Category: Edgewise

  • Organizing principles

    I ported my last entry (What do Democrats stand for?) over to my diary at Daily Kos and added a poll asking people what single principle most unites the Democratic party. If you’d like to vote over there, visit the poll there and help me sort it all out. Of course there’s an Other category…

  • What do Democrats stand for?

    I suspect that we (Democrats) don’t have an organizing principle but instead a motley set of strongly felt ideals. Because of this, we are rarely able or willing to sacrifice specific issues because we don’t have a common goal (aside from opposing Republicans) that we are all willing to sacrifice to achieve. What is the…

  • What’s the vision?

    I’m going to quote Jeff Jarvis at length below the fold. I disagree with him as often as I agree with him but I think he’s got a mouthful of something important in ‘Whose Values II?’ from his BuzzMachine blog. I’m not sure why he thinks Hillary Clinton would be a better candidate then the…

  • So what can you do?

    For starters, visit this site. I’ve stumbled on two excellent interviews with these people today — Air America Radio was hyping the hell out of them. If you’re concerned about voter fraud, these folks appear to be on the front line. How much is your democracy worth to you? I gave a little money, and…

  • Tinfoil hat back on

    jwz‘s much smarter than I am and he’s got some suspicions about statistical variances in our ever-so-tight race (election rigging). In some weird sense I just want people in the future to be able to know for sure what really happened in 2000 and 2004.

  • The Mediocrity of Bush’s Campaign

    Xian called the election a “blowout”. I call it a poor performance by George W. Bush. This was no blowout. Bush and his minders will yell over and over through the so-called liberal media that he has a real mandate, that this was a landslide, that the middle of the country’s road is conservative. But…