Carter endorses CAFTA--ick
i am heartbroken. Even though i still admire and love Jimmy Carter, and appreciate his calls to close down GITMO, i am deeply saddened that today, he chose to endorse CAFTA, an as anti-human rights,...
View ArticleHow Kerry/DNC screwed up Latino outreach
Since our loss in 2004, many white liberals have tried to whitewash how badly Kerry did among people of color, particularly Latinos. They'll try to say that the MSM lied about the data, that Bush...
View ArticleBlack voters agree with the Christian Coalition...
As a political person who has to deal with explaining to white liberals i work with over and over why the beliefs of people of color are more closely aligned on many issues with white evangelicals than...
View ArticleRight wingers hate Fred Phelps too
I found out about Fred Phelps latest sicko campaign from right-wing Newsmax.http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=90258 Phelps is now targeting soldiers funerals and saying they...
View ArticleLiberal elitists and the Supreme Court
As i have noted before the fundamental cultural divides that separate people of color from the liberal white elite that controls the Dem party (and much of the liberal blogosphere). i am not a Democrat...
View ArticleAbortions have gone down under Bush too...
people sprouting the canard about how abortions have gone down under Clinton and up under Bush need to recheck their facts. it HAS gone down under Bush...
View ArticleKinky Friedman for Gov of Texas
I'm surprised i have not seen more info about this from folks, but I believe a major story is happening in Kinky Friedman's bid to become the first independent governor of Texas since Sam Houston in...
View ArticleJefferson Used Natl Guard While Others Awaited Rescue...
Sorry, but it doesn't matter if it's a Dem or GOP, black or white, abusing public resources for selfish purposes while people are dying is inexcusable. William Jefferson used the natl guard to visit...
View ArticleTANF/Welfare Reform is just as important as ANWR!!
Something that has gone completely overlooked by the media, DC Democrats and grassroot activists and even certain womens groups is the fact that the Budget Reconciliation bill contained the MOST...
View ArticleDNC Fundraising Phone Call -- yuck!
I just received a very frustrating phone call solicitation from the DNC. I think there is a bit of a disconnect between their internet strategy and their fundraising phone call operation.
View ArticleWhile you were bitching about the Democratic Party...
and those who voted against cloture/filibustering Alito, tearing up your Dem registration cards, going on and on and on and on about abortion/spying and all the other issues that most Middle America...
View ArticlePro-Life can be a Winning Position
When folks can get outside SF or Cambridge or their local NARAL meetings, they would realize in many parts of the country, particularly in the rural areas where Dems are now an endangered species,...
View ArticleSecular liberals out of touch with America
This diary pointed out some of the positives of the new very interesting Pew Forum poll:http://www.dailykos.com/... What i want to point out is that the American electorate is fundamentally a very...
View ArticleMegachuches lead to Dem victories in TX
It is always amusing when white liberals wring their hands over the influence of the megachurches and despair over at trying to find alternatives for progressives to organize in. Sure, a lot of the...
View ArticleChristian evangelicals work against modern day slavery
Interesting that there has been so little interest among liberals highlighting the new movie Amazing Grace, about William Wilberforce, the British Christian evangelical credited with helping Britain to...
View ArticleThe US Social Forum: Kossacks Ignorant
The biggest, most diverse, exciting grassroots progressive conference ever held in the United States is about to start tomorrow. and no, it's not the YearlyKos. It's the first ever US Social Forum, an...
View ArticleWhy Liberals are Called "Anti-Religion"
Folks here have a tough time understanding why Liberals get tarred for being "anti-religious" and why this then transfers over into Democrats being "anti-religious."While i admire much of the important...
View ArticleAre Democrats Hypocrites?
I remember back in the day diary after diary on the "nuclear option."Nuclear Option Is ComingBack in 1998, we learned to our collective dismay that Gerald Ford was right all along: an impeachable...
View ArticleStark Should Apologize
Now I see what the right wingers were saying about the extreme left's blind Bush hatred. I find Stark's comments to be totally fine and on target except the words "for the President's amusement." I may...
View Articleabortion and down's syndrome
As someone who subscribes to the personally prolife, but politically prochoice position, I am in wholehearted agreement with prolifers who abhor people who abort on the grounds of discovering their...
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