Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
A quick thought on John McCain’s bad weekend… Let’s hope it’s a trend for McCain. Because John McCain doesn’t really know what Iraqi’s or American’s want. Barack Obama knows American’s want out of Iraq and he’s in Iraq scoping out the facts on the ground.
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Just a quick note to readers… The upgrade I mentioned in my post below has been completed. We are now running on the latest version of Word Press. I haven’t had a chance to fully look through the new features, but will later tonight.
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve been messing around today with Plugins and getting ready to upgrade The Dem Daily to the latest version of Word Press. We have a new comment platform and I’ve done away with the comment preview feature. The new comment platform does have spell check.
Just a word of warning… I’m getting ready to start the [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Katharine Q. Seelye of the NY Times is at Netroots Nation and she reports that members of the netroots are swearing off their “use of profanity” in the blogosphere… or at least some say they “have scaled back” on it.
Digby Parton, who writes on Hullabaloo.com, said she initially thought of her blog as an ephemeral [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Al Gore wowed the “the Netroots Crowd” today at Netroots Nation. Here’s Part 1 of Al Gore at NetRoots Nation on video:
Egalia has more on Tennessee Guerilla Women.
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Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s two weekend must reads on Jane Mayer’s new book, The Dark Side, The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
First check out the review by Andrew J. Bacevich, in the WaPo: Collateral Damage:
In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, documents [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Hillary Clinton is not backing down on seating the Florida and Michigan delegates with out a fight, she says. Clinton said today that “she is willing to take her fight to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to the convention if the two states want to go that far.”
In an interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Late last night I watched the video below about Clinton supporters who plan to actively campaign against Barack Obama as the nominee, and vote for John McCain:
Color me perplexed as to the reasoning from these women… One of their primary reasons is the sexism that Clinton has weathered during the campaign. But why on Earth, [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Despite of the fact that he was defeated soundly by large margins in West Virginia and again tonight in Kentucky, Barack Obama is touting that the nomination is within reach (with the help of the Obama-media). But… For many Democrats voting today, there’s a sense of dis-satisfaction that is troubling. Marc Ambinder notes:
In Kentucky, 8 in [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’m on a blogger call with Hillary Clinton right now. I’ll do my best to live blog as much as possible.
Peter Daou just thanked all the bloggers supporting Hillary and introduced her. She’s speaking now, thanking us all for working so hard in the blogosphere to make her case on the issues that matter. Hillary [...]
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