Gov. Dean is first.

Help the DNC if you can.

And David Paterson is a close second!

-- volney

Uh, chalfonte and Dean were frst befre bloggie stomped them down.

:-(

No worries, Volney....we never know where our posts are going to land these days.

Just heard Gwen Ifill interviewing our man, Barack, on NPR on the way home from work. Starting to love this guy. He handled all of the questions re. the pastor very well, unruffled, calm and clear.

He believes that the MI/FL delegates should be seated in a way that is fair to both candidates, says to leave it to the DNC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7300859.stm

number 11 is a keeper

That Wacky, Wacky Kristol
Posted by Michael Cohen

As many of you are likely aware, the blogosphere has been in quite a tizzy today over Bill Kristol's more recent feeble dropping on the pages of today's New York Times. And if you think I'm not going to join in on the pile-on . . . . well you just don't me know that well.

To review the basic details, Kristol claimed that Barack Obama was in the pews at Trinity Church on July 22nd 2007, when Rev. Jeremiah Wright "blamed the “arrogance” of the “United States of White America” for much of the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks." Turns out Obama wasn't there and the Times has already posted a correction - which for those of you keeping score at home is Kristol's second major correction in just three and a half months on the job.

None of this should be a huge surprise. It's not just that Bill Kristol is a bad writer, serial misleader and overall political hack, it's that he is not a conservative thinker (which the NYT for some bizarre reason thought it was getting when they hired him) - he is a Republican operative who is basically using the NYT editorial page as a catalyst for spreading the latest GOP talking points. Indeed, the more interesting graf from Kristol's latest missive is below:

The more you learn about him, the more Obama seems to be a conventionally opportunistic politician, impressively smart and disciplined, who has put together a good political career and a terrific presidential campaign. But there’s not much audacity of hope there. There’s the calculation of ambition, and the construction of artifice, mixed in with a dash of deceit — all covered over with the great conceit that this campaign, and this candidate, are different.

Hmm, this sort of sounds familiar; it's pretty much the same GOP attack line that we've heard about not only Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry, but pretty much every major Democratic leader; namely they are unprincipled, deceitful and driven only by political ambition. So here we see Kristol trotting out the same old charge on Obama.

^Democracy Arsenal.

"we always have to start from the grassroots, from the bottom up", Barack O'Bama on the News Hour

test:

Deans are first

7:14 pm ESDT 

Obama's speech on race and religion tomorrow may be his finest hour.

-- volney

Talvin Singh - Devotion

The question was whether there is a leader in
the Dem party who could step in and handle the situation of Fl, Mi.

Eugene Robinson said, "Nobody listens to Howard Dean". ON Mathews, one of the guests said Dean was a lousy leader. Chris just sat there smiling. They are saying these things because they can.

The DNC needs to get some people out there on the cicuit telling what all Howard is doing. Bill Nelson and Schultz etc. are out there spinning every chance they get. These talking heads aren't journalists, they only know what somebody there tells them.

and congratulations to New York on their new governor.

Protests against Chinese rule in Tibet have spread to provinces bordering the Himalayan region, as the demonstrations enter their second week.

In an escalation of the protests, Tibetans have staged demonstrations in the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan.

China's Ministry of Public Security ordered an increased police presence in these areas on Saturday, a source in the Gansu government told the BBC.

The front-page headline in the Lanzhou Morning Post followed the lead of the previous night's news bulletins, reporting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's re-selection as the county's premier.

When asked about the protests, one woman told the BBC: "The price of consumer goods has gone up very rapidly so I think the demonstrations must be linked to that."

Ordinary people that wanted to comment on the protests had little sympathy with the Tibetans and their cause.

"I think they are causing a disturbance without reason. I understand it has been organised by the Dalai Lama to target the Olympics," said one man.

You and I aren't going to let John McCain get ahead -- and we're going to do that by making sure Americans hear the truth about him.

From the war in Iraq and tax cuts for corporate special interests, McCain has put forth an astonishingly simple agenda: continue the Bush Administration's failed policies for another four years.

It's not just the Iraq War and tax breaks for the wealthy where John McCain falls in line with President Bush. Even on the unconventional issues that gave John McCain his "maverick" reputation, he has traded his integrity for a chance at the presidency.

This may not be news to you, but too many Americans don't know the facts about the Republican candidate for president, and Hillary or Barack can't get started just yet. Make a donation today and support our efforts to take him head-on and lay the groundwork for them:

http://www.democrats.org/LookingAhead

Thank you,

Howard Dean

ha ha - they WISH no one would listen to Howard Dean - but alas, they are wrong.  the folks in the states know what he's doing.

there's lots of yap about an imminent endorsement of Clinton by John Edwards - if this comes to pass I will absolutely never, ever, EVER believe another word the man says.

Some Corporate News Network Asshat  just accused Obama of not only running against the Admin., but running against the country.

I wonder what your pastor has said or done, Asshat, that you are now guilty guilty guilty of by association? You know, everybody was doing all sort of stuff in the 70s. That would be about as relevant as all of this. If this is not  propoganda, I don't know what it is.   

Did you think that Black people get together in church and sing the un-ending praises of White people in their free time?  Is that fair to expect?

It's not a Black or White issue. It's a war on the middle class issue.  The war on the middle class doesn't care what color you are. 

Seems to be that evangelical white congregations do their share of wining and complaining, too. 

Self pity and powerlessness are some of the things that lead people toward religion in the first place.

(I didn't say the only things or that all of the things are negative.) 

____

Puddle, if you're reading this, thanks for the meditative photos of flowers the other day.  You made my blood pressure go down.

They're NOT going to build a nuclear power plant in my backyard. We have a live volcano in Central California and the Republicans need to get real. We grow food in Central California. A lot of food.

---

Schwarzenegger goes nuclear?

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is making waves in energy circles after saying Friday that nuclear power has "a great future" and that it is time to "relook at that issue again rather than just looking the other way and living in denial."

Schwarzenegger made the comments at the Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics Conference in Santa Barbara.

Schwarzenegger, who has made environmentalism a centerpiece of his governorship after signing a landmark greenhouse gas reduction law in 2006, decried environmental "scare tactics" that "frighten everyone that we're going to have another blowup and all of those things." ...full article: http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/cap...

Pro Åveng wrote:

"I wonder what your pastor has said or done, Asshat, that you are now guilty guilty guilty of by association?"

Please remember this when you diss HC becuz of what Bill or Ferraro said. 

We've all prolly learned that we are known by the company we keep.

The question of the day:

Who really has the best chance of beating McCain?   Their policies are, for all practical purposes, nearly identical.  Who can withstand the Rove machine the best?  Maybe  some of you  don't care if McCain wins, but I do.  There's a huge difference between  HC and McC and BO and McC.

Poor Howard. 

O'Bama was very impressive in the News Hour interview

no doubt he has the character and demeanor to be President

Dear Arnold, Has anyone studied the effect of a 6.0 earthquake on a nuclear power plant?

Obama has proven he can win all over the country, Clinton just in the states she would have to win to have a chance(but she has done that).

you get to vote and decide in Oregon. when does the voting open?

Nice blog Volney

I saw Gov. Paterson sworn in this morning and his speech which was outstanding and must have been uplifting to the citizens of NY.

phil how is Franci?

Hi all!

Blogging from da phone so pardon errors

Welcome home Anni

have 2 rembrr 2 send $$$ 2 Howard!

If you have been following Keith Olbermann lately, you have to wonder which side of the aisle he really is on -- the right or the left.

Ii is unfortunate that Keith is made to follow the line of his media bosses. Their purpose is to keep the irrelevent Obama/Wrigt story as long as possible for the usual purposes of MSNBC's bottom line.  Trying to swing an election primary in your own country for your own purposes is evil for lack of a better word.

To do their dirty work, Olbermann places some utopian importance on a speech Obama is giving tomorrow as being the make or break for BO, a speech we really have already heard a part of on PBS tonight. That's ridiculous and darn right silly. And by adding that it may take "a week" to analyze the resultsof the speech implies they apparently intend to address the issue for as long as that takes. How transparent can MSNBC get without losing viewers by the thousands.

I started this at 8:30 p.m. EDT right in the middle Countdown. I have had enough. C-Span for me.

BTW C-Span will replay Obama's morning town hall meeting in PA at 9:05 p.m. EDT.

Have a nice evening.

Well, i am just totally pissed.  Got another one of those calls telling me my credit card was 'compromised' and i'd have to get a new number.  The last time it was because the Boston Globe used scrap paper with credit card info on it to wrap their bundles of papers.  lord only knows what it is this time.  There's no evidence.  No paper trail.  i'm supposed to be satisfied by a phone call after eight o'clock at night.  They're probably trying to annoy customers who pay up every month.  

The nuclear energy people have been touting themselves as clean for years now.  The price of oil had to go up to make them competitive, even with subsidies and not taking care of their own waste disposal.

Nancy Pelosi said that she is the Chr. of the Convenion in Denver. What? I thought Howard was presiding. Does that mean that she chooses the speakers and allocates what days etc.?

If she is going to be the one we'll be seeing for three days, I don't think I'll even watch.

Does anyone know?

Dan Åbrams comes up right after Keithie with a new program called "Verdict."  ...with Rachael Maddow and 2 others.

It's interesting - it looks at what HC and BO said and then gives us the facts to see who's telling a fib and who isn't...or who's stretching the truth. 

It appears to be very fair to both of them...and hard on both of them.

For instance, BO says he's released his tax records for the last 7 years...not true....quotes to prove that. 

And then HC gets called on putting out a cheap shot..

Very interesting. 

New thread.

sea, re: For instance, BO says he's released his tax records for the last 7 years...not true....quotes to prove that. 

they stated that it was Bill Bradley who said that, and that he shouldn't have made that statement if he didn't know what records were released.  Obama did not say that.  please try to get your facts straight.

Jo in vt.......

I heard this evening that only one of Edward's delegates went to Hillary. sorry I don't remember the other numbers, but the larger number went to Obama and a smaller number neutral. I can't imagine him making an endorsement contrary to his delegates.

Pelosi is the nation's ranking Democrat and second in succession to the Oval Office. She will Chair the Convention. The Convention is the ruling body of the Democratic Party once gaveled into business. Howard is the guy in charge of getting everything done prior to the start, and he will have a part.