Just a little reminder… We’re having our first fundraising drive here in a very longtime. I know the economy is tight, but I’m asking readers to pitch in with some donations here to help keep us going. Read more here… Dem Daily Fundraising Drive.
So far we’ve received $100 — The goal is $500. Can you [...]
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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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Al Gore gave an impassioned speech today in Washington, “laying out his new approach to the entwined challenges of limiting risks from global warming and instability from rising energy prices and declining supplies of fossil fuels.” Watch a clip from Al Gore’s speech here:
In his speech, Gore put forth a challenge to citzens and politicians in [...]
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As some former Clinton supporters continue to press on with the idea that Hillary Clinton should be our nominee, the HuffPo reports today Hillary Clinton has distanced herself from at least one prominent “Anti-Obama Hillraiser,” Ricki Lieberman.
Lieberman is keeping her own private hope alive with a daily email blast to supporters, entitled “Electability Watch,” which features [...]
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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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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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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:
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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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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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The reactions are pouring in on the news of Senator Kennedy’s diagnosis that he has a malignant brain tumor. CNN reports that “Senate Democrats and Republicans were having their weekly closed policy lunches in the Capitol when the news broke.”
When Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told his Democratic colleagues about Kennedy, there was “stunned silence,” [...]
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There are no words to express the sadness over the news on Ted Kennedy’s condition. Doctors from Mass General Hospital announced today that kennedy has “a cancerous brain tumor” that caused the “seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend.”
“He remains in good spirits and full of energy,” the doctors for the 76-year-old Massachusetts [...]
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Senator John Kerry is reported to currently be at Massachusetts General Hospital with Senator Kennedy and members of the Kennedy family. Via my contact in Senator Kerry’s office, his press office has released the following statement in regards to Senator Edward Kennedy:
“Ted Kennedy is beloved and respected on both sides of the aisle in the Senate in [...]
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Senator Ted Kennedy was hospitalized this morning after suffering from stroke like symptoms. He was rushed by ambulance and initially hospitalized at Cape Cod Hospital and then airlifted to Mass General in Boston.
Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter says that “Kennedy has been hospitalized in Boston after suffering a seizure,” rather than a “stroke as initially suspected.”
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