Elections

“How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” The answer is, of course: heartlessly, callously, sociopathically, from a state of denial and chosen blindness. The answer is fundamentally the same as what would allow John Kerry to give the speech he gave at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Kerry is, of course, the same loser who eight years ago wanted to be elected on the strength of not being George read more

Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine spoke prior to Obama’s speech on Wednesday in Charlottesville, Va.  He had praise for anyone signing up to go to war in Afghanistan.  “We can still put our positive thumbprint on that nation,” he said, to wild cheers.  Imagine the competition among the world’s nations to get our thumbprint next!  Imagine what it costs to get our assprint.

“So, who are you voting for?” an Obama follower asked me prior to read more

The acceptance speech of the Republican candidate for U.S. president in 1924 would have made a dramatic improvement on President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech of 2009.  The 1924 speech was given by the incumbent president who would go on to win reelection and to act on his rhetorical commitments.  His name was Calvin Coolidge.

The speech has been virtually erased from memory, as has the movement that inspired the read more

According to the Huffington Post, “President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and Democratic political groups have been eager for Romney to pick Ryan, the architect of plans to slash government spending and overhaul entitlement programs that Democrats believe are political losers.”  read more

With seven days remaining, Oregon has leapt forward and many other states have advanced in our matching funds push to Double Your Green. Oregon joins New Mexico at the 3/4 mark, and a dozen other states are closing in.

If you haven’t seen yesterday’s important message about what you can do, please click here to check it out. And on Tuesday we sent an update about our Illinois ballot drive, giving you an example of what doubling our money will accomplish. 

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U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren is taking on the establishment.  Her campaign website declares:

“Iran is a significant threat to the United States and our allies.  Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, it is an active state sponsor of terrorism, and its leaders have consistently challenged Israel’s right to exist. Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons is unacceptable because a nuclear Iran would be a threat to the United States, our allies, read more

By David Swanson, Remarks at Left Forum

I think two opposing trends have been at work in U.S. history. One is that of allowing more people to vote. This is an ongoing struggle, of course, but in some significant sense we’ve allowed poor people and women and non-white people and young people to vote. The other trend, which has really developed more recently, is that we’ve made voting less and less meaningful. Of course it was never as meaningful as many people imagine. But we’ve read more