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Jesus was a Community Organizer, Pilate was a Governor

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:27:32 GMT

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Thank you to my friend Daniel, who has done community organizing from Harlem to LA to Boston. Thank you to Biko Baker of League of Young Voters, who I once interviewed and was immediately impressed by. Thank you to Saul Alinsky, largely considered the father of community organizing (pictured above). Thank you to all of you I don't know, who every day, make the choice to listen to ordinary people's stories and help them link these stories into a template for honest-to-goodness social change.

And, yes, thank you to Barack Obama, for making the choice to be a community organizer so many years ago and for continuing to be proud and loud about the importance of the role of the community organizer for our nation's well-being.

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Thank You Thursdays: Community Organizers

Thank you to all the community organizers, past and present, who have recognized the ways in which the personal is the political, hearing--in the individual stories of ordinary people--a common thread of struggle deserving of action and resolution. Thank you to those who jump started whole movements (feminism, civil rights, labor) with their audacity and daily, hourly, minute-by-minute courage to knock on doors, sit down with friends and strangers alike, educate, and most of all, listen. Thank you to the community organizers who have targeted environmental racism--making sure that folks aren't poisoned in their own neighborhoods just because they don't have the resources to fight back. Thank you to the community organizers who have targeted civil rights, educational failures, classism, racism, sexism, ableism etc. etc.

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Looking for the Lost City of Gold? Beware...

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:56:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For some reason I found this paragraph highly amusing...

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The Lost City of Gold that Bingham was after is said to actually exist. There have been many who claim to have seen this city deep in the jungle. For those of you who are already packing their bags, you might be interested to know that it is guarded by an ancient tribe which supposedly loves tearing up and examining the entrails of white people. The tribe is said to allow only those with high spiritual growth to pass through the jungle. How they measure spiritual growth is still not known, so the careless traveler may end up dead before he even gets to prove his spiritual growth.

Sarah Palin: "I don't even know what V.P does"

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:53:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What has John McCain done?

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Sarah Palin, July 2008: I don’t even know what the Vice President does

Republican VP candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told Larry Kudlow less than two months ago that she can’t answer whether or not she would accept the VP offer because she has no idea what the Vice President does.

“As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does everyday?”

Do we really need someone like this a heartbeat away from the Presidency? Especially given that McCain turned 72 today? Especially someone under investigation for abuse of power less than two years into office? That really is more of the same.

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Paul Begala on McCain's VP pick...

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:44:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gotta think this is the message the democrats will be sticking to on this issue...hard to argue with it.

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For a man who is 72 years old and has had four bouts with cancer to have chosen someone so completely unqualified to become president is shockingly irresponsible. Suddenly, McCain's age and health become central issues in the campaign, as does his judgment.

Tags: politics, mccain, palin, vice president

Ted Stevens Endorses Palin for Governor

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:35:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oops. Then again, guilt by association is so passe, right GOP?

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Tags: gop, vop, mccain, ted stevens, alaska, palin, politics, elections, future

Palin Runs A State, Obama Runs His Mouth

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:15:42 GMT

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Mr. Hope and Change, who picked a 35+ year veteran of the Senate to cover his own inexperience has the gall to attack Palin for inexperience.

I'd also point out that, in addition to being elected for five years before Obama was first elected to any office, Palin has been balancing local and state government budgets while Obama was relying on Tony Rezko to balance his budget.

Paul Begala on McCain's VP pick...

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:44:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gotta think this is the message the democrats will be sticking to on this issue...hard to argue with it.

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Tags: politics, mccain, palin, vice president

Paul Begala on McCain's VP pick...

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:44:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gotta think this is the message the democrats will be sticking to on this issue...hard to argue with it.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Tags: politics, mccain, palin, vice president

The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:11:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's also a slap in the face of Democratic women voters. They don't get Hillary but they get Sarah as the first potential woman President? In fact, I can just hear Biden saying, "Sarah Palin, you are NO Hillary Clinton!"

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The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

I think we will look back at today as the day when the Republicans most certainly lost the Presidency.

In choosing Sarah Palin of Alaska for Vice President, the Republicans have made a cynical but clever choice. At least they think it is clever.

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She has NO national experience.

She has never been under the intense scrutiny of a national campaign.

She is under investigation for some incident in Alaska that is messy and personal.

She has no international experience.

When Republicans and independents go into the voting booth, will they have the confidence to vote for a McCain-Palin ticket, knowing that John McCain has had several recurrences of his skin cancer, and will be the oldest President ever? Can they imagine Sarah Palin stepping into the Oval Office and dealing with all the problems we face right now?

It's a slap in the face of other Republican women like Kay Bailey Hutchison

Tags: john mccain whore mongering gold digger

Palin,Sarah- for the office of the VP for McCain

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:34:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't mean to snicker, but now things start to disintegrate and go from the sublime to the ridiculous. After Dan Quayle now this ? What a bad joke on America. Pity.

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MCCAIN: SHE'S READY TO BE PRESIDENT

Sarah as point guard and captain of the Wasilla High School Warriors (she's on the right).

Sarah Palin Vs. Polar Bears

WATCH: Steny Hoyer: Palin "Worse Than Dan Quayle"

Media 38 Million Watch Obama's Acceptance Speech, More Than Beijing Opening Ceremony

Sarah Palin: A Woman Who Forces Every American To Ask "Why Aren't I Running For President?"

Sarah Palin: Patrick Buchanan Brigader

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:00:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well, the G.O.P. has shown it's true colors once again. Racist. Anti-Semitic. Anti-Free Will.

I wonder how those Jewish voters who are against Obama will react to Sarah Palin.

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The Nation's Chris Hayes scored a big scoop this morning, unearthing a report from 1999 of Palin's support of then-Independent Presidential candidate Buchanan. And per Ben Smith, Buchanan said today on MSNBC that Palin was "brigader [for his campaign] back in 1996." Take a look:

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Buchanan's statements and actions over the years have earned him his own page on the Anti-Defamation League's website, highlighting statements ranging from "Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory" from 1990 and "If you want to know ethnicity and power in the United States Senate, 13 members of the Senate are Jewish folks who are from 2 percent of the population. That is where real power is at..." from just last year

Palin appears to have been a long-time supporter of Buchanan. This is the way McCain and the Republicans expect to court Jewish voters (as well as the roughly 90 to 95 percent of Americans who are to the left of Buchanan)

A Bit of Rationalism

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:37:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's always positive to point out what is myth and what is reality. Often they are confused, especially by people who depend so much on myth. The attached clip offers a bit of sunshine to brighten up those dark corners of peoples brains.

Clip Source: atheism.about.com

Myth:

Atheists are angry at God because they think He should have done something for them in their pasts.

Response:
The idea that atheists are angry in general is itself already quite popular, but the myth that atheists are angry specifically at God for not having done what they want may be more popular. This combines the idea that atheists are angry, that they are prideful enough to think that they know better than God, and that they are rebelling against what God wants for the world. Atheists are thus attacked from a variety of convenient directions, except for the fact that the claim is all wrong.

The most obvious reason why everyone should recognize that this myth is false is the simple fact that you can't be angry at God unless you believe that God exists. This means that anyone who is angry at God must be a theist, not an atheist — an atheist is a person who doesn't believe in any gods at all. Atheists therefore cannot be angry at any gods.

Tags: atheism, religion, logic, rational

The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:11:57 GMT

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The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

I think we will look back at today as the day when the Republicans most certainly lost the Presidency.

In choosing Sarah Palin of Alaska for Vice President, the Republicans have made a cynical but clever choice. At least they think it is clever.

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She has NO national experience.

She has never been under the intense scrutiny of a national campaign.

She is under investigation for some incident in Alaska that is messy and personal.

She has no international experience.

It's a slap in the face of other Republican women like Kay Bailey Hutchison

Tags: john mccain whore mongering gold digger

Pat Buchanan cheers Obama speech!

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:49:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “I stand with Obama! It was a genuinely outstanding speech, it was magnificent."

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Pat Buchanan gushes over Obama speech, hell freezes over

Q: How do you know Obama’s speech was well-received?

A: Pat Buchanan can’t shut up about how much he loved it.

BUCHANAN: “I stand with Obama! It was a genuinely outstanding speech, it was magnificent. I saw Cuomo’s speech, I saw Kennedy in ‘80, I even saw Douglas MacArthur, I saw MLK; this is the greatest convention speech and probably the most important because unlike Cuomo and the others, this was an acceptance speech, this came out of the heart of America, and he went right at the heart of America. This wasn’t a liberal speech at all. This is a deeply, deeply centrist speech. It had wit, it had humor, and when he used the needle on McCain, he stuck it into McCain and it was funny. It was Kennedy’s speech in ‘80. I laughed with Kennedy when he was needling Ronald Reagan.”

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McCain's VP pick...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:03:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I thought these two excerpts were especially relevant to how the pick of Palin will viewed. All i can say for now is that it sure does shake up the chemistry of the election.

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She's pro-life in practice as well as in theory; she recently gave birth to a son that she knew would have Down Syndrome. She'll be the first woman on a Republican ticket, which could appeal to Hillary Clinton voters and help reduce Barack Obama's advantage among women. Her son is about to deploy to Iraq. She's an ice fisherman, a moose hunter and a lifetime NRA member. She killed her state's pork-laden Bridge to Nowhere that McCain has ridiculed on the trail.

Still, it's a long leap from the Wasilla city council to the White House, and the top consideration for any candidate for the number-two job is readiness for the number-one job, an issue that may weigh more on voters' minds when the potential number one is 72 years old.

Tags: politics, mccain, palin, vice president

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Jesus was a Community Organizer, Pilate was a Governor

Looking for the Lost City of Gold? Beware...

Sarah Palin: "I don't even know what V.P does"

Paul Begala on McCain's VP pick...

Ted Stevens Endorses Palin for Governor

Palin Runs A State, Obama Runs His Mouth

Paul Begala on McCain's VP pick...

Paul Begala on McCain's VP pick...

The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

Palin,Sarah- for the office of the VP for McCain

MCCAIN: SHE'S READY TO BE PRESIDENT

Sarah Palin Vs. Polar Bears

WATCH: Steny Hoyer: Palin "Worse Than Dan Quayle"

Media38 Million Watch Obama's Acceptance Speech, More Than Beijing Opening Ceremony

Sarah Palin: A Woman Who Forces Every American To Ask "Why Aren't I Running For President?"

Sarah Palin: Patrick Buchanan Brigader

A Bit of Rationalism

The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

Pat Buchanan cheers Obama speech!

McCain's VP pick...

Media 38 Million Watch Obama's Acceptance Speech, More Than Beijing Opening Ceremony