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Re: A Night To Remember: Barack Obama Elected 44th US President

Stanley_Krute — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:32:28 -0000

Deep thanks Jed for this and all your other work during this campaign. Brilliant and heartful.

Re: New moderator for Meet the Press? (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:32:18 -0000

Aaron Brown would indeed be great.

We'd like someone who asks SMART questions, and smart FOLLOW-UPs.

We'd like someone who LOVES the American experiment, the American people, and American politics. Tim Russert fit that bill. So does Aaron. So does Chris Matthews.

The true dark horse candidate is, of course, Jason Linkins, of our invaluable Sunday bellowing fest snarkdowns.

Re: Sarah we hardly knew ye (Scripting News)

Michael O'Connor Clarke — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:20:16 -0000

And here's the thing I really like about that scenario. Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that something like this transpires, and La Palin really does earn the nomination - somehow - as a partially credible Republican presidential candidate for 2012.

How is that a bad thing? Wouldn't pretty much guarantee Obama a second term? :-)

Re: Sarah we hardly knew ye (Scripting News)

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/11/05/sarahWeHardlyKnewYe.html — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:42:16 -0000

It takes 75% to expel someone from the senate. I doubt the votes will be there. not with the repubs facing a possible democrat in the seat as his replacement. While it's more likely another repub would take his place, given the states history, they won't chance it.

Re: Sarah we hardly knew ye (Scripting News)

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/11/05/sarahWeHardlyKnewYe.html — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:19:23 -0000

Yeah, well, another weakness of mine is believing in the best of people, not the worst. Sometimes it's a strength but in politics I admit, usually not. One can hope.

I am so happy today. I'm in NYC, and people were going nuts with joy last night. I hope the spirit of it lasts. The last time I saw this kind of joy in NYC was when the Mets won the 1986 world series. That joy lasted almost 2 years. I hope this one beats that.

On the main topic again though, I do think you will have some serious soul-searching in the moderate right. I don't think it will do them much more good than the same soul-searching did the Democrats after their loss to reagan. Maybe we'll see the right-wing equivalent of the DLC take form. That might work for them in places like Maine, Rhode Island, and Ohio, honestly. As I understand things, in Ohio the man issue that keeps the red people red is abortion rights. except for that, they'd have gone blue in 2000 & 2004. I think the Democrats really have to go full out on an education campaign to make the case for reproductive freedom in the battle ground states if they want to keep winning like they did this year, because that is THE big divider, and I say this as someone who's attended every abortion rights march on washington since I was years old in 1969. We won't have Bush and the wrecked economy on our side in 2012, after all, so it's time to really make the case and to do that we;re going to have to turn to precedents that are meaningful to deeply religious people who otherwise love our agenda. The fact is that historic judeo-christian tradition pre-nicean, actually supports the right to end a pregnancy if it threatens the life or health of the mother. All we have to do is invoke that and show how unwanted pregnancy causes poverty, and how poverty is a life-threatening condition.

Mind you, I answer "cosmologist" when asked my religion, so I don't need these proofs, but people who've been fed the bible since birth do. That's one issue that can keep the Plain people alive for a long time if we don't resolve it first. People voted their wallets in a lot of the formerly red districts this election cycle. We won't have that on our side next time.

Re: Sarah we hardly knew ye (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:41:49 -0000

Hi Joshua

I think you're right as regards the Reagan analogy. I remember thinking in 76 that he'd grab it all in 1980. The structure of the GOP -- monied interests seeking compliant mouthpieces with ability to connect with 51% of the public -- needs its Reagans and Palins.

I think you're wrong RE McCain. I was a supporter in 2000. Was that the real McCain, or was this year's model the real one ? My read is that I was totally duped in 2k, and that this year's version was always the real thing.

Re: Sarah we hardly knew ye (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:34:52 -0000

I pray you're right. I fear you're not.

Here's a scenario:

Stevens wins his race. The Senate expels him. Special election: Begich vs Palin. Given Alaska's demographics and y'day's voting, odds high that Palin wins. She builds up her "experience" with 4 years in the Senate. The wingnut base continues to think of her as the New Reagan. She creams Mitt and Huck in the primaries.

Re: Reverse robo-calling tomorrow (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:42:53 -0000

Perfect.

I'll spread this idea out on the Obama HQ blog by linking to your post.

They need to be overwhelmed. We are sick of this crap.

This country has problems to solve. The smears and the hate-mongering help no-one.

Re: Will this election end in a civil war? (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:38:58 -0000

McCain no longer matters to the wingnuts.

Sister Palin is their new queen.

And she will not be backing down. Rather, she'll continue to work the madness, culminating in her nomination as the GOP's 2012 Pres candidate.

-- stan

Re: The Asus works (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:50:27 -0000

Deep agreement with other posters as to IrfanView being The One for this job. Fast, light, remarkably strong in many areas. It's one of the Stan's Basic Apps that I put on all tuned-up and new computers that the computer systems part of my biz touches.

Latest version is 4.10. Downloadable at Tucows: http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967

You'll also want to get the Plug-ins. Also downloadable at Tucows: http://www.tucows.com/preview/415586

It's not Photoshop, as regards editing, but quite adequate for many purposes.

-- stan

Re: More movement in TwitterLand (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:58:59 -0000

Unca Dave

Thou art my favorite internet plumbing coach.

Kids: listen to the coach.

Standardization is a GOOD thing. Innovate around
the standards. Give props to the first movers.

Dang we're wiring up the planet nicely. The human
ubermind awakes.

-- stan

Re: My kind of blogging and the 2008 campaign (Scripting News)

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/08/04/myKindOfBloggingAndThe2008.html — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:49:17 -0000

Aside from that, McCain and his surrogates were condescending to Obama that he hadn't been to Iraq, and he should go and find out for himself what's going on there. He went, found out, and now they're ocmplaining about that too!

Re: My kind of blogging and the 2008 campaign (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:56:46 -0000

Hi Scott

I'd be excited if Sen. McCain went to Berlin and drew a crowd of 200,000 folks. I like the idea of an American leader who excites the imagination and idealism of folks in other countries. I'm still trying to wrap my head around reasons folks do not like such a display of inspiration and support. All I can come up with is a deep and malignant cynicism.

RE the electoral college: come, come. You're quibbling. We get to vote. We get to choose our destiny. It's a relative rarity in human history. You may not like other people's choices, or the process they go through to come up with their choices, but then it's up to you to join in and start doing some education.

-- stan

Re: My kind of blogging and the 2008 campaign (Scripting News)

Alain — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:38:29 -0000

Let's call it what it is - Senator Obama went overseas to attempt to burnish his foreign relations/international politics credentials - of which he has little to none. This little dog and pony show was little more than a PR junket. And I'm an undecided at this point.

Obama knows that many Americans are concerned about how he will handle the many international challenges that a now waning American superpower will face. He also knew that going overseas would offer an opportunity for demonstrating visibly how much other countries - especially our long-time allies with left-leaning tendencies - are looking for a change in the Executive Office. He wanted Americans to think, "Wow, they love him across the pond and in Continental Europe, he could REALLY make a difference from what we've experienced in the last 8 years." Thanks to W, Americans are at a new low that hasn't been seen since probably the 1970s but more likely you'd have to go back much further in history to match.

Just realize, you could put a Chihuahua in a suit and send it overseas and get a better reaction than what W receives.

Re: My kind of blogging and the 2008 campaign (Scripting News)

Scott — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:12:17 -0000

Stan,

For the most part, I'm not against Obama meeting with foreign leaders, but those thousands of people in Berlin in which he gave the speech were not foreign leaders. Now I would be saying the same thing if John McCain would have done or does the same thing.

Also, the President is elected by the electoral college and not by the popular vote (thus we don't directly elect the President). Also those that make up the electoral college do not have to vote the way the people they represent wants them to.

Scott

Re: My kind of blogging and the 2008 campaign (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:21:23 -0000

Scott

Cynicism based on ignorance or willful misunderstanding ill becomes you.

Sen. Obama went overseas to meet with foreign leaders who he'll have to deal with if he wins.

The people of the US do indeed determine their President. It's called voting. You may not like the way other people vote. You may not vote yourself. But that's how we do it.

Sen. Obama seems the least lobbyist-influenced candidate we've had in a long time. Close to 2 million small donors like myself.

Shine some light, it truly beats cursing the darkness.

-- stan

Re: Chin-dropping photo (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:47:42 -0000

Here's something neat:

At the left side of that picture, left of the teleprompter stand, you'll see a black guy wearing a baseball cap, with a little girl on his shoulders, holding a stuffed puppy.

The guy is Reggie. The little girl is Josie. Over at the Obama HQ blog, we've adopted them a bit, per the following: http://tinyurl.com/6bsmsb (hopefully that link goes thru)

Nobody knew if Reggie and Josie accomplished Josie's Dream today, but spotting them in this photo let us know that they got pretty darn close. A bunch of Obamanians are currently kvelling.

Funny how things synchronize out. Thanks again Dave.

-- stan

Re: Chin-dropping photo (Scripting News)

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/24/chindroppingPhoto.html — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:47:42 -0000

Re: Chin-dropping photo (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:46:39 -0000

Thanks Unca Dave. You bring back the best stuff when you go Flint-McCullough-ing the 'net.

Yep. Amazing image. The kind that would've run in a 2 page spread in the old Life magazine of my youth.

-- stan

Re: VPs coming soon (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:26:02 -0000

I'm hoping Obama picks Chuck Hagel. If he does, he wins the election.

Agreement re Romney. The GOPs are grooming Romney for 2012. Frightening little man.
Nobody at home inside. He excites the base. Remarkable group, the GOP base.

-- stan

Re: Instant history (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:56:22 -0000

I don't consider running this cartoon a braindead move because I'm offended.

I consider it a braindead move because it will be used as fuel by the very targets of the satire, the low-info voters and GOP operatives.

What is it that you don't understand about the use of images and symbols by the GOP over the past 40 years to smear their opponents ? The New Yorker's just helped them with that. They're idiots because they can't see that, or admit to seeing it.

-- stan

Re: Instant history (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:30:24 -0000

The obvious problem with the cover is that GOP operatives and low-information voters will use it as proof of the smears.

Sometimes sophisticated ironic artists/editors should think a bit how their products will be used.

-- stan

Re: More than meets the eye (Scripting News)

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/29/moreThanMeetsTheEye.html — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:16:33 -0000

That isn't true about getting up and walking away. I wish it were so easy but it isn't.

Re: More than meets the eye (Scripting News)

Stanley_Krute — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:41:16 -0000

Hi Dave

Thanks for taking time to respond.

Obviously, the attacker is the jerk.

It's just my opinion that a target of such attacks
can just walk away from the dustup, pay it no attention,
give no energy whatsover to the attack.

Just a different approach to this sort of conflict.

Hey ! I've taught jr. high !!

Regards,

stan

Re: More than meets the eye (Scripting News)

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/29/moreThanMeetsTheEye.html — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:26:23 -0000

Stan, I know you're a good guy, so that's why I chose to respond to you -- because a lot of people say this -- and it's cruel, although I'm sure you don't intend it to be.

What's really going on, to follow your lead, is that jr high school is like life.

And when say stuff this you're not distinguishing between the person defending themself and the person doing the attacking. In fact as I'm sure you know, the person doing the attacking doesn't give a shit what you think, and probably likes that fact that you're giving shit to the person he or she is attacking.

And when you say this to the person being attacked, you're just increasing their pain, making it harder for them to ask for help without getting shit from the person making them miserable, *and* people who say stuff like what you just said.

So let me try to make the world just a teeny bit kinder place by asking you in the future to do the following. When you feel inclined to say something like this --> just skip it.

BTW, the bullies often say argue with the victim after they kick him in the groin. Come on can't you take a joke?

Why is it torture? Look it up in a psychology textbook, or ask a shrink. The worst kind of abuse is when the abuser makes you doubt that the abuse is even happening. Or blame the victim for the abuse if you really want to screw with their head. The Internet is an incredible teacher about abusive personality. You meet em all the time, in every context. Yeah junior high is like life Stan.