AnneK's post, Saying Goodbye to Kenny's Dad

Kenny's flag

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This might be what a Dem Primary ballot would look like.

Rank your favorites and let's see, in hindsight, what the results might have been.

Here's a link to Wikipedia for range voting.

"...in January 1970 it was revealed by Christopher Pyle, an investigator for Ervin's Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, that the U.S. Army was performing domestic investigations on the civilian population. Ervin's further investigations on the matter over the following years, together with the Church Committee inquiries, led to passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act."
- from Wikipedia

The axiom above does not just pertain to the defendant.

I just read an article* which stated Karl Rove has defied a subpoena to testify before Congress. The subpoena was issued in March and pertains to "whether he played a role in prosecutors' decisions to pursue cases against Democrats, such as former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, or in firing federal prosecutors considered disloyal to the Bush administration."

The firings were noted back in Jan. '07 and Siegelman was convicted and sent to prison in '06 and was recently released while the conviction is under appeal since Raw, 60 Minutes and others have exposed Republican political influence to prosecute him.

The American public are being bludgeoned by an on-going criminal enterprise while our judicial system moves at a glacial pace. (Actually, due to Republican foot dragging, glaciers are now moving quicker than our legal protectors.)

How many flagrant abuses can YOU think of which are still being carried on because justice for us is being denied? Ken Lay is the poster boy. He died on the golf course and his death denied those he swindled from recourse but his heirs made out just fine.

Our system does not work any longer.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080710/ap_on_go_co/rove_subpoena

I, along with many of my fellow Dems, have railed against the do-nothing Congress. It is now time for us, and no one else, to do something. A clear message needs to be sent to Senator Obama that if he wants the choreography of Clinton Dems, Dean Dems, Edwards and Kennedy Dems, he'd better dance with the partner that brung him.

You are the last line of defense for the Constitution. With the FISA vote looming, the Bush administration and their allies in the Senate are pushing harder than ever to grant immunity to telecom companies who spied illegally on innocent Americans.

Like Sen. Russ Feingold told DFA members yesterday:
"We should celebrate our Constitution this Fourth of July -- and do everything we can to prevent it from being torn up when the Senate returns to Washington DC next week."

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Democracy for America's FISA Fight Back Fund

I have only one problem with this AP article and that is when the center is defined as half way between right and wrong.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_to_the_center

Analysis: Obama's shifts to center give GOP ammo

The Illinois senator has excited many with the notion that he is a new, transcendent type of politician. But he is giving the GOP effort ammunition and endangering his "Change We Can Believe In" motto with several shifts to the center, most recently on the Iraq war, his campaign's defining issue.
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Obama has been espousing positions anathema to the left on several issues.
On Iraq, Obama said Thursday that his upcoming trip there might lead him to refine his promise to quickly remove U.S. troops from the war.
He now supports broader authority for the government's eavesdropping program and legal immunity for telecommunications companies that participated in it, after opposing a similar bill last year.
After the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's gun ban, the handgun control proponent said he favors both an individual's right to own a gun as well as government's right to regulate ownership.
Obama became the first major-party candidate to reject public financing for the general election after earlier promises to accept it.
He not only embraced but promised to expand Bush's program to give more anti-poverty grants to religious groups, a split with Democratic orthodoxy.
He objected to the Supreme Court's decision outlawing the death penalty for child rapists, even though he's been anti-capital punishment.
Obama also said "mental distress" should not count as a health exception that would permit a late-term abortion, saying "it has to be a serious physical issue," addressing a matter considered crucial to abortion rights activists.

You are the last line of defense for the Constitution. With the FISA vote looming, the Bush administration and their allies in the Senate are pushing harder than ever to grant immunity to telecom companies who spied illegally on innocent Americans.

Like Sen. Russ Feingold told DFA members yesterday:
"We should celebrate our Constitution this Fourth of July -- and do everything we can to prevent it from being torn up when the Senate returns to Washington DC next week."

Please click to contribute
Democracy for America's FISA Fight Back Fund

Paul Krugman nails this one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/opinion/30krugman.html?th&emc=th

We, the Democrats, will shortly have an opportunity to make great strides but the people will have to provide direction. We need to get over our pop-star awe (whatever you do is grand) and make known we are looking for more than walk-on-water transcendence.

No matter how anxious we might be to show our openness to change by electing the first candidate of mixed race, he better show his abilities to effect change or go down in the books as an "unca" who failed to deliver when given the opportunity.

It may be subliminal prejudice, but more will be expected of Obama. I hope he chooses to deliver.