Comments on: Come Saturday Morning: The Contrast

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:13:35 +0000

You are perfectly correct about McCain being responsible for this situation in South Carolina.

After all he’s pumped $190,000 into the coffers of Richard Quinn, the editor of “Southern Partisan” a neo-Confederacy magazine for the “thinking mans” KKK. McCain has used Quinn as an advisor since his 2000 campaign and still does. Quinn supported David Duke, called the MLK holiday “vile”.

McCain’s Southern Segregationist

An interesting link…Pat Buchanan is a “Senior Advisor” to “Southern Partisan”. And McCain also counts George Wallace, Jr. (who has not made the sorts of apologies that his father did late in his life) as a supporter.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:44:51 +0000

Don’t you wish for Ted Kennedy to remind us that “the dream will never die”. The vision and hope must call us into a future of promise, maybe even peace. What sharp contrasts.

Actually, I’ve been wishing that the Democrats would have Ted Kennedy tape a “public service announcement” that says, “I’ve seen what hatred and violence can do in politics. It’s irresponsible and unAmerican to encourage these dark emotions and the actions that result. Please stop.” [And I’m lookin’ at YOU, John McCain.]

By: interlude

interlude — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:40:16 +0000

i agree that Obama’s discipline and organization have been tremendous. i believe that even without the economic downturn, he can win the election. the depression we are sinking into has helped alot, however, because he cannot afford to win by only 2 or 3 %, not with election fraud like it is today.
however, i would caution that the “disorder” in the GOP camp, while indicative of many problems, is also a tactic among neo-cons of the Rovian blend. while it seems they have no strategy, these thugs have used that very disorder as a tactic in recent years. what seemed like lack of a strategy in Iraq was a strategy for permanent presence. what seemed like disorder in Katrina was a tactic for stealing property from the poor, and changing the face of NOLA forever.

just saying…..

By: ItchyBrother

ItchyBrother — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:14:33 +0000

Thank you for so eloquently stating the thoughts that have been floating around my brain over the past several months. I know that millions of people (across the political spectrum) see and understand exactly what you have described here. What surprises me is how many people still don’t get it.

By: SunnyNobility

SunnyNobility — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:25:33 +0000

PW, congrats on a brilliant post. You nailed it and articulated it masterfully. The magic is competence, coupled with hard work and insight into what people can hear.

I’ve been responding to the competence but with reservations about the message - not concrete and specific enough for my taste. My mistake.
There is comfort in knowing he’s not issuing a laundry list of promises he can’t realistically keep.

Brilliant to highlight the effective habits possessed by anyone who can make editor of the Harvard Law Review. It’s a source of great hope to realize he is in fact the brains behind his own campaign.

Your Clinton analogy is well made. The presidency of the US is not a job for someone of average intelligence and skills. Why TF have we been allowing folks to run around suggesting it is?? If intelligence and application makes one an elitist, go elitists!

By: TheLurkingMod

TheLurkingMod — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:16:56 +0000

Marcy has a new piece over at emptywheel!
What Does TrooperGate Mean for November 4?

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:16:16 +0000

The Palins through their ~~high powered~~ ‘middle class’ attorneys are blaming the messenger rather than themselves:

The lawyers representing Palin and her husband, Todd Palin, issued a three-page attack on the investigative report, including the contention that Ethics Act violations can only involve financial motives and financial “potential gain, or the avoidance of a potential loss.”
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“Here, there is no accusation, no finding and no facts that money or financial gain to the governor was involved in the decision to replace Monegan,” the lawyers said.

Any abuse of power, they said, was on the part of the Legislative Council members, not the Palins.

“Sen. French and Sen. Green may have abused their government power by using public money to pursue a personal vendetta against the governor…”

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/PO.....stigation/

This is so interesting because this is exactly what George Bush & Dick Cheney did for 8 years! Spit.

By: billybugs

billybugs — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:14:26 +0000

The people of the world will think that Americans have finally regained their sanity!

By: billybugs

billybugs — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:09:52 +0000

It’s time to drive a stake into the heart of the Reagan era ,this country will not survive another 4 years of conservative policy.

By: STTPinOhio

STTPinOhio — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:07:21 +0000

Another strategic benefit of campaign finance reform would be it effectively puts another stake in the heart of the Rethug beast.

Money has been the only way they’ve kept these elections close; that and stifling voter turnout.

Finance reform and efforts to increase voter turnout would beat them down to the 30% levels they really represent.

And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch.