Monthly Archives March 2004

Rob Freedman

I’m working with Rob Freedman tonight organizing some aspects of his campaign for Clerk of the Circuit Court with him and the crew here. We’re gearing up and looking to make a real impact in DuPage. Keep an eye out for more news on Rob’s campaign soon.

Bush and Cheney to Make Joint Appearance…

Will they recognize each other? With only ten minutes together, and needing to answer pressing questions, will that be enough to catch up? If things go bad during questioning, where will our VP hide next?

Visualizing the Money

One of my wife’s friends gave her a clipping with Fundrace, a 2004 presidential election money tracking site. It isn’t the cleanest site (if a link doesn’t work, try, try again - and you will find links to major options by selecting one of the first two choices). Yet I do like what […]

Rwanda: Hutu on Tutsi Genocide and the Reverse

Nicole properly comments on my entry “Preventing Another Rwanda” that
“It seems interesting to me that the links provided here chronicle Hutu on Tutsi genocide, but ignore the reverse. In 1972, in Burundi, the Tutsi run government exterminated thousands of Hutus, yet you rarely hear of it when genocide in Africa is discussed.”
This was not […]

Kerry Talk

There is an excellent article by a former Clinton speech writer and AFSCME official David Kusnet, who talks about how Kerry should frame the campaign - there’s a lot of material to work with, let’s hope Kerry takes some of his advice.

Preventing Another Rwanda

I have just finished a book I long wanted to read, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch. While I feel the need to re-read the book already, and while my knowledge of African politics is embarrassingly small, the book’s […]

March 15 George Bush Memo Discovered

[Editor Note: We do not believe in underestimating George W. Bush, a cunning and street smart politician who has passed the disasterous policies that we live under today. Whatever this memo may show of his thinking, character and policies, we hope that people will consider it when they vote in November.]
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She Did It!

Late Breaking News!!!
Laura Bush has admitted to writing the March 15 “George Bush” Memo discovered later today. When asked why she did it, she said something about tiring of writing bad poetry….

2/3 Problem

OK. You’ve got a problem. You’re trying to get 2/3 of Congress to support an amendment to the Constitution. Your first go at it was this:
“Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any State, […]

Gay Marriage Part II: Numbers and Knowledge

What seems striking about gay marriage in the weeks since the Massachusetts decision is its proliferation. Not only has it spread geographically to New Paltz, Oregon and San Francisco, among other places, but thousands of couples have tied the knot. Now these numbers may not be much relative to the gay population in […]