He's back - Ralph Nader on the presidential ballot in Alaska
http://aprn.org/2008/09/04/hes-back-ralp h-nader-on-the-presidential-ballot-in-al aska/Thu, September 4, 2008
Posted in Alaska NewsRalph Nader will be on Alaska's November general election ballot for U.S. president. The Alaska Division of Elections has certified more than 4900 signatures of Alaska voters. Nader needed 3145 signatures. He is now on the ballot in 45 states. The 2008 election will be the fourth time Nader has run for president as a third-party candidate.
Also, seems the repugs are trying to keep barr off the ballot in Pennsylvania.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/1653
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Taken from this diary about 3rd party candidates:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/1653
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Take a look at this link, you will see that nader and barr are both going to be causing some trouble!
http://www.ballot-access.org/ballot-char
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"Be outraged, and be loud about it."
That line and the following came from a female friend mine. She is very active in politics and in the community. She also works in a law office as a legal aid. She is smart, she is feminine and she is tough!
Pelosi and Clinton and Palin ... women currently have a MANDATE to go get aggressive and make sure we're taken seriously as contenders who won't back down from our demands, from our outrage.Obama can't get out there and swing - he can't be seen as scary. Biden might do it - but he's pretty courtly...
It's up to women this year. I strongly believe this. We are in a cycle right now that might be hard to see, but it must culminate in a change in women's forcefulness and place in politics and ownership of our society. We don't have the luxury of remaining moderately involved and passively concerned. Things are screwed up, and you-know-who typically does clean up, right?
Last Saturday at a favorite watering hole, I sat by some nice liberal guy having a moderately heated debate with 3 less-than-liberal guys at the counter. I tried to stay out of it, I really did. But as he did his typical logical liberal thing, I watched these 3 guys clearly get more and more aggressive, and less and less interested in his opinion, and more and more condescending. They'd heard it, and they'd heard it just like this, before. All he was doing was reinforcing an old argument that they have never had to give up. Everybody knew their lines.
Because you see, nice Western Washingtonians, most Americans find that sort of communication boring, weak, non-convicted, and unconvincing. We are a country of chest beaters.
So, when this guy resorted to "America, love it or leave it," I almost leapt across the bar at him. (Seriously.) I scolded this guy, loudly. I didn't let him retort. I wasn't trying to debate. I blamed him. I castigated him. I didn't tell him I "think" he's an idiot. I told him in no uncertain terms that he IS an idiot and that he was an embarrassment to human beings and to shut his polluting mouth. I did what THEY do - offense as defense. I went for the kill. It got ugly. Oh, the humanity.
This guy - after telling ME that this great country can only offer two options to its citizens - was really only left with two options his damn self. He had to come over and punch me in the face for aggressively and publicly insulting his brain cells, evolution, and lineage - or leave. They left, and they didn't have anything else to say. Not that I would have let them get a word in.
Now this watering hole I speak of is not a mecca for progressives or brainiacs. But I got its equivalent of a standing ovation. Not because they necessarily like my politics. But because, in the opinion of the masses, I had WON.
Undignified? These people speak in tongues and play with snakes and watch Jerry Springer - they're not impressed with dignity. Not pretty? I don't care. Not playing fair? I don't care. Resorting to their playbook? I don't care. This is WAR. Go fight, women - we're finally ready for it, and I frankly think they're expecting us. And it's about time, too.
Elizabeth - do not be discouraged and do not be scared. Be outraged, and be loud about it.
Just so you all remember, rupert murdock now owns the Wall Street Journal AND the New York Stock exchange! This is the same man who owns fox news and more then 20% of the media world wide.
It seems that the WSJ and rupert murdock have scrubbed a story about Sarah Palin to try and make Brack Obama look bad.
The story is called "Record Contradicts Palin's 'Bridge' Claims" and it was published on 9/9/08.
The original article ended with the following paragraphs. I tried to find the original version using Google and their cache, but it was Live.com that came through!
Here is the cache link of the original story.
... As such, Gov. Palin's image as a "reformer" is part of the storyline the McCain campaign needs to complement the top of its ticket. Her quip about passing on the bridge and "building it ourselves" has been a staple of her stump.But she's drawn considerable fire as result. Sen. Obama's campaign released an advertisement pointing out her original support of the bridge. And on Monday, an Obama staffer emailed a photo of Gov. Palin holding up a T-shirt that was made shortly after the bridge caught national attention. It reads "NOWHERE ALASKA" and "99901," the zip code of Ketchikan.
The McCain campaign jumped back with spokesman Brian Rogers calling the attacks "hysterical."
"The only people 'lying' about spending are the Obama campaign. The only explanation for their hysterical attacks is that they're afraid that when John McCain and Sarah Palin are in the White House, Barack Obama's nearly $1 billion in earmark spending will stop dead in its tracks," Mr. Rogers said.
At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor -- which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.
This is not much of a diary, but I just had to pass this on. I LOVE this line!
Sleeping with a Secessionist ...
Do we want a separtist with easy access to the centers of power in the nation?What would it mean to have a Vice President (likely President) sleeping with a separtist?
This question is essentially absent from the pages of traditional media.
Imagine if Michelle Obama were a registered member of the Black Panthers until 2002? Imagine the drumbeat of outrage that all Americans would hear. About Todd "My Guy" Palin's separtist credentials? Crickets chirping in the night ...
Sarah Palin has not just sleeping with a separtist but clearly seems to be in the realm of fellow traveler.
Read the rest of A Siegel's diary at Progressive Blue:
http://www.progressiveblue.com/showDiary .do?diaryId=2524
We all need to do as much as we can. We need to try and Donate Time, Energy and Money for OBAMA and the DNC!
The following story brings to light that Obama does not have unlimited cash and resources. Unless we can all step up and do more, then the 50 state strategy and even the 18 state strategy is dead for now.
Barack Obama's campaign, which once boasted of an unprecedented broadening of the electoral battlefield, is scaling down its ambitions and concentrating more of its resources on the narrow ground of traditional swing states.
After seeing the following diary on Dkos, 600,000 Ohio voters subject to GOP caging. . . I had to pass along another diary from EENR that seems to be just the opposite.
The following is from Karita Hummer at EENR.
Federal law and the U.S. Constitution to trump Ohio Election Law.Lo and Behold! Voting Progress from Columbus! Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner gives us good voting rights news for a change.
In a Press Release issued from the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, it was announced that she was sending clarification to local Election Boards that " that 60 day notices sent by boards of election to voters that are returned as undeliverable cannot be used as the sole reason for canceling an Ohioan's voter registration."
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/PressRele ases/2008%20Press%20Releases/20080905.as px
More below...
No, I am not talking about Obama/Biden.
I am talking about these two stories.
The first:
McCain, Obama plan joint stop at Ground ZeroPresidential rivals vow to put aside politics, ads for 9/11 observance
WASHINGTON - Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, in a statement, said they will appear together at the World Trade Center site on Thursday "to honor the memory of each and every American who died" in the 2001 attacks.
The campaigns already had agreed to suspend television advertising critical of each other on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign has said it will air no ads that day.
more below...
I think I sense an ass kicking here. What do you think?
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army (Ret.), will join Karl Rove for this month's UB Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS) election debate. The program is scheduled for 8 p.m. Sept. 26 in Alumni Arena on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
...At UB, he will be sharing the stage with Rove, former White House Deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush. Clark will join the Distinguished Speaker Series program in the place of former Senator John Edwards, who yesterday cancelled all public appearances through the November election.
Tickets already distributed for "Rove-Edwards" will be honored and there is no need for ticket holders to exchange them. Additional tickets for the Rove-Clark lecture are now available at the UB Alumni Arena Ticket office, all Tops outlets or online at Tickets.com.
For more information mand to read the rest, please go here:
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9620
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