http://www.newseum.org/plan_visit/about....

Here's a link to the Newseum's website -- I guess I don't know how to link in a main post - sorry.

And btw HOWARD DEAN IS FIRST!!!!

2. Btw I fixed the link and Howard Dean is still first.

I'm running. Here is my ad in our convention booklet.

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Elect Phil Specht National Delegate for Barack Obama

Good luck. But you'd better hope no one asks for your opinion on delegate loyalty since you have said openly on this forum that pledged delegates can vote as they please just like the supers -- which also happens to be Hillary's recent position.

That probably isn't something Obama's local managers would want to hear from one of his delegates.

Why aren't the freakin' Democrats going after Mcain rather than each other?

A roadmap to disaster in November

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/24783#comment-1186183

back byting

"I did not have sex with that woman"

copyright - golden books, Disney

Why aren't the freakin' Democrats going after Mcain rather than each other?

A roadmap to disaster in November

Since you have seemingly made it clear that you oppose both Obama and Clinton, I'm not sure where you're coming from on this one.

Won't you be voting third party anyway? 

Huron John

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LOL good one John - but a link would be nice or at least a name/credit

The hospital story that Clinton has been telling...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/7/1...

I believe Hillary has been re-telling this story as she heard it as Meteor Blades suggests. I think it's important to get this out there because I posted a diary the other day from Daily Kos which I now believe wasn't the whole story.

Here's a diary about Obama's VP selection. All signs (at least to this diarist) point to Kathleen Sebelius.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4...

Maybe she could work on her oratory skills to get the excitement up a tad. I'm thinking of seashell right now and her lack of enthusiasm for the *Sominex woman* . LOL.

Governor Kathleen Sebelius
1050 x 1313 - 1071k - jpg
www.governor.ks.gov

7:12 PM EDT

Fred - Penn doesn't count and he never did. He gets one vote just like the rest of us. His vote went to Columbia.

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Susan -

Sorry to be a stickler -- but the country is spelled Colombia.  Whereas the river and the space shuttle are spelled Columbia.

Good luck. But you'd better hope no one asks for your opinion on delegate loyalty since you have said openly on this forum that pledged delegates can vote as they please just like the supers -- which also happens to be Hillary's recent position.

That probably isn't something Obama's local managers would want to hear from one of his delegates.

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sitka

that is why I will be working for Iowa to cast a unanimous ballot from our delegation for Barack Obama after the people have spoken and he sews up the nomination(possible only if pledged delegates are free to vote and also customary)

I already have an assurance from the Obama campaign they won't axe me as a delegate if elected.

as last cycles Presidential Elector I kind of  have already passed any "loyalty" hurdle

I read a little bit about Kathleen Sebelius. I like her personal traits. I read how her family always takes these athletic vacations and how they are all very athletic, etc. That's how I grew up -- everything was an athletic competition all the time. And I married another jock who grew up the same way. Our kids never stood a chance at being couch potatoes. LOL.

But the real fun is in some of the comments offered. Here are just a few of my favorites:

“No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” wrote one. “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.

Here's another:

“Bush does only two things well,” said one of the most distinguished historians.  “He knows how to make the very rich very much richer, and he has an amazing talent for f**king up everything else he even approaches.  His administration has been the most reckless, dangerous, irresponsible, mendacious, arrogant, self-righteous, incompetent, and deeply corrupt one in all of American history.”

 hat tip:  Democracy Arsenal

FRED from Ashland OR
Mon, 04/07/08
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VP?  With a wardrobe like that, we will soon become a bigger laughing stock to the world than we already are.....................

“As far as history goes and all of these quotes about people trying to guess what the history of the Bush administration is going to be, you know, I take great comfort in knowing that they don’t know what they are talking about, because history takes a long time for us to reach.”— George W. Bush, Fox News Sunday, Feb10, 2008

Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.

(^from the dreaded.....myDD^) 

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* rdorgan
Mon, 04/07/08

Thanks. I'm know I'm an awful speller. Spell check doesn't always catch those kind of errors.

McCain wants to stay in Iraq until we win the Vietnam War.

I like Senator Jon Tester.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Tester
To: Susan Rowe
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:30 PM
Subject: TVs for Vets

Dear Susan,

Since I began serving in the U.S. Senate I've made it a priority to make sure our government does right by the men and women who served our their country in the military. We've made some real progress for veterans in Montana, including an increase in the mileage reimbursement rate for disabled vets and new and expanded clinics around the state. But we still have a long way to go.

At listening sessions around the state, veterans came forward with quality of life concerns as well. And now we need help from folks like you. I'm working with Montana veterans to get the word out about TVs for Vets, a deserving project that I hope you can support.

TVs for Vets is a project led by Montana veterans to buy new TVs for veterans' facilities around the state. The project will also fund ongoing maintenance and other quality of life priorities for veterans' facilities. TVs that are installed in a health care facilities are wearing out, and they are expensive to purchase, install, and maintain.

Disabled and elderly veterans spend a fair amount of time at veterans facilities around the state -- in hospitals, clinics, community centers, and retirement homes. These televisions are not an extravagance -- they simply help bring comfort to veterans.

Please consider making a tax deductible donation to this worthy cause.

http://www.tvsforvets.com/donate

I appreciate your support as we work to improve the wellbeing of Montana veterans.

Sincerely,

Jon Tester

Monica Smith

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Jay Leno couldn't put it better LOL : )

Breaking: HRC Colombia ties don't end with Penn. Uh oh.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4...

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mary vb


What sport?


I was a gymnast. Balance beam, floor exercise and vault. Broke my nose twice and cracked a vertebra in my neck once. Had to wear this neck brace for a year. My parents made me quit. We had poor equipment and coaches. We didn't have title IX then.

two words -  Bogota Gate

our country would never had made it this far if Bush isn't the number one contender for worst ever, we couldn't take too many like him

Well, I guess the most significant news event of my lifetime has to be 9/11. The other 2 really big news stories that come to mind (although not really very significant) are the Challenger explosion and Baby Jessica stuck in the well.

I thought Hillary was fully vetted. My goodness. I almost feel sorry for her at this stage. It's pretty bad when SNL is doing skits about you *not* leaving the race. Wow.

McCain wants to stay in Iraq until we win the Vietnam War. 

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Brilliant!  I say we let him.  Number one suite in the Green Zone. 

8:38 PM EDT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/08/hillaryclinton.barackobama?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

After Patti Solis Doyle and Geraldine Ferraro, Mark Penn is the third senior adviser to Hillary Clinton to step down or be demoted. Each time one of the praetorian guard falls, more questions are asked about the judgment of the commander-in-chief.

...

cC quoted material from what she described as "the dreaded.....myDD,"  but there isn't actually so much to dread about the site.  "Abhorrent" might be a more apt description.

lots of catching up to do...
As far as changing me
Most memorable day was my last day in VN that I remember
Second was 9/11

As far as changing our attitudes and relationship with the world..then 9/11 is first.

OT ~~ prolly that we'd dropped the bombs on Japan.

Check out the pix of these heroes on the Golden Gate Bridge today - story at the link, too. Very brave young people.

Right past security, too

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...

LMAO just heard on the news that the security folks were having a meeting about security on the bridge while the protesters were climbing it. I'm sorry the irony here is precious.

Another insipid DNC rule that turns the whole process of District Delegate elections into another DC party insider's game. This makes me very sad. Why do I even bother to vote? The Candidates get to choose their At-Large Delegates and now they get to decided who they want as grassroots volunteer activists District Delegates. What a joke. This process sounds a little elitists to me. Are the candidates going to pay for their District Delegate's hotel room, airfare and convention fees too. The District Delegates are to represent at the DNC Convention those who elected them. It's called Democracy. The candidates should not get a choice in that process as far as I am concerned.

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mayme hubert wrotes:

Pat Kunstenaar asked me to post this information.


Are you all aware that the Obama campaign is pruning the list of candidates who can compete at the Caucus, to three per open slot? (Apparently, also the Clinton campaign.) They are doing this in each California CD. This is definite. They can do this according to the rules, p. 8 of the 30 page California Delegate Selection Plan document at www.cadem.org. You can find the Rule on page 8, under #5 "Presidential Candidate Right of Review for District-level Delegates and Alternates." It spells out that the state party will convey on April 4 the applications for delegate. The key passage is 5 b (Rule 12.E (1) which says: "Each presidential candidate, or that candidate's authorized representative(s), must then file with the California Democratic Party Chair by Monday April 7, 2008, at 5 p.m., a list of such candidates he or she has approved provided that approval be given to at least three (3) times the number of candidates for delegate men and three (3) times the number of candidates for delegate women, and three (3) times the number of candidates for alternate men and three (3) times the number of alternate women to which the presidential candidate is entitled."


The Obama Campaign’s decision to do this makes sense, so that their delegates are solidly dependable at the Convention, but I believe people need to know, as there will be many disappointed that they cannot run. I hope people will still go and vote as this is a important opportunity to exercise grassroots power.

Hey Phil, while you were panicing, "The Dow is up 8.4% from its 2008 intraday low on Jan. 22. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are up 9.2% and 9.7% off their March 17 intraday lows, respectively" Buy low sell high.

OT follow-up question. Through what medium did you hear about the most significant news event of your lifetime?

I was at work so I first heard about and then followed the 9/11 events on the radio all day.

We think about the internet being our primary source of news now, but radio is still pretty significant, IMHO. TV News is becoming less significant, but people still listen to the radio in their cars and at work, and if you have no electricity (if the news story is some local disaster) radio may be your only news source.

November 22, 1963 changed me from a innocent child to a consumer of news. so as news goes was most significant for me personally, but it might have been when his brother was shot, 20-30 thousand American more lives were likely lost in Vietnam because that one man died, Nixon has to be in the running for worst President ever too

like I've been saying Fox the Dow is in a trading range so below 12-3 buy above 12-7 put your finger back on the sell button

if you have been following my trading advice Fox you are up a lot more than 8%

How much more arrogant can they get. They actually use the term "pruning" for this process. Like the grassroots activists of the Democratic Party are bunch of wild weeds. The DNC really does need to take the word Democratic out of their name. They need to call it the Elitists National Committee instead.

The Dow will hit 20,000 if the dollar goes below a quarter too, since it is only 12 something with a dollar worth fifty cents.

for everyone to whom $6 gas or a $4 loaf of bread matters it will be small comfort 

The most significant news event in my lifetime has to be 9-11 though the JFK, MLK and RFK assasinations might rival it...today however it is that I just found out a friend of my daughter was killed in a weather related accident where she lost control of her vehicle on a patch of ice and hit a truck head on. She was also the daughter of a co-worker of my wife...she was just 26. We've known her since she was a little girl coming to b'day parties...high school days she worked with my daughter at the local ice cream parlor. She was always cheerful, caring and hard working...just a delightful young person. She just recently volunteered along with my daughter to help during the wrestling tournament. I'm sure that was the most significant news event to that family when they heard it as is so with so many that don't have a loved one return alive from war.

I was in VN when both MLK and BK were shot. MLK was shot while we were slogging thru the ooze toward the end of Tet. Since I marched in civil rights protests before enlisting, MLKs death registered strongly with me.
We didn't really pay too much attention at first when BK died. Initially, it was just another rich guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some of the guys figured out quickly that his death could result in us staying longer - which it did. They were sort of two more casualties of war.

Susan

the Rules state that a candidate MAY vette the lists but may actually do the right thing and cull out only open supporters of the other candidate or Rush Operation Chaos sleeper cellmates, there has to be some process after all the work of winning the allocation of getting supporters, since all "pledged" delegates are really only that and not bound

culling down to three plays favorites rather than just being vigilant

Oh Reed so sorry to hear such sad news. Give an extra hug to your daughter.

I was 7 when JFK died, but it was significant to my parents and elders, but not so much to me.

I think truly understanding what Watergate meant was pretty significant to me.

So was Woodstock.

turn the page........


http://blogforamerica.com/view/24798#com...

sorry to hear Reed and you are right the "news" that hits home the hardest is in the obits of someone close

give your daughter a hug for me

New thread in case anyone sees this. . . .

Thanks Denise and Phil...what can rival losing a child? Bushco certainly has no clue!

Hey Phil, while you were panicing, "The Dow is up 8.4% from its 2008 intraday low on Jan. 22. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are up 9.2% and 9.7% off their March 17 intraday lows, respectively" Buy low sell high

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Wall Street's been making money by literally disassembling our factory equipment and manufacuring infrastructure and selling it to the Chinese and other $1/day wage companies.  It took decade of design, construction and evolution of processes to built that infrastructure and the capital markets sold it off to the highest bidder on the cheap.

Years ago we immigrated cheap labor, but now the top capitalist pig bosses want all the benefit but no responsibility.  They sell out to China, who lends them money to keep the neocons in power, business as usual, until the bubble burst.

The country loses, the worker losses, the middle class loses, but the consumer gets cheap [and toxic] products. Those who live off capital and stock, and the executive are doing well.  We can consume but we cannot produce.  It is an unbalanced economic structure, and we will eventually have to pay the piper.

Bill Nelson is thretening to lead the fl delegation to Denver, and there will be blood n the floor of the convention.
Madfloridian writes at DU.

Isn't that called inciting a riot? Maybe we can get McC to take Bill along to his anger management sessions.

Why are there so many Dems wanting to mess up this election for the Dems?

Of course, choosing Sibelius for VP can certainly be put in that category. She'll do wonders to calm the nations fears about McC's wars. We can sleep through them.