Dean, DFA, fiscally responsible & socially progressive values are first!

"A new Newsweek poll shows Obama pulling away." "The survey of 1,209 registered voters found that Obama now leads Clinton by nearly 20 points, or 54 percent to 35 percent, among registered Democrats and those who lean Democratic nationwide....One of the more devastating results for Clinton was that a majority of all registered voters now see her as dishonest and untrustworthy."

6:40pm

On the other hand, Gallup has Obama ahead by only 3--down from 11 before the "debate".

A pox on all pollsters

Hillary slamming activists.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fr...

Who is whining now?

This is a gut-wrenching story from a woman whose husband is dying with mounting med. bills and her son is being sent off to Iraq for his third deployment. She's bitter and lives in a small PA town.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marylee-sm...

Sam None and David Barren endorse Obama.

Fire away.

Maybe it's time to ask if progressives ga-ga over Obama while condemning the DLC have any standards left over who their political bedfellows are.

I have great respect for Sam Nunn and David Boren.,

Sam Nunn should find a home as Secretary of Defense.

Hi,

On Keith Olbermann's show last night, he showed snippets of Cheney's "comedy routine" before the Washington Press Corps.   He mocked Al Gore when he said that it was spring, not global warming, and he made other comments that I found appalling.  What' is funny about the catastrophes we will be facing? And, the people laughed and applauded.  These are people of power, influence, and wealth.  I"m, no, I don't have the words for it, dismayed, horrified???

We are at war, we are destroying the enviornment, we cannot get along with one another, we are greedy, corrupt, vicious, violent, and exploitive, and killing off every species that is in any way competitive with us.

I remarked to my husband that I think Freedom is one of the most dangerous words we've ever uttered.  He said, that Bobby McGee had it right," Freedom's just another word when there's nothing more to lose."

The freedom our marketing/capitalistic/ militaristic society has perpetrated is exploitation, greed, destruction, waste, inequality, punishment, cruelty, and total rejection of ethics, boundaries, community, care, and the planet itsef.

Guess I've done a pretty good job of gloom and doom, but I do feel we will experience terrible catastrophes and the fools at the Press Corps dinner are laughing as the volcano spills lava over them.  What to do? 

That should be: "Freedom's just another word when there's nothing LEFT to lose."

On Keith Olbermann's show last night, he showed snippets of Cheney's "comedy routine" before the Washington Press Corps.   He mocked Al Gore when he said that it was spring, not global warming, and he made other comments that I found appalling. 

Hi Pat

Yes, Cheney and others like him are appalling.

Actually, I was also annoyed at Olbermann for showing that Cheney clip. Replaying these things gives them wings for flying. Some imbiciles will think it was actually funny and think it is a reason for laughing at global warming.

Olbermann often replays attacks against Obama as if we all needed to see them again.

linda b lots of congratulations to your hubby for his rare achievement of being a master shipbuilder.

Keith is trying his best to be even-handed.

We still, supposedly, have freedom of speech ... which means cheney can spout off and Keith can report it.'

When people talk like Cheney, it gives the rest of us a very good idea of who he is and where he came from.

 People hang themselves with their own words.  I've done it, and am working hard to not do it anymore.  I'm working on being more kind and less judgmental.

The blog is a great schoolroom.  Among other things, it's a good place to leave the false ego outside before signing on. 

Thank you all for being my teachers. 

According to a Keith discussion,  Pawlenty is high on McC's short list.

http://www.governor.state.mn.us/welcome/aboutgovernorpawlenty/index.htm 

s/b when people like cheney talk, not when people talk like cheney.

In BO's new tv ad here, he's speaking to a crowd.   He claims he'll give tax breaks to the middle class ... I would have liked to hear him say that he'll rescind the tax breaks for the wealthy. It's a stump speech ad.

I also would like him to make an ad ala *Fireside Chat.*   That's what made Huck so appealing, ghastly as his words sometimes were. 

You know, it would be nice just to see Obama looking into the camera and talking conversationally to the viewer. 

Keith just took down McC, with great humor, while digging at Stephie. Perhaps Keithie will beat McC.

I wonder about that woman whose face was plastered on Stewart's show.  Do you spose she got paid to ask that oh so pertinent question?

Someone asked about the Rife cancer cure.  I believe he was called a quack by the powers that be, even tho he'd had success.

Here's one link and there are many.  My sense is that most cancer patients will try anything to get well and this Rife cure is being resurrected.

http://www.xenophilia.com/zb0012.htm 

This may or may not be a scam.  You decide.

http://www.rifehealth.com/ 

Is there another thread to which I've not been invited?  :-)

Hi paine.  Whew!  It got lonely.

Is there another thread to which I've not been invited?  :-)

< Oops, sorry Sea, I didn't mean to interrupt. 

Sea, stay out of trees.  You may find it difficult to get back to solid ground.  Now, that at isn't a comment...rather it is just a bit pretzel logic.  Don't go squirrelly on me now, hear?

"Chewin' on a piece of grass..." 

Sea, do you do other exercises than Tango ?

Fog is like being stuck a tree.

Hops

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops

Hops induce drowsiness.

...and no I am not drinking beer.  I am just being off-the-wall. 

OK

I like "owning" the blog.

Let me tell you about a meeting of the mind today:

I happened upon a man - by chance ofcourse (the best!) - who got it when I quoted Frank...

Yeah, he told me he liked Shiek ya' Booty

...and I am hear p[osting this bit of nothingness.

Never mind

as i can't find anything from that albumn. 

Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Inventi… - Flower Punk

never mind. 

9:42 pm EST

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Yes, paine, I do yoga, walk and mediate (which is like exercising the soul)

I don't know what you mean about trees.  

Where is everybody?

Ronald Cloud - you are aptly named.