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Informed Comment: Powell's Finest Moment
Feministing: So what if it is about race?
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The Next Right: What We Can Learn From Howard Dean
RedState: Conservative News and Community: Obama Supporter Tells GOP to Move Left
Powell's Finest Moment
Informed Comment —
What is remarkable to me about Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama on Meet the Press was its sincerity and the form of its reasoning. He addressed issues, not personalities. He engaged in analysis, not demonization. After the Rove years of Goebbels-like propaganda, guilt by association, and innuendo, Powell's appearance brought fresh air into the nation's living rooms the way flinging the windows open in March for spring cleaning does. The transcript is here. Powell brings a great deal of credibility to this discussion. He gave money to the McCain campaign last year and is a ...
So what if it is about race?
Feministing —
I hate Rush Limbaugh. This isn't news, I mean he is an asshole. But I love that he is so angry about Colin Powell's historic decision to support Barack Obama, exclaiming that it is "ABOUT RACE." Powell has bore the brunt of the racism of the Republican right for a long time, from being called "well-spoken" to having his race ignored or having to pretend he wasn't a person of color for the benefit of the party. I have frequently disagreed with his perspectives and policies, however, I was *very* moved by his public endorsement of Obama.
I ...
Tim O'Reilly: Why I Support Barack Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
In my talks this year, I have been outlining some of the world's great problems, highlighting some of the things that are being done by technology innovators to solve them, and urging my listeners to "work on stuff that matters."
We are in unprecedented times. And folks, I'm sorry to say that the current financial meltdown is not the worst of it. Political instability around the world, wars over access to resources, and yes, terrorists, are all in our future. Scientists who've studied global warming agree that we're heading towards decades of extreme environmental stress, leading to even more severe economic disruptions than we have seen to date. ...
What We Can Learn From Howard Dean
The Next Right —
The Nation has a profile on Howard Dean that's well worth reading.
Money Graf:
A few months later the state chairs asked Dean and the other contenders for DNC chair to give $200,000 a year to each state party. Dean enthusiastically embraced and enlarged the plan en route to easily winning the DNC race and gave every state the resources to hire at least three or four organizers and access to a high-tech database of voters, which became the twin cornerstones of the fifty-state strategy. Under Dean, battlegrounds like Ohio still took priority, but every state got something. That might not sound like much, but it was practically a revolution ...
Obama Supporter Tells GOP to Move Left
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Now that you think about it, this is exactly what you would expect him to say, at pretty much exactly the time you’d expect him to say it:
The Republican Party is in big trouble and needs to find a way to move back to the middle of the country, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday.
Powell said the GOP is “getting smaller and smaller” and “that’s not good for the nation.” He also said he hopes that emerging GOP leaders, such as House Minority Whip Cantor, will not keep repeating mantras of the far right.
“The Republican Party is in deep trouble,” Powell told corporate ...
