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mind AJ'sMom.
Coem by ENR tonight and hang out with us!
"The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels." Al Gore, 7/17/08
by TomP on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 03:51:42 PM PDT
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A veteran is someone who, at one point in his/her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The USA for an amount of "up to and including my life." - unknown
by AJsMom on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 03:52:42 PM PDT
quite a few times when I wanted a dose of "positive".
I finally donated to him so I didn't feel like someone mooching drinks during happy hour.
Its the delegates that count
by Morgan Sandlin on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:06:04 PM PDT
tomorrow?
Keith Olbermann: If you truly revere Eward R. Murrow, it's time to change your sign off from "Good Night and Good Luck" to Fired Up and Ready to Go!"
by sgary on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:18:38 PM PDT
I may even buy a few pootie pics..lol.
Seems to be my fundraising m.o. lately :)
by Morgan Sandlin on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:27:06 PM PDT
...then it seems to me that we ought to be able to figure out a way to top that, right? or are we all talk, fervor, upbeat mood, but no dough?
I like Edwards in the race. He may not win, but who can say unless we try?
We just got a flyer for Hillary for the CA primary. Whew. Quite a list of promises.
by arthura on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:18:20 AM PDT
by ZhenRen on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:39:58 PM PDT
to look closely at the Edward's positions as well. We will take all voters.
Eisenhower- "We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage."
by NC Dem on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:48:46 PM PDT
She is in fourth grade so she is more interest in her nintendo ds than politics right now ;)
by AJsMom on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 05:17:58 PM PDT
...by taking him to vote with us when he was but a cub scout. Politics is a constant topic around here, he took to it naturally (and is a natural born leader himself, keeps getting voted "Most Likely to Rule the World" by his classmates and teachers...).
He turns 18 in May, will be voting in the NC primary and the November election. Is already taking registration forms to school to pass out at lunch. Guess who we're supporting? §;o)
People First Politics
by Joy Busey on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 07:03:47 PM PDT
I don't think I was even aware until I was ten or so....but I talk about it all so much with my hubby our son is picking it up.
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." --Ben Franklin
by jm taylor on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 07:13:39 PM PDT
is going with my father as he was going to vote for Kennedy. I was 3.
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. Ben Franklin
by nokkonwud on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 07:59:44 PM PDT
He took me every general election from Dukakis on (I was 7 then). One of my few regrets about Vote by Mail is that it was passed one year before I turned 18, meaning I never got the polling place experience.
"Polls are like crack, political activists know they're bad for them but they read them anyways."-Unknown
by skywaker9 on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 09:31:33 PM PDT
I remember my mom taking me in 1964 to the high school, I was 4 in June, and this must have been November because I remember the home-talk about President Johnson, he was only in office because of the assassination...
Of course, she was voting for Goldwater - (she still thinks there were WMD's in Iraq for chrissakes.) but I didn't know the difference.
Fast forward four years, my parents were solidly for Nixon, Ford, Reagan... etc.
I must have been adopted.
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. Thomas Jefferson 6/11/1807
by Patriot4peace on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 05:15:43 AM PDT
Iraq had nothing to do with September 11th on Video. So, show your mother the truth straight from the horses mouth, as it were. Video Link Here The video is 2 minutes long.
"We are a Plutocracy, we ought to face it. We need, desperately, to find new ways to hear independent voices & points of view" Ramsey Clark, US AG
by Mr SeeMore on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:40:11 AM PDT
my pop and my grama (ma's ma) were very politically savvy, so i grew up around political talk from day one... (i picked Carter for the record, despite the fact that my parents were Ford people...)
i was thinking about my minor - Middle Eastern studies - the other day, trying to figure out when i became interested in the Middle East, and i realized that there was constant discussion about the area throughout my youth - the Iranian Revolution and the Shah, the Camp David accords, the gas rationing, the hostage crisis, the Embassy bombing, the assassination of Sadat, etc... damn - that was the world region most covered in my household...
it's never to early to casually discuss politics and world affairs. of course, back then though, we didn't have cable tv, microwaves, video games, call phones, pcs, vcrs, and the TV channels went off the air at midnight, so there was a lot less competition, lol...
--poligirl
"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are."
by poligirl on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 12:53:43 AM PDT
grandson to protest with me last year. I explained to him that we were protesting a war in a far off place where people like his mommy and daddy and his friends parents were dying. He understood death, having seen one of our pooties die. He was all for the protest, and for someone with the attention span of a goldfish, did very well.
[-6.25, -5.59] "The love you take is equal to the love you make." - J. Lennon, P. McCartney
by Phil N DeBlanc on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 05:42:22 AM PDT
George McGovern had a campaign commercial that ended with one of those disclaimers, "Paid for by the comittee to elect McGovern", or something like that.
I thought it was conceited to pay for an ad that bragged about how good you were, so I was for Nixon.
They have not done these awful things because they are bad conservatives; they have done them because they are good conservatives. -- Thomas Frank
by sagra on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 06:43:34 AM PDT
http://mydd.com/
Scroll to middle of the page for article.
by lily15 on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 06:56:24 AM PDT
...my dad taking me with him to the polls when I was so little, I could look out under the curtain.
Funny thing is, Dad never talked in an explicit way about politics, though he was a lifelong Democrat. Political education meant knowing that voting was important, and had nothing to do with indoctrination.
Guess that's why I'm a Democrat.
I'm the plowman in the valley - with my face full of mud
by labradog on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 07:36:14 AM PDT
Our guy doesn't praise Reagan. Who's more progressive?
by palpatine316 on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 05:51:07 PM PDT
-4.75, -5.33 Cheney 10/05/04: "I have not suggested there is a connection between Iraq and 9/11."
by sunbro on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 07:18:28 PM PDT
For 50 years, presidents from Truman and Dwight Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton built strong alliances and deepened the world's respect for us. .. Millions cheered in Berlin when President John F. Kennedy stood with them and said, "Ich bin ein Berliner." Millions of people imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain silently cheered the day President Reagan declared, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Even if these ordinary men and women did not always agree with our policies, they looked to our president and saw a person -- and a nation -- they could trust.
For 50 years, presidents from Truman and Dwight Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton built strong alliances and deepened the world's respect for us.
..
Millions cheered in Berlin when President John F. Kennedy stood with them and said, "Ich bin ein Berliner." Millions of people imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain silently cheered the day President Reagan declared, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Even if these ordinary men and women did not always agree with our policies, they looked to our president and saw a person -- and a nation -- they could trust.
Article by John Edwards, Foreign Affairs Magazine, October 2007
how can i turn italics off in my signature?
by fightcentristbias on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 10:00:48 PM PDT
by Yoshimi on Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 06:30:21 AM PDT
by Caoilainn on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:06:31 PM PDT
... if I'm not mistaken.
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
by Light Emitting Pickle on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:10:17 PM PDT
by Quilldriver on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:17:04 PM PDT
by kate mckinnon on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:46:02 PM PDT
RedJet throws herself to the floor and wails...
Edwards' Democrat
by RedJet on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:11:13 PM PDT
and LOL!
:::Stroking RedJet's ego::: ;o)
A ship adrift in a sea of rhetoric & recycled clichés.
by Terre on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:14:07 PM PDT
by RedJet on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:22:03 PM PDT
help me!
I am really not good about the acronyms and the other places, I am just pleased that I have found Edwards supporters on the internet, YAY!
Is there a link to a DK user that will be posting or is it another site or what should I be looking for?
Don't wail! I am sorry!
by Caoilainn on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:27:11 PM PDT
The Edwards Evening News is by supporters of Edwards (not campaign people) and it goes up every night between 6-9 EST. Yep, every night.
We cover all the daily news about Edwards and have started a series of policy discussions - one major policy per night.
We also have a lot of fun. Play video's etc.
It is a very positive uplifting place.
People come by for their Edwards news fix and to hang out with Edwards' supporters.
Please come by! Just look at the Recommended diaries (it usually is on the Rec list) around the time I mentioned. Probably with say EENR with a subtitle.
:)
by RedJet on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 05:08:00 PM PDT
But I am glad that I asked. I am going to try to catch it tonight.
And if I do miss it, I do now know. Thanks, RedJet. :)
by Caoilainn on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 05:18:50 PM PDT
You can always just click on my name and you will be able to find in my comments the EENR. I am always there.
by RedJet on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 05:21:17 PM PDT
is a great tip! :)
I have loved the interactions I have had here with Edwards supporters. I look forward to tomorrow, 7M! and also reading more from you and EENR. I think I have it now. ;)
by Caoilainn on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 05:48:36 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/...
C'mon by!
by RedJet on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 06:46:45 PM PDT
She has her products on Cafe Press. Check out her awesome t-shirts, signs, buttons, etc.
http://www.cafepress.com/...
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official... ~Theodore Roosevelt
by Pam from Calif on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 08:03:55 PM PDT
Here is a link to last night's EENR. Look for tonight's to pop up somewhere between 8 and 11 pm EST, as it does every night.
Last night was written by Cosbo. The EENR writer varies from night to night... they coordinate amongst themselves.
by Newzie on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:24:05 PM PDT
I now have a clue! I don't know how I have missed this so far. Thanks again. I will be looking for it. :)
by Caoilainn on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:30:41 PM PDT
Spears/Hilton '08
by cosbo on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:40:34 PM PDT
by cosbo on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 04:40:15 PM PDT
wide narrow
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