Subject: Tell Obama: We're Counting on You

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President Obama will give a major speech next week laying out what he thinks needs to be in the health care bill.

This is a critical crossroads. The president needs to hear that Americans are counting on him to stand up to the status quo and fight for real reform with a strong public health ( Read more... )

KUDOS to Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor at Newsweek, who guested on the The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC last evening ( Read more... )

Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the following. Please, go and read.

I am having Sarah Palin nightmares....

Excerpt from Inside Karl Rove's Diary:

It's all simple Magic 101. You keep your audience concentrating on one thing while you're setting up the trick. Illusion, prestidigitation, three-card political monte.

We keep 'em focused on Palin's loving-mom persona, her simple no-nonsense way of talking (and thinking), her affinity for guns and hunting ( Read more... )

This is Your Nation on White Privilege

Go. Read this. Now. It's brilliant.

Here's some talking points to use in conversations with those who don't get it yet.... Directly from the MoveOn.org website:

10 things to know about McCain
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For all the coverage this week of Senator John McCain's background, there are some important things you won't learn about him from the TV networks. His carefully ( Read more... )

And I found the clip from the John Stewart Show that I lovelovelove.... I wish we could play these as commercials for the next 6 weeks:

This is for all us political folks who need a laugh right about now....


Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

From OpEdNews:

Though Sarah Palin would like us to believe that her Christianity is evidence of her being an especially fine human being, a listener who emailed Friday's Diane Rehm show, Hour 1 (26 minutes in on the podcast), cut through the pollution-filled PR on Palin to deliver a shuddering message:

"As a committed Christian, I was deeply ( Read more... )

Let me just say that I continue to be amazed and stymied by people who have been exposed for years to the Republican Party's platform and tactics and have watched Palin and McCain at their convention, and are being swayed to vote for them (I'm not talking about staunch Republicans...they are terminally ill and beyond current help.) I have heard and ( Read more... )