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Voting Democratic OR Republican -- Choosing Moral Blindness?

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:12:11 +0000

Chris Floyd has written a compelling article responding to the anger of Robert Parry (revered liberal journalist who had broken important stories involving the Iran-contra scandal, the history of Bush family crimes, American betrayals of Central America, etc.) at liberals who are balking at voting Democratic out of conscience this November.

An important and highly painful issue for some voting in this upcoming election.
 Chris Floyd writes:

Parry believes he is preaching a tough, gritty doctrine of "moral ambiguity." What he is in fact advocating is the bleakest moral nihilism. To Parry, the structure of American power -- the corrupt, corporatized, militarized system built and sustained by both major parties -- cannot be challenged. Not even passively, not even internally, for Parry scorns those who simply refuse to vote almost as harshly as those who commit the unpardonable sin: voting for a third party. No, if you do not take an active role in supporting this brutal engine of war and injustice by voting for a Democrat, then it is you who are immoral.   You must support this system. It is the only moral choice. What’s more, to be truly moral, to acquit yourself of the charge of vanity and frivolity, to escape complicity in government crimes, you must support the Democrat.

Floyd inventories the present administration against Parry’s stance:

DPSC 2012 Tower Bridge Awards

Fri, 04 May 2012 01:37:49 +0000

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Democratic Party of Sacramento County
2012 Tower Bridge Awards

Thursday May 10th, 2012

The Firehouse
1112 Second Street, Old Sacramento, CA
6 pm

Individuals $60-
Sponsorships Available

Honorees:

Sacramento Democratic Clubs' Candidate Forum

Thu, 03 May 2012 23:44:35 +0000

Sat, 05/05/2012 - 11:00am - 1:30pm

Saturday, May 5th 11:00am to 1:30pm

Woodlake Hotel (formerly the Radisson) Pavilion Room, 500 Leisure Lane in Sacramento
FREE admission

The Stonewall Democratic club has joined forces with the JFK Democratic Club, Women Democrats of Sacramento County, Fem Dems of the Sacramento Region, the Veterans Democratic Club of Sacramento County, Elk Grove-South County Democratic Club, the Folsom Democratic Club, the Latino Democratic Club, the Green Democratic Club and the Wellstone Progressive Democrats to present a candidate community forum.

The schedule of candidates speaking is as follows:

Response to July 16, 2010 E-mail from NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg on the 9 Marvi Marmara Flotilla Murders

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:08:48 +0000

Response to July 16, 2010 E-mail from NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Which Lacked Truth, Integrity, or Merit
Andrew H. Dral ("Janosik" -- "The Rabble")

April 3, 2012

Gateway Center, 23rd Floor
Newark, NJ 07102

Dear Sen. Frank Lautenberg,

In response to your July 16, 2010 e-mail, I found your response completely lacking in any truth, without an ounce of integrity, and completely lacking any merit. It’s clear the United States (U.S.) isn’t your first country of loyalty, it is clearly Israel. From your e-mail, “The Israeli Navy intercepted these ships [Mavi Marmara flotilla] before they reached Gaza and were attacked by a small group of individuals on the lead ship.” The truth, the ships were illegally intercepted by the Israeli Navy in international seas. Second, the Israeli Navy attacked and murdered peaceful activists on the lead ship. In addition, the U.S. congress is the best government money can buy. The U.S. congress is beset by bribery, baksheesh, and wanton immoral greed. The Israelis and their fifth column within the U.S., American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), have corrupted our congress. Congress is scared to death of the Israeli lobby. It has been bribed to follow the Israeli Likud Party line, U.S. Middle-east policy is set by Israel.

Wellstone Progressives Monthly Meeting

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:15:26 +0000

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Colonial Heights Library
4799 Stockton Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95820

Thursday, Nov. 17 - 7 PM

Fellow Progressives,

This is a friendly reminder that tomorrow will be our regular monthly Wellstone meeting at the Colonial Heights Library at 4799 Stockton Boulevard Sacramento, CA 95820-4500 starting at 7pm. We will tentatively be discussing our endorsement process as well as a possible bylaws amendment to remove the requirement that we can only endorse after the filing deadline, and discussing our club's priorities for the upcoming state party preendorsement conferences.

Andres Ramos
Co-President, WPDS

If a Republican Were President ...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:29:21 +0000

Friday 14 October 2011
by: Robert Scheer, Truthdig | Op-Ed

If a Republican were president, there would be millions of properly coiffed middle-class Democrats and independents at those Occupy Wall Street marches, and no questions asked as to what they really want. With 25 million Americans unable to find full-time work, 50 million whose homeownership dream has turned into the nightmare of foreclosure, and an all-time high of 46.2 million -- including 22 percent of our children -- living in poverty, the call to throw the bums out would be compelling.

But the protest signs in a nation headed by a Republican, though surely gussied up a bit with ad-agency savvy, would be the same as they are now: Stop catering to the top 1 percent who get ever wealthier, and focus on helping the 99 percent who are hurting. To accomplish that, we need a moratorium on bank-ordered evictions, along with a government-funded program to aid the underemployed that is as robust as the trillions spent to save the Wall Street swindlers who caused all of this trouble.

Instead, we're left with a Democratic president who sooths our rage with promises of decent-paying jobs that in actuality are being vigorously exported from our shores by the president's top corporate backers. That absurdity was marked by Barack Obama's choice of Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric -- a company that has shifted to foreign countries two-thirds of its workforce and 82 percent of its profits -- to head the president's job creation council.

Norman Solomon at the 8th Annual Auburn Area Democratic Club Fundraiser

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:55:07 +0000

Sun, 10/09/2011 - 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Norman Solomon scheduled to speak on October 9, at the 8th Annual Auburn Area Democratic Club Fundraiser. The time is 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Norman will be speaking between 2:30 and 3.

Event takes place at the wonderful Victorian Latitudes Restaurant and Bistro, 130 Maple Street in Auburn, CA.

Tickets are $35/person which entitles you to two drink tickets for either fabulous wine or beer, all the delicious appetizers you can eat, a chance to meet local dignitaries and candidates, including Norman.

Our notorious silent auction is filled with local artists' work, jewelry, rafting trips, a vacation condo in Playa del Carmen, and much more.

For tickets on line go to https://secure.actblue.com/page/aadc_latitudes_fundraiser/ or send a check made out to AADC to P.O. Box 6851, Auburn CA, 95604. Tickets will be mailed to you. For more information call Pat Burke at 916 663-6663.

Why is the Democratic Party Allowing Obama to Destroy It?

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:04:31 +0000

Mike Whitney declares:

This is Barack Obama’s economy now....

Obama's failure will likely result in political change that will deliver the White House to the GOP in 2012. Then the deficit hawks will control both houses of congress and the White House, and they will slash spending and push the economy into another Great Depression. This is not speculation. This WILL happen. Obama has made sure it will happen by shrugging off the warnings of every competent economist in the country, all of whom have said repeatedly that we needed more stimulus to lower employment, to reduce the output gap, to increase GDP, and to put the economy back on track.

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It's not that Obama merely brushed off the considered advice of liberal economists like Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Mark Thoma, Dean Baker etc etc etc. But he also ignored the main players in his former economics team; Lawrence Summers, Christina Romer, Peter Orzag, all of whom strongly recommended more stimulus (to avoid another downturn) in editorials in leading US newspapers.

10 Facts About The Financial Condition Of American Families That Will Blow Your Mind

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:20:26 +0000

The crumbling U.S. economy is putting an extraordinary amount of financial stress on American families. For many Americans, "flat broke" has become a permanent condition. Today, over half of all American families live paycheck to paycheck. Unemployment is rampant and those that do actually have jobs are finding that their wages are rising much more slowly than prices are. The financial condition of average American families continues to decline and this is showing up in all of the recent surveys. For example, according to a new Gallup poll, "lack of money/low wages" is the number one financial concern for American families.

#fuckyouwashington

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:49:59 +0000

>>> Trendsmap <<<

Tweeters rage against the D.C. machine

Jeff Jarvis (of Buzzmachine.com) promoted the flood of Twitter messages with the hashtag #F---YouWashington. A sample is presented below, spelling and punctuation uncorrected.