Brianland

I started thinking about this watching tonight’s “Civil Forum” with Obama and McCain and this paster Rick Warren.  Somebody mentioned that he wrote “The Purpose-Driven Life”, and I remembered that was the book that woman read to the escaped convict who kidnapped her in Atlanta back in about 2005.  (March)
I’d always remembered the way she […]

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Tim Russert just died. 
My initial post: 
I’m in shock. I just got home and will have MSNBC on all night. I was at the hospital and my cell went off 5 times and i couldn’t answer it but i knew something happened.
To explain it to non politicos, I’ve said it’s like Johnny Carson dying well before he […]

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 This is a nice essay that was slipped over the transom by a fellow New York warrior in honor of Women’s History Month, thought I’d share. 
MEET THE NEW FEMININE FEMINISTS,
by Zoe Artemis
These days my life is divided up into two moving parts: teaching dancing, and campaigning for Barack Obama.  Yes, I’m a Baby-boomer for Barack.
On […]

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Most people think this amazing PA primary is in April - but it’s really March 24th - ‘cause that’s the last day you can register.  If you’re not in it by then - you’re off the bus!  No scoop for you! 
You may have heard this one before, but Every Single Vote (Really) Counts in this […]

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I was looking for this number and found the most optimistic guess at it (via the Hillary campaign) in the NYT yesterday:
“If the results of Florida & Michigan are allowed to stand, and Mr. Obama is awarded the delegates won by ‘uncommitted’ on the Michigan ballot, Mrs. Clinton would pick up 64 delegates toward the […]

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You’re not going to believe this — it’s right out of a great espionage novel — but just after Super Tuesday, the great veteran politico Al Hunt, now Executive Editor at Bloomberg News, was emailing with the Obama campaign, who mistakenly included in a dispatch to Hunt the campaign’s projections for all the remaining states.  […]

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“Goin’ all-in” – tonight the voters get called and lay the cards on the table. 
 
Poll closings:  (all times Eastern) 
 
7 PM  Vermont  (should be another double-digit win for Obama, making it 12 in a row)
 
7:30 PM  Ohio — thus begins the double-header nail-biters of the primary. 
 
8 PM - primaries end in most of Texas (but no media […]

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Tick tick, click click, time’s a wastin’, page refreshing, Dynasty ending in Dallas.
Get Smart, Eight Years Is Enough; 
Voters Touched By An Angel To Crown New American Idol Next Week.
This is kinda hard to fathom, but do you realize that Hillary Clinton has never been ahead in the voter-elected pledged delegate count (what determines the nomination) for […]

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“Meet me in Ohio!  Let’s have a debate!” demanded a seething, red-eyed Hillary Clinton last week. It’s a good-old Western showdown! 
 
Tonight, MSNBC, 9PM — 10:30PM Eastern, from the home of Rock n Roll, Cleveland, Ohio.
 
It’s 90 minutes, and will repeat numerous times during the overnight.  Moderated by Tim Russert and Brian Williams — two of […]

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THE ROCK PARTY  and  THE FALL OF NEW YORK
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It was a really magic night!  Until the nightmare. 
Couldn’t sleep the night before  –  up at 6 AM watching the camera follow Don Imus into his polling station with a long line of people out the door waiting to vote, and him saying, “I’ve Never seen […]

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This was a letter to the editor, published in The Toronto Star, March 4, 2003.
“A Love Affair With Southern Neighbor Goes Bad” 
Growing up as a kid on the prairies in the 1960s and 70s I was instilled with a kind of knee-jerk anti-American sentiment that seemed to be fostered by every person I met.  Then […]

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After Christina Aguilera’s performance of James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s World” at the Grammys, this is one of the more transcendent performances by any musician I’ve seen in years.  Or ever.  This woman’s a channel, for sure. 
“Live Earth” was the most watched event in human history, the single event experienced by more people at the […]

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This is huge news, actually.  Hillary’s dropped the negative attacks, and she’s dropped the super-delegates as an issue!  
After a week of going negative didn’t work in Wisconsin, rather than coming into this debate on the offensive looking for the knock-out punch, she’s obviously changed her approach.  Rather than her “words don’t matter” and “plagiarism” […]

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Obama just won Wisconsin by 17 points!  58% to 41% — another 60-40 voters’ decision, in another 5% African-American state. 
And he won Hawaii by even more than D.C. – 76% to 24%! 
It’s not only 10 victories in a row - it’s 10 blow-outs in a row.  Last night was his smallest victory yet, and it was by 17 […]

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Just think, next year on this holiday, they’ll be a different President in the White House! 
I wonder who it’ll be? 
Some good lines from the last 24 hours . . .
Ron Brownstein from Time said Obama is an amalgam of Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson.   
Brian says he’s an amalgam of Howard Dean and Sly Stone.    
Mark […]

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It has been such a heart-breaker to see the Clintons’ true colors revealed. 
I keep coming back to Primary Colors (hmm?) - and recommend to all to see or read again -  and the climactic kitchen scene with Libby.  That is what’s happening to myself, and I imagine to so many fence-leaping Democrats these last several weeks.  […]

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The ThatRadio podcasts are now up (some of them) and you can listen to them in the background even while […]

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performance poem
Sittin’ On My Roof in New Orleans
I was sittin’ on my roof in New Orleans,
When george bush came by sellin’ re-fried beans; 
Now, “I’m a man of means, by no means,”
So he took ‘em back,
Said, “Fuck you, Jack. 
You gotta have coin, and not live in a shack,
in any country that I attack.” 
And he roared off […]

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Back when I was so much younger then, a Hillary supporter, I knew there was a lot of, well, anti-Hillary people out there.  She wasn’t like any other Democrat.  Nobody said or wrote many really negative things about Edwards or Biden or Obama or Richardson, . . . but Hillary!  It was weird, I didn’t get it, so […]

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Those loveable nuts, Hillary & Billary, spent the day (apart of course) cruising around the countryside, choosing the day for love to unleash their harshest ever smear campaign against Barack Obama. 
Barack, by contrast, took the entire day off from campaigning and spent it with his wife.
(and kids). 
Tells me everything I need to know. 
So, . . . […]

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Potomac Primary Victory Speech in Madison, Wisconsin, Feb. 12th:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gxd8×7UGOuo
26 minutes
South Carolina — The Big Victory Speech, January 26th, 2008 (Brian’s “turning point in the nomination”):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-iVAPH_EcmQ
17 minutes
Iowa Victory Speech, Jan 5th, 2008:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yqoFwZUp5vc 
14 minutes
New Hampshire — the “Yes, We Can” speech, Jan 8th:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fe751kMBwms
13 minutes
Super Tuesday, February 5th, 2008:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8dzHDzvTfzQ
22 minutes
2004 Democratic Convention:
part 1:   http://youtube.com/watch?v=MNCLomrqIN8
10 minutes
part 2:   http://youtube.com/watch?v=56-m8wx1mwo
8 minutes  
Interview […]

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Happy Potomac Primary Morning!    
168 phat delegates are up for the taking tonight in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. 
In a few hours, Obama will have won every state since Super Tuesday, 8 in a row, and every one of them by 20-30+ point margins. 
With everything going against the Clintons at this point - states won, vote […]

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as per John Grady’s request, i pulled this out of the basement . . .
The Al Franken Fracas
(Democracy in Action - Sunday!  Sunday!  Sunday!)
Manchester, NH –
Howard Dean’s Town Hall appearance 
High Noon, the Sunday just before Super Tuesday
Hundred year old theater, core heart downtown Manchester,
in a city & state completely consumed by the primary;
every corner […]

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first, before the funny – here’s “the video that started it all”  – “Yes, We Can” 
 www.dipdive.com
about 4 minutes long.   
If you’re into laughing and politics, these are highly recommended . . .
McCain’s “Yes, I Can” video –   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbknhX383A 
length:  1:39
Hillary under sniper fire in Bosnia:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc
1 min. 
The Mac vs. PC Guys–  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U9J9JPxrA
32 seconds
The Clinton - Cruise Campaign  –  http://youtube.com/watch?v=I3enFIPvnFg 
2:31  
Ch-ch-ch-Changes 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gEaS-K3j3M8  
1:44
Another McCain […]

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Holy muthr jezus of gawd!  What just happened?!  Herbie Hancock just won Album of The Year! 
Herbie, besides everything else in his brilliant career, was a key to the “Yes We Can” Obama video.  And the guy climaxes the Grammys, saying, “Yes, We Can” from the stage when he wins.  I’m freaking out.  
you can see the Herbie […]

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