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 A Call for Bi-Partisanship

By Wise 1 - 9/29/2009 ()

we need to be bipartisan yet change comes from within

I have been debating on YouTube with Conservatives lately. Most of it is “you Lefty wacko” nonsense, which seems to be the typical response to anyone they disagree with, even Progressives like me. However I did get one intelligent responder who wanted to go beyond the entrenched political boundaries and discuss the differences.

I tried to convey the point that we need to work together and that I see the Democratic Party as a means to an end and not an ideology. I don’t know if I succeeded, yet the effort was there.

Question: If your not a lib and I’m not a neo con what the fuck are we arguing over than?

Good point. As a Progressive, I believe first and foremost in getting things done. In the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt, we need to work from the center to create a peaceful revolution, and our great nation is in serious trouble after the disastrous 8 years of Bush. The Conservatives of Teddy’s time worked against him and the Dixiecrats did too. We must come together to create positive change as democracy is like a …

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 Wait, You Mean it Takes More than Money to Re-Elect Joe Wilson?

By Wise 1 - 9/21/2009 ()

It appears that pleasing your whacko-Conservative base may not be the end-all, be-all when it comes to Republican politics, even in the Red-State districts of South Carolina.

The big S.C., fresh of its heals from the its “next big thing” governor-turned-scandal-prone-embarrassment, Mark Sanford (here is the Fox, I mean Fixed, News story) is growing tired of its high profile morons and the tide may be turning for entrenched Republicans. Huff-Po did a story on the logistics and it doesn’t bode well for the Rightie Whackos.

Could it be that the Republican line of BS is not playing well, even in the Red-States?

I wouldn’t buy property in rural Alabama just yet. Still, the tide seems to be turning even regionally against the Republican’s grand strategy of appealing to Middle-Class White Voters in the South.

Let me put it this way. Picture the Cleveland Indians stacked full of Dominican and Puerto Rican players. One day, the owner completely insults Latin America as an affront to American civilization. How hard do you think said employees will fight to make their boss rich?

LOL

The tide has turned, the world has changed. Republicans, however, still believe in Reagan’s dying city on the hill. Too bad …

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 Proof that Fox News Deliberately Deceives and Lies

By Wise 1 - ()

At long last, video has surfaced that shows Fox News manipulating the backdrop. Footage showing a Fox producer rallying an audience to show support during a reporter’s story that is supposed to be about the unbelievable outrage of the crowd. In other words, they took a crowd of folks, told them they’d be on TV and even gave them the big’ol applause sign.

You know what’s cool? Try to align the video so you can see the event happen real-time. It is hilarious as hell. Huffington Post has a page that pulls this off. You can see that nerdy chick do the “producer” role, than cower at the camera that she notices managed to capture her likeness.

No big deal you say? Reporters have coaxed audiences before, surely. Yeah, on crappy local morning shows who struck a deal with a movie or event. Those are mainly fluff stories that show a bunch of nerds at a Star Trek convention getting all revved up. This is clearly different.

This was supposed to be a grass roots …

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 Conservatives Retreat on Obama’s School Speech

By Wise 1 - 9/8/2009 ()

obama's speech to America's students

The recent flap over Obama’s televised speech to public schools across America is the latest grave miscalculation from the Right, who’s strategy to oppose everything that Obama and the Democrats stand for is so transparent, so reactionary, it is drawing fire from it’s own side.

Conservatives from the main to the fringe (although mostly fringe) have been calling Obama’s speech to the schools as a platform to push his socialist agenda. The media tells us off families and even whole school districts that were pulling away from Obama’s speech. This, of course, turned out to be nothing more than the media’s love of controversy, as the decidedly apolitical speech that encouraged kids to stay in school and take personal responsibility caused all rational criticism to evaporate. When a transcript of the speech was released yesterday, even the Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer, one of the speech’s most loud opponents backed off his early remarks and even allowed his children to see the speech. What remained was a bunch of fringe loons who looked as if they went too far.

Did the fringe Conservatives back themselves into a corner? Did they get the party worked …

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