OBAMA DAILY NEWS Monday June 16, 2008

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1. Wisconsin Dems vote to replace Delegate who says she'd vote for McCain

Wisconsin Dems vote to replace delegate who endorsed McCain
Sun Jun 15, Jed Report

This is good to hear:

STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party is trying to strip a woman of her position as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. That's after she told a newspaper she would vote for Republican Senator John McCain for president in November.

...When Clinton bowed out of the race last weekend, she urged her supporters to do all they can to elect Obama. But Bartoshevich told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Clinton was treated unfairly by the party and she has deep reservations about Obama's experience, so she'll vote for McCain.

The report caused quite a stir at the state Democratic convention. The party members voted to ask the national party's credentials committee to refuse to seat her at the convention.

Obviously, given John McCain's consistent opposition to women's reproductive freedom, I think Bartoshevich is making a tremendous mistake by endorsing him. Hopefully she eventually changes her mind. But in the meantime, it would be absurd to include her in the DNC, and I can't imagine that anyonen on the credentials committee would disagree.

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8. Debra's going to be left out..

Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Mon Jun-16-08 12:26 AM
Original message
LA Times: Women Voters Lining Up Behind Obama
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-women16-2008...

Women voters lining up behind Obama
McCain hopes to lure Clinton loyalists. But polls show they are staying Democratic.
By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
7:35 PM PDT, June 15, 2008
Marilyn Authenreith, a mother of two in North Carolina, felt strongly about supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary.

But once the former first lady quit the race, Authenreith switched allegiance to Barack Obama, mainly because she thinks that he -- unlike Republican John McCain -- will push for universal healthcare.

"I can't understand the thinking of how someone would jump from Hillary to McCain," she said. "It doesn't make any sense."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6367569

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2. FYI Al Giordano and his "The Field" have moved - here's why and where

The web new home for Al Giordano's The Field
Sat Jun 14 Jed Report

Al Giordano has moved his popular blog The Field to a new web address under his control. In his inaugural post, Al explains that he decided to move after an essay he had written was censored "because it mentioned 'Saul Alinsky,' 'Andrew Kopkind,' and 'Rules for Radicals.'" Of that censorship, Al says:

I reject and denounce it. I will not be party to it. I disassociate myself from those that have engaged in it. And therefore I have moved The Field to this address: http://narconews.com/thefield.

As well he should. I've updated my blogroll and bookmarks and am looking forward to more good stuff to come from him!

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3. Excerpt from Al Giordano's censored blog about Obama's success

Update: This essay was published on June 11 at the former site of The Field, and was censored at 9:30 p.m. ET that evening, I was told, because it mentioned "Saul Alinsky," "Andrew Kopkind," and "Rules for Radicals."

Uncensored: The Narrative Is Not a Story of Technology
Posted by Al Giordano - June 14, 2008

...The analyses and explanations have gushed from the media geyser over the past week, attempting to answer the why and the how that the Obama organization beat an entrenched political regime and replaced it as the dominant force in the Democratic Party of the United States.

Building upon my June 5 entry, No More Drama, I'll continue to use the Jack the Ripper approach, and take it in pieces.

But of one thing I'm certain: The technological explanation offered by some colleagues does not even begin to sufficiently explain why the Obama campaign succeeded while, for example, the Howard Dean campaign of 2004 did not. If what happened in 2008 were merely a matter of Internet politics we'd be blogging President Dean's reelection campaign right now, and Ron Paul's pending Republican nomination to challenge him.

So when colleagues like Doc Searls write, "It's about the Net. And the Net is us. Its all outside, not inside," and when colleagues like Dave Winer write, "The Internet destabilizes every hierarchy it contacts. It erases every barrier to entry," such technological wonderment sounds no more convincing to me than, say, if someone were to write, the invention of radio explains the rise of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. A half-century from now, technological explanations of the Obama phenomenon will sound a lot like that.

I met Micah Sifrey, now at TechPresident, during Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign (both of us studied political journalism at the feet of the late, great Andrew Kopkind), and he has detailed authentic historic memory of Jackson's 84 and 88 campaigns, Ross Perot's in 92 and 96 and Dean 04, too.

...As an exercise in removing the curtain that blocks a fuller view, lets pull on one early thread: Community organizer Saul Alinsky's 1971 list of 13 Rules for Radicals:

...more at the link

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10. Why is Al Giordiano's blog

censored?

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11. You'll have to read the blog - I don't want to be a spoiler

hehe sorry!

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14. Thanks,

I read it..I knew I liked him.

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4. Keli Goff is hot ... :)

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5. A late night quiz at No Quarter!

A late night quiz at No Quarter!
Sunday, June 15, 2008 by Kevin K at Rump Roast

Early this morning Flowbee‘s Fortress of Fucknuttery decided to hold a late night quiz called “Which woman has the appearance of a First Lady?”:



But remember, they’re not racists (or sexists)!

UPDATE: They have scrubbed the first sentence, but it’s already in the Googles.

MORE: Larry Johnson has now removed both pictures and posted a disclaimer. He also appears to have deleted a post that was published at 8 this morning. It was written by “Reverend Jeremiah God Damn AmeriKKA Wright” and titled “A FRACTURED FAIRY TALE FOR FIGHT THE SMEARS TROLLS”. Here’s a screen cap of some of it:

read the whole post »

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12. Does larry johnson really want to go there..

about whose history would make the best first lady? Forget how intensely Michelle is obviously listening to someone and how made up for the camera cindy is.

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6. How my 9 year old nephew has changed due to Barack Obama....

FrenchieCat

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6366749&mesg_id=6366749

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7. Obama: It Takes a Father

It Takes a Father
By: Tom in Texas at Balloon Juice June 15, 2008

Obama excoriated absentee fathers during his father’s day sermon today in a speech that sounded eerily like Laura Ingraham, minus the batshit lunacy:

“Too many fathers are M.I.A, too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes,” Mr. Obama said, to a chorus of approving murmurs from the audience. “They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.”

Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, who sat in the front pew, Mr. Obama laid out his case in stark terms that would be difficult for a white candidate to make, telling the mostly black audience not to “just sit in the house watching SportsCenter,” and to stop praising themselves for mediocre accomplishments.

“Don’t get carried away with that eighth-grade graduation,” he said, bringing many members of the congregation to their feet, applauding. “You’re supposed to graduate from eighth grade.”

“But we also need families to raise our children,” he said. “We need fathers to realize that responsibility doesn’t just end at conception. That doesn’t just make you a father. What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”

I have long respected Obama’s unhesitating willingness to say what might be a hard truth for some to hear, particularly when he does so directly to that audience (Note: I’m not sure how many absentee fathers were in Apostolic Church of God on Father’s Day). To me this is further evidence he knows his audience reaches larger than to the group he is speaking to. I also think this is another dog whistle to evangelicals. While I don’t think Obama will take this demographic, he may be able to siphon off enough of them to negate their advantage in erasing his huge leads in young voters and other groups.

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9. McCain's Straight Talk & Support For the Military (NOT!)

While the media keeps making excuses for the Not Straight Talk Express, (Jonathan Alter made this excuse: "...it’s a learning curve for him to get up to speed, to recognize he’s living with new rules." a Daily Kos diarist does the job:

McCain's Straight Talk & Support For the Military
by BarbinMD
Sun Jun 15, 2008

... Time and again we are told that his support for the men and women serving in our military is unwavering and unquestionable, and that as someone who has sacrificed for his country, to question him somehow dishonors his own service. But as the saying goes, "facts are pesky things," so instead of relying on McCain's rhetoric, let's look at some of those facts:

McCain has repeatedly voted against amendments in the Senate that would have...covered such important services as improving care at veterans’ hospitals, providing mental health services to soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse problems. 2006 Senate Vote #7, 2/2/2006

In 2006, McCain voted against the Kerry amendment that would eliminate increased fees and co-payments for veterans in the TRICARE health care program by raising the discretionary spending limit by approximately $10 billion. The provisions would have been fully offset by eliminating creating corporate tax breaks. 2006 Senate Vote #67, 3/16/2006


McCain was one of only 13 Republicans to vote against an amendment that added over $400 million for inpatient and outpatient care for veterans. 2006 Senate Vote #98, 4/26/2006

McCain voted against increasing funding for veterans health care by $2.8 billion in 2006. 2005 Senate Vote #55, 3/16/2005

...more at the link

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13. Democratic presidents mean better wages

flvegan

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