A great progressive and humanitarian died today after a long battle with cancer. In the 26 years since it's inception, Newman's Own has donated all its profits, over $175 million, to charity.
In other news, sad excuse for a human being Rush Limbaugh continues to draw breath. If there is a god, he's got some splainin' to do.
Dead freaks unite for political change!
The surviving members of the Grateful Dead will once again play as The Dead on October 13th at Penn State. the proceeds will go to the Obama/Biden campaign.
They're giving him his own Monopoly board.
OK, so it's a groaner. Have you seen any good McCain houses jokes floating around the web?
How about: Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock.Who's there?McCain's houses.
Why did the chicken have to cross the road?Cindy forgot which house her servants were making dinner in.
Nothing serious or substantive here. I just thought this was funny as hell and wanted to share. Sometimes that's enough.
Video Professor Helping McCain
"I'll bet Geraldine Ferraro is spinning in her grave right now."
This is up at HuffPo from Mayhill Fowler (bittergate). She claims to have had her trusty tape recorder going and audio will follow. Bill is characterizing the unflattering Vanity Fair article about his jet set buddies on a widespread media bias for Obama.
"You know he didn't use a single name, cite a single source in all those things he said. It's just slimy. It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's the most biased press coverage in history. It's another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn't do anything about it. The first day he said 'Ah, ah, ah well.' Because that's what they do-- he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain-- maybe I better quit the church. It's all politics. It's all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don't think anything about it."
See the whole thing here
Just reported on the local news that Colorado State Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak endorsed Obama. She announced it at his speech today in Thornton.
My wife and I just returned from voting in our Congressional District Convention/Assembly (CD6) in Colorado a few minutes go. Many Obama delegates and alternates didn't show up. We were unable to fill all the Obama seats from Arapahoe county. Campaign organizers were frantically calling missing delegates and begging them to come down to the convention. It was a close thing and the Hillary supporters were out in force.
The Assembly was in the morning and Hank Eng won the CD6 nomination. He will be running against Tom Tancredo in the fall. The Convention for CD6's national delegates, 5 plus 1 alternate, was in the afternoon and that's where we were short. Luckily, many people responded to the calls and jumped in their cars to drive down and fill vacant seats for the afternoon. We did finally get enough for Jefferson county. If they hadn't come, one of the national delegates might have gone to Hillary instead of Obama.
Many Obama delegates are new to the process and some are missing some of the arcane steps required to actually complete the process of carrying the voter's voices forward. It seems the Hillary folk are more likely to be longtime party participants who know the ropes. In another year, this might have made no difference. This year, we need to keep our eye on the ball and follow through.
If you are a state or congressional level delegate or know someone who is, be sure to keep in mind that the results from months ago are not always chiseled in stone just yet. It's vitally important to keep in touch and keep doing everything you can to see this through.
A last note, this is not because the Obama campaign isn't following through because they are. We got multiple phone calls and we both got letters reminding us of the upcoming conventions, both congressional and state. It's just that not enough of the delegates are following through.
