Tue, 06 May 2008 10:00:04 -0400
"Imagine a world in which we saw beyond
the lines that divide us, and celebrated
our differences instead of hiding from them.
Imagine a world in which we finally recognized
that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And
imagine if we allowed that new understanding
to build relations between people and between
nations."
Jan. 10, 2004 in Manchester, NH
YAY! Can't wait to see the results!!!
May Hillary have huge victories in IN and NC today! It would be a BIG WIN FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY!!!!!!!!
My thoughts and prayers are with you, Hillary.
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
caller in to S. Miller radio ( think it was a trucker ) said the best way to give relief to truckers is to extend/increase tax credit or tax write off they have for the expense of fuel they deduct from taxes; that sounds like good idea; and then another good idea is the
idea of giving the middle class 1000.00 tax cut asap; the only relief from cost of gas this summer would have to come through Bush and who thinks he is going to that path is closed;
if truckers themselves suggest they want tax credits or extension to what they can deduct on fuel expenses might be good idea to listen to them;
and every other driver/American is going to have to wait until 2009 most likely to get the help they need;
Addiction in individuals occurs when a person stops seeing a reason to risk the vulnerability required for real fulfillment. A drug may be so powerful that it simply replaces the struggle to build a satisfying life - Media Literacy
http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/06/in-indiana-every-vote-matters/
Already, the high stakes of this election have resulted in unprecedented absentee turnout, with more than 167 thousand absentee ballots cast statewide. That’s nearly triple the number the Hoosier State usually sees in a primary. And it almost equals the number of early ballots cast in some recent general elections.
Polls for most of the state stay open until 6 pm eastern. But some of the counties in the heavily populated northwestern part of the state near Chicago, which are on central time, don’t close until 7 eastern. Pollsters say these urban counties could be significantly influential as to who wins Indiana.
But at the end of the day, many political observers say it won’t be Democrats deciding whether Senator Obama or Clinton take this state, but Republicans and Independents. The reason: Indiana has an open primary, meaning Republicans and Independents can cross over and cast a Democratic ballot.
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
Contrary to what many believe about Hillary, it is O!'s campaign that will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to win, including illegal signage and "volunteering" INSIDE a polling place!!!!
some more visibility.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15445
Let's help No Quarter get that video front-paged at YouTube.
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/84388/
Excerpt
Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime Judgeship
By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet. Posted May 5, 2008.
Addiction in individuals occurs when a person stops seeing a reason to risk the vulnerability required for real fulfillment. A drug may be so powerful that it simply replaces the struggle to build a satisfying life - Media Literacy
Check out the article and video at:
Obama table set up in Indiana inside poll place.
Anyone hanging round with some press contacts, have at it. This is hugely illegal. Color me crazy, but that's a professionally printed sign, and no doubt, coming straight from the hopeychangey campaign.
writes that she's contacted the DNC and spoken to someone in person who is going to inform the Chairman immediately...LOL! Right! Like Howie would care!
I'm sickened that I used to support Dean (until I became a Clarkie when he was drafted to run) and O! in the last election...can't believe what a yes, MONSTER has been created out of this whole mess.
Think I'll try and compose myself for awhile by thinking very positive thoughts about HRC and her winning ways today!!! :)
is the same as mine. Tried to like Dean, then when Wes got in, it was a no-brainer. Then I volunteered for O's GOTV work here in Chicago during the last campaign - even going so far as to take some campaign seminars with the Young Lakeshore Dems (in no way my demographic; the Lakeshore area is too expensive for me, I've not been young in years, and my party 'membership' is tepid at best.)
Yup - monster of a mess. I've lit a pretty peach candle for our candidate today. It's burning bright and smells good too!
the dems are experts at running the most incompetent, confused, and crooked primaries in history. AND all the leadership is complicit in allowing this charade to continue. Plus, I'm getting sick of the dems saying we have 2 great candidates. We've only got 1 great candidate and that one wears pants suits; the other is so contaminated by his past that he'll never recover. Wait till this Farracken (sp) mess gets more publicity.
We're electing the President of the United States, not some g.d. prom king.
noquarter is on a roll today.
Uppity Woman has just put up another one of those "good grief, I can't believe how amazingly corrupt my home town is, but well, there ya go" posts.
Interesting Money Bundlers for Obama Part I
Snip -
"As an additional side note, given the longstanding relationship between the Ayers family and the Daley family, it is suddenly more than understandable why the current Mayor Daley would speak out in defense of Bill Ayers when his terrorist activities resurfaced as pertinent to Barack Obama and their ongoing friendship. It also certainly helps to punctuate why hanging out with the connected Bill Ayers would be key to an ambitious Chicago politican who wants to Pass-Go-And-Collect-$200 in a hurry– and get to the Oval Office by skipping as many steps as possible. Look how well things worked out for Barack with Commonwealth Edison to the tune of $200,000!"
And from the comments section, courtesy vicki:
"Another person to check into is Emil Jones. He is the President of the Illinois State Senate, and the political god-father of Obama. He is interesting in connection to Frank Clark because Jones, organized the increase in ComEd rates in Chicago/Illinois. This has resulted in increases upward of 25%. Needless to say to Emil Jones and Frank Clark are close friends. Also, if not quid pro quo can be found in regards to Rezko’s contributing over $250,000 to Obama, it is because Jones was the one who probably paid Rezko back with state contracts."
Argh. It's just not even remotely funny, is it. I mean, how long do we just keep sitting back in this town saying, 'aww. Whatever. It's the Daley machine - it's just how it works. Hey! We got lots of trees, and might get the Olympics! Cool!" Not. I'm just so disgusted every day. Blech.
The investigation dubbed "Operation Board Games," into the influence peddling within the cesspool of corruption that encompasses Illinois politicians from both major parties, has developed into multiple subplots, many of which feature Barack Obama.
Therefore, Obama should start bidding for the starring role in the movie that is sure to follow the criminal trials involved in this case because he has absolutely no chance of winning the White House, even if the leaders of the Democratic party allow this sorry charade to carry on and his name appears on the ballot.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_080418_barack_obama___subpl.htm
the bodies of some of our fellow Dems--like Dean?! They're determined to toss this whole election under the bus! What #*@! dif does it make if it takes clear till the convention, or during, to choose a nominee? The party is free at any time to criticize McCain or any other Repub--who are at this moment dissing us without even knowing who our standard-bearer will be!
for the Dem Party, briarhopper.
Unfortunately, some in the party thought we had the luxury of fighting this battle due to the past eight years. A country so sick of the current crew they will accept any Dem in the GE. They are wrong.
What will the party be? Strong and sturdy? Capable of withstanding the slings and arrows coming from all directions trying to drag it down? Will it have the fortitude required to roll up our sleeves in order get this country turned around...to "change course"? Or will it be spinless, "starchless", waffling weenies with dreamy inspiration and vague platitudes?
Guts and heart. Do they have it or not? Those are the questions we're about to find out very soon.
my diary. Let's help No Quarter get this front paged at YouTube.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15445
And thanks to Mary for posting the No Quarter story first.
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
OK, this has gone overboard.
Hillary Clinton’s proposed gas tax holiday is not, in my view, a good idea. But the furor over what is, when all is said and done, a small and temporary policy proposal is entirely disproportionate. What’s going on?
Part of it, clearly, is the fact that many people in the media really, really want Obama to win and Clinton to lose — read Kurt Andersen — and have seized on the gas tax as their latest proof that she is ee-ee-vil. ... cont.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Think Clinton's plan to suspend the gas tax temporarily is a bad idea? A similar measure in Illinois -- which Obama backed -- seems to have helped consumers....
By George Frost @ Salon
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Make it against the law for oil companies to pass the price of the windfall profits tax on to consumers, and then audit the oil companies' books. It is not a difficult accounting exercise to tax excess profits above a certain gross percentage per barrel of oil, or gallon of gas. Every major oil company has sophisticated profit segmentation reports that go to the very senior management of the company. These reports identify revenues, costs and profit at each level of the vertically integrated operation, broken down on a per barrel basis by product type, marketing region, you name it.
The oil companies also will have a powerful inducement to avoid being caught -- and in this kind of toxic political environment, they may actually swallow the tax.
But it takes a little bit of courage to take them on, and a belief that we do not always have to be victims. Obama -- where is your optimism?
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
Like this wasn't obvious before? (Harvard Crimson)
When asked by another audience member how he would respond to the claim that MSNBC officially supports Obama, Matthews responded with typical Hardball wit, “Well, it’s not official.”
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“Hardball” host, praising ObamaMatthews is likely just miffed that Clinton snubbed him in Pennsylvania.
But MSNBC really is shameless.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Obama Surrogate Joe Andrew Flip Flops: "A Miracle If Obama Comes Close In Indiana"
You gotta love the newly all important Obama surrogate Joe Andrew. Sunday, just 2 days ago, he was giving a Joe Namath guarantee that Barack Obama would win Indiana. Now I am watching him on MSNBC (the Obama News Network, as Chris "Tweety" Matthews admitted) claiming it would be a miracle like parting the Red Sea if Obama comes close in Indiana.
Andrew, the DC lawyer/lobbyist, is a hoot. This is an Open Thread.
By the way, MSNBC (the Obama News Network) is having a conniption over the fact that Michigan and Florida need to count. But we all know the Media is in the tank for Obama. (NYMag)
Jonathan Singer contends Barack Obama will not seriously contest West Virginia and Kentucky.
Dem voters want race to continue (Gallop).
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/46658/
So it’s ironic that the media and their fellow upscale Americans are now disposed to like Obama precisely because he resembles them in so many ways. The difference is he’s relatively unsullied, an exquisite, idealized version of themselves: educated, thoughtful, twigged to nuance, a lovely writer, well-traveled, witty, cool, dignified, candid, a little quixotic, a clued-in grown-up but not yet ruined by the ugly facts of Washington life.
And, mirabile dictu, a perfectly postmodern embodiment of compromise between the hard binaries of race and age. He’s both white and black. Born on the very cusp of the baby boom and Generation X, he’s both oldish and youngish. And as a skinny, athletic, gentle-seeming, virtually metrosexual man, he nearly splits the difference on gender as well.
Not exactly my kinda President. :)
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
Caught on tape. From a poster at noquarter, this bit of 'electioneering' for O by a POLL JUDGE was on the Evansville news this AM.
The story starts here
http://tristatehomepage.com/media_player.php?media_id=9633#
at approximately 1:15 second in.
When i was a poll person, we would have been booted out for such crap!!! Where do they find these people...oh yeah..the upper class intelligent class BO attacks...go fiqure!!!
That O and his supporters will do anything to win. From their Shenanigans they pulled in the Texas Caucus to what they're pulling now. They will stoop to anything. I have also seen video on the internet where the O supporters show fake Hillary rallies (pretending they're for Hillary) and they are doing things to make her look bad. It's so bad and sickening to even post here. To me it just made themselves look like the immature idiots they are. (And they sure weren't doing their candidate any favors by acting they way they were). They looked like High School kids or early college. This kind of stuff just makes me ill.
I just posted this video also - should have checked first - guess I was so upset with this video that my brain took a short vacation. :)
Wow...I'm not quite sure which of the two polling place videos is more disturbing.
What the h*** does this women plan to do with the ballots after the doors close tonight!?!
How could anyone in that precinct believe that their vote will be counted fairly?
at taylormarsh have sent illegal BO poll place activities to all Fox anchors, other blogs, etc., and have reported it to state officials. Heard the video even made it to Huffypoopoo!
Fox guy asked Gov of IN about polling place violations!
I think it was in relation to the Obamoids having a
taable set up inside the voting area.
for our Hillary!
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=hrc
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
doing Top Ten list:
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
OK. I have a Hillary sign in my window. It gets me lots of attention (i.e. my neighbors have quit speaking to me - heh. I'm also having problems getting my mail delivered, but that's a whole other story...anyhoo.)
I want to make a sign to add to the window. This sign will just be a number. And that number is the delegate count needed to win if MI and FL are counted. And I'm just gonna put that sign in my window to show my support. It's easy. Write or print the number on paper. Place in window. Oooh, whatever does that mean?, cry the neighbors, and post delivery person. Well, folks, it means Make All the Votes and Voices COUNT.
Ahem. Anyone care to join in? And er, I'm thinking the number is 2209, but I just am not certain, and can't find anything to confirm it. Thats my question. Is it 2209?
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/05/2025-clinton-ca.html
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
It's quite nice, and ooooh so mysterious. Just the kind of thing that makes folks go, "what's that?"
And I'll be so happy to tell them. :-)
I am so nervous about this primary, and the pundits don't make it any easier. Had to turn them off...
I turn the tv on for a few minutes - get upset - turn it off - then go back again.
It would help if the Hillary supporters spoke with a bit more confidence today. Even the hyper McAuliffe was rather subsued this am. That's what concerns me the most.
I can't stand the waiting!!
INDIANA
white men support:HC 58 BO 42
seniors support: HC 71 BO 29
income<$50k: HC 51 BO 48
economy: missed it
Rev Wright issue: HC 70 BO 29
NORTH CAROLINA
white men support:HC 54 BO 40
black men/women: HC -? BO 91
Rev Wright issue:HC 59 BO 37
College ed: HC 42 BO 55
Economy: HC 36 BO 62
OK - I feel a lot better about Indiana now!! :)
when asked who they voted for, will say BO, even if they didn't . Its protection from fellow AA voting for BO. They know they would be harassed... I know lots of AA, and they don't tell!!!
My eyes, my eyes! Ahhhhh!
I knew I shoulda just gone to the theatre tonight. Friends and family preview for new show...my excuse is limping hound and election. Husband asked if he would be coming home to a television on the front lawn and a big hole where the picture window used to be.
Geez. You toss one television at a window and they never let you forget it.
The Obama camp wants you to believe this election boils down to pledged delegates. It does not. It comes down to the superdelegates.
Here's my view: If by June 3, Hillary can come within 100 pledged delegates of Obama, including those she won in Florida (leaving Michigan aside for the minute) and her popular vote total is close to or exceeds Obama's (including Florida and Michigan), the superdelegates can decide based on who they think is more electable against John McCain in November without fearing they are overturning the will of the people.
It's the superdelegates' duty, not just their perogative, to consider a variety of factors, only one of which is the pledged delegate total.
So don't get sidetracked by the pledged delegate discussion. It won't even be a deciding factor if on June 3, after the last state has voted, Hillary has less, but not a lot less of pledged delegates. It won't matter if her popular vote total, including the 2.3 million who voted in Florida and Michigan, approximates, equals or exceeds Obama's.
If Hillary wins Indiana tonight, she'll continue. And the superdelegates will decide the nomination, based on their consciences and their prioritizing of the various factors, of which pledged delegates is one, popular vote is another and electability in November is a third.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KMGwpdsByE
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=4798314&page=1
Nick Kelly
Wes Clark could still secure America as a national security candidate.
I just can't do it! I'm such a wimp. I'm spending the afternoon with my hound who's limping around from some sort of abrasion on his left forepaw...poor guy. I've been nicely distracted (in a 'he's breakin' my heart!' way) and keeping him distracted from the applications of anti-bacterial spray and anti-biotic lotion - which he likes to lick off.
At least he's fortified against bacteria. And he did break into a run a bit ago when my bro-in-laws girlfriend came to the door, so it's all good.
So, at least I have something to tend to today that's taking my mind off the election...for whole minutes at a time. :-/
had not been so anti-Clinton throughout this entire process, the question of negativity would not be so tilted towards it being mostly Hillary. Anyone paying attention to the race could see that O! has been horribly, horribly negative on personal attacks against her since NH. It is one of the things that has solidified many in their support of Hillary and against O!
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
September 15, 2007
"Senator Hillary Clinton has earned the support of millions of Americans in her campaign for president -- and today I am pleased to count myself among them. The world has reached a critical point, and we need a leader in the White House with the courage, intelligence and humility to navigate through many troubling challenges to our security at home and abroad. I believe Senator Clinton is that leader, and I whole-heartedly endorse her for President of the United States. Senator Clinton and I share a worldview in which diplomacy is the best first-strike tool in our arsenal; in today's complicated global system, the United States should be making more friends than enemies."
Never before have so many Americans had our well-being so closely tied to world events. Our economic and national security has become more complicated than ever before, and we deserve a leader who draws on wisdom, compassion, intelligence and moral courage -- in short, we need Hillary Clinton. She is tough but fair, a rock-solid leader equal to the many weighty challenges ahead of us."
- Wes Clark