I missed his speech. Please give us some details to this future-President. Seriously, Fick is the most clearheaded thinker I've ever read on leadership and the Iraq War.
His service, and the humanity with which he conducted his job, makes us all proud. Democrats & Republicans alike.
John McCain is SO unstable that:
1--His own party rejected him in 2000 because he was MORE DANGEROUS than George W. Bush
2--Even Republicans can't stand him (show clips of Coulter and that Reverand that hates him, etc...)
3--Even Anne Coulter thinks he's too erratic (clips...)
4--The Incredible Hulk is afraid to be around him
5--He hit Naomi Campbell with a cell phone
6--
etc.......
Excuse my language in this post, but I'm madder than a grease monkey with a crooked dipstick about the Democrats not sticking a finger in McCain's eye last night. Obama's been slammed with a 2x4 for 3-4 weeks, and has barely hit back with a feather. I'm so f#cking pissed!!
I'm literally beside myself. My insides are clawing at my skin trying to get out. If I don't see a withering rap sheet on this administration starting tonight, I'm not sending in any more money and I'm not f#cking taking the Fung Wah bus to Philly to sign people up to vote. There's no time for bull$hit inspiration in a f#cking foxhole. Throw the kitchen sink at him starting RIGHT NOW!
Barack: You were wrong & stubborn on the flag pin thing. And now you're wrong and overly professorial on NOT taking the MF'ing fight to McCain and his party of criminals. Politics is visceral, not cerebral. This is not community organizing. It's trench warfare.
Here's your pivot: "I have united and inspired people already [ie - no need for more Thursday night], now we're going to destroy John McCain and throw every Republican out of Washington DC."
FIGHT WITH A HAPPY HEART AND PLAY FOR KEEPS!!
Congratulations to TPM and TPM Reader HW for being referenced in today's Frank Rich piece "If Terrorists Rock the Vote in 2008". (Second to last paragraph...)
Papa Bear himself quotes a TPM Reader. Awesome...
Not much else to say, so let me just quote something that HuffPo pointed out yesterday that I loved:
"The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old
leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend With
Bernie' [sic], handcuffed to a corpse." --Larry Hunter, long-time GOP
loyalist (now supporting Obama), quoted in a Robert Novak Op/Ed (Thursday, June 26, 2008)
Brooks' column today happens to coincide with a HuffPo highlighted piece by the AP called "How Debt Stress Makes You Sick." Overall, Brooks gets most of it right. Debt is destroying our social fabric. He's no Elizabeth Warren, so he doesn't understand the true depth of the problem, and his constant need to suck-up to conservative ideologists gets him into trouble, but at least he's admitting there's a massive, massive problem here. (I love when his Chicago Sociology background wins out in his columns...)
Here are some questions for people that care about fixing this "Debt Culture":
1. Does household debt decrease active citizenship? (I tend to think people are less likely to get involved or to protest unfair corporate practices or gov't policies if they're under a mountain of debt and struggling to keep their families intact.)
2. Do Credit Card companies really produce a "good" for society? I don't think so. Sure, they "lubricate" the wheels of transactions and help consolidate wealth at the top quicker, but in the end, there's nothing to put a "Made in America" tag onto. Brooks says Bill Gates made a "socially useful" product, but not hedge fund managers. I agree.
3. How could a public relations campaign be set up to deglamorize debt, as Brooks suggests? Who would pay for it? Can it start soon, or would it have to wait for a settlement against VISA?
4. "Usury laws could be enforced and strengthened", Brooks says. I don't know of any usury laws anymore. Do you? I thought they were destroyed in the late 70's.
5. Ever notice that wealth began to consolidate in 1980 and the gap between rich and poor became unbridgeable since then? Sure, a lot of it has to do with the Reagan Revolution and movement conservatism since then, but I gotta think a lot of it coincides with the creation of Credit Cards in the mid to late-70's.
6. The best prescription I've seen for this "Debt Culture" is the author/Radio/TV host Dave Ramsey. I'm also encouraged by the new book "The Great Risk Shift" which recommends Americans "Get Mad, Get Wise, and Get Even."
I like the <b>Get Even</b> part best. Hopefully someone will find the smoking gun memo out there by VISA / Mastercard / CapitalOne / Providian, et al. which proves they actively plan to trap hardworking families into debt for life.
Just wanted to see what you all thought of this little gem [politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com]:
Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if his wife Hillary Clinton is not the party’s presidential nominee, and suggested some people were trying to “cover this up” and “push and pressure and bully” superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely.
"I can’t believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out,” he said at a South Dakota campaign stop Sunday, in remarks first reported by ABC News. “'Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to cover this up.'"
My favorite word was the use of "prematurely", after 5-6 months of headlong campaigning, and 12-18 months of the extended campaign.
Anyway, there's no way to "cover up" this fact:
OBAMA = Solvent with 34+ Million Cash on hand...
HILLARY = Bankrupt. In debt. Still paying off the criedt cards that bought the good people of Iowa shovels.
CNN unveiled a new merch scheme yesterday. Next to various headlines there are little T-shirt icons where you can buy a t-shirt for $15.00:
Deaf couple wants only deaf embryo
YouTube divorce ranter begs for cash
Bikini-clad baristas shock customers
Given their increasing lack of relevancy, why would anyone want a shirt with a stupid CNN headline on it?
I can understand wanting an ONION t-shirt, or a Bill O'Lielly T-Shirt (as DF has blogged recently), but not a t-shirt with a lame, probably misspelled CNN headline on it.
<b>Should TPM start selling t-shirts?</b> I can see getting one with the red TPM logo on it or the Veracifier logo. Or even one with some blog headlines like "'Sweetie' Happens to Men, too" or "Swimmingly" or even "Obama Nabs Another Superdelegate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" :)
Anyway, happy KY & OR primary day everyone!
Here's what Jim Webb's Born Fighting PAC just sent out... He'll probably endorse (hopefully...). From there, let the VP speculation soar! Either way, I'm sure he'll have some choice words for Bush/McCain and their ill-considered (borderline criminal) foreign policy diminishing U.S. security.
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In today’s "Here Come the Millennials", Bob Herbert seems convinced that the Millennials will reject conservative power in the next few years, even if not in the Presidential Election of 2008:
<blockquote>Whether young Americans can shift the balance of the presidential election is an open question. But there is very little doubt that over the next several years they are capable of loosening the tremendous grip that conservatives have had on the levers of American power.</blockquote>
Millennials, he says, are…
<blockquote>… a generation that is in danger of being left out of the American dream — the first American generation to do less well economically than their parents. And that economic uncertainty appears to have played a big role in shaping their views of government and politics.</blockquote>
I think he’s right when it comes to getting out the vote, overall, and I’m actually more optimistic than him on the presidency this year. I firmly believe the Millennials will show up to elect Barack Obama in 2008. (There’s more than economics at stake here. W’s sins are too egregious…)
But, I still worry about the long term outlook for the Millennials and our national character. I mean no disrespect to the babyboom readers here at TPM, but I've been starting to feel that the previous generation has really done some irreparable harm to our country.
--Bill Clinton = “If it feels good, do it!”
--George W. Bush = “I’m gonna do this. Not legal, you say? F#ck you, we’ll change the rules!”
Boomers have been too powerful for too long, and have systematically changed the rules in their favor at every turn. Specifically, I'm thinking of the way that government since 1980 has been turned into a transfer-station to funnel public money into private hands (i.e. - David Cay Johnston's "Free Lunch"). And the way that we've been saturation-marketed to the point that a lot of our personal identities are completely wrapped up in our consumption-circle patterns (i.e. – MTV, Abercrombie, SUV’s, and Credit Card traps on college campuses). And enormous CEO pay and golden parachutes for failed CEO’s whose workers lost pensions and jobs.
And perhaps the most emasculating insult: The real minimum wage hasn’t gone up over the last 30+ years. As Herbert says in his piece: “In 1974, the median income for men in their 30s (using today’s inflation-adjusted dollars) was about $40,000. The figure for men in their 30s now is $35,000.”
We've been sliced and diced, while the power mechanisms Herbert describes have been perfected and the middle class has been eviscerated. After all the marketing, and after all the debt, and after all the sugar-highs, and Schwarzenegger explosions, we may be convinced of our powerlessness and complete subservience… Not directly to our political leaders, but to our endless, subconscious drive to consume at all costs.
I guess it doesn’t matter if you’re in the fortunate elite upper-class they created with junk bonds, conglomerates, and hedge funds (like Paris Hilton. “That’s Hot. I’ll buy it.”)
But if you’re in what’s left of the middle class, the future seems Sisyphusian, like for the FreeCreditReportDOTcom Commercial Guy: “Too bad I didn’t know my credit was whack // cause now I’m driving off the lot in a used subcompact // Saw their ads on my TV // Thought about going but was too lazy // Now instead of looking fly and rolling phat // my legs are sticking to the vinyl // and my posse’s getting’ laughed at”
Change can’t come soon enough.
Today is Miss Jenna’s wedding day. Far-be-it from me to reject & denounce a young couple on their wedding day, but I’ve got to admit, I’m having a hard time coming up with something nice to say. At least they had the decency to not throw a party at the White House when the country is in shambles and the Iraq War has no endgame. That’s nice, right? In 7.5 years, that’s probably the most decent decision they’ve made. The Huffington Post must have recognized this, so they chose to stay classy with their headline “Jenna Bush to lose her virginity.” All in all, I’m not sure how to commemorate the propagation of the Bush clan, so here’s a bunch of pics to ponder on their special day:
Good Times while Dating
Today is Miss Jenna’s wedding day. Far-be-it from me to reject & denounce a young couple on their wedding day, but I’ve got to admit, I’m having a hard time coming up with something nice to say.
This list is to help you call your local undecided Superdelegates as per Slouch's recommendation on his recent post. I sorted this from wikipedia's list.
AK; Blake Johnson; DNC; State Vice Chair
AK; Cindy Spanyers; DNC;
AL; Joe Turnham; DNC; State Chair
AL; Nancy Worley; DNC; State Vice Chair
AL; Bud Cramer; Representative;
AR; Lottie Shackelford; DNC; DNC Vice Chair
AZ; Don Bivens; DNC; State Chair
AZ; Gabrielle Giffords; Representative;
AZ; Harry Mitchell; Representative;
CA; Edward Espinoza; DNC;
CA; Inola Henry; DNC;
CA; Carole Migden; DNC;
CA; Bob Mulholland; DNC;
CA; Christine Pelosi; DNC;
CA; John Pérez; DNC;
CA; Robert Rankin; DNC;
CA; Crystal Strait; DNC; Young Dems of America
CA; Art Torres; DNC; State Chair
CA; Keith Umemoto; DNC;
CA; Steve Ybarra; DNC;
CA; Howard Berman; Representative;
CA; Lois Capps; Representative;
CA; Jim Costa; Representative;
CA; Susan Davis; Representative;
CA; Sam Farr; Representative;
CA; Bob Filner; Representative;
CA; Mike Honda; Representative; officially DNC Member - DNC Vice Chair
CA; Jerry McNerney; Representative;
CA; Nancy Pelosi; Representative; officially DNC Member
CA; Pete Stark; Representative;
CA; Henry Waxman; Representative;
CO; Pat Waak; DNC; State Chair
CO; Roy Romer; DPL; Former DNC Chairman
CO; Bill Ritter; Governor;
CO; John Salazar; Representative;
CO; Mark Udall; Representative;
CO; Ken Salazar; Senator;
CT; Nancy DiNardo; DNC; State Chair
CT; John Olsen; DNC;
CT; Joe Courtney; Representative;
DA*; Christine Marques; DNC; Dems Abroad Chair
DA*; Theresa Morelli; DNC;
DC; Anita Bonds; DNC; District Chair
DC; Donna Brazile; DNC;
DC; Larry Cohen; DNC;
DC; Christine Warnke; DNC; Nat'l Dem. Ethnic Coord. Comm.
DE; John Daniello; DNC; State Chair
DE; Harriet Smith-Windsor; DNC; State Vice Chair
DE; Joe Biden; Senator;
DE; Thomas R. Carper; Senator;
GA; Richard Ray; DNC;
GA; Jimmy Carter; DPL; Former President
GA; Jim Marshall; Representative;
GU; Antonio Charfauros; DNC; Territory Chair
GU; Cecilia Mafnas; DNC; Territory Vice Chair
GU; Robert Underwood; DNC;
GU; Madeleine Bordallo; Representative; Congressional Delegate
HI; Dr. Marie Dolly Strazar; DNC;
HI; Joshua Wisch; DNC; State Vice Chair
HI; Beverly Withington; DNC; State Chair
HI; Mazie Hirono; Representative;
HI; Daniel Akaka; Senator;
IA; Scott Brennan; DNC; State Chair
IA; Richard Machacek; DNC;
IA; Bruce Braley; Representative;
IA; Tom Harkin; Senator;
ID; Keith Roark; DNC; State Chair
IL; Edward Smith; DNC;
IL; Rahm Emanuel; Representative;
IN; Joe Donnelly; Representative;
IN; Brad Ellsworth; Representative;
IN; Baron Hill; Representative;
IN; Pete Visclosky; Representative;
KS; Larry Gates; DNC; State Chair
KS; Helen Knetzer; DNC; Nat'l Fed. of Dem. Women
KS; Nancy Boyda; Representative;
KS; Dennis Moore; Representative;
KY; Moretta Bosley; DNC;
KY; Jennifer Moore; DNC; State Chair
KY; Nathan Smith; DNC; State Vice Chair
KY; Steve Beshear; Governor;
KY; Ben Chandler; Representative;
LA; Elsie Burkhalter; DNC; State Second Vice Chair
LA; Claude "Buddy" Leach; DNC;
LA; Chris Whittington; DNC; State Chair
LA; William Jefferson; Representative;
LA; Charlie Melancon; Representative;
LA; Mary Landrieu; Senator;
MA; Debra Kozikowski; DNC;
MA; James Roosevelt Jr; DNC;
MA; Edward Markey; Representative;
MA; John Olver; Representative;
MA; John Tierney; Representative;
MA; Niki Tsongas; Representative;
MD; Michael Cryor; DNC; State Chair
MD; John Gage; DNC;
MD; Lauren Glover; DNC; State Vice Chair
MD; Belkis Leong-Hong; DNC;
MD; Heather Mizeur; DNC;
MD; Gregory Pecoraro; DNC;
MD; John Sweeney; DNC;
MD; Susan Turnbull; DNC; DNC Vice Chair
MD; Steny Hoyer; Representative;
MD; John Sarbanes; Representative;
MD; Chris Van Hollen; Representative;
MD; Ben Cardin; Senator;
ME; Jennifer DeChant; DNC;
ME; Sam Spencer; DNC;
ME; Tom Allen; Representative;
ME; Michael Michaud; Representative;
MN; Collin Peterson; Representative;
MO; Jay Nixon; Add-on;
MO; Robin Carnahan; DNC; Dem. Asso. of Sec. of State
MO; Maria Chappelle-Nadal; DNC;
MO; Leila Medley; DNC;
MO; John Temporiti; DNC; State Chair
MO; Yolanda Wheat; DNC; State Vice Chair
MO; Ike Skelton; Representative;
MS; Wayne Dowdy; DNC; State Chair
MS; Carnelia Pettis Fondren; DNC; State Vice Chair
MS; Gene Taylor; Representative;
MT; Margarett Campbell; DNC; State Vice Chair - Endorsed Obama 07/Apr/08 forced to retract due to party rules
MT; Dennis McDonald; DNC; State Chair
MT; Brian Schweitzer; Governor;
MT; Max Baucus; Senator;
MT; Jon Tester; Senator;
NC; Dr. Jeanette Council; DNC;
NC; Jerry Meek; DNC; State Chair
NC; Muriel Offerman; DNC;
NC; David Parker; DNC;
NC; Carol Peterson; DNC;
NC; Mike Easley; Governor;
NC; Bob Etheridge; Representative;
NC; Mike McIntyre; Representative;
NC; Brad Miller; Representative;
NC; Heath Shuler; Representative;
ND; David Strauss; DNC; State Chair
NE; Steven Achelpohl; DNC; State Chair
NE; Audra Ostergard; DNC; State Vice Chair
NH; Ray Buckley; DNC; State Chair
NH; John Lynch; Governor;
NJ; Philip D. Murphy; DNC; National Finance Chair
NJ; Rush Holt; Representative;
NJ; Frank Lautenberg; Senator;
NM; Brian Colon; DNC; State Chair
NM; Tom Udall; Representative;
NM; Jeff Bingaman; Senator;
NV; Yvonne Gates; DNC;
NV; Sam Lieberman; DNC; State Chair
NV; Catherine Cortez Masto; DNC; Dem. Attorneys Gen. Assoc.
NV; Harry Reid; Senator; officially DNC Member
NY; Ralph Dawson; DNC;
NY; Irene Stein; DNC;
NY; George Mitchell; DPL; Former Senate Majority Leader
OH; Joyce Beatty; DNC; Dem. Legislative Campaign Comm.
OH; Enid Goubeaux; DNC;
OH; Chris Redfern; DNC; State Chair
OH; Marcia Kaptur; Representative;
OH; Dennis Kucinich; Representative;
OH; Tim Ryan; Representative;
OH; Zack Space; Representative;
OH; Betty Sutton; Representative;
OH; Charlie Wilson; Representative;
OH; Sherrod Brown; Senator;
OK; Jim Frasier; DNC;
OK; Kalyn Free; DNC;
OK; Ivan Holmes; DNC; State Chair
OK; Mike Morgan; DNC; Dem. Legislative Campaign Comm.
OK; Jay Parmley; DNC;
OK; Brad Henry; Governor;
OK; Dan Boren; Representative;
OR; Bill Bradbury; DNC; Dem. Asso. of Sec. of State
OR; Frank Dixon; DNC; State Vice Chair
OR; Jenny Greenleaf; DNC;
OR; Wayne Kinney; DNC;
OR; Gail Rasmussen; DNC;
OR; Meredith Woods-Smith; DNC; State Chair
OR; Peter DeFazio; Representative;
OR; David Wu; Representative;
OR; Ron Wyden; Senator;
PA; William George; DNC;
PA; Jason Altmire; Representative;
PA; Bob Brady; Representative;
PA; Chris Carney; Representative;
PA; Mike Doyle; Representative;
PA; Tim Holden; Representative;
PR; Luisette Cabanas; DNC; Territory Vice Chair
PR; Eliseo Roques-Arroyo; DNC;
RI; Jack Reed; Senator;
SC; Gilda Cobb-Hunter; DNC;
SC; Wilbur Lee Jeffcoat; DNC; State Vice Chair
SC; Jim Clyburn; Representative;
SC; John Spratt; Representative;
SD; Cheryl Chapman; DNC; State Vice Chair
TN; Vicki Harwell; Add-on;
TN; Jerry Lee; Add-on;
TN; Dr. Inez Crutchfield; DNC;
TN; Gray Sasser; DNC; State Chair
TN; Al Gore; DPL; Former Vice President
TN; Phil Bredesen; Governor;
TN; Lincoln Davis; Representative;
TN; Bart Gordon; Representative;
TN; John Tanner; Representative;
TX; Linda Chavez-Thompson; DNC; DNC Vice Chair
TX; Al Edwards; DNC;
TX; Jaime Gonzalez Jr.; DNC;
TX; David Hardt; DNC; Young Dems of America
TX; Denise Johnson; DNC;
TX; Robert Martinez; DNC;
TX; John Patrick; DNC;
TX; Betty Richie; DNC;
TX; Boyd Richie; DNC; State Chair
TX; Robert Schwarz Strauss; DPL; Former DNC Chairman
TX; Nick Lampson; Representative;
TX; Ciro Rodriguez; Representative;
UT; Helen Langan; DNC; Previously supported Clinton
UT; Jim Matheson; Representative;
VA; C. Richard Cranwell; DNC; State Chair
VA; Alexis Herman; DNC;
VA; Joe Johnson; DNC;
VA; Jim Leaman; DNC;
VA; Jerome Wiley Segovia; DNC;
VA; Jim Webb; Senator;
VI; Carol Burke; DNC;
VI; Marylyn Stapleton; DNC; Territory Vice Chair
VT; Howard Dean; DNC; DNC Chairman
WA; Ed Cote; DNC;
WA; Eileen Macoll; DNC; State Vice Chair
WA; Sharon Mast; DNC;
WA; David McDonald; DNC;
WA; Dwight Pelz; DNC; State Chair
WA; Rick Larsen; Representative;
WA; Jim McDermott; Representative;
WI; Awais Khaleel; DNC; College Dems of America
WI; Lena Taylor; DNC; State Vice Chair
WI; Paula Zellner; DNC;
WI; Herb Kohl; Senator;
WV; Nick Casey Jr.; DNC; State Chair
WV; Alice Germond; DNC; Secretary
WV; Joe Manchin; Governor; officially DNC - Dem. Gov. Assoc.
WV; Alan Mollohan; Representative;
WV; Robert Byrd; Senator; officially DPL
WY; Nancy Drummond; DNC; State Vice Chair
WY; Cynthia Nunley; DNC;
Just watched Mark Halperin from Time Magazine on Fox & Friends this morning. Predictably, he and the Fox blowhards went on and on about Ayers/Weathermen fake controversy. Despite all this supposed vetting that is supposed to be taking place after the discussion of Ayers at the debate, they basically said "Someone really needs to vet Barack about this." Abdicating all responsibility for finding any truth and ending the potentially haunting rumor.
This about sums up how worthless the MSM is: The kicker was that Halperin went on to watch this clip of a Monkey Doing Karate, and offering his opinion about the monkey's spin kicks. They all got quite a laugh out of watching the clip. I swear I thought I was watching the Simpsons or Family Guy it was such a parody.
PS - George Stephanopoulous (sp) was completely and totally duped and strong armed into asking Barack about the Ayers/Weathermen thing. What's wrong with him?
Perhaps the MSM wouldn't be so inclined to cowtow to Fox bullying if they relied on truth and accuracy in reporting.
Why doesn't anyone see that truth is the best ratings grabber?
Did Barack just become the candidate of the little guy in a dizzying, death-defying way? We'll find out in the next few days. As long as he keeps saying that he's IN FAVOR of Gun Rights, I think he'll come out stronger. The next 2 days will be crucial if he's not going to be labeled more of an elitist... He can win this, but he needs to get loud and biting in his criticism. After all, he's the only one of the 3 who isn't worth over $100 Million Dollars and has a subscription to The Robb Report.
He's done well so far in
In Krugman's piece today "Health Care Horror Stories", he recounts the whole flare up surrounding Hillary's story about the pregnant woman in Ohio who was refused medical care because of an inability to fork over the $100 co-pay. Hillary was vindicated in the end, but paid a price for a few days because, after the Bosnia stories, the storyline became that she "has a little trouble with the truth".
I'm an Obama supporter, but I am very glad Hillary was vindicated on this story. Not that it happened, of course, but that she was honestly retelling an important, and heartbreaking story that we should all hear. I'm not glad because Hillary can now claim that she was wronged (as Krugman seems to be saying), but because the truth won out despite the news cycles.
I don't have health insurance right now, and I would definitely put off an emergency room visit and its artificially inflated and crushing bills in favor of a few days of pain if I thought I could get away with it. This is a horrible choice, but it's where we're at.
Anyway, here's Krugman:
And even more important, Mrs. Clinton was making a valid point about the state of health care in this country.Now, I understand that TPM readers and good friends talking politics sometimes say stupid things, and get each other all pissed off over the Hillary v. Obama fight. I can understand those hurt feelings.
In other words, this was a disgraceful episode. It was particularly sad to see a number of Obama supporters (though not the Obama campaign itself) join enthusiastically in the catcalls against Mrs. Clinton’s good-faith effort to put a human face on the cruelty and injustice of the American health care system.
Look, I know that many progressives have their hearts set on seeing Barack Obama get the Democratic nomination. But politics is supposed to be about more than cheering your team and jeering the other side. It’s supposed to be about changing the country for the better.
