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A Bad Weekend for John McCain - Obama in Iraq

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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Dem Daily Upgrade Complete

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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Dem Daily Upgrades

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 [...]

Late Night: Speaking of Netroots Nation

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 [...]

Al Gore at Netroots Nation 2008

Al Gore wowed the “the Netroots Crowd” today at Netroots Nation. Here’s Part 1 of Al Gore at NetRoots Nation on video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7zLTvNJJco

Egalia has more on Tennessee Guerilla Women.

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Weekend Must Read: The Dark Side

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 [...]

Fighting On: Clinton May Take Delegate Fight to Convention

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 [...]

Color Me Perplexed

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:
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADh18AP1vQM

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, [...]

Can’t Get No Satisfaction

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 [...]

Blogger Call With Hillary Clinton

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 [...]

Clinton Defends Obama from Bush

As I expected she would… Today in Rapid City, SD, Hillary Clinton went to bat for Barack Obama in the wake of Bush’s comparison of him to Neville Chamberlain, Ken Vogel reports (via Politico).
She told reporters:
President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially [...]

John Edwards Endorses Obama

John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama tonight in Grand Rapids, Michigan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzkAjd3xQ7w

The media and blogosphere are abuzz as to the hows and whys of Edwards stepping up to endorse Obama when the race is down to the finish line with just a few primaries left, but the endorsement does come ”at a time when the appeal of Mr. [...]