Apr 24 2008
This started out as a comment replying to Turkana’s essay, now nestled at the top of the rec list. It grew so large that I’ve converted it to an essay instead.
Here’s how it began, when addressed to Turk:
As an Obama partisan, though not a Kool-Aid drinker, I have to take issue with some of what you say. I will present my thoughts in a numbered list, to ease your refutation of them.
Instead, below the jump, I now address it to all of you.
Jan 22 2008
I get the sense that a lot of people out there — not necessarily a plurality, but enough to justify having a public conversation with them — share roughly my preference order with respect to the remaining non-Gravel Democratic Presidential candidates. In terms of what I’d like to see in a nominee, I’d give Edwards a 90, Obama an 84, Clinton a 72, and I’ll explain where Kucinich fits in later. So here’s where I stand after today’s debate, and y’all can hash it out in comments if you want. There’s no special reason that you should be that interested in what I think, so there’s no particular reason that you should be abusive in comments. I’m mostly setting this down as my own diary for the record, so I can refer to it years down the line. (Thanks again, buhdy, for providing this service.)
Oct 15 2007
Crossposted at dailykos
This will be a short, hit-and-run diary. People need to go to Current.com and view the three short videos Gore uploaded last night, one entitled Healthcare is a right,, one called Americans deserve more protection and the third entitled Get the troops home (H/T Lorikat). All Gorites and those with an open-mind, head over to Current.com and view the clips! Then sign up to the site so you can discuss them.
Oct 14 2007
Crossposted at dailykos and Truth and Progress
The conventional wisdom that Gore “won’t run” spread almost immedately, starting on the night BEFORE the Nobel Prize announcement. Interestingly enough, that opening salvo came not from the usual suspects on the Right, but from the Hillary camp, via an emissary by the name of Dan Gerstein, on Thursday’s night’s broadcast of MSNBC’s Hardball). But could the facts be more inconvenient, hence more threatening, to all those now pushing the status quo?
Oct 10 2007
You read that right. When. Why am I so certain? I have of course no inside knowledge. None. Yet I’ve been certain that he would get in ever since I first saw An Inconvenient Truth, a year and a half ago. And my certainty has only grown since then. Am I delusional? Hardly. I just use a different primary premise for my opinion. Disclaimer: I am not an American. I can’t vote in your election, though I’ve followed your politics almost obsessively ever since watching the 2000 election debacle live on television (Canadians have a front-row seat when it comes to watching you). No, my friends. The timing of Gore’s entry is not so much to do with Hillary, ballot deadlines or any Hamlet-like hesitations on Gore’s part as it is about a meeting of world leaders on climate in Bali in December and all the meetings that will follow in the coming years and that will ultimately decide the fate of humanity on this planet.