Attack Iran, Get Impeached

7:56 pm EST September 30th, 2007 | News | 6 Comments

Isn’t that basically what it should all boil down to? I think so.

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Giuliani As John Kerry

5:08 pm EST September 30th, 2007 | News | 4 Comments

Rudy Giuliani is trying to make the case that he’s the Republican most likely to beat Sen. Clinton. Now, putting aside the fact that I think this is a foolhardy position for Giuliani to take (this is a guy who makes President Clinton’s personal foibles look downright quaint, heck, we all know Chelsea returns Bill and Hillary’s phone calls), Giuliani would in theory be the Republican best poised to win New York. That’s where he began setting himself up as the President of 9/11 and as a crime-buster. But in fact, Sen. Clinton in the last poll I saw crushes Giuliani in New York, and she was just re-elected there in a landslide. Furthermore, the numbers seem to say as the state’s former first lady, Sen. Clinton puts Arkansas on the table. Wouldn’t Giuliani be the worst-positioned candidate to fight Sen. Clinton in Arkansas?

In other words, maybe setting yourself up as the best candidate to inoculate your party against the other guy’s strengths (John Kerry) is not the best strategy for victory.

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Go, Right Wing “Christians”, Go!

4:59 pm EST September 30th, 2007 | News | 3 Comments

Republicans aren’t acting crazy enough this cycle, says the religious far right:

Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.

The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.”

Of course, one man running for president is already perfect for this group of “Christian” fundamentalists: Alan Keyes.

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Pubic Hair In Coke Clarence Thomas Lashes Out

9:24 am EST September 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 15 Comments

It is a continuing blight on America and black Americans particularly that this absolute stain has Thurgood Marshall’s seat on our highest court.

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Will Young People Doom Barack Obama?

9:21 am EST September 29th, 2007 | News | 8 Comments

So many campaigns in the last twenty years were supposed to be the ones that finally expressed the will of young people, except that when it comes time to do actual work and actual voting, the majority of the young fail time and time again. Last cycle it was the groundswell of support behind Howard Dean that never appeared at the polls in Iowa, and this cycle it looks like Sen. Barack Obama is on pace to get screwed by the youth vote that doesn’t show up.

The campaign’s challenge will be converting the excitement of Kizzie and other students into votes. Candidates who have charmed young voters in the past have largely failed when it came to mobilizing them. Interviews with two dozen students as they went back to school at three black colleges found support for Obama, but with summer breaks having ended only recently, the campaign’s fledgling student organizations do not match the enthusiasm.

About 18 students showed up for the first meeting of Students for Barack Obama at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta. The group’s volunteer coordinator Kevin Heard, 19, was disappointed with the showing.

“We have to get more people here,” he said. He joined the group, Heard said, because it offers an opportunity “to help a black man who is showing positive images of African American men. By helping someone as positive as he is, I’ll show America that I am positive, too.”

He and others in the group will head to South Carolina this weekend to knock on doors for the candidate.

More representative of the overall level of student activism is Troy Haynes, 21. A Clark Atlanta student who recently moved from New York, he has never cast a vote and is barely paying attention to the presidential race. He did sign onto a Students for Barack Obama group on Facebook, because he thinks that “Obama should show the whole world that a black man can run the United States.”

Has Haynes registered to vote? “Nah, not yet.”

I sense that a lot of people think signing up for an Obama Facebook group and plugging him on their MySpace page will be all it takes, but I feel that at the same time Clinton’s got older supporters actually doing stuff in the real world and that will actually translate to votes.

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Phony Soldiers In Iraq Speak Out

9:10 am EST September 29th, 2007 | News | 2 Comments

One of the phony soldiers that Rush Limbaugh hates so much speaks out with some pictures of other phony soldiers in Iraq.

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links for 2007-09-29

8:25 am EST September 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

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$20 Million Each For Clinton/Obama In The Quarter

2:40 am EST September 29th, 2007 | News | 1 Comment

That’s the buzz right now.

Fundraising dropped off dramatically for the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, but Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama will still report raising in the neighborhood of $20 million each over this three month time period, sources close to both candidates tell CNN.

Clinton will show she has pulled in between $17-$20 million, while Obama will report he raised between $18-$19 million. Fundraising is historically slow in the third quarter, which covers the final two months of summer and the first month of fall. In the second quarter, Obama shattered fundraising records by reporting that he raised $32.5 million, $31 million of which he could use in his bid for the Democratic nomination. Clinton raised $27 million during this same time period, and all but $6 million of it could be used in the primary.

If somebody had told me a couple years ago that $40 million dollars for the top two Democratic contenders would be considered “dropped off” fundraising, I would have asked what you were smoking. Things have clearly changed – and many (like me) haven’t even given our $50 yet. I’m curious how this round of numbers will reflect the national race of Obama vs. Clinton, if she’s ahead of him this time. Maybe I’m calling it too early, but I think this is going to become a two-person race for real soon.

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The Republican President Vetoed Health Care For Poor Children

2:28 am EST September 29th, 2007 | News | 20 Comments

There’s not much more you need to add to that. Bush is giving the Democrats a gift by screwing the children, again.

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Matt Stoller Gets Really Silly

2:23 am EST September 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

I don’t agree with his vote, but apparently now Dennis Kucinich is not progressive enough and must be challenged in a primary. Because he voted against the bill because it was not liberal enough. Dennis Kucinich.

Yes, that Dennis Kucinich. If Dennis Kucinich ain’t pure enough for these liberal purity purges, these folks are going to end up with a really, really, really small Democratic party.

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