Category: Disenfranchisement
By Pat Racimora on May 24, 2009 in Civil Liberties & Rights, Current Affairs, Disenfranchisement, GLBT, Gay Rights | 170 Comments
(Bumped up from Saturday evening.)
California!. What a state! We are known for our whacky politics and all-around open-minded, fun-loving, Hollywood-inspired ways. Calling us “yogurt-loving, latte drinking, text-messaging, vegetarian neurotics” is taken as a compliment. If you have a pulse, you are a friend and deserve a big hug.
So you [...]
By Old Grumpy Guy on Jan 30, 2009 in Arrogance, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Democracy, Disenfranchisement, Elitism, Fascism, Humor, Media, OldGrumpyGuy | 112 Comments
In my new video I look at the way the Emperor’s Clothing Syndrome has dominated the arts and humanities over the past half century, with the help of academic practitioners looking for theories to build on, trying to carve out some academic territory for themselves and becoming the high priests or priestesses of their [...]
By LisaB on Dec 9, 2008 in Arrogance, Barack Obama, Disenfranchisement, Hillary Clinton, Sexism | 57 Comments
When Facebook-Favreau-gate began, I thought of it as simply a puerile act showing the young man in question had yet to slough off that collegiate patina.
Then I realized I was only getting angrier at the boy.
Today, Amy Siskind, over at The Daily Beast, had a few things to say.
Incident 3: John Favreau Gropes Cardboard Likeness [...]
By Dr. Kate on Nov 13, 2008 in Citizenship, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, DNC, Disenfranchisement, Electoral College, Federal Elections Commission, Political Strategy, Supreme Court | 137 Comments
It has taken the better part of a year, and specifically the last six months of this election season, for committed citizen journalists at NoQuarter and many other blogsites to do the research on Barack Obama that the media, the democratic national committee, and our Congress should have done. Although our collective knowledge of Barack Obama [...]
By Bud White on Oct 31, 2008 in 9/11, African Americans, Anti-Semitism, Ayers, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Bobby Kennedy, Democratic Party, Disenfranchisement, Domestic Terrorist, Rashid Khalidi, Terrorism, Weather Underground | 127 Comments
Bill Ayers, domestic terrorist and Obama benefactor, dedicated his book to Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy.
Prairie Fire, published in 1974, is described as Ayers’ communist manifesto.
Dedicating a book to Sirhan Sirhan isn’t radical chic or a youthful indulgence. Dedicating a book to Sirhan Sirhan is tantamount to denying the [...]
By Heidi Li on Oct 22, 2008 in Barack Obama, DNC, DNC idiocy, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Nomination, Disenfranchisement, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi | 124 Comments
(The following is a guest post, originally posted in Heidi Li’s Potpourri, an independent progressive blog. Heidi Li is a founder of The Denver Group, about which Medusa wrote an important story last night, featuring the Group’s impressive new video ad.)
In the October 17 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Lanny Davis writes that [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 19, 2008 in ACORN, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Democrats, Disenfranchisement, James Carville, Ohio, Republicans, Voter Fraud | 158 Comments
That’s the big “hint” to what James Carville says will happen if Obama doesn’t “win” the election. Nothing like a little threat of violence to try to skew , are I say, dictate, things to go a certain way.
This was a topic of conversation last night on the excellent “Patsy and Sugar” show [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Oct 11, 2008 in Arrogance, Bill Clinton, Current Affairs, DNC, Disenfranchisement, Hillary Clinton, McCain/Palin 2008, Race Card, Tony Rezko, Typical white person, Voter Fraud, William Ayers | 673 Comments
(bumped up by susanunpc)
Obama and his supporters have been complaining the last couple of days, accusing the McCain campaign creating mob mentalities. I have read that they are forming lynching mobs, stirring up anger, and causing division.
And, you know what? The people ARE mad. But you can’t blame it on John McCain and Sarah Palin.
People [...]
By Uppity Woman on Sep 25, 2008 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Democratic Party, Disenfranchisement, Donna Brazile, GLBT, Jewish Voters, Middle America, Misogyny, Race Card, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Sexism, White People, Women | 277 Comments
I vividly remember when Paul Begala Davis told smug Donna Brazile on CNN: You can’t win an election with African Americans and Eggheads. She snorted. That was not long after Donna said we could all just “Stay Home” because she has a New Party.
Don’t believe me. Take a look at this sarcastic woman talk about [...]
By Truthteller on Sep 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, DNC, DNC idiocy, Disenfranchisement, Florida | 56 Comments
If Obama’s fall in poll after poll is one we liken to an erosion, we are obliged to describe the following situation in Florida as Obama’s vain attempt to plug a patch of quicksand with bags of Rezko cash. I quote the St. Petersburg Times
By Uppity Woman on Sep 11, 2008 in Abortion, Abuse, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, DNC, Democratic Party, Disenfranchisement, Donna Brazile, Equal Pay, Gender Bias, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Media Bias, Misogyny, Nancy Pelosi, Sexism, Women | 74 Comments
One Half of the famous fowl-mouthed Fowler couple offers an apology. We’re still waiting for one from the other half. You know, her husband Pat Robertson, the guy who thinks a hurricane during the Republican convention was a special gift to him from God.
In an interview posted on the political Web site Politico, Chairwoman Carol [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Sep 8, 2008 in 9/11, Abortion, Abuse, Afghanistan, Alice Palmer, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, Bill Ayers, Bill Clinton, Chicago politics, Cult, DNC, DNC idiocy, David Axelrod, Dick Cheney, Disenfranchisement, Donna Brazile, Emil Jones, FISA, Foreign Policy, GLBT, Gender Bias, George Bush, Hamas, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, Jay-Z, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Louis Farrakhan, McCain/Palin 2008, Misogyny, Off-Shore Drilling, Pandering, Presidential Candidates, Public Finance, Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rules and Bylaws Committee, Sarah Palin | 153 Comments
OK, so three out of four of my siblings are Obama people. I don’t know about the fourth - I don’t think he has decided yet. My mother, a STAUNCH Hillary supporter, who is furious with the DNC (and has told them so because of the vote theft, etc.) says she doesn’t know where she [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 29, 2008 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Congressional Black Caucus, DNC, Democratic Nomination, Disenfranchisement, Keith Olbermann, Race Card, Racism | 136 Comments
So, last night was the Big Speech, in the Greek Temple, by the ONE. What did he do? He decided to channel Hillary Clinton. Oh, and Aaron Sorkin. One of the lines he is getting so much press on is a variation on a line from the movie, The American President. It was [...]
By dcmediagirl on Aug 25, 2008 in Air America Radio, Barack Obama, Delegates, Democratic Nomination, Democrats, Democrats Against Obama, Disenfranchisement, Florida, Michigan | 50 Comments
Sorry to burden you all with this nonsense, but it’s important to record the “thinking” of Democratic party insiders for posterity. Behold the musings of Elaine Kamarck on Salon. “Schaller” is the Salon interviewer. “Cohen” is Michael Cohen of the New America Foundation. The article was published before the Biden announcement.
By Pat Racimora on Aug 24, 2008 in Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Democrats Against Obama, Disenfranchisement, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean | 139 Comments
It’s hard to know how many of us will still be bugging Howie and the DNC after November, but I have a strong hunch that a huge swarm will not be going anywhere. At least not until the DNC is totally revamped into a party that lives up to its name.
As Donna Brazile [...]
By Dr. Lynette Long on Aug 21, 2008 in Delegates, Democracy, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Nomination, Disenfranchisement, Rules and Bylaws Committee, Washington state | 265 Comments
Approximately a year ago thousands of committed volunteers attended “Camp Obama,” a four-day indoctrination program, geared at teaching pre-screened Obama volunteers grass roots organizational strategies.
The training, which specifically focused on the caucus states, taught volunteers to be “ruthless,” “take risks,” and win at all costs. Obama’s campaign and Camp Obama’s strategy which focused [...]
By Uppity Woman on Aug 13, 2008 in 1st Amendment, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Democracy, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, Disenfranchisement, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean | 154 Comments
It seems that a Democratic delegate committed a cardinal sin against The State.
She criticized The One.
“Sacha Millstone acknowledged she was frustrated over how the Obama campaign was treating delegates who supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and told a fellow delegate, in what she believed was a private e-mail exchange, that she was not sure she [...]
By Bud White on Aug 10, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bloggers, Current Affairs, DNC, Disenfranchisement, Donna Brazile, Elitism, Florida, Gender Bias, George McGovern, Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Misogyny, Patriotism, Race Card, Sexism, White Guilt | 165 Comments
The Just Say No Deal/PUMA movement is evidence of a deep rift in the Democratic Party, one I believe the polls are not reflecting. Contrary to what the neo-liberals may say, the movement is not comprised of bitter old women — although many are bitter, many are women, and some are perhaps old. [...]
By ProudMilitaryMom on Aug 9, 2008 in Democratic Platform, Disenfranchisement | 89 Comments
From my blog, Common Sense Gram.
This is in the window at the Hotel
More Pumas
Pumas at the platform meeting
So here we are at the Convention Center in Pittsburgh. I met up with these nice folks. I won’t give out their names, but if you are reading you can identify yourself in the comments if you [...]
By SusanUnPC on Aug 6, 2008 in DNC, Democracy, Democratic National Convention, Disenfranchisement | 46 Comments
If you can find ANY way to get to Pittsburgh this weekend, YOU could make the difference at both the Denver convention and for ALL future Democratic primaries. This is a historic gathering in that it is a rare instance in which the platform committee has high-stakes matters to debate and vote on, and where [...]
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