How to describe the debate to your right-wing friends.
...always assuming you have some. As a reformed right-winger, I have more than my share.I got home late last night, and had forgotten that the twenty-first installment of America's hottest new reality...
View ArticleWhy I'm angry.
I'm fairly angry with how this primary process has turned out. Not that Obama is now the presumptive nominee of the party, that was the outcome I've been hoping for since I realized Edwards was not...
View ArticleLet's remember why we're here.
I wrote yesterday, or the day before, about my anger that the issues have been overrun by process when we as progressives have had the spotlight on us. I think at this point Hillary can run her own...
View ArticleCombatting lies.
Well, we're plunged headlong at this point into a general election campaign. While for many of us (most of us, if the polls from last November are any indication) Obama was not the first choice, I...
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Mid-Year: How's it going?
Well, 2008 is almost half-over. Now seems as good a time as any to reflect on how far we've come, and what we want to accomplish by the end of the year.On January 2, a straw poll showed John Edwards up...
View ArticleStop freaking on the polls.
So, the media keeps polling, and reporting on these polls, and pushing the line "Why isn't Obama further ahead?" as some sort of bizarre echo of the old "experience" argument. Meanwhile a full 72% of...
View Article"Pat Roberts...is an a--hole."
Yesterday the deputy communications director for Slattery for Senate, accidentally sent out the wrong e-mail. The campaign was asking supporters for stories about how Pat Roberts had failed them. This...
View ArticlePulling America left.
Well, I figured there were enough diaries on Palin for someone to write a New York Times best seller without using any sources beyond DailyKos, so I thought I'd write a piece of self-indulgent crap.I...
View ArticleChanging the dialogue on Obama
It seems as though, despite the choice of Sarah Palin as the VP pick, the Republicans are going to shift their rhetoric from no experience to no leadership experience.The main thing I've taken away...
View ArticleA 9/11 Conversation with a Conservative
For the purposes of understanding this country, it is useful, although sometimes maddening, to have a close friend whose view of politics is the complete opposite of your own. My best friend is a...
View ArticleA quick one while he's away, and pirate names.
So this week has gotten off to a start that's just way too serious. I'm all for sober reflection of the harsh realities of the world, but this week has pushed me too far. Ike may be worse than Katrina...
View ArticleThey're doing the bailouts wrong.
So, even without this apparent massive shift of power to the Treasury Secretary, the bailout bill is a bad bill. I have no earthly idea why any thinking liberal thinks bailing out these failed...
View ArticleHow McCain stole Christmas
Not literally, of course. I'm speaking of Christmas as Chris Sullentrap did this morning. Of course, true political junkies know that the Presidential Debates are more than just Christmas. It's...
View Article"The dangers of liberal bias"
Joan Chevalier has written a "column" for today's Boston Globe entitled "The Dangers of Liberal Bias." I put quotes around "column" because it reads more like a fevered rationalization for why her side...
View ArticleCan you feel it in the air?
In 2006, I was a shiny new liberal. I had voted for Bush in 2000, and in 2004 my conservatism still kept me from voting for Kerry, so I cast my vote for Peroutka. Through a series of events that I...
View ArticleA cross of iron.
"A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations."So said President Eisenhower in 1953,...
View Article"If Obama is elected God's going to put America on notice." w/poll
At 7:30 central time last night, my mom called me to ask what I thought of the Obama infomercial. I said I didn't have a chance to watch it. As a full-time college student and a part-time aspiring...
View ArticleConversation with my mom II: Abortion
The last diary I wrote was regarding my response to my fundamentalist Christian mom passing along the thoughts of her fundamentalist Christian friends. Being that it was received better than any other...
View ArticleThey learned the wrong lesson. Again.
"Conservatism did not lose last night," whines Limbaugh. "Conservatism was not on the ballot."Sound familiar to you? It does to me. This is exactly the same spin we heard two years ago. So how does it...
View ArticleJoe's News: The Absurdity of the Real
So, everyone else in the world, or at least this web site, is looking at the high-profile news stories. Lieberman retaining his chairmanships, who's going to be in Obama's cabinet, a few incredibly...
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