From Riverdaughter, the quintessence of necessary advice:
Turn off the media. Watch only CSPAN. Be careful what you read. If it feels like guilt, it’s probably David Axelrod upping the Haka. We have to stick together and not let anyone or anything get under our skin. Remember, this is the guy who wouldn’t campaign in Kentucky because he thought the Applacahian vote wasn’t worth his time of day. This is the guy who took delegates away from his opponent in order to “win”. This is the guy whose enablers have been screaming for Clinton to quit since Iowa. And most of all, this is the guy who LOST CA, NJ, NY, MA, PA, OH, TX, FL and MI. He LOST them. No other Democratic nominee has ever been allowed to fail so spectacularly. We do not reward failure. We do not reward sexism. We do not reward cheating. We do not reward disrespect.
Turn off the media. Turn off Claire McCaskill. Turn off Barack Obama.
She's absolutely right.
The time has come to stand up for principles.
The time has come to recognize what Democrats are about.
The time has come to stop pretending otherwise.
The time has come to say, "We don't want the next W."
The time has come to say, "We're not buying the media hype."
The time has come to say, "We're not going to take this anymore."
The time has come to say, "We saw what you did and we know who you are, and you can't fool us anymore."
The time has come.
Edwards has seen what Obama's promises are worth -- where are the mentions of a cure for poverty in Obama's campaign?
Clinton has seen what Obama's promises are worth -- as a flush young Senator elect, he promised not to run for President in '08.
We need not lie back and behave ourselves while another Bush term is ushered in by the Media and the Party Leaders (sic).
The time has not yet passed us by.
We have a narrow window of opportunity.
Let us not waste it.
Am I bitter? No. I am determined.
Do I cling to God and guns? No. I believe in the Golden Rule and the Second Amendment.
I am a Democrat.
I am a liberal.
I believe the Constitution must come first, and that the rights it grants to even women, even children, are equal to the rights it grants to men, equal to the rights it reserves to the people -- and superior to the rights that it NOWHERE bestows on corporations and industries.
I believe that people count whether they are black or white, old or young, combat vet, peacetime vet, active duty, or anti-military; I believe that people count whether they are rich or poor, and I'm enough of an old-school "believer" to think that the Beatitudes belong in government just as much as the "ten commandments" do -- and that both of them demand the repeal of the Patriot Acts and the FISA law.
I believe the Bush administration is an abomination, and I believe any party hack from either side who wants to further its goals is unfit to be President.
- Sarah's blog
- Login or register to post comments
- 1+[CSE]+#b94+
Front page
Comments
amen
for decades now we've been falling behind in so many ways, and now we don't even have the assurance that the damage will be repaired--let alone that we can move forward even a teeny tiny bit.
I Think We Have A Number of Opportunities
to try to push things in a better direction.
I really would like to see a march on Denver to protest misogyny in the media. Like I said, do it the Saturday or Sunday before the convention starts. Send a message to the party and the media.
But, in any event, I also think that there will be opportunities if Obama wins or McCain wins. If Obama wins, someone is going to have to hold his feet to the fire on progressive values and it isn't going to be Congressional Democrats (or at least most of them), the media (who are likely to criticize him if he does something progressive) or the OFB
.
If McCain wins, then I say we do what the conservatives do and have ready our own ideas to implement using the Shock Doctrine. Hey, we know it works against Democrats, so this time lets make it work for us. Otherwise the answer is going to be that Obama wasn't quite bipartisan enough.
As for what to do now, I think we wait and look for opportunities where we find them to move things in a better direction.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
Million Woman March?
My galpals over at Hire Heels are floating the idea of a Million Woman March. Looks like their allies across the blogosphere are digging the idea. If we can decide what we want to get from such a demonstration of our power, I'd lace up my protestin' shoes and go.
Gidget, thanks.
Big fonts are In, and so are women backing their rights the hard way... when the game is rigged, and we have to wait until August to see how it plays.
Bitter much?
The blaring bold-face is not flattering. Hillary Clinton sure is coming off looking a lot better than some of her supporters.
Cello @ http://pumacentral.blogspot.com/
wow. what. a. putz.
I don't believe I've ever read one substantive post from you, you goon-mouthed fuck.
Not one link that's legit or informative.
Not even a website of your own, for you to be sniveling and sorry enough to block commenters on.
And yet you go out of your way not to criticize a commenter here, or a commenter's link to his or her own website, but to a website *that is completely separate from this one*.
Which means your talking point for this week is to downplay any sort of activism connected to the anti-feminist slurs fed upon by trollland. Hmmm... that idea's sounding better and better all the time, especially in contrast to any GOP black ops agent provacateur acts. Harder to recruit skanks that can talk a good feminist game? They still think women who respect other women and men wear Birkies and don't shave?
Lord, swamp gas makes more entertaining company than this clown....
So Is Obama
Why don't you go look in a mirror?
And then ask yourself if you're helping the candidate you claim to support.
Unless, of course, you're a GOP ratfucker.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
another good post there --on holding our noses--
katiebird -- Don’t tell me how to hold my nose
Personally, I agree with everything in bold...
... and in fact find it quite unexceptional.
And the part of about turning off the teebee.... Surely that, at least, is just a no-brainer? (Or, I supposed, a brainer, given the effects our famously free press has...)
The issue is what to do.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ironic, isn't it...
that the tactics Obama used to 'win,' are now helping him lose the largest voter bloc in the Democratic Party.
kc