~Dissent-Is-Cool

I had a perfectly beautiful wedding this last Sunday at Grover Beach. I am soooo happy to be the proud husband of my gorgeous wife and model Danielle.

Then, on Monday, we had a small Catholic wedding at my church, just to square everything with God! It was a very powerful ceremony, so much so that Danielle cried (she hadn't the day before).

All in all, we're very excited and very much in love! So, on Sunday, we're off to Canada for a week! But first we're going to Knott's Berry Farm today, then Universal Studios on Friday.

Wish us luck!

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(Not taken by me, but by our wonderful photographer Alex Creswell [link])

I am very upset that Hillary Clinton has suspended her campaign. I am very unsure about whether or not I am going to vote for Barack Obama, regardless of Clinton's coming endorsement of him. I doubt I will vote. The Obama camp is going to have a rough road ahead of him, particularly with his foriegn policy credentials (or lack thereof), his very liberal voting record, and the problem of race relations. I'm very excited about the fact that our country has gotten to a point when we can have a serious African-American candidate, especially one that has been endorsed by a former KKK clansman (Sen. Robert Byrd). I just do not see him winning the general election. I think there will also be a reluctance on the part of Clinton's 18 million supporters to turn on a dime and support Obama. I also feel as though there are a lot of unanswered questions about Obama and the media has done a horrendous job of covering him. They have been his greatest supporters and they have given a pass. Barack Obama is a brilliant and powerful orator, but he has consistently been short on substance. John McCain is going to hammer him on his lack of experience and no matter how artful Obama's rhetoric is it may not be enough to defeat McCain. Make no bones about it, I want McCain to lose and I want a democrat in the White House. I'm just not sure Obama will succeed. But, again, I may be wrong.

So, my cousin sent me a message...

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Rocky Racoon
Date: May 6, 2008 6:44 PM


Obama won north carolina!!

I couldn't help but respond...

Yeah, but Hillary is going to kick his ass in West Virginia by at least 60%. Anyone who says the African Americans aren't voting for Obama just because he's black are in denial. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but people don't want to admit it. When one dares point that out, somehow they are being "racist". That's why Obama consistently gets 90-92% of the African American vote. Duh! That's the same reason why Hillary gets a large bloc of women voters. Many women like her because she's a woman. Does that make me "sexist", too, to point that out? I hate how Obama fanatics claim that if you vote for Hillary it somehow says you're a racist. That is such ignorant bullshit to me.

Obama can't beat McSame in November. We're going to lose if he's the nominee. He's such whiner! He's always claiming that Hillary is attacking him unfairly, but all she's doing is making distinctions between their records of experience and substance. She also points out that he's big on rhetoric and speeches, but short on details and proposals. But the pro-Obama media takes his que and reports consistently that she's "throwing the kitchen sink" at him. If that was true, then she would have been all over the Wright controversy, but she made no attempt to exploit that. If Obama thinks Hillary is being mean and is hurting his feelings now, then he's going to get a huge surprise when he runs against McCain. They are going to rip him a new one, and they aren't going to care about his feelings and his whining will fall on deaf ears. Hillary is miles ahead of Obama when it comes to being a fighter and when it comes to being tough. That's the kind of candidate that will defeat McCain in November.

What does Obama mean by "change"? What exactly will he "change"? How will he "change" anything? It's an empty word. I'm sick of that word already. It's empty rhetoric, but people go crazy over it. A lot of youth love Obama, but they don't know why. They're naive. He is great at speech-making and speaking in generalities and platitudes, but he offers nothing new or substantive. We are about to experience the end of eight years of George W. Bush. The man was incompetent and inexperienced. If Obama becomes President, expect the same level of incompetence. He will be getting on-the-job-training, which our country can ill afford at this crucial juncture in history. He also argues that he will bring the two parties together, as though they ought to agree on everything. He thinks that the simple fact that he's President is somehow going to change Washington partisanship. Well, I'm sorry, he's not. How can he think that he's going to get Republicans to work with him on withdrawing troops from Iraq, on health care reform, on fighting Global Climate Change, on tax reform, or on anything that the Democrats stand for? He's not. They're going to say, "Fuck you. We're not going to work with you." Why should they? They don't see things as we do. We need someone like Hillary who is going to kick in some heads and bust some asses to bring real change in those vital areas of policy. A whiner who lacks substance is not going to do that.

I'm so tired of Obama and his supporters. The whole lot of them are so egotistical and elitist. They look down on anyone who disagrees with them. How is that being hopeful or progressive? One can hardly surf the blogs without coming across a multitude of Obamatrons who slander Hillary supporters as dumb, poor, old people. I'm a young, poor, college educated male, and I support Hillary. I don't fit the "demographics". These people are so self-righteous and so full of shit that they can't see their own hypocrisy. That's the same ignorant shit that we've been dealing with over the last seven years! We need someone who cares about everyone, especially the working class people, who bust their ass everyday to barely squeak by in George W. Bush's America. That person is Hillary Rodham Clinton, not Barack Hussein Obama. (No, that is not a Muslim reference.

I was just being consistent with the use of middle names).

Beyond the New Deal

By Howard Zinn

08/04/08 "ICH"--- We might wonder why no Democratic Party contender for the presidency has invoked the memory of the New Deal and its unprecedented series of laws aimed at helping people in need. The New Deal was tentative, cautious, bold enough to shake the pillars of the system but not to replace them. It created many jobs but left 9 million unemployed. It built public housing but not nearly enough. It helped large commercial farmers but not tenant farmers. Excluded from its programs were the poorest of the poor, especially blacks. As farm laborers, migrants or domestic workers, they didn't qualify for unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, Social Security or farm subsidies.

Still, in today's climate of endless war and uncontrolled greed, drawing upon the heritage of the 1930s would be a huge step forward. Perhaps the momentum of such a project could carry the nation past the limits of FDR's reforms, especially if there were a popular upsurge that demanded it. A candidate who points to the New Deal as a model for innovative legislation would be drawing on the huge reputation Franklin Roosevelt and his policies enjoy in this country, an admiration matched by no President since Lincoln. Imagine the response a Democratic candidate would get from the electorate if he or she spoke as follows:

"Our nation is in crisis, just as it was when Roosevelt took office. At that time, people desperately needed help, they needed jobs, decent housing, protection in old age. They needed to know that the government was for them and not just for the wealthy classes. This is what the American people need today.

"I will do what the New Deal did, to make up for the failure of the market system. It put millions of people to work through the Works Progress Administration, at all kinds of jobs, from building schools, hospitals, playgrounds, to repairing streets and bridges, to writing symphonies and painting murals and putting on plays. We can do that today for workers displaced by closed factories, for professionals downsized by a failed economy, for families needing two or three incomes to survive, for writers and musicians and other artists who struggle for security.

"The New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps at its peak employed 500,000 young people. They lived in camps, planted millions of trees, reclaimed millions of acres of land, built 97,000 miles of fire roads, protected natural habitats, restocked fish and gave emergency help to people threatened by floods.

"We can do that today, by bringing our soldiers home from war and from the military bases we have in 130 countries. We will recruit young people not to fight but to clean up our lakes and rivers, build homes for people in need, make our cities beautiful, be ready to help with disasters like Katrina. The military is having a hard time recruiting young men and women for war, and with good reason. We will have no such problem enlisting the young to build rather than destroy.

"We can learn from the Social Security program and the GI Bill of Rights, which were efficient government programs, doing for older people and for veterans what private enterprise could not do. We can go beyond the New Deal, extending the principle of social security to health security with a totally free government-run health system. We can extend the GI Bill of Rights to a Civilian Bill of Rights, offering free higher education for all.

"We will have trillions of dollars to pay for these programs if we do two things: if we concentrate our taxes on the richest 1 percent of the population, not only their incomes but their accumulated wealth, and if we downsize our gigantic military machine, declaring ourselves a peaceful nation.

"We will not pay attention to those who complain that this is 'big government.' We have seen big government used for war and to give benefits to the wealthy. We will use big government for the people."

How refreshing it would be if a presidential candidate reminded us of the experience of the New Deal and defied the corporate elite as Roosevelt did, on the eve of his 1936 re-election. Referring to the determination of the wealthy classes to defeat him, he told a huge crowd at Madison Square Garden: "They are unanimous in their hatred for me--and I welcome their hatred." I believe that a candidate who showed such boldness would win a smashing victory at the polls.

The innovations of the New Deal were fueled by the militant demands for change that swept the country as FDR began his presidency: the tenants' groups; the Unemployed Councils; the millions on strike on the West Coast, in the Midwest and the South; the disruptive actions of desperate people seeking food, housing, jobs--the turmoil threatening the foundations of American capitalism. We will need a similar mobilization of citizens today, to unmoor from corporate control whoever becomes President. To match the New Deal, to go beyond it, is an idea whose time has come.

Latest News March 28th

If You Read One Thing Today:
Paul Krugman writes in today’s New York Times, “…[T]he substance of [Hillary’s] policy proposals on mortgages, like that of her health care plan, suggests a strong progressive sensibility.…[and] continue to be surprisingly bold and progressive.
Read more.


Previewing Today:
Hillary makes stops across Indiana, where she hosts a series of “Solutions for the American Economy” town hall and roundtable events.


Real Solutions:
Yesterday in North Carolina, Hillary kicked off her six-day “Solutions for the American Economy” Tour with the announcement of a new $2.5 billion per year workforce training program. Read more.


If You Watch One Thing Today:
Hillary says, “If the phone were ringing, [Senator McCain] would just let it ring and ring and ring.” Watch here.


Erie, Pennsylvania:
Yesterday, more than 300 people packed the opening of Hillary’s newest office. Read more.


Fayetteville, North Carolina:
Yesterday, more than 1,000 tarheels gathered to see Hillary at a town hall event here. One, a 25-year-old freshman at Fayetteville State University, said, “She showed she has the heart to help the average person. It made me go wild.” “It would be crazy not to vote her into office,” said another woman, who arrived for the speech at 6:30 a.m. to hear Hillary speak at 3:00. Read more.


By the Numbers:
A new Rasmussen tacking poll shows Hillary leading Senator Obama nationally (46-44).See the results here.


The Hillary I Know:
The Student Body President of West Virginia University on why he’s supporting Hillary: “To hear Hillary talk about the big goals she's setting for our country … really should inspire all of us to join with her to bring real change to America. Read more.


On Tap:
This Saturday, Hillary visits Louisville, Kentucky and attends the annual state Governor Ruby Laffoon Dinner in Madisonville.


Just the Facts:
One week after Sen. Clinton called for a "second stimulus package" with $30 billion to help states and localities fight foreclosures, Sen. Obama announced a "second $30 billion stimulus package". Response from policy director Neera Tanden: “…When it comes to fixing the economy, we need leadership, not followership."
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Pundits Versus Reality:
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CAN I get a re-vote?:
Protest the DNC and mail-in a can. Read about how you can help protest and get a re-vote. click here to read more

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