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Welcome to the RNC, Here are Your Handcuffs

September 1, 2008 – 7:53 pm

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The police once again lock up some innocents right away as a show of force in order to presumably intimidate the rest into behaving.  Different event, same old tactics.  Ho-hum.
Statement forwarded from Democracy Now!:
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 [...]

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Palin Perfect to Replace Dick

September 1, 2008 – 9:29 am

Excerpt from Talking Points Memo: Getting Real About Palin:
When Palin became governor they went for another bite at the apple. Palin, her husband and several members of her staff began pressuring Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan — a respected former Chief of the Anchorage police department — to can Wooten. Monegan resisted, arguing that [...]

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Rove convinces McCain to pick unqualified VP

August 30, 2008 – 1:00 pm

Watch the last part of this video where Rove talks about how Obama is likely to pick an “unqualified” candidate such as Tim Kaine and you will understand the title to this post.

Is this reverse psychology on Rove’s part? Did he already know the McCain VP pick and was therefore taunting Obama to also [...]

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Butler Interview: Why I Won’t Vote for John McCain

August 28, 2008 – 2:02 pm

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Phillip Butler was a fellow POW with McCain in Vietnam. Here is his interview with Rob Kall of OpEd News on a NJ radio station.
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His article is here.
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all i can do now is pity her

August 28, 2008 – 11:04 am

Former Hillary Clinton volunteer Carol Anderson of Vancouver, who is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver, made New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s snarky political column Wednesday with her less-than-charitable observations about Barack and Michelle Obama.
Anderson stood in the back of the room at a meeting of the Democratic Women’s Caucus wearing a Hillary [...]

By slim | Also posted in Democrats | Comments (1)

Psst…Outside the Convention is Where the Action Is

August 26, 2008 – 3:28 pm

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Although I am enforcing a news blackout on what is happening inside the DNC in Denver, Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher are doing a good job of showing us a little bit of how the corporate oligopoly runs our legally bribed government over at Salon.com from outside of the convention:
Armed with full-scale [...]

By bushtool | Also posted in Congress, Corporate control, House of Rep., Senate | Comments (0)

eh

August 25, 2008 – 12:06 pm

Yes, Joe Biden has the brain and mouth to take on whoever McCain picks as VP (and to slap down this year’s swift boaters), and no, VPs don’t make policy, but if anything could telegraph Obama’s essential centrism, Biden’s the guy.
Some of Joe’s greatest hits:
On his support for the Iraq War vote:
I will vote for [...]

By slim | Also posted in Democrats, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (0)

don’t touch it

August 19, 2008 – 12:07 pm

I fear and loathe John McCain as much as the next progressive, but I get a very bad feeling when I hear Thom Hartmann, dday et al. going on about the things McCain supposedly did while a POW (signing a confession, recording a propaganda film 4 days after his capture, etc.), and the things which [...]

By slim | Also posted in McCain, Sen John, Obama, Sen Barack | Comments (4)

this is wayyyy too late, but

August 18, 2008 – 10:06 pm

I had no idea we were going to be voting on precinct committee officers in the primary.
If you haven’t voted yet, and you are in the 100th precinct, would you consider writing me in?
I’m J.P. Thompson:

I’ve wanted to get more involved anyway, but the idea that Mike Heywood could be PCO indefinitely is what has [...]

By slim | Also posted in Clark County, Democrats | Comments (4)

what do you think the convention’s tribute payment to hrh hrc should be?

August 18, 2008 – 12:51 pm

This roll call is bullshit. Can you imagine what Bill and the PUMAs would say if Hillary was the nominee and Obama asked for a voice vote at the Convention?
“Not no, Fuck No. And fuck YOU.”
I say boilermakers all around, a toast to the first runner-up, and then on with the show.

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