good riddance. but the music is great.

The Deans, DFA and the DFA grassroots and netroots are first!


Go Pera and Northside DFA!

Just a note I sent to a friend about politics.  Then off to do some work. Thanks, for being here.  It's like a coffee break and good conversation with friends.

11:56 AM EST

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/gore%20documentary%20sets%20record%20in%20japan_1057824

The Al Gore global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth has set a new box-office record for a single theater in Japan, exhibitor Toho Cinema said Monday. In its first week at the Roppongi Hills multiplex near Tokyo, some 60,000 patrons paid an estimated 90 million yen ($850,000) to see the film.

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Oh my goodness, has Hillary ever changed her tune about Florida delegates since last September!  Could it be because the election day votes here in Florida had only a four percent margin?  Obama caught up to her as election day neared, and was only four points away by then. 

 Hillary campaign statements about Florida from last September, and from yesterday.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1794

12:05 PM EST 

Connecticut -- the state I grew up in:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2008/01/31/congressmen_larson_murphy_to_endorse_barack_obama/

Congressmen Larson, Murphy to endorse Barack Obama

January 31, 2008

HARTFORD, Conn.—Connecticut Congressmen John Larson and Chris Murphy threw their support to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Thursday ahead of his planned visit to the state next week.

Larson, whose 1st District includes Hartford and the surrounding towns, is vice chairman of the House Democratic caucus. Murphy, whose 5th District covers the western part of the state, is a freshman House member.

The two plan to formally announce their endorsements at a Saturday rally.

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Challenger Hillary Clinton, who is backed by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Comptroller Nancy Wyman, held a double-digit lead in the state in a University of Connecticut poll last week, but polls now show Connecticut to be a battleground.

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Want to buy an ex-president? They're very expensive.

We know you can buy the "big dog" for 33mil. and another 100mil on the side.

Presidents get to know a lot of important people and leaders, good and bad. The "ex-president business" has many facets. You get paid handsomely for speeches. That's not the biggy though. You can clean up just "introducing" people to your new friends.

We really need to keep the Clintons away from the WH. Let somebody new be elected and profit, the Clinton's have grabbed enough.

See Ex-president and mining deal. DU, NYTimes.

John Edwards
January 30, 2008

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Thank you all very much. We're very proud to be back here.

During the spring of 2006, I had the extraordinary experience of bringing 700 college kids here to New Orleans to work. These are kids who gave up their spring break to come to New Orleans to work, to rehabilitate houses, because of their commitment as Americans, because they believed in what was possible, and because they cared about their country.

I began my presidential campaign here to remind the country that we, as citizens and as a government, have a moral responsibility to each other, and what we do together matters. We must do better, if we want to live up to the great promise of this country that we all love so much.

It is appropriate that I come here today. It's time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path. We do not know who will take the final steps to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but what we do know is that our Democratic Party will make history. We will be strong, we will be unified, and with our convictions and a little backbone we will take back the White House in November and we'll create hope and opportunity for this country.

This journey of ours began right here in New Orleans. It was a December morning in the Lower Ninth Ward when people went to work, not just me, but lots of others went to work with shovels and hammers to help restore a house that had been destroyed by the storm.

We joined together in a city that had been abandoned by our government and had been forgotten, but not by us. We knew that they still mourned the dead, that they were still stunned by the destruction, and that they wondered when all those cement steps in all those vacant lots would once again lead to a door, to a home, and to a dream.

We came here to the Lower Ninth Ward to rebuild. And we're going to rebuild today and work today, and we will continue to come back. We will never forget the heartache and we'll always be here to bring them hope, so that someday, one day, the trumpets will sound in Musicians' Village, where we are today, play loud across Lake Ponchartrain, so that working people can come marching in and those steps once again can lead to a family living out the dream in America.

We sat with poultry workers in Mississippi, janitors in Florida, nurses in California.

We listened as child after child told us about their worry about whether we would preserve the planet.

We listened to worker after worker say "the economy is tearing my family apart."

We walked the streets of Cleveland, where house after house was in foreclosure.

And we said, "We're better than this. And economic justice in America is our cause."

And we spent a day, a summer day, in Wise, Virginia, with a man named James Lowe, who told us the story of having been born with a cleft palate. He had no health care coverage. His family couldn't afford to fix it. And finally some good Samaritan came along and paid for his cleft palate to be fixed, which allowed him to speak for the first time. But they did it when he was 50 years old. His amazing story, though, gave this campaign voice: universal health care for every man, woman and child in America. That is our cause.

And we do this -- we do this for each other in America. We don't turn away from a neighbor in their time of need. Because every one of us knows that what -- but for the grace of God, there goes us. The American people have never stopped doing this, even when their government walked away, and walked away it has from hardworking people, and, yes, from the poor, those who live in poverty in this country.

For decades, we stopped focusing on those struggles. They didn't register in political polls, they didn't get us votes and so we stopped talking about it. I don't know how it started. I don't know when our party began to turn away from the cause of working people, from the fathers who were working three jobs literally just to pay the rent, mothers sending their kids to bed wrapped up in their clothes and in coats because they couldn't afford to pay for heat.

We know that our brothers and sisters have been bullied into believing that they can't organize and can't put a union in the workplace. Well, in this campaign, we didn't turn our heads. We looked them square in the eye and we said, "We see you, we hear you, and we are with you. And we will never forget you." And I have a feeling that if the leaders of our great Democratic Party continue to hear the voices of working people, a proud progressive will occupy the White House.

Now, I've spoken to both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama. They have both pledged to me and more importantly through me to America, that they will make ending poverty central to their campaign for the presidency.

And more importantly, they have pledged to me that as President of the United States they will make ending poverty and economic inequality central to their Presidency. This is the cause of my life and I now have their commitment to engage in this cause.

And I want to say to everyone here, on the way here today, we passed under a bridge that carried the interstate where 100 to 200 homeless Americans sleep every night. And we stopped, we got out, we went in and spoke to them.

There was a minister there who comes every morning and feeds the homeless out of her own pocket. She said she has no money left in her bank account, she struggles to be able to do it, but she knows it's the moral, just and right thing to do. And I spoke to some of the people who were there and as I was leaving, one woman said to me, "You won't forget us, will you? Promise me you won't forget us." Well, I say to her and I say to all of those who are struggling in this country, we will never forget you. We will fight for you. We will stand up for you.

But I want to say this -- I want to say this because it's important. With all of the injustice that we've seen, I can say this, America's hour of transformation is upon us. It may be hard to believe when we have bullets flying in Baghdad and it may be hard to believe when it costs $58 to fill your car up with gas. It may be hard to believe when your school doesn't have the right books for your kids. It's hard to speak out for change when you feel like your voice is not being heard.

But I do hear it. We hear it. This Democratic Party hears you. We hear you, once again. And we will lift you up with our dream of what's possible.

One America, one America that works for everybody.

One America where struggling towns and factories come back to life because we finally transformed our economy by ending our dependence on oil.

One America where the men who work the late shift and the women who get up at dawn to drive a two-hour commute and the young person who closes the store to save for college. They will be honored for that work. One America where no child will go to bed hungry because we will finally end the moral shame of 37 million people living in poverty.

One America where every single man, woman and child in this country has health care.

One America with one public school system that works for all of our children.

One America that finally brings this war in Iraq to an end. And brings our service members home with the hero's welcome that they have earned and that they deserve.

Today, I am suspending my campaign for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency.

But I want to say this to everyone: with Elizabeth, with my family, with my friends, with all of you and all of your support, this son of a millworker's gonna be just fine. Our job now is to make certain that America will be fine.

And I want to thank everyone who has worked so hard – all those who have volunteered, my dedicated campaign staff who have worked absolutely tirelessly in this campaign.

And I want to say a personal word to those I've seen literally in the last few days – those I saw in Oklahoma yesterday, in Missouri, last night in Minnesota – who came to me and said don't forget us. Speak for us. We need your voice. I want you to know that you almost changed my mind, because I hear your voice, I feel you, and your cause is our cause. Your country needs you – every single one of you.

All of you who have been involved in this campaign and this movement for change and this cause, we need you. It is in our hour of need that your country needs you. Don't turn away, because we have not just a city of New Orleans to rebuild. We have an American house to rebuild.

This work goes on. It goes on right here in Musicians' Village. There are homes to build here, and in neighborhoods all along the Gulf. The work goes on for the students in crumbling schools just yearning for a chance to get ahead. It goes on for day care workers, for steel workers risking their lives in cities all across this country. And the work goes on for two hundred thousand men and women who wore the uniform of the United States of America, proud veterans, who go to sleep every night under bridges, or in shelters, or on grates, just as the people we saw on the way here today. Their cause is our cause.

Their struggle is our struggle. Their dreams are our dreams.

Do not turn away from these great struggles before us. Do not give up on the causes that we have fought for. Do not walk away from what's possible, because it's time for all of us, all of us together, to make the two Americas one.

Thank you. God bless you, and let's go to work. Thank you all very much.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

for Pat

Soldier Suicides at Record Level

Dana Priest
Washington Post
Thursday January 31, 2008

Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial her for endangering another soldier and turning a gun on herself last year in Iraq, attempted to kill herself Monday evening. In so doing, the 25-year-old Army reservist joined a record number of soldiers who have committed or tried to commit suicide after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.

"I'm very disappointed with the Army," Whiteside wrote in a note before swallowing dozens of antidepressants and other pills. "Hopefully this will help other soldiers." She was taken to the emergency room early Tuesday. Whiteside, who is now in stable physical condition, learned yesterday that the charges against her had been dismissed.

Whiteside's personal tragedy is part of an alarming phenomenon in the Army's ranks: Suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2007 reached their highest level since the Army began keeping such records in 1980, according to a draft internal study obtained by The Washington Post. Last year, 121 soldiers took their own lives, nearly 20 percent more than in 2006.

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10.  What really twists my gut about this story is that he's helping someone acquire more uranium.  Now, if the Bushes and Clintons are not in cahoots, then he's pushing a competitor to the cartel situation Bush/Cheney are trying to set up.  If he is in cahoots with them, then I'd look for this project to go belly-up and need to be "acquired" by the cartel prinicipals.  In either case it's an unpleasant prospect.

E Pluribus Unum" was the motto proposed for the first Great Seal of the United States by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson in 1776. A latin phrase meaning "One from many," the phrase offered a strong statement of the American determination to form a single nation from a collection of states. Over the years, "E Pluribus Unum" has also served as a reminder of America's bold attempt to make one unified nation of people from many different backgrounds and beliefs. The challenge of seeking unity while respecting diversity has played a critical role in shaping our history, our literature, and our national character.

12:33 PM EST

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegate-list.html

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January 31, 2008 5:40 AM  

wmdrpa said...

Side by side comparison of super-delegates by type (including former presidents, VP, Sen and Rep, as well as the 15 committed delegates from FLA and MI, where Clinton has a 12 to 3 edge):

type__Obama__Clinton___Lead
Prz ______0_______1______C+1
VP_______0_______1______C+1
Sen_____10______15______C+5
Rep_____46______78_____C+32
Gov______7______11______C+4
Myr______2_______0______O+2
DNC____31______94_____C+63
misc_____2_______4______C+2

It looks like Clinton's lead is built largely on the imbalance of endorsements within the DNC, where she enjoys a 3 to 1 edge. What is the ratio between elected and unelected super-delegates? I'd guess they must account for roughly half, which is a substantial portion of the total delegates (~10%). The system seems innately conservative and counter-productive, particularly now, when the opposition will field a candidate that won't be able to run against some of the key policies of the current administration.

The centrist DNC established the current system to prevent the party from nominating a more progressive, and therefore polarizing figure in the wake of the contentious 1980 convention. Ironically, it appears that the more progressive of the two remaining candidates is less polarizing, at least to those who don't believe that bigotry is impregnable. The 'conventional' thinking throughout my life has been that the Democrats would peel off conservatives by accommodating corporate interests and some of the right wing agenda. This has eroded the party's ability to give voice to the unfortunate majority of Americans who directly or indirectly pay the price for global aggression, domestic indifference and greed.

Admittedly, neither faction within the party has its hands squeaky clean. Still, the conservative wing of the party bears sole responsibility for infusing the nomination process with this barrier to dramatic change. I acknowledge that nothing about these rules can, or should, change mid-stream in this nominating process. The best we can hope for is that the question of fairness will be raised before the super-delegates are selected for the 2012 election. However, if the public does not demand review, we shouldn't expect Howard Dean, or anyone else, to ride in on a white horse and unshackle the party from silence and intransigence.

Obama has demonstrated more commitment in his career to the issues that Edwards raised first, but give John credit for sacrificing his viability for a principle. His outspokenness, particularly about influence-peddling, was the kiss of death. Nobody needed a UFO sighting to make him a punch-line. Edwards never got any traction with the DNC , the media knew he could never keep up with the other two for super-delegates, and overtly disqualified him even at the time that he left Iowa one down in pledged delegates. Super-delegates effectively give the media outlets the cue as to who will get free media. While I'm thrilled that Obama appears to be closing the gap, I am extremely grateful that Edwards, Kucinich, Dodd and others did all they could to get Democrats actually addressing where we are as a people.

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Thu, 01/31/08

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Meanwhile, the fly-boys are having a grand old time.  Four month tours, unless it's too inconvenient.  Then they can trade off with a buddy. 

Hillary is stuck in her 19 state strategy - why she can't win.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1...

Red states have dems too.

1 & 2

Sarah and Andrea, what a dynamic singing duet -- always favorites.

Phil Specht
Thu, 01/31/08

That was a GREAT suspension speech. Focused like a laser on the important issues of our time. And Edwards got a commitment from BOTH Clinton and Obama on eradicating poverty central to their campaigns. THAT is the way to negotiate and use power.

Still not ready to make nice with the right-wing and entrenched interests who have taken over our gov't. and country.

Good grief! Now the Billary people are trying to form a clique!! So juvenile.

Billary must have problems when she and her campaigners have to resort to such things as suggesting Obama snubbed her at the SOTUS. Her people were just on MSNBC stating just such silly accusations and also suggesting that it was the little things like snubs that we should be watching here.

Obama clearly turned around to speak with Claire McCaskill, an endorser who was right behind him. Claire even backed up his statement that he was not snubbing anyone.

But of course the truth does not matter in the Clinton campaign -- win whatever it takes. Cliques are apparently the way they mean to do it. I am woman and he snubbed me. Throw him to the dogs:))

Did you know that they canceled Montel "s show? He was on FAux news and asked why they were talking non stop about heath ledger.

Montel asked why don't you talk about the kids dying in Iraq?

Here tis:

sorry won't put my utube stuff up now. will try to do it later.

you can go to dailykos and check it out: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/31/23326/1083/699/446791

SHOUT OUT TO SUPPORT MARK PERA unseat a Bush Democrat. We need a victory to show the Blue Bushdogs and Rahm Emmanuel we are a force to be reckoned.

Otherwise, they will just pat us on the head and ignore us. Please help in any way you can.

http://www.markperaforcongress.com/index.php?Path=Public/Home

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/23731...
last thred

Tainted Drugs Tied to Maker of Abortion Pill

...The drug maker, Shanghai Hualian, is the sole supplier to the United States of the abortion pill, mifepristone, known as RU-486. It is made at a factory different from the one that produced the tainted cancer drugs, about an hour’s drive away...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/world/...

11.

rd

IMHO, only endorsements from those who hold much favor within the Dem Party have any effect here, like those of the Kennedy family which has such great history with the party.

An endorsement of the quality of Al Gore would also be very significant.

Greater meaning is to hear the candidates personally or, next best thing, in their rallies on TV. As stated on the front blog here, knocking on doors can also have great meaning.

Large numbers of insignificants are probably irrelevant. They are just taking sides to garner favor, just in case. They also run the risk on favoring the loser however.

11.

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Yes, but SDs (superdelegates do matter in the final count tally) so DNC insiders favoring heavily one candidate over another is a concern.

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/23736

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floridagal

Once again our Sen Nelson makes a fool of himself. When Obama wins the nomination and the GE, I wonder how long it will take him to try and cozy up to the new prez.

And yes as the Mad Floridian says, Nelson made a comment insinuating that a lawsuit he lost would be fixed by Clinton.

Senator Bill Nelson -- what an embarrassment to Florida Democrats.

27, monica, great posting, I recommended.

FRED, welcome back.  There's an op-ed in the Boston Globe today on autism and vaccinations.  They don't think they're connected.

Bush Seeks Surplus via Medicare Cuts

By ROBERT PEAR

January 31, 2008
WASHINGTON — In his new budget, to be unveiled Monday, President Bush will call for large cuts in the growth of Medicare, far exceeding what he proposed last year, and he will again seek major savings in Medicaid, according to administration officials and budget documents.

Over all, the 2009 budget is likely to be the first $3 trillion spending request by a president.

Health care savings are a crucial part of Mr. Bush’s plan to put the nation on track to achieve a budget surplus by 2012...

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Cutting health care to pay for a war that has made the world a more dangerous place ?

"Conservative" is too good a word to describe these low-life.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/washin...

here's the link - sorry

Thank you, Phil, for posting John Edwards' speech.  It moves me very much. 

That is the America I grew up in mostly and the America that's still there behind the media hoopla.  My friend with whom I team taught has gone to New Orleans four times to help tear down dilapidated houses and clear out rubbish.  She has led groups of kids as well while working there.

These are the Americans I've been graced to know in my life, and John Edwards has brought them forward to remind us.  I hope that John Edwards will take a cabinet position or head a department where he can put his convictions, talents, and experience in changing the direction of this country.

If you would like to vote on the Democratic candidate, here's a message from Moveon that allows that.  They will publish the winner on Friday.

So it's time to ask the question: Who should MoveOn endorse in the Democratic primary? If two-thirds of MoveOn members support one candidate, we'll campaign for that candidate together. Here's your ballot—vote today: 

http://pol.moveon.org/2008/prezendorse/?id=12007-5272945-sYlRco&t=343

So it's time to ask the question: Who should MoveOn endorse in the Democratic primary? If two-thirds of MoveOn members support one candidate, we'll campaign for that candidate together. Here's your ballot—vote today: 

http://pol.moveon.org/2008/prezendorse/

?id=12007-5272945-sYlRco&t=343

Here's the whole URL 

26,
That is why the concepts of superdelegates is a sham. Each person is only worth one vote in their voting district. The thought that our Congress eggheads are worth as much as a delegate is nuts. Our Congresscritters do not have any great wisdom that makes them smarter or wiser then us. The superdelegates continues to feed and nuture DLC candidates.

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rd

Did you mean to write DLC insiders? The DNC insiders are the ones that voted Dean in as chair.

Back from Costa Rica.  Beautiful place, if all the Americans moving there don't ruin it..

Right now, I am supporting neither of the remaining candidates (nor Mike Gravel).  I'm not undecided.  I've pretty much decided I don't like either Hillary's corporate roots or Obama's constant insults of my generation mixed with the language of change but the actions of "go along to get along".

I don't know what I'm going to do primary day in Virginia.  Maybe write in Pat Paulsen. 

35.

But because they are "unpledged" delegates to the convention, they may shift their support to another candidate at any time.  

Pledged delegates total 2400 of the 4000 delegates. Super delegates account for 1600.

What makes Super delegates so unreliable for a candidate is that they can change horses in the middle of the stream. One day you have one, the next you don't, depending on the weather outside perhaps, or a call from mother or dad.

Read Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope.  It is a candid examination of the political process. He understands nuance and has the verbal gifts to make it understandable.

He's up front about his own life, his campaigns, his votes, and how the press operates to give a slanted perception of politicians. He's also got a sense of humor. 

Sound bytes don't tell the truth. We owe ourselves, our descendents, and this country more than just an impression of the candidates.  We should be able to see them with depth, a clear understanding of who they are, how they act, and what they stand for.

Just a suggestion. 

1:57 PM EST

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/straw-poll/

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I know it's only an online poll (AOL, started Jan 28 and will conclude on Feb 4, see the poll link above the +++) but it does give some kind of look and feel as to where Hillary and Barack have their strengths (at least online).  Approx, supposedly 240,000 users have voted in this poll.

So, I clicked on each of the 50 states and 1 DC and tallied the results (the 4 states who voted, plus MI and FL results, I put at the bottom); the states voting in Super Tuesday next week, I put an * next to them:

states where Barack leads in AOL poll (in descending order): 

HI....62%B....33%H

DC....60%B....37%H

IL*....59%B....37%H

VT....57%B....38%H

MD....52%B....43%H

CO*....52%B....43%H

WI....50%B....43%H

VA....50%B....44%H

GA*....49%B....45%H

CT*....49%B....47%H

states where Barack and Hillary are tied in AOL poll:

AL*....46%B....46%H

MN*....47%B....47%H

states where Hillary leads in AOL poll (in descending order):

AR*....32%B....63%H

WV....34%B....57%H

TN*....36%B....56%H

KY....37%B....55%H

MA*....39%B....57%H

NY*....40%B....55%H

OH....39%B....54%H

OK*....39%B....52%H

LA....41%B....53%H

PA....41%B....53%H

NJ*....42%B....53%H

RI....44%B....52%H

DE....44%B....50%H

TX....44%B....50%H

AK*....31%B....37%H

WY....46%B....51%H

CA*....45%B....50%H

IN....45%B....49%H

SD....31%B....35%H

MT....46%B....50%H

MO*....45%B....48%H

ND*....33%B....36%H

NE....46%B....49%H

UT*....47%B....50%H

NM*....46%B....48%H

KS*....47%B....48%H

AZ*....47%B....48%H

ID*....48%B....49%H

OR....46%B....47%H

WA....47%B....48%H

MS....46%B....47%H

ME....47%B....48%H

4 states where already voted but here's AOL poll numbers now anyways:

IA....54%B....38%H

NH....46%B....49%H

NV....42%B....54%H

SC....45%B....47%H

2 states where already voted but don't count (and AOL poll numbers now anyways):

MI....46%B....48%H

FL....33%B....61%H

Rich wrote "I've pretty much decided I don't like either Hillary's corporate roots or Obama's constant insults of my generation mixed with the language of change but the actions of 'go along to get along'.

Well, Obama's no RFK but, oddly, he reminds Caroline Kennedy of her dad. 

I wrote MoveOn a scathing letter.  They waited just one day after JE left the race to ask us to take their *poll* of who *progressives* backed...which one of the two corporatists left?  What an insult to true progressives everywhere.

Looks to me like MoveOn decided to wait until the populist, the progressive, was outta the race.  MoveOn is barely better than a RW organization and I will no longer support it with money. 

If DFA decides to take their little poll, they will never get a dime from me again.  The time to take it was last week while JE was still in.  If DFA aligns itself with either of the two corporatists left, than it also is little more than a soft RW organization.

Congresscritters do not have any great wisdom that makes them smarter or wiser then us.

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they have won elections and garnered tens of thousand(hundreds of thousands) of votes so do qualify as understanding what it takes to win an election which is what a nomination needs to be in part or it is an exercise in futility

seashell wrote "What an insult to true progressives everywhere."

Don't take it so hard.  Maybe they thought he was just another southern moderate.  After all, his main appeal was to white, male, blue collar voters.

"There are now two and only two candidates and DFA should do a poll of the membership and throw the full weight of the organization behind the winner. "

I disagree, and I wouldn't vote.

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Rooney brings some good things here and he's dissed far too much.  Look at the video.  Gary Hart supports the New World Order, which is well on its way to being implemented.  And he endorsed BO?  What does that tell you, Folks? 

A New World Order (Novus Ordo Mundi) is a theory that refers to a plan in which a powerful and secretive group, most often referred to as the Illuminati, is to be conspiring to eventually rule the world via an autonomous world government, which would replace sovereign states and other checks and balances in world power struggles. In the new world order, many significant occurrences are caused by a powerful secret group. Historical and current events are seen as steps in an on-going plot to rule the world primarily through a combination of political finance, social engineering, mind control, and fear-based propaganda.[1]

from Wiki 

Obama will accomodate the progressive movement not fight it. Howard Dean is toast if Clinton wins. take a deep breath seashell, there is a difference even if one is a hard corporatist and the other a soft one, DFA is a PAC why should they sit on their hands?, Edwards didn't win the pulse poll much as I wish he had

time is of the essence

Thank you, Phil, for posting JE's speech.  I'm crying.  The country passed up its last opportunity to right itself again, unless Gore or s/o progressive steps in.  IMO. 

47.

Gary Hart supports the New World Order, which is well on its way to being implemented.  And he endorsed BO?  What does that tell you, Folks? 

It tells me that Gary Hart supports the New World Order.

Candidates do not pick nor choose their endorsers.