Remember Howard Dean, the front runner for President in 2003?  

http://greyhairsblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/partisan-war-syndrome.html

Yeah, I'm blog whoring, but I'm also pissed.  Why can't we all just get along?

I thought this issue was totally settled.  Let the best man win.  Then Sirota has to totally fire it up again.  Let it be known that I didn't fire the first shot.

http://greyhairsblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/messaging.html

Jon Stewart, on The Daily Show, did a piece on the protest and on the counter-protest this weekend, making fun of the fact that the liberals had every speaker under the sun on the podium. Satire is what Jon does and does well. I can understand his finding the humor in the rally's this past weekend. This is what one blogger had to say about "The Daily Show" bit.

Americablog (http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/jon-stewart-agrees-with-john-aravosis.html):

Happily, Stewart DID mock the absurdly small counter-protest, something the MSM failed to do properly. But when Jon Stewart believes -- just like John in DC -- that throwing in every issue under the sun at an anti-war protest is stupid, people should listen.

This is a classic comment from the "liberal bloggers" on the protest last weekend.

I want to take a minute and give an overview of what happened, and why I think liberals missed another opportunity.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

on Eric Alterman's site, he speaks to my political heart.  Today he suggests that the Clintons and DLCer's need to cool it.  Then he suggests a Democratic strategy that is awesome:

Maybe it's time for the dems to advocate decentralizing government.  Take a look at the Stem Cell research issue in California.  We just decided to spend $3 Billion on research...screw the feds.

As usual, someone else says it better than me:

Regular readers will know that Healh Care is one of the issues I follow closely. I'm a booster of single payor (which I consider the only rational plan on the facts) but I also understand it isn't what is being offered. One of my readers challenged me to take a look at John Kerry's plan, so let's do that.

Read it all here and help get the word out on this!

http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001945.html#1945

http://slate.msn.com/id/2107517/    

(he's actually been pretty right on lately!) this morning and a bolt of lightening struck me.  

Last nights debate was a freaking intervention!

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Get Ready

Scarborough is saying that the Bush campaign is going to put up an ad showing that Kerry flip flopped in the debates tonight on building alliances (something to do with Australia) and Matthews was excited at the prospect.

Tomorrow is where the action is folks. Tonight, the consensus is that Kerry won the debate and he did. Tomorrow, the push back begins.

Get your phone numbers in hand. Get ready to write e-mails. They will not go down without a fight. We will have to fight them back with their own words.

I will post tonight's various transcripts of the immediate responses tomorrow and we should be prepared to shove the mediawhores' impressions down their own throats.

Tomorrow is the day in which we will crystalize Kerry's win in this debate. Everybody needs to help. I'll have all the contact info for you --- all you need to do is write some e-mails and make a few phone calls. The campaign could be seriously helped by this effort. Let's do it.

I'm an avid Democrat and have been for 30 years.  I fall more in the Kucinich camp than the Kerry camp.  I've gotten behind Kerry giving LOTS of money to his campaign, MoveOn and Congressional campaigns.

But as I watch the polls, the electorate and the clowns called the media, I think I've decided that Bush really needs to win this election.

We seem to be a people who don't mobilize based on information.  We seem to only really get our act together when there's pain...and lots of it.

Well, here's what I found:

Read the whole thing...or better yet, buy the book.

I kinda miss the old Republicans....

Apparently WorldNutDaily.net is publishing an article by Art Moore(?)claiming to quote from Douglas Brinkley's bio of Kerry.  In it, he claims that Kerry asserts he had not been under enemy fire during the period he got the first purple heart.

Here's the relevant quote:

If you've read or watched news reports about polls taken since the Democratic convention, you've probably heard that John Kerry didn't get much of a "bounce." These reports overlook the important data. Let's look at the numbers.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2104745/

Check it out...it's well done.

http://kirghizlight.blogspot.com/

He's doing a year by year comparison of Bush and Kerry.  

One very interesting entry details yet another instance where John Kerry saved someone's life:

http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=1621

He makes a very important point regarding the political discourse:

But leave it to Bill Clinton, the political master. In a home-run of a speech, he showed how the Democrats could engage in devastating Bush-bashing while smiling and not becoming disagreeable, shrill or discourteous.

As a reminder, they said:

Mr. Bush has other factors potentially in his favor, several Republicans said. The economy is showing signs of strengthening, though it remains an open question whether that is happening in time to change voter attitudes about how

Mr. Bush is managing the economy. In Iraq, the transfer of sovereignty has led to some reduction in American casualties.

Now to what's new on my end.....

Either way, it deserves attention over and over again.  The Howler hits the nail (or Ellen Goodman) on the head over and over again.  His anaylsis of the punditry's attacks on Farenheit 911 is right on point......