So, when Senator Edwards invoked the image of Robert Kennedy in Appalachia, my friend excitedly said, “That is exactly what you were talking about.” I wondered if this is what I’ve been hoping for.

Senator Edwards said all the right things, talking about a movement, led by college students to touch the national consciousness and address the growing problem of poverty.

And there was a family I became particularly fond of: the Nolands from St. Bernard Parish. Leeane, the mom, was only 6 years younger than me. She chain smoked as she told me stories about her sons and her parents (who were also there at the shelter). The family had created their own “home” in […]

My recent blog post has brought up several interesting email discussions and I would like to quote extensively from two different emails I have written in response….However, I believe that my message is even more radical. It is a message that we need to include in our efforts the intellectually and morally disabled, those people cannot reach down to the underlying basis of our political actions or those people who are driven by greed, lust for power, or any other flaw that makes them unable to act out of compassion….So, I guess what I believe is that we do need candidates talking about hope, talking about the American dream, an America where we do help out our neighbors in their times of need, an America where we help people like Deval Patrick fight their way out of the ghetto, a country that elects people like you and I to lead us, and not patriarchs from with a long pedigree of family privilege.

What does it mean to be a ‘Reform Democrat’? … It is about a belief that we are all in this together, that everyone should have a voice that can be heard, that we are at our best when we are working together to help one another out. It stands in stark opposition to “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”.

How do we understand politics? In some recent discussions I’ve been in, I am finding two popular models. One is of the citizen as consumer. The campaign manufactures political material for the citizen to consume.

Across the street he stood And he played real good On his clarinet, for free…Eliot Spitzer announced today that Sony/BMG has “agreed today to stop providing lavish gifts, free trips and other giveaways in exchange for airtime for its artists on radio stations…Perhaps the same applies to politics in the age of the broadcast soundbyte

When the Federalist Papers were written in the early days of our country, the total population of the United States was less than four million people. Today, over half the States in the union are larger than that. The country has gotten much larger. However, when the Federalist Papers were written there […]

In a follow-up to Jock’s posting about the Main Stream Media’s inability to admit their complicity in Bush’s rush to war in Iraq, I have just received a press release from the Progressive Democrats of America:

PDA Makes National Call of Support for Congressional Letter Demanding Investigation of British Intelligence Leak on Iraq Invasion Strategy

Yesterday, I wrote a blog entry comparing The Scream to The Kiss. The timing was opportune. Last Wednesday, Joe Lieberman spoke to the Democratic State Central Committee in Hartford. Friday, my wife and I had coffee with the Senator and on Sunday, the Senator gave my wife a kiss, reminiscent of the […]

Let me propose a radical idea. Perhaps, The Kiss is another fraud, another instance, not quite as clear of media assassination.