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Ack! It went longer than the schedule on TiVo! So I’ve probably lost the last half hour.

8:27PM Clark – Dean thinks you are a Republican, (reads some quotes) when did you first notice that you were a Democrat? (laughter in audience) Repeats that he voted for Gore and Clinton. While in military, wasn’t a member of a party. But when the president does something he thinks is right, he’ll say it, but he thinks Bush is taking the country in wrong direction. Moderator – From a piece in the Times of London, wouldn’t someone conclude that you did actually agree with the president? He says no… but “I did not support the war”

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This is the country that we live in today. Is this the country you want to live in?

Quarantining dissent / How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech

The local police, at the Secret Service’s behest, set up a “designated free-speech zone” on a baseball field surrounded by a chain-link fence a third of a mile from the location of Bush’s speech.

The police cleared the path of the motorcade of all critical signs, but folks with pro-Bush signs were permitted to line the president’s path. Neel refused to go to the designated area and was arrested for disorderly conduct; the police also confiscated his sign.

Neel later commented, “As far as I’m concerned, the whole country is a free-speech zone. If the Bush administration has its way, anyone who criticizes them will be out of sight and out of mind.”

This is not the first article that I have read about this subject, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. This is the civil disobedience that your parents told you about.

And things like this just scare the crap out of me…

On May 30, 2002, Ashcroft effectively abolished restrictions on FBI surveillance of Americans’ everyday lives first imposed in 1976. One FBI internal newsletter encouraged FBI agents to conduct more interviews with antiwar activists “for plenty of reasons, chief of which it will enhance the paranoia endemic in such circles and will further service to get the point across that there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox.”

This is the kind of thing that makes me angry. When people criticize Dean for being angry, I think to myself , I’M ANGRY! He represents what I feel! There are 600,000+ people signed up at Dean for America that feel the same way I do. The press would love for everyone to believe that anger is all Dean has, and they’re wrong. Find out for yourself.

Dean is not the point of this article. The point is, Bush and his cronies are leading us down the wrong path. A path towards fear, hostility, unilateral action, disregard for those of us who truly need our help. A path where civil liberties are trampled upon, and everyone is a suspected terrorist. The only way to change course is to vote in new leaders. You can listen to Bush’s rhetoric, and watch him do something else for the next 4 years, or you can vote in someone who will do what’s right for our country.

New Get Your War On today… (not for my younger readers)

Here is the reference for the steroids in the above cartoons, from the
State of the Union Address

To help children make right choices, they need good examples. Athletics play such an important role in our society, but, unfortunately, some in professional sports are not setting much of an example. The use of performance-enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football, and other sports is dangerous, and it sends the wrong message — that there are shortcuts to accomplishment, and that performance is more important than character. So tonight I call on team owners, union representatives, coaches, and players to take the lead, to send the right signal, to get tough, and to get rid of steroids now.

Did anybody watch The Daily Show last night? It was one of the funniest ones I’ve ever seen. They did some compare and contrast between this year’s and last year’s State of the Union address.

Even though they bag on Dean too much in my opinion, they make fun of everyone else as well so it’s cool.

As their guest they had John McCain on, who was being very funny and quite sarcastic about President Bush’s “Tax Cut and Spend” proposals. Do you know what would be amazing. Dean gets nominated and he picks McCain as his running mate. Think about it… McCain is a fiscal conservative, in favor of balanced budgets, in favor of campaign finance reform. I think they would get along great. He would rally some of the Republican fiscal conservatives that Bush has been pissing off throughout his term, and also provide Dean with some credibility and experience with how to deal with Congress.

What’s not to like? Oh yeah, one’s republican and the other democrat… but wouldn’t that show people that they really are uniters and not dividers?

Are you worried about how much money we spend on defense every year, while important social programs are underfunded?

Check out this from a group called, True Majority. Watch the
Oreo
story.

I tried to call into CSPAN but the segment ended before I got on. Here’s the comments that I typed up for what I was going to say.

Hi, I’m 26 years old and I want to say that the younger generation is getting involved in politics again, and we will make a difference. We can not afford to sit on the sidelines for four more years of the Bush doctrine.

The comment on Bush’s speech I want to make is this: The patriot act is the most blatant attack on our civil liberties in the history of our country. I applaud those who were acknowledging during the speech that the act will expire next year, and I will back their efforts to keep it from being reenacted.

The first portion was intended as a comment to a lady who was telling another caller that it was great to hear that younger people were calling in and being active in politics.

Midland, TX – “Yes I want to say that president bush is real, he’s not phony. His speech was given out of a heart of passion and concern for america and it’s people. I didn’t hear an agenda for his party or any bias towards parties like I did from the democrat’s divisionary (is that a real word?) comments afterwards. And as far as his remarks about upholding the sanctity of marriage. I totally agree with that. One man and one woman, that sanctity should be upheld, as God set forth, in the beginning of time.”

My guess is that it was Karl Rove’s wife.