Howard Dean is first.

We need to attract to the Dem Party

voters like this:

mprov thanks for the report

I'm chairing our platform committee again this cycle and we voted at our meeting to have a District website and one thing it will do is link to all of the county platforms which get formed bottom up from the caucus resolutions process

The thing Iowa implemented which I think other states could copy is a prioritization vote at the state convention, and all of the Presidential candidates are at least familiar with our priorities.

what I am hoping to one day accomplish is a white paper wiki behind each resolution that explains the concept in detail as the platform itself is heavily edited to be provided by the group or individual that started the process pre caucus

paine 

you pictured an unlikely voter, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to get that hunter to point that thing up in the air or down toward the ground

that gun looks a little too loaded and the finger a little too close to the trigger

hunter safety classes for all!

Obama is running that $800 million ad here, and I agree effective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uczs4ygPJsw

Our party sends messages to the grassroots, netroots, liberals, activists who speak with emotion.   It tells them to hush. 

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1595

This part, by David Brooks was posted on the front page of the DLC in September. It tells you exactly what that group thinks of us.

".."The fact is, many Democratic politicians privately detest the netroots' self-righteousness and bullying. They also know their party has a historic opportunity to pick up disaffected Republicans and moderates, so long as they don't blow it by drifting into cuckoo land. They also know that a Democratic president is going to face challenges from Iran and elsewhere that are going to require hard-line, hawkish responses."

Hey, David and the DLC tell us what you really think.

We need to attract voters like this:

We need to stick to our own principles and let those who agree with them vote with us.

This part, by David Brooks was posted on the front page of the DLC in September.

So the DLC has gone from speaking like Republicans to having Republicans speak for them. It was the natural progression, I suppose. 

Up and  down range.  You are right, Phil.  Kinda looks like me when I first shot a  shotgun - at a tree. 

All I can say is,

thank god for my dad and grandfather (so I hear) being born Democrats 

and Sgt Major Juan Garcia teaching me (and all the others) what the Army taught him to teach.

NightPhilReedand All...happy huntin'

food comes wrapped in plastic on a little foam tray to people that don't hunt lol

Gagne gits the save!

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Paine -

Indeed a Red Sox win and on SNL, LeBron James and Kanye West.  Quite a night for TV entertainment.

Sitka
Sat, 10/20/07
11:41 pm

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just so you understand

what you wrote is more about your point of view

than what I was conveying.

paine

my son is taking a Marksmanship class for phys-ed credit at LSU and with me as his teacher prior to now has put his 4.0  GPA at risk

but I do stress safety

* rdorgan
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I may catch the last 10 minutes of MADTV, which I think is the best.

Davy Crockett might have died with a Bowie Knife in his hand but he knew how to handle "Betsy"

http://www.americanwest.com/pages/davycroc.htm

Safety is first, so you did very well. 

Make a v to "hold" the rifle, control breathing, and shoot between the heartbeat.

Safety is first.  Attention to detail.  Your a GoodDad. 

 Pillow calls.  General meeting at the Hall before my segment of the crowd meets to "discuss" the proposed contract, which no one I know likes AT ALL !

Just saying goodnight. Sleep well Deaniacs. See ya on the flip flop.

just so you understand what you wrote is more about your point of view than

what I was conveying.

Which was your point of view as well. 

As far as I'm concerned, the GOP can have the bonnie and clyde vote.

18. Suzanne, thank you.

Yep, the DLC is hard at work putting out the NeoCon style talking points.

...just like them trying to tell everyone..."the Democrats are happy with their choices"....NOT! But they aren't reporting those numbers, are they?

=2/3 Iowa voters UNDECIDED.

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I very much enjoyed reading the other thread. I was so confused when I first refreshed.
....Monica, LOL, yeah, lost a week. That's the first thing I thought. I looked up, then I looked down, then I looked up....

Susan, thank you for the links and video. I didn't hear about forGore.com
I'm going to email goregal that posted those 2 incredible videos on current.com to ask her to upload them.

Volney, pinoscal, phil, puddle et al...great stuff.

Puddle, I emailed jc's link out just the other night. I still have the business cards I made up of her website. She's smiling knowing the great help she's been.

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mprov, you do so much great stuff. That is what democracy looks like. Thank you.

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Paine, I was going to ask where you dug up my picture, then I realized if it was the shotgun, it would have been of me laying on the ground from the force of that puppy. LOL

WEll, before I say night, I will leave this video that I think is just so powerful. The beautiful voice, the words to the pictures, just incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARoNENPSI...

oh and sitka, thank you for the good fight!

Good morning, everybody

Habits die hard.  Even staying up until 11:30 brought me awake at 4:00.

My diary on KOS got rescued. 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18295.htm

By Jeff Zeleny, New York Times News Service  |  October 21, 2007

ST. PAUL - There has never been a Democratic national chairman with as much firsthand knowledge about running for president as Howard Dean.

Four years ago, at this stage in the race, he was flying high. Now, Dean is being sued by Democrats in Florida and second-guessed over how he is spending the party's money. He seldom receives so much as a call seeking advice from this year's candidates.

The rise and abrupt fall of his campaign now seems to hold lessons for some of the current contenders, from what it means to assume an air of inevitability to the dangers of counting on grass-roots energy to translate into votes. But Dean also sees ways in which the field has adopted elements of his candidacy, like its strong opposition to the war in Iraq.

October 21, 2007

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Presidential candidate Christopher Dodd spent yesterday with two New Hampshire Democrats who illustrate what he hopes to pull off: a surprise win against a presumptive nominee.

Though she hasn't endorsed a presidential candidate, US Representative Carol Shea-Porter joined the Connecticut senator at his New Hampshire headquarters to urge antiwar activists to spend the day making phone calls, writing postcards, and knocking on doors to pressure the president and Congress to remove American troops from Iraq.

You know, "catapulting the propaganda" is a very good phrase.  It's what we need to practice.

BTW, it was the grass roots steering committee that insisted on a day of action and framed the event.  And it came off splendidly.  Obama and Edwards and Clinton had people holding signs on the street corner.  Dodd had a reception by the IAFF inside the convention center.  Even if most of the 1000 Democrats that came for the dinner didn't come early for the reception, I'm sure they heard all about it from those who did.  Patrick Kennedy came up from Rhode Island for it.

OK, back to work.  Need to finish the shingling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HppeM9Afwoo

Morning, all. Off for a picnic and a day of leaf peeping.

Is Al Gore running yet? And if not, why the hell not?

new thread

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/22371...

What happened to the original thread of this topic which was Dennis Kucinich - all you folks have gone completely off to the moom.  Let's see some comments pertaining to Dennis!

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