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Post by Brian on Oct 23, 2008 22:40:45 GMT -8
Talk about anything happening anywhere in this catch-all thread, or just copy and paste an article or post a link. Short or long. Momentous or fleeting.
The biggest story for me today was Scott McClellan's endorsement of Obama. Seems like there's a dynamite defection every news cycle -- George Will, Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley, Christopher Hitchens and Colin Powell -- which would help give Obama a veto-proof majority with reasonable Republicans in Congress next year.
Fighting complacency, that I can do. Peeling myself off the ceiling every night is a chore.
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Post by annie90807 on Oct 29, 2008 5:25:29 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on Oct 29, 2008 6:40:11 GMT -8
I just heard about another Georgia ruling on CNN that will force the state to allow 4500 to vote, following up on one of Annie's links.
And the story from Albany about individual voters going to court to ensure their rights is an inspiring way to start the day.
As for the McClatchy piece, which is well written and researched: sounds like garden variety Congressional behavior to me. Not very mavericky.
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Post by annie90807 on Oct 30, 2008 5:34:35 GMT -8
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Post by annie90807 on Oct 31, 2008 14:52:12 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on Oct 31, 2008 20:25:24 GMT -8
That first link goes to a fabulous column by Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" and one of our clearest voices of reason.
There is going to be tremendous pressure on Bush to yield to Obama's policies as soon as the election is over.
Also, I heard the Najim al Jabouri story on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show tonight.
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Post by annie90807 on Nov 4, 2008 5:09:20 GMT -8
Very interesting story on Democracy Now yesterday www.democracynow.org/2008/11/3/on_eve_of_election_day_isI believe the link above will be active for three days. Not a new story but more detailed one, here are some excerpts “Mike Connell is—has been named as Karl Rove’s computer guru since 2000. The lawyers in the case refer to Connell as a high-IQ Forrest Gump, because he’s been on the scene of every dubious election we’ve had over the last eight years, starting with Florida 2000. Now, he has been named by a man named Stephen Spoonamore, S-P-O-O-N-A-M-O-R-E, who’s a very unusual and particularly unimpeachable kind of whistleblower. He’s a conservative Republican; he’s a former McCain supporter. But above all, he is a renowned and highly successful expert at the detection of computer fraud.[…] Well, he’s named a lot of people in the Bush-Cheney election subversion conspiracy. He has worked with them. He knows them personally. And months ago, he named Mike Connell and his company GovTech Solutions as having played a crucial role in the—basically the electronic subversion of the vote in Ohio in 2004. And Spoonamore has actually described the computer architecture that was used to do this. […]AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean he specializes in the computer architecture, the internet architecture, that can steal elections? MARK CRISPIN MILLER: Well, it’s a system—if people go to the website for Velvet Revolution, particularly www.rovecybergate.com, they’ll find the documents that Spoonamore has filed describing the setup that’s known as “Man in the Middle.” This happened in Ohio in 2004. It involves shunting the data that comes from the website for the Secretary of State—I mean, the election returns—taking those election returns as they come to the website in real-time and shunting them to a computer somewhere else.”
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Post by annie90807 on Nov 5, 2008 15:00:55 GMT -8
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Post by annie90807 on Nov 6, 2008 5:52:39 GMT -8
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Post by Brian on Nov 6, 2008 22:21:06 GMT -8
So we know by now that Reid's meeting with Lieberman took place today and nothing was decided. The Democratic caucus can remove him as a committee chairman later this month. But I wonder if old Joe decided months ago that he rather hang with the Republicans -- and is passive-aggressively forcing the Democrats to expel him.
I'm ambivalent. Last weekend I saw him looking like a bobblehead standing behind McCain at the rallies and wanted him punished. But if he isn't, he'll have to defect to the Republican caucus on his own.
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