Edgar Newt's End Notes

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posted by Edgar Newt @ 4:35 PM 2 comments links

Thank you Howard Dean

These modest pages made a suggestion a little under four years ago -- namely, make Howard Dean DNC Chair. Well, somebody else must have had the same idea (nobody reads this blog so it didn't come from me). Howard Dean was destined to lead the DNC. And lead it he did. It may be forgotten now, but a lot of people at the time (a) thought Dean was a horrible choice, (b) were upset that he was squandering the DNC money in states in which the donkeys would never be competitive, and (c) were worried that he had another scream in him. Well, he was right and they were wrong. Very wrong.

Thank you Howard. Four years to late, but you were instrumental in TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK -- I loved your catch phrase.

Tweety even seems to agree:



As you ride off into the sunset (and hopefully to a fat, private sector paycheck -- you deserve it), please know that we have not forgotten 2004, nor that none of this would have been possible without you at the tiller these last four years. Thank you, our man from Vermont.

Labels: 2008 campaign, dean, dnc, politics

posted by Edgar Newt @ 11:41 AM 1 comments links

This about sums it up

Get out the vote.

One day longer. For our future.

Labels: 2008 campaign

posted by Edgar Newt @ 9:49 AM 1 comments links

My nightmare

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posted by Edgar Newt @ 10:14 AM 0 comments links

I wish I had written this

(but with a bit fewer curse words, given my ever increasing age and supposed maturity; for a young voter who suffered through (and has only known) the last few years of our government, the spicy languge is entirely appropriate).

And just when I thought I couldn't lower the bar any lower for the highest office in the land for the country I'd die for, in comes a tv-anchor/beauty-pageant-winner/crytal-meth-capital-book-banning-mayor gliding in on her helicopter fresh off an arial hunt for wolves, and all of the sudden George Bush looks like Norman Borlaug, and I'm trying to kill myself with a wooden spoon to the ear. Man walked with dinosaurs, no global warming, witchcraft! Take your pick.

The full rant can be found here.

I don't think the author is alone in his conversion.

Please, get off the Internet and go vote.

Labels: 2008 campaign, elections

posted by Edgar Newt @ 5:53 PM 0 comments links

Even Joe the plumber has abandoned ship

I could not stop laughing at this one. Too funny!

Labels: mccain

posted by Edgar Newt @ 10:41 AM 1 comments links

A subtle reminder of 2004 and 2000

Volunteer if you can.

Make sure you vote.

Regardless of what happens on Tuesday, make sure you include your kids as part of it. Tell them why the result is important and what it means. Instill in each of them a desire and a need to be part of the process; to fulfill his/her civic duty.

History is made by the people who show up. As Sen. Obama has said, "make sure we leave it on the road."

Labels: 2008 campaign, elections

posted by Edgar Newt @ 2:13 PM 1 comments links

Just a quick note to mention that I updated my election map

Here.

I am also predicting 57 Senate seats for the Democrats (excluding Independents Sanders and Lieberman). Under this scenario, because we don't hit 60 seats, I hope Reid drops Lieberman like the pile of crap that he is.

Come on Franken!!!!! (You are good enough, smart enough and, gosh darn it, please do like you.) He is on the bubble.

Labels: 2008 campaign, elections

posted by Edgar Newt @ 5:11 PM 1 comments links

True...true...

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posted by Edgar Newt @ 5:30 PM 2 comments links

The last full measure of devotion

In endorsing Senator Barack Obama today, Colin Powell gave a comprehensive and coherent rebuke of Senator John "the win-at-all-costs POW" McCain's campaign.

"I'm also troubled by - not what Senator McCain says - but what members of the Party say, and it is permitted to be said: such things as, "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim. He's a Christian; has always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, "What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?" The answer's "No, that's not America." Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be President? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own Party drop the suggestion he's Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America."

"I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery. And she had her head on the headstone of her son's grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards - Purple Heart, Bronze Star; showed that he died in Iraq; gave his date of birth, date of death. He was twenty years old. And then at the very top of the headstone, it didn't have a Christian cross. It didn't have a Star of David. It had a crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Karim Rashad Sultan Kahn. And he was an American. He was born in New Jersey, he was fourteen years old at the time of 9/11 and he waited until he could go serve his country and he gave his life."

I couldn't have said it better had I twenty takes with which to try. Sadly, this won't even phase John "I never met a Robo-call I didn't like except those ones against me in South Carolina in 2000 because those were against me and I am a war hero who has always put my country first except now because I really just want to win" McCain. Like his running mate, he won't even blink. And that will be his legacy. And the foundation of his coming infamy.



(Photo: Hat tip to Jill Tubman at Jack & Jill Politics.)

A stunning, humbling photo.

And let us remember that this is not -- by far -- the only gravestone marking a service man or woman, felled in the middle east, that bears a symbol other than a Star of David or a cross. Not even close to the only one.

P.S. Pat Buchanan is no longer my favorite misguided uncle figure. He and Tom Brokaw are in the tank for the Twentieth Century Politics and in a way that is no longer funny.

P.P.S. Here is a good mash-up of Powell's endorsement (hap tip Daily Kos TV by way of the Jed Report).

Labels: 2008 campaign, endorsement, mccain, powell

posted by Edgar Newt @ 11:35 PM 1 comments links