  Click on the closed link to drop down a box and copy the URL into the address line and click "insert"  That should do it.  If you were using plain text, the URL would turn into a link automatically when you submit.

"I believe" is the mantra of the faith-based administration.  Belief, like intent, is not liable to challenge or proof and, therefor, not to be credited.

Michael, I heard BO's pastor yesterday and was startled.  Is this BO's present church and pastor?

Do you have a link cuz now I forgot his name. 

There are a couple of military adages -- "An Army marches on its stomach" and "Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics" -- that should adequately explain why the United States is not headed for war with Iran. There is no actual preparation for such a war going on. Moreover, the U.S. military is not in a position to carry off such an operation.

But then, we live in a world of "shock and awe," where long-range air and missile strikes suggest the ability to use force without the commitment of boots on the ground. When Iran war junkies make their case for some kind of "October surprise," they usually cite the need for preemption and say an attack can be unleashed by President Bush and Vice President Cheney with the mere push of a button.

And let's not forget the young people!!! He is the one who has caused so much enthusiasm this primary/caucus season.
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Maybe. But they sure haven't shown up to vote in any great numbers. . . . If I recall, their *rate* was the lowest of all four groups on TX VT OH RI night. . . . Might be huge *for them* -- but they're sure not winning any elections. . . .