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McCain on Roe vs. Wade
Categorized: Politics
Tagged: 2008 Election, Feminism, John McCain, Reproductive Rights, SCOTUS
Of course feminism and women’s rights are about a lot more than just Roe vs. Wade but its still important to remember why winning this election is important to the fundies. Its video like this that makes we wonder how any liberal progressive could ever consider switching to McCain. (h/t Feministing)
Oh yeah, and I’m still alive. Just taking some time to figure out what I’m going to do when I grow up with graduation a month away. Scary.
William Ludwig – WWJV4.com
Obama, Clinton Wrap Up Historic Campaigns
Categorized: Democrats
Tagged: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Yesterday we saw the final votes cast in one of the most amazing and historic primary campaigns in our nations history. I don’t need to go into all the many reasons why this year has been one that our grandchildren will learn about in school. Two of those reasons are painfully obvious just by looking at our top candidates.
Even though Clinton and Obama stayed practically tied in every measurement in the end there is a clear winner. I have truthfully said this whole time that I would fully support any of our top 3 for president and I think that most Democrats feel the same way. So even though I threw my support behind Obama a while back, today is the first day that we can say that Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Hold on to your pants, now its going to really get interesting. Watch these two give their speeches last night. Obama gives a great speech and I think Hillary does as well. Some may have wanted something different from her but I think her supporters are all happy. I know I am.
William ~ WWJV4.com
Bill Clinton’s Last Day In Politics?
Categorized: Democrats
Tagged: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton
I highly doubt that, but this is what he said today to a crowd in Milbank, SD. I’m not reading too much into it but it’s an interesting thing to hear with all the rumors and speculation about Hillary’s campaign.
“I want to say also that this may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind. I thought I was out of politics, ’til Hillary decided to run. But it has been, one of the greatest honors of my life to go around and campaign for her for president,” said Clinton as he began his speech.
Anyhow, I just wanted to post that and see how it plays out over the next few weeks. No matter what Hillary decides to do I will support her decision. Even though I decided to back Obama I have a ton of respect for the Clinton’s. I think that she would make an excellent president (or VP) and I hope that her supporters are mature enough to realize that no matter what the last thing our nation needs right now is 4 more years of failed conservative policies.
I will go on record and say that I can’t see Hillary dropping out today with Montana and South Dakota voting tomorrow. After those voters opinions are counted and weighed I can see her dropping out and supporting Obama.
Let me know what, if anything, you think this means.
William ~ WWJV4.com
RSS Roundup 5-22-08
Categorized: Politics
Tagged: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain
I want to start out today by apologizing for putting this blog on the back burner the past two weeks. I have been really busy getting a large programming job done by this weekend. The good news is that if everything goes well I will have the front end done today and tomorrow everything will be tested. Of course there will be more functionality as always but the core code will be in place. I’m excited.
I know I always say this but todays RSS Roundup is really short. Thanks for putting up with me.
Obama Gets Specific on What Change Is
- a tax code that rewards work instead of wealth
- a health care plan that guarantees insurance to every American who wants it
- an energy policy that doesn’t rely on buddying up to the Saudi Royal Family and then begging them for oil
- giving every child a world-class education
- ending a war that we never should’ve started
The Little Thats Left
- American prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay have allegedly been abused and tortured at the behest of the Chinese government. Wow, I knew that we flew prisoners to other countries to be tortured but I never thought that we would fall so low as to be one of those countries for someone else. And for China no less. I have no words.
- Myanmar is turning away US aid for cyclone victims.
The Video of the Day
I have been saying all along with my McCain vs. McCain series that there are two John McCain’s. I would have thought that the vast differences between beliefs and positions of the two would have made it obvious. Well, finally the media is starting to wake up to this fact. Thanks Crooks and Liars
For more on the Two McCain’s revelation:
Thats it for today, told you it was a short one. Hope you all have a great day and I’ll try to get out a real story later this afternoon. Depends on how well the coding goes.
William ~ WWJV4.com
RSS Roundup 5-21-8
Categorized: Politics
Tagged: 2008 Election, Economy, Good Science, Kansas Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Reproductive Rights, Ted Kennedy, Tolerance, Voter Suppression
Happy hump day everyone. Were half way to a long holiday weekend. After 3 years in corrections when I never had holidays, or even weekends, off I am so looking forward to this summer. Being a month away from finishing up with school I hope to never ever have to do shift work again. Anyhow, lots to cover so lets get to it.
Senator Ted Kennedy Diagnosed with Brain Tumor
Ted KennedyI really wanted to write about this yesterday as the news came out but didn’t have time. As you probably know Kennedy was taken to the hospital after having seizures on Monday. Obviously a malignant brain tumor was not the news the nation was hoping to hear. We are all pulling for him and his family.
Kudos to Kathleen Sebelius!
I feel kind of embarrassed that I haven’t been covering this as well as I should. I have a project in the works for a local Kansas news site so I apologize. As a Kansan I am incredibly proud of our Governor. She has consistently made the right choices even when they were not the most politically expedient. Since I have dropped the ball on her recent acts here are links to others who are picking up the slack.
Kathleen Sebelius Vetoes Voter ID Law. Read Think Progress and Crooks and Liars. Everything I said about the SCOTUS ruling on the Indiana law applies here. Reading local news and blogs it is apparent that most Kansans are unaware of the true effect of these kinds of laws. Either that or their a bunch of assholes. The jury is still out on that distinction.
All the Rest of the News thats Important
- A federal appeals court has ruled Virginia’s late term abortion ban unconstitutional!
- Openly gay Sam Adams has been elected mayor of Portland making him the first openly homosexual mayor of a major American city. It seems like every day I get to write about another accomplishment in LGBTQ equality.
- On the other hand LGBTQ hate crimes rose by 24% in 2007 over the 2006 rates. This just proves that there is still a long way to go. It also shows how needed hate crime protection is.
- A top aid for McCain has stepped down out of respect for Barack Obama. I haven’t followed politics long but can anyone remember this happing before? More at The Carpetbagger Report.
- Tim Haab has a good piece up at Environmental Economics about what we as consumers can do about $4 gas. Read the comments.
- Bush has issued a formal apology after a soldier apparently shot a Koran. Keep telling yourself that its our freedom that they hate.
- I have found out why American schoolchildren compare so poorly to children from other countries. 16% of biology teachers are young earth creationists. The same survey shows that 48% of the general population believes that “God created human beings pretty much in their at one time within the last 10,000 years or so”.
Video of the Day
Henry Waxman Threatens to Have Rep Issa (R-CA) physically removed from hearing. Awesome.
Thats all for today folks. I’ll try to have something up over my lunch break. Also Summer finally had a chance to comment on a story yesterday. If you havn’t been reading long it may surprise you to know that this is a multi-author blog.
In fact we accept story submissions from anyone with a progressive viewpoint. Writing for us couldn’t be easier. Just sign up for an account then when you log in you will have the ability to write a story. We will then post it assuming that its appropriate for our viewers.
Have a wonderful day
William ~ WWJV4.com
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