Guest Post: By BERRY CRAIG Sometimes, people unintentionally define themselves by what they call others. Take Republicans who say Barack Obama is a “socialist.” It just shows how far right-wing they are. They pinned the “socialist” or “socialistic” label on the president when he was a candidate last year. Their man, John McCain, got clobbered. Name-calling is about all the Republicans have got left. After eight years of President George W. Bush, the economy is tanking. Unemployment topped eight...
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Obama in Portland: America is Back!
EDITOR’S NOTE: From Sandnsea on DU: So much to tell! If you get a chance to go hear this man speak, GO! Foremost, He said: “We Can End This War Without George Bush.” He is echoing Kerry, Richardson, Dodd, etc – they are going to spin this Petraeus report and it is important to Call Your Republican Senators and Reps NOW, Keep The Pressure On. That’s exactly what John Kerry said, we are more unified than the media is...
Left Behind: Families of Our Troops
This guest post comes from Dizzy Dezzi. This post is taken from TKB and I think everyone needs to read this. Listen to the words of a military wife! Sorta cross-posted from dizzydayz. I know I haven’t stopped by in awhile, but I don’t like using this generous spot that Donnie has given me to post fluff (I have my own blog for that). But, many of my own readers know that nothing gets me more riled up than...
8/29 Investigation: A call to action
Todays guest post comes from one of the NOLA bloggers. Adrastos is one of the NOLA bloggers that I met at the New Orleans crime rally. You just have to love the city of New Orleans and their very own citizen media. A couple of the bloggers were speakers at the rally, and gave Nagin a verbal lashing. I have to tell you, the rally was something to behold, but the bloggers are the best. Those people rock! On...
Would the World’s Largest Science Teacher’s Organization Ignore Climate Change Education?
EDITORS NOTE: Today’s Guest Post is from John F. Borowski. John is a science teacher of 26 years whose pieces have appeared in the N.Y. Times, UTNE Reader, Counterpunch, Commondreams and many other sites. The National Teachers Association (NSTA) has spurned 50,000 free DVDs of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and is squandering a golden opportunity to educate tens of millions of youth in the United States! Why? This 55,000- member organization of teachers and scientists could use Al...
How to End the War in Iraq
EDITOR’S NOTE: As Bush spent the day with members of the bi-partisan Iraq Study Group “examining a new approach to the war in Iraq,” today’s Guest Post is from Dem Daily reader Sam Osborne. How to end the war in Iraq—peace without need of victory A war with a “foreign devil” may serve the purposes of a leader that desires to control the thinking of his people, but a bogus threat to their security does not assist that people...
The Bush Aftermath
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tonight’s Guest Post is from Gabe Caggiano. Over the past ten years I’ve been at dozens of news conferences held by George W. Bush, but none have been more awkward than the one at the White House the day after the midterm elections. Minutes before it began, the story broke Don Rumsfeld was out and some guy at Texas A&M was in. As Anne Compton of ABC Radio spoke frantically into her mic to announce the news,...
The John Kerry I Know
EDITORS NOTE: Today’s guest post is from Erin. It speaks for itself: The John Kerry I Know Late in 2005, I was invited as a guest to John Kerry’s birthday gala in Boston. At the party, I had the honor of speaking with Kerry himself as well as his lovely and sweet wife. It was a great experience. But, like many such events, it had several hundred people present, and no one person got much “face time.” That was...
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