Because you were dying to know (NOT!)…. 11 December 2007
Posted by marisacat in 2008 Election, DC Politics, Democrats, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
Celebrity Endorsement Count
Do celebrity endorsements matter to voters? Most say no, big names don’t drive voters to the polls — or sway their ultimate decisions. But they do create a buzz — the Oprah Winfrey coverage could continue right through the week — and prompt softer, personality-driven reporting on Obama.
So we at On Call have compiled an endorsement list for all the candidates. The Dems, not surprisingly, outshine the Republicans. If we’ve missed any, let us know …
DEMS
Hillary Clinton:
Tony Bennett
Barbara Streisand
Magic Johnson
Maya Angelou
Steven Spielberg
Rob Reiner
John Grisham
Carly Simon
Mary Steenburgen
Ted Danson
Billie Jean King
Victoria Rowell
Quincy Jones
Carole King
Barack Obama:
Oprah Winfrey
George Clooney
Scarlett Johanson
Will Smith
Halle Barry
Zach Braff
Jessica Biel
John Edwards:
Jackson Browne
Kevin Bacon
Tim Robbins
Bonnie Raitt
John Mellencamp
Jean Smart
Madeleine Stowe
Lance Armstrong
Chris Dodd:
Paul Simon
Lorne Michaels
Richard Plepler
Paul Newman (did an event for Dodd in Ct., but hasn’t endorsed officially)
Bill Richardson:
Unser brothers (racing legends)
Lee Iacocoa
Martin Sheen
Dennis Kucinich
Sean Penn
REPUBLICANS
Rudy Giuliani:
Bo Derek
Robert Duvall
Kelsey Grammer
Cheryl Ladd
Dennis Miller
John O’Hurley
Adam Sandler
Tom Selleck
Ron Silver
David Zucker
Mike Huckabee:
Chuck Norris
Ric Flair
Fred Thompson:
Pat Sajak
John McCain:
Curt Schilling
Mitt Romney:
Randy Owen
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Posted at 03:55 PM |
snagged whole from Hotline on Call…. also Carole Shea Porter (D-NH) has endorsed Obama, as has Hodes. Maya Angelou has a radio commercial up for Hillary, “my girl” in SC — and, again according to HoC, Bob Vila is in Iowa to stump for Hillary.
MyDD has post up on a poll taken in SC over the weekend, so as OprahPalooza mit Obama and wif were stumping…. some moves of AA votes (LOL prospective votes!) but not a budge (yet! keep hoping!) for white votes.
For some reason, the MyDD poster is surprised:
The shift appears to be due almost entirely to African-American voters who as recently as Dec. 3-4, when the latest Rasmussen poll was in the field, had been found to be abandoning Senator Clinton although it wasn’t clear yet that they were sold on Senator Obama. Thanks to Oprah Winfrey, that appears to be changing.
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I find the the fact that Oprah is moving African-American voters exclusively fairly fascinating considering her cultural impact so clearly transcends race.
Just repeating what I posted earlier, this will move some smallish number of Black votes in NC (they go to the polls Jan 29 iirc) and be virtually a wash in Iowa and NH… In my opinion that is. People might remember she did a full week of promo for Beloved… hmmm? And her offering this season is a very white rendition of a Mitch Albom story…
gah. Twice over.
In case you need amusement – and I do – here is a treat of juvenalia that I landed on during the night… 8)
Frankly, the best solution would probably be for Bush to come clean on what he authorized and throw himself on the mercy of the electorate. He could just say that he went too far in an excess of caution, and that the buck stops with him. We could probably forgive him…at least we could forego impeaching him or prosecuting the people that followed his orders.
We might even tolerate some extensive pardons. But that is very unlikely to happen. And if the president is not going to accept blame and responsibility, we have little choice but to treat his crimes as crimes. Torture is, after all, a war crime. It’s illegal, as is destroying evidence and lying to federal prosecutors and judges. I know the Village desperately wants to avoid holding people to account for these crimes, but we have a little thing called the rule of law and people’s rights. We can’t just jettison them because they make us feel bad about ourselves.
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Carrying a comment of HCfM forward, in the spirit of my little story below:
Adalah-New York was understandably upset that Susan Sarandon went shopping at the grand opening of Leviev, the jewelry store owned by a Russian/Israeli Jew who has backed the settlements in the West Bank. Adalah wrote her a letter, asking her to cut her ties with the store. Sarandon’s people emailed them back. “We received the information you sent. Ms. Sarandon will do her own exploration on this topic before drawing any conclusions.” Adalah is saying happily that Sarandon is “exploring” the character of the store. This is absurd. No one needs to do an “exploration”; support for the settlements is patently offensive, as offensive as support for Jim Crow in the ’60s. Sarandon, a leftwinger, should join the outcry, and try to redeem the New York liberal establishment on this question
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Other than that, we have (I think) a rat on our little back alley. I had heard sightings of leavings (to be delicate) but the problem had not reached my house or back garden… however… today, when I went to my enclosed back porch to put out a bag (double bagged and tied) of garbage I had put there last night, whatever it is had gotten to my porch and had tried to get at the garbage.
Oh ugh. Rats, how appropriate to the political season…
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Marisacat 
Rudy’s got a nice little stable of celebs there.
But I’m going to have to go with Huckabee.
Drift from last thread:
HC, of course Nader blew up the towers. He has Mid-East blood. I have this on good authority despite his alarming resemblance to the uncles on the side of my family that isn’t subject to male-pattern baldness before the age of twenty.
He couldn’t help himself. 😉
Well Nader had to blow up the towers. The last thing he did (causing the Great Depression) was a tough act to top.
I just read that the head of the Minutemen endorsed Hucka beeeeeeeeeeeee….
and although HillGirl was on stage here in sf with Buffett (and they did an interview show for Fox Business News) he is not endorsing. He has said he likes both Hill and Ob and will “help both”. The white liberals slurppped it up out here.. they just love that cute little bedtime story he tells about Leona and her dog Trouble who inherited 12 mil.
SO SICK OF THEM ALL.
Frank Rich was on MSNBC heavily pushing Le Obama.
His column on SUnday was thinly veiled for Obama, using Huckabee as a device. Just as Krugman is thinly veiled (hardly at all, LOL) for Hillary.
Distribute weapons etc.
National Review endorsed Romney… what a hoot!, they call him a “full spectrum” conservative.
Whatever that means.
whoopsie! 11 years ago he was a liberal. Been trying to forget ever since. But! that HillGirl, they found the proof.
Ok, a game: celebrity endorsements candidates would hate to have.
OJ endorses Obama “The big O’s”
Osama endorses his namesake Obama.
Madman has a new one up, on Christian Warrior WOman…
😉
Great speech by Cindy Sheehan in the middle of this trailer.
a “full spectrum” conservative.
Like a weed killer, or antibiotic?
Let’s be fair now.
Mike Gravel has been endorsed by Charo and Yma Sumac, who will share the stage with him at selected venues on her comeback tour.
Duncan Hunter will be introduced by Jan Michael Vincent in his next few appearances.
And Tom Tancredo has been endorsed by Marjorie Main and Walter Brennan, neither of whom could be reached for comment.
All the members of the band Alabama endorse Obama.
Creed and/or Nickelback endorse… well, anyone. What could be worse ?
All the members of the band Alabama endorse Obama.
Anybody pick up any Nascar stars yet?
That would be a big one for Obama.
oh, thanks for the link.
Of course the real cliff hanger is whether Eminem will jump ship to share the stage with Ron Paul this time out.
Ron Paul:
Mrs Paul and all her fish sticks
DePaul University
RuPaul (family ties triumph over sisterhood and the expected Giuliani endorsement)
Of course the real cliff hanger is whether Eminem will jump ship to share the stage with Ron Paul this time out.
Maybe Hillary could get Vanilla Ice to endorse Obama.
Paulist priests endorse Ron Paul. Tho he probably would find a way to turn it to a big plus.
Some rapist appealing his conviction in ARK endorses Huckabee.
Bibliomancy reveals the apostle Paul endorses Ron Paul in coded message in First Corinthians.
Paul would need to get Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or some big tech star to endorse him but it’s not going to happen.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both know that the “libertarian” myth around the tech industry is 100% bullshit. That’s why Gates is a Republican. I guess Jobs is a Democrat beause it’s slightly cooler to be a Democrat.
always get the surf report from someone within sight of the ocean.
from virginia.gov
December 11, 2007 Special Election Unofficial Results
from state.oh.us
Ohio Secretary of State Live Election Results
tsunami? dude, the surf looks like glass.
looks like all your board are belong to us.
Juan Cole:
’tis the season
’tis the season alright. 😉
“Six young people were shot Tuesday after they stepped off a bus that had left a high school, with at least one critically hurt, in an attack just blocks from two elementary schools, authorities said.
Gunshots tore through the working class residential neighborhood in northeast Las Vegas just before 2 p.m., Officer Bill Cassell said.”
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i6or47BFuliL5go-d8cv3e-fMZbwD8TFK7M01
Good evening, all.
Madman, that’s a great post you have up. I’ve sent it around to friends of, shall we say, a similar bent?
aemd @ 26
Must have been another roving pack of secular humanists.
Thanks moiv.
Oh, stumbled across this link that wouldn’t be appreciated by kos’ bestest corporate friends.
Religion is child abuse, Sometimes literally:
In an update added to the blog later, the girl did die from her injuries. From the link with the update:
Congress to say Christmas is important. Sun and Moon declared good too
bayprairie and Madman out of Moderation… Sorry!!
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bay as I have toured the old lunatic sites, I see they are pushing Oh-5 and VA-1 hard, but I have nto had time to follow links and check either race out…
.. so thanks for that comment… 8)
I am sick to death of everyones’ religion.
Kinda like the presidential hoohoogaga-gag event.
bay @ 24
Well, those VA numbers are a real shocker, since the Dem candidate, Philip Forgit, used every abortion cliché in the Dem playbook trying to pander to … well, just about everybody.
Apparently not . . . . since he finished with 37.30%.
Forgittaboudit. 😉
both districts clear losses. let the backpedaling begin
OH-05: Another results thread
by kos
what would ned lamont say? speaking of which. what candidate has he endorsed? and which candidate will get the kiss o death from long john kerry?
kos’s 6% solution was early evening dreamery. the district broke exactly as it did last time around. there was no significant decrease in the LOSING margin for the donks whatsoever.
but with congress as worthless as they are, evidenced by the jesus resolution above. why even bother to vote for a congressional candidate? they all suck.
end of story.
kos forgets, or declines to say, what a hard fought mess the 2006 runs were. And how many seats the Dems conceded to Republican leadership, outright.
They NEEDED the Foley sex scandal to eek out the wins…Republican corruption and the lie of running to End the War was not enough — and the run in Foley’s district in FL was instructive. The opponent who had to run with Foley’s name still on the ballot, nearly won.
hmm wonder how the Clintons and HillaryLand workers feel when they read this in NY Observer.
NH painted as her firewall. hmmm.
The Clintons barely bothered with either Iowa or NH in the intervening years from 2004 out to now. The article tries to paint NH has some clover bed strewn with rose petals for Hillary.
today’s best smackdown of a second generation north dallas served up butterfly blagggghhhhh…
America DOES Torture….Now What?
by buhdydharma
:::shorter budhy::::
smackdown
and the boyos think we’re fooled by uncola operatives? laughable.
from Schechter’s News Dissector:
hmm btw, I saw today that Stern of SEIU let Lehane go, for his joining with the studios (a generic term, in my part) against the writers…
Macaray whose pieces on the WGA strike have been in Counterpunch for several weeks has a new one up… he mentions that apparently the DGA, Directors Guild has a contract coming up in June.
geezloueez. Looking over PFFT… does Smithee know he and his whack-a-mole shovel is sorely needed, w/r/t DByron.
I think the actor’s contract is up this spring, too.
love watching the piano wire tighten………..
Quite a bit about Bill in there too. yum.
IN The Hill, Grassley says Hill comes in 3rd in Iowa.
yum yum.
hopefully there is a way they can all lose.
#43– Mcat, rumor on the street is that Smithee is crying in the corner of his trophy room because Supreme Commander Ficus doesn’t like him.
I have sent over the most expensive beer bong I could find, several volumes of wretched softcore anime discs and a case of fine brandy. (Now you know the reason behind my risky trip to the non-Green Zone portion of the Mall.) Let’s hope that Smithee will be all right soon.
BTW, does anyone else find it funny (ha-ha AND weird) that while DP loyalists whoop it up over the likes of Foley and Mr.Foot-Signals-In-The-Can, most of their blog strongholds are littered everywhere with prison rape jokes and obstensibly het males who use (ahem) man-on-man action metaphors in order to prove their supremacy over one another. The party of the gay tolerant is rife with supposedly het men who consider sex between men little more than a means of humiliating each other. Some of them seem focussed on such metaphors to the exclusion of all others.
But remember !! The DP is a bastion of tolerance and wuv for queers, ‘cuz they got Barney Frank !!! They loves the out and proud crowd. Wheeeee !!!!
geezloueez. Looking over PFFT… does Smithee know he and his whack-a-mole shovel is sorely needed, w/r/t DByron.
Why don’t we just get a female Muslim to take care of both Byron and Moon?
The party of the gay tolerant is rife with supposedly het men who consider sex between men little more than a means of humiliating each other.
Kerry’s and Edward’s coordinated gay baiting of Mary Cheney gave it all away. Most of them also think the gay marriage issue lost them the election in 2004.
48… LOL
whatever works… 😉
Did anybody see Chris Matthews and his guests talking about torture last night?
It was literally something out of the “Bad Enterprise” episode from Star Trek. They were discussing the specifics of what “would work”.
Had Hitler won the war TV might have looked like this.
well you know how Tweety is, he periodically has to excite himself. I suppose his wife would leave otherwise.
I mean, what a loon
It wasn’t really Tweety’s usual mancrushing on big brawny generals or politicians. It was just a banal conversation between Tweety and a Democratic Party hack about the specifics of what kind of torture works and what kind of torture wasn’t. It was banal normality.
Maybe I should introduce myself. It would broaden his perspective.
Hope all is well with you Marisa, got a real kick out of Kelsey Gramer re Guiliani, ahhh, all those NBC (and other networks) STARS, shoved down the throats of residents of the GOLDEN (showers) state by their GOLDEN CIVIC LEADERS.
Ever wonder why there are so many female polis in Cali, when the state is so very HOSTILE to all female? Or how hawk DiFi, as opposed to so very progressive Boxer were elected by the very same persons? Yes Cali, and its Grapes of Wrath.
Ha, occurred to me that if there really are Evil Aliens/Greys among us, they probally dislike Nicotine (except that from Cigars)….smoking like a fiend here, sans smoking tent…
Oh and, speaking of women, don’t ya just love Jane Harman and Sue Collins : http://www.petitiononline.com/19551959/petition.html
Hmmm, if the dear Dems were concerned with fair tax legislation they would have reinstituted Income Averaging (after all, business gets to carry forward and back bad year losses) and tax exempt status on Unemployment Income (keyword being “IF”)
waves to musing, nutria nibblers and opaque, still as a stone seeming water….
As for celebrity endorsements, I think if the teletubbies came out for Huckabee that might kill his momentum…
On a related note, I never realized that Adam Sandler was a lunatic fascist.
Speaking of which, did Huckabee lose all that weight working out on Chuck Norris’ ‘Total Gym’?
w00t 😎
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1155159520071212
Do you speak l33t aemd?
t00t w00t…
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OK, it’s going officially dirty now, and I smell Bill Clinton in this.
Bill Shaheen gave an interview insinuating that, due to his own openness, in the GE the Republicans would/could tar Obama with the whisper, smear: ”
Did Obama sell drugs?”.
And at least one site, Ben Smith at politico.com is using it as a headline without context.
Ben Smith.
TPM Election Central, 1 and 2… part 2 posted just about 45 mins ago.
According to TPM no word from HillaryCamp on this..
As I zoom around the past few days, boy, threads everywehre are poisonous about her. Peter Daou must have thought he could sleep thru this and not manufacture “blog hurricanes”.
What shits.
I can’t believe it, a drug dealing terrorist named Osama Hussein…
TPM posted this about 30 mins ago (a few mins after 3PM) from Phil Singer. It took them hours.
Tweety is still into the wateboarding. Rachel Maddow bullshitted her way around a question she didn’t want to answer and Tweety said “you are causing trouble today. I’m going to wateboard you.” And she didn’t call him on it.
Maybe I should introduce myself. It would broaden his perspective.
That makes two of us. I am enthusiastically pro-medical procedure for informed adults.
After all, despite all of the misogynistic agitprop, that is EXACTLY what abortion, even third trimester abortion, is.
Add myself to the “pro abortion” not just “pro choice” column.
I do, however, think that religion should be “safe, legal and rare”.
Maddow is being soft while she angles to replace Tucker. Hopefully it won’t be permanent.
Oh, and speaking of torture and the CIA and recent
operativesretired CIA agents:She offers an update that the Company is “upset” with his appearances.
Oh sure, right, in environment where real dissenters have had their lives made a living hell, this guy is completely on the up-and-up and acting on his own.
oops … can you fix the strike closing tag after “operative”?
sorry!
Maddow is being soft while she angles to replace Tucker. Hopefully it won’t be permanent.
Of course if some right wing pundit had sat there and said nothing while Tweety joked about waterboarding him/her, Media Matters would be in Phase III of the Jihad by now.
And it’s not that Rachel Maddow’s a horrible talk show host. She’s not. That’s the point. If a “progressive” can sit through a torture joke, it shows how mainstream it’s become.
Imagine if Tweety had made an anti-semitic or anti-gay remark. She would have jumped all over him.
And on another note, does Jesus ever drop by his brother’s shop to learn the basics of torture?
Reconquista! Help! America is Becoming Mexicanized!
And that’s just the warm-up. She says that we ARE becoming more like Mexico, though not in the way Lou Dobbs likes to whine:
Too funny ’bout Bill Shaheen. Looks like between the latest CNN/WMUR poll, Oprah and the Shea-Porter’s endorsement of Obama some people are gittin’ worried. The big NH power broker’s wife is running for US Senate, in 08, don’t ya know. 😉
“Do you speak l33t aemd?”
Heavens no. Just find it clever as hell.
the best Huckabee campaign ad that doesn’t star Chuck Norris.
Circus Maximus
There is no “appearances” about it. THEY ARE arms of the party.
IT IS NOT NOT THE ONLY CHOICE. Opt out. withhold your vote.
All of this is painfully obvious to those of us here, anyway:
The ONLY option left next year is to be willing to let the Donklephants lose. Painfull, but there it is.
Wow, I can’t type tags tonight to save my life.
Sorry again.
The profit motive vs. the environment
Joss Whedon sums up what’s at stake in the writer’s strike
We’ll see, but what he says stands for all of us, in the economic arena and in politics. The only way out in the inbalanced system we have now is to opt out, to say no, to withhold your participation/vote/money etc.
spelunkers….(from CNN)
“Deal could mean another $70,000,000,000 for war
Democratic lawmakers and staffers privately say they’re closing in on a broad budget deal that would give President Bush as much as $70 billion in new war funding. The arrangement would lack a Democratic provision for most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by December 2008. “
Madman… sorry for the delay! Just got to your tags………..
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no prob … if I could type everything would be great from the get-go.
The ONLY option left next year is to be willing to let the Donklephants lose. Painfull, but there it is.
Looking at the Republican field, only a Bloomberg third party run is going to make the Democrats lose.
The corporate dems are going to get away with it, get the White House at the cost of impeachment.
Of course the alternative is even worse (Huckabee or Romney).
I guess the only silver lining is that progressive activists after 2009 will be running against the Democrats, or not. I don’t know. But it’s going to be Tony Blair all over again.
#43. marisacat
Is that turdball back again? By the Power of Greyskull! That really chaps my ass. ‘Scuse me, good people. I smell something rancid over at PFF…
[snerk] Speaking of healthcare, our rates are going up seventy dollars a month next month. I think Pope Rat is angry with us for not procreating, and this is His punishment. Or what-the-fuck-ever.
I told mr_xeno to make copies of the price-hike notice and send it in to all the candidates in those oh-so-ubiquitous donation envelopes. I mean, fuck. Let them go hit up the lobbyists since that’s where our fucking money is ending up anyway. Worthless Gospel-swilling shitheels. May I live long enough to see their corpses swinging from a row of fucking lamp posts. >:
Looking at the Republican field, only a Bloomberg third party run is going to make the Democrats lose.
People said the same thing about Kerry.
P.S. — Go, Smithee !!!
(I’ll save you some homemade lemon cake from yesterday.) 8)
People said the same thing about Kerry.
And they said it about Gore. But the Bush machine/Republican machine was an awesomely powerful organization in 2000 and 2004. It had everything behind it. It had the media. It had the big money. Now the Republican party’s self-destructed and Hillary’s going to face a hick preacher from Arkansas.
2008 is looking like 1996 to me.
hey hey Smitheee… LOL
I saw some of your “replies” to him from this am…
What a hoot!
It’s not just about the Rep machine, or about voter suppression, or about the MSM … it’s about the ugly heart of darkness in white ‘Merica.
Our gov’t reflects a sizable minority of the ‘merican population, and the most highly motivated, hated portion of that population.
The ONLY way people will wake up if for leftists to walk away. En masse. Even then, it will be a struggle of YEARS.
it’s about the ugly heart of darkness in white ‘Merica
This is true but both parties are in a bind here. If you come down too hard on immigrants, you alienate Latinos. If you don’t, you alienate whites.
Our gov’t reflects a sizable minority of the ‘merican population, and the most highly motivated, hated portion of that population.
From what I’ve been reading, the issue of Iraq is still the most important one in the country as a whole but Iowa and South Carolina are skewing it towards immigration.
The ONLY way people will wake up if for leftists to walk away.
All three of us. I agree. I’m not voting for either major party. Personally, it would be tempting to vote for Bloomberg on a third party ticket to fuck over the Dems and Republicans, but I wouldn’t be able to get past those 2000 pre-emptive arrests during the RNC.
I wouldn’t be able to get past those 2000 pre-emptive arrests during the RNC.
Just vote on every other line where you can. Register and vote, just abandon the national party.
Smithee salts the slug at pff…..
Just vote on every other line where you can. Register and vote, just abandon the national party.
I’m not exactly wild about the local politicians either. The Dems will probably take my congressional district next year.
A Kos dream scenario. Ned Lamont/Darcy Burnerland now open to a bland centrist Dem that hasn’t had a Dem in power since a few years after I was born.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/11/house_ferguson_retirement_crea.html
This north-central New Jersey district contains multitudes. It has suburban dwellers who commute to and from New York City but also exurban areas and even a few rural patches. The district is affluent with the second highest household median income of any seat in the state. (New Jersey’s 11th District has the highest.)lectoral Results: The seat has been in Republican hands for more than three decades.
irony award of the ages (from the daily mail):
“Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.
The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that fears over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.
The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it was vital that the international community based its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement. ”
the Pope cries for science! hang on to your bladder!
And the state Democratic machine is all lined up behind Hillary.
The Congressional district one over from mine is a majority minority district with a Conyers style black progressive who’s been running unopposed in the general election for decades now.
So what’s the better arena for a Green/Progressive run.
1.) Rich white bland centrist Republican/Dem
2.) Majority minority black progressive Conyers Dem
Gerrymandering does its work well. NEITHER district is good territory for any kind of leftist insurgency since they’ve put the whites and blacks in seperate political washrooms.
Very few places in the country are San Francisco and even San Francisco really isn’t San Francisco.
But I’ll probably donate something to Cindy Sheehan.
Pelosi buys $16K worth of flowers
btw, Kucinich is out of the debate tomorrow… Think iirc they used an excuse that his Iowa camp. manager (or whatever the title is) is not temporarily resident in Iowa but still operating from Dubuque.
When you think about it, the time for a break to a third party was 1988 under Jesse Jackson, not 2000 under Nader.
Had Jesse made the break in 1988, we might have had a functioning third party. 1988 was before all of the horrific roadblocks were set up (which were in response to Perot). It was when the League for Women voters still controlled the debates.
I like what Sheehan is doing but my pessimistic side says she’s not going to mount a credible campaign. This isn’t really about her personally. It’s about the fact that there are no experienced political hands to mentor her in her run and help her raise funds and organize.
The Democrats who should be on her side (Kucinich, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, McDermott) are all, well, Democrats.
btw, Kucinich is out of the debate tomorrow
So Alan Keyes is in. Kucinich is out.
Too fucking pathetic.
93– Similar to another old man. Frederick of Hollywood tonight calling the NIE on Iran “some bureaucrat’s opinion” and demanding more intelligence (the kind that backs my preformed opinion, in other words). Pretty much calling American intelligence worthless.
Like the IPCC I guess. What do a few thousand of the most prominent climatologists, biologists, and earth science folks know about it anyway? We need some flat earth experts.
oh seems like it might be time for the ol’ condom on the nose cartoon:
… Miss D
Just this am it was reported that NOW the projection for loss of late summer ice floes in the arctic is 2012. Previously it was, iirc what they said, 2030.
Guess polar warming is not an issue as the Pontiff summers, eternally, at Castel Gandolfo.
You think Moon’s going to do a diary on this?
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105850.html
A Muslim saved a group of Jews being attacked on a New York subway in an apparent hate crime. Hassan Askari, a student at Berkeley College in Manhattan, came to the aid of Walter Adler when he and three friends were attacked on the Q train running between Manhattan and Brooklyn on the night of Dec. 7, according to The Associated Press. Ten men and women, aged 19 and 20, verbally and physically assaulted Adler and his friends after they wished the assailants “Happy Chanukah” in response to their “Merry Christmas” wish. Askari, 20, tried to fight off the attackers, which gave Adler time to pull an emergency brake on the Brooklyn-bound train. The assailants were arrested at the next stop.
Russian Thugs
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2007/12/12/2007-12-12_hatecrime_talk_is_ridiculous_says_one_of-1.html
Well not really Russians, just 10 people (all of whom have East European names) who are also white gangsta wannabees.
moon is such a transparent astroturfer [imo], to muddy the waters and drive authentic people away. A few times he has “slipped”, and in the same thread gyrated between that slurry messy “yer” + scat and whatever else with comments, a few lines farther down, that are cogent and use multisyllabic words.
So sick of the games. But you know, a pillar of certain sites.
moon is such a transparent astroturfer [imo], to muddy the waters and drive authentic people away
And Byron, I’m assuming, would just be an authentic asshole.
Byron is sick. End of story.
A very Merry Xmas to us all…
11 For you Miss D, with a ht to David Brin, who posted this link at dkos.
hmmm post: LINK
Waves to Diane – NOLA exorcist! boxing hare! – and melvin, too. (Was thinking of your doggie throughout that Kahlo post. Also this.)
Another jasmine garland, another Thai.)
So yep, for those who give the slightest shit, thanks again. At the risk of joining the Ardumbos and Dullaware Damneds and whitetrashpoets of the blogosphere, see 55 and 56 here.
Darn! This was supposed to be the boxing link above.
Thig crioch air an t-saoghal ach mairidh ceol agus gaol.
The world will come to an end, but music and love will endure.