This is absolutely do-able...but we only have a few days left.
A message from Rodney King about this year's Democratic nomination process?
Bill Clinton still campaigning in the California primary in June of 1992 wasn't the only thing going on that year. The police were caught on camera brutally beating Rodney King. In his 15 minutes of fame, he uttered these words regarding the national anger that erupted over this event:
" People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?...It's just not right. It's not right. It's not, it's not going to change anything. We'll, we'll get our justice....Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we're all stuck here for a while. Let's try to work it out. Let's try to beat it. Let's try to beat it. Let's try to work it out."
(Here's a letter-to-the-editor that will be printed in my local paper here in North Carolina. Permission hereby granted to use any part or all of it in letters to your hometown papers.)
What are we turning our candidates into? Is our "gotcha" politics turning them into automaton-like "Stepford" candidates just to survive the campaign?
· Texas County Agrees to Stop Vote Suppression Efforts (Matt Glazer)
· VA-05: Tom Perriello Closes in on Virgil Goode (lowkell)
· Hotline: Colorado is last toss-up state in nation (em dash)
· Jim Webb: Barack Obama Will be a "fine commander in chief" (lowkell)
· IA-04: Latham and Greenwald hold second radio debate (desmoinesdem)
· One Really Bad Typo: 'Barack Osama' on Ballot in NY County (lipris)
· NC Sen: Kay Hagan Fights back against False Freedom's Watch Ads (The Southern Dem)
· Gordon Smith: Sarah Palin is "a great governor of CALIFORNIA" (karichisholm)
· Rossi subpoenaed in Buildergate Case (John Rohrbach)
· SD: Tim Johnson Leads 60%-35% (lowkell)
· NRCC Pulling 2/3 of ads in swing district (fbihop)
· McCain still making a play for Iowa? (desmoinesdem)
