Howard Dean and his 50 state strategy as always are first 'round these parts of the Internet.

Expectations for Obama to Win Nomination Nearing 90%Saturday, March 01, 2008

On the Saturday before the Texas and Ohio Primaries, data from the Rasmussen Markets shows that Barack Obama is given an 87% chance of winning the Democratic Presidential Nomination. His sole remaining challenger, Hillary Clinton, is given less than a 13% chance of emerging victorious from this competition (current prices: Obama 87.0 % Clinton 13.7 %).

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Live Obama rally tonight on C-Span 8:00 EST from Ohio.

Dean on c-span now

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 Obama phone call ad response:

http://tinyurl.com/yrxjpv

Dean on c-span now

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COOL! Thanks, I just popped by

2:31pm EST and a young lady is just now introducing Howie !

This lawsuit will put a damper on Tuesday's results.   It just makes me angry.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1864

Tampa activist will have lawsuit heard on appeal on Atlanta...to seat Florida delegates. They plan to take it to the Supreme Court even though there is already a precedent.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2945930&mesg_id=2945930

A Great couple of videos.

First

Hillary Clinton, her life experience.

CBS Examines Hillary Clinton, On The Record
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHW0RzXe4...://blog.hillaryclinton.com/


Jack Nicholson, this is a funny one,
For Hillary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOa3sXjq...

Organize Your Neighborhood

http://www.democrats.org/page/group

Neighborhood Leadership Program

Obama Walks a Difficult Path as He Courts Jewish Voters

...The concerns of Jewish skeptics, meanwhile, are shared by conservative Christians, passionately protective of Israel as the Holy Land, and by many Republicans. Criticism over Israel in the Democratic race now hints at fights Mr. Obama could face should he end up the nominee: This week, the Tennessee Republican Party issued a news release that said there was “a growing chorus of Americans concerned about the future of the nation of Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle East, if Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is elected president of the United States.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/us/politics/01obama.html?pagewanted=2&th&emc=th

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Israel is neither stable, nor is it a democracy, when human rights abuses, law enforcement, and institutional inustice of the courts for Palestinian citizens is equal to, or worse than that of  the American Jim Crow era in The South for African Americans, and when one needs to be of Jewish ethnic blood and religion to legally gain citizenship and be married by the State of Israel according to their laws. 

Tampa activist will have lawsuit heard on appeal on Atlanta...to seat Florida delegates. They plan to take it to the Supreme Court even though there is already a precedent.

floridagal

It certainly is ridiculous. There was no election, only a straw vote and so there are no pledged delegates. But if they want to waste their money on frivolous lawsuits, that is their perogative. The may be required to also pay the expenses of the Dedendant, the FlaDems Party. Can get expensive.

Floridians can apply to be a delegate for the state party since they could be seated in Denver to vote on a platform and be involved anything else that they will do there.

Taking a break from calling TX.

Great video of Obama on No Child Left Behind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0L2GEBhd2w

bbl

"We have really reconstructed an entire Party

We were left a beautiful building and a(n excellent) balance sheet"

~Gov Howard Dean M.D. Chair-DNC

on proudest accomplishment while at DNC.

 Congressman John Conyers Delivers the Democratic Radio Address

"Hello, this is Congressman John Conyers, Democrat from Michigan. I am Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and it is my pleasure to talk to you today about Congress’ efforts to update our national security surveillance laws.

"Since 1978, foreign intelligence wiretapping has been conducted under a law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, commonly called 'FISA.' You may have heard dire warnings about our national security from the President – but let me assure you that FISA remains in effect today and allows for rapid court-approved wiretapping to collect foreign intelligence information, while protecting Americans' civil liberties.

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http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/02/congressman_joh_5.php

Two weeks ago:

 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Delivers the Democratic Radio Address

"Hello, I'm Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island. I'm a former U.S. Attorney and Rhode Island Attorney General, and I serve on the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees.

"This week, instead of working with Congress in a calm, constructive way, the President, unfortunately, has chosen to manufacture a sudden and unnecessary confrontation over reauthorization of our foreign surveillance laws. We Democrats urge the President to work with Congress to provide our intelligence professionals needed authorities while protecting the privacy of law-abiding Americans.

"Both the House and the Senate worked hard to pass bills to improve the Protect America Act, an ill-advised law Congress passed in a stampede last August. These bills strengthen the Protect America Act: for example, both, for the first time, protect Americans from being wiretapped without a court order outside the United States.

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http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/02/senator_sheldon.php

I don't think Hillary should be held responsible for what Bill said.  That's sorta like blaming the victim.

My take is that both campaigns and both cands are lying some, stretching the truth and their supporters are doing the same...everything seems slanted as tho there's only one right person, one right candidate, one way to do things.  Here it's the BO way or the highway.  That attitutude is a turn off.

Hillary getting up at 3AM is no more silly than BO telling people to turn off the TV and put the kids to bed early.

Both have unsavory characters working in their campaigns.  And as for fear, if I were into fear at all, I would fear BO and his not showing up for tough votes and his capitulating to the repugs.  I would also be afraid of the youth frantically waving signs and screaming for him.  How much is knowledge and how much is mob rule? 

They are practically identical twins on issues - so what's really going on?  Is this a beauty pageant?  A personality test?

To quote a friend last night. "You'd have to be crazy to think BO's NOT getting big donors behind him." (he's leaning BO)

At this point, neither gets my vote but one will in the gen'l.

I need something big to motivate me.  How about BO/HD?  That would do it.  I'm also not happy that neither is talking about a VP choice.  Many people who aren't really happy with either would have more info to go on.  IMO, a VP choice is going to be very important this year.   

One of my problems is that I usually see both sides of the story, (both sides being slanted)   I've learned about shades of gray and the every present shadow and the proclivity to blame others.

As Howard said, "Washington is corrput."  That includes both our cands IMO. 

And now to paint, my real co-passion - the other being tango.  Last night was a Sadie Hawkins dance and only the woman could ask the men, who had to wait to be asked.  One man said, "OMG, now I know what's it's like to sit and not be asked."  

Too bad we can't switch bodies and minds to the other sex for one month.  It might even end wars. 

BO or HC would get my vote if they had the guts to talk fairly about I/P and what they would do to actually bring lasting peace.  Whomever talked about the horrific plight of the Palestinians would get my vote immediately.  BO started and then stopped quickly...had his wrist slapped by AIPAC I would imagine.

I want a courageous prez.  So far I don't see one. The debates are safe, the questions are safe, the stump speeches are safe, the ads are safe and misleading and downright silly at times.

No thanks.

now gone so no more blathering for a bit.  LOL 

In R.I., Obama Makes Inroads

Israel is a "democracy for Jews only."  Palestinians citizens can vote (one of the only rights they have,) but since there are so many roadblocks and technicalities against them, even though they are 1/5 of the population, they only have 1 representative in the Knesset (Congress.)     Palestinian citizens land is often confiscated for "military use" and funding for infrastructure in Palestinian neighborhoods is very anemic and they turn slummy.

The only reason the "two-State solution" and removal of some Jewish settlements in the West Bank is ever even discussed by the right wing government in Israel, is because the Zionist right passively  has hopes to deport the 1/5 of the Israeli citizens, Palestinians Israelis (often referred to as Arabs) the aboriginal population that did not flee (on the soil since beofore 1948) off to the new Palestinian State in the West Bank, if it ever comes to pass.

Clinton continues to invoke the now largely discredited Bush administration claim that the government of Iran is supplying high-tech weaponry to Iraqi insurgents. Even Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says there is no evidence of Iranian government involvement.

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., fought the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq. He said the president wants “to have the power to launch this nation into war without provocation and without clear evidence of an imminent attack on the United States, and we’re going to be foolish enough to give it to him.” Byrd seems to have known then what Clinton says she knows now. He called the resolution “dangerous” and a “blank check,” and now, with more than 3,145 U.S. soldiers killed, and with Iraq war costs through 2008 projected at more than $1 trillion, it appears he was right.

Reps. Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey also seemed to know then what Clinton says she knows now. They were lauded by the 50 activists who, on Jan. 30, 2007, occupied Clinton’s Senate office, weaving a web with pink yarn “to symbolize the senator’s web of deception and the innocent people—Americans and Iraqis—caught in it.” Protesters have promised to “bird-dog” Clinton at all of her public appearances. These actions recall the student sit-in at Clinton’s New York office on Oct. 10, 2002, while Clinton stood on the Senate floor and made her case for war.

Fully a year before she died, columnist and arch Bush critic Molly Ivins wrote: “Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone. ... Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2007...

I would also be afraid of the youth frantically waving signs and screaming for him. How much is knowledge and how much is mob rule?
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Go back on this blog to the archives of the Sleepless Summer. . . .

Obama has nearly identical appeal to that of Howard. . . . It's okay for Howard, but not for Barack?

I don't think Hillary should be held responsible for what Bill said.  That's sorta like blaming the victim

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Be that as it may, the foundation of her campaign is the "experience" she gained as first lady.  You can unlink her from Bill, who is the source of her "experience"  - she is between a rock and a hard place, and I sympathize, but one cannot blame this linkage on her critics.  She did not have to make her White House tenure the linchpin of her campaign, but she did continues to do that with her 3:00AM ad.

Obama has nearly identical appeal to that of Howard. . . . It's okay for Howard, but not for Barack?

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good point.  and his way of getting contributions on the internet, and building a "bottom-up" campaign is identical to the Dean revolution, only much greater in scope.

New Thread:

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24046

Danny
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