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714Day recommended The High Priests of the Bubble Economy by Dean Baker

2008-11-11T21:00:30Z

714Day Commented on GOP Rep. Broun: Sorry I Compared Obama To Hitler -- But He Is A Socialist by Eric Kleefeld

2008-11-12T17:29:55Z

"The point I tried to make is that he is extremely liberal,..."

Yep. Obama is about as wildly radical as Adlai Stevenson. A regular loose cannon.

714Day Commented on Good Government Group Calls On FBI, Senate, To Probe Coleman by Zachary Roth

2008-11-12T17:25:34Z

What happens if Coleman takes the seat and is then indicted further on down the road?

714Day Commented on Poll: Majority Thinks One-Party Dem Rule Will Be Good For Country by Greg Sargent

2008-11-11T21:41:25Z

More broadly, though, it suggests that Dems have a big opportunity.

Dems always blow the opportunities. The old Will Rogers line, you know. "I don't belong to an organized party. I'm a Democrat."

714Day Commented on Is Voting Reform On The Horizon?]]> by Zachary Roth

2008-11-11T21:38:14Z

The specific proposals for a universal system differ, but they all aim to address the fact that nearly 1 in 4 American adults is not on the rolls.

That's a better number than the one I thought. I'd been under the impression that only half of eligible voters were registered.
Would an automatic registration prevent call-ups for jury duty as one commentor suggests? (There is something preposterous about the way people avoid jury duty. If we can't manage that civic act, how are we going to pull together for the things to come?)

714Day recommended Will Fellow GOPers Try To Knife Stevens In The Back? by Eric Kleefeld

2008-11-11T15:03:40Z

714Day Commented on Veterans Day: Mark Evnin of Vermont, One Kid Out of 4,000 by M.J. Rosenberg

2008-11-11T06:53:16Z

Oh, no. War. How deluded we all are for finding no way out of it. Surely, there is one. Doesn't seem we look hard enough for that. How is it so much easier to destroy flesh and blood and bone and the life that travels in it?
I won't dial up the slide show or the obit just yet. My vision is temporarily blurred.
Very moving, Mr. Rosenberg.

714Day Commented on Lieberman Lends His Name To Fear-Mongering Documentary On American Muslims And Terrorism by Justin Elliott

2008-11-11T05:05:57Z

Heh.

714Day Commented on Lieberman Lends His Name To Fear-Mongering Documentary On American Muslims And Terrorism by Justin Elliott

2008-11-11T05:04:33Z

As to the TIME required for Joe's response, a few minutes ought to do, don't you think? I think the "no time" angle is just silly.

714Day recommended The Importance of Being Earnest by Josh Marshall

2008-11-11T03:25:00Z

714Day Commented on Lieberman Lends His Name To Fear-Mongering Documentary On American Muslims And Terrorism by Justin Elliott

2008-11-10T22:22:25Z

You mean she didn't give one to her husband who is doing Joe's cheerleading?

714Day Commented on Lieberman Lends His Name To Fear-Mongering Documentary On American Muslims And Terrorism by Justin Elliott

2008-11-10T22:19:55Z

As this IS Lieberman, it's very reasonable to buy the notion that he doesn't disapprove of this kind of anti-Islamic boogeyman rhetoric. At worst, I hardly think he is up in arms about the suggestion that this garbage has his imprimatur.

714Day Commented on Maya Angelou and the Inauguration by HmCody

2008-11-10T22:14:02Z

Indeed, it is Ms. Angelou's velvet voice that electrifies her written word. Her cadence, rhythm, and tone vivify anything she speaks. She could read the classifieds and make them sound magnificent.
She may not pen Shakespearean sonnets, but I wouldn't knock her artistry in any way; she lives a poem and brings an audience along for the ride. It's an absolute wonder to hear her deliver the goods.
I've heard that Dylan Thomas could move listeners in much the same way. Not bad company.

714Day recommended Maya Angelou and the Inauguration by HmCody

2008-11-10T01:19:39Z

714Day recommended Lieberman Lends His Name To Fear-Mongering Documentary On American Muslims And Terrorism by Justin Elliott

2008-11-10T21:56:15Z

714Day Commented on Lieberman Lends His Name To Fear-Mongering Documentary On American Muslims And Terrorism by Justin Elliott

2008-11-10T21:59:04Z

Why, oh why, does Obama want to keep this man on the roster?

714Day recommended Coleman, Hays, Appear To Differ on Wife's Employment Status by Zachary Roth

2008-11-10T21:27:48Z

714Day Commented on Coleman, Hays, Appear To Differ on Wife's Employment Status]]> by Zachary Roth

2008-11-10T21:50:58Z

Is it any surprise that Coleman is a lying cheat?

714Day Commented on After Citizenship Challenges, Ballots Thrown Out in Georgia ]]> by Zachary Roth

2008-11-10T21:48:07Z

"But it's unclear on exactly what basis the citizenship challenges were made."

Seems clear as a bell. The "basis" was a likely Dem vote and an easily intimidated crowd.
What a weasel this woman is.

714Day recommended After Citizenship Challenges, Ballots Thrown Out in Georgia by Zachary Roth

2008-11-10T16:31:11Z

714Day Commented on The Mini Depression and the Maximum-Strength Remedy by Robert Reich

2008-11-09T21:41:44Z

Nice to read these rational thoughts after a.m. conversations with my very wealthy employer. He is infuriated with the changes Obama will bring. He claims his taxes will go up because he's being forced to "spread his wealth" to poor people and "others" who can't manage life or work hard. He claims the government is forcing his hard earned dollars into a charity program.
Clearly, my attempt to suggest that the health of an entire organism is required for any of it's parts to maintain viability, were ill spent on angry, deaf ears. He says it doesn't matter to him personally because he'll be dead before any "good" can be realized in his own coffers.
Lovely perspective.
It would make me laugh if I didn't realize he's not the lone ranger. However, how does one influence such illogical perspectives? I'm clueless.

714Day Commented on Obama's Win: A Big Defeat For GOP Militarism And Jingoism by Greg Sargent

2008-11-06T18:59:21Z

If the crackerjack "analysis" of Obama's win could go out the window with yesterday's vernacular, it would be a better world. Oh well, can't have everything.
I'm already saying President Obama and skipping the "elect." We KNOW this man was elected as opposed to W., who never was. I've never called Dub President - usurper, village idiot, lots of other things... President, no.

714Day Commented on Election Central Morning Roundup by Eric Kleefeld

2008-11-06T17:57:45Z

Ogliberal, you've called this just right. She's happy to remain as ignorant as a stone. It works well in the Alaska milieu. And the Fox box.
As long as the horizons are limited and low, she's a dandy siren for her equally savvy brethren.

714Day Commented on Report: Threats To Obama Rose As Palin's Crowds Grew More Frenzied by Greg Sargent

2008-11-05T19:13:08Z

I had thought that the pounding the dodo was going to take would make her want to stay in the northern lights to lick her wounds forever. She's even more lunkheaded than I thought, though.
She'll be back.

714Day Commented on Tell Us Your Election Night Experiences... by Greg Sargent

2008-11-05T19:08:07Z

My night was spent between telephones, computers, and televisions. First calls to/from my beautiful daughters who have wind in their sails like never before.
The most emotional chats were between my sister and myself. We remember different days when there were still signs on drinking water fountains that said "white only," and certain people weren't served at lunch counters. Our high school made the evening news because of the race riots there; particularly when the library was burnt down.
We cried quite a bit, Sis and I.
Superficial apparitions often don't mean much but the image of a black family in our White House is so stunningly extraordinary 40 or 50 years beyond the times I recall, there are no words that can properly articulate the magnitude of it.
It goes so far beyond the symbolic aspect, as well. Barrack Obama is an extraordinary human being; capable, brilliant, thoughtful, wise. He is the absolute antithesis of the moral bankruptcy of the mean spirited, small minded louts who have drained our treasury and wasted our young soldiers and innocent lives.
I'll be shedding tears off and on right through 1/20/09; no doubt about it.
I'm always proud to be an American because of the remarkable documents that bind us, but rarely proud of the government that runs the show.
Now, I'm proud of the whole shebang...for at least a nice little stretch.
Grace to President Obama and the United States of America.

714Day Commented on Obama Snatches New Mexico, Networks Say by Greg Sargent

2008-11-05T02:43:13Z

It would be nice if Obama has it in the bag before the Daily Show/Colbert Report concludes. See how far I've moved toward the outer loops? I cannot believe this day is real. I'm so tired, but I can't imagine going to sleep later, either.
It's a weird I can handle.

714Day Commented on Atheist-Baiter Dole Didn't Have A Prayer by Eric Kleefeld

2008-11-05T01:28:38Z

Praise be to God.

714Day Commented on Get Ready! Here's How Your Info Will Come In by Eric Kleefeld

2008-11-05T01:01:39Z

PA Obama MSNBC

714Day Commented on Get Ready! Here's How Your Info Will Come In by Eric Kleefeld

2008-11-05T00:56:15Z

I am so glad to have a place at TPM to watch this ship come in.
This is history in the making, too, and I often forget that. The page has long since turned from the hackneyed robber baron media outlets to the new wave cresting here and at a few other notable places.
A grateful nod to you, Josh and crew. And another to all of the bright minds who have shared their knowledge, wisdom, and thoughts.
It's an amazing day that I appreciate beyond expression.

714Day Commented on Tell Us Your Voting Stories, Part Two by Greg Sargent

2008-11-04T20:47:18Z

You're not an economist, obviously.