the personal attacks on hillary clinton will continue right up until the moment she reveals she's something other than a person
i don't endorse obama. this is going to be a little tricky to understand, but i'll try to explain. in the general election, you can vote for whoever you want to as far as i am concerned. i haven't made up my mind yet. but the republican primary is a done deal. there is no third party primary in most states. and i would much rather have the democratic nominee be obama (god awful as he is) than Hillary who's worse.
did you go to www.resistinmarch.org ? Did you read it? Did you notice Winter Soldier there as prominently as anything else? did you know that Ann Wright and I just raised $1200 for Winter Soldier? you are wrong, however, to say that the public is welcome at Winter Soldier. The peace movement has been asked to stay the hell away from DC for 4 days.
...is that no one knows about everything going on everywhere. I myself didn't know about either "the struggling event by a group whose previous efforts struggled" or "the big even in March" until I read about them here.
Perhaps this isn't how you meant it, but your choice of words suggests to me that you don't consider the "struggling event" worthy of attention -- sort of like Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel being thought of as not meriting inclusion in the televised debates because their candidacies were struggling. As I see it, the more attention any such event gets, the better for everyone.
If I have any problem with Matt Taibbi, it's that he tries too hard to channel Hunter Thompson.
I didn't see the Rolling Stone article until it was highlighted here and didn't know about so thanks for that. In terms of David Swanson's comment, I can't go to Mr. Swanson's site anymore because of the non-stop, repeated and personal attacks on Hillary while he offers non-stop, repeated endorsements of Barack. There's not a bit of difference between them on the war and MT's Rolling Stone article gets to the problems with the peace movement today. I also find it interesting that Swanson's highlighting a struggling event by a group whose previous efforts struggled when the big event in March will be IVAW's Winter Soldiers Investigation which Mr. Swanson did not choose to highlight in his comments. That event is a public event, open to all and IVAW will be sharing testimony on the realities of Iraq.
http://ivaw.org/index.php is their link.
It's in DC and the dates are March 13th through 16th.
After I posted Taibbi's article I came across this commentary from peace activist David Swanson:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30906
In "Chicken Doves" Matt Taibbi correctly denounces the phony, monied, Democratic-front antiwar movement without acknowledging the real one. United for Peace and Justice, and other organizations serious about peace, struggle against a corrupt Congress, a pseudo peace movement with lots more money than we have, and reporters like Taibbi who pretend that a major movement that is actually working for peace with projects like this one upcoming in March: http://resistinmarch.org does not exist.
Taibbi correctly condemns the Democrats' past year of not really trying to end the occupation of Iraq. But he fails to acknowledge that they still have almost another whole year left in which they could quite easily act if they wanted to. Millions of us will continue pushing them to cut off the funding, with no help from Taibbi and other journalists who buy into the pretense that it is already 2009.
i assume you mean www.afterdowningstreet.org
the personal attacks on hillary clinton will continue right up until the moment she reveals she's something other than a person
i don't endorse obama. this is going to be a little tricky to understand, but i'll try to explain. in the general election, you can vote for whoever you want to as far as i am concerned. i haven't made up my mind yet. but the republican primary is a done deal. there is no third party primary in most states. and i would much rather have the democratic nominee be obama (god awful as he is) than Hillary who's worse.
did you go to www.resistinmarch.org ? Did you read it? Did you notice Winter Soldier there as prominently as anything else? did you know that Ann Wright and I just raised $1200 for Winter Soldier? you are wrong, however, to say that the public is welcome at Winter Soldier. The peace movement has been asked to stay the hell away from DC for 4 days.
...is that no one knows about everything going on everywhere. I myself didn't know about either "the struggling event by a group whose previous efforts struggled" or "the big even in March" until I read about them here.
Perhaps this isn't how you meant it, but your choice of words suggests to me that you don't consider the "struggling event" worthy of attention -- sort of like Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel being thought of as not meriting inclusion in the televised debates because their candidacies were struggling. As I see it, the more attention any such event gets, the better for everyone.
If I have any problem with Matt Taibbi, it's that he tries too hard to channel Hunter Thompson.
I didn't see the Rolling Stone article until it was highlighted here and didn't know about so thanks for that. In terms of David Swanson's comment, I can't go to Mr. Swanson's site anymore because of the non-stop, repeated and personal attacks on Hillary while he offers non-stop, repeated endorsements of Barack. There's not a bit of difference between them on the war and MT's Rolling Stone article gets to the problems with the peace movement today. I also find it interesting that Swanson's highlighting a struggling event by a group whose previous efforts struggled when the big event in March will be IVAW's Winter Soldiers Investigation which Mr. Swanson did not choose to highlight in his comments. That event is a public event, open to all and IVAW will be sharing testimony on the realities of Iraq.
http://ivaw.org/index.php is their link.
It's in DC and the dates are March 13th through 16th.
After I posted Taibbi's article I came across this commentary from peace activist David Swanson:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30906
In "Chicken Doves" Matt Taibbi correctly denounces the phony, monied, Democratic-front antiwar movement without acknowledging the real one. United for Peace and Justice, and other organizations serious about peace, struggle against a corrupt Congress, a pseudo peace movement with lots more money than we have, and reporters like Taibbi who pretend that a major movement that is actually working for peace with projects like this one upcoming in March: http://resistinmarch.org does not exist.
Taibbi correctly condemns the Democrats' past year of not really trying to end the occupation of Iraq. But he fails to acknowledge that they still have almost another whole year left in which they could quite easily act if they wanted to. Millions of us will continue pushing them to cut off the funding, with no help from Taibbi and other journalists who buy into the pretense that it is already 2009.
Swanson's piece continues at: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30906
... for the pointer to that article, Stephane. It's an interesting personal profile of the spinners behind the candidates.
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