Glenn Greenwald has a valid strategy: Destroy the strength of the Republican candidate John McCain. Rather then just talk about the economy and avoid taking on the strength of Senator McCain. Isn't this the exact strategy that the Republicans used in 2004 against John Kerry?
Why would the Democratic Party not want to neutralize the strength of an opponent? The Swift Boating of John Kerry is the prime example of why Democrats must begin to frame John McCain and Republican candidates who only want endless war and occupation as warmongers and demagogues who utilize fear for political gain.
Recent polling has shown that the American people believe that Republicans cannot be trusted to defend America adequately. With the occupation of Iraq and the failure to rebuild New Orleans as prime examples there should be a great voice in the Democratic party to trumpet the fact that Reagan was wrong in his saying that the most feared saying is "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Attack the Reagan legacy of "government is the problem" and by doing so it will be removing the keystone to the Republicans like McCain. Republicans cannot have it both ways with respect government. The military is a part of government. It cannot be divorced from it. Republicans want to have an effective military yet hamstring all other government functions because of their obsession with their mantra of "big government is evil and privatization of government functions can do no wrong".
Attack the fact that lawless behavior by private contractors and having Bush government not enforce laws is an attack on the Constitution and the underlying foundation of "the rule of law".
Utilize all resources to do so. 527 organizations should be at the frontline of this election battle.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Dem caucus
The HD6A, precinct 608, had over 100+ people in attendance last night. This was an incredible three hundred percent better then the best attended caucus in 2004 which had 32 people.
The people of this nation are wanting a different America.
The people are for a better America.
We are sick of living in the fears created by Mr. Bush and his ilk because those people represent anti-life.
Who wants to live in fear for the rest of their lives?
We are stronger then to merely survive in this world.
We who are the inheritors of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution should demand that we can live life in the sunshine of freedom.
We are not to afraid of some motley band of common criminals because those ragtag bands are akin to the crazies that stand on street corners shouting out their paranoias.
The people of this nation are wanting a different America.
The people are for a better America.
We are sick of living in the fears created by Mr. Bush and his ilk because those people represent anti-life.
Who wants to live in fear for the rest of their lives?
We are stronger then to merely survive in this world.
We who are the inheritors of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution should demand that we can live life in the sunshine of freedom.
We are not to afraid of some motley band of common criminals because those ragtag bands are akin to the crazies that stand on street corners shouting out their paranoias.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Close Gitmo
Today in Boulder, Colorado there will be a rally to "Close Guantanamo" which is sponsored by the ACLU-Colorado from noon to 2 p.m, in front of the Boulder County Court House.
GitMo is a legal blackhole that the Bush administration has used to keep prisoners of war away from the legal system.
GitMo is used by the Bush administration for legal games of "who has jurisdiction" with judges in the United States and Cuba.
GitMo is an illegal interrogation camp run by the U.S. military.
GitMo has prisoners who have been subjected to torture.
GitMo has had medical doctors who were willing to break their Hippocratic Oath and work to ensure more effective torture methods.
GitMo has made the United States Declaration of Independence a joke because it is the very embodiment of all that is contrary to the ideals within that call to freedom.
It is time to close GitMo and all of the "black" prison camps around the world that is operated or condoned by the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
It is time for an objective commission to assess the state of prisoners that were captured by coalition forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and to those who were "extraordinarily renditioned" to those camps by U.S. military and intelligence agencies or by foreign military and intelligence agencies who cooperated with them.
Justice must begin now.
GitMo is a legal blackhole that the Bush administration has used to keep prisoners of war away from the legal system.
GitMo is used by the Bush administration for legal games of "who has jurisdiction" with judges in the United States and Cuba.
GitMo is an illegal interrogation camp run by the U.S. military.
GitMo has prisoners who have been subjected to torture.
GitMo has had medical doctors who were willing to break their Hippocratic Oath and work to ensure more effective torture methods.
GitMo has made the United States Declaration of Independence a joke because it is the very embodiment of all that is contrary to the ideals within that call to freedom.
It is time to close GitMo and all of the "black" prison camps around the world that is operated or condoned by the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
It is time for an objective commission to assess the state of prisoners that were captured by coalition forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and to those who were "extraordinarily renditioned" to those camps by U.S. military and intelligence agencies or by foreign military and intelligence agencies who cooperated with them.
Justice must begin now.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Impeachment and Mitt
Impeachment is not a subject to be taken lightly.
However the Republican led impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton that impeachment is all about politics. The charges that were brought by Republicans showed that they were not concerned at all about what the founding fathers would be considered "high crimes and misdemeanors" against the Constitution. Rather their underlying concern was payback for the near impeachment of Richard Milhous Nixon because they would use any reason at hand for impeachment in the constitution as the ultimate weapon.
The Republicans then and now shows that they are against the founding ideals in the Constitution. Specifically they agitate for state sponsored religion and to have office holders submit to a religious test.
What we are witnessing is that for all of the pious pronouncements by Republicans about "morality" can now be rolled up into a concise summary by the speech given by Mitt Romney on religion and the national government.
Mitt Romney's speech is a direct challenge to the understanding that the state should never favor one religion over another. It is clear that Mr. Romney failure to understand that core principal is shared by all Republican presidential candidates.
What Republicans now hold forth is that religious morality of a candidate is the deciding factor.
Being president means for Republicans that any moral laxity would be grounds for impeachment because of the precedent they set.
However the Republican led impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton that impeachment is all about politics. The charges that were brought by Republicans showed that they were not concerned at all about what the founding fathers would be considered "high crimes and misdemeanors" against the Constitution. Rather their underlying concern was payback for the near impeachment of Richard Milhous Nixon because they would use any reason at hand for impeachment in the constitution as the ultimate weapon.
The Republicans then and now shows that they are against the founding ideals in the Constitution. Specifically they agitate for state sponsored religion and to have office holders submit to a religious test.
What we are witnessing is that for all of the pious pronouncements by Republicans about "morality" can now be rolled up into a concise summary by the speech given by Mitt Romney on religion and the national government.
Mitt Romney's speech is a direct challenge to the understanding that the state should never favor one religion over another. It is clear that Mr. Romney failure to understand that core principal is shared by all Republican presidential candidates.
What Republicans now hold forth is that religious morality of a candidate is the deciding factor.
Being president means for Republicans that any moral laxity would be grounds for impeachment because of the precedent they set.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Cold Comfort
Cold comfort
Cold comfort to those who no longer breathe
lying in some rigid position until flesh becomes dust
with stilled heart that will no longer hold the soul
the roaring engines of hellfire missiles
trailing plumes of black exhaust
in mini dawns of blasted light and supersonic fragmentation warheads
to slice the meat from the bones of the living
In an eternity to lie under the marble nondenominational marker
in the blanket of silence
in this sightless world do our brothers and sisters now inhabit
the whining transmission as a sixty ton ship of the desert dead stops
encased in flames from the penetrator shaped weapon
powered by 500 lbs of US manufactured propellent
as 60 year old designed Kalashnikovas' make sure that one one gets out alive
No one returns to their loved ones
in stately rows upon rolling hills in the bright and shining city
their lives prematurely extinguished when they heeded a call to duty and not to life
in the stinking Port-O-Lets that bakes their shit to bricks
never to be certain of the random falling whine of 60mm mortar rounds
wearing their dragon skin armor whenever they walk in the open
never sure of the sniper or radio controlled explosive to take their life or limb
In the house of white under a cloudless pallid depthless azure sky
a man sitting, reading nothing, seeing nothing but ranting in his mind
who has the power to yoke our lives to his reality of good versus evil
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Busing to DC for Sept 15
For those of you, who live in Colorado, are interested in going to DC to stop this illegal war and occupation of another nation but do not have a car or can't afford a plane ticket:
CONTACT: Ryan Hartman at boulderbus@answercoalition.org
TRANSPORTATION DETAILS: Organizing a van from Boulder, CO to Washington, DC. Contact for more information.
COLORADO
Denver, CO
CONTACT: John Kaluza at denverbus@answercoalition.org or 303-444-5711
TRANSPORTATION DETAILS: Contact for more information.
CONTACT: Ryan Hartman at boulderbus@answercoalition.org
TRANSPORTATION DETAILS: Organizing a van from Boulder, CO to Washington, DC. Contact for more information.
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