The Old Eighteen

Why we fight

Posted below are two more videos that caught my eye recently.  The first video is from the Rick Noriega campaign.  I'm not sure if it's meant as a campaign ad, and it looks like it's only being aired on YouTube at this point.  In the video, Noriega and a few of his fellow veterans call on John Cornyn to stop filming stupid promos of himself playing dress-up and pretending to be a cowboy, and to support the New GI Bill.  After you've watched the video, you can click here to sign a petition telling Senator Box Turtle to take his head out of his shell and change his vote:

The other video is an ad from Moveon.org directed at John McCain, that's getting airplay on MSNBC (or at least, that's where I saw it - I assume it's also beng aired on the other cable news channels, at the least).  This is a pretty simple but effective ad that sneaks up on you - it's a powerful illustration of what the stakes are in this election and why we're fighting to defeat McCain.  You can click here to make a contribution so this ad gets as much airplay as possible:

Kissing cousins

Here's a new ad from Moveon.org showing how much alike George Bush and John McCain are.  It's part of their Bush-McCain Challenge:

Moveon.org nails McCain on Charile Black

Here's a new ad by Moveon.org that hits John McCain hard on his association with lobbyist Charlie Black, his chief political advisor, whose lobbying firm has worked for some of the world's worst dictators, including Ferdinand Marcos, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Jonas Savimbi:

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(via Marc Ambinder)

The Bush-McCain Challenge

From MoveOn.org, the Bush-McCain Challenge:

Try the Bush-McCain Challenge—our new online quiz—and see if you can tell the difference between Bush and McCain!

It's sort of like the Coke-Pepsi challenge from a few years back, except that in this case, both flavors taste like stale horse piss.

MoveOn.org launches $1 million ad campaign against McCain

MoveOn.org announced today that they are launching a $1 million ad campaign against John McCain, addressing his strong support for the war in Iraq and his ties to President Bush.  The ad will air on national cable, with local buys in Iowa and New Mexico.  They are following in the footsteps of the SEIU who has launched an anti-McCain ad campaign in Ohio, another swing state, and both are part of an increasing drumbeat over the last few weeks by the DNC and groups aligned with the Democratic party to focus attacks on McCain while the remaining two Democratic presidential candidates slug it out over the nomination.  Hopefully more groups will follow suit and keep up the pressure on McCain while we wait for a winner in the nomination battle.  Here's the first MoveOn.org ad, posted on YouTube:

And it would have worked, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling activists!

She who lives by the surreptitiously recorded conversation at a closed-door fundraiser, dies by the...well, you know the rest.  A recording has surfaced of a post-Super Tuesday private get-together that Hillary Clinton held with a small gathering of her sugardaddies donors, in which she blamed her growing pile of electoral defeats on Moveon.org and what she referred to as the "activist base" of the Democratic party.  You may remember the activist base of the Democratic party as the people whose help Hillary would need the most if she somehow managed to win the Demcoratic nomination.  You may also remember Moveon.org as the organization created during her husband's presidency with the stated goal of helping him avoid impeachment and removal from office.  None of that matters, of course, when you've become as desperate to win at all costs as Hillary Clinton has:

"Moveon.org endorsed [Sen. Barack Obama] -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down," Clinton said to a meeting of donors. "We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it's primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me."

Those damned party activists!  Donating money to candidates they support!  Turning out in big numbers to caucuses because they're driven by their personal views about national security and foreign policy!  Where do they get off, anyway?  By the way, Moveon never opposed the war in Afghanistan - that's an old Karl Rove slander that Hillary decided to recycle.  But hey, when you're shitting on an organization with 3.2 million active and generous Democratic members, you may as well go full throttle, right?

If you want your party to win in November, you don't expend energy slandering the very people who will spend the most time, money, and effort trying to make that victory possible.  What this episode seems to confirm, if nothing else, is that if she isn't the nominee, Hillary doesn't care if the party wins in November.

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(via Daily Kos)

Sign Moveon.org's petition to ABC

"Debate moderators abuse the public trust every time they ask trivial questions about gaffes and 'gotchas' that only political insiders care about. Enough with the distractions--ABC and other networks must focus on issues that affect people's daily lives."

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