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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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After eight months in charge of the Democrat National Committee, Chairman Howard Dean has his epiphany, "We need a message. It has to be clear," he said. "The framing of the debate determines who wins the debate." Then there's this gem from Dean, "running away from issues is how you lose elections."
The reason you haven't a clear message is that a conglomeration of special interest groups who influence you don't have much in common with each other. It's what happens when they guide you, instead of the other way around.
"The framing of the debate determines who wins the debate." This is usually the case but only works nowadays (thanks to the alternative media) when the debate is based in the truth, not wishful thinking. So far, their side of the debate is limited to bashing Bush, and that isn't winning them support.
"Running away from issues is how you lose elections." I assume he's referring to bashing Bush when he talks about running away from issues. Or was it running from the Swift Boat Vets? Who knows what he means or what he was thinking?
4:29:21 PM 
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Marking the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte used it to call blacks in the Bush administration 'black tyrants.' To which I say, black tyrants to who?
NewsMax version (what actually happened)
NYT version (omits all the hatespeech at Bush and republicans, and blacks in the administration)
Linda Chavez comments.
Samples of what the NYT did not even mention, graciously lifted from gopbloggers.org:
First, the predictable whining about "stolen" elections (it must make them feel better:
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) echoed the accusation of many at the march that Bush was an illegitimate president.
"The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about," Lee told the crowd gathered.
That Democrats uniformly tolerate a member of the House making such claims says much about the Democratic party. Then some more hackneyed insults.
The Bush administration was also targeted by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who declared that the president's "record against human rights, civil rights, economic rights, is absolutely terrible."
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said America was being ruled by the "Bush mentality," where "crony capitalism" was supreme.
Yawn. Does it ever get old for these people. Not for Harry Belafonte, on whom you can always count for inane outbursts.
Entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte also used charged rhetoric during the march when he referred to black members of the Bush administration as "black tyrants."
The banana boat man reiterates that all blacks must conform to the same beliefs, because diversity does not extend to thought. But this is the best part:
Jesse Jackson said the Voting Rights Act extension is critical because "the same old enemies of civil rights and voting rights will always keep up their ugly activities.
"Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town," Jackson said.
It takes a race baiter to know one, and Jesse Jackson is the godfather of race baiting.
3:17:05 PM
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Black Democrats Revel in Delusional Hatefest. For too long, the black community has been owned lock-stock-and-barrel by the Democratic party. The result is an apparent predisposition to rabid conspiracy theories and fallacious vitriol. Those who dare to escape the ideological plantation and challenge black liberal orthodoxy are branded as race-traitors, as if all blacks must think alike. Many of these fossils gathered in Atlanta for a good old-fashioned hatefest.
First, the predictable whining about "stolen" elections (it must make them feel better: U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) echoed the accusation of many at the march that Bush was an illegitimate president.
"The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about," Lee told the crowd gathered. That Democrats uniformly tolerate a member of the House making such claims says much about the Democratic party. Then some more hackneyed insults.The Bush administration was also targeted by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who declared that the president's "record against human rights, civil rights, economic rights, is absolutely terrible."
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said America was being ruled by the "Bush mentality," where "crony capitalism" was supreme. Yawn. Does it ever get old for these people. Not for Harry Belafonte, on whom you can always count for inane outbursts.Entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte also used charged rhetoric during the march when he referred to black members of the Bush administration as "black tyrants." The banana boat man reiterates that all blacks must conform to the same beliefs, because diversity does not extend to thought. But this is the best part:Jesse Jackson said the Voting Rights Act extension is critical because "the same old enemies of civil rights and voting rights will always keep up their ugly activities.
"Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town," Jackson said. It takes a race baiter to know one, and Jesse Jackson is the godfather of race baiting. [GOP Bloggers]
9:31:02 AM
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Dean Says Democrats Need A Message. For the past nine months we've heard the Democrats say they need a message... and apparently they still haven't figured out what it is...
"We need a message. It has to be clear," he said. "The framing of the debate determines who wins the debate.
"Running away from issues is how you lose elections," said Dean, a former Vermont governor.
"We need to position ourselves as the party of change," he said. "I think we have learned that when big changes happen in the House and Senate, they happen because one party nationalizes the race and becomes the change agent."
How long does it take to figure out what your message is? Well, if your message is based on principal, not very long... But when you're trying to fabricate a politically safe message in an attempt to please moderates and satisfy your base, it apparently takes atleast nine months or longer.
We've seen the Democrats trying to figure out "moral values" ever since the election in 2004, without realizing unless moral values defines your positions on the issues then you aren't going to attract values-voters. So what do they do? They redefine what values means... If you've ever had a liberal try to justify abortion with the Bible then you know what I'm talking about.
Abortion is another issue the Democrats are trying to reinvent. Nowadays, Democrats cannot admit they support abortion... No. Not anymore... Now when you ask them, they're all against abortion, but think it should be legal. Otherwise known as the "Pro-Life, But..." position.
What makes since so amusing is that while the Democratic Party seeks political safety with a neutral message, Howard Dean still considers a Democrat's opposition to abortion a "position of conscience," while a Republican is "making up the minds of women."
It seems to me that its not that Democrats need a new message, and their problem isn't that people don't know what they stand for. Their problem is everyone has seen their message and they are rejecting what they stand for. Americans don't support higher taxes, partial-birth abortion, abortion on demand for minors, a weak military, legalized discriminition in schools and the workplace, higher taxes, judicial activism, a United Nations veto over our national security interests, an international court system, obstruction of judicial nominees, higher taxes, nationalized health care, and whatever else they consider to be "their" issues. [GOP Bloggers]
9:29:49 AM
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The president elect of the American Bar Association, Michael Greco, told Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that they appreciate President Bush's efforts to keep the country safe with the Patriot Act, however "we have taken policy positions, four or five of them, where we think due process has not been followed." He further says "The ABA position is that some of these provisions are so invasive of individual liberties that there has to be a sunset provision. They're offensive, I think, to democracy," Greco said. I'm happy do disagree here with the ABA. On Sept 11, 2001 the world saw for themselves what an offense to democracy can be under the terrorists' due process. We are free, but not free to kill. 
7:41:41 AM
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