Dear Friends and Supporters of the Netroots Community,

Ending Free Trade and Beginning Fair Trade

Last week in a diary titled Building a Majority Party: Reforging Democratic Identity I suggested that we go back to a 1944 speech by FDR to reforge Democratic identity and build a lasting majority party. Here is the list of rights I quoted from the speech:

CrossKosed from:  http://www.dailykos.com /story/2006/10/19/74050/076

I will not be able to liveblog this morning but I wanted to share some news with you.  Good news seems to be coming from every direction for Team Massa.  The best news is that yesterday Majority Watch (link) released a new poll that has me beating Randy Kuhl 52-40.  According to the poll, my opponent is winning the rural southern tier of NY-29 by a single point and we are winning the northern part of the district by 26 points!!  

Among the stories out this past week is a new National Intelligence Estimate that says the Iraq War makes the threat of terrorism worse. (link):

The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.

Massa for Congress

The schedule of the campaign trail will keep me from being able to liveblog today but I wanted to bring our team of netroots supporters up to date with a few sound bites from the campaign trail.

While some will say that the candidate is almost always overly positive, I have to relay that the momentum for this race is clearly on our side. My opponent has decided to make validation of President George Bush's war in Iraq the number one issue in this race. He decided to go to Iraq 100 days prior to the election and afterward he returned to announce that all is well and if only the press would report all the great things that are going on we would see that as clearly as he had. He stated that the Iraqi Army was as well trained as the American Army and that our taxpayer dollars are being well spent. In short, he got off the plane and read the talking points that the White House had given him. (link, link, link)