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February 22, 2005 by jdkeepsmiling
I am shaking in my boots...... I, as a serious democrat, am scared of the prospect of Howard Dean leading my party. The scary thing is that I actually support him and the ideas that I know he will being to the forefront. What I am scared about is the prospect of what the man will do to support of the party. He is going to alienate far more people then he is going to attract. I am worried that the democrats are not learning the cold hard facts that this past election pointed out. We ar...
February 26, 2008 by jdkeepsmiling
I just wanted to give everyone out there a link to fantastic site that is keeping a real time count of the superdelegates on the democratic side. These guys are doing a phenomenal job, and if you are a political junkie like me, this is better then a Starbuck's coffee at 5am. It is called Democratic Convention Watch . Check it out and let me know what you think. Notice the serious trend toward Obama in the past few weeks.
March 2, 2009 by jdkeepsmiling
So, as a Democrat in this resurgent age of liberalism, I thought it might be a good idea to take stock of how things have gone in the Obama administration so far. In general, I like what I see so far. I think the stimulus is a bit unruly, and could get out of hand, but in general I like the direction the new administration is heading. BTW, all of you who thought that line item for the Coast Guard Ice Breaker was obnoxious... here is an article to the tangible side effects of canceling that out...
August 21, 2008 by jdkeepsmiling
Yesterday, John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee was asked a pretty simple question in a forum sponsored by Politico .He was asked how many houses he owned. Now I can assure that manyAmericans could answer this before the guy was even finished askingit... it would be a simple 1. Many could also answer 0, but that is anentirely different blog. John McCain thought for a second and then saidthat he did not know how many homes he owned, and that he would havehis staff get back to the repo...