Exit Polling Volunteers are Needed in Southern New Hampshire

Written by: Gay G on Oct 17, 2008 7:37 PM EDT

Linked to groups: Burlington DFA, Portland Area Democracy for America, Rockingham/Strafford DFA, Pioneer Valley DFA, Keene Meet-up, Stratham Town Democratic Committee, DFA - Worcester County, Essex County DFA, Citizens Action For Southern New Hampshire, Acton Area Democracy for America, Democracy For America - Metro West of Boston, DFA Boston, Babson College, Democracy for New Hampshire, Progressive Democrats of Somerville, Democracy for Newton (MA), Progressive Democrats of Cambridge - DFA, Progressive Democrats of Jamaica Plain, South of Boston DFA

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Written by: Monica Smith on Jul 23, 2008 10:26 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Rockingham/Strafford DFA, Blog For America

McBush says he is using ex-cons to staff his campaign... and that we are winning the war

Written by: Timothy Horrigan on Jul 22, 2008 10:26 PM EDT

Linked to groups: Rockingham/Strafford DFA

Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

John McCain said today (Tuesday July 22, 2008) that most of his paid campaign workers were ex-cons on work release. 

This is not true: he was just joking (in response to a statement by a local supporter who was disappointed that the paid staffers weren't doing much for the campaign.)  His staffers are the usual mixture of college kids and older true believers.

That was not the only thing he said which was totally untrue.  He also said that we are winning the war in Iraq, that the “surge” had been a success, and that Iraqis in Basra and Kirkuk were already leading normal lives.

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Peace through intimidation

Written by: Monica Smith on Jul 19, 2008 12:23 PM EDT

Linked to groups: Rockingham/Strafford DFA, Blog For America

Is there anyone in the American government who recognizes the moral hazzard of trying to impose peace through intimidation?

While the Strategic Air Command, the custodians of American atom bombs, were persuaded that "Peace is out Profession," the fact of the matter is that, despite their best efforts, there has been no peace on earth while the United States supposedly reigned supreme.

Nevertheless, the delusion continues.

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Farm Team

Written by: Monica Smith on Jul 19, 2008 9:31 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Rockingham/Strafford DFA, Blog For America

Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

The National Journal is on the web, but access is by subscription only, although it's possible to sign up for a trial subscription.  I did, a couple of years ago, and then decided to indulge myself and pay the rather hefty sum to subscribe (if you're not a corporation or group, you can get an individual rate).  I think it's worth it.  Although, to get full value, I find that the weekly issue needs to be read when it arrives, since the information doesn't age very well.  The political arena and all those who are active in it seem to change on a daily basis.

The July 12, 2008 issue featured Barack Obama on the cover and a cover story about the Democrats' ability to govern If He Wins--a title that accurately reflects the speculative ambivalence of the contents.  But what caught my attention was a "report" by Jerry Hagstrom about the import of his visit to North Dakota, which prompted me to pen the following response.

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SPOOF? I'd call it FRAUD!

Written by: Monica Smith on Jul 17, 2008 10:45 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Blog For America, Rockingham/Strafford DFA

Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

There's a fraudulent email going around which at least one poster on the Barack Obama Community blog refers to as a spoof.  Not hardly.  When a communication misrepresents the source, as this one does, that's a fraud.  I don't know whom Ms. Dowd is going to sue, but there's got to be some recourse against this:

‘It’s Over, Lady!’

Unity was spared the banality of unanimity.

Carmella Lewis, with her Hillary T-shirt and Hillary placard, came all the way from Denver to make sure there would be plenty of ambiguity, duality and ferocity in Unity.

Just as Hillary was testing out the unfamiliar familiarity “Barack and me” Friday and talking about “his grace and his grit,” Carmella began loudly booing and waving her sign.

“We want Hillary!” screamed the 57-year-old retired ad saleswoman and Clinton delegate.

“It’s over, lady!” yelled some Obama supporters a few yards away.

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Howard Dean in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Written by: Monica Smith on Jul 16, 2008 1:27 PM EDT

Linked to groups: Rockingham/Strafford DFA

I know Marcia Moody wanted to post this here, but the software is a bit confusing.  So, here it is---

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Who Knew?

Written by: Monica Smith on Jul 16, 2008 8:13 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Blog For America, Rockingham/Strafford DFA

Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

Certainly not me. If I thought about it at all, I figured that die-hard Republicans went for the least objectionable candidate on the Republican ticket in the primary. Now the National Journal tells me:

GOP Woes in 'McCain Country'
Arizona's senior senator got big boosts from New Hampshire's 2000 and 2008 primaries.

by James A. Barnes

Sat. Jul 5, 2008

Few places have been better to John McCain than tiny New Hampshire, which twice gave him huge victories in its Republican presidential primary. His first win made him a strong contender for his party's 2000 nomination. But it was his January 2008 comeback, after his campaign had been practically written off, that sealed his special relationship with the state.

"New Hampshire is McCain country," says former state Democratic Party Chairman George Bruno.

and goes on to predict that:

Barack Obama will work hard to discredit McCain's maverick image, which has played well in the state.

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Fencing Out--Fencing In

Written by: Monica Smith on Jul 15, 2008 8:41 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Blog For America, Rockingham/Strafford DFA

Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

Derrick Jackson offers the following in today’s Boston Globe.

Fencing out fields of dreams
By Derrick Z. Jackson
July 15, 2008

SO MUCH for romantic visions of families bicycling together, with little Johnny and Jamila wobbling on training wheels. So much for teens who actually disconnect from Facebook for facetime, community cleanup, and - good heavens - exercise.

No, no, no. Some people are so divorced from society that they see this as almost evil.

In Sudbury, a group of people rose up to oppose a rail trail. They complain, to a ludicrous point, that dreaded masses of cyclists, joggers, and elders out for strolls will scare away wildlife. Never mind that a big reason for rail trails is to get people out of their cars to stop spewing global warming gases that will destroy wildlife. One opponent told the Globe that rail trail advocates are “like a cult.”

In Greenwich, Conn., some neighbors do not like the fact that a dozen or so teenagers took over a vacant half-acre town lot that was so overrun that one youth got a swollen eye from poison ivy while clearing the brush. They did it to create not an open-air drug den or a binge-drinking parlor or an orgy room.

They did it to play Wiffle ball….

Which prompted me to pen this response:

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Air Force Enterprise

Written by: Monica Smith on Jul 13, 2008 8:45 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Rockingham/Strafford DFA, Blog For America

Since our Representative for the First District in NH is on the Armed Services Committee, perhaps some of this information might make good topics for campaign conversations.

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