Caucus Away!
You know they tried. Here is the Iowa Independent’s View. What is the next step? We don’t want to wait for no stinkin’ Rules Committee! (more…)
Posted in Politics, tagged Caucuses, Clinton, DNC Platform Ideas, Edwards, Iowa, just say no deal, Obama, Obama's book, PUMA PAC, The Denver Group on August 12, 2008| 5 Comments »
Caucus Away!
You know they tried. Here is the Iowa Independent’s View. What is the next step? We don’t want to wait for no stinkin’ Rules Committee! (more…)
Posted in Politics, tagged Brazile, Clinton, DNC, DNC Convention, Injunction, just say no deal, Obama, PUMA PAC, Religion, Rove, The Denver Group on August 11, 2008| 1 Comment »
“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”
– MACHIAVELLI
2004 was a tragic year, for it was the year that the DNC Civil War started. Having been in the wilderness for years, the bridgehead was not reached, and ashen despair marked the brow of the Liberals. It was the year that the Liberals followed the Muse over to the dark side. Rather than fight Machiavelli, they added him to their email list. Rather than fight the Republicans, they decided to dump the whole shebang and throw everyone under the bus. In a effort to prevent the final death, they let the Great Bat in at night. (more…)
Posted in Politics, tagged Clinton, Corn Subsidies, Delgates, DNC Convention, Energy, Ethanol, Farm Bill, Iowa, McCain, Obama, Reid, Yucca Mountain on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
What a way to approach the huge Farm Bill issue in advance of a convention in Denver! Maybe Chicagoans don’t understand the interconnectedness of environmental issues in the West. Of course voting records are known! Tom Harkin’s ethanol bid, Obama’s backing of the corn states is naturally going to rub against up against the Rockies, and all points west. (more…)
Posted in Politics, tagged Clinton, Denver, DNC Convention, just say no deal, Obama, Protest, PUMA PAC, The Denver Group on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
UPDATE
The Denver Post had an article about The Denver Group. Heidi Li posted it. Send 5 bucks today:
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The Denver Post covers The Denver Group
http://thedenvergroup.blogspot.com/2008/08/denver-post-covers-denver-group.html
Posted in Politics, tagged 18 Million Voices, Clinton, DNC Convention, DNC Platform Ideas, Election, Human Rights, NARAL, Voting Reform, Women's Rights on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
As a person who has had to spend a fair amount of time writing technical reports in my life, the effort of viewpoint blogging has been a new stretch. I’m used to having to present facts, or evaluations as part of my writing, and not offer my personal thoughts. In the world of blogging, just like everywhere in the media these days, facts and even evaluations are not readily available or must be researched, themselves. A web search of keywords, as we all know, can reveal hundreds of thousands of hits. However, if we spend the time winnowing through them, we often discover the hits spring from a few recycled sources. We spend so much time looking, it’s disturbing to find expectations don’t match the message. (more…)
Posted in Politics, tagged Clinton, DNC Convention, DNC Platform Ideas, DNC Schism, just say no deal, Obama, PUMA PAC, The Denver Group, Will Bower, Women's Media on August 8, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Although I had a dental appointment and missed it, it appears from Hillary’s website that a fine light, but strictly scripted web chat was had. Any public chat is not going to produce the words that most PUMAs would love to hear. We can’t know the details or what is really going on in “negotiations” in preparation for the Convention. (more…)
Posted in Politics, tagged Clinton, DNC Convention, just say no deal, Keynote Address, Nomination, Obama, PUMA PAC, The Denver Group on August 7, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Clinton Supporters Await Her Thursday Chat
Lynn Sweet
The scoop from Washington
Obama, Clinton teams joint “working together” statement issued as her convention role remains unresolved.
By Lynn Sweet on August 6, 2008 7:42 PM
A decision has still not been made whether Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name will be placed in nomination at the Democratic convention.
Posted in Politics, tagged Bush Exploitation, Clinton, David Brooks, DNC Convention, MI and Fl Delgates, Obama, Paris Hilton on August 7, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Read Senator Clinton’s opinion about business, exploitation, and Bush, published today in the WSJ:
OPINION
No Crisis Is Immune From Exploitation Under Bush
By HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
August 6, 2008; Page A15
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121798030763715107.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Posted in Politics, tagged Campaign Reform, Caucuses, Clinton, DNC, DNC Schism, just say no deal, Nomination, Obama, Petition, PUMA PAC, The Denver Group, Voting Reform on August 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Sometimes Things Turn Out Unexpectedly
“Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past and future, while reality is confined to the present.”
Jean Paul Richter
In the late seventies, due to economic changes and events in my family, we found ourselves in a small town in Eastern Washington, where my husband had obtained a job. It was a fragile time. I had left college again as a consequence of this necessary move, just as I had nine months prior, left work in order to go to back to school. Our daughters had left their friends and community roots. My husband, after working as an urban planner, took a job as laborer’s foreman at a nuclear power plant. (more…)
Posted in Politics, tagged Clinton, DNC Convention, just say no deal, Keynote Address, Obama, PUMA PAC, Vice President on August 5, 2008| Leave a Comment »
This honorary role.
This keynote address.
She will do it, and we will watch. We will understand that as she speaks, she brings honor to herself, and she will attempt to heal the schism, because she must. To task her with this epic struggle can only be because, Obama and the DNC cannot touch this mess.
News often is by timing and degree. Only a bit ago, a wave rose up, they will see it directed. They want her now to corral her own delegates and those others who agreed. How many now have signed their name? Only three hundred are needed. Pen in hand and honorary swirl will place her in nomination.
They want to shame her yet again, as though it is her mess. The DNC knows it’s not. The mess must be scrubbed, and the schism healed, or the party completely broken. Closing off each avenue will only increase wave pressure.
Clinton for vice president boosters–“Vote Both”–fold shop, realizing Obama tapping Clinton.
By Lynn Sweet on July 31, 2008 11:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
The “Vote Both” drive–staffed by loyal former Clinton staffers–folds, realizing that booking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to be a keynote speaker at the Democratic convention means she is not on the list to be Obama’s running mate.
from “Vote Both”
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/07/clinton_for_vice_president_boo.html\