December 6, 2004
2004 Political Contributions
One of the better sites for tracking who is giving money to whom is Open Secrets. Their last contribution update for the 2004 Presidential race was in October, but it can give you an idea....
November 28, 2004
A Different Look at the 2004 Vote
I was contacted by the author (David Pakman) of a political site named Hear the Issues. I visited his site and was very impressed with what he is doing. He has two articles up right now that I believe are...
November 18, 2004
The Triumph of Liberalism
By: Dave Stratman Editor, New Democracy The electoral campaign has finally crawled to its dreary and foreseeable end: the victory of George W. Bush, anti-"red state" hysteria and despair among Kerry supporters, and the effective end of the antiwar movement....
November 17, 2004
One Step Forward on the Recount
You have probably all heard, but our nickles and dimes and shouting has gotten us a recount in Ohio. But don't heave a sigh yet. We need to keep up the pressure and there are a number of ways to...
November 12, 2004
Snap Out of It
By: Michael Ruppert [This article is reprinted with the permission of Michael Ruppert and From The Wilderness.] November 5, 2004 1900 PDT (FTW) - The rest of the world has known for some time that it is pointless to oppose...
November 10, 2004
Election 2004: Reaping What Was Sown
By Mathew Maavak [Mr. Maavak can be reached at mathew@maavak.net. Or visit his site Panoptic World] Link to this piece on Panoptic World I wasn’t surprised at the recent election results. The reasons given were predictable. Some of them had...
November 9, 2004
Kerry Won. Here Are The Facts
By: Greg Palast Reprinted with the author's permission I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad. But I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's...
November 7, 2004
Vote Analyses and Information
Let's start with the maps below (which were forwarded along by Mike)...
November 2, 2004
Media Contacts for Election Night
This was sent along to me by a friend in Veterans for Peace. It is a tremendous media contact list and whoever did it deserves major thanks. I'm sure they are building good karma. So for media email addresses. Thanks...
November 1, 2004
Track Voting Incidents
Thanks to Emily from Strangechord for forwarding along the Election Incident Reporting System. This sites allows you to see the total incidents recorded at EIRS and look at how many there are all the way down to the county level....
An Election Spoiled Rotten
By: Greg Palast at Writings of Greg Palast. Reprinted with permission. It's not even Election Day yet, and the Kerry-Edwards campaign is already down by a almost a million votes. That's because, in important states like Ohio, Florida and New...
October 31, 2004
Bin Laden Speaks and Bush Crows
The Bush camp is apparently ecstatic that bin Laden timed his tape (see partial transcript at end of this post) so well: "We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days," said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. "And anything...
October 30, 2004
Osama's Endorsement
By: John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at JChuckman@mediamonitors.org It has been a...
October 24, 2004
Pay Off or Pay It Forward?
Well, Bush got most of his wish list of corporate tax reform, and signed a nifty $136 (+) Billion tax reform package. Forbes calls it "the most sweeping rewrite of corporate tax law in nearly two decades. One has to...
October 23, 2004
The Government You Deserve
By: John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at JChuckman@mediamonitors.org It has been said...
October 20, 2004
Too Good to Miss
Just got to pass this one along. Six cousins of the dear President say that "Blood is thinner than oil"and urge support of Kerry at Bush Relatives for Kerry. "Bush Relatives for Kerry" grew out of a series of conversations...
October 14, 2004
What did that mean?
I watched the debate last night and after a ragged start it did pick up. Being in education, particularly at a community college, it was interesting to here Bush's take on our role - training the workforce of the 21st...
October 10, 2004
Habits of the Fall From the Canary in the Mine
By: Donna Marsh O’Connor, Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, WTC Tower II, 93rd floor I am posting this with permission, because it touched my heart, and because the message is so poignant and important. It was October of 2000. My...
October 6, 2004
VP Dabate
I'm just going to open this up for discussion. Last night Cheney and Edwards had their little moderated chat, and I must say I was not tremendously impressed by the performance of either one. You can check out the exaggerations...
October 4, 2004
Strange Victory
By: John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at JChuckman@mediamonitors.org Nothing tells us more...
August 20, 2004
The Trouble With Electing Ceasar
By: John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at JChuckman@mediamonitors.org] America's campaign for Emperor...
August 2, 2004
Kerry & Edwards Put Their Plan Out
John Kerry and John Edwards have made available the book "Our Plan for America" (a 253 page adobe document also available at UTJ permalink)...
July 26, 2004
Keeping an Eye on the DNC
If you are interested in keeping an eye on the Democratic National Convention - they have set up a web log - Kicking Ass - Daily Dispatched from the DNC. The site also offers daily speaker schedules, and links to...
July 13, 2004
2004 campaigns
There was a request from Jack to gather some info on the 2004 Congressional races. I started the search, but I have yet to find the perfect site. There are a number of resources that I am passing on for...
July 6, 2004
Bush Attack Ads
Well, today Kerry announced Edwards as his running mate (I heaved a sigh of relief), and I saw a blurb of the latest Bush attack ad. It features John McCain, which is sad for starters, but it also shows the...
A Deafening Silence of Meaning
By: John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at JChuckman@mediamonitors.org] Recently, John Kerry and...
June 14, 2004
These Colors Don't Run
By:John Chuckman [John's pieces appear in Counterpunch, Online Journal, Yellow Times, Media Monitors, Scoop, and many other sites. This was sent as a guest submission to Uncommon Thought. John Chuckman can be reached at chuckman@counterpunch.org, chuckman@yellowtimes.org, or JChuckman@mediamonitors.org] Given its...
May 18, 2004
Dreading the election?
Do you find yourself feeling some trepidation in the run-up to the vote in November? You are not alone - I am with you. Many of us realize that the election of 2000 stunk to high heaven, and this one...
April 17, 2004
The Worst in Campaign Tactics
This has got to be a new low in political campaigning - Shoot 'em Up, Vote for Bush from Wired News (4/16/04). The campaign has turned decidedly bizarre with the addition of a video game in which a gun-toting George...
February 22, 2004
Who is running for President
While rumors float that Howard Dean may pursue an independent Presidential run, Nader announces presidential bid (BBC, 2/22/04). I don't know about you, but this surprised me as I thought that the Greens (and Nader) had decided to not run...
February 6, 2004
The Pentagon Drops Internet Voting
The Reuters' headline reads Pentagon Dumps Vulnerable Internet Voting System (2/06/04). The Pentagon heeded the advice of cyber-security experts who urged in a Jan. 21 report the program be abandoned because it was impossible to create a voting system with...
February 4, 2004
Where the candidates stand on various issues
I got this from the Petition Site mailing list and thought I would pass it on. It has links to the Presidential canditates (including Bush's) platforms - Candidate Platforms. Thee platform summaries include: Energy, Global Warmning, Public Lands, Health Care,...
December 31, 2003
The Power of Language
Language shapes peoples' perception of the world and politicians know this. Since the 1990s and the Republicans have turned repeatedly to Dr. Frank Luntz to help craft their message. According to his bio on the Herbert Walker Agency Site (a...
December 20, 2003
Bush needs money to beat the Dems
Thanks to Emily at Strangechord for sending this along Rally the Real Grass Roots? The above link includes a fund raising appeal from Marc Racicot - the Bush-Cheney 2004 Campaign Chairman and Chair of the Repulican National Committee. In the...
November 27, 2003
10 Preliminary Actions to Defeat Bush in 2004
By Michael Dobbins, author of the book ‘Stop Bush in 2004: How Every Citizen Can Help’ [Thanks to Emily at for sending this along. My fellow Americans, the Presidential Campaign has begun. We, the citizens of America, must start taking...
November 5, 2003
What direction is Dean going
My guess is that like many of you, I have been supporting multiple candidates for the 2004 elections. One of those I have been supporting has been Howard Dean. I got an email yesterday that maybe some of you got...
August 30, 2003
Keeping track
Thanks to Emily at Strangechord for bringing Wage Slave Journal to my attention. This is a very good site, but it has added something that I have thought about (though not in the same fashion). Wage Slave has a George...
August 18, 2003
Register to vote made simple
In order to "oust Bush" we need to get folks to vote. Working for Change has made this as simple as pie (a store-bought one of course). They have set up a system to allow folks toi fill out the...
August 11, 2003
Upcoming Kucinich Campaign Meeting - Portland, OR
I am posting this notice from the Kucinich-Northernoregon@lists.riseup.net Defeat Bush Now! Campaign Kickoff and Fundraiser Saturday, August 16th 2003 starting at 2 pm Smith Memorial Center Ballroom at Portland State University 1825 SW Broadway, Room 355 (no charge for admission)...
July 27, 2003
Portland OR area Dean events
And for Dean supporters .... Here is the link for Portland area Dean campaign events. You register for events at the site just given, but on the "more" link I've put some of the upcoming events....
Portland, OR. area Kucinich campaign info
I'm posting this for those who are interested. Got it from the Kucinich campaign. "This Tuesday, July 29 will be a Portland area organizational meeting for the Kucinich campaign to be held from 7:30-9:00 PM at the Multnomah Monthly Meeting...
July 20, 2003
Kucinich was here
Dennis Kucinich was here today down at Kafoury's law offices. It was a gathering of volunteers and supporters and they expected a "handful" of people. My guess is that well over 200 showed up, and there were 40 or 50...
July 17, 2003
Worried about voting fraud?
Well, on 7/9/03 I put out Can Electronic Voting Be Rigged?, but now we have another development -- Offshore Company Captures Online Military Vote from Landes at Scoop (7/16/03). Last year the Defense Department awarded the contract for a new...
July 12, 2003
Campaign Rhetoric
I cruising around the web looking for ... whatever I look for ... which is mainly anything that draws my attention ... I found a new site Rhetorica which is an excellent resource in and of itself, but they also...
July 8, 2003
Feminists for Kucinich
There is a new petition (Letter and Petition) out by eight feminist writers and organizers in support of Kucinich. . Originators are: Barbara Ehrenreich, Angela Gilliam, Ynestra King, Gail Lerner, Grace Paley, Rosalind Petchesky, Digna Sanchez, and Meredith Tax....
July 6, 2003
Select your candidate poll
I was reading TalkLeft and they had a link to 2004 AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SELECTOR. It is an interesting site, but as interesting was tracking back to who found it first....
