Let's forget for a moment the other people who are trying to steal the limelight and lets savor this special moment.
Obama and a lot of people fought hard to get to this place. You and I suffered long through an endless primary and bucket loads of spin and smear and inane media coverage, but he is in. He did it. We did it with him. We get to commemorate
So post here your favorite story, speech, campaign event... Forget the bitterness and kick your feet up. This is history in the making.
I have a confession to make: I didn't use to like Obama. Dig down my comments history and you will find me calling him "obummer".
I also didn't like Hillary that much, after her cheer leading for the war. Dig down my comments and you will find some saying I'd hate to vote for Hillary.
My favorite was Kuchnick but he had zero chance so I favored Edwards. But I was prepared to vote for Clinton if Edwards dropped out, since , you know, she is a woman like me and wife of an ex-president I liked.
Hillary had me. I'm a white women over 40. Her "base". She had my vote. But she threw it away.
I mean, really, the man who cheated on her so obviously and so blatantly, now wants to lecture me about respecting Hillary ? He's got some nerve!!!!
I defended him and will keep on defending him as a good president, but in the matters of respect, he's no one to give lectures.
I used to tell my republican and even some democrat friends outraged with the Monica scandal that he was a damn good president, even though I would never want Bill as a husband or brother in law (and I would be doing more than just citing the 1968 primary history if he ever got near my daughter!!)
He disrespected his wife and his daughter several times, grievously, first with acts and then with lies, so don't come on climbing on a moral high horse now Bill.
Before you troll rate me to oblivion: IT IS SNARK!!!!!
She is way more qualified than Harriet Myers
She can deal with sexoholics like Clarence Thomas, after dealing with Bill
She can tolerate Scaife and Fox, so she can tolerate a conservative dominated meeting
She wants a post where she is "inevitable". What better post than a lifetime mandate non elected post ?
She can be as batshit insane as Scalia, as ornery as Thomas, as tin earead as any conservative judge.
She is Democrat...
She wont be anywhere near Obama, carrying a candlestick, on the attic
Her supporters will stop whining
She will torment Roberts, Scalia, Alito and Thomas the same way she tormented Obama and his voters. Mwahahahah!
It's not impossible. As Hillary said herself, someone might get assassinated, and presto! she gets an opening. Then all the dems will fall behind her because it is what us dems always do, regardless of primary rhetoric.
It's an old Youtube video (May 2007) but I didn't see it anywhere on Kos so here it goes.
Debbie Riddle (R-TX) is proposing a bill to require a photo ID, i.e. a drivers license, from any voter. Another GOP guy wants to make it illegal to drive people to the voting station. Which means that if you don't own a car you don't really count for the GOP. Nor they want your voice to be counted (not surprisingly after leaving for dead all that didn't own a car during Katrina). The official reason ? To ensure "one person, one vote".
It's all about integrity Debbie Riddle (R-TX)
Well Debbie was caught red handed on tape using her "integrity" to vote twice. Typical GOPpie that she is she quickly added a IOIYAR or rather, it's ok if you are in congress. Laws are for chumps.
The August 17th editorial of the Washington Times which has been e-mailed around Rednekistan a lot says it categorically about the Afghanistan (!!) war: The US should have stayed out of it.
While commenting on a recent book by Afghan war vet Marcus Luttrell the editor says
Mr. Luttrell writes
If you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place
I couldn't agree more
Well would you look at that! I myself couldn't agree more with both of them and I doubt many of us here would disagree.
But of course, the reason you and I agree with the quote above is not exactly the same reason those two reich wingers had in mind. Their reasoning is bellow the fold and will make you speechless
GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo (Colo.) said Friday it is "time the taxpayer gravy train left the New Orleans station" and urged an end to the federal aid to the region that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina two years ago. [...]
"The mentality that people can wait around indefinitely for the federal taxpayer to solve all their worldly problems has got to come to an end," said Tancredo
Another neocon says stuff that is even worse:
Two years after Katrina, everywhere you turn, there are people carping, whining, and kvetching. Just why hasn't the pity party for the citizens of New Orleans run out of booze and chips yet? [...]
Let me tell all the citizens of New Orleans something that should have been told to them 18 months ago: it's time to stop playing the sympathy card and get over it
Swell guys, heh ? As the poet says... "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when september ends
A funny thing happened to me last week... I got enough mojo to finally get TU status. And the global warming biblical floods hit my hometown Chicago with a vengeance, sending sewer tainted floodwaters inside people's houses and - alas - my basement.
I call it a funny THING not THINGS because both events had the exact same result: I was graced with the privilege of being able to get knee deep in muck, breathing the rank sewage fumes of DailyKos bowels hunting for trolls, while resting from my real life excursions to a basement knee deep with fetid sewer laced water.
That's what they don't tell you about TU. You don't get a T-Shirt, a flashy user name and perpetual invitations to wine and dine with FPers. No, you get a flashlight, a set of galoshes and a pistol loaded with only 5 TR bullets, to go hunt for the mice and vermin in the underground floor.
And boy do we have them here! Ugh! Click on the linky and I'll tell you about the few I just met... But before that, give a round of applause to those intrepid souls that keep on cleaning up threads and making this site a pleasurable place to read: the TUs
Literally, but not like his friend Larry Craig.... Turns out that some university students mooned Rove earlier this year and now that Karl has more time to spend with his family he wants to spend that time sending the Secret Service after the students who mooned him.
Wonkette who broke the story describes what happened to the students
On Friday, Gardner and the rest of the group were notified by AU’s Dean of Students that the Secret Service has issued warrants for their arrest.
Isn't it the height of pettiness ? The man who send prostitutes to a Democrat campaign office is upset at being mooned ?
I love Wonkette's comment:
This is a shocking lesson for us all: there apparently are some young college boy asses Republicans don’t want to see.
But surely it is just an over the top historical metaphor, right ? Think again, it is so ingrained in neocon's reason to be that it shows up all around us. Note yesterday's Wapo article about Rove
said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (Va.)... "We knew history was against us, and he helped coordinate all of the accoutrements of the executive branch to help...
The First 32 weeks of the global oil shock documented in stories posted all over the internet. An Alternate - but not to far fetched - reality being told collaboratively by thousands. On videos, poems, podcasts, posts, stories. In a language the younger generation understands.
I was ripped out of my peaceful sleep this afternoon by a shotgun blast coming from a nearby neighbor's house.... Then came another. I scrambled out of bed... I saw two teenage boys on four-wheelers with gas cans on their laps fly by on the road...
Do check it out. It is very well done and it's raising awareness among the under 25 in a way none of us old fossils could hope to do
I come from a 3rd World country. A country where countless corrupt politicians have been skimping government funds for infrastructure for nearly a century. Where dictators told us what to think and that we couldn't vote during my lifetime. And where now spending money on popular projects trumps any logic or necessity. Where Karl Rove would have been considered old fashioned and naive.
So it was a big shock to me to see a bridge falling due to those myopic, corrupt views, not on my country of origin, poor and beleaguered by a succession of corrupt nepotist governments, but here, in my adopted country. The leader of the free world, the beacon of freedom. Where everyone was supposed to be equal under the law.
Except that we aren't are we ? What are the odds of Cheney or Bush's family and friends be subject to what those working stiffs in Minnesota were ? Drowning after an honest day's work. What are the odds that any of them and their enablers, the Washington pundits, would be found within 2 miles from the dome in New Orleans during Katrina.
I ask the red state voters who still support those madmen. Who do you think they are drowning in a bathtub ? Who are the millions of dollars stolen in Iraq being stolen from ? Open your eyes before you find yourself under several feet of water.
Isn't this a good way to frame the debate ? I wish I had a T-Shirt with this to today's fireworks....
Put it plain and simply, Bush has intervened on behalf of a buddy, completely ignoring the country, the law and the constitution he swore to uphold.
Paris Hilton's parents felt tempted to do the same, but alas, they don't have (yet) the same power. Bush, the drunk driving, parole violating C student has. And used it in complete violation to law and decency.
Let's get teh message out there. The outrage the people felt when they saw Paris Hilton returning home after 3 days of jail shows that the country is not completely gone. It just needs to be told what is going on, when the outrage doesn't happen with beautiful blonde bombshells.
The reporter arrested covered here by LieparDestin went by too quickly for most to notice but chilled my blood. They wanted to charge him with ESPIONAGE for venting some conspiracy theories publicly. WTF ? Is that a prelude to send outspoken reporters to Gitmo with no lawyer ?
AS IF any rich / powerful guy / gal /kid had anything to fear from breaking the law, as Paris Hilton's release proves so eloquently.
AS IF they ever took ESPIONAGE seriously (Valerie Plame anyone ?).
...february made me shiver
With every paper I’d deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn’t take one more step.
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about RACHEL
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
Bush was beating the drums of war yet again A stupid, vain war. We marched against it. No one listened. Could we liberals be wrong ? I started thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad. A 4-6 weeks day thing like his dad's excursion on the sands. Maybe Bush was just a goofier Gerald Ford.
Then it happened. Rachel was killed, in broad daylight in front of cameras. An American. A young woman unarmed. Looking at my infant daughter resting I couldn't stop crying. I knew we were in for a long nightmare. I knew then and there Bush would crush America like his omission did with Rachel.
I started blogging that same day. And never stopped
A tiny news item found - of all places - at Redstate - shows us how brave this men and women were to defy Bush in front of his army of braindead zombies.
AP) LOS ANGELES A man was arrested and accused of mailing threatening letters laced with white powder to Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, David Letterman and other high-profile figures, the FBI announced Sunday.
Authorities claim he mailed threatening letters to Pelosi, Letterman, New York Sen. Charles Schumer, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.
Some letters included phrases like "Death to Demagogues" ...
While the FBI is still trying to identify the white powder, preliminary tests revealed it does not pose a biological hazard.
A year and a half ago I leaned on the Beatles to express my grief at what Bush was doing to the country and the troops (Daily Kos: The fool on the hill)
Today I lean on them again to express my hopes that the nightmare is at an end. This time I wasn't able to change a word on the lyrics. It all fits
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right
Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes......
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
It's all right
