In the wake of the devastating Haitian earthquake, nations around the world are racing against time to provide lifesaving rescue equipment, food, and medicine. Few have stopped to wonder why a tragedy of this magnitude has been visited on the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
That's why we have Pat Robertson, who blames the quake on Haitians "deal with the devil."
"They said, 'We will serve you if you get us free from the French.' True story." That's right: Robertson seems to suggest the Haitians brought the earthquake on themselves, in a deal with Satan.
"And so, the Devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' And they kicked the French out," he went on. "You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another."
Why was he discussing this? Oh, it's because he was asking viewers to contribute to relief efforts! Hey, Pat, maybe you should work on your technique a little bit, buddy.
He agreed with Jerry Falwell's statement that the 9/11 attacks were a punishment for America's "secularization."
Israeli Prime Minister Arial Sharon suffered a stroke, according to Robertson, as punishment for cedeing land to Palestinians.
Hurrican Katrina was a result of legal abortion and gay pride parades in the city.
"We have killed over 40 million unborn babies in America. … Some of the attacks that are coming against us either by terrorists or now by natural disaster, could they be connected in some way?" he said.
If you'd like to donate to earthquake relief, I suggest not doing it through any organization with ties to Robertson and instead using this post from the Atlanta Journal Constitution as a starting point.
This is the last Bill Clinton at Netroots Nation '09 footage I'll be posting -- and it's below the fold in deference to our dial-up readers. I think Clinton is exactly right about the importance of passing health care reform, and about the effects of that reform. Ditto for climate change. I hope he is correct that we are on the brink of a revolution in our public life, an age where we engage in honest debate and seek win-win solutions instead of winning at someone else's expense. Keep hoping and keep working - we'll get there someday.
First up are Clinton's extremely timely remarks about the health care reform bill:
The third problem that the President has was best articulated by Nikolai Machiavelli in the 15th century when he said there is nothing so difficult in all of human affairs as to change the established order of things, because -- I'll switch now to Clinton's 21st Century jargon -- because the people who have got it are certain of what they're going to lose and the people who will gain are uncertain of their advance.
If we spend 16% of GDP on health care and Canada spends 11 and all our other major competitors are between 9.5 and 10, that means we're spotting all our competitors 750 to 800 billion dollars a year. If we insure 84% and they all insure 100, where is the money going? Follow the money. ... That's what the President and the Congress are facing. ... What should you do about it?
If you don't think their plan is good enough it's fine for you to advocate a public option, I personally favor a public option, and I always have. I also favored some way of letting people who are uninsured buy into the federal plan because there are 36 different options and young single people who want a more catastrophic type coverage so they wouldn't pass their cost onto anybody else would have an even less costly option there.
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The worst thing of all and the most danger to the most people is sticking with the status quo. It is bankrupting America, making families insecure ... The second thing I think you have to do is to figure the 3 or 4 things that 100% of the people who are going to vote for this agree on has to be in the bill and the 3 or 4 things that none of us want in the bill, that we're all being accused of. ...
Then you can say whatever you want about -- here's what's wrong with the Senate plan, here's what's wrong with the House plan. Whatever you believe is fine. Trying to hold the progressives' feet to the fire is fine. Trying to get the best bill you can is fine.
But first we have to win the big argument. The worst thing to do is nothing. Here are the things that everybody wants, here are the things that nobody wants. Then, here are your differences. If you can do that you can reach millions and millions and millions of people ...
The President needs your help and the cause needs your help. This is really important. There's just one other thing I'd like to say that I wish many of you would write. It is not only the morally right thing to do, it is politically imperative for the Democrats to pass a health care bill now. Because one thing we know and that I've lived through is that if you get out there and then you don't prevail, the victors get to rewrite history.
I'm telling you, I don't care how low they drive support for this with misinformation, the minute the President signs the Health Care Reform Bill, approval will go up because Americans are inherently optimistic. Secondly, within a year, within a year, when all those bad things they say are going to happen, don't happen, and the good things do begin to happen, approval will explode. ... We can't let people lose their nerve, so I am pleading with you. It's ok with me if you want to keep everybody honest. If I say something you don't agree with on health care, by all means criticize me but try to keep this thing in the lane of getting something done. We need to pass the bill and move this thing forward.
Then climate change legislation:
I feel the same way about climate change. ... Again I say, the President stuck his neck out here, the Congress has stuck it's neck out and we've got to have a bill. ... There are a lot of practical things that need to be advanced before we can get there. ... This Cash for Clunkers program has worked great. ... We ought to put that on steroids when we can sell electric cars ... The biggest thing we can do to help the President economically and help our country economically is to concentrate on the least sexy part of the climate change debate: efficiency.
The problem is there is no parallel financing for clean energy in America. ... Let's take some taxpayer money and create a small business guarantee fund like the one for the SBA and have 10 times as much retrofitting done. That's the kind of thing you need to think about.
More video from Bill Clinton's speech to Netroots Nation 2009 last Thursday is below the fold. He starts out talking about the new political environment in America -- communitarian and aware that we all succeed or fail together. A few minutes into the speech he is interrupted by someone protesting his Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy on gays in the military -- which he then addresses. Clinton finishes up with why the health care debate is fundamentally different in 2009 than it was in 1993 and why he thinks the Republicans are making a big mistake on the health care debate. A partial transcript follows with President Clinton's remarks in italics.
Everybody knows that one major significance of President Obama's election is that he's the first African American president and for people of a certain age, like me, who are Southerners, that's a very big deal. It lifts an awful burden of history off our president, it enables every parent in America to tell every child, not just every African American child 'you can live up to your God-given potential.'
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This is the first presidential election to occur in a country that is self-consciously communitarian. That is not always more liberal on the issues but understanding that we are going to rise and fall together. We don't have time for these phony divisions anymore. We don't have time to major in the minors anymore. We don't have time to pretend that we don't need to care what other countries think of us anymore. We are too diverse, racially, religiously and in every other way.
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Unless immigration slows to nothing, the United States will have no majority race by 2050 ...
Do we need a second party that's vital? We do. The Republicans are making a terrible mistake sitting around just waiting for the President to mess up. Now as a Democrat it suits me fine. But the truth is we need an honest, principled debate on all these complex issues ...
At this point Clinton was interrupted by shouts about his DADT policy. He joked that the shouter needed to go to one of those health care meetings and offered to talk about DADT if the person would be quiet.
I'll tell you exactly what happened. You couldn't deliver me any support in the Congress and they voted by a veto proof majority in both houses against my attempt to let gays serve in the military and the media supported them -- they raised all kinds of devilment -- and all most of you did was to attack me instead of giving me some support in the Congress. ... You may have noticed that Presidents aren't dictators.
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Public opinion now is more strongly in our favor than it was 16 years ago. ... This is a different world.
Clinton said Gen. Colin Powell defined DADT much differently than it was eventually enforced, but that turned out to be a fraud. He said "nobody regrets how this was implemented any more than I do. ... I hated what happened, but I didn't have any choice if I wanted any progress to be made at all."
He also discussed DOMA and said it was an attempt to head off a Constitutional Amendment being sent to the states. "I didn't like signing DOMA. ... I think we're going forward in the right direction now ..."
America has rapidly moved to a different place on many of these issues. ... Right now the Republicans are sitting around rooting for the President to fail as nearly as I can figure. One of the reasons so hysterical at all these health care town hall meetings, and they've been stirred up like they have, is they know they have no chance to beat health care this time unless they can mortify with rigid fears, some moderate and conservative Democrats. Why do they know that? Because they don't have the filibuster this time.
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This time there is no 45 Senators, there is nor filibuster option, and there is no option here but to terrify people.
Bill Clinton's speech last night was worth waiting for -- especially this brief lesson on recent political history and a prognostication.
We have entered a new era of progressive politics which, if we do it right, could last 30 to 40 years.
Speaking of 1966 election:
Republicans developed in that election a message that exploited the resentments and exploited the fears and exploited the divisions.
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President Nixon, who was actually Communist compared to most people who came after him. ... He believed in affirmative action, he signed the bill creating hte Environmental Protection Agency, he still thought arithmetic mattered when you put budgets together, went to China, you know. But they were really good at dividing people and building on resentments, the silent majority and all that. Which was a racial code signal, really.
And they rocked along with that until President Reagan came along with his unique contribution to this. Reagan could tell a story like nobody and he convinced people that government could screw up a two car parade. And then he convinced them that 2 and 2 was 4 everywhere in the wide world except in Washington D.C. where arithmetic didn't matter anymore. And trickle down economics was actually good for poor people, and middle class people. And with those two strings, the cultural division and the corporate economics they managed to triple the government debt in twelve years while incomes continued to drop for middle class people.
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Speaking of 1966 through 2000:
In this whole period the Republicans had a base vote of about 45% and ours was about 40%, which should tell you all you need to know about why we didn't win the White House very often. ...
All national elections are determined by three things: the underlying political culture, the conditions of the time and the quality of the candidates.
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America was changing, we were growing more diverse. We were moving away from being a biracial nation to being a multiracial, multicultural, multireligious more oriented psychologically to communitarian solutions.
On the 2000 election:
Compassionate conservatism was a brilliant slogan. ... But then, after he won, he ran into the old adage that life's greatest curse can be answered prayers, because for the first time since President Nixon was elected in 1968 and President Reagan added to their message in 1980 election, the American people got to see what would happen if they could do what they had been talking about all this time . And they didn't like it very much.
After the 2006 midterm elections:
I told Hillary the morning after the 2006 election "If we don't nominate a convicted felon we're going to win in 2008. And there's nothing they can do about it."
America is a different place today. We don't have time for these divisions over race, gender, sexual orientation or anything else. We know we live in an interdependent country in an interdependent world.
... Because they'll just give it to the weasely Blue Dogs who are doing everything in their power to kill meaningful health care reform.
However much he disappointed me over the years -- both on policy and personal issues -- I'll always love Bill Clinton. And I'm always happy to get mail from the Big Dog. This just arrived:
Dear [mooncat],
It seems like the 1993 health care debate all over again. Back then, I led the charge for comprehensive health insurance reform. I fought tooth and nail to get it done, keenly aware that millions of Americans were living in fear that a serious illness or injury could spell economic disaster for their families. Americans needed health care reform then and we urgently need it now.
But, just as I did in 1993, President Obama has run into a buzz saw of special interest opposition to his top domestic policy priority -- health care reform. He is facing off against some of the most powerful special interests in Washington who've launched a furious campaign to preserve the status quo.
Simply put, they're at it again. That's why I'm calling on you to stand with President Obama and the DCCC in fighting for change right now. The DCCC is united in their Health Care Reform Now campaign and is trying to raise $250,000 in grassroots donations before their deadline at midnight tonight.
Contribute $35, $50, or more tonight before our deadline at MIDNIGHT and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
Legislation that would lower health care costs for everyone, improve the quality of care, preserve choice and provide more coverage options for American families was introduced in the House last month - just as Speaker Pelosi promised.
But a U.S. health care system that makes quality care affordable for everyone is going to take a lot of hard work from all of us.
Your immediate response is essential because Republicans are waging a fierce assault on President Obama's health care initiative and on Democratic Members of Congress fighting to reform health care now.
Contribute $35, $50, or more tonight before our deadline at MIDNIGHT and your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
Republicans have made a political calculation that they'd rather attack Congressional Democrats with sound bites and misleading characterizations of the President's health care reform plan than work on behalf of the American people.
It's up to us to prevent the Republican Party and their special interest backers from doing whatever they can to prevent this historic opportunity to make quality health care affordable and accessible to all.
Please make your next contribution to the DCCC a generous one...and please be sure to give before midnight tonight.
Thank you, Bill Clinton P.S. Remember that any size contribution you can make to the DCCC will be matched dollar-for-dollar. So, if you are able, now is an ideal time to step up your support of President Obama's change agenda.
Nice to hear from you again, Bill, but I'm not sending a dime to the DCCC, not even if you say please. And I'm not the only one. This is from Markos:
Sounds great! Except that first of all, there's nothing Republicans can do in the House to stop health care reform. All roadblocks to reform are coming from inside the Democratic caucus -- the Blue Dogs who are flirting with Republicans in order to extract concessions watering down the House version of health care reform.
And it should be clear -- DCCC money would go to Blue Dogs -- you know, those guys who have been threatening to make common cause with Republicans to water down or outright kill health care reform. Look at who overlaps the DCCC's "Frontline" program of endangered congressional Democrats with the Blue Dog's membership list: Arcuri, Boswell, Bright, Carney, Childers, Dahlkember, Giffords, Griffith, Hill (leadership), Kratovil, Mitchell, Nye, and Space.
[bold mine]
I'd happily donate and even fundraise if the DCCC would start a fund to helponly those Blue Dogs who vote in favor of health care reform, but money for what Don Siegelman called the Yard Dogs who want to kill or water down reform? Including our own Bobby Bright (BD, AL-02) and Parker Griffith (BD, AL-05)? No way in hell, Bill!
Before I move on to a new rant, let me tie up some lose ends from my previous WTF rant.
I wasn't asking goppers and righty's WTF was wrong with the democratic party etc., but I'm glad they responded because their answers were very insightful, and now we know exactly W, T, F, we are dealing with. So now that we know, WTF are we going to do about it?
I learned big money controls who controls the media, and high priced campaign strategist/consultants are over payed and out of touch. Psst! Future democratic candidates! In the future if you need some real campaign *ahem* strategerie, drop us a line here at LiA. We'll give you honest, competent advice free of charge for the sake of our country.
Yo, Democratic party big wigs and democratic candidates! It's perfectly ok to wallow in the mud with the rest of pigs (right ph?). There is nothing wrong with a good roll in the mud. To paraphrase my Daddy, find a good mud pen and jump in. No more Mr/Ms Nice Guy or Girl. Bring it on. You feel me? The media loves to cover pigs wallowing in mud. :)
After attending a fascinating seminar on how (or if) religious values should affect how a candidate campaigns and responds to negative attacks, I was just 2 blocks away from the DNC shuttles taking delegates and press to the Pepsi Center.
The trip was a bit surreal, as the bus route wound around behind the Six Flags amusement park on the park's service roads. It was a beautiful, late summer day, but the park was absolutely deserted (did the DNC buy out the place for a week?).
It looked like the set of one of those action/disaster-type movies set in the future were humanity is hanging on by a thread. Or, if you prefer, what the country might look like after 12 years of Bush/McCain...
Why haven't I posted any of my great photos or videos? Read on for the heartbreaking story...
UPDATE: Apparently, the Christian Scientist method of computer repair works. The little sucker booted right up about half an hour ago, so I took my opportunity to post while I could.
Y'all sit down, we've got to get on with the show! Come on! (They only gave him 8 minutes for the speech and the applause is going to take up the whole time.) Yeah, Democrats still love Bill.
We have important work to do. I'm here first to support Barack Obama.And 2nd I'm here to warm up the crowd for Joe Biden. I love Joe and America will too.
Campaign generated so much heat it increased global warming. My candidate didn't win, but I'm proud of the campaign she ran. Grateful for the chance to go all over America and tell people about Hillary.
Hillary said she is going to do everything she can to elect Barack Obama. Applause. That makes two of us. Huge applause. Actually, that makes 18 million of us. Applause. I want all of you who supported her to vote for Barack Obama in November.
Our nation is in trouble on 2 fronts. The American dream is under seige at home. Middle class and low income Americans are hurting. Mortgages, gas, health care, etc. Our position in the world has been weakened by too much unilateralism, dependence on foreign oil, foreign lenders, backsliding on nonprloliferation, refusal to use diplomacy. Clearly, the job of the next president is to rebuild the Americand dream and to restore American leadership.
Everything I learned in my 8 years as president and my travels since has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job. Ability to inspire, rally. Policies are far superior to GOP alternative.
Unique capacity to lead our increasingly diverse nation. The long, hard primary tested and strengthened him and in his 1st presidential decision, selection of a running mate, he hit it out of the park.
Joe Biden has experience and wisdom.
Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world Barack Obama is ready to honor the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. Barack Obama is ready to be President of the United States.
Diplomacy first and military force as a last resort. But in a troubled world, when he cannot convert adversaries into partners, he will stand up to them. Barack Obama won't allow world's problems to obscure its opportunities.
America cannot be strong abroad unless we are first strong at home. more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. Applause. Look at the example the Republicans have set. American workers have given rising productivity. In return they get declining wages, fewer jobs, smaller benefits, rising poverty, the biggest increase in income inequality since the 1920's.
What about favors for the well-connected. What about Katrina and cronyism. America can do better than that. Barack Obama will do better than that. Crowd chants Yes we can! Yeshe can but first we have to elect him.
Republicans will nominate a good man who has served, suffered, loves his country. But he still embraces extreme philosophy that has defined his party for more than 25 years. We did not see what happens when this philosophy is implemented until after 2001. Disastrous consequences. Candidate is promising more of the same. More tax cuts for the wealthy, swell the deficit. More going it alone. They actually want us to reward them for the last 8 years by giving them 4 more.
Let's send a simple message: THANKS BUT NO THANKS. IN THIS CASE THE THIRD TIME IS NOT THE CHARM.
My fellow Democrats, 16 years ago you gave me the honor to lead our party and our nation. Together we prevailed whan Republicans said I was too young, too inexperienced. Sound familiar. It didn't work in 1992, because we were on the right side of history and it will not work in 2008 because Barack Obama is on the right side of history.
Obama's life is a 21st century incarnation of the American dream.
Barack Obama will lead the way back to unity and hope. If like me you believe America must always be a place ... hope, then join me in supporting Barack Obama.
Todd Myers Todd Purdham (Mr. Dee Dee Myers) has written a not always flattering piece on Bill Clinton for Vanity Fair.
To know Clinton is, sooner or later, to be exasperated by his indiscipline and disappointed by his shortcomings. But through it all, it has been easy enough to retain an enduring admiration—even affection—for a president whose sins against decorum and the dignity of his office seemed venial in contrast to the systemic indifference, incompetence, corruption, and constitutional predations of his successor’s administration. That is, easy enough until now.
It's long. The gist of it is that the Big Dog runs with a pretty fast crowd these days.
Note: I am not in any way endorsing this article, but it seemed like something y'all would want to know about. For what it's worth, Purdham has been on MSNBC this afternoon talking about it, so you might want to know what he's actually written.
Bill Clinton's appearance in Huntsville Saturday morning had originally been billed as a "town hall" but what materialized was actually more like a political rally. The discriminator between the two is whether or not questions are allowed and there were no questions from the audience in the Huntsville High gym.
The gym was packed -- perhaps 2000 people -- with folks from Huntsville and the surrounding counties. All ages and races were represented, although the crowd was more white than minority (so is Huntsville) and it looked like a disproportionate number of young folks were seated in the section directly behind the podium. The organizers distributed hundreds of bright blue Hillary signs to an upbeat crowd. I chatted a bit with a couple of high school seniors standing in front of me. One of them noticed my John Edwards button and said he was her first choice, but now that he's dropped out she is determined to vote for whoever is the Democratic nominee this fall. She said she likes both Hillary and Obama, but won't be old enough to vote by Tuesday so she doesn't have to choose between them. These young ladies confirmed that interest in the election is very high among their friends and they are all excited about voting and working for a candidate. Don't you love these kids?
Bill Clinton will appear at a free town hall event, "Solutions for America's Economy," in Huntsville Saturday morning. As I recall, Bill knows something about economic solutions since he managed to convert George H. W. Bush's budget deficits into a budget surplus during the 8 years he was in the White House. Of course, W fixed that budget surplus but good once the Republicans took over again.
Details:
Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Huntsville High School 2304 Billie Watkins Avenue Huntsville, AL 35801
The town hall is hosted by Alabama for Hillary, so he may mention her name once or twice. According to the Huntsville Times, the high $$$ fundraiser initially planned has been postponed so the Big Dog can greet the masses on this trip.
The other man from Hope, Mike Huckabee, will also be in Huntsville Saturday, holding a 9 am rally at Trinity Methodist Church.
My grandmother used to refer to a practical joker a caution. Caution is what candidates better exercise if Ambassador Young is a supporter. With friends like him, who needs Faux News?
“I want Barack Obama to be president,” says Young. “In 2016.”
The volatile line: “Bill is every bit as black as Barack. He’s probably gone with more black women than Barack.” Young quickly added that he was “clowning.”
Not funny. The argument about Bill Clinton's blackness is silly and offensive and so is the one about Obama's blackness. As for the rest of the comment, Andrew Young needs to wash his mind out with soap.
Fourteen years ago today President Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law, issuing this statement:
When I affix my signature to the NAFTA legislation a few moments from now, I do so with this pledge: To the men and women of our country who were afraid of these changes, and found in their opposition to NAFTA an expression of that fear, what I thought was a wrong expression and what I know was a wrong expression, but nonetheless represented legitimate fears.
The gains from this agreement will be your gains, too. I ask those who opposed NAFTA to work with us to guarantee that the labor and side agreements are enforced; and I call on all of us who believe in NAFTA to join with me to urge the Congress to create the world's best worker training and retraining system. We owe it to the business community, as well as to the working men and women of this country. It means greater productivity, lower unemployment, greater worker efficiency, and higher wages and greater security for our people. We have to do that. (Applause.)
We seek a new and more open global trading system not for its own sake, but for our own sake. Good jobs, rewarding careers, broadened horizons for the middle class Americans can only be secured by expanding exports and global growth. For too long our step has been unsteady as the ground has shifted beneath our feet. Today, as I sign the North American Free Trade Agreement into law and call for further progress on GATT, I believe we have found our footing. And I ask all of you to be steady; to recognize that there is no turning back from the world of today and tomorrow. We must face the challenges, embrace them with confidence, deal with the problems honestly and openly, and make this world work for all of us. America is where it should be -- in the lead, setting the pace, showing the confidence that all of us need to face tomorrow. We are ready to compete and we can win. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
Ironically, last week one of the last Alabama textile plants announced it will be closing in about a week. For many American and Mexican citizens, the promises made about NAFTA -- the "Good jobs, rewarding careers, broadened horizons for the middle class" -- have a hollow ring 14 years later.
John Edwards made this statement on NAFTA earlier today in Iowa:
"Fourteen years ago today, the treaty creating NAFTA was signed into law," said Edwards. "NAFTA was sold to the American people with promises that it would grow the economy and create millions of new jobs. But today, we know those promises were empty. NAFTA has actually cost us more than 1 million American jobs. NAFTA has failed Mexico and Canada too. In all three countries, it has hurt workers and families while helping corporate insiders.
"NAFTA also paved the way for a series of unfair trade deals that have helped create an American economy that is not working for American workers and families," Edwards continued. "When I'm president, we aren't going to judge trade deals based on government statistics or corporate bottom lines. Instead, we're going to look at the impact of trade deals on hard-working families."
"Look at the impact of deals on hard-working families." Wow, that actually sounds like government for the people instead of government for the corporations. That sound like what another man of the people said in Gettysburg 144 years ago:
... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The people are still strong. This nation survived that test and it can survive the test of our time as well -- with the right leadership.
For some reason (maybe the Feb. 5, 2008 presidential primary) a lot of prominent Democrats are putting in appearances here. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spoke in Selma on March 4th to commemorate the 1965 civil rights march. Retired General Wesley Clark made several stops here in January and former President Bill Clinton spoke at the Alabama Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner last month. Whatever the reason, it's a positive development that gives Alabamians a chance to see and hear party leaders up close and personal. We still don't have the level of kitchen table politics that Iowa and New Hampshire have, but this is miles better than 1999 and 2003. Check out these opportunities:
US Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. will Keynote the ADC Annual Convention Luncheon in Montgomery on Saturday, May 12, 2007, at 12:30 p.m. "Taking Back Alabama: Some Democratic Strategies for Success," is the theme of the convention.
Senator Hillary Clinton will be in the Mobile area on May 19th for a luncheon fundraiser at the home of Pat and Robert Edington. This is a small, high dollar ($4600 suggested donation) affair and there is no word yet whether Sen. Clinton will make any public appearances this trip.
DNC Chairman Governor Howard Dean will attend a luncheon fundraiser (only $1000) in Birmingham on May 24th.
I hear that Bill Richardson's supporters are trying to get the Governor to make one or more Alabama appearances this summer. Hope he does a breakfast or something -- we can't all afford 4 figure lunches.
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... Because they'll just give it to the weasely Blue Dogs who are doing everything in their power to kill meaningful health care reform. 
Y'all sit down, we've got to get on with the show! Come on! (They only gave him 8 minutes for the speech and the applause is going to take up the whole time.) Yeah, Democrats still love Bill.
