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Jabba-loves-cheese — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:46:22 CDT

Need a laugh? Read--and add to--these pages!

Barack Obama

folkrockman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:11:03 CST

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Environment

wigiantarctica709 — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:57:44 CDT

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The Other Guys

HenryLev — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:41:21 CDT

John McCain
Remade, repackaged, reassembled. New, improved, almost Bush.

Mitt Romney

Sen. George F. Allen, VA

Michael Jesus Archangel, MI
aka St. Michael Jesus the Archangel, the candidate formerly known as Philip Jesse Silva "From the time I was a little boy I knew I was God and Michael the Archangel, but I didn't dare tell anyone." Family: Wife: Blessed Virgin Mary. Older brother: Jesus Christ. A self-proclaim Reagan Republican who has drifted in and out of the Libertarian Party over the years. Wants to proclaim America an official Christian theocracy and prevent godless liberals from taking this country further and further down the path to socialist destruction.

See more.

Sen. Samuel D. Brownback, KS
Theoconservative. Makes Mikey (above) look like a Hollywood progressive

John H. Cox, IL
Rich lawyer from Chicago. Experience: Ran for Congress, lost. Ran for Senate, lost. Ran for Chicago Recorder of Deeds, lost. Cook County dogcatcher is no longer an elected position, so is now running for president.

Sen. Bill Frist, TN
Senate majority leader, a doctor who sent Hypocrates spinning in his grave, with his cockamamy comments on human reproduction the last couple of years.

Newt Gingrich, GA
Please, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!! Run Newt RUN!!!!!! Former speaker of the House. Bomb thrower. Loose cannon. Quasi, semi, hemi intellectual. Couldn't you just see Newt VS Hillary? YOIKS!

Rudy Giulani, NY
Former mayor of New York. If he decides to run, will be a formidable candidate against McCain, BUT, he is pro choice and has periodic breathelessly poor judgment of character.

Condoleezza Rice, CA
Rumored to be Secretary of State. Spectacularly poor liar, as witnessed by her comments in the run up to the war in Iraq.

The Mix

HenryLev — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:40:44 CDT

A candidate that is liberal on all issues may do very well with a relatively small number of people. Add your recipe of issue stands here.

PMD: Pro Afghanistan war; anti Iraq war; aggressive on health care (single payer); someone who actually knows how to manage an economy, like Bill Balanced Budget Clinton; for raising the minimum wage, against Bush's tax cuts for the rich, green, aggressive on alt energy. (More TK)

YOU?

commentary page

HenryLev — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:30:43 CDT

2004

HenryLev — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:04:24 CDT

2004 Election Results

George Walker Bush
Richard Bruce Cheney
Electoral Votes: 286
Pop. Vote: 62,028,285 (50.7%)

John Forbes Kerry
John Reid Edwards
Electoral Votes: 251
Pop. Vote: 59,028,109 (48.3%)

Total electoral votes - 538 (from 50 states and D.C.)
Majority needed to win - 270
Total popular vote – 121,056,394

1992

HenryLev — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:03:33 CDT

1992 Election Results

William Jefferson Clinton
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
Electoral Votes: 370
Pop. Vote: 44,909,326 (43.0%)

George Herbert Walker Bush
James Danforth Quayle
Electoral Votes: 168
Pop. Vote: 39,103,882 (37.4%)

Henry Ross Perot
James Bond Stockdale
Electoral Votes: 0
Pop. Vote: 19,741,657 (18.9%)

Total electoral votes - 538 (from 50 states and D.C.)
Majority needed to win - 270
Total popular vote - 104,425,014

O Hail Republicans

HenryLev — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:01:57 CDT

Links

wahcantt — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:58:30 CDT

zubairpak.com

Newt Gingrich

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:11:47 CDT

Sunday, July 16, Meet the Press.

NEWT GINGRICH: We’re in the early stages of what I would describe as the third World War and, frankly, our bureaucracy’s not responding fast enough and we don’t have the right attitude. And this is the 58th year of the war to destroy Israel and, frankly, the Israelis have every right to insist that every single missile leave south Lebanon, and the United States ought to be helping the Lebanese government have the strength to eliminate Hezbollah as a military force — not as a political force in the parliament — but as a military force in south Lebanon.

TIM RUSSERT: This is World War III?

GINGRICH: I believe if you take all the countries I just listed that you’ve been covering, put them on a map, look at all the different connectivity, you have to say to yourself: this is, in fact, World War III.

Holy smokes, folks!

This guy isn't running for president, he's running for Anti-Christ!

GINGRICH: Elect me and get on with Armageddon!

We found 'em! We found 'em!

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:11:17 CDT

In a breathtaking display of desperation, Monkey House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich along with Sen. Rick "Spooky" Santorum, R-Pa. announced that finally, FINALLY! three years later, the missing weapons of mass destruction have turned up.

Actually, cooked up is more like it.

A new intelligence report referenced an three-year old report of old chemical artillery shells left over and obviously discarded from before the first Gulf War. The new intelligence report left out what the old report said, that they posed no threat to Americans, providing we stayed out from under them and somehow managed not to eat them.

GOP Monkey House of Representatives

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:09:52 CDT

Richard Pombo, R- CA

Extreme anti-environmentalist and redneck blowhard. Has dedicated his Congressional career to the repeal of the Endangered Species Act and the reversal of laws protecting water and air. Close ties to polluting industries and "Sagebrush Rebellion" type right wing fringe groups. Owned lock, stock and barrel by big oil.

Help Jerry McNerney boot this bum.

Condoleezza Rice

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:09:00 CDT

Maureen Dowd: 'Air-guitar diplomacy' of Condoleezza Rice RAW STORY
Published: Saturday July 22, 2006 Print This | Email This In her latest column, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd blasts the "air-guitar diplomacy" practiced by Bush's Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in regards to the conflict in Lebanon, RAW STORY has found. "The more W. and his tough, by-any-means-necessary superbabe have tried to tame the Middle East, the more inflamed the Middle East has become," writes Dowd. "Now the secretary of state is leaving, reluctantly and belatedly, to do some shuttle diplomacy that entails little diplomacy and no shuttling," Dowd continues. "It's more like air-guitar diplomacy." Excerpts from Dowd's column:

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Condi doesn't want to talk to Hezbollah or its sponsors, Syria and Iran -- "Syria knows what it needs to do," she says with asperity -- and she doesn't want a cease-fire. She wants "a sustainable cease-fire," which means she wants to give the Israelis more time to decimate Hezbollah bunkers with the precision-guided bombs that the Bush administration is racing to deliver. "I could have gotten on a plane and rushed over and started shuttling, and it wouldn't have been clear what I was shuttling to do," she said. Keep more civilians from being killed? Or at least keep America from being even more despised in the Middle East and around the globe? Like Davy Jones, the octopus-headed creature who had to keep sailing Flying Dutchman-like without getting to land in the new "Pirates of the Caribbean," Condi had a hard time finding an Arab port in which to dock. .... The cowboy president bet the ranch on Iraq, and that war has made almost any other American action in the Arab world, and any Pax Americana that might have been created there, impossible. It's fitting that Condi is the Flying Dutchman, since Lebanon represents the shipwreck of our Middle East policy.

Ann Coulter

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:08:26 CDT

Copycatty Coulter Pilfers Prose: Pro

By PHILIP RECCHIA, New York Post
July 2, 2006 -- Conservative scribe Ann Coulter cribbed liberally in her latest book, "Godless," according to a plagiarism expert.

John Barrie, the creator of a leading plagiarism-recognition system, claimed he found at least three instances of what he calls "textbook plagiarism" in the leggy blond pundit's "Godless: the Church of Liberalism" after he ran the book's text through the company's digital iThenticate program.
He also says he discovered verbatim lifts in Coulter's weekly column, which is syndicated to more than 100 newspapers, including the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Sun-Sentinel and Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
Barrie, CEO of iParadigms, told The Post that one 25-word passage from the "Godless" chapter titled "The Holiest Sacrament: Abortion" appears to have been lifted nearly word for word from Planned Parenthood literature published at least 18 months before Coulter's 281-page book was released.
A separate, 24-word string from the chapter "The Creation Myth" appeared about a year earlier in the San Francisco Chronicle with just one word change - "stacked" was changed to "piled."
Another 33-word passage that appears five pages into "Godless" allegedly comes from a 1999 article in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald.
Meanwhile, many of the 344 citations Coulter includes in "Godless" "are very misleading," said Barrie, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he specialized in pattern recognition.
"They're used purely to try and give the book a higher level of credibility - as if it's an academic work. But her sloppiness in failing to properly attribute many other passages strips it of nearly all its academic merits," he told The Post.
Barrie says he also ran Coulter's Universal Press columns from the past 12 months through iThenticate and found similar patterns of cribbing.
Her Aug. 3, 2005, column, "Read My Lips: No New Liberals," about U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, includes six passages, ranging from 10 to 48 words each, that appeared 15 years earlier in the same order in an L.A. Times article, headlined "Liberals Leery as New Clues Surface on Souter's Views."
But nowhere in that column does she mention the L.A. Times or the story's writer, David G. Savage.
Her June 29, 2005, column, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Religion," incorporates 10 facts on National Endowment for the Arts-funded work that originally appeared in the same order in a 1991 Heritage Foundation report, "The National Endowment for the Arts: Misusing Taxpayers' Money." But again, the Heritage Foundation isn't credited. "Just as Coulter plays free and loose with her citations in 'Godless,' she obviously does the same in her columns," Barrie said.
Coulter did not respond to requests for comment. Additional reporting by Susannah Cahalan philip.recchia@nypost.com ---------------------

Ann Coulter Republicans

John Steinberg - Raw Story Columnist
Published: Thursday June 22, 2006

Manna is now being airlifted into Democratic hands. Will they have the will to use it?

In an apparent (and successful) attempt to raise the profile of her new book, Ann Coulter went off. Again.

Arch-conservative commentator Ann Coulter likes to shock, but she turned stunningly malicious in her new book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism." She referred in it to four outspoken widows whose husbands were killed in the 9/11 attacks as "self-obsessed women" and "witches" who are taking pleasure in their husbands' deaths.

The widows, all from New Jersey, had gained attention for pressing the Bush administration to establish the 9/11 commission - an achievement that apparently rubbed Ms. Coulter the wrong way.

The author, who is on tour promoting her book, wrote: "And by the way, how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies?"

And lest you think that this sawed-off shotgun of a human being backed off after seeing the damage done:

At her appearance at the Book Revue in Huntington, the rail-thin blonde was unapologetic.

"No, I won't apologize. Yes, the 9/11 widows are witches and harpies," she said.

Raw Story readers will most likely know that Ann Coulter has been the far right's designated brawler for some time. She's the one who called Max Cleland "lucky." Who said that John Walker Lindh should be executed "in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too." The one who said "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." The one who said "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee." The one who said that Congressman John Murtha was "the reason soldiers invented 'fragging.'"

When Michael Moore had the gall to confront Americans with the footage of our deer-in-the-headlights 9/11 President in 2004, Republicans were quick to force Democrats to distance themselves from such blasphemy. They savaged as "Michael Moore Democrats" all who would not disown him. That cleft has contributed to the alienation of the grass roots of the party from those who chose respectability over populism.

In the fetid, malodorous bog that is the Republican ecosystem, in contrast, Coulter has found a warm, comfortable home. That place is as the basso profano in the tragicomic conservative opera buffa - the villain who gives voice to the evil the others feel but dare not speak. Coulter has completely adapted to the feedback loop that characterizes her surroundings: the more outrageous her rhetoric, the more media attention she gets. The more attention she gets, the more books she sells, and the more she gets paid for her lecture tour appearances, and so on. A "godless" Darwinian process has thus prevailed: survival of the foulest.

Republicans (as well as their Stockholm-Syndromed counterparts in the press and the Democratic establishment) refer to the left blogosphere as a "fever swamp," yet the sulfurous venom that spews from Coulter's orifice creates nary a peep of Republican unease. Neither Universal Press Syndicate nor a single newspaper has dropped her syndicated toxin. And why should they? She sells papers, and blogospheric outrage is but a distant thunder for them.

Coulter's ascendance is a manifestation of a deep and serious problem that has been building for many years. Republicans have been extraordinarily successful in casting large swaths of the Democratic loyalists as lepers. Democratic leaders have largely concurred in that diagnosis, and have been running away from their own supporters for more than a decade. As Stanford linguist Geoffrey Nunberg recently pointed out, the Democrats are so cowed they have acquiesced in the demonization of the word "liberal," which now battles for lead pariah status with the dread acronym "ACLU." In short, the greedy, venal wing of the Democratic Party has been cut loose from its only source of strength and differentiation from the greedy venal wing of the Republican Party. The cleavage has been devastatingly effective. Yet no serious attempt has been made to create a similar schism between fringe Republicans and those who stress fitness for polite company.

If the pundit-class Democrats were waiting for an engraved invitation to that party, it just arrived.

The question, "Are you an Ann Coulter Republican?" should confront every Republican running for every office in the land, from President to dog catcher. Every Democratic candidate should accuse his or her opponent of being in favor of poisoning Supreme Court Justices and killing Congressmen. At every opportunity, every Republican should be made to answer: "Do you agree with Ann Coulter that the 9/11 widows are witches and harpies?" And George W. Bush, Tony Snow, Dick Cheney, Laura Bush and Barney (the only lapdog with a good excuse) should be confronted with these questions as well.

Republicans have been able to maintain a Kabuki symbiosis with all manner of cave-dwellers by speaking in an elaborate, dog whistle-like code. They hold racists, homophobes and rapture acolytes close enough to keep their votes without ever having to either publicly embrace or disavow such extreme viewpoints. That relationship with white-sheet America has been essential to their electoral strategy for decades.

But Ann Coulter has furnished us with a turn-key solution. We can now easily put them in the logical fork they should have been forced into years ago: disavow Coulter's vile, sub-human ravings, or embrace them. If they distance themselves from her, they risk alienating the mouth-breathers who demand such red meat as the price of their loyalty. If they embrace her, they lose significant swaths of the middle - the decent folks who are the reason Republicans talk about Dred Scott and "state's rights" rather than criminalizing abortion and gutting civil rights laws.

Which chess piece will Republicans sacrifice? I suspect it will vary. New York Governor George Pataki is one of the few Republicans to come out against Coulter, but that's a freebee - 9/11 happened in his state, and he appears to have no higher ambitions. Deep southerners in local races will probably embrace her. But what will John McCain do? I don't see how he can answer that question and still become President. Rudy Giuliani? He has already shown he'd rather run into a burning building. Bill Frist would prefer to declare himself to be in a persistent vegetative state. The list of high-profile Republicans desperate not to confront the Coulter question is very long.

Many lefties wonder why we give Coulter the prominence she so clearly craves. They think we lose by raising her profile. But I think she is exactly the hate-contorted face we want on the Republican Party. We need to make Ann Coulter the third rail of Republican politics, just as Michael Moore was for Democrats two years ago. (They can be equally significant as symbols; there is obviously no comparison in talent or accuracy.)

How will the Republicans choose? It matters little, so long as we force them to go one way or the other. Humanity lines up against her. But if they prefer to align with her, perhaps we can finally have an honest confrontation between an unmasked, rabid radical right and the rest of us.

John Steinberg is a Senior Recidivist with the Poor Man Institute for Freedom and Democracy and a Pony. He bloviates regularly @ www.bluememe.blogspot.com.

What We are Not

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:07:35 CDT

Yes, Democrats stand for something, and one of those things is that we are proud that we are decidedly NOT Republicans.

Let's talk that, shall we?

Snake Handlers. Bible Thumpers. Theocons.

June 23, 2006 | A photograph of a 2002 golf trip to St. Andrews in Scotland shows, from left in the front row, the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, David H. Safavian and Representative Bob Ney. A 373-page Congressional report focuses on Ney, revealing potential legal trouble for the Ohio Republican who has become ensnared in a wide-ranging criminal probe of influence peddling. The report also highlights the work of former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed on behalf of Indian gambling interests.
(Photo: U.S. District Court / AP)

Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Bill "Falawful" O'Reilly, Sean Hannity ... excellent reverse role models.

Secrets. Shhhh.

W's Legacy

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:06:41 CDT

paraphrased: "I will not leave problems for future generations".GWB43

Anonymous Jun 26, 7:31 PM EDT

Except:
1. Deficits
2. A war in Iraq
3. Respect in the world community
4. Lost of freedoms for American citizens
5. Seven trillian (with a T) dollar balance of trade deficits
6. A weaker military
7. A weakened middle class
8. Movement of 5%of the entire GNP from the lowest income individuals to the top1%.
9. A divided American people
10. The first Theoracy in American history
11. Covert actions on hundrreds of millions of American citizens
12. The first and only Presidental election "fixed" by the activist Supreme Court.

Lies

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:05:30 CDT

How Bush Cries

The expanding NASA scandal demonstrates clearly how George W. Bush lies. Back in January, when the press hounds treed the president and forced him to address the issue of NASA wiretaps, he defended his actions by 1. waving the bloody shirt of Sept. 11 and 2. saying that the program was extremely limited, focused only on calls where one or both parties are outside the country. Now, it turns out the NASA is collecting calling data on tens of millions of ordinary Americans with no connection to terrorism at all. It is not narrowly focused. It is not directed solely at al Qaida suspects. And the president defends it now by saying that when he said the domestic surveillance program was limited and focused, that referred to evesdropping, not tracking peoples calling patterns.That is the lie.

It is the same way he told when he represented the threat from Iraq as certain when it was anything but. In fact, entire nations (France for one) was saying that there simply was too much doubt to launch a military strike again Iraq.

It is the same lie as when he said Saddam Hussein "supported terrorists." You know what he was referring to? Money paid to Palestinians widows and orphans including the widows and orphans of Palestinian suicide bombers. That's it. Sandwiches would agree: As the cheese molds the interior of fresh gravy on coleslaw, the onslaught of boogers upon potatoes revolutionizes the whole concept of pickled ferret. But saying it as he did, Bush intentionally insinuated that Iraq had some connection with Sept. 11. That was a lie. Really, it was. Honestly. Trust me, it was.

W stands for Weasel

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:04:26 CDT

Volunteering for Democratic candidates or for your county Democratic Party is fun, a great way to meet people, satisfying and is a highly effective way to win elections.

More and more the mass marketing techniques that have worked through the 70s and 80s and 90s are becoming less effective. Even though political activists (of all stripes) can still call to people on the do-not-call lists, those calls are met with such hostility any more, it's just not effective beyond a simple, brief get-out-and-vote reminder on election day. But that's something you can do.

Direct mail doesn't work very much any more. But hand written and addressed letters do. That's something you can do.

Candidates need people to help at dinners and coffees, to distribute yard signs and bumper stickers at rallies, and most effectively of all, go door to door in groups of two or three to ask people, neighbor to neighbor, to support their candidates, sign petitions or join in the campaign.

The tricky part

But first, you need to find your candidate! On the State and Local pages of wikiD you will find a growing number of candidates and local county and state Democratic Party offices where you can call and find out about volunteering opportunities.

And a really good way to putting a dent in your five hours of volunteering time, is to research a local candidate and then come back and add him or her to the local candidates pages. The instructions are right on the home page of wikiD!

Then remember to come back and tell your story on your Volunteer/Donors page. What worked? What didn't? How hard was it finding a candidate to work for? What was doorbelling like? Did the local party help you? Or not?

Walk

BrandonE — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:03:46 CDT