Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Posted here Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 10:28:07 PM     We are entering the tense destructuve phase. We have for example, just posted The leaders at the Nevada Democratic headquarters just announced that the Secretary of State of Oregon has just held a press conference.  He has announced that they have a registration worker on tape tearing up Democratic registrations forms, and they have sworn statements from registration workers this evening that the workers were told to tear up Democratic registrations. Very worth looking at the Kos effort around Sinclair and the atemtp to show the anti-kerry film on 62 stations by order of managment etc. This site was put together today and Kos has already had a major impact - along with mobilized others. the stock price is down, advertizers have pulled out. This will be a major case study in net activism when the election is over. http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group ********

Posted here Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 5:03:07 PM     Here is an old pro, Theodore Rozak, whose sense of history is rich and persoanl, in an article worth the reading, an excerpt http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/  Suppose, then, George W. Bush dropped all pretenses and simply declared, "OK, you wanna know my domestic agenda? Here it is. Dick  Cheney, Tom DeLay and I aren't just gonna defeat the liberals, we're  gonna obliterate them, along with every progressive reform since the  days of Teddy Roosevelt, every New Deal program, every Great Society  entitlement. Why else do you think we're running these sky-high  deficits? We're handing as much dough as we can to the people who know  how to run this country -- namely the super-rich. Sure, that's gonna  cost the rest of you jobs and social services, but isn't it worth it to  give the poor, the nonwhite, the welfare queens, the gays and the  feminazis a swift kick in the teeth?   "What's my foreign policy? Listen up. We're gonna yank that oil out  from under those dysfunctional Arabs because we need it to preserve our  gas- guzzling way of life, and I'm not asking anybody for a permission  slip to do that. We're God's chosen people and we intend to make the  most of it. And if anybody gets in our way, we've got what it takes to  clobber them."   If Bush took that line, I wonder if it would it cost him a single vote  he doesn't already have. And how many swing voters might be won over by  such decisive, non-flip-flopping leadership? As for the single-minded  evangelicals who have become the key to any winning political strategy,  the Republicans have them so locked in that even if Bush were  discovered having lunch with the devil, they would still vote for him  -- as long as he treated them to an occasional kick at the gays and the  feminists. ********

Posted here Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 11:38:47 AM     This seems, at the simple level of the election, the emerging key issue. http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/ today for full article Kerry is arguing that we need to get back to a world of higher trust and lower fear -- whereas the Bush campaign seems bent on justifying themselves through a high fear/low trust approach to managing this count ********