He does. His record is the best out of any republican in a long long time. Either he or Obama would be great at this issue, even though I prefer Obama, Obviously.
As you guys prepare to rip a hole in me, consider the source. President Clinton, in his "who cares about the party tour", continues to throw his half-hearted praise onto Obama. Link to Praise .I am one who believes that he was a hell of a President. Record surpluses and peace. Jobs and prosperity. Homes for many. But I must say, it doesn't seem as though he has ever cared about the party. His centrist politics have always made it seem as though there was something wrong with being a democrat. and his affair has delivered the country to the Neo-Cons on a silver platter. It gets me that even after he was given a speaking role on the same night as the V.P. Hillarys name will be placed in nomination, against the best interest of the party and Obama. and that silly tag line about sexism was allowed in the platform, he continues to act this way. Is it too much to ask for support?
Lately, I've been appalled by some of the comments from my fellow Kossacks. For example, there's a whole discourse occuring on whether or not Obama should have spoken at the Saddleback church because it was not his tailored "audience." In another recent example, a prominent diarist on here wrote, "Never expect basic respect from a Republican." That's a nice way to insult at least one-third of the electorate. These divisive comments are appearing to become the norm lately. Well, guess what--Obama is running to become President of the UNITED States of America, not just some slim demographic that might apply to you. You know--the President of those other 300 million plus Americans, many of who might not agree with you. He's running on a unity platform, and he has been doing so at least since the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
Why just "black" churches.... why not churches?
Why pit a white church leader against a black church leader?
How unifiying is this?
Yes, the clips are taken out of context but they reflect attitudes.
Why don't we see photos of the Obama children with their white grandmother?
She reared Barack and paid his private school tuition but seem to be far back in the closet during his campaign for president.
Does the "multicultural" candidate aviod photos with his white relatives because he playing more to the African American voters?
Far down in the comments on this journal someone posted a link to Obama's Scrapbook. It has many photos of him with his mom and grandparents. It is a wonderful scrapbook. I'm glad that it was shared with us.Obama's Scrapbook
Just a quick diary here. It simply does not help Barack Obama or the Democratic Party to demonize Senator Clinton, as a very few commenters here do with paranoid fears that Clinton will secretly take over the Convention or that she will somehow defeat Obama so she can run in 2012.
I think those fears are just not real. First Read is reporting that Clinton will cast her vote as a superdelegate for .... Barack Obama. It's a great example.
The Obama and Clinton camps have agreed to have Hillary Clinton's name placed in nomination for the roll-call vote at the Democratic convention, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
The source adds that the mechanics of this are still being worked out, but it's "likely" that Clinton will release her delegates to vote for Obama after her name is submitted. Clinton -- who is a superdelegate -- will cast her delegate vote for Obama.
In an email from the Clinton and Obama press offices, the campaigns downplayed any potential conflict.
"We are working together to make sure the fall campaign and the convention are a success. At the Democratic Convention, we will ensure that the voices of everyone who participated in this historic process are respected and our party will be fully unified heading into the November election," the statement said.
There have been various discussions about Obama's racial composition and what it portends for the American people and his quest for the presidency of the USA.
Suffice to note that, several authority are now laying claim as to his origin. Through genetic elucidation and studies, OBAMA is related to DICK CHENEY! By implication if, Cheney is from Italy, meaning, he is an Italian-American, then Obama is an Italian- American.
I often think long and deep before deciding about posting a diary about gay issues alone. I even gave more thought to this diary.
What would you say if I mentioned someone who did/said:
Gay people are a security risk.
Gay people are not good role models for our children
The heterosexual lifestyle was "morally superior"
Reduced AIDS funding
Prohibited federal funding to a program that showed the gay "lifestyle as normal"
Who is this person? Jesse Helms? George Bush? John McCain?
No. No. And No.
Sam Nunn.
The point of this diary is that we as GLBT and our friends need to educate people who attack us. If education does not work, we need to attack back. I do not care if these people have a "D" or an "R" next to their name. My "fear" is that all too often we forgive our friends and overlook statements by others in their party that we would be deeply offended by if said by others. We cannot stand idly by. Hateful words are hateful words no matter their source.
Many of you probably know about the event already. Atleast the people who check Halperin's thepage frequently. For those who can't stomac Mediorce Mark's ramblings and everybody else too:
Sen. Obama will speak LIVE today at around 12:00pm at UNITY: Journalists of Color's quadrennial convention in Chicago.
A Question & Answer session might be included
As a former journalist and someone who was at the Unity convention that John Kerry and President Bush spoke at in 2004, I'm highly offended by this story.
Now, I will admit that the story seems to be well-written and mostly even handed. I will also admit when I was a journalist I wasn't very good at it and left the industry three years ago. So take this criticism for whatever it's worth.
The writer says that four minority organization are "largely Democratic" which, in my estimation, is probably true but he doesn't cite any statistic to back this assumption up. Also I'm glad he interviewed Leonard Pitts, who is one of my heroes, and made the most coherent arguments in the article. I would have put his quotes higher but I realize this my have been an editing decision.
I'm offended by the premise. I mean, just look at this title "Can minority journalists resist applauding Obama?" What the tarnation!?!?
People can be good and yet do and say some awful stupid and weird things. I have known many people that show a soft and warm side, yet be as fundamentally and morally opposite to my core beliefs as day is to night. I used to argue environmental issues with a older gentleman while I worked the counter of my restaurant. I would always pour him a free cup of coffee while trying to argue the existence of global warming. I respected his right of mind, and loved it when he introduced me to his grandchildren, as they were my children's age. He really was a political bastard, arguing for torture and loved his Bush, but also loved to try out his skills with me every morning while I set up shop. He was gracious and polite, as I was and we kudoed each other on well constructed points, as hard as that was at times. He died last year, and I visited his family at his funeral home. We had a warm talk and his family told me how much my talks had meant to him, he called me his renegade buddy. Apparently our talks are what energized him in the mornings.
But reading some diaries here yesterday, maybe he was evil. Or so I have been led to believe after reading some diaries about Bob Novak. Let me explain.
I attended a Democratic Party Unity Rally in Worcester MA last night. Come below the fold to see how an area where Hillary triumphed during the primary is coalescing around Barack Obama.
My candidate doesn't entertain me. He's too boring. Too much like the Republicans. He voted the wrong way on a bill. Let's punish him by withdrawing our support.
How many ways have we found to put Republicans in the White House? In the last few decades of their glory, Republicans have hardly been purists. When they at last tried to be, they practically destroyed their party. But they did achieve something. They kept pushing their line, kept pushing their choices. They didn't let so many second thoughts and buyers remorse regrets soak into their political habits.
They got one thing right: if you want political progress in your desired direction, you take it one step at a time. If you've got a candidate who seems great, don't twist yourself in knots worrying about them. If they're just mediocre, but your other choice is simply terrible, don't be ashamed to chose the uninspiring over the unthinkable.
Well, I'm here on a quiet Saturday, musing over all the crap being tossed about this election. Frankly, I smell a rat of sorts, in that we are being teased into entertaining this stuff for more than it's really worth. My informal, "just talk to people" polling points to Obama being a sure thing. With all but the *23 Percenters, the expectation is that Obama will be the next President of the United States of America.
I took a big personal hit on FISA, as did a lot of us. Working through that anger and frustration has brought me to a place where I think more of us need to be...
*The 23 Percenters are basically those value voters, who have some kind of axe to grind. Otherwise known as the Republican, hard core, base!
Edit: Got a comment below about having a wrong impression of DailyKos. This isn't a judgment on the community here. It's an expression of where I have arrived in thinking and how I got there. Thought I would share that, and read where others are and compare, contrast, maybe learn something, maybe improve. That's it.
you have people figured out, someone goes and does something like this.
It's an amazing story about a family that, literally, puts their money where their mouths are when it comes to giving to the community.
They got everything right, from Hannah's observation that if the guy in the Mercedes chose a less expensive car, then the guy on the curb could have a sandwich to voluntarily surrendering their consumerist lifestyle - it lets you know the power of one voice, one family and one gesture.
Before coming to DailyKos, I was a law blogger. We pride ourselves on relative objectivity (which, I am sorry to say, I definitely lost in the passion of the primary season). Fantasy or not, law bloggers are usually concerned about legal arguments, not political arguments, hard as the dividing line may be to find.
Sometime between posting at Volokh.com and other sites, I discovered that TalkLeft.com had become a pro-Clinton site. That surprised me, because I remembered TL from undergrad. I visited. The truth was stranger than fiction.
I'm an American, and will die one, because -- in full knowledge of the ups and downs of this country, our laws and our rights, our flaws and our fights, and the ideals with which this nation was founded and strives toward -- I would never choose to be anything other than American. I'm an American because I actively choose to be every single day. With no ancient ethnic or blood ties to this nation all we have are words of volition and vows of endless idealism to show we have chosen this country as our homeland.
The vast majority of Americans -- right, left, center, or situated in some weird 4th dimension of politics -- love this country. And I mean really love it. Most of us would never trade in our American birthright for citizenship anywhere else. And most of us would never trade the American system of governance for any other (the media, well, that's a different story...).
I think it's safe to say that most of us on here are liberals. But let's face it: this ain't a representative sample of the country. According to Rasmussen, we only make up 25% of the electorate at most...only 8% of which call themselves "very liberal" (which is half the number that consider themselves "very conservative".
To top it off, we are coming off possibly the most fringe right-wing authoritarian government in our nation's history. The mood of the electorate is changing, but attitudes of the electorate in general make the neuronal response time of a brontosaurus look like an Intel Quad Core. We have to face it: we were asleep at the wheel, and we lost badly. And we are still paying for those losses. But we have to take them in stride, and remember "Never Again". Never again will we grow complacent and apathetic in regards to our government. But this does not mean abandoning progress, incomplete though it may be.
