Month: February 2008

I’m sure you’ve all seen this already: Nader is running for President again.

More ego, more hubris….and delusional this time around as well. Some quotes from his announcement:

“There are conservatives who are furious with Bush over the deficit, over corporate subsidies, over corporate pornography directed toward children, over the Patriot Act, over many other issues. And they may be looking for an Independent candidacy. There are liberal Republicans who see their party taken away from them. They may be looking for an Independent candidacy. There are a hundred million non- voters that no one has figured out how to bring back into the electoral system, which I want to try to do.”

Has this Alan-Alda-wannabe even LOOKED at the demographics that Obama is drawing? Earth to Ralph: The ground you seek is already occupied.

“And it’s time to change the equation and bring millions of American people into the political arena”

“I hope millions of Americans will agree if they want fresh ideas, new ideas, solutions, but above all, if they want to become, in Jefferson’s term, “participators” in our democratic society.”

Somebody should send Ralph the videos of a thousand students marching in Texas, the overflowing caucus crowds here in Kansas, the record turn-outs everywhere in the Democratic race….and most of them because of Obama.

Ralph, you’re over, buddy. You were done in 2000. You just don’t know it yet.

The Republicans in Texas have engaged in some pretty notorious gerrymandering — redrawing districts in an obvious and unapologetic attempt to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

As an example — for the heavily-Dem-voting Prairie View A&M University precincts, they put the early-polling place more than seven miles from the school.

So what did students there do? On the first day of early voting for the upcoming primary, they WALKED the 7 miles, shutting down a highway in the process. Check it out:

Something is definitely happening in this country.

So, John McCain all but has the Republican nomination sewn up….except that he’s having problems with the right wing, who (led by noise machines like Rush Limbaugh, etc.) are bitching that he’s not a “true conservative.”

Suddenly, the New York Times (easily the most conservative of the so-called “liberal media”, and a paper that endorsed McCain last month) releases a story that….well, doesn’t report anything, really. Re-hashes 8-year old charges that his staff was concerned that he was spending time with a Lobbyist.

Now, the right wing are screeching about the “drive-by journalism” and “smear job” by the “liberal media.” Rush Limbaugh is leading the charge to defend the poor, under-attack McCain. The troops have been rallied, and now McCain has the conservatives behind him.

Doesn’t anybody else find that to be a bit….well…..convenient?