Two Babes and a Brain

Boy, Do I have a Whacko Liberal Story for Ya'll...

Last week, hubby ran into a woman across the street from the Dem Headquarters as he was coming out of his office.  We'll call here idiot)  She struck up a conversation with him about politics.  After about a 20 minute chat, she said he made some valid points and that maybe they would talk again.  No biggie...right?  HA...

Today, about 75 feet from the door of the poling place which is next to his office, hubby was chatting with a woman about cell phones... no politics... just cell phones (we'll call her Sara).  The woman from last week (idiot) walks by, sees hubby, and starts yelling at Sara... "Don't let him change your mind Sara.  He harrassed me last week and now he is harassing you."  Sara looked at Idiot and said, "No he's not.  We're talking about cell phones."  Idiot continued yelling so loud that polling workers came running outside asking what's going on.  Idiot then walked into the polling place and began yelling hubby's name out and saying he held her against her will and harassed her attempting to change her mind.  She was demanding that someone file harassment charges against him.  Now you see why I named her Idiot.

Poor hubby...he's had a rough day.  I took him out to dinner to sooth his wounded soul and assured him if we ever run into her in our very small town, he can leave her to me.  ;o)

Lisa

No Bounce from Biden...OOPS

Golly gee willakers.... doesn't look like O'bama's Veep choice was such a big hit... but then according to the latest Gallup poll, O'bama isn't doing so hot either.  Guess we'll have to see what happens after his big acceptance speech.... of course that's if Hillary doesn't pull a coup during the so called "roll call".... but then latest is that there isn't going to be a roll call, there's going to be a written vote.  If that is true, it sounds like O'bama is pulling out of his agreement. 

Typical. typical.... ;o)

Lisa

He is NOT Your Baby's Daddy...

...according to John Edwards .   Hmmmm..... maybe she should go on the Maury Povich show for her free paternity test.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Lisa

Iraq and other things...

For a while now, I have marveled at the ability of the Democratic Party to not vote their self-interests. In almost every poll done, when asked who they thought knew the most, had the best plan, was most qualified...Joe Biden finishes first or second. When asked who they will vote for it's Clinton, Obama, and Edwards. Hello?

Sure, let's make history and elect a woman or a black guy without any thought as to whether or not they are the right person for the job.

Biden says the next president will have "no margin of error" when it comes to Iraq and the War on Terror and I think that's true. He has consistently not voted to undermine the soldiers in harms way--something that goes right up the ass of the progressives--he says, he won't defund the war so long as there is one soldier over seas who will be harmed by that decision. He says some things are more important than winning elections.

For years, he has said that the way for Iraq to be successful is to divide the country into three STATES under a loose FEDERAL GOVERNMENT with an equitable division of the oil revenue.

He's right...

You can read about it in the Post.

If you happened to catch the President of Iraq on CNN yesterday, you saw him agree with Biden.

Time to start voting with our heads and not our desire to make history...

Chris

Figures...

Let it not be said, that the Democratic Party has it's act together. Sigh...we really can screw up a free lunch.

Chris

Wasted Opportunity...

Michelle Obama made waves with her comment "If you can't run your own house, you can't run the White House."  I think if she was referring to the Clintons, she hit the nail on the head.  How is Hillary going to run this country if she is going to have to keep a constant choke chain on her husband? 

My only problem with Mrs. Obama's comment is the fact that the Obama camp is back pedaling... insisting it wasn't directed at the Clintons but, in fact, the Obama family.  That's a shame.  It was a great comment and if it wasn't purposefully directed at Hillary.... it damn well should have been.

Lisa

Democratic Forum...

Tonight is the Labor Democratic Forum. I guess I will live blog it until I lose interest or until the kids drive me to drink and I pass out. From what I can tell, Gravel isn't showing up, which, for me, is a good thing. I'll be back at 7:00. Feel free to comment along the way...

Chris

Dodd said something.

Hillary said something.

Obama gives the "we are not safer" part of his stump speech.

Biden says we don't need any more studies, we need to fix the stuff we know is broken. Says Republicans have been irresponsible.

Edwards gets asked how do you convince Americans the inconvenience of fixing things is worth it? He says not hard. And now the kids are fighting and I have no idea what Edwards is saying. He talks about lobbyists having all the power.

Phone call.

Kucinich is talking. I think I am getting a cold...I hate summer colds. Maybe it's allergies. Kucinich is the workers candidate.

Obama sounds way more comfortable answering questions about state issues. He was asked about his vote for funding of Soldiers Field. Seems better geared to say, and that's good for the state of Illinois rather than that's good for America.

Richardson is telling me that he is a governor--again.

And we'll be back after I pee...

And we're back...

Hillary and NAFTA question...need to have broad reform in how we approach trade, smart trade, pro-American trade...not sure what any of that means...create a trade prosecutor? cuz God knows we need another lawyer...need a better approach but doesn't tell us what it is.

Richardson is telling me he is against child and slave labor? Is anyone on the record as being for that?

Obama is immediately calling the President of Mexico and Canada--right after Castro and the President of Iran...sigh...trys to slap Hillary on lobbyists again--cuz it worked once at the DailyKos week-end

Biden would change NAFTA

Dodd--I'm sorry but I can't hear Dodd...anytime he talks, I tune out--it's like that cell phone ring all the kids have that people over thirty can't hear...

Edwards...missed it

Kucinich will notify Mexico and Canada that we are withdrawing from NAFTA and the WTO

Kucinich holds a pep rally--

Oberman gives Hillary another 30 second wonder who he is voting for?

I'm your girl...she actually said, I'm your girl...I prefer "I'm your Huckleberry" (see Tombstone)

OK, I'm bored and I think it is a cold not allergies...I'm going to get some coffee...barring someone's pants falling down, I'm done.

Biden was asked was China an ally or adversary-he said neither but they own the mortgage on our house...good line--k, I'm done now.

Woops!

Pakistan slams 'ignorant' Obama attack warning

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan accused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama of "sheer ignorance" for threatening to launch US military strikes against Al-Qaeda on Pakistani soil.

""Such statements are being made out of sheer ignorance," Pakistan's Minister of State for Information, Tariq Azeem, told AFP. "They are not fully apprised about the ground realities and not aware of the efforts by Pakistan.""

link to full article

some historical perspective:
Report from The United States Institute of Peace, "US-Pakistan Engagement: The War on Terrorism and Beyond"

Don't believe your own press...

The most dangerous thing you can do in politics is to believe your own press. It is how so many campaigns are lost and the reason that candidates that lose are surprised when they do. So let me take a moment this morning to give my more liberal cohorts in the Democratic party some advice.

Stop it. Stop it now. Stop believing your own press releases and blog posts. Stop hanging around with only each other. Go out to a bar or a diner or a restaurant--a real bar or diner or restaurant. Go someplace where they don't service hummus. Go someplace where they serve burgers and beer. Listen to real people.

Next time you ask a political question, listen to the answer don't fill in what the person didn't say with what you assume he or she thinks. Ask them the next logical question in the series--for example, if you ask them if they want the troops out of Iraq now and they say yes, ask them how long they think it would take or if they think we should take every soldier out.

There is this nasty rumor that the 2006 election was a mandate for bring the troops home now. It's a rumor started by the far left and promoted by the far left and it is a rumor that equals the noise of Fox News. Both play so much in the background that they become defacto truth if you don't scratch the surface.

First off, when did we change the definition of mandate? No one got a mandate. We don't have enough of  a majority in either the House or Senate to decide on a lunch order without a three day debate. That is not a mandate. That is not to say that most people don't want us to get out of Iraq, what it means is that there are many different ideas about how and when that should happen.

Next, security does matter. Until you address and deal with the security issue and, by the way, agreeing to meet with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela does not constitute a plan or dealing with it--you won't get any attention or traction on anything else. Whether you like it or not, no matter whose fault you think it is, there are some very real security issues for this country and our next elected leader and while diplomacy is a part of it, you better have a back up plan just in case one of those guys decides to tell you to screw or--gasp! Never happen--lie to you.

Finally, even if you believe that 2006 was a mandate and again, it wasn't. 2008 is a presidential election. The left got all of it's voters out in 2006 because by definition the "base" of the party are activists and tend to vote even in off year elections. There will be a lot more people voting in 2008 and they aren't base voters.

Sigh...Go ahead. Be steadfast in your moral authority. Be sure in how right you are. Keep moving to the left, keep squawking. We can call you the Other Evangelicals because your inability and unwillingness to compromise or to look at the world through anything other than the premise you propose makes you as narrow minded and destructive to the political system as they have been.

Keep it up. The truth is, while you can't win an election for the Democratic party you just might be able to lose one for us.

Chris

Where is the Center?

I found this at TomPaine.Common Sense. What does say that all of the Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear at the YearlyKos progressive blogger gathering in Chicago, not one is slated to join the DLC in Nashville?  Even Biden? - HC

Wrong On The Right

Submitted by Robert Borosage on July 26, 2007 - 5:36pm.

The corporate wing of the Democratic Party - the Democratic Leadership Council—will meet in its "National Conversation" this weekend in Nashville. The press is already noting that while all of the Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear at the YearlyKos progressive blogger gathering in Chicago, not one is slated to join the DLC in Nashville.

DLC head Al From suggests this is because the candidates have "tunnel vision," and, focused on the Iowa caucuses, are chasing liberal activists. But From is certain that the party's nominee will turn to the DLC and drift to the right when it comes to the general election. "It's sort of like you play on one end of the field to win the nomination," From said, "but if you want to win the game, you've got to play on both ends."

This has been the DLC's theme from its inception. Democrats, the group argued, had to distance themselves from "liberal interest groups," bite their tongues, and appeal to a center that, over the years, moved ever further to the right.

But that threadbare theory, dubious when it was initially aired a quarter century ago, is divorced from reality now. The "center" of American politics isn't on the right; the center is increasingly progressive in its views. The majority of Americans now oppose the Iraq War, oppose corporate trade policies, want big reforms in health care and energy policy, and are looking for a new deal in the economy. They aren't looking for the triangulated, modest reforms that Dick Morris and the DLC championed—school uniforms and computerized medical records—they are looking for bold changes and a very new direction.

From is partially right. The progressive base of the party is driving the debate. It has grown in sophistication and capacity, from labor's revived political program to Moveon.org and the new blogger energy. And it is buoyed by a sense that a majority of Americans are increasingly in moving our way.

But the DLC—indelibly dubbed Democrats for the Leisure Class by the Rev. Jesse Jackson—has always had a base built on corporate money and lobbyists, not on activists. Its isolation isn't because it doesn't have troops in Iowa or New Hampshire. Its isolation comes because it simply has been wrong on the fundamental questions of our day.

Led by Sen. Joe Lieberman, the DLC was the raucous cheerleader for Bush's war in Iraq,