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NYC Drinking Liberally made it on The Daily Show and it featured Democracy for New York City members Tracy Denton and Heather Woodfield on air -talking and drinking…
CAUTION: It gets a bit raunchy in some places!
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_07_22_archive.html#2649671423312961757
-Sheri Divers
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U.S. Representative Paul Hodes 2nd district NH (representing cities Nashua, Concord, etc.) --
-- first he beats incumbent Charlie Bass in Nov 2006;
-- now he's endorsing Obama to be our next President:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070726/REPOSITORY/707260382
Hodes to endorse Obama for president
The Associated Press
July 26. 2007 12:28AM
Rep. Paul Hodes will endorse presidential hopeful Barack Obama today, the Associated Press has learned.
Hodes, a first-term congressman, will make the announcement during an 8:30 a.m. event at Eagle Square in Concord, an Obama source said.
The endorsement is a major coup for the campaign,
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Hodes is the first member of the state's four-member congressional delegation to register an official endorsement.
Hodes is expected to bring with him liberal activists who helped propel him to a victory over Republican Charlie Bass.
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Independent NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg applauds Obama:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07262007/news/nationalnews/learn_leon_from_obama__mike_nationalnews_david_seifman_____city_hall_bureau_chief.htm
LEARN LE$$ON FROM OBAMA: MIKE
By DAVID SEIFMAN City Hall Bureau Chief
July 26, 2007 -- ST. LOUIS - Sen. Barack Obama got an unexpected boost yesterday from Mayor Bloomberg, who singled out the Democratic presidential candidate for supporting teacher merit pay.
The mention of Obama's name in the middle of a hard-hitting half-hour address on the nation's education shortcomings came as such a surprise that the crowd of 300 assembled for the Urban League's annual conference didn't have time to react.
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"It's not Barack Obama. It's all the candidates. He just happens to have spoken out and I think he's right on the subject."
An administration source said Bloomberg's remarks, coming just two days before Obama, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the other Democratic presidential hopefuls address the influential black leadership group, were intended to inject education issues into the national debate.
Clinton, who is battling to keep Obama from gaining further traction, declined comment on the mayor's comments.
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http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/07/25/cq_3159.html
Craig Crawford’s Trail Mix: Give Obama a Break on Talking to Dictators
By Craig Crawford, CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLYPublished: July 25, 2007You would think that White House contender Barack Obama had proposed giving Fidel Castro the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That is, if you listen to the Illinois senator’s Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, try to exploit his casually positive response Monday to a simplistic debate question about whether he would meet with the Cuban dictator and other bad guys in the first year of his presidency.
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Clinton went much further yesterday, calling it “irresponsible and naïve,” clearly hoping to boost her ongoing message that Obama lacks the proper training for the Oval Office.
But to voters who are growing weary of the Bush administration’s unrelenting belligerence on the international stage, Obama’s willingness to at least talk to others probably sounds more promising than Clinton’s apparent preference for maintaining a war footing against potential enemies.
I'm suggesting seriously consider supporting Ron Paul.
Looks like our lovely "progressive" Demos have too long way to go..., to reach him, imo
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...
I disagree with Hodes.
Sitting public officials should not be endorsing candidates. If the separation of powers and the principle of checks and balances is to be re-inforced then the potential for conflict of interest inherent in such endorsements needs to be recognized.
But, Hodes is still a novice in public office and may be excused on that account. Carol Shea-Porter has instructed her paid staff not to participate in presidential primary campaigns.
The latest "achievement" of our "advanced democracy"...., lol.
http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/181...
Breaking News
Inmate found guilty in masturbation trial
By ROBERTO SANTIAGO AND JENNIFER LEBOVICH
20-year-old Terry Lee Alexander was alone in his jail cell in November when a female deputy, watching him from a nearby control room, became offended when she saw him masturbating.
• Terry Lee Alexander was charged with a misdemeanor count of exposure of sexual organs.
• The statute states: ``It is unlawful to expose or exhibit one's sexual organs in public or on the private premises of another, or so near there to as to be seen from such private premises, in a vulgar or indecent manner...''
A Broward prisoner accused of committing a sex act while he was alone in his jail cell was found guilty Tuesday of indecent exposure.
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to the tune of the 80's group The Fixx "One Thing Leads To Another":
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290732,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2008
John McCain Dismisses Gingrich Criticism of Republican Presidential FieldWednesday, July 25, 2007
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — John McCain on Tuesday brushed aside derogatory comments made by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who compared the Republican presidential field to a "pathetic" bunch of "pygmies."
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Romney, McCain lash out at Democrats
By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jul 25, 9:47 PM ET
FRANKLIN, N.H. - Mitt Romney and John McCain sought to enhance their stature in a field of Republican presidential contenders that Newt Gingrich derisively called "pygmies," criticizing their Democratic rivals as too liberal and ill-prepared for the nation's top job.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, singled out Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, telling senior citizens in central New Hampshire: "I don't think Hillary Clinton could get elected president of France with her platform. France is moving toward us."
Romney did not spare others, though, saying: "I'm convinced that America is going to change course and the question is which way it is going to go: Are we going to take a sharp left turn represented by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John Edwards, or are we going to march forth with the American values that have always helped us be the strongest nation on earth? And I believe we'll do the latter."
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Romney, meanwhile, was in Bedford, N.H., talking up his support for a ban on assault-style weapons. He said he sees no problem with a Manchester City Republican Party's fundraiser next month where guests will fire Uzis and M-16 rifles.
"No one is suggesting that automatic weapons be made available to the public," Romney said at a town hall meeting in a school gym. "I support the Second Amendment."
Romney said using a weapon is different from owning one.
"I've held the stick on an F-16 fighter jet," he said. "That doesn't mean I think the public ought to be flying F-16 fighter jets. Let the Manchester Republican Party do as it likes."
McCain took exception to remarks in which Obama asserted his foreign policy judgment was superior to any of the candidates in the race, Republican or Democrat, partly because he has lived overseas and had a multicultural upbringing.
"Well, I also think I'm the most qualified to run the decathlon because I watch sports on television all the time," the Arizona senator said with sarcasm between stops in this leadoff primary state.
"I think that Senator Obama showed a degree of naivete when he advocated direct talks with the leader of North Korea and the president to Iran and of all these other people who are sponsoring terror all over the world," McCain told The Associated Press.
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Responding to the GOP criticism, Kate Bedingfield, a spokeswoman for Edwards, said of Romney, "No candidate is more out of step with the nation than Governor Romney, who supports President Bush's stay-the-course strategy in Iraq while the vast majority of Americans are demanding a new plan that brings our troops home safely and swiftly."
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Romney also shrugged off Gingrich's remark this week that the GOP field is a "pathetic" bunch of "pygmies." Gingrich is a potential GOP candidate.
"I consider it an exceptionally strong field and think they're good people that folks will be able to choose from. And if Speaker Gingrich wants to get in, he would enhance the field," Romney said.
McCain was less charitable when asked about Gingrich's comment on Tuesday.
"If Mr. Gingrich decides he wants to get into the presidential campaign for the nomination of our party, then I would take some of his comments more seriously," the senator said.
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Carol Shea-Porter was an excellent representative of the Party last night on the NewsHour Monica.
is there a way to capture video from that show for you-tube?
her answer on withdrawal was tone perfect
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The one thing I noticed is that District 2 (besides including south central Concord and Nashua) represents mostly western NH, the same slice of NH that a majority for Howard in the last NH primary, whereas most of southeastern (in District 1) NH went for Kerry.
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Yes, the right to privacy is only implied, not guaranteed, and besides that's florida and prisoners have no civil rights in that state.
bloggie still acting up. My comment on the right to privacy was obviously in response to the florida prison story. Juveniles have no civil rights either.
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Phil Specht
Thu, 07/26/07
9:14 am
her answer on withdrawal was tone perfect
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look at the Ron Paul's principles what country's foreign policy should be.
Yes, Phil, i have begun suggesting to people that they start thinking of a replacement for that seat since it's my sense that she's not destined for a long tenure in Congress. She's a natural for a slot in a Democratic Administration.
Carol Shea-Porter is the face of the new Democratic Party, because she was elected close to the people she serves, and she clearly listens to her body politic when home.
Ron Paul has a few things right and quite a few wrong. But may he be their nominee.
Gary Hart is questioning if Hillary will be the winner of next year's dem nomination:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/25/politics/politico/main3095922.shtml
Obama's Strategy: Emulate Reagan
Conservative Icon's 1980 Bid Is A Blueprint For An Insurgent Campaign
July 25, 2007
(Politico) By The Politico's David Paul Kuhn
Awash in money and publicity but behind in the polls, Barack Obama, advisers say, is planning a classic insurgent's campaign to wrest the Democratic nomination from Hillary Rodham Clinton — one that relies on a surge of momentum from early-state victories and faces a make-or-break test in the South Carolina primary.
Obama is touting a new and unconventional brand of grass-roots politics, but his strategy borrows from precedents set by a previous generation of Democrats such as Jimmy Carter and Gary Hart. His advisers also invoke as inspiration a surprising Republican: Ronald Reagan.
"Now, it is blasphemy for Democrats," Obama pollster Cornell Belcher said of Reagan, "but that hope and optimism that was Ronald Reagan" allowed him to "transcend" ideological divisions within his own party and the general electorate.
The upbeat message, Obama advisers say, won't prevent the candidate from stepping up both veiled and explicit contrasts with Clinton, who he hopes to portray as an old-hat conventional politician whose varied positions on the Iraq war reflect calculation rather than leadership.
Obama's need to transcend conventional politics is evident by looking at the practical hurdles to his nomination.
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But bundles of cash and good buzz have not eroded what most national polls show as a durable double-digit lead for Clinton, built largely around her nearly two-to-one advantage with Democratic women.
This has Obama relying on a carom-shot candidacy, in which, come January, he will need to exploit Clinton's weakness in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, then have nearly all the bounces go his way in other early contests if he hopes to compete credibly once the race goes national with voting in half the states on Feb. 5.
Obama strategists say for now they are not running a national campaign but are depending on what senior adviser David Axelrod calls "a sequential series" of victories.
This is why Obama is already on the air with television ads in Iowa and New Hampshire and so far is out-spending Clinton in every early state.
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Occasionally it works, as when George McGovern won the Democratic nomination on an anti-war message in 1972 or when Jimmy Carter bounced off an Iowa victory to become unstoppable in 1976.
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A close parallel to the strategy Obama is trying to execute (with a different conclusion) is the one that took Gary Hart to the brink of a major upset of Walter Mondale in 1984.
Hart stunned the party establishment when his future-oriented "new ideas" message led to a big victory in the New Hampshire primary. Mondale soon rallied by saying Hart's supposed new ideas reminded him of a fast-food hamburger commercial: "Where's the beef?"
Obama's hope is to answer that question most fervently by emphasizing that he opposed the war in Iraq from the outset.
Hart, who in addition to his own insurgent campaign also managed McGovern's in 1972, sees new vitality in the old strategic model, questioning Clinton as he once did Mondale.
"There still is an enormous number of people in the party who are unhappy with [Clinton] for what they perceive to be her vacillation on the war and her reluctance to confess error," he said in an interview. "People who care about these things remember when, remember how, remember who took leadership.
"She's one of the best-known women in the world," Hart added. "She's been in the White House for eight years. She's a senator from one of the largest states. And 60-plus percent of the Democratic Party wants somebody else."
It will be a challenge for Obama to become that "anybody but Clinton" candidate, an urge that is another common reaction to Democratic front-runners.
Obama advisers, speaking privately, acknowledge that the race likely will hinge on whether the debate is on Obama's terms (Who presents the fresher and more compelling face for the future?) or on Clinton's (Who can give voters the most reassurance about ability to do the job?).
"If the debate is about changing politics and moving the country in a different direction and bringing people together, we like our odds in that debate," said a senior official in the campaign, who insisted on not being identified in order to discuss strategy candidly. "If the debate is primarily about who is going to be a strong, tough leader, that debate, quite frankly, is probably going to benefit Hillary Clinton."
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I don't know what it is about Republicans and the word naive. I don't know why Clinton thought it a put-down of Obama to use it against him, nor why McCain is echoing it. It raised a firestorm among Carol's supporters when I used it in a conditional phrase in a letter about her because, the argument ran, Republicans were now going to use that word against her. They didn't, but even if they did, the significance escaped me then and still does.
Is having naivete sort of like cooties?
Monica wrote "Sitting public officials should not be endorsing candidates."
You’ll have to remind me because I don’t have a recollection of it. Was this your stated position when Gov. Dean was amassing super delegates in 2003?
The "hope and optimism" of Reagan turned out to be a great deception from which middle America has yet to recover. You don't challenge the corporate stranglehold with a hope and a prayer.
Tom, I don't think I addressed it in that context. Although, in retrospect, it obviously didn't do him or them any good in moving the progressive agenda forward. Dean's obviously gone back to the drawing boards and doing things differently this time around.
Many mistakes were made. The trick is not to do better, but to do different.
Well, I'm hoping that Gary Hart is correct and that an insurgency campaign will win next year.
bbl
On reading the July 21 editorial "The Phony Debate," it became clear why The Post's editorial writers have been such eager cheerleaders for the Bush administration's flawed Iraq policies -- the two share the same disregard for the facts en route to drawing dubious conclusions.
The editorial was an inaccurate commentary on the nature of the Senate debate, the reality in Iraq and the president's stubborn adherence to failed policies.
Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 06:37:34 AM PDT
BTW, Tom, "you'll have to remind me" is an infellicitous phrase--one to which I would not normally respond. However, there was a period of time when I, unthinkingly, sent money to the DSCC and the DCCC, until I thought better of it. Just because these anticipatory bribes are legal doesn't make them any more corrupt than specific gifts for specific votes.
In the bull session we had with Terry McAuliffe after the workshop he insisted that this election would be a "change" election.
I agree with that assessment.
that is why Hillary has such a mountain to climb, because her strongest traits (like those she tried to highlight in her little tet e tet with Obama) are those tied to her personal experience and that is backward looking.
A change election is all about the future.
The electorate is way past ready to dump the Republican vision, so with the right candidate we could win with a margin big enough to actually put Democratic Platform ideas into law. (like Universal Health Care)
That is why it is so important that the change be from the Democratic Wing and not some accomodation with some squishy middle.
phil I still don't understand why McAullife is still in the mix. He is "so yesterday".
Sounds like you are the boots on the ground in Iowa. Thanks for the reports.
Monica wrote "'you'll have to remind me' is an infellicitous phrase--one to which I would not normally respond."
Well, you obviously don't have to remind me or respond, but I used the phrase because I had no recollection of this being your stated position during Dean's campaign, which apparently it was not. Thanks for clarifying that.
However, when you say super delegates did Dean no good, I'm going to disagree. They didn't net him the nomination, but they definitely kept his candidacy afloat during the stormy days of the early caucuses and primaries. The significance is easy to dismiss in retrospect but at the time, many of his supporters, including me, could not have been more grateful or considered more important, the early endorsements of people like Zoe Lofgren and Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick. They were a lifeline.
Monica
my son pointed it out to me (he is a faithful kossack)
maybe a Fairness Doctrine would remake all those streaming headlines on CNN and Fox too?
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they officially deemed my storm a "500 year" event
May 20th 2004 left almost identical damage
global warming has a price tag that we haven't even begun to fathom
Phil I have a question and since I don't have a direct email to you , here goes....
Remember I told u we got a dog from the pound , a llasa apso, we named him Maxx.
Well, he is doing pretty well but one problem. He is scared to death of getting near water, like a lake or the river. The first time we took him to the local park, which had a bridge over part of it, he put his head down and was terrified to walk over the bridge. If we go to the beach he will pull back and not get near the water.
Do you think maybe the former owners dropped into water or something and made him afraid of any body of water? I thought u might know since you take care of your farm animals. I have never had a dog that was terrified of water.
former wrote "look at the Ron Paul's principles what country's foreign policy should be."
Then go look at his domestic policy platform. You support him because like him, you reject the social compact in anything other than its most dilute form. I don't know what you do with his position on the right to medically induced abortion.
linda b
McAuliffe is Hillary's national campaign manager and spoke in her behalf at our training. he stuck around to hear Obama's speech, and then as the group of us who put it on were relaxing afterward, he joined us. I don't think he knows what to think about Obama's appeal, and he was trying to get a handle on it. All of us at the table are leaning Edward's way right now but are neutral and working with all of the candidates at this stage. i don't ever get to far from the cows so I enjoyed the personal interaction with a former DNC Chair, I've had similar conversations with others, but none still active with a campaign. Senator Dodd did a stint as Chair, and I am going to get him to blog with us Sat. if I can get an internet connect at the restaurant.
Phil wrote "McAuliffe is Hillary's national campaign manager and spoke in her behalf at our training."
This is so amazing, to say nothing of galling, when viewed in relation with Dean’s pleas to McAuliffe as party chair to keep the Committee’s conduct neutral regarding the candidates during the campaign in 2003 and 2004, and his toast with Clinton during Dean’s speech at the national convention. What a jackass.
Phil, I like the point that you don't get too far from the cows.
Thanks for your insight. It is outstanding as usual.
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Phil Specht
Thu, 07/26/07
9:24 am
Carol Shea-Porter is the face of the new Democratic Party...
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http://www.carolforcongress.com/index.ph...
On the Issues
National Security
by Carol Shea-Porter
on Monday, January 23rd 2006 7:03 pm
Terrorists will only be defeated if there is goodwill and cooperation among various governments, so that all nations will aid in hunting them down. There are certainly a few rogue nations...
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We need to concentrate now on protecting our own country from terrorists... America should heed the wise words of Teddy Roosevelt, who said, "Walk softly and carry a big stick."
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...lol, and what's "new" in that "face"?
There are no "rogue nations" TODAY except THE ONE that "hunting...down" others as a such (just watch how cooperation in that "hunting" has diminished for the last couple of years, even in Afghanistan).
"carry a big stick" ESPECIALLY dangerous!
It is from yesterday's, from Bush&Co's mentality! Democratic Party should be ashamed to have such a face still.
She should learn from Ron Paul (at least regarding security and international policy), imo.
linda b
sounds like maybe your dog was abused (or conditioned) as I have a dog loving trainer that uses a hose of water on barking dogs to teach them to be quiet and I never thought it abuse (if they kept barking after he told them to stop he sprayed them)
some dogs love water so he would use something different
just thinking out loud here and there is differences between breeds, try and keep a lab out of water, but it will be hard to change once it is ingrained
your breed is a guard dog, bred to be hard to intimidate, punishment (not dominance) is likely counter-productive
if you can get him to heel everytime and go to the edge of the water first that might over come the fear
dogs are pack animals and cows are herd animals and dominance/ submission which plays such a big canine role has little to do with bovine psychology
where this fits on a political blog is the sublimal tricks Republicans use such as the "alarm cry" that leads me to believe that they are back on the African savannah a million evolutionary years ago
Last nite we had our first campaign event for John Miller, who is running for the 1st district Senate seat in the Virginia State Leg. Over 150 people were there.
Here is a pix from vivian page's website. The staff with Governor Kaine. I am the one peeking around Bea's head.
John Miller , the candidate is in back with the gray hair.
We are going to win this one and the state party is giving us a lot of help too.
linda b
We got a mixed (terrier/shepherd) dog who had been a stray and picked up by a vet on the mainland, but near the island. When we took her to to beach, I had to carry her over the rivulets formed by the resceding tide and we were able to let her run free on the sand-bar since she wouldn't go in the water. After six years, she now puts her feet in the water and tries to play with frogs. She doesn't like getting wet in the rain and needs to dried with a towel. She balks at even walking over the bridge of the river down the road. She like digging holes in the dirt.
phil , thanks for the help here.
Maxx is not easly intimidated. He hardly ever barks except when the UPS truck drives up. He guards our house quite well and doesn't bark unless he knows something is wrong.
The family next door has two dogs they leave outside each day and they bark non stop. Maxx just sits on the porch and looks at them. No barking at them or their cat.
He is a good dog but you have to watch that you don't get that snear he gets when he gets pissed off at you. He does not like you to get in his face. At all.
He loves to ride in the car tho.
I like to have a good gin and tonic every now and then. But does any one of they young folks have real job to go to in the morning or have a mortgage to pay? I wonder how many of them have the responsibilty of feeding another mouth?
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I just got an email from Jim asking for support to Jamie Eldridge for the upcoming special election for the MA 5th Congresional district to fill the spot vacated by Marty Meehan (who retired to operate the Univ of MA Lowell campus).
Well, I'm in the 4th as represented by Barney Frank.
My own preference, though, would be to see Niki Tsongas win the seat (the wife of the late Paul Tsongas, the congressman almost soley responsible for psuhing forward the enactment of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and doubling the size of the nation's parks via the 1980 Alaska Lands Act)
LOL, January 23, 2006 was a full year before she got to Washington. Much has changed since then. OK, she was naive!!!!!!
In the meantime, back at the ranch...
Hot news items from Central California.
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real job to go to in the morning or have a mortgage to pay
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the trap that we all fall into, somebody get a ladder
thanks for the reminder lol
bbl
better link
Ivanka Trump Gets to Business in Fresno 07/25/2007 - Ivanka Trump began her day early Wednesday morning touring the Running Horse development, a project until Wednesday she had not seen in person.
video - http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?sectio...
the Mohs mother daughter relationship reminded me a bit of what you've communicated somewhat here Phil about you and your son:
http://www.madison.com/tct/news//index.php?ntid=202738
Obama leads donations race hereJudith Davidoff and David Callender — 7/25/2007 11:33 am
Alta Charo is one of hundreds of local residents who recently contributed to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
But that doesn't mean the University of Wisconsin professor of law and bioethics, who donated $1,000 to Obama, necessarily favors the freshman senator from Illinois over the other Democrats running for president.
"I wanted to make sure he stayed competitive in the race," said Charo, noting she hasn't ruled out giving money to other Democratic front-runners.
Charo sees strengths in all the major candidates, but said she feels Obama inspires trust as a leader.
"He has an almost Bill Clinton capacity for connecting with people at an emotional level," she said.
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Both Thompson and Obama lead the pack of presidential hopefuls when it comes to campaign cash from Wisconsin. Nearly half of the money in Thompson's campaign war chest, roughly $429,000 out of more than $980,000, comes from home-state donors. Obama is second, raising slightly less than $300,000 in the Badger State, according to the center's Web site, opensecrets.org.
Former Republican Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Democratic U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton placed a distant third and fourth, raising about $99,000 and $76,000 respectively from Wisconsin donors.
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Obama, for example, caught the eye of an unlikely donor: longtime Republican Party political operative Mary Mohs, who paid $500 to attend a luncheon for Obama in Chicago.
Mohs said she signed the check at the request of her daughter Nicole, who lives in Chicago and is best friends with an Obama fundraiser. She said she was thrilled her normally apolitical daughter was taking any interest in an election.
"The fact that she showed any interest at all, I didn't care who was running," said Mohs, who also contributed $1,000 to former Gov. Tommy Thompson. "I was happy she was paying attention and listening to the debates."
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Story from McNerney country
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn...
Tracy suffers heavy losses in Iraq war
Oakland Tribune, Feb 1, 2006 by Mike Martinez, STAFF WRITER
TRACY -- The list of names at the Tracy War Memorial has become a lot more crowded than anyone had ever imagined.
Five soldiers who called Tracy home have died since the war began in 2001, giving the city the unwanted distinction of having one of the highest death rates per-capita in California.
Tracy has suffered more total deaths than neighboring Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
A sixth Tracy resident, 40-year-old Shaun Fyfe, a civilian contractor working for the Department of Defense, died in an Iraq hotel room of natural causes last June.
With a population of about 80,000, the city registers 6.25 deaths per 100,000 residents, a number far higher than that of any other in the county.
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The LANDIS List a daily report
U.S. Military killed in action in
Iraq: 7/25/07: 2
Current Total: 3,657
Wounded 7/12/07 to 7/17/07: 111
Wounded Total (to 7/17/07):26,806
Killed in Action, June 2007: 101
Wounded, June 2007 Total: 520 730
KILLED IN ACTION:
Hospitalman Daniel S. Noble, 21, U.S.N. ,Whittier, California (hostile fire)
Cpl.Mathew Zindars, 21, U.S. Marine Corps, Watertown, Illinois (Hostile fire-IED attack)
Lance Corporal Jason Tetrault, 20, U.S. Marine Corps, Moreno Valley, CA (Vehicle Accident)
Sgt. Roger Dale Rowe, 54, U.S. Army, Bon Aqua, Tennessee (hostile--sniper fire)
Pvt. Robert L. McKinley, 23, U.S. Army, Kokomo, Indiana (illness-heatstroke)
Sgt.1st.Class Craig A. Bolling, 38, U.S.Army, Elkhart, Indiana (illness-heart attack?)
S/Sgt. Barry Sanford Sr., 46, U.S. Amy, Aurora, Colorado ( non-hostile-weapon discharge)
Spec. Chad L.Keith, 21, U.S. Army, Batesville, Indiana (hostile fire-bomb)
Sgt. David B. Parson, 30, U.S. Army, Kannopolis, North Carolina (hostile fire-ambush)
Spec. Jeffrey M. Wershow, 22, U.S. Army, Gainesville, Florida (hostile-small arms fire)
M/Sgt. James Curtis Coons, 35, U.S. Army, Conroe, Texas (non-hostile-suicide)
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Tom Bearse
Thu, 07/26/07
10:16 am
You support him because like him,
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...lol, well, I like not exactly "him" but, probably, the most of "his positions" that I'm familiar with.
you reject the social compact in anything other than its most dilute form.
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ideally, in some prospective and using your terms, I do support this compact in no less than in absolutely dilute form only.
I don't know what you do with his position on the right to medically induced abortion.
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About that I know nothing and could not find anything on his site.
If you don't mind please refer it to me.
Thanks.
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Phil Specht
Thu, 07/26/07
10:41 am
...if you heard her last night.
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link, please
Phil Specht
Thu, 07/26/07
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More foreign policy nonsense from the Democrats............you wanna beat terorism? Dont give people a reason to hate you in the first place............THATS the key, and it has NOTHING to do with our freedoms..................
Since 1945 and especially since 2000 we have really screwed things up royally.....one might suspect this keeps feeding the big mouth of the military industrial complex............
Americans can learn alot about combating terrorists ala Britain, Spain, France etc...........
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By * rdorgan on Jul 26, 2007 8:57 AM EDTHoward has made all this possible.