This should be “further ado.”

http://www.allwords.com/word-without further ado.html

It’s good to emphasize this strategy part to running.. Because initial thought places emphasis on “win or lose.” Glad winning can be defined in multiple ways.

Yeah, maybe we can get back to long term, strategic thinking and not just next quarter profit thinking.

Rethugs never bought the idea that you can’t run government like a business. I, however, remain convinced.

Pachacutec @ 71

Let me bring up another point…running for office isn’t about winning the first time out, although we gave it our absolute best shot.

If you think only in terms of winning as success, then you’re selling the process short. [snip]

This is not well enough understood. Thanks for making the point.

Taking part in national movement for change as a candidate means changing the groundwork on which politics is discussed and understood.

Speaking from my woeful ignorance of baseball, where there’s a kind to strategy to move your teammates onto bases… I remember a term is a “sacrifice something”, the point being to go to bat, and tho you’re sacrificed, you move your teammate forward toward scoring. (Baseballers, go ahead and tell me what I really meant ;) ahem!)

It’s good to emphasize this strategy part to running.. Because initial thought places emphasis on “win or lose.” Glad winning can be defined in multiple ways.

That’s an apt analogy. Another one from the military is “asymmetric warfare”. It’s used to refer to things like guerilla warfare, where a relatively small amount of resources can be used to tie up a substantial amount of the resources of your adversary. The sacrifice analogy works well on the personal level – IOW, answering the question “Why should I do this?”, meaning run for office or work on a campaign when there’s little hope of winning. The asymmetric warfare analogy answers the strategic question “Why should we do this?”, meaning try to contest every race it’s possible to contest.

Sorry I missed NYBri. If you’re still reading, thanks for stopping by.

you must have been some incredible people, and some real, live fools. How to continue to be diplomatic would be a chore, I would think.

Just wanted to add my .02 cents.

New Hamsher

Film at eleven.

Last week the story came out that Bush had given himself the right to open Americans’ mail. This week, we find out that the Pentagon and to some extent the CIA are engaged in domestic spying by the issuance of “national security letters” to banking institutions to get banking records and credit ratings of American citizens. Officials admit these records seldom (read never) to prosecutions but are used to “rule out” suspects. Nevertheless, the Pentagon has proposed creating a database out of this information.

With these constant assaults on privacy, I wonder if we have any privacy rights left.

Impeachment can be begun by a state legislature with one Representative presenting its petition. Just wondering if this has had much play in New York.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01…..r=homepage

Just so everyone knows, the State Senator in NM, Jerry Ortiz y Pino, who is sponsoring impeachment when the NM Legislature opens this week, was involved in some profile jobs for city Youth and Families types of departments, was a volunteer and wrote a regular opinion column for a local alternative rag. So he was visible.

He ran for an open seat (first elective office) in a seriously Democratic district, without opposition. His first year, he sponsored paper ballots and got it through. His second year, impeachment of the President.