My half-brother, a veteran, is homeless

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 1:20 PM PDT

2008/05/22 · 13:20

My half-brother, a veteran, is homeless today, Senator McCain.

He couldn't reenlist because of asthma he developed in Afghanistan after being ordered to stand watch over burning piles of trash.

He has no college education, and cannot afford one, Senator McCain.

Now, he lives in a shelter in Topeka, Kan., with a big neon cross on the roof.

Today, you failed to support a boost in benefits for my brother and thousands of other brave Americans who fought and suffered in the wars that you pushed in Iraq and Afghanistan. That legislation, rejected by you, could give my brother a badly needed shot at a brighter future, a future his service to our nation has unfortunately dimmed.

You thereby have dishonored yourself, Sen. McCain. MORE...

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 5:14 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 17:14

At the end of the primary contest, Hillary Clinton had hundreds of thousands of supporters across the primary battlefield. 100,000 in Ohio, 72,000 in Pennsylvania, 14,000 in other "Big States" with older, blue-color, white and female populations. Many Clinton supporters were bypassed by advancing Obama forces and left stranded in many different places in "Clinton Country." They went into hiding, waiting for attacks that never came and messages from commands that had long since been disbanded. Short of supplies and lacking communication with Clinton, and often without Clinton surrogates in the immediate area, many hid from Obama’s volunteers in the plains and mountains of the areas they occupied. It was months and in some cases years before these people realized the primary season was over.

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 2:24 PM PDT

2008/05/01 · 14:24

The thought of Hillary's upcoming town hall with Clinton stooge George Stephenopoulos makes my stomach churn. Obviously ABC/Disney News has it out for the Obama campaign, if not for all progressive politics in general, and has decided to abandon even the pretense of integrity in their zeal to stifle change.

That said, Obama shouldn't allow ABC to tilt the playing field by giving Clinton a free nationally televised pep rally on the eve of the crucial North Carolina and Indiana primaries. Yet, in the wake of the shameful "flag pin" debate debacle, can Obama even go on the Micky Mouse network without being ambushed by Nash McCabe and "former" members of the Clinton inner circle.

Yes he can. There is still one real journalist on staff at ABC. His name is Sam Donaldson. Barack should demand Donaldson moderate a "town-hall-style" love fest on ABC for the Obama campaign.

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Wednesday April 30, 2008 · 4:39 AM PDT

2008/04/30 · 04:39

In early April, my 32-year-old American cousin who is earning her Ph.D. in Toronto was diagnosed with cancer of the bowel. As terrifying as her life has become, she nonetheless is keeping a journal online for family and friends about her experience. I asked her if I could share entries here on DailyKos because I think it is important that we Americans understand what we’re missing by rejecting single-payer nationalized health insurance. My cousin said yes.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 10:40 AM, CDT
I will be brief in bringing everyone up to speed.

I have been diagnosed with bowel cancer. I am very young to have this, but doctors are treating it very aggressively and I have nothing but absolute certainty that I will survive this.

Please read on...

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Thursday April 17, 2008 · 9:01 AM PDT

2008/04/17 · 09:01

The sturm und drang over ABC’s appalling flag-pin fest makes me depressed. We think Obama is a patriot. But our anger misses the point...

The truth of the matter is that any national concept of patriotism amounts to childish, collective self-worship. There is no way that real "patriotic" deeds – such as Obama’s Senate fight to provide veterans benefits, or Rev. Wright’s service in the Marine Corps — can ever trump lip service or empty gesture.

That is because patriotism itself is the dangerous, egotistic lie that we are somehow better than people in other nations, simply because we are Americans. Patriotism is another word for nationalism – and it succeeds with the same kind of emotional appeal to crowds that worked for the Nazis.

So blunt, shiny sacraments to self-indulgent mass pride are way more effective tools than real work to make America a better place.

Every politician ought to know that. Including Obama. Clinton knows that, and the GOP knows that best of all.

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Wednesday April 02, 2008 · 9:13 AM PDT

2008/04/02 · 09:13

I just couldn't hold it in any longer: My U.S. Representative, Dennis Moore (D-KS), has yet to throw his superdelegate self behind Barack, even though Obama won Kansas by a landslide. So today I wrote his office. The text follows. Was this a good idea, or am I being stupidly impetuous?

Was my letter a good idea?

38 votes Vote Now!

Was my letter a good idea?

Hells yeah, put the pressure on your superdelegate!

36 votes

What were you thinking? Let Obama work the back channels!

1 vote

You've ruined the election! All is lost!

0 votes

Why do we have to be supplicants to superdelegates? Is this democracy?

1 vote

What's a superdelegate?

0 votes

Hillary is "Rocky," the Great White Hope.

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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 9:27 AM PDT

2008/04/01 · 09:27

For chrissake, now Hillary is comparing herself to Rocky in Pennsylvania appearances.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has something in common with legendary film boxer Rocky Balboa—she's not a quitter.

Could she also have in common the fact that both she and Rocky were fighting black men?

Is she conjuring up Barack-Obama-as-Apollo-Creed?

"Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people," Clinton said in excerpts of prepared remarks to be given Tuesday to a meeting of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO.

OMG, now I have puke-inducing images of Hillary chugging raw eggs and punching hunks of meat as Wolfson sneaks nips from a brown paper bag. But the image Hillary wants me to have is white-versus-black duking it out with boxing gloves on.

Sorry Hillary. You are not the great white hope. You are a desperate pol with a lousy message and a questionable record.

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 6:31 PM PDT

2008/03/31 · 18:31

Ground Zero in March 2008 remains just a hole in the ground.

Meantime, mammoth skyscrapers have been built around the world, including in NYC.

Moreover, we've built a war ship from scrap steel recovered after the 9/11 attacks.

And yet we can talk seriously about a New York "leader" like Hillary Clinton as our next president?!?

I have a question for Hillary Clinton: If you are not able in seven years to lead rebuilding of the WTC site, what makes you think you could rebuild America after the Bush disaster?

What kind of leader are you at all?

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Wednesday March 26, 2008 · 10:56 AM PDT

2008/03/26 · 10:56

It's not just Sinbad. Now a radio interview with Retired Colonel William "Goose" Changose -- the man who piloted the plane into Tuzla air base -- casts further doubt on Hillary's elaborately constructed lies about that visit.

On Hillary's claim that they were told to sit on their flak jackets...

"All I know is that in Apocalypse Now they sat on their flak jackets. Nobody under my command has ever sat on their flak jackets."

On her claims the plane took evasive maneuvers...

"No evasive maneuver. Not only weren't there bullets flying around, there wasn't a bumblebee lying around."

On the corkscrew approach...

"We do the same approach that we do every time. Every landing into there was the same way."

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 8:51 AM PST

2008/03/07 · 08:51

I don't think Power should have resigned, since Hillary really is a monster and the reporter is a schmuck for printing something that was off the record. But Powers just resigned anyway.

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Thursday February 28, 2008 · 7:03 AM PST

2008/02/28 · 07:03

A recent hit diary on Barack Obama is trying to tear down the presumptive Democratic nominee on the issue of gun control. For some perspective, let’s take a look at what REAL "irresponsible bullshit" looks like – by examining the position’s of Barack Obama’s opponent in the upcoming general election, John McCain.

Here are a few lowlights...

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Wednesday February 13, 2008 · 7:00 AM PST

2008/02/13 · 07:00

You can slice it. You can dice it. You can look at it upside-down and sideways. But you cannot spin it away. With last night’s victories in the Potomac Primary by 23, 29, and 51 points (in Maryland, Virginia, and D.C., respectively), Barack Obama has secured the overall primary lead by every measure: pledged (elected) delegates; all delegates including the "supers"; popular vote; money raised; states won. What’s more, according MSM mainstay Howard Fineman, a pledged-delegate win for Hillary Clinton no longer a realistic possibility.

Indeed, Fineman reported last night on MSNBC that Hillary Clinton’s strategy has now boiled down to trying to overturn the will of the people through a superdelegate putsch. In other words: Her only path to victory would be to destroy the Democratic Party.

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