We're doomed
This is insane. If Kennedy and Volcker are both endorsing the same guy, that's not a sign that a new age of post-partisanship and an era of good feelings is being ushered in; it's a sign that Our Betters are shitting their pants. Read more…
If you can't say fuck...
... you can't say "Fuck the rich." Go read Stirling Newberry. I'll wait. These are bad people.
No Blood For Oil, There Will Be Blood: a Continuum
come on children, gather round
hold your heads unto the ground
feel the power underneath
fireworks and carbon wreaths
our arms are long, so far they reach
'cross the sea, upon a beach
pretty women on the sand
all that oil on their hands
If you can't say fuck...
... you can't say "Fuck the media." Go read. These are bad people.
And speaking of good judgment...
ABC:
Discussing his opposition to Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft, Obama praised newly-elected President Bush's new nominee for Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
“The proof in the pudding is looking at the treatment of the other Bush nominees," Obama said. "I mean for the most part, I for example do not agree with a missile defense system, but I don't think that soon-to-be-Secretary Rumsfeld is in any way out of the mainstream of American political life. And I would argue that the same would be true for the vast majority of the Bush nominees, and I give him credit for that.
"So I don’t want to be pegged as being far left simply because I find certain aspects in John Ashcroft’s record to be divisive or offensive," Obama continued.
No indeed!
"I think it’s legitimate for me to raise that. As I said before, if he brought before us a nominee who didn’t agree with me on affirmative action and yet said that, you know, I do think that and showed a history for showing regard and concern for racial justice,
if he [Ashcroft] came before us and said I oppose a woman’s right to choose, or I oppose abortion, I find it religiously offensive, and yet I do respect, for example, the notion that we shouldn’t be solving these things with violence, historically, if that had been what was said, then I don’t think I would object. And I think that’s a fair position to take.”
Huh? Is that a waffle on abortion, or what? Sounds to me like Obama said that if Ashcroft didn't actually endorse shooting doctors, then everything would be OK.
Sigh.
Something Stinks in Lima
LIMA, Ohio — The air of Southside is foul-smelling and thick, filled with fumes from an oil refinery and diesel smoke from a train yard, with talk of riot and recrimination, and with angry questions: Why is Tarika Wilson dead? Why did the police shoot her baby?
“This thing just stinks to high heaven, and the police know it,” said Jason Upthegrove, president of the Lima chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. “We’re not asking for answers anymore. We’re demanding them.”
Some facts are known. A SWAT team arrived at Ms. Wilson’s rented house in the Southside neighborhood early in the evening of Jan. 4 to arrest her companion, Anthony Terry, on suspicion of drug dealing, said Greg Garlock, Lima’s police chief. Officers bashed in the front door and entered with guns drawn, said neighbors who saw the raid.
Moments later, the police opened fire, killing Ms. Wilson, 26, and wounding her 14-month-old son, Sincere, Chief Garlock said. One officer involved in the raid, Sgt. Joseph Chavalia, a 31-year veteran, has been placed on paid administrative leave.
Beyond these scant certainties, there is mostly rumor and rage. The police refuse to give any account of the raid, pending an investigation by the Ohio attorney general.
—Police Shooting of Mother and Infant Exposes a City’s Racial Tension
Total mobilization
Too bad Britney Spears no longer lives in her childhood home of Louisiana. They could use this kind of response capability:
The ambulance carrying Spears was escorted by more than a dozen motorcycle officers, two police cruisers and two police helicopters, the Times reported on its Web site, citing unidentified authorities.
I'm no expert on police procedures. But did this really require a deployment big enough to take down Mighty Joe Young?
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Edwards gave us our script
Here it is:
[EDWARDS] And we do this -- we do this for each other in America. We don't turn away from a neighbor in their time of need. Because every one of us knows that what -- but for the grace of God, there goes us. The American people have never stopped doing this, even when their government walked away, and walked away it has from hardworking people, and, yes, from the poor, those who live in poverty in this country.
For decades, we stopped focusing on those struggles. They didn't register in political polls, they didn't get us votes and so we stopped talking about it. I don't know how it started. I don't know when our party began to turn away from the cause of working people, from the fathers who were working three jobs literally just to pay the rent, mothers sending their kids to bed wrapped up in their clothes and in coats because they couldn't afford to pay for heat.
We know that our brothers and sisters have been bullied into believing that they can't organize and can't put a union in the workplace. Well, in this campaign, we didn't turn our heads. We looked them square in the eye and we said, "We see you, we hear you, and we are with you. And we will never forget you." And I have a feeling that if the leaders of our great Democratic Party continue to hear the voices of working people, a proud progressive will occupy the White House.
Now, I've spoken to both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama. They have both pledged to me and more importantly through me to America, that they will make ending poverty central to their campaign for the presidency.
So, at every opportunity, we get to ask Hilbama the question:
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