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05 Jul 15 : 30 | Obama's Old-Style "Tack Right" Plan Out of Step with 21st Century Politics Lumps. Barack Obama said he was prepared to take them from blogs and elsewhere over his FISA flip. Okay then, here's another: while much of your campaign has shown a 21st century sensibility, you are making some potentially important errors in the area of "message control" for 21st century... Source : Open Left - Front Page 13 hours ago |
04 Jul 00 : 11 | Chris Bowers & Space: Reviewing To Infinity and Beyond A couple weeks back, Chris Bowers wrote a piece over at openleft about our space priorities, and what he thinks they should be. As I mentioned in an earlier piece, I had family issues this month that chewed up my time big time, and therefore was not able to actively comment at the time. ... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
16 Jun 21 : 36 | Vice-President: Clinton Sinking, Nunn Rising? Following the news that former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle has been hired by the Obama campaign as Chief of Staff for the Vice-Presidential nominee, there has been quite a bit of speculation about the ramifications of this hiring. While this is purely speculation, I side with... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
02 Jul 09 : 29 | Mutual guest blogging: quick update and poll We're going to be kicking off the mutual guest blogging next Monday, with participation from Pam's House Blend, Jack and Jill Politics, Orcinus, and Shakespeare's Sister on the topic of "feminist and womanist perspectives on Hillary Clinton's withdrawal from the race -- and why this matters to... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
10 Jun 23 : 54 | Loyalty Oaths For Clinton Supporters Pledging their Votes for McCain Laughing Liberally To Keep From Crying by Katie Halper Dear ex-Hillary fans who are showing their support for her by ignoring her call to support Obama and supporting McCain, First, I'd like to congratulate you. You've asked yourself WWJMD and you've decided to vote against your own interests and... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
01 Jul 21 : 32 | Bad Politics--Not Just Policy--As A Matter of Principle For Obama Arianna Huffington has a brilliant piece up skewering Obama's move to the center in no uncertain terms: In a Los Angeles Times article detailing Obama's attempts at "shifting toward the center," Matt Bennett of the centrist think tank Third Way says that Obama is a "good politician. He's doing all... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
07 Jun 23 : 44 | Transcript Of Hillary Clinton's Excellent Concession Speech I have included a transcript of Hillary Clinton's speech today in the extended entry. Because I was at the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee meeting today, I missed watching her give it. However, I thought it was an excellent tribute to her supporters, a phenomenal call for party unity and... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
06 Jun 12 : 32 | Opening the Day: Clinton Doesn't Want VP! Yes She Does! Ah, airport wifi. Love it. Love it. Hillary Clinton does not want to be VP. "She is not seeking the vice presidency, and no one speaks for her but her," communications director Howard Wolfson said. "The choice here is Senator Obama's and his alone." She is also encouraging her donors to get... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
01 Jul 01 : 00 | Why The Right Is Going After Clark How important is Wesley Clark to the Democratic cause? Consider that, in 2006, he was the single most requested surrogate by Democratic congressional campaigns around the country: In 2006, Jon Soltz of Votevets tells me, Clark was the single most requested surrogate in the country, with the possible... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
30 Jun 19 : 30 | Charlie Brown Obama's Clever Plan Glenn Greenwald writes: The baseless, and failed,"move to the center" cliché The central problem is that if Democrats embrace the GOP framework of National Security -- that "Strength" means what the GOP says it means -- then that framework gets enforced and perpetuated, and it's a framework within... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
29 Jun 16 : 33 | Politics As Usual In Drag As Transformation Last Wednesday, Chris wrote a diary, "Why McCain Is Losing", which seemed quite reasonable and striaghtforward. It had a YouTube video clip of McCain trying to sound like a Democrat, an ad that Chris had seen running at home in Philadelphia: The ad, like much of McCain's messaging lately, focuses... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
29 Jun 12 : 30 | Generational Warfare: Are We Dumb As Dirt Yet??? You've seen the ad: This is in fact, a form of hate speech. Hate speech from a "bipartisan" Republican. It's far more common to encounter other forms of hate speech, and when it comes to age-based hate speech, it's far more common to encounter hate speech against kids. But this is hate speech,... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
28 Jun 19 : 18 | The Corroded Corruption at the Heart of Moving to the Center There are several articles today on Obama moving to the center. In the LA Times, Obama is shifting toward the center, several pundits discussed Obama's recent political triangulating. Will Marshall of the DLC, Thomas Mann at the Brookings Institution, and Matt Bennett of Third Way all effusively... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
28 Jun 16 : 20 | David Brooks Has A Dream David Brooks has a dream, a dream of conservatism reborn. For those of us rightly angered at Obama's FISA betrayal, Brooksie can be quite instructive in at least two ways. First of all, he reminds us that the ideological rot we see reflected in Barack Obama is endemic to the entire political... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
27 Jun 23 : 57 | AIPAC and Darcy Tussle I just got off the phone with Darcy Burner, who told me that she just got a call from people affiliated with the conservative Jewish political group AIPAC. They told her to distance herself from the new pro-peace group J Street, which they said is full of radical leftists who believe in... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
27 Jun 19 : 00 | Book Chat: God's Profits, by Sarah Posner In God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, Sarah Posner details the wild and woolly world of the "prosperity gospel" movement, also known as "Word of Faith". Or, as I came to think of it not too far into the book, Harry Potter Christianity. It'd be funny, if these... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
26 Jun 14 : 47 | The Crucial Difference Between Electoral Politics and Movement Building... Welcome to the joke that is your "movement." -- kanzeon Some on the liberal Net are seething about Obama's FISA capitulation. I was pissed off as well. But those who are surprised (shocked!) often seem to fundamentally misunderstand what electoral politics is about. You can only be this... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
25 Jun 20 : 00 | Progressive Infrastructure Is Working Obama's lead over McCain continues to widen, now reaching 6.5% nationally according to Pollster.com. His lead is even larger, 7.3%, according to Real Clear Politics, equaling the largest lead Bush ever mounted on Kerry during the 2004 campaign. When undecideds and the general trend are factored in,... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
25 Jun 18 : 09 | Is Obama's Targeting Strategy Really That Different From Kerry's? Last week, I produced the following map outlining Obama's targeting strategy: Obama Targeting Strategy The black states are receiving both organizing fellows and television ads. The gray states receive either organizing fellows or television ads, but not both. The red and blue states are receiving... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
24 Jun 21 : 03 | How Far Have We Come? Crisitunity did a good post on how to make the most progressive change this year, based on the representation of the district and the possibility of replacing them with a more or less progressive challenger. A right-wing Congressman replaced with a progressive would be more change than a moderate... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
23 Jun 23 : 50 | No, This is Not Really a 21st Century Campaign I spent some time at the Personal Democracy Forum with a man named Tom Steinberg who runs MySociety in England. MySociety can be best described as a civic engagement engine, and has a suite of websites that have attracted more than 10% of the country to interact with their government. This... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
23 Jun 02 : 04 | Why Edwards For VP-The Growing Logic First off, I want to reiterate that I am not personally invested in Edwards for VP. I am, however, invested in bulding thr progressive coaltion within and beyond the Democratic Party. Right now, there are compelling reasons to support Edwards for VP as a means for building the progressive... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
21 Jun 22 : 26 | We Need a New Generation of Leadership Not a new generation age-wise, but a new generation of leaders in Congress who weren't there at all, or at least weren't in leadership positions, on 9/11 and in the years immediately thereafter. Those folks, fundamentally decent and hardworking though some of them are, are simply too compromised... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
20 Jun 10 : 22 | Mutual guest blogging on OpenLeft: invitations! Mail I'll be sending out to those of the selected blogs I can find addresses for. If anybody knows how to get in touch with brownfemipower, could you please forward her this link? Thanks. We at OpenLeft would like to invite our fellow blogosphere denizens at Shakesville, La Chola, Pam's House... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
19 Jun 00 : 34 | Obama Momentum or Not? Reading traditional media and even some blogs it's hard to decide what to make of the Obama-McCain race. Consider this headline for a Jake Tapper story at ABC News: 'Danger Signs' as Clinton Supporters Resist ObamaThe premise of the piece is that Obama "only" has a 6-point lead in the latest ABC... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
16 Jun 22 : 14 | Caution and Change Now that, as expected, Obama got a little bit of a bump from the primary fight being over and the Hillary endorsement, he seems to have established a small lead in the 2- to 6-point range, depending on the poll. While I am pleased that Obama has the lead, I have to admit that this gives me a new... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
15 Jun 00 : 58 | Scared Of Liberals? The Many Layers of Brain-Dead Conservatives' Hell-Layer... "What? I can't have layers?"--Cordellia Chase, "Band Candy," Buffy, The Vampire Slayer Season 3, Episode 6. Layer 2: It's the Statistical Stupidity, Stupid Previously, on The Many Layers of Brain-Dead Conservatives' Hell... In a mid-week quick hit, Chris noted that David Boren has refused to endore... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
12 Jun 14 : 46 | What's Really a Battleground State (Hint: Not Wisconsin) I was looking at two maps yesterday which purport to represent battleground states in the 2008 campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain. First is this one by Kos: Kos has employed a rather liberal "anything within 10 points" is a battleground state (in yellow). It's early and this is... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
07 Jun 20 : 25 | The Versailles Media Got Nothing Wrong (Another diary about Bill Moyers last night. There's a message here: watch his show! Failing that, the full transcript is here.) The Republican Party is not the enemy this November. They are a pathetic wreck. Hegemony is the enemy, and the Republican Party's recent inability to enforce... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
05 Jun 16 : 05 | Opening the Day: Hillary to Concede on Friday, Obama Threatens Iran at... I'm going to write about Ed Fallon and his loss to Boswell, and what it means. That, combined with the upcoming FISA capitulation and Obama's threats yesterday to Iran, suggest that we are not yet in a progressive environment, merely a Democratic one. In the big news, the Hillary wants VP... Source : Open Left - Front Page |
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