As I've been saying, Dean is first.

More IT stuff.............2 months you say until DFA 2 is up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpBXD5BZsI0&feature=related

As usual, Tom is absolutely right!

DALLAS, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A week before the pivotal Democratic primary in Texas, a poll indicates that Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton 49 percent to 45 percent.

The SurveyUSA poll shows that Clinton's lead among Hispanics and women has narrowed, and among North Texas Democrats, the New York senator's narrow lead is now a 19 point deficit, KRLD-AM of Dallas reported.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/26/poll_obama_leads_clinton_in_texas/9497/

The reason I find this particular poll more credible and accurate is that SurveyUSA is a compilation of other polls.

DFA Training in Northern California seems like a valuable investment.

Now, how about DFA training in Southern Virginia where linda b is and has been working so hard and has accomplished sooooo much. She needs DFA to train some help there to turn Virginia completely blue.

David wrote that Ralph Nader "DID NOT lose the 2000 election for Al Gore ( who was not the Al Gore we know and love today, and who waged a pitiful campaign against a fly-weight nobody who became a fly-infested pResident )."

Believe what you like.  The evidence is available to dispel doubts that Gore did other than to win Florida by a convincing margin, despite the presence of the butterfly ballot and the antics of Governor Jeb Bush and Secretary of State Katherine Harris, yet lost the state because Nader's campaign siphoned off enough votes to force the recount, the Republican vote count fraud, and the Supreme Court's binding but nonprecedential abuse of constitutional equal rights guarantees.

If you believe otherwise, you are insisting we swallow the theory that like the majority Nader voters, the probability is greater that you would have opted for Bush rather than Gore, or would not have voted at all, had Nader not been a candidate, or had an IRV system allowed you to rank your votes.

Michael Ellis
Wed, 02/27/08

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More IT stuff.............2 months you say until DFA 2 is up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpBXD5BZsI0&feature=related

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Michael Ellis,

Thanks for the funny short.  Yep, about two months.  

Danny

Communications Director 

Bubba is leashed and muzzled - for now.
Does anyone think that this will last long?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/us/pol...

Joan wrote "Now, how about DFA training in Southern Virginia where linda b is and has been working so hard and has accomplished sooooo much."

This makes consummate sense.  With linda there willing and able to volunteer her own formidable assistance, this seems like an opportunity to attract votes that is falling right in DFA's lap.  It shouldn't be as hard as it seems to be for them to respond appropriately.

DFA Staff
Wed, 02/27/08
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Well at least you guys have a sense of humour...........Id offer my help, but look......when a guy like me has to have my 13 year old show me how to use my cell phone................well, you get the picture.....................cheers

I welcome Nadar to the race. If Dems can't convince his supporters to vote for Barack then the problem is Barack's and not Nadar's.
We are the party that welcomes choices. I think the final outcome will show Ralph being minimized by his own lack of ideas. His Sctick made sense in 2000. It doesn't make any sense anymore.
Besides, Repubs funded his 2004 race. They don't have enough money to fund McCain and Ralph.

Obama has him pretty much covered anyway.

Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html

What's happening in 2 months? The blog will be fixed or something more?

10.

sunlight -

Are you promotingg Asian fiction these days?? ridiculous!

dog wrote "I welcome Nadar to the race. If Dems can't convince his supporters to vote for Barack then the problem is Barack's and not Nadar's."

That's the sort of dismissive attitude that helped us get eight years of a Bush administration.  It would be Obama's problem, not Kucinich's, if Kucinich decided to get in the race as a third party candidate, too.  It would have been Kerry's problem, not Dean's, if Dean decided to become a third party candidate in 2004.  The difference is they didn't do it despite having a liberal agenda to promote, presumably because they've concluded that helping Republicans attain high office should be a job for conservative reactionaries conservatives, not progressive policy supporters.

Danny

at this point I will get to refer to a "consultant" we once had to a Board of Directors I was sitting on at the time who advised us to get hire a firm to answer an 800 number complaint line

just a sympathetic ear who would listen, take down the complaints, and pass them on

but here is the kicker

he said you didn't have to actually solve the problems, have an expert answer the phone, too expensive

you would get a marked increase in "customer satisfaction" just by listening to complaints, you wouldn't actually have to solve them

thanks for being that 800 number Danny 

I'm not promoting anything. I'm just pointing out a different opionion than the rara hopey dopey thingy.~

It's my understanding that at last night's debate, Russert was offensive both in regards to Farrakhan's endorsement and in questioning Jewish support for Obama, whose first name, btw, means blessing in Hebrew.

So, we might want to take notice of the following

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1203343711849 

By JACOB BERKMAN / JTA

n what is likely to be remembered as the first YouTube presidential campaign, perhaps the most talked about video has been singer Will.i.am's celebrity-dotted homage to the "Yes We Can" mantra of Barack Obama.

ISRAELI-BORN actress Maya Rubin can be heard in Hebrew on a Barack Obama YouTube video.
Photo: Courtesy

The video features split-screen images of several prominent celebrities, past and present, singing alongside clips of Obama's victory speech in South Carolina.

For those listening closely and with an ear for Hebrew, it's one of the lesser known, albeit just as eye-catching, performers who stands out: Israeli-born actress Maya Rubin.

Twice in the video, Rubin can be heard saying "kein anu yecholim" - Hebrew for "Yes We Can."

Obama has him pretty much covered anyway.
 

And that's what makes Barack Obama the brilliant and exceptional candidate that he is.

Also, he's apparently ready and able to listen to those from all areas of the political spectrum - and respond in a wise and coherent manner. A certain other candidate from the McAuliffe wing of the Democratic Party simply dismissed Nader. Disrespect for valid American viewpoints accomplishes nothing - except todivide us further.

So, how many groups of voters, media, etc.  has Senator Clinton claimed are "out to get her" ?

Tant pis !

I think Nader already has provided a valuable service just in the debate last night getting both on record for fair trade and Obama's clear speaking against special interests so that Obama can't veer to the right to pick up moderate Republicans after getting the nomination. progressives don't have to "get in line" for anyone there votes have to be earned

that said I hope the only vote Nader gets is his own, but the threat is useful (in a sad way, but he wouldn't be in if he was sure Democrats were progressive enough) 

their/there   sheesh I do that too often   do they ever recall BA's?

Noone, that i've heard, has really denied Nader's assertion that the 250,000 Dems that voted for GWB lost FL for Gore. Not the 97,000 Greens

... or do the facts not matter to some?

Hi Monica - a beautiful piece, and an important testament to the fact that Jewish Democrats seem to be very different from the AIPAC-driven Jewish Republicans ( like Joe Lieberman ).

I hope that the peace wing of Judaism will triumph over those who have fallen into the tit-for-tat battle with those few on the other side of their disagreement who also want to conduct a race to end times. Being of Irish descent, I well know how much harm  these battles cause.

Dave wrote "Noone, that i've heard, has really denied Nader's assertion that the 250,000 Dems that voted for GWB lost FL for Gore. Not the 97,000 Greens. ... or do the facts not matter to some?"

97,000 Nader votes, 537 vote Bush victory.  Let's see, I'll get out my calculator. 

just like I have argued for sticking with the rules for the delegates I do want Nader to actually qualify by the rules and will not fault the Party if it challenges his signatures and the like

Hi Deaniac.

Thank goodness many of us have graduated from the whiny wing of the Democratic Party.

Bring on a fifty-state campaign - and bring on President Barack Obama.

... well, my dad is a 'dominionist' hard-core believer. My mom repeatedly made it known that she'd rather kill us off than see us not be in the 'ministry'.

Does that mean that i'd do/be that way if i was in some official position?

... hardly. In fact, it has been my inspiration for the exact opposite.

1-800-FIX-THIS d@mn blog.

I write code on a daily basis, when money is up near the top of my list, for machinery that are dangerous(even deadly) to operators and profits.
If it took me even two days to do my job correctly, much less two months, my family would have starved many years ago.

... what is the problem?

Dear Phil, if the 'Party' worries about Ralph while ignoring those who need support to challenge Rethugs for Congress

... they deserve to lose, should he be any factor, which he won't.

... there he goes again. Hitting the stupid button.

Unfortunately, the author who presumes to tell us about Obama's women has got it all wrong about the U.S., so there's no reason to credit his hypothesis.  Besides, he's got what anthropologists are about wrong.

I don't doubt that Michelle Robinson felt like a fish out of water at Princeton.  That's the whole idea--to take young people out of their native environment and show them something else.  I will grant you that native African Americans are inclined to attributing ALL of their feelings of separateness and isolation to the fact that they were/are kept apart.  It's a logical explanation which is also available to first-generation anythings--a reason for why they feel different.  In fact, of course, everybody who feels anything or engages in any kind of introspection is bound to feel different from everyone else.  And, there's a very good reason for it--everybody is.  Each and every one of us is unique, no matter how hard we try to "fit in" or be like everyone else.  Indeed, it's our individual difference that makes us equal to everyone else.

Of course, if you look really closely, you'll see that every flower in a field of daisies, even though they all look the same, is actually different from every other.  Humans look for similarity; it's how we define and classify reality.  It's a convenient short-hand, but it's not accurate.

Barack Obama is a figment of a lot of imaginations.  It's a figment that makes people feel good about themselves and hopeful, rather than (most of them) hateful.  Some people are so used to feeling hateful that it's become a comfortable habit.  For some, it's a matter of survival.  If you watch DiPalma's movie, "Redacted" you'll see how American troops have to hate in order to survive.  It's not a guarantee, but one gets the sense that if they stop hating, they'll have to do themselves in -- something that 200 veterans do every week.

The math says that Dems helped Bush win... by 153,000 of their votes. dumdeedumdeedum

10. sunlight --

I rather enjoyed that article. It really gave me pause. As it turns out (according to Wiki anyway) the author 'Spengler' is the pen name of a middle aged internet author. We really don't know who the hell he is. He points out the 'tails' side of the coin at which I've always looked at the 'head' side of Obama, that is his multi-culturism and multi-racism. I must say b/c I've had the opportunity to travel some in the last 15 or so years, I'm not real nuts about America either -- we're kind of tacky in our tastes, lazy in our choices of entertainment, silly in some of our beliefs like that is's OK to kill some guy for some crime he may or may not have committed, that it's OK for animals to be treated as they are on factory farms. But 8 years of George Bush and his fellow criminals have awakened folks a little. We'd like our government to govern for the benefit of US not the robber barons. I think we think Barack can bring this about, that he's beyond the lobbyists, the Carvilles and Matelins, the Greenspans and the Roves. We hope he's a good guy - Hopalong or Roy or Clint. If he's not, well, I think we will have a revolution on our hands. That's why I keep a gun and a whole lot of bullets.

Let me say one more thing about people from different backgrounds attending a place like Princeton (our daughter graduated from there).  And that is that it's not necessarily about the individual student; it may be about everyone else who's there.  It may be about all the other students who are going to be cognizant of the fact that the wife of a U.S. Senator studied there and then had a career as a corporate lawyer and municipal advisor.

Similarly, electing a Barack Obama may be more about other nations than the U.S.  You know, you throw a pebble in a pond and know nothing about the crayfish on the bottom that scuttles out of the way or rushes to investigate. 

11:16 AM EST

10. sunlight --

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It basically comes down to having faith, taking a risk, etc. -- having a positive mindset about life (Bloom and Festoon) instead of a negative outlook (Doom and Gloom).

I tend not to trust, especially a politician, but I let my guard down when Howard entered the race in 2003 and have done the same for Obama in 2007.

All I know is Annilow is correct, that whoever is penning currently under the Spengler name, is a bit of a coward, for not revealing who he or she is.  Instead, taking the last name of a German philospher who died during the dark days of the Third Reich reign, is like IMO hiding from the light of day.

http://foster.20megsfree.com/460.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler

I think Nader already has provided a valuable service just in the debate last night getting both on record for fair trade and Obama's clear speaking against special interests so that Obama can't veer to the right to pick up moderate Republicans after getting the nomination. progressives don't have to "get in line" for anyone there votes have to be earned

Nader has been parroting Obama's speaches and debates which have been very clear for months and months about his positions on fair trade and special interests. Obama's position he gave on last night's debate on these issues have not changed at all from his previous positions, nor has he had to expand on them without getting redundant.

Nader believes he can lift some of Obama's positions and present them as his own. He doesn't fool me at all. Time for that old man to retire. He has become an embarrassment to himself.

THE TRUTH IS

... sometimes maddeningly frustrating.

LOL

Love ya'll, mean it!!

TRANSCRIPT OF DEBATE

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/pol...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/pol...

TRANSCRIPT OF DEBATE

Tom,
Exclusionary politics never work. The way to beat Nadar is to "out-Nadar" him.
Obama has pretty much done this.
If the candidate were Hillary or Gore 2000, then there is an issue.
If Dennis were to become the third party candidate, he would have to show why he is worth choosing now and not choosing previously; like Nadar has to do.

Folks are on to Nadar's rants. I think he helps Obama.

Not a pleasant read:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/02/27/how_do_you_take_down_a_great_soldier/ 

I welcome Nadar to the race. If Dems can't convince his supporters to vote for Barack then the problem is Barack's and not Nadar's.

I agree. I also hope Bloomberg gets in. More choices means more democracy.

Dennis will never enter the Prez fray from a third party. He never really wanted to be President as he never put an organization together to go after it. He has a lot of good ideas but he never wants the top job. He just wants to stay on the sidelines and throw needed rocks. A younger verison of Nadar perhaps?

We're taking our country back big time in Texas!!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/27/...

Hillary made a huge mistake in her interview last week saying essentially that TX is not in play in November. Folks, click on Kos' link at look at the numbers of Democrats voting. Oh my...

11:43 AM EST

To the surprise of no one (I'm sure), this prez election is basically about the forces of Fear versus the forces of Hope.

May the best emotion win.

Two months? I read that well over two months ago and then there was the two months before that.

The sky is falling...

I think Nader already has provided a valuable service just in the debate last night getting both on record for fair trade and Obama's clear speaking against special interests so that Obama can't veer to the right to pick up moderate Republicans after getting the nomination. progressives don't have to "get in line" for anyone there votes have to be earned

Prior to that he performed a valuable service by laying foundation for Dean's 2004 campaign, and indeed beginning the reform movement that continues to grow within the Democratic Party.

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David A. Stevenson
Wed, 02/27/08

...I hope that the peace wing of Judaism will triumph over those who have fallen into the tit-for-tat battle with those few on the other side of their disagreement who also want to conduct a race to end times...

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It will take a miracle. Peace advocates in Israel are a tiny minority. The cycle of violence, segregation, and the constant immigration of right wingers all keep it that way.

Israel must eventually choose to be a religious/ethnic State or a true Democracy. Presently it is a democracy for only for those of Jewish blood and religion, as it was a free country only for whites in the Jim Crow South.

It has been getting worse, as the movement as of late has been towards isolating and eventually exporting the non-Jewish citizens. The injustice, humiliation of Palestinians (called "Arabs",) and destruction of their community and property in the West Bank rivals that of the Japanese detainees of WWII and the Indian reservations of the 19th century.

The math says that Dems helped Bush win... by 153,000 of their votes.

Actually, the math says that Bush stole the 2000 election and quite probably the 2004 one too. Blaming Nader is just a bad excuse for a Democratic Party that stood by and watched it happen.

Nader believes he can lift some of Obama's positions and present them as his own.

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Joan

Nader has had consistant positions on trade since Obama was in college.

but if they are the same there is nothing to fear from Nader being in the race

Nader has been parroting Obama's speaches and debates which have been very clear for months and months about his positions on fair trade and special interests.

That's right except that the names are backward.....

Obama has been parroting Nader's speeches and debates which have been very clear for months and months about his positions on fair trade and special interests.

And that's a good point in Nader's favor.

11:59 AM EST

a million plus donors have taken a risk on Hope:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGgxnk

By Sam Graham-Felsen - Feb 27th, 2008 at 9:13 am EST

We have officially passed our goal of one million donors

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYgOFqpRIlA

To the surprise of no one (I'm sure), this prez election is basically about the forces of Fear versus the forces of Hope.

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11.59 am 

Umm, maybe not.............it may also be painted as "experience, maturity, keep the nations safe vs. inexerience, untested and willing to negotiate signaling weakness"

 The random element?  Its in the hands of Americans...........this may quickly resemble the 1960 election.

Dear Phil, if the 'Party' worries about Ralph while ignoring those who need support to challenge Rethugs for Congress... they deserve to lose

Ralph Nader: 

Democrats:    

BTW, the spouse has gone off to collect his yard signs.  His term on the Town Council is up and he's asking to be re-elected.  The downtown business association had a forum last night.  Four people for three slots.  Of the three newbies, one had never attended a council meeting and the other two had only attended when they were appointed to some other committee or wanted the Council to approve a contract.  Perhaps they watch on TV all the time.  Our neighbors do. 

Anyway, National Journal reports:

Internet Irony  Leave it to Uncle Sam to examine the Internet's future without providing complete online access to the proceedings.  At deadline, the Federal Communications Commission was scrambling to find a low-cost way to stream real-time video of a February 25 field hearing in the Boston area to discuss concerns that communications giants are angling to control Internet content.  Live coverage of the FCC's Washington meetings is limited to 200 simultaneous Internet connections.  A spokesman said that a live audio feed of the daylong Beantown session would be availablt on the FCC's website, with video posted 24 hours later--an eternity in digital time.  "We're not sure of the cost of a real-time video webcast," he added.    --Devid Hatch

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/27/...

Hillary made a huge mistake in her interview last week saying essentially that TX is not in play in November. Folks, click on Kos' link at look at the numbers of Democrats voting. Oh my...

The politics of concession is SO DLC. 

a million plus donors have taken a risk on Hope:

Did DFA ever compile a total amount of donors for Dean? It would be interesting to know. It seemed it was the $$ we were more aware of.

perhaps you'll have more luck--neither the audio nor the video of the FCC hearing works for me

http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/#feb25 

Danny from DFA has posted here that a fix is on the way. 

New thread :-)

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24009...

new one