Building the progressive community in a great part of the LA basin - the San Gabriel Valley.

The Gold Line speaker was fascinating - she has been working so diligently for this cause and is very committed - she really knew the the ins and outs, the political and the technical - and was so enthusiastic - it was inspiring! I wrote two letters. :)

thanks for sharing.i will pay attention to it

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Good morning, everybody

Talk about re-inventing the wheel!  Here we're going for the whole cart.

It's 4:24 AM and it's gotten cold again and I can't get my eyes to stay open.  LOL

Yes, this is impeachment week in NH.  Have you all read the autopsy report on the Iraqi left hanging to die dangling from his wrists?  I've archived it on Hannah.

http://hannah.smith-family.com/?p=2320 

Perhaps better not to have eaten.

Fortunately, although Tom Engelhardt thinks we're creating a host of people bent on revenge,I think their faith prohibits revenge against anyone but the immediate perpetrators of injury.  They blame Allah for the really bad stuff--must have been displeased to let Satan loose on the world.  Small comfort.

bitter is an interesting word.  Bitter fruit can be made palatable.  It just takes a bit of effort.  In PA, where there are a lot of Germans, bitter is sure to resonnate with bitten, which is to ask nicely for something or seek help.  It's not a word that assigns cause.  It refers to a condition that just is.  In that it resembles right and wrong and is, essentially, indisputable.  So, it was not a good idea to try to dispute it.

But, it did get Hillary free media at a time when she can't afford ads.  Wonder how much longer that account can be milked. One would guess that eventually the media will catch on that, unlike the stain on the blue dress, there's nothing there. 

Ms. Zheng, BTW, is a commercial spammer.

good morning!  how about a laugh to start your day?  I had missed this from Jon Stewart last week:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/11/smackdown-the-emdaily-sho_n_96185.html

I am starting spring cleanup today if in fact we have our first day of spring here, as soon as it warms up enough things aren't frozen down,lol, I have little piles of gravel everywhere from snow pushing days. I'll be back with a shout out to donna and thankful who helped with tornado cleanup two years ago .

the bitter truth for Hillary is that she overplayed her hand

it was a perfect chance for a brief reference and let the MSM do there thing, but by her taking up the cause brought the spotlight of elitism on her, and then forced a look at the underlying issue where Obama has the upper hand

this episode will destroy the Republican attack line for fall that McCain is in touch but Obama isn't  

that will just draw laughs

pathological there/their switches in my postings, must have been a spring fever day when they covered that in English class

hope teachers got the knowledge crammed in before this week's thoughts turned to the upcoming prom night for the kids

no high school kids on my payroll right now, except for a level headed girl that helps my wife with the babies on the weekend and she says she is coming to work the next morning

along with guns and God, prom night is a big deal in the rust belt

7:25 AM EDT

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/payork

Community Event with Michelle Obama in York

Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center
50 N. George Street
York, PA

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Doors open: 10:45 a.m.
Program begins: 11:45 a.m.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/pahaverford

Stand for Change Rally with Michelle Obama in Haverford

Haverford College
Alumni Fieldhouse
Haverford, PA

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Doors open: 2:30 p.m.
Program begins: 3:30 p.m.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/moindianapolis

Chapel Hill 7th and 8th Grade Center
7320 West 10th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46214

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Doors open: 1:30 p.m.
Program begins: 10:30 p.m.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/evansville

William Henry Harrison High School Gymnasium
211 Fielding Road
Evansville, IN 47715

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Doors open: 8:30 a.m.
Program begins: 10:30 a.m.

Phil - yes prom night but also that sweet smell of spring in the air and warm sun on the skin makes the teens kick up their heels - makes us all breathe deep and pass a sigh of relief.......

7:35 AM EDT

blast from the past:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/13/bill-clinton-flashback-al_n_96433.html

April 13, 2008 02:41 PM

As the rumination continues over Barack Obama's comments about economically-depressed small town voters, statements made by Bill Clinton on the same topic -- uttered while he was running for president in 1991 -- have now surfaced.

"The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991.

A couple months later, Joe Klein, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Clinton made the following remarks:

"You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

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7:41 AM EDT

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/33411.html

• Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008

LEVITTOWN, Pa. — Like many women over 50, Paula Houwen was eager to vote for Hillary Clinton for president.

"I was impressed when she was first lady. She wasn't the country's trophy wife," the 56-year-old suburban Philadelphia pharmacist recalled.

Today, though, Houwen's no longer a Clinton fan.

"I do not like the way Hillary Clinton has run her campaign," she said.

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8:03 AM EDT

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/american.morning/

Yes

No

Total Votes: 1064

This is our next president, folks.

Obama, in his critique of Hillary is playing with fire........he is forgetting, he will NEED her votes in Novemeber.............sometimes I think these so called "professional" politicians are quite immature................I cannot fathom JFK or FDR ever acting as childish as some of these people today..............

There are many Americans that like him, but wish not to be part of the overly loud, voisterous church congregation.................

How far we have declined...................

I don't know anything about the specific proposal for Pasadena, but I'm in favor of as much mass transit as possible, including light rail. 

There's a threshold of mass transit an area needs to have before people start realizing what they have, and how they can use it.  When I was in small market news, I used to see towns and small cities buy a bus or two, run it on one loop, once an hour, on the main streets, and wonder why people don't use it.  On the other hand, I've seen very well off, very white collar (the people who they say never use mass transit) areas where they implemented a mass transit system of small buses that linked to rail, were low cost to the user and convenient to walk to the stops, and it was all they could do to run enough buses for everyone who wanted to use them.

Mass transit isn't free, but neither are roads.  We need to think about mass transit as we do roads, as a service we provide the community for the benefit of the community, not as a profit center.  Nobody expects the roads to break even. 

Yes

No

73%776

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rd,

Id be willing to bet many people that WERE offended by his somewhat condescending remark are nowhere near a computer or even have one.........hell, they may be out hunting right now or holding down 2 or 3 jobs to survive.....................

8:50 AM EDT

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/13/885541.aspx

OBAMA PA SPORTSMEN PUSH BACK

Posted: Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:05 PM

by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC’s Cherelle Kantey

In this afternoon’s conference call sponsored by the Pennsylvania Sportsmen and Sportswomen for Obama, small-town politicians said the latest attacks from the Clinton campaign are shameless, aimed at creating divisions in their communities.

“Trying to turn small-town Pennsylvanians against each other for political gain is shameless,” said Mayor John Fetterman of Braddock, Pa. Fetterman blasted the New York senator for trying to win votes by patronizing gun owners, a move he said shows a willingness to win at all costs.

“I think it's really discouraging and tacky to see Hillary Clinton pandering as if she's a gun owner,” said Fetterman. “I think it demonstrates and represents willingness to say anything and everything to get elected.”

Rep. Dan Surra (D-PA) said he shares the frustration of the constituents he represents.

“I represent the people that Barack Obama was talking about, that people who have lost their jobs,” Surra said. "I think he understands, there is a frustration out there.”

...

At the conclusion of the call, the sportsmen made it clear that they intend to support Obama, who they say has genuine interest in the concerns of small-town communities.

“Barack Obama has reached out to sportsmen; he’s reached out to blue-collar people,” Surra said. “And I think the reason it’s being blown up like it is, because they don’t want to talk about who can really bring the change that we need.”

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Its 8.49am.........based on what Linda?  Democrats have a tendency to fall into this trap every 4 years it seems..................Dukakis was 18 poits ahead of Bush in 1988, Gore was ahead of Bush, and Kerry led Bush2 I believe.................

Mccain will play it safe........draped in flags and war medals, flag lapel pins and fighter pilot stories plus POW tales of bravery will captivate the imagination of the populace..............

I'm tired of a person's views being labeled "condescending" just because they have a different life experience.

Obama wasn't at all condescending. He tossed the word "religion" in the mix because he grew up pretty much without one and today finds church relevant primarily as an engine of social change. He was using the word to refer to people who go to church as if it's a circle of covered wagons, valiantly defending against outward foes.

Neither of which is how I, personally, view the church, but I have seen it viewed in both those ways by many different people.

Nope, he was no more condescending than assuming small town people don't have computers.

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volney simmons
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Im not running for President...........

Good morning. Go Pasadena!
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Hillary has the Democratic party machine behind her in PA. Barack has Bob Casey and Patrick Murphy. I think Casey is a tremendous help to Barack - he seems very authentic. He seems to just tell it like it is. Rendell just seems like a smarmy hack to me - always has especially when he was out there trashing Dean last time around.

Mike wrote "Obama, in his critique of Hillary is playing with fire........he is forgetting, he will NEED [Clintoon's] votes in Novemeber."

This is confounding.  You told us that Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, so I'm assuming you meant to write that Clinton is forgetting she will need Obama's votes in November.

New ad by Senator Casey in PA:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/New_Obama_...

10:34 PM EDT

Mike wrote "Obama, in his critique of Hillary is playing with fire........he is forgetting, he will NEED [Clintoon's] votes in Novemeber."

This is confounding.  You told us that Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, so I'm assuming you meant to write that Clinton is forgetting she will need Obama's votes in November.

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Tom -

I think what's really confounding Mike is this news:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/playoffs

Red Wings lead series 2-0   

1. Thu, Apr 10 – Det 3, Nsh 1

2. Sat, Apr 12 – Det 4, Nsh 2

Mike, I found the speech by obama forceful .

Just remember he said "not this time". He is not going to take the crap and the people are tired of all the shee ite that we have been force fed.

So go vote for Annie Oakley. Did you know she died recently?

I thought that Hillary was rather condescending to the intelligence of the average voter - by thinking her lies and spin would work.  she is so out of touch - she would have done better to stick to the truth of what he said.  Obama may be taking some out of their comfort zone, but these are good conversations to have.  as for the crap about this only comes out when he's in 'liberal' circles, perhaps some of these investigative reporters should read his books - he realyed the same thing in his writings, many years ago.