Bush v. Nuestro Himno
What "Nuestro Himno" signifies is not anti-patriotism, it is patriotism. What Latinos can say about Bush's condemnation of "Nuestro Himno" is not "how dare you insult us as latinos", it's "how dare you...
View ArticleAgainst The Common Good: A Review of Tomasky, Pt. 1
For a piece the aim of which is to pull all us Democrats together, Tomasky's essay in the American Prospect is an untidy bundle. He takes a few potshots at multi-culturalism, re-tells the history of...
View ArticleHow the Dems lost the same-sex marriage debate this week.
As I'm sure we all know, the U.S. Senate debated the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage this week. And thankfully it didn't proceed to the floor for an actual vote, thanks to 49...
View ArticleView of the Present State of Israelistine.
Tonight I saw George Mitchell on Larry King. Words fail to do justice to how depressing the quality of the discussion was, led by the eponymous senile gnome who has attached himself to CNN like a...
View ArticleAvoiding the Joe Lieberman in the Rose Garden Moment.
Ned Lamont is now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut, for all intents and purposes. And I think he's going to win, whether against the sacrificial lamb the Republicans selected...
View ArticleImpeachment: A Remedy, But Not a Movement.
There's a lot of rage that the Democratic leadership in Congress is not pursuing impeachment full steam ahead. While impeaching the President is right on the merits, and while we owe it to our...
View Article...or, how I learned to stop worrying and vote John Edwards.
Two years ago I was the bane of the John Edwards diaries on dailykos, criticizing--or more accurately, vituperatively attacking--his vote on the Iraq War, questioning the sincerity of his anti-poverty...
View ArticleI support Edwards. I rejoice over Obama.
I have conflicting emotions right now. Today while I was at work I was thinking over the New York Times article from earlier this week on the relationship of John and Elizabeth Edwards, and their...
View Article2013 Reasons, and Ways, to Defeat Clinton.
Realizing there is nothing more heinously unfair to do to a Clinton than quote their publicly stated position from the newspaper of record, and understanding that desiring to discuss the actual issues...
View ArticleBattlestar Obamedwardsica: An Allegory
Usually, I love dailykos rhetorical carnage. It's why I find myself so often contributing to it when I think it's worthwhile. And in truth, debate is positive when it helps us improve our ideas,...
View ArticleOMG! C 59; O 16; E 10!!!
You thought the title of my diary referred to poll results? Why, isn't that funny of you. Actually, it's the number of months after their inauguration it would take Presidents Hillary Clinton, Barack...
View ArticleJohn Edwards: The America That Is Our Home.
So last week I was on Lexington Avenue by Grand Central in New York City, in the very shadow of the great investment houses and law firms, and saw an American mother out with her daughter begging,...
View ArticleTHE TIME HAS COME FOR US ALL TO LEAVE DAILY KOS.
Oh, Daily Kos, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.It is undeniably gratifying to find my fondest views reconfirmed by even a few scattered Obamacrats and half-reformed John Edwards devotees at...
View ArticlePol Pot, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama & Me: New Adventures Contesting...
Last week, I wrote a diary about how much fun it can be--not to mention helpful to the cause--to leave Daily Kos occasionally to go where, as they might say in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the vamps are,...
View ArticleObamatirement and You.
One of the miraculous things about the Obama candidacy is that we can support him for months--whether by giving, volunteering, standing on our respective internet soapboxes and shouting our views to...
View ArticleGas Prices: How not to lose this election.
Until now rising gasoline prices have been an issue in this election that has worked viscerally in the Democrats' favor. An ordinary American may not even know what FISA is, have strong feelings about...
View ArticleThe Condition I'd Set: Bush stares into the camera and says
"My fellow Americans, with the rest of you I have watched the events of the past week astounded by what has transpired in our financial markets. In the face of the challenges that confront us in...
View ArticleNationalization (To the Tune of John Lennon's "Imagine")
Imagine there was no Citibank,It’s easy if you try.No MBNA mailing bills to us,Because below the Dow right now is only sky.
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