When your candidate sends out a campaign email from their personal inbox
and they put their entire 4,000+ contact list in the “To” field….
Hahahaha
Saw something of this come my way in 2008
April 2013
11 posts
Play
“If anyone wonders, for example, whether newspapers were a thing of the past all you need to do was to pick up or log on to papers like the Boston Globe. When their communities and the wider world needed them most, they were there making sense of events that might at first blush seem beyond our comprehension. And that’s what great journalism is and that’s what great journalists do.”
—President Obama (via kileyrae)
“They will try to hide their decision behind grand talk, behind willfully false accounts of what the bill might have done — trust me, I know how politicians talk when they want to distract you — but their decision was based on a misplaced sense of self-interest. I say misplaced, because to preserve their dignity and their legacy, they should have heeded the voices of their constituents. They should have honored the legacy of the thousands of victims of gun violence and their families, who have begged for action, not because it would bring their loved ones back, but so that others might be spared their agony.”
—A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip (via kileyrae)
November 2012
1 post
fyeahdemocrats
good work to all those out there who contributed, volunteered, supported, and voted for democrats. yesterday was a big win for the democratic party. sadly a race i did all i could for came down 45:50. living in “michigan’s second most conversative district” i still feel proud about that showing, and am elated at the expression of progressive politics.
September 2012
2 posts
SERIOUSLY? Did Mitt Romney Get A Bad Spray Tan To Appeal To Latino Voters? →
upworthy.com
Appealing to Latino voters: You’re doing it wrong
August 2012
1 post
April 2012
2 posts
March 2012
3 posts
In Health Care Case, Lawyers Train for 3-Day Marathon →
nytimes.com
Practice sessions for the lawyers debating President Obama’s health care law in Supreme Court arguments this week have stretched the supply of colleagues willing to play the justices.
Checking in:
Its been a while since I’ve kept up with this blog so I’ll fill you all in on what you’ve missed and how the Dems are playing lately.
The economy is rebounding.
Unemployment is down.
Iraq is in Iraqi hands and costing us nothing. Republicans respond by starting a politically unilateral war with Iran (despite the Syrian human rights catastrophe).
Mitt still hasn’t emerged as his party’s candidate. (the RNC convention will most likely be brokered:more on that later.
and
Republicans are at war with women and fighting to implement their version of christian shariah law. They are also still making asses of themselves in congress.
and so…
we slowly move toward November.
January 2012
18 posts
Thank you for everything Gabby!
Our nation is in debt to you Ms. Giffords; and through it all you came back to keep giving to us.
Good luck as you recover!
ron paul racism cntd.
- The Ron Paul Political Report newsletter stated the public should bear arms to protect themselves against carjackings by “urban youth who play whites like pianos.” Note that the terms “black” or “African American” aren’t used in this newsletter sample. However, the racially coded term “urban” and reference to “whites” makes it easy for the reader to ascertain what skin color the youth in question have. The newsletter, written in the first-person, continued on this topic with the following assertion: “I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self-defense. For the animals are coming.” Now these animal wouldn’t be blacks, would they?
- In another newsletter, Paul described most black men in Washington, D.C., as “semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”
- Talking Points Memo reported that in December 1990, Paul suggested that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sexually molested girls and boys, remarking: “And we are supposed to honor this ‘Christian minister’ and lying socialist with a holiday that puts him on par with George Washington?”
- In a 1993 Ron Paul Survival Report newsletter, alarm was raised about “The Disappearing White Majority.” The newsletter referenced the growing birth rate of people of color and expressed a pro-segregation stance with this comment: “It is human nature that like attracts likes. But whites are not allowed to express this same human impulse. Except in a de facto sense, there can be no white schools, white clubs, or white neighborhoods. The political system demands white integration, while allowing black segregation.”
- In May 2011, Paul told MSNBC that he would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended Jim Crow. He questioned the act because it took authority away from property owners. Evidently, Paul values the rights of racist property owners over those of African Americans whose housing, employment, schooling and leisure activities were all dictated by Jim Crow.
Remaining GOP candidates' most hated.
Rick’s Santorum - Gays. (Dan Savage).
Newt Gingrich - Blacks. ex-wives.
Ron Paul - Jews/Banks/Gays/Blacks/The Media
Mitt Romney - Himself as Massachusetts Governor.
DC Decoder: Attacks on Mitt Romney expose GOP divide over big business →
dcdecoder.com
If the recent attacks by fellow Republicans on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital seem to be hitting a nerve, as Decoder wrote earlier, it may be in part because they expose a growing split within the GOP - over the role of big business.
In fact, this issue represents the single…
Nice Guys Finish Last
prediction: with the taste of near victory in his mouth, santorum loses god and gets bloodthirsty in some campaigning against mitt.
Who exactly leads the Republican race going forward isn't clear, but we do know two things:
1) The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory. No matter who the Republicans nominate, we’ll be running against someone who has embraced that agenda in order to win — vowing to let Wall Street write its own rules, end Medicare as we know it, roll back gay rights, leave the troops in Iraq indefinitely, restrict a woman’s right to choose, and gut Social Security to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.
2) We’ll be facing an onslaught of unprecedented spending from outside groups funded by corporations and anonymous donors. In Iowa alone, so-called “super PACs” spent $12.9 million on almost exclusively negative ads. These groups will turn their fire even more directly on us in the weeks ahead to prove that their candidate is the most anti-Obama.
Newsflash
Headline I can’t wait to see of tomorrow.
“Santorum Surges from Behind”
December 2011
6 posts
Iowa prediction (where can I place my bets?)
1. Romney
2. Paul
3. Santorum
4. Perry
5. Gingrich
Obscurity. Bachmann
Dear Followers,
Thanks for continuing to follow while I figure out internet at my new place. Y’all are some classy folks.
Keep Left,
Isaac
