WASHINGTON — Even as the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates prepared to debate Tuesday night, Ralph Nader, a controversial figure from the last two presidential campaigns, sued the Democratic Party, the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign and affiliated groups for allegedly sabotaging his 2004 campaign.
Read it all here.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Once, Twice, Three Times an Impeachment Call
Not only did Kucinich lay out a blue print for a better America, he laid out a plan of how to do it now.
Three times in the debate Tuesday night he called for the impeachment of Bush/ Cheney and chided the Democratic party powers that be for not doing enough to stand up to them.
"The war in Iraq is illegal, even planning for the war with Iran is illegal," Kucinich said. "I want to know when this Democratic Congress is going to stand up for the Constitution and hold the president accountable with ... an impeachment act. I think our democracy is in peril and unless the Democrats and the Congress stand up for the Constitution we are going to lose our country."
Three times in the debate Tuesday night he called for the impeachment of Bush/ Cheney and chided the Democratic party powers that be for not doing enough to stand up to them.
"The war in Iraq is illegal, even planning for the war with Iran is illegal," Kucinich said. "I want to know when this Democratic Congress is going to stand up for the Constitution and hold the president accountable with ... an impeachment act. I think our democracy is in peril and unless the Democrats and the Congress stand up for the Constitution we are going to lose our country."
Booooo-m!
Zogby has released a poll saying 52% of Americans favor bombing Iran as to prevent them from getting a nuclear bomb.Yikes.
Zogby is also the polling group that predicted Sen. John Kerry would win more than 300 electoral votes and the presidency. They admitted later that projection was flawed after the election.
Anyone who believes a preemptive strike against Iran would be the best idea should read the last chapter of "Blind Into Baghdad" by James Fallows. The main point is:
In war games on Iran, Fallows explored three escalating levels of intervention: raids on Revolutionary Guard units, a preemptive strike on possible nuclear facilities, and regime change. The panel made up of former government officials and Mideast experts concluded: "You have no military solution for the issues of Iran. And you have to make diplomacy work."
A further conclusion was that air strikes would only slow Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, not stop them, and only strengthen their resolve to get one.
Iran getting a nuclear weapon is not desirable by any means. But a really upset Iran that will eventually get one anyway is worse.
Gravel will not be silenced
Sen. Mike Gravel will be making himself heard.
He will be broadcasting LIVE via WebCast tonight from Philadelphia across from the debate site at Drexel University and he will be answering all of the same debate questions that Hillary and the others are answering at the MSNBC debate. That WebCast will be LIVE at 8pm central.
You can visit his campaign here.
He will be broadcasting LIVE via WebCast tonight from Philadelphia across from the debate site at Drexel University and he will be answering all of the same debate questions that Hillary and the others are answering at the MSNBC debate. That WebCast will be LIVE at 8pm central.
You can visit his campaign here.
Corn
A kernel of truth? Nation's obese are corn-fed 10/30/2007
Kevin DiazFarm bill advocates want Congress to channel more subsidies to fruits and vegetables.
Video: Trailer from 'King Corn' 10/26/2007
Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney's documentary film, "King Corn," might have found a rapt audience among fringe public health advocates and then been promptly forgotten. But this year, obesity has become a national obsession just as Congress is embarking...
Kevin DiazFarm bill advocates want Congress to channel more subsidies to fruits and vegetables.
Video: Trailer from 'King Corn' 10/26/2007
Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney's documentary film, "King Corn," might have found a rapt audience among fringe public health advocates and then been promptly forgotten. But this year, obesity has become a national obsession just as Congress is embarking...
Hillary Who?
An online poll being done by Democracy for America is having some interesting results:Candidate- # of Votes- % of Votes
Al Gore (write in) 26,813 26.47%
Dennis Kucinich 24,609 24.3%
Barack Obama 18,373 18.14%
John Edwards 15,215 15.02%
Bill Richardson 5,745 5.67%
Hillary Clinton 4,489 4.43%
You can still vote there if you click on the link.
This plus another polls showing an alarming support for Stephen Colbert is evidence the presidential candidate field is anything but sorted. It's been a constant theme in the media lately that "It's Hillary and that's it."
But there is still votes to be counted and as polls show, minds to be made up.
John Edwards Moral Test Speech
Remarks by Senator John Edwards
St. Anselm's College, Manchester, New HamphshireOctober 29, 2007
Many of you know that I am the son of a mill worker -- that I rose from modest means and have been blessed in so many ways in life.
Elizabeth and I have so much to be grateful for.
And all of you know about some of the challenges we have faced in my family. But there came a time, a few months ago, when Elizabeth and I had to decide, in the quiet of a hospital room, after many hours of tests and getting pretty bad news -- what we were going to do with our lives.And we made our decision. That we were not going to go quietly into the night -- that we were going to stand and fight for what we believe in.As Elizabeth and I have campaigned across America, I've come to a better understanding of what that decision really meant -- and why we made it.Earlier this year, I spoke at Riverside Church in New York, where, forty years ago, Martin Luther King gave a historic speech. I talked about that speech then, and I want to talk about it today. Dr. King was tormented by the way he had kept silent for two years about the Vietnam War. He was told that if he spoke out he would hurt the civil rights movement and all that he had worked for -- but he could not take it any more -- instead of decrying the silence of others -- he spoke the truth about himself.
"Over the past two years" he said, "I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silence and speak from the burning of my own heart."
I am not holier than thou. I am not perfect by any means. But there are events in life that you learn from, and which remind you what this is really all about. Maybe I have been freed from the system and the fear that holds back politicians because I have learned there are much more important things in life than winning elections at the cost of selling your soul. Especially right now, when our country requires so much more of us, and needs to hear the truth from its leaders.And, although I have spent my entire life taking on the big powerful interests and winning -- which is why I have never taken a dime from Washington lobbyists or political action committees -- I too have been guilty of my own silence -- but no more.It's time to tell the truth. And the truth is the system in Washington is corrupt. It is rigged by the powerful special interests to benefit they very few at the expense of the many. And as a result, the American people have lost faith in our broken system in Washington, and believe it no longer works for ordinary Americans. They're right.As I look across the political landscape of both parties today -- what I see are politicians too afraid to tell the truth -- good people caught in a bad system that overwhelms their good intentions and requires them to chase millions of dollars in campaign contributions in order to perpetuate their careers and continue their climb to higher office.
Read the rest of the speech here.
St. Anselm's College, Manchester, New HamphshireOctober 29, 2007
Many of you know that I am the son of a mill worker -- that I rose from modest means and have been blessed in so many ways in life.
Elizabeth and I have so much to be grateful for.
And all of you know about some of the challenges we have faced in my family. But there came a time, a few months ago, when Elizabeth and I had to decide, in the quiet of a hospital room, after many hours of tests and getting pretty bad news -- what we were going to do with our lives.And we made our decision. That we were not going to go quietly into the night -- that we were going to stand and fight for what we believe in.As Elizabeth and I have campaigned across America, I've come to a better understanding of what that decision really meant -- and why we made it.Earlier this year, I spoke at Riverside Church in New York, where, forty years ago, Martin Luther King gave a historic speech. I talked about that speech then, and I want to talk about it today. Dr. King was tormented by the way he had kept silent for two years about the Vietnam War. He was told that if he spoke out he would hurt the civil rights movement and all that he had worked for -- but he could not take it any more -- instead of decrying the silence of others -- he spoke the truth about himself.
"Over the past two years" he said, "I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silence and speak from the burning of my own heart."
I am not holier than thou. I am not perfect by any means. But there are events in life that you learn from, and which remind you what this is really all about. Maybe I have been freed from the system and the fear that holds back politicians because I have learned there are much more important things in life than winning elections at the cost of selling your soul. Especially right now, when our country requires so much more of us, and needs to hear the truth from its leaders.And, although I have spent my entire life taking on the big powerful interests and winning -- which is why I have never taken a dime from Washington lobbyists or political action committees -- I too have been guilty of my own silence -- but no more.It's time to tell the truth. And the truth is the system in Washington is corrupt. It is rigged by the powerful special interests to benefit they very few at the expense of the many. And as a result, the American people have lost faith in our broken system in Washington, and believe it no longer works for ordinary Americans. They're right.As I look across the political landscape of both parties today -- what I see are politicians too afraid to tell the truth -- good people caught in a bad system that overwhelms their good intentions and requires them to chase millions of dollars in campaign contributions in order to perpetuate their careers and continue their climb to higher office.
Read the rest of the speech here.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Sen. Bernie Sanders Says Enough
"It has become an American aphorism that ours is a government of laws, not men. We need an attorney general who understands that, so he can explain it to a president who does not."That is Senator Bernie Sanders' summation on the confirmation of Michael B. Mukasey. Sen. Sanders will vote "no" on a person who refuses to call waterboarding torture. You can read the rest here.
How will our Senators vote?
A staffer at Sen. Amy Klobuchar's office said that they did not know how the Senator was going to vote. You can call them yourself at 202-224-3244 and tell her to vote "No."
Senator Norm Coleman's office would not say how the Senator was going to vote. You can call him at 202-224-5641. Tell him to vote "No" too.
If Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows How About War?
Here is who the United States is cozying up in the lead up to the war in Iran:The Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK)
Who are they? This comes courtesy Frontline:
Self-styled "Islamic-Marxists," the MEK targeted Americans in the '70s and the State Department considers it a terrorist group. After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the MEK was disarmed, but it remains under the protection of U.S. forces at its base north of Baghdad. Iran says the MEK is supplying intelligence to the U.S. on Iran's covert nuclear program and Iranian operations in Iraq.
That's right Islamic-Marxists. Wow.
And as the U.S. is beating the wardrums to start a war in Iran. Who is keeping time?
Here is a Q & A with a former MEK member here:
Q:... The Iranians officials told us that in the meetings in Baghdad they laid out what they said was evidence that the MEK was providing intelligence to the U.S. military. Are they?
A:The Mujahideen-e Khalq have been providing information about the Iranian regime's operations both in terms of their terrorist operation and their nuclear weapons program in open, public press conferences to the whole world. (From Frontline)
The MEK has wanted to have a Marxist style overthrow of Iran for some time. What kind of intellegence do we think we are going to get from them?
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