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Politics: March 2008 Archives
About San Francisco's plans for the Olympic Torch.
April 9th is the day for patriots across America to come to the Bay Area and remind SF's craven leaders that our freedoms and our Constitution are sacred. Americans haven't been dying for 232 years so Gavin Newsom can graduate from alcohol rehab and fucking his good friend's wife to sign off on suspending our basic rights. Americans haven't been dying for 232 years so the SF Board of Supervisors can purchase their all expenses-paid trade junkets to China by selling our basic freedoms. Americans haven't been dying for 232 years so the manicured plutocrats who run the USOC can tell us to shut the fuck up in our own country.
From Firedoglake. link
This is an email I just got from the Obama Camplaign. It makes good points so I'm posting it in its entirety here. I've changed the donate links to post to my personal fund raising page on my.barackobama.com.
Dear Jonah,When we won Iowa, the Clinton campaign said it's not the number of states you win, it's "a contest for delegates."
When we won a significant lead in delegates, they said it's really about which states you win.
When we won South Carolina, they discounted the votes of African-Americans.
When we won predominantly white, rural states like Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska, they said those didn't count because they won't be competitive in the general election.
When we won in Washington State, Wisconsin, and Missouri -- general election battlegrounds where polls show Barack is a stronger candidate against John McCain -- the Clinton campaign attacked those voters as "latte-sipping" elitists.
And now that we've won more than twice as many states, the Clinton spin is that only certain states really count.
But the facts are clear.
For all their attempts to discount, distract, and distort, we have won more delegates, more states, and more votes.
Meanwhile, more than half of the votes that Senator Clinton has won so far have come from just five states. And in four of these five states, polls show that Barack would be a stronger general election candidate against McCain than Clinton.
We're ready to take on John McCain. But we also need to build operations in places like Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina, and Oregon that will hold their primaries in April and May.
Barack Obama needs your support to fight this two-front battle. Please make a donation of $25 right now:
With our overwhelming victory in the Mississippi primary yesterday, our lead in earned delegates is now wider than it was on March 3rd, before the contests in Ohio and Texas.
And thanks to your help, we have dramatically increased our support among so-called "superdelegates" -- Governors, Members of Congress, and party officials who have a vote at the Democratic National Convention in August.
As the number of remaining delegates dwindles, Hillary Clinton's path to the nomination seems less and less plausible.
Now that Mississippi is behind us, we move on to the next ten contests. The Clinton campaign would like to focus your attention only on Pennsylvania -- a state in which they have already declared that they are "unbeatable."
But Pennsylvania is only one of those 10 remaining contests, each important in terms of allocating delegates and ultimately deciding who our nominee will be.
We have activated our volunteer networks in each of these upcoming battlegrounds. We're putting staff on the ground and building our organization everywhere.
The key to victory is not who wins the states that the Clinton campaign thinks are important. The key to victory is realizing that every vote and every voter matters.
Throughout this entire process, the Clinton campaign has cherry-picked states, diminished caucuses, and moved the goal posts to create a shifting, twisted rationale for why they should win the nomination despite winning fewer primaries, fewer states, fewer delegates, and fewer votes.
We must stand up to the same-old Washington politics. Barack has won twice as many states, large and small, in every region of the country -- many by landslide margins. And this movement is expanding the base of the Democratic Party by attracting new voters in record numbers and bringing those who had lost hope back into the political process.
Push back against the spin and help build the operation to win more delegates in these upcoming contests:
Thank you for your support and for everything you've done to build a movement that is engaging voters and winning contests in every part of this country.
David
David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
Are we done with the fucking pennies yet?Because it is time. The American public hasn't been using them for about a decade. They have become so worthless, that people give them to each other as a matter of routine. Get your change, pick out the pennies, and leave them there for the next guy. Need a penny or two? Well, there should be a few there for you, because the last guy sure as fuck didn't want his. That's the game.
From best of craigslist. Link.
Quick hit: Here is a short criticism of the gender based ed article from earlier. I agree with the post, but it basically restates a lot of the criticism that is in the original article.
TPM Muckraker has written a concise article about the Obama-Rezko real estate deal. It's worth a read since we'll probably be hearing a lot about this case over the next few months.
