Add Injury To Insult

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday July 15, 2008 · 1:52 PM PDT

2008/07/15 · 13:52

Seems a wingnut over in St. Cloud, FL decided to try to tie the Democrats to the World Trade Center tragedy even though it was the Republicans who ignored the warnings that could have stopped it. So he rented a billboard. Which you can see on the other side.

I saw this story on Raw Story and immediately it came to mind that we need to Photoshop this thing so that it tells it like it really is.

-- Make the jump --

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday May 21, 2008 · 2:15 PM PDT

2008/05/21 · 14:15

Last week, I wrote a diary thanking Senator Clinton for her hard fought battle, noting that I understood that there were many factors that worked against her in the contest. I also noted that the Democratic Party could be proud of her campaign but that, unfortunately, there were too many factors that mitigated against her being the standard bearer.

My diary was intended to provide a mechanism for Senator Clinton to be graceful, concede victory for Senator Obama in the contest without need to admit defeat. Now I have had a change of heart.

after ideating, as they say, I have a solution on the other side

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday May 15, 2008 · 12:26 PM PDT

2008/05/15 · 12:26

We admired you when you first became First Lady. We had high hopes for your efforts to reform health care. We felt for you when the health care program was torpedoed by the insurance giants. We knew that you cared far more for Harry and Louise than they did.

We looked with pride as you carried out the duties of First Lady. We were impressed with your knowledge of and advocacy for the issues that arose during that period. And we anguished with you and Chelsea when Bill had to admit that he had lied about his affair.

-- more on the other side –-

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday May 14, 2008 · 6:07 PM PDT

2008/05/14 · 18:07

We all know it's coming. It happens every election: voter intimidation by the Republican party. Even former Chief Justice Rehnquist got his start in politics by engaging in voter intimidation. This is a good time to start to strategize about how to counter the known intimidation methods and brainstorm about ways we can stop other possible methods that could be employed.

Let me suggest one idea that I believe can be easily put in place to make it less likely that people will be harrassed on their way to the polls.

-- more on the other side --

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday May 13, 2008 · 11:51 AM PDT

2008/05/13 · 11:51

About 20 years ago, my cousin moved to DC where I was then living. My "significant other", now wife, and I had never been to WV since we got together and, in fact, I hadn't been there for about 15 years.

I had some bad recollections about the place I grew up in, Wheeling, WV, which wasn't really very typical of a community that was legally segregated. That was probably because we lived across the river from Ohio, which was not segregated and it would have been pretty hard to enforce some segregationist practices as a result.

-- more on the other side --

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday April 29, 2008 · 11:27 AM PDT

2008/04/29 · 11:27

because people in the USA need to come to grips with it.

Yesterday, I wrote a diary about RACE as a response to the Rev. Wright bashing that was going on around here. I prefaced it with some personal demographics. Today I will continue that discussion.

Today's topic is: "Wouldn't it be GREAT to be BI-racial?"

More demographics: My son is biracial.
-- more --

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday April 28, 2008 · 10:15 AM PDT

2008/04/28 · 10:15

You may want to skip this if you think it may be outside your comfort level. But if you want to think about it, stick around. First, about me:

White, 68 years old, married, two kids, two grandkids, retired

Born and raised in West Virginia

BS and MS degrees in math; taught math at the college level

Not a theist

-- the rest is on the other side --

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday April 27, 2008 · 7:00 AM PDT

2008/04/27 · 07:00

One of these days, I certainly hope, George W. Bush will make his final Saturday Radio Broadcast. I decided to speculate about what he will say. If he gives the address I envision, the Democrats might forego a response.

I thought about this after getting another of those wingnut e-mails that want us to cut off all aid to all countries that did not join in our little "adventure" in Iraq. You know the kind I mean, those e-mails that proclaim our "victory" based on the fact that Sadaam Hussein is no longer in power.

-- flip over for more --

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday April 14, 2008 · 1:39 PM PDT

2008/04/14 · 13:39

Hmmmm. I just read a story. I think it might be sorta true. Some guys named Jim VanderHei and John F Harris claim that:

[Hillary] and Bill Clinton both devoutly believe that Obama’s likely victory is a disaster-in-waiting. Naive Democrats just don’t see it. And a timid, pro-Obama press corps, in their view, won’t tell the story.

Well, I said I think it might be "sorta" true. At least these two guys are tryin’ to "tell the story." But I don’t think they really "git it".

-- in a jumpin’ mood? –

Poll

35 votes Show Results

Will Hill and Bill do the ticket in when Barack's at the top?

35 votes Vote Now!

Will Hill and Bill do the ticket in when Barack's at the top?

Yes

6 votes

Of course

3 votes

Without doubt

1 vote

Most assuredly

0 votes

No question about it

2 votes

Is the Pope Catholic?

9 votes

Does the earth's rotation make it appear the sun is "rising" in the east?

2 votes

5 votes

Only if Michelle Malkin registers as a Democrat

0 votes

Are you serious?

0 votes

Hey, this isn't one of those wingnut blogs!!!

1 vote

I don't know

3 votes

Mary Matalin:James Carville::Ann Coulter:?

0 votes

These polls are more interesting than the diaries

1 vote

It isn't easy filling up all these lines!!!

2 votes

A Personal Journey To Obama

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday March 19, 2008 · 9:51 AM PDT

2008/03/19 · 09:51

This is a long diary, as diaries go. It starts not long after my birth in 1940 and continues through the early sixties. I have always been reluctant to put much of this in writing, but I think that it is appropriate at this juncture. So with apologies for its wordiness, please join me after the jump for my personal journey to Obama:

-- the best is yet to come --

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday March 14, 2008 · 12:50 PM PDT

2008/03/14 · 12:50

The other day one of the US Generals, can't remember who and don't want to waste time researching his name, told us "Al-Quaeda may be planning more attacks in Iraq." A day or so later, another General, this time based stateside and affiliated, as I recall, with the Department of Homeland Insecurity, informed us that "Al-Quaeda may be planning attacks on the US."

Now comes Senator John McCain to let us in on the secret that Al-Quaeda might be planning major attacks to influence the US elections. (Actually, I think he said something to the effect that they might be trying to keep him from winning!)

-- stay with me over the rainbow --

SamCDC

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday March 03, 2008 · 2:43 PM PST

2008/03/03 · 14:43

I'll make this brief just because, in spite of many admonitions to the contrary, many of us just don't seem to understand what is at stake tomorrow in Ohio and Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Let us suppose, purely for the sake of argument, that the possibility of a Clinton "win" in ALL FOUR states happens. What would a "win" entail? For almost everyone I've read here, it appears that a win means 50% + 1 in the popular vote. That is, a candidate will "win", say, in Texas if she/he gets one more vote than her/his opponent.

-- follow me if you care --

Poll

61 votes Show Results

What will it take for Clinton to win tomorrow?

61 votes Vote Now!

What will it take for Clinton to win tomorrow?

51% in each state

3 votes

55% in one big state

1 vote

60% in one big state, but 45% in the other

3 votes

65% in both big states

23 votes

58% in both big states, 60% in one small state

11 votes

divine intervention

6 votes

the return of Kenneth Blackwell

4 votes

a Bush endorsement in Texas

1 vote

face it, it isn't likely to happen so why speculate that it can?

9 votes

Newer
Older

RSS

Add Injury To Insult

A Change of Heart and a Call to Action

Thank You, Senator Clinton ...

Preventing Voter Intimidation

Racism in WV, hot topic today

Another Diary about RACE ...

This Diary Is About RACE

The Last Saturday Radio Broadcast

Da Bottom Line (in contractions)

A Personal Journey To Obama

Why do we let these people scare us?

When A "Win" Isn't