My first diary on DKos
This is my first diary entry here at Daily Kos. As such it is going to be pretty boring. I'm using it to publish what I consider to be the charter/rules I'm going to (try to) hold myself to.
View ArticleTom Hanks is a good American
Tom Hanks is a good American I just caught this over at the Huffington Post. Tom Hanks, self deprecating and dryly funny as usual, posted a video on his myspace page endorsing Obama.
View ArticleThe WaPo assigns Shailagh Murray to cover WVWV???
So, I'm a bit new to actually fact checking the Washington Post's reporting because until recently I assumed I could trust what has been my primary news source. However, I just couldn't abide by this...
View ArticleCSPAN Radio - Don Young (R-AK) thinks gas tax holiday is absurd.
I was just in my car, and NPR was kind of boring (plus it is pledge week, blech) so I tuned in to CPAN to find a hearing on fuel costs in the House Transportation and Infrastructure / Highways and...
View ArticleA Possible Solution for Michagan's delegates
It is absolutely true that Michigan broke the rules. It is also absolutely true that HRC chose to break with all the other candidates to remain on the ballot. It is finally absolutely true that given...
View ArticleHillary: Please stop the lies regarding MI!
So much of my dismay/disgust with Hillary Clinton has to do with her repeated verbal disconnect with reality. Either she is unfit to be President due to a mental disorder, much in the same way that...
View ArticleWhy the RFK assassination "gaffe" angers me so.
I have been angrier about this than I've been about most of the Clinton campaign's crap. It has caused me to think seriously about where the anger comes from. I think I've gotten a handle on it now....
View ArticleDon't Take my Senator, Please
Much has been said about how good a choice Senator Webb would be for Obama. I beg to differ. I see only down side. Moreover, Governor Mark Warner, our next senator would also do more good in the...
View ArticleOn Clinton... and Logic (w/Poll!)
I take Hillary Clinton at her word. She believes that she has been the victim of sexism during the campaign. She believes that this is endemic in the media coverage of her, in the campaigns of her...
View ArticleVindication Froomkin Style
Dan Froomkin is one of my favorite columnists in the MSM - in fact, it sometimes seems inappropriate to lump him in with the vast majority of his colleagues. In today's White House Watch, he speaks...
View ArticleThank you Hillary!!!
This is a very short diary - because I want to get it out before you make your endorsement.
View ArticleThe view of a French Cabbie + Poll
So, I'm on a work trip to France. Not Paris or Nice or Bordeaux or even Toulouse, but in a to be left unnamed small French city in the central region. This evening, while riding home from the company...
View ArticleGeorge Will watch - a twofer
George Will, that pompous, self-serving, milk toast "conservative" commentator and columnist has a new column on the WaPo.com website. It is a mixed bag, as is usual, since he elevates talking out of...
View ArticleNew Poll has Obama way out in front... w/poll
If you think I'm talking about the Newsweek poll that showed Barack Obama ahead by 15 points, you are incorrect. Nope, I'm talking about a new LA Times/Bloomberg Poll that has him ahead by 12 points...
View ArticleIt may be apostasy, but Markos is wrong here.
It seems to me that many here, including Daily Kos' eponymous founder Markos, are blithely, or perhaps willfully, missing much of the essence of our nominee's candidacy. I don't know whether to laugh...
View ArticleMy letter to WaPo Ombudsman Deborah Howell
I decided I could not stomach the smear job by Lori Montgomery in today's Washington Post. For the first time ever, I sent a letter to the Post's Ombudsman. I did this because if that position means...
View ArticleIt is time to pony up - Give now, give in a big way!!!
I am thrilled by Barack's choice of Senator Joe Biden. No, he is not perfect. No one is. Realistically though, I now see that this is not only a good selection, but it is the best selection for...
View ArticleAll Together Now - We are ONE!
It is a great day to be a Democrat! This diary is written for every one of the hand wringers and those who are over the top nervous about the campaign so far. Okay? I want everyone to take a deep...
View ArticleWhy is Obama doing better than Generic Congressional Dems? w/Poll!
So I've had it up to here (visualize nsfbr standing on a chair with arm outstretched towards the ceiling) with pundits and even some concerned denizens of this bastion of rational thought making the...
View ArticleDo you know when McCain first declared his desire to be President?
Okay, so that is a tough one, so I'll make it easier. Instead of asking exactly when, like the date for example, give me the month. Too hard? Year? Decade? I'll tell you when after the jump.
View ArticleAdopt a Campaign Office!
Okay folks it's crunch time. I'm going to refrain from running around announcing that the sky is falling or accusing people of announcing that the sky is falling or listing the many ways that the Obama...
View ArticleA NATION of EXAGGERATORS
is the subheading for the article in today's Washington Post Outlook section by Donald Luskin. Luskin, who among other things appears on CNBC Kudlow and Company is a contributor to the NRO. In this...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria: Euthanize Palin Candidacy
I know that some may have seen this already, DemfromCT linked to the Newsweek version yesterday I think, but this commentary from Mr. Zakaria is truly a watershed event. He titles his piece this way:...
View ArticleA plea for Cash for the Obama Campaign
I'm just the messenger. It is clear that we need to make a push today. We need to grind McCain into the ground and ensure that this time he does not close the gap. Nothing is more important than...
View ArticleFraming Sarah Palin
Last night we saw Sarah Palin solve the dilemma of how to debate Joe Biden by implementing a rather novel tactic: Don't bother. While many diaries here (okay, a few) seemed concerned that she would be...
View ArticleObama Rally - Leesburg, VA - Photo Blowout!
I got to see Barack Obama Wednesday at the rally that was held in Leesburg, Virginia. It was everything I had hoped it would be. And more. I got there on the early side and spent a good part of the...
View ArticleI give you President Obama (Photos!)
I just want to share some processed photos from that Leesburg Rally that seems oh, so long ago. I think others will have their theories, but for me, the fact that Barack came to Leesburg a couple of...
View ArticleWe are one. (A photo diary)
It was an amazing experience on The National Mall today. My wife and I headed into D.C. on the Metro late enough that we kind of knew that our chances of getting inside security was low. We had...
View ArticleThe Time is NOW for a Gas Tax Hike (w/Poll!)
There is a truth to Detroit's latest claim that forcing an increase to CAFE standards makes no sense if the public isn't buying the product that they would be forced to produce, and this is evidenced...
View ArticleThe Truth on Torture Prosecutions w/Poll
There are many here who disagree with President Obama's decision not to prosecute those who carried out torture on prisoners during the Bush administration. I, for one, do not. What they did was at...
View ArticleMy Letter to the DSCC (or Claire McCaskill)
I got a letter from Claire McCaskill today. Actually, it was one of the many fundraising letters I get as a result of doing some heavy lifting last year - I gave big time to President Obama's campaign...
View ArticleObama in NH - I feel lifted up (Photo Diary)
I've been very frustrated by much of the criticism on this site aimed at our president - a man I truly believe is so clearly the best president in my 46 years on this Earth given what he has been...
View ArticleDem Nays on HR 3962
I figure this will be of interest when it is time to find primary opponents. I know it isn't much of a diary, but I don't really think they are worth much of one.
View ArticleIt is time - My first fundraising diary for 2012 - Hey, there's a Poll!
Hi all. It has been a looooong time since I've published a diary. Oh, I've written quite a few, but for one reason or another, I haven't hit publish for quite.some.time. Oh, there have been...
View ArticleMitt Romney - An Incoherent Unprincipled Liar, w/Poll
Perhaps this will be lost in all of the many, many valid criticisms of Mitt Romney, but what strikes me most of all is the incoherence of his current attempt to find a way to avoid being completely...
View ArticleIt's Saturday Night, I have no power, and it is time to Donate
Okay, I know I should probably write more here, but I'm holed up at my in-laws as we are one of the half a million Dominion Power customers without electricity. So...once again, I am MATCHING all...
View ArticleDebating a Liar
I've played this over and over in my mind. Just exactly how do you debate someone who will lie repeatedly and firmly, and say basically whatever they think sounds the best? No, that's not...
View ArticleAre you all in yet?
Not much of a diary. Not at all. Joe kicked ass tonight. Will you please, please commit to this thing from here on in? Will you PLEASE decide tonight to volunteer? To canvas? To vote early and...
View ArticleA solution for the Hobby Lobby Abomination
Here is my solution for the Hobby Lobby abomination. The court has ruled that one solution is for the government to pay for the contraception that Hobby Lobby no longer is mandated to provide. Fine....
View ArticleForget my solution, the SCOTUS just did it for us!
As noted on the front page, this has nothing to do with the sanctity of fertilized eggs. This has to do with the consequences, I almost said unintended, but that is becoming less likely over time, of...
View ArticleI'm Back to Fundraise. Please Help.
Hey Kossaks, it has been a while. I was pretty damn active here back in the day. And then, well, I left. Life got busy. This place, well, let’s just say I prefer to do things other than piss around...
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