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Tuesday March 01, 2005 · 5:23 PM PST

2005/03/01 · 17:23

So my right-wing boss's #1 issue is "thegoddamngreedybastardteachersunion!!" and I'd like to be able to tear him a new one with facts and figures but I usually fall short. Read More

A Lesson From John Kerry

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Saturday November 27, 2004 · 2:11 AM PST

2004/11/27 · 02:11

So a lot of people want action and fighting over election reform, yeah? I personally think the goal of overturning this past election is so far-fetched and would be so unpopular (do you really think Kerry won the popular vote?) that it's probably not worth the fight. The battle for making John Kerry president is over for me. But the battle to modernize our electoral system so that it is completely transparent and everyone's right to vote is guaranteed goes on. There's a whole host of reforms to get behind and which we could potentially get passed with broad bipartisan support. I suggest we take a lesson from our de facto Fearless Leader and march on Washington. Read More

Jumbo weighs in

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Wednesday November 10, 2004 · 4:47 PM PST

2004/11/10 · 16:47

Hey everybody, I've been kind of light on my Kossing ever since election day. If you don't mind I'd like to catch up by presenting a little digest of my personal opinions on the events of the past few weeks. If you do mind, please refrain from complaining in my comments bin, just email me your address and I'll come over to your house to fight you. Read More

Reminder: Kerry Doc Free Download

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Friday October 08, 2004 · 11:54 AM PDT

2004/10/08 · 11:54

I'm not a copyright lawyer so I have know idea how legal this is, but I'd just like to remind people who might have missed it last night that Going Upriver is available for free download online.

Go here.

You should be able to download it directly by right-clicking (or option-clicking) here.

Judo Flip: How to Spin Their Spin

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Wednesday October 06, 2004 · 9:25 AM PDT

2004/10/06 · 09:25

Give Cheney his props. Use his momentum against him: He's obviously smarter and more capable than his boss.

Whenever a Democratic surrogate is confronted with a question like: "A lot of people are saying Dick Cheney performed quite well last night and some are saying he won the debate outright, what did you think of the VP's performance?" The response should be:

"I too was impressed by Mr. Cheney's performance last night. After the President's, frankly pathetic performance in the first Presidential debate I was struck by how much more prepared and knowledgeable Mr. Cheney was compared to his boss. If you ask me, the GOP made a mistake and put the wrong guy at the top of the ticket."

"If this election was all about who's going to be the next President of the Senate, then Dick Cheney did very well last night. But this election is about who will be the next leader of the free world. As long as the Republicans have George W. Bush at the top of their ticket, it's hard to take them seriously."

Let's hear it for formal Kerry

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Saturday October 02, 2004 · 3:05 AM PDT

2004/10/02 · 03:05

One of the things that struck me about today's round of post-debate spin was how much better John Kerry is when he's in a formal setting like a debate or a prepared speech. In the debate footage, the media couldn't help but make Kerry look presidential, wise and capable. When they cut up the soundbites from his stump appearances and rallys, they can make him look smug or arrogant or whatever they want. Throughout this campaign Kerry's highlights have been scripted: his acceptance speeches in Iowa and New Hampshire, his speech at the convention, his pre-debate foreign policy address, the debate itself. Meanwhile, the Bush campaign and the media seem to jump on the extemporaneous things Kerry does at campaign stops: the "lying, rotten bastards" mic mixup, the "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it," the TV interviews that make up most of the new Iraq war flipflop ad. Read More

Blankley shoots blanks on McLaughlin Group

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Friday October 01, 2004 · 10:45 PM PDT

2004/10/01 · 22:45

Damn! Did anyone see Tony Blankley sputtering like a beached whale on the McLaughlin Group tonight. He had nothin'. Pat Buchanan wasn't giving him any kind of help. The unanimous decision of The Group was that Kerry won but Tony B tried to squeeze out some credit for Bush saying he lost on style but won on substance. Lawrence O'Donnell responded by asking how he could have won on substance if he couldn't even fill up the alloted time without repeating himself.

I figure the McLaughlin Group is a fairly good sample of the range of spinnery out there. From what I could tell, the GOP's best tactic is to change the subject and avoid actually talking about Bush's debate performance.

Debate #1 Winner: Kerry
Post-debate spin winner: So-far, Kerry

Now polls, smolls, it'll take a while for this all to sink in and spread around. But my personal political seismograph is starting to pick up the kind of minor, imperceptible rumblings that will lead to a major tectonic event in November. As Lawrence O'Donnell so succinctly put it tonight, America is not going to watch George W. Bush lose three debates in a row and then re-elect him.

Idea for a response to the windsurfing ad

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Tuesday September 28, 2004 · 4:34 PM PDT

2004/09/28 · 16:34

I for one have been fairly impressed by the Karl Rove's effectiveness with the Swift Boat stuff and the flip-flop crap. He went right for John Kerry's strengths and managed to create a plausible narrative of Kerry as a flip-flopping pussy that has become, whether we like it or not, a dominant storyline in this election. I like what Kerry's been doing recently, getting tougher and simpler. But I think someone needs to do to Bush what was done to John Kerry. Read More

Boycott the Boss?!?

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Wednesday August 18, 2004 · 8:32 AM PDT

2004/08/18 · 08:32

Marilyn O'Grady, Conservative Party candidate for president is leeching of Bruce Springsteen's notoriety in this new Anti-Boss ad. Read More

I read Checkpoint by Nicholson Baker so you don't have to.

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Tuesday August 17, 2004 · 8:51 AM PDT

2004/08/17 · 08:51

First the juicy part:

Jay's talking about going to an antiwar march in Washington:

Jay: Yeah, oh, and at the end all the cops were lined up in a long long row to keep us from going to a certain park, and as I passed I thanked them, I said, Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, nodding to each one of them, because they had been restrained, and there hadn't been any violence, and that's something. that's really important.
Ben: So you thanked them.
Jay: I did, and the next day, when I woke up, I told myself you're not going to read blogs all day. Because I'd been reading Daily Kos and the Agonist, , Talking Points Memo checking Google News twenty times a day.
Ben: I don't read blogs so much.
Jay: I said to myself, No more, because where does that get you? You've got to detach. It's happening no matter whay you do, no matter how well informed or not informed you are. [Emphasis and links mine]

Pretty neat, huh? More spoilers below... Read More

Gallup: Bush 50 Kerry 47

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Friday August 13, 2004 · 9:52 AM PDT

2004/08/13 · 09:52

Linkity-link.

This is likely voters:
Aug 9-11 Kerry 47 (47) Bush 50 (51)

Jul 30-Aug 1 numbers in parenthesis.

Sorry, gotta go to class, no time for analysis. There's a lot more in the link so you should be able to find some things to talk about amongst yourselves...

People of Color United...for Bush!?!?

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Thursday August 12, 2004 · 7:49 AM PDT

2004/08/12 · 07:49

Is this what desperation smells like?

J. Patrick Rooney, aka Whitey McWhiteguy, is putting up $30,000 to fund a group called People of Color United that's running anti-Kerry ads on black radio stations. Here's a picture of the not-very-black insurance magnate himself in case for some reason, you thought maybe the major donor to People of Color United was a person of color. The ads themselves are real cute:

One of the radio ads addresses Kerry's failure to vote on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks: "It needed 60 votes to pass. Ninety-nine out of 100 senators voted -- Kerry did not! It lost by one vote! Maybe Kerry thought the more of us who are unemployed and hurting, the more likely we would vote Democrat."

Another ad attacks Teresa Heinz Kerry, who, at the Democratic convention last month cited her birth and upbringing in Mozambique and who has described herself as African American. In the radio commercial, the announcer says: "His wife says she's an African American. While technically true, I don't believe a white woman, raised in Africa, surrounded by servants, qualifies."

The money quote comes, not surprisingly, from the Money Man himself, Mr. Rooney:

Rooney, who is white, said in an e-mail response to an inquiry from The Washington Post: "I support [the] group because the genuine word from the black community should be heard, not white folks saying for them."

Right on.

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