Bbbb-but! Some Dems think the netroots had nothing to do with anything! We're feeble, you know...no influence, nothing...at all...
SCLiberal
· 1 year ago
He may be the first candidate in history not paid for mainly by corporate donors.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
And the Republicans disrespect the academic world . . . The surgeon general is going to have to establish standards: "I must warn you, I am a law professor!"
EmGD
· 1 year ago
You gotta figure the Republicans are just slitting their wrists over this. Even with a good candidate there's just gonna be no way that they can match up with Democratic online fundraising...ever. Let's hope they never figure out how to even get remotely in the game either. Dinner fundraisers, that's the way to go GOP. It's the future!
BAGHDAD — Thousands of followers of a radical Shiite cleric protested a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal Friday, burning an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same square where Iraqis beat a toppled Saddam Hussein statue five years ago.
Chanting and waving flags, Muqtada al-Sadr's followers filled Firdous Square to protest the pact that would allow American troops to stay for three more years.
The demonstration followed two days of protests in parliament by al-Sadr loyalists who disrupted readings of the proposed agreement ahead of a debate and vote.
Despite the opposition at least three small parliamentary factions, the pact is expected to pass in the Shiite-led parliament when it comes up for a vote next week.
Lolis
· 1 year ago
we need non-stop campaigns to keep the economy going. :)
EdNSted
· 1 year ago
Excellent. Money is power. And is precisely why I think Tom Engelhardt post is spot on why he suggests that now is not the time to just sit back and trust that Obama will do the right thing. He argues quite eloquently that just sitting back and trusting is exactly the WRONG thing to do right now:
"Political Washington is a conspiracy -- in the original sense of the word: "to breathe the same air." In that sense, there is no air in Washington that isn't stale enough to choke a president. Send Obama there alone, give him that "breathing space," don't start demanding the quick ending of wars or anything else, and you're not doing him, or the American people, any favors. Quite the opposite, you're consigning him to suffocation.
Leave Obama to them and he'll break your heart. If you do, then blame yourself, not him; but better than blaming anyone, pitch your own tent on the public commons and make some noise. Let him know that Washington's isn't the only consensus around, that Americans really do want our troops to come home, that we actually are looking for "change we can believe in," which would include a less weaponized, less imperial American world, based on a reinvigorated idea of defense, not aggression, and on the Constitution, not leftover Rumsfeld rules or a bogus Global War on Terror. "
MaudGonne
· 1 year ago
Maybe he could bequeath that tin cup to the Big 3....
RonNYC
· 1 year ago
Maybe President Obama (god, I just love saying that, President Obama, President Barack Hussein Obama, just so totally amazing, almost as if Kennedy wasn't shot and I'm finally back into the reality I was supposed to be in...anyway...) can raise the money for Detroit on line? Bet if his team put their minds into it, they could raise a few billion.
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BAGHDAD — Thousands of followers of a radical Shiite cleric protested a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal Friday, burning an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same square where Iraqis beat a toppled Saddam Hussein statue five years ago.
Chanting and waving flags, Muqtada al-Sadr's followers filled Firdous Square to protest the pact that would allow American troops to stay for three more years.
The demonstration followed two days of protests in parliament by al-Sadr loyalists who disrupted readings of the proposed agreement ahead of a debate and vote.
Despite the opposition at least three small parliamentary factions, the pact is expected to pass in the Shiite-led parliament when it comes up for a vote next week.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175001/no_breat...
"Political Washington is a conspiracy -- in the original sense of the word: "to breathe the same air." In that sense, there is no air in Washington that isn't stale enough to choke a president. Send Obama there alone, give him that "breathing space," don't start demanding the quick ending of wars or anything else, and you're not doing him, or the American people, any favors. Quite the opposite, you're consigning him to suffocation.
Leave Obama to them and he'll break your heart. If you do, then blame yourself, not him; but better than blaming anyone, pitch your own tent on the public commons and make some noise. Let him know that Washington's isn't the only consensus around, that Americans really do want our troops to come home, that we actually are looking for "change we can believe in," which would include a less weaponized, less imperial American world, based on a reinvigorated idea of defense, not aggression, and on the Constitution, not leftover Rumsfeld rules or a bogus Global War on Terror. "