Whoop-tee-fucking-do!
I feel energized underwhelmed, how about you?
One Nation Working Together will chart a bold, pragmatic path toward a more unified, sustainable, prosperous future.
Uh, which one is it, bold or pragmatic?
But wait, there’s more!
After a bunch of bullet points (30+) she gives us this rousing conclusion:
As One Nation Working Together we will work for policy principles that restore the inclusion of all communities striving to achieve the American Dream. One Nation Working Together will push for an economy that works for everyone by advocating for policy principles that result in good jobs, and well trained work forces. We will work for quality public education and training for our children, who are tomorrow’s work force. We will work for principles and laws that provide for equal opportunity for everyone, so that all have a chance to achieve the American Dream. Finally, we will support policy principles that create a path toward economic and environmental sustainability for today and for generations to come.
Them GOPers may be bat-shit crazy but at least they know how to fire up a mob. One Nation is a snooze-o-rama.
Today is the big day. Click here to find a wild party near you.
Tea, anyone?
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Guess the old hopey-dopey magic is gone. I clicked on the link to find an event near me, and there was nothing within 100 miles of me–which includes both Milwaukee and Chicago. I think the unions are still managing to get their troops out for door-knocking, but seems that just plain folk are all done in with national politics.
Luv that Lucille.
oh, yeah, mmmm
Salon:
“To reach the top, you gotta kiss a lot of bottoms.”
They can kiss mine, but I still won’t vote for them.
The Coffee Party (remember them?) convention was last week. There were 400 people there.
The purpose of this rally seems to be that a dozen interest groups can pay more people can come to a rally that a TV host can get from people paying their own way. That doesn’t seem like a major achievement.
This isn’t even a protest. It’s a rally for the status quo. “Vote for the same Democrats and this time you’ll get different results. We meant it this time.”
LOL. They just crack me up. The Obamacrats are just the best comedy troop. They are funny on purpose aren’t they?
You don’t think these rallies will bridge the enthusiasm gap?
Best part, the Tea Party goes for a name based on a revolutionary event, the O-Dems go for a name that plays catch up with the Repubs but without any other meaning. Kind of says it all really.
“One nation working together?” How far from reality can these people get?
As we’ve seen, very, very far.
I think the Democrats have established that they’re bridging the enthusiam gap with negative ads to make Republicans less enthusiastic.
Yeah, poke ’em with a stick, that’ll discourage ’em.
Worked for Bush in the middle east. What’s the worse that could happen…. 🙂
I just can’t be bothered with anyone who tries to influence my politics with beverages…be it tea, coffee or even Kool-Aide!
I kept looking and looking and finally realized Dean’s tie was messed up and not on properly. Visuals are everything when doing an on camera message…but I did notice the tie was more to the LEFT but on camera…
Actually his tie is to the right.
Subtle messaging?
That is why I said on camera, but it was on the right, but maybe DandyTiger is right and someone yanked him over to do the message. Who…hmmmm…..DDDDOOOOONNNN….
Dean always looks rumpled. I think that’s his “brand.”
Looked like someone was trying to strangle him. Can we give whoever that was a nobel prize. 🙂
No, it was probably Rove’s friend.
I think the tie was simply trying to escape.
That makes the tie smarter than Dean 😉
Dean, to give him credit, has never been interested in clothes. He’s a JCPenney suit kinda guy. Unlike the guy he backed and who threw him under the bus.
But whomever shot that video should have fixed Dean’s tie for him.
Totally off topic but –
Druids recognized as religion for first time in UK
LONDON – The ancient pagan tradition of Druidry has been formally recognized as a religion in Britain — a decision its followers hailed Saturday as as a long-overdue status for the worship of spirits and the natural world.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101002/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_druids_recognized_4
I always tell the various religious groups that come to my door that I am a Charismatic Druid. Then I smile sweetly and shut the door in their face.
Love it. I usually tell the religious groups at the door that I worship satan. They scream and run. Just the reaction I want.
Now if we could just think of something that would get the Obots to do that.
Tell them you’re heading up the Draft Hillary in 2012 group and try to get them to join.
The JW’s don’t even come down my street anymore since I invited them to a goat sacrifice.
I figured they would at least come back for the BBQ.
They would here.
They just don’t make JW’s like they used to. A little sacrificial BBQ and they’re all crying and running home.
I would be afraid to, as I would suspect I would be on the menu.
They are getting more aggressive. One actually called me on the phone about a week ago, introducing himself as a “bible student.” When I asked what church he was affiliated with, he said JW, and I said no thanks and hung up. I think he must have been trolling the obituaries.
My husband always laughs at the mormon “elders”. They’re usually around 15 years old and travelling door to door on bicycles.
Great comment from that article: “As long as this upsets idiotic self-righteous Christians, I’m all for it!”
All I have to do is open the door and they see my alter and thangkas. Lion-Faced Dakini is quite fierce.
Idols! OMG! Don’t they then try to “save” you?
Maybe I’ve just had the misfortune to get the persistent type who don’t scare easily. Thought come to think of it, since I’ve put a Green Woman bas-relief on my front door I haven’t been bothered.
Born-Again Pagan!
Druids given religious status
Dammit! Does that make “Spaceballs” a hate crime now?
The graphics for One Nation are almost identical to Netroots Nation. They couldn’t even be original.
Oh yeah, and it’s Howard Dean who did his part to shut down Hillary in 2008 and is one of the reasons we have a newbie in the Oval Office now.
I feel for the participants. They are us. But I’m not sure I could ever support anything Howard Dean supports.
Great to hear from you. I assume you’re there? I have friends that drove up there and wanted me to join.
Nope, I’m at home. I have some kind of 24 bug. ( at least I *hope* it’s only 24 hours). Besides, when I took a good look at the logo, my tin foil antenna started to twitch. I don’t know what Dean et al are up to but I’d much rather go to the Jin Stewart rally and hang out with some Jews.
LOL. I’m thinking of going to that!
I’ll meet you there.
Well, Zsa Zsa offered to take everyone in NYC who wanted to go a free bus ride from there to the Comedy Central rally. Now, you just have to make it into Manhattan.
No thanks, I’d rather drive.
They serve free Kool-aid on the bus.
I’d have to spend hours on the train to get to the bus.
I think I’d rather walk in that situation.
My feeling is similar about lots of Dem/Lib friends. They are [now] us. They are still a bit lost about how it happened, sadly. And yea, there are certain manipulating, nasty leaders that are toxic, and if they’re involved, count me out.
HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so glad to see you R.D. been really worried about you
😉
Talk about desperation. Don’t they already have everyone’s email and phone number thats gonna vote for them or is Obama keeping that list to himself.
Why on earth would Obama &Co share that with the Dem party? What would be in it for them?
The Democratic party and all the progressive activist groups have been vertically integrated into “One Nation Under Obama”
And best part of all, it’s a cookbook!!!
I’m gonna steal that.
Not to mention the lists of Hillary supporters they secured.
they don’t call me anymore 🙂 It took some effort, but they finally went away.
They don’t call me either. The last time they called I told them I wasn’t giving them any money and they said why? I said one word “stupak” and hung up the phone.
Why?
P for Pelosi
R for Reid
O for Obama
B for Baucus
S for Stupak
The Dems have over 99 p-r-o-b-s, and they’re all DINO incumbents, that’s why
Any time someone asks how to solve a problem like Palin, Mama Grizzly, O’Donnell, etc. ask them how do you solve a problem like Pelosi, McCaskill, and Jarrett?
Thank the Deities most of that email goes to an account I no longer use.
I can always tell when it’s an Obot campaign — they never let you unsubscribe.
Netroots Nation formerly yearlyKos: http://www.netrootsnation.org
One Nation: http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/content/main
I report, you decide.
My spidey sense is tingling. Something’s fishy.
You betcha.
Hmmm….maybe they are hoping to run Howard Dean in the 2012 primary? I don’t think that will work.
Yeah, but if Dean runs, and breaks the Can’t-Primary-Obama ban, that opens the door. Then our gal could run and mop up the primaries with him and anyone else.
Why isn’t this rally getting the coverage that GlennBeck got?
???????? Just asking??????
Like him or not, Beck has fans.
I don’t like him.
I REALLY don’t like him!
I’ve never watched him.
He’s Curly without the charm.
Me either. He holds no interest at all, but neither do the others of his ilk.
me either..lol.. 😉
Me neither. I’ve seen O’Reilly’s show a couple of times….
There wasn’t even a promo video with ‘DON’T Bring your PEACE SIGNS’….ala the Tea Party, ‘DON’T BRING YOUR GUNS TO THE RALLY!’.
It’s a given that it won’t get coverage. They always underestimate liberal strength. You’re better off going to Stewart’s rally because he will be sure to feature it on The Daily Show.
TC signs? We need signs.
Yep! What should we pût on them?
How about we put the rally logo in the sidebar?
http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/
Always a good idea. Increases the chance of being spotted by a camera about a bazillion times.
Yup, TC signs and a ditty…line too.
I’m gonna go to Obama rallies and sell T-shirts that say:
How about:
I have to watch paint dry the day of Stewart’s rally so I can’t make it.
I don’t know what day it is, and I’m not planning to find out.
MSNBC is covering it as much as Fox covered Beck. It’s just that no one watches MSNBC.
Word.
MSNBC is doing news on Saturday? Now that’s breaking news!
Not on my cable station
Because there is 64 football games on tv.
ED Schultz at the One Nation Rally (was planned before Glenn Beck Rally) “We will get Universal Health Care SOME DAY“- Ed Schultz
Some day is right, he forgot the part of Obama not supporting Universal Health Care!
He was for it before he was against it:
The ending is priceless:
Still waiting
I think he meant the waffle house.
I thought that was the new name for the White House under Obama.
He had HAD IT ALL…
But he had to take care of the Insurance Companies
and his friends on WALL STREET (in real need)
Yes, he had it ALL…
What do we want? Universal Health Care!
When do we want it? Um, eventually!
That’s a real rallying cry.
Some Day…
(la,la,la,la ‘chorus’)
We will have
Universal Health Care
But We NOW ask
(la,la,la,la ‘chorus’)
For your congressional Vote…
(la,la,la,la ‘chorus’)
Because…
Some Day…
(la,la,la,la ‘chorus’)
We will have
Universal Health Care
And We NOW Ask…
For your Senate Vote…
Because Some Day…
(la,la,la,la ‘chorus’)
We will have
Universal Health Care
Yes, SOME DAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY (hold the note)
We Will Have…
Universal Health Care
Some DAAAAYYYYYYYY (hold the note)
SOME DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
(la,la,la,la ‘chorus’)
We will have
Universal Health Care
(la,la,la,la ‘chorus’)
We will have
Universal Health Care
SOME DAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!
That can be nicely sung to the tune of We Shall Overcome.
Lol The Dems’ new motto is It Took 76 Years to End Slavery–Much Longer If You Count the Colonial Period–Give Us a Chance!!!!
ROFLMAO!
Some day there will be peace on earth.
Dario,
Dear you will have to do your own lyrics… I will sit back because I know you have a lot of fun in ya.
Okay. Here is my attempt to lyrics of peace on earth:
Pelosi and Newt oh, yeah,
they make love in the Capitol oh my!
it’s ugly, you see.
but it’s for peace, yes, sirree.
the I/P make peace
and in the Congo
the people can pee
anywhere cause everyone is free.
A comet will hit earth before that day arrives though.
And a comet will hit before we get universal health care or have peace on earth.
“We will not let *them* ruin public education”
Who in the hell is *them*?
“Liberals” have been running around on TV all week trying to pimp charter schools.
*Them* at this point is faux-liberal union bashers.
SIT DOWN AND STFU ED!!!!!!!
Now now dearie you’re not being pragmatic. In order to win we have to be clones of the other guy.
Is it just me, or is it a little off-putting to refer to kids as “tommorow’s work force”? This is why Dems suck at politics. Everyone else is like hey little Janey, how are you, they’re like Greetings, member of tomorrow’s workforce, how did you maximize your skill set to prepare you to join WFN and gain an advantage over future members of the future low-skill service sector today?
It’s not just you, I noticed it right away, too, and imho it betrays the corporate bent of the Dems. They can’t even cover it up anymore.
Future workers of the world unite.
And while you’re at it, reattach your chains.
Oh that’s cold. but true.
True dat
quite a crowd he’s got there…not
” The rule is : Jam yesterday, jam tommow , but never jam today”
sayth the Queen in Alice in Wonderland
This post and all the comments are superb. You had me at Whoop-tee-f*@cking-do!
Great, now get some tea and sing with us… 😉
Will all that singing and drinking constitute a tea party?
me too, except added the last two words: whoop tee f*@cking-do old head.
I guess my Appalachian region doesn’t want to join One Nation. It must still be bitter about being called uneducated racist rednecks. There aren’t any events within 200 miles of my zipcode. Awwwwwwwwww and here I was looking forward to hearing how I wasn’t being pragmatic when I crashed a party and vented on all the ways the Dem party has sold average Americans out. I’m sad now.
Speaking of, I always wondered why the Obots had it out for WV and KY. I guess according to Obots, the real reason WV and KY were part of the union in the civil war: they were secretly getting on the good side of the union so they could follow out their dastardly secret racist agenda later. Sleeper cells don’t you know.
Heh,They were playing 11th dimensional chess.
They invented the game board Obama uses.
The stupidity of it hurts.
As far as I can tell, this is the “we’d like our ponies now, Mr. President” rally.
That might as well say “Thank you, sir, may I have another”.
Ouch.
I had hopes for this rally. However, they tried to spin it as non-partisan and then let loose on Republicans. Top down grassroots isn’t.
Al Sharpton is speaking now. He says we want jobs for us and education for our children. What are we getting? More tax cuts to big business and the rich and charter schools. Yup, How’s that change working for you Reverend Al?
As Lambert says, “And we get?”
the bill. Wall Street did a nationwide dine and dash.
So the answer to “And we get?” is “fucked.”
yup. multiple times, witness the insurance industry clusterfuck… they wrote the damn HCR and now look what’s going on? Banking industry modified the Fin Regs and same deal….
over and over and over
And the little Obots like it just that way too.
Fuck them little bastards and the horse they rode in on.
Got my 12 gauge, let’s go Obot hunting.
They aren’t on horses. They are on imaginary ponies.
Free Speech TV
http://www.truth-out.org/live-one-nation-working-together-washington-dc63793
Near the END of the LIVE STREAM…
No events within 200 miles of me, unless you count the voting machine training session.
LOL. I don’t need to be near one of those events, I can see November from my porch swing.
I watched the One Nation rally on CSPAN and I wrote about it. http://www.ksvoboda.com/?p=744‘
I support the people who went to the rally as there were many union members and they talked about a lot of good things that should happen. There were people from all walks of life, employed and unemployed. Obama was not the message. His name rarely came up and I think that was part of the plan. lol I only wish the Democratic Party was half as good as the people that went to the rally!
The One Nation Rally folks should have done a better posting of the live streams as it was too hard trying to find one. Any hoo, thanks for the post.
Thanks Silent Kate. I commented on your blog. I think the rally may have been usurped by comparisons to the Tea Party and as a “get out the vote” attempt. It does need to be bigger than that to be effective.
I saw that. I made comparisons to the restore honor rally but this one was more “real” with real people. The last half of the rally was the best part. I really enjoyed the many union members and of course the preacher with the fist. That was good!
I think I may have appendicitis. But don’t expect me to twitter it.
Oh jeebus. Get it checked right this second!
Ditto Dandy’s remark. Do you have pain when you press the lower right quadrant of your abdomen?
It’s tender but not localized. I’m afraid to cough though and I have every other symptom.
Check rebound pain. Press in on your abdomen, and release. If the press in hurts, but the release is much worse and really hurts like a moth#rf&*ker, that’s not good.
Not sure what it means that it is not localized as I am not a doctor, but I would get it checked right now if I were you.
Acute appy doesn’t always localize to lower right quadrant. Some people have a retroverted appendix (my husband did) and never get the textbook symptoms.
Rebound tenderness is not specific.
Anything that’s bad pain, getting worse or not going away, with nausea, weakness, chills or not — go get examined.
Oh great. Everything on the left is bigger. More hair, Bigger foot, bigger cheek, bigger boob. It would be just like me to have my appendix on the left side.
There’s also ovarian cyst pain which can be quite hideous, from the few patients I’ve seen with it. Yes, pls get checked out.
Ibuprofen seems to help a bit. Abdomen still tender.
The problem with the enthusiasm gap between the tea party and Beck rallies and the One Nation rally is that the netroots and Left groups pretty much sold out their principles with Obama. There is no getting around that.
Whether one agrees with them or not, the teaparty people at this point have more anti-establishment street cred than the Left does. They are motivated by “we are the people, and you will listen to us or you will pay the price”. And they take that message to R’s or D’s – they are committed in their application of it across the board. Regardless of what you think of their principles, they are indeed principle-driven, not political party-driven.
The Left has morphed in the public’s eye into a mere arm of the D machine, rather than a grassroots force to hold the machine accountable. Until they get out from under that, and stand on principle again, any true grassroots enthusiasm is weak at best. It’s hard to be anti-establishment when you are fluffing the establishment’s pillows and carrying them trays of bonbons just after your stirring speech on “power to the people”.
Perfectly said.
Dean does not look like he believes what he’s saying. They must have something on him.
And why, after two effin’ years, have they not put America back to work already? ‘Cause the “Change” is the ka-ching! kind. The bonus class corporatocracy likes things as they are now.
getting worse by the minute.NASA laying off hundreds. 😉
Yeah I read that. That’s really going to do wonders for the Dems in Florida.
They can probably do it more cheaply in Chindia.
yup, they closed the Michoud plant here. They no longer need shuttle parts.
This explains why obots were working my street…I thought it was perhaps Jehovah Witnesses…but they were in groups of 4 ! I’m not opening my door to 4 people just to be brown beat about this shit … Lord …the hope dope is gone, it’s now straight up strong arming for everyone…not just Dem caucus attendees!
oops..I mean: “brow beat” . They looked pissed off! lol!
“One Nation”
Are they kidding? fooken fascist sounding …as the old joke goes, I bet it sounds better in the original German
Fucking Giants lost, 4-2 to the Pod People
The story of Obamanation is on Sci-Fi
aka “Children of the Corn”
“He wants you too,
MalachiMarkos”Now that you mention it, that fits. {{shudders, hides under couch}}
CNN’s John King does a good piece on Obama’s idiocy in taking on Fox as “destructive” while calling MSNBC “an invaluable service”.
He basically makes himself look like a hypocritical fool by doing that. Has nothing to do with whether you think Fox is biased (it is). It has to do with lying about media bias that supports you.
CNN also brings up the blame game – whether this is a play to blame the LEFT for the coming defeat and deflect blame from Obama himself.
I’ve been disappointed with CNN a lot lately, but this was a good piece. They seem to be making the effort to act like journalists again rather than cheerleaders for either side. I’m sure it’s just a ratings ploy to position themselves as the “sane middle”, but it’s still nice to see.
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/09/29/jk.white.house.vs.media.cnn
Song Dedication to Ed “I have 2 viewers, and they’re my own DVR players” Schultz and the rest of Opreshy’s Comatose Band of Frickin Soldouts — think of it as O singing it to his hopeless devotees.
(Someday — Sugar Ray)
Someday…eventually
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-01/almost-3-000-millionaires-claimed-jobless-benefits-in-2008-irs-data-show.html
New Thread up top !!!
That flag deal is weird, no? Does that N stand for nationalism? Curious they would try that gig again post the logo action. Why the need to remake the flag?