The Fish Monger Does Not Holler "Rotten Fish"
My assumption is that some of the hundreds of millions of dollars raised by Obama and the Democratic party is being spent on professionals who were hired to win the White House and improve our...
View ArticleMcCain is a traitor if he "knows how to catch Bin Laden"
McCain keeps bellowing he knows how to catch Bin Laden. He is a high ranking, Republican senator who meets with Bush regularly.There are three obvious questions we, in this community, must force the...
View ArticleSuggested Themes To Rebut The McCain Talking-Points
The McCain surrogates, reading from what by now is an obvious script, are trying to sell the following three points: Obama had to pick Biden because Obama knew voters would conclude he is not ready to...
View ArticleENOUGH! End the supercilious "censorship" of diary writers
On August 30, 2008, I read a diary entitled Sarah Palin Is NOT The Mother by ArcXIX. An hour later it disappeared. This was a presentation of inferences by ArcXIX, the writer, who argued that Sarah...
View ArticleHere we go Again-Babygate II - vanished
Here we go again: Another diary dealing with the question of the actual mother of Sarah Palin's son was removed either by the writer as a result of pressure from critics, or by some other force. I was...
View ArticleFraming the Experience Issue - America is a diverse population with complex...
The experience issue is being framed by the McCain campaign, and Obama must avoid taking the bait. The Republicans are pushing the concept solely of job titles, and argue that Governor Palin has...
View ArticleHow many hearings did McCain hold?
It is great to hear McCain bemoan corruption by his fellow Republicans. He then shamelessly urged Americans to appoint him as the repairman. What did McCain do as the powerful chairman of the Senate...
View ArticleObama needs to clarify and publicize his small business owner message
I am an attorney in Philadelphia Pa. I just returned from a meeting of some of my clients who are local owners of restaurants and retail stores. They are fed up with the issues all Americans can blame...
View ArticleKick-Ass WSJ Article Lambasts McCain's Hypocrisy
If you are a liberal supporter of Obama, you rarely experience glee on reading the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal. But the clarity, wit and relevance of an article penned by Thomas Frank...
View ArticleWow! Obama Cavalry. in Pennsylvania has arrived.
One of the prized suburban areas for presidential candidates is the Main Line, in Montgomery County, outside of Philadelphia. Nonetheless, in past presidential elections, my neighborhood was often...
View ArticleDems In Congress Must Cover Obama’s Back
The people who post on DK worked for and contributed to Democratic congressional candidates, and we helped them win their seats. They will need our support in their next elections. Therefore we have...
View ArticleSuppose the surge is designed to ease unemployment and boost the ecconomy?
In 1967, in the midst of the Viet Nam War, Dial Press, published a much discussed book, entitled, Report from Iron Mountain. At the time it was published, it was described as an official, US...
View ArticleIs ObamaThrowing Out The Base With The Bathwater?
My wife and I were watching a story about the people who would be hurt if federal unemployment benefits were not extended, and it seems that the unemployed in Republican dominated States would be hurt...
View ArticleDon’t let the Republican’s glee blind you to our gains
I am a trial lawyer, and I can tell you that in a tough case, where the stakes are high, a good judge will lean on both parties to settle. Whether it is an anti-trust case, a class action for...
View ArticleThe "Compromise"-My long reply to Organizing for America's request
Organizing for America, the group that runs barackobama.comand which sends out emails signed by Mirtch Stewart asked that supporters watch a video of President Obama's justification for the...
View ArticleObama's problem: too many people are simple minded
The problem Obama faces is the beneficiaries of pure liberal policy do not care or even know enough to support the plan Obama campaigned on, and thus he must compromise. It is not right, it is not good...
View ArticleWe Let It Happen!
Our generation deserves the cesspool we allowed to be created. We stood by and watched indifferently as the magnificent beginnings of the greatest society the earth had ever witnessed deteriorated and...
View ArticleMaybe I am missing something about Occupy "x"....
If 99% of the citizens wanted something, anything, they could easily get it by simply voting in candidates who would be accountable to them.This would require a massive voter regisration drive (and...
View ArticleWas Santorum celibate until he was 32?
According to an article in Salon, "Rick Santorum may have eight children, but he married at 32". If Santorum did not use contraceptives until he was married, he was either: (1) celibate; (2) a...
View ArticleLet's revive Tom Paine's refutation of today's Theocrats
We honor and revere Thomas Paine for his 1776 publication of Common Sense, a pamphlet that helped unite the colonials by challenging the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The...
View ArticleWhat should the crowd answer: "BULL-MITT" of FULL-of MITT"?
The Obama camp need a catchy phrase for audiences to chant at political rallies that will appeal to the younger voters as well as others who might latch on to scatological humor. The campaign also...
View ArticleMy Comment to Peggy Noonan's Column In the WSJ today
I am getting tired of people like Noonan and her sycophantic followers boosting Romney by distorting the Obama record. What gets me is the vague criticisms without ever specifying what Romney (or...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Right Wingers About Health Insurance
I have a hunch that you right wingers who have the time to post on blogs and message boards about the evils of "Obamacare" are neither very rich nor very powerful. You right winger bloggers and/or...
View ArticleRead this great article on Ryan in The New Yorker magazine blog
Amy Davidson's posting in the Daily Comment feature of the New Yorker magazine is a deft and compelling essay that neatly demonstrates the rank hypocrisy of Paul Ryan; and at the same time, it...
View ArticleMy fellow citizens make me sick
Sadly, America seems to have devolved into a land where everything is reduced to either a reality show, or a spectator sports event. The election is covered like a football game where Obama's grim...
View ArticleNY Times Editorial Nails "CONVENIENT MITT"
Finally the traditional media is waking up to the fact that if they do not use bolder, harsher language, the Romney flim flam could result in the low information voter allowing Romney to end up in the...
View ArticleWe consumers have the power to put people back to work
Usually, my wife does the food shopping, and I have not been in a supermarket for several years. Tonight however, I took on the chore and went to a local Acme Markets store located in an affluent...
View ArticleGive Obama a break! Our fellow citizens handpicked the GOP Congress he must...
We in the Kos community have made clear our vision of the modern progressive/liberal agenda; Obama has demonstrated by his rhetoric that he knows what we want; but he has a country to run involving...
View ArticleRubio Explains Why He Grabbed The Water Bottle
In a frantic interview after his speech, Republican "superstar" Marco Rubio pleaded for the public to accept his explanation for what appeared to be a form of deviant behavior involving facial fly...
View ArticleMaybe Obama wants his dog to eat his homework
Assume you are the President and are a brilliant tactician faced with:1) A strained economy that would divert resources and political capital from the coming spending fight if there was an act of...
View ArticleI predicted the outcome of the Syrian conflict here on D-Kos
I do not understand why the news media is shocked and surprised that Obama will be able to finesse himself out of the mess in Syria by having Russia intervene and keep Assad from using his chemical...
View ArticlePhillip Kline, former Kansas AG who persecuted Tiller and Planned Parenhood...
Phillip Kline, former Kansas attorney general and Johnson County district attorney was suspended from practicing law by the Kansas Supreme Court for misconduct in his investigation of abortion clinics...
View ArticleREQUIEM FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BRAND
This will not be a startling revelation. Elections are won by the votes of people who are generally ignorant of the issues and the stances of the candidates, and who are herded to one candidate or the...
View ArticleAiming To Be Close, Wins No Cigar
Becoming aware of the reality: After contemplation and reading on DK hundreds of diaries and comments, I recognize my own conflicted views, and can now see why the casual voter did not bother to learn...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Will Not Give The Democrats a Magic Wand For 2016
The right wing Justices do not care about the Affordable Care Act ("ACA"). The opposition was a surrogate for the hate Obama crowd, and rallied the idiot voters to the Tea Party and other empty-message...
View ArticleWe Should Let Democratic Senators See Support For The Iran Deal
A short memo to those who post here, and support President Obama and Secretary Clinton, both of whom are advocates of the pending deal with Iran.I have been told that Democrats in congress look to this...
View ArticleBernie: When Americans pick broccoli over hot dogs
Many people who visit here ("DK") or RedState, follow politics and understand civics. They get policy arguments, and grasp the relationship between outcomes on the one hand, and on the other, liberal...
View ArticleThe Tnker Bell disorder suffered by Bernie's soldiers
I have listened to Bernie on the Thom Hartman show for years, and agree with, or could accept almost every major position Bernie has advocated. But I do not live in an echo chamber or bubble. My fellow...
View ArticleChristian Broadcast Network On Why Evangelicals Like Trump
I rarely agree with anything I read or hear from the Christian Broadcast Network ("CBN"), but I stumbled upon an explanation of why the fundamentalists like Trump offered by David Brody that fits with...
View ArticleResponse to "Enough" posted by Dallasdoc
I read the word “corruption” and “corrupt’ in a screed that equated the wealth earned by the Clintons with those words. According to the dictionary, the word “corrupt” is defined as Having or showing a...
View ArticleMaybe Some On Wall Street Want America To Have A Competent President
When I read here the insinuations that every large donor to Hillary is a briber, I think the author of those words is either ignorant, a kid who has not lived a very sophisticated life, or has not had...
View ArticleDon't worry about Trump- Our secret weapon, the most cool, will take care of...
Once we Democrats select our candidate, and assuming Trump wins the Republican nomination, our candidate will not have long to put up with the kind of antics Trump’s fellow Republicans had to endure....
View ArticleSanders’ Misleading Arguments, & What Happens the Day After a President...
Sanders’ Misleading Arguments, and What Happens the Day After a President Sanders Enacts his “Revolution”This diary does not address whether a president Sanders has a chance to enact his key business...
View ArticleET TU Bernie- Revealed as egomaniac willing to harm the nation
Now we know. It was never really about the issues. It was about the ego of an old man who made promises to people he knew he could not keep just to make himself a footnote in the history books. As...
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Non-Partisan Experts: Bernie's Tax shrinks your combined $250K salary to...
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a bipartisan, non-profit organization made up of national budget experts including many of the past Chairmen and Directors of the Budget Committees,...
View ArticleWhat Hillary can learn from Trump about her message
In mulling over how any intelligent voter could be attracted to Trump on the one hand, and on the other, how a woman dedicated to public service like Hillary could be viewed so negatively, I stumbled...
View ArticleTrump backs out of debate with Bernie
According to Politico, Donald Trump backs out of debate with Bernie Sanders By HADAS GOLD05/27/16 04:16 PM EDTDonald Trump will not participate in a debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders, the GOP nominee...
View ArticleNow is not the time for Sander's army of disrupters to revolt against the...
Timing and methodology is everything when you are mounting a campaign to persuade the public that your view should be adopted. It was apt for the Sanders followers to advocate for the issues he raised...
View ArticleObama & Clinton must offer a program that has specific steps to protect...
From a quick tour of comments on the web, and watching TV, it is clear that a breaking point has been reached, and Americans are not in the mood to treat the repeated attacks on strangers by people who...
View ArticleTip Jar removed from my diary by the ignorant & autocratic
I published a diary to promote a discussion about how the Democrats should be specific and responsive to the fears and thirsts of the electorate. see, www.dailykos.com/…The people who commented were...
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