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Re: http://rrc.bluestatedigital.com/index.php/discuss/entry/feature-bagel/

Anderkoo — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:21:58 -0000

Soooo Jewish and chewy, too!

Re: Afternoon Open Thread

Anderkoo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:20:21 -0000

Yes, because we all know there is only one black man in all of Maine!

Re: Afternoon Open Thread

Anderkoo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:57:15 -0000

New radio story on the only black lobsterman in Maine:

http://soundcloud.com/autumn

I met the producer of this piece randomly, on the plane; we were sitting in the last row and talking the entire flight. She told me about this story and how she was living up in Maine to record it, and it reminded me of a certain resident of this here blog :).

So now that it's released, thought I would share it with the JJP community.

Re: Countdown to the Inauguration: 0 Days — Open Thread

Anderkoo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:16:30 -0000

Jealous jealous jealous!

Hey everyone I've been AWOL since right before Nov 4, this has all been overwhelming but I'm so glad to see you all here since I won't be down there in DC. Craig have a FANTASTIC time with the DE and PA crowds!

Re: It’s About The Ground Game

Anderkoo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:16:45 -0000

Our nation is in your capable hands, GreenLadyHere!

Re: It’s About The Ground Game

Anderkoo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:15:22 -0000

You kick some ass and kick some ass HARD

Re: Sunday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:38:42 -0000

Friend and I did another two big canvasses out in Antrim, NH yesterday. Getting some great responses out there. The campaign mostly targets undecideds and waverers, so the fact that we were meeting up with positive people was a very good sign. One 60-something woman was a Hillary supporter holding her nose for Obama, mostly because she still feels the Party machinery was conspiring against Hillary (she needs a little bit of a reality check on who the party machinery are), but the point is she's voting for Obama and that's all that matters. The truly senior citizens I spoke with at a retirement community had no such qualms.

It was fun! I'm probably not going back until Halloween and hope NH will keep holding the line. Voters up there sure like to think of themselves as independent but I hope they'll see what the right thing to do is.

Re: They Continue To Be Who We Thought They Were

Anderkoo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:43:32 -0000

In stumbling / fumbling to justice, the Three-Fifths Compromise was overridden by the Fourteenth Amendment (with the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery).

So technically, this was "fixed." But yes, it was in the Constitution. "Original sin," as it's been called by many (including Obama).

Re: Thursday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:37:14 -0000

You're being used, indie-ed. Learn to think for yourself.

Re: Thursday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:41:18 -0000

Why defend it? It's not something to be ashamed of.

The anti-tax know-nothings are collapsing all around you, indie-ed, and the ones with any survival instincts (Gingrich, Brooks) are repudiating the idea that you can have a modern state with no taxes.

Go back to your talking point dispenser and get a new clip, d00d. You realize that your taskmasters have sent you on a suicide mission? The ship is going down, and they have no qualms leaving you on it.

Re: Thursday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:41:24 -0000

California GOP group circulates fake "ObamaBucks" with Obama's face on a food stamp and featuring watermelon, fried chicken, and Kool-Aid. The Press-Enterprise, via Andrew Sullivan

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:38:41 -0000

I don't know, D. Imagine for a minute how history might have been different if Colin Powell, when asked to pass off dubious evidence, did the only other honorable thing for a person in his position could do: resign.

THAT would have sent a message to the world.

At the very least, it would have left him with clean hands.

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:35:29 -0000

A back-handed endorsement might make you feel better, D.

But seriously... get the GOP's house in order... what is wrong with that crowd?

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:31:59 -0000

I'm telling you, "Obama" is a magic word.

O (the universal sound of wholeness, completeness, purity)

BA (a common word for "father")

MA (the universal word for "mother")

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:29:28 -0000

Sounding good to the base ain't good enough for McCain. Everyone knew that. You can blame the far-right wingnut Republicans for insisting on a far-right campaign. And you've got to give McCain himself most of the blame for going along rather than standing up.

If I were you I'd ask for my money back and seek revenge on the wingnuts in your own party. The GOP went for McCain knowing their only chance was to claim the middle. I assume you, as a smart and rational person, were one of them.

Purge your party. It'll be good for America.

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:24:50 -0000

Take some pics and share! ('sOK, you don't need to show us how you voted!)

Happy joyous day!!!

... been a long time coming

Re: Rednecks 4 Obama

Anderkoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:21:56 -0000

JJP + Rednecks for Obama Meetup -- how cool would that be?

Re: Blame the Niggers: A Time-Honored Response to the Financial Crisis

Anderkoo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:20:33 -0000

Jeff Jacoby has never had an original thought in his career; he's only capable of regurgitating the intellectual leftovers of his conservative masters.

Anyway, like all crises, there needs to be a scapegoat. We need to make sure that the conservatives do NOT succeed at pinning the blame on the victims! The hard part is that the blame is systemic -- everyone had a hand in this, but most of all, the Wall Street Ponzi schemers and, I'm increasingly finding, Alan Greenspan and his Ayn Rand fetish.

Luckily, Americans are not having this. But we need to keep beating it back into the dirt where it belongs.

Re: Katrina II: Wall Street Edition

Anderkoo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:17:48 -0000

I agree that it's far from over... but where to hide? I'm a little afeared of gold, to be honest, it doesn't feel like something that you "really" own, a lot more like the paper derivatives that got us where we are in the first place. Or maybe I'm choosing to be stupid.

Re: Inspirational Book Reviews

Anderkoo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:06:12 -0000

"Obama porn" -- ha! I have a stash in my house of all the lit I've accumulated from canvassing, etc. It kinda feels that way.

I was nosing around in a house for sale in my neighborhood, and the lady who lived there -- matriarch of an African-American family that has owned that place since the early 20th century (she's the last holdout after the rest of the family left many years ago for greener pastures) -- still has some JFK materials lying around. Wow.

Anyway, Markos's book is interesting and motivating. I do wish he'd gone a little more into actual tactics and details, as there's a bit of magical connect-the-dots in a lot of his stories where effect isn't linked to cause.

Re: Katrina II: Wall Street Edition

Anderkoo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:18:57 -0000

First of all, congratulations Cheryl for pulling out of this mess on time! The rest of us lost a good 20%+ of our savings... Thank god I have 40 more years to make up for this. So much for compounding returns. >:(

I'm inclined to cut Bernanke and Paulson a bit more slack. First of all, they have been a lot less ideological and more pragmatic than the typical Bush appointee. (In fact, it's painful to do, but to give Bush some credit, his lame-duck appointments like Gates are a huge improvement over the single-minded morons he appointed in the beginning of his Presidency. Of course, you really couldn't go much lower than he likes of Rumsfeld). It looks like there was a lot diplomacy going on to slip the bailout plan through a Congress being held hostage by the Republican wingnuts. On this you have to at least give some credit to Bernanke/Paulson for tacking to the middle, or spread some blame to the Democrats (depending on whether you see the bailout as bad or good).

Also, the weight of this crash is moving beyond any government's ability to stop -- the best we can hope for is that intervention will break the fall somewhat. This baby was destined to go down, and the fact that we didn't plummet all the way in 2001-2 makes the current fall all the worse.

There's a lot of villainy to go around, but without a doubt Alan Greenspan deserves the gold, silver, and bronze medals. He's a Bush/Clinton/Bush man, so I'm afraid he's a bipartisan failure. What we can blame Greenspan for:

* Forestalling regulation of the derivatives market -- the REAL cause of the current crisis
* Lobbying for and winning revision of the CPI that has understated inflation and given us a false sense of GDP growth
* Allowing the dot-com bubble to get out of control
* Failing to let the dot-com bust to correct itself naturally
* Overheating the housing market so he could leave office in the midst of a boom rather than in disgrace

Bernanke and Paulson took over a speeding bus that was already off the road and heading for a cliff.

Re: Monday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:39:48 -0000

via Daily Kos:

More Americans believe that Barack Obama would "fit in well" in their community than John McCain. (63% vs. 54%).

Maybe it's because McCain's hate rallies are starting to show him as being "out of the mainstream," while Obama continues to demonstrate the kind of class that every neighborhood wants.

Re: Sunday Open Thread

Anderkoo — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:09:50 -0000

Did two canvasses for Obama in South/Central New Hampshire (not like south-central LA at all!) in the Peterborough area. Very positive vibes out there -- the lists we got were about 50% unregistered, 25% Democratic, 25% Republican. While a lot of people weren't home (and why should they be, it was absolutely gorgeous out!), we probably got about 1/3 of the people we were looking for, and it was almost across-the-board Obama. I think we ran into 3 total McCain supporters, but the rest were almost all Obamas (and refuseds -- some New England folks sure love their privacy).

This was probably the most rural canvass I've done, even more rural than middle VT in the primaries -- we had to do most of the second canvass by car, which wasn't all that efficient, but we hit a LOT of houses. 99% white, all over the place in terms of class (some were double-wides, one or two looked like lakefront estates). But despite a bunch of McCain signs planted next to public streets and highways (in other words, they didn't belong to anyone, the Obama folks owned all the private lawns. Right around noon, in "downtown" Antrim, NH (which is to say, one end of the 3 blocks of Main Street), there was even a big visibility crew doing a full-out Democratic rally (for everything from town clerk up to POTUS), which was fun to see given that the number of cars coming by was, like, 5/minute. But they sure were fired up!

People are TIRED and ready for a CHANGE.

Can't wait to go back.

Re: Esquire Magazine Endorses A Presidential Candidate for the First Time in Its History

Anderkoo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:29:46 -0000

Frankly, I found this read a bit like a backhanded complement: Barack is "diffident" and "vague" but John McCain is worse. I kept expecting them to pull off a New Yorker-type reversal of these words and show how both of those are so very necessary in these times -- how about "diffident" = "thoughtful" and "vague" = "pragmatic rather than sound-bite ideological" -- but they never went there.

Oh well, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Off to NH tomorrow!

Re: Conservative Paper Endorses Democrat Obama After 72 Years

Anderkoo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:21:19 -0000

The last few minutes of his RNC speech were the best moments of his candidacy. It's too bad it was drowned out by "Drill baby drill" and now his and the entire party's embrace of hatred over courage.