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Cowardly Romney avoids media scrutiny: ‘Democrats are mean to me!” (Wuss)
August 23, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: How long are the feckless media villagers going to play along with the cowardly Willard "Mittens" Romney and allow him to avoid media scrutiny? For godssake, man up and grow a pair! Steve Benen reports on Romney's interview in Time magazine today. Fear of scrutiny is not a good excuse: Mitt Romney … Read more
New Obama campaign ad: ‘Clear Choice’
August 23, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Obama campaign is up with a new ad, "Clear Choice," featuring former president Bill Clinton.
Clinton says in the ad, "This election to me is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. This is a clear choice. The Republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper income people and go back to deregulation. That's what got us in trouble in the first place. President Obama has a plan to rebuild America from the ground up, investing in innovation, education, and job training. It only works if there is a strong middle class. That's what happened when I was president. We need to keep going with his plan."
Video below the fold.
DNC video: ‘The Romney-Ryan-Akin Platform for Women’
August 23, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Democratic National Committee unveils a new slogan — the "Romney-Ryan-Akin Platform for Women" — in a video released overnight (below the fold). Women will remember in November.
Louisiana school voucher program: a study in self parody
August 23, 2012
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by David Safier Louisiana has chosen 119 private schools to participate in its new voucher program. The state superintendent won't say how they were chosen. Let me restate that. He hasn't said how the schools were chosen yet. He plans to release the documents sometime in September, after students are enrolled in the schools. According … Read more
Daniel Patterson acquitted of charges
August 23, 2012
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by David Safier I'm not a lawyer, so I won't try to comment on Daniel Patterson's acquittal on charges of domestic violence, but I want to post about it since I wrote about Patterson's personal and political problems on BfA. From the Star article: Former Democratic state Rep. Daniel Patterson has been acquitted of four … Read more
Democratic & Republican conventions: Occupiers/protesters ready for delegates
August 23, 2012
by Pamela Powers Hannley
Occupiers in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, NC are gearing up for the deluge of politicians, dignitaries, convention delegates, journalists, and other protesters who are about to descend upon their cities.
The Republican National Convention (RNC) will be held in Tampa will be August 27-30. The Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be held in Charlotte (AKA Wall Street of the South) from September 3-6.
With their anti-women, anti-any-color-but-white, anti-immigrant, anti-middle class, anti-gay, anti-union… OK… anti-99% agenda, the RNC offers a fertile field for protests from the rest of us. With Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on the ticket, the Republicans have cemented their place in history as the party of the 1%.
Occupy Tampa is one of the few Occupations with tents on the ground, and they plan to be camping– and protesting– during the RNC.
More hints about what will be happening outside the convention halls, after the jump.
David Bradley Has Some Unexpected New Friends
August 22, 2012
By Michael Bryan Boy, a campaign's financial reports can be really interesting. Take for instance David Bradley's pre-primary report. David is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the State Senate seat in LD 10. David has some new supporters who might be surprising to some. Many of you will know John Charles "Chuck" Coughlin, President of … Read more
Mary Steenburgen IS Jan Brewer
August 22, 2012
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by David Safier
Dead-on satire of Jan Brewer by Mary Steenburgen on Funny Or Die. You can view it below the fold or on the Funny or Die site.
