Don’t you just know they caught this Al Qaeda guy in Pakistan a month ago and waited until the night of Kerry’s big speech to announce it? Well anyway, this guy knows it, and I agree with him.
Author: Ruby Sinreich
It’s within reach
I agree with
this blogger (who refers to
this pollster) who says that the election is John Kerry’s to lose. I mean, how can the country be this thoroughly fucked up and people still not vote for a change? It has to mean the bad guys are master communicators (they are) and the good guys are pretty incompetent (um…)
To be fair, the election is all of ours to lose. No one person can do it on her or his own, nor should they. When John Kerry wins with progressivce grassroots support, he’ll owe us a debt of gratitude. Let’s hope he doesn’t forget that immediately like Clinton did.
Help, I’m a radical dork!
Much to my own amazement, I am a big dork about this convention crap. I guess it’s my last hope before committing myself to expatriatism or jail time – the only two responses I can imagine to four more years.
Come on down
…to the place to be during the last night of the convention. Hell!
WHEN: July 29 @ 8:00 PM
WHERE: Rosemary Street — in the basement of Bub O’Malley’s/Treehouse building
Hell, 157 East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514INFO: We’ve probably all thought “George Bush should go to H e l l.” You know what? H E L L doesn’t want that loser, either!! Join us TONIGHT at Chapel Hill’s greatest bar to watch John Kerry accept the Democratic nomination. He’s the man who is going to take down Bush, but he can’t do it alone. We all need to get out this year and take back our country! Civil liberties still rock. Let’s hang onto ’em for a few more centuries.
Decorations. Free stuff. Voter registration. Cake. Beer. What more could you ask for? Well, aside from another one-term Bush. Tell your friends. The party starts at 8pm. We need you there!
Fundamental Truth at the DNC
I guess I was too busy being cynical last night to notice the Buddhist influence in John Edwards’ speech.
Like all of us, I have learned a lot of lessons in my life. Two of the most important are that first, there will always be heartache and struggle–you can’t make it go away. But the other is that people of good and strong will can make a difference. One lesson is a sad lesson and the other’s inspiring.
The Four Noble Truths (the foundation of Buddhism):
- Life means suffering.
- The origin of suffering is attachment.
- The cessation of suffering is attainable.
- The path to the cessation of suffering.
And now…
Johnny B. Good
That son-of-a-millworker sure can talk. I’d say his made-for-TV moment gets an A (not plus). But I expected no less, it’s what he was hired for, and he will deliver. He’s a great big, human photo-op. How can you not think “hope is on the way” when he gives you that smile? But will he still love us in the morning?
“Trust us!”
This goes well beyond the fox guarding the henhouse, and is into the realm of frying the chickens and handing them out door-to-door. The AP reports that
Florida already lost the records of previous touchscreen votes but they still think it’s a great idea, and there’ll be no need for verifying or recounting!
…election reform groups asked a judge to strike down a state rule preventing counties that use the machines from conducting manual recounts from them.
State election officers say manual recounts are not needed since the machines tell each voter if they are skipping a race, known as an undervote, and will not let them vote twice for the same race, known as an overvote. The officials also maintain that the computer systems running the machines can be trusted to count the votes accurately as they’re cast, and give the final numbers when needed.
Anyone see I, Robot?
RonCo’s Pitch
Uh, I don’t have a problem with the former First Son and retired ballet dancer speaking at the DNC. But his Embryonic Stem Cell Research miracle product pitch is kind of out-of-place among the political speeches. It’s especially a let down after Barak Obama‘s inspirational I’m-gonna-be-the-first-Black-president speech.
Gag me
It’s sort of shockingly manipulative of the democratic party convention to celebrate African-American sheroes like Shirley Chisholm and Fannie Lou Hamer who the party didn’t just fail to embrace at the right time, but actively worked against. Better late than never, I guess.