Are the republicans afraid to stand up for what they believe in because of losing votes? No they proudly advertize their corporate favoritism. They proudly advertize that they want lower taxes for millionaires even when the country is in crippling debt. They don't care how many votes they lose.
Yet, we as a party are afraid to stand up for our beliefs. We are afraid of blowback for calling the republican ideas what they are, the mindless ramblings of retards.
Driving through the Chicago area today, I flipped off of PBS for a few minutes to search the AM dial, and ran across a clip of Dennis Kucinich's "Wake Up America" speech on AM 560. It was a long clip, and I didn't recognize the talk show host's voice from the few seconds when he interjected himself between parts of Kucinich's speech, so I hung around to hear the rest of it. What I heard was shocking, especially coming from a Jewish person.
Speaking of the audacity of hope, here is my hope for the Obama Administration. I'd like to see if we could get through four years of the Obama Administration without invading, bombing, or threatening to invade or bomb any other countries in violation of the UN Charter. Is that too audacious a hope?
My audacious hope is that during the Obama Administration, we'll never have to chant or sing "No Blood for Oil," as CodePink did Monday in the "protest cage" at the DNC in Denver:
Democrats often fault the Bush Administration for rupturing our relations with allies with its invasion of Iraq. The criticism is correct, but it finesses a key point. Why did the U.S. invasion of Iraq rupture relations with allies? Because the Bush Administration thumbed its nose at international law and the UN Charter.
Obama grabbed a remote control to switch from MSNBC which had the camera on former President Clinton sitting in the Denver audience to CSPAN which was carrying Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer's speech live.
I knew that man was smart! Hopefully even MORE people will start tuning in to C-SPAN!
So far the best speech at the convention by far was by Dennis Kucinich. It will be very hard for Obama to top "Wake Up America!"
Considering that Kucinich was given only 5 minutes and not the 20 minute keynote slot that he deserved, I'd go so far as to say it was the best 5 minute political speech in my lifetime of 58 years.
The Obama campaign made a big mistake putting Kucinich in the sub-prime time slot. So far Obama is running a "safe" campaign just like Kerry in 2004, and so far the polls show that Obama may get the very same result.
Regardless of what the gasbags say, I think the Democratic Party scored another win tonight.
Will Chris Matthews give up the PUMAs? Not a chance! I witnessed Tweety pumping that corpse one more time during the afterglow. Too grisly to describe further.
And speaking of grisly, the finish on MSNBC had the NBC bigwigs on the convention floor, lounging on folding chairs and talking. The self-importance simply oozed, but I’ve come to expect that when dealing with people like David Gregory.
Andrea Mitchell sounded like ‘Dear Abby’, worrying about ‘hurt feelings’ in the Senate. What’s next, Mrs. Greenspan, advice for the lovelorn?
Anybody who watched the convention tonight and didn't go away thinking "darn I love this country" is more than likely not to be ever persuaded. The Democrats put on a show of the century tonight from Dennis Kucinich's rousing speech to Bob Casey Jr's clever one liners, it was all around a great hard hitting night by the Democrats.
PDA, Progressive Democrats of America, is having workshops all week in Denver. Come and join us live online to see the workshops, and join in the chat room. Today the topic is Media Reform and Clean, Fair, Transparent Elections. Wednesday is Economic Justice and Global Warming. Thursday is Constitutional Law and Congress.
In an interview to be published in The New York Times this Sunday, Rep. Dennis Kusinich continues to make the case for impeachment – especially amid the Russia/Georgia crisis – as well as arguing for Democrats to come together to back Obama.
Asked why he continues calling for impeachment, Kucinich responds, "This president is capable of taking us into war, in October, on the eve of an election, to try to change the outcome of the election...
"The events in Georgia are a premonition...of an attack on Iran. When Georgia moved against South Ossetia as the Olympics are starting, the Bush administration begins its own Olympics – the war Olympics."
The headline speakers for the Democratic Convention include Michelle Obama on Monday, Senator Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton and Senator Barack Obama's VP nominee will speak on Wed and Barack Obama is speaking on Thursday.
There is one person I don't see that I sincerely hope the Democrats ask to not only attend but to speak.
At least last week's "this is not an impeachment" hearing in the House Judiciary Committee did something real. It proved that any so called "Progressive" who remains a member of the Democratic Party is part of the problem, not the solution.
And yes, Tucker is an arsehole and McCain=Brittney. Whatever.
Now that Ive got your attention, PLEASE click the #!%$%!!$!#&^$#!! Kucinich impeachment Petition.... or pass it on, comment to show you did, that you cared, that you didnt care but did your duty... just put some attention on it.
I see Newt got a million sigs on a petition for drilling. Yet Dennis has ONLY a few hundred thousand for saving the republic! How pathetic. There is a deadline at the midnight hour - tonight!
If you are only with difficulty making time to get through every bit of the 6-hours of Not-Yet-Impeachment hearings last Friday, I was skimming over, and highly recommend, the LiveBlog of the hearings by AfterDowningStreet.org's David Swanson. What few people know, and may never know, is there was high drama in that room. A sense of the proceedings can be gained rapidly by skimming over David's notes, who was in the room. A recent panel of Democracy Now discusses how newspapers across America are losing circulation and ad revenue. If this kind of stuff was reported in the newspapers, people would be snatching them up and the problem solved.
Let's face it: the impeachment of a law-breaking president is sexy, and sells papers.
Next steps on impeachment, please sign Dennis Kucinich's petition which he will be delivering to his colleagues before he takes his next step...
Just got this in the old inbox, and was glad to have this community to pass it along to -- in between bouts of work (three jobs) and the Obama campaign this site helps me to feel like I have a stake.
My personal feelings aside, I'm sure Dennis would like some backup for his pushback against the un-Constitutional excesses of the failed Bush regime.
UPDATE: Cleveland Plain Dealer did a story today on this.
Dennis Kucinich, the ex-Mayor of Cleveland and current Member of Congress, is desperate to get the American people to support his call to have hearings on possible impeachment of President GW Bush.
While he can use virtually any communication tool he wishes to use - direct mail, press, tv, internet, email, etc.. - he may want to hold off on continuing to make robo calls in California. The fine is $500 per incident.
Today, StopPoliticalCalls.org, received 100's of official complaints from our members about robo calls that Kucinich is making into the state of CA urging them to support his call for hearings on impeachment.
