This is the Mayor of Muchkin City going out to speak for the Wizard of Oz. This is too good to be true!
If Michael Moore actual shows his face and four chins at the convention, I will finally believe the Clintons are behind the defeat. This is amazing!
Do you want to see how nasty they really are to First Lady Laura Bush? They call us mean & nasty?!!! These people need to grow up.
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Perfect. All the wackos will be there.
Let the Dems trot out the FARRRRRRRR left to their hearts' content. I love it. They're so out to lunch, it does nothing but help us. More more more Moore more.........
Oh for petes sake.... if I whined and complained that I didn't get invited to speak, do you think they'd ask me? Probably be best for all if I didn't, as it wouldn't be pretty at all. Its never nice to open up a speech with "HEY YOU GRAVY SUCKING PIGS..." :)
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TOMPAINE.COM MERGES WITH INSTITUTE FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE
Progressive Groups Combine to Build Stronger Movement This Election Year
WASHINGTON – Two major progressive organizations merged today, creating a powerful progressive center in Washington. Institute for America's Future President Robert Borosage and TomPaine.com Publisher Ellen Miller announced the marriage of the two non-profit groups that provides new capacity to the progressive movement.
"Progressives are pulling together to counter the right-wing machine that now dominates Washington," said Borosage. "The right has no answers for the great challenges facing our country, but they dominate the debate by sheer institutional weight. A serious challenge must be organized so Americans can learn that another way is possible. Our merger positions the Institute for America's Future at the center of that fight."
"Over the next few years, we will drive progressive issues into the national debate and help build a majority movement for progressive change in this country," Miller noted. "TomPaine.com has always been a strong voice for progressive values. As part of the Institute for America's Future, its capacities will be magnified many times over."
Both organizations are designated 501(c)(3) non-profit groups under the tax code. The merger makes the Institute for America's Future and its sister organization, the Campaign for America's Future, one of the largest multi-issue progressive groups in Washington. CAF and IAF together now operate an annual budget of $5 million with more than 25 employees.
The Institute was founded by Borosage and Roger Hickey in 1996 with more than 100 progressive leaders. It has encouraged progressive groups to work together to fight for an economy that works for working people and good jobs with good benefits, affordable health care, a secure retirement, high quality public education and energy independence.
Borosage is a veteran strategist and institution builder. He worked on many progressive campaigns including Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential election campaign and the U.S. Senate campaigns of Paul Wellstone and Barbara Boxer. Hickey co-founded the Economic Policy Institute. Together they rallied more than 2,000 progressives last year at their annual "Take Back America" conference — the largest annual progressive gatherings of its kind. The group's political clout attracted all the Democratic presidential candidates along with important progressive leaders like League of Conservation Voters President Deb Callahan, Sierra Club President Carl Pope, pollster Stanley Greenberg and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.
TomPaine.com is a voice of insight and democratic discourse on the Internet. With a weekly readership of 150,000, the site has published more than 8,000 original commentaries and news stories since its founding in 1998 by John Moyers. Its issue-based ads on the opinion editorial page of the New York Times have attracted national acclaim.
The group will unveil a new TomPaine.com website this summer. The new site will provide comprehensive progressive analysis and actions on the Web. The Campaign for America's Future this June will convene thousands of activists in Washington for this year's "Take Back America" conference.
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Oh, and for those of you who think I'm not taking this election seriesly, I just made another $100 contribution to the Bush campaign, and I'm working it out to take election day off to work the phone lines.
but will they allow cameras and recorders into these looney left events?
There is a total blackout of woopie goldbergs drunken rants, why not this?
to Speak in Boston
He's NOT speaking at the Dem Convention:
Dems Close Convention Door To Moore
The Democratic Party apparently doesn't want Michael Moore.
The famed filmmaker who delivered a major assault on the Bush administration in his blockbuster film "Fahrenheit 9/11" was declined credentials to the Democratic National Convention in Boston next week, according to Sam Riddle, a longtime political consultant and friend of Moore.
"He's done more to galvanize the (Democratic Party) than anyone else," Riddle said. "He's just very hurt. That's all."
Riddle released to The Flint Journal on Friday portions of an e-mail Moore sent him about the snub.
"Can you believe the Dems are not going to give me credentials?!" Moore said in the e-mail signed "mm."
Moore, a Davison native, could not be reached for comment at home or through his publicist. Officials for the Democratic National Convention did not return a phone call seeking comment. A woman who answered the phone at the convention press office paused when asked about Moore and said someone would have to call a reporter back.
Moore's Web site, www.michaelmoore.com, which frequently details his personal and professional clashes, did not mention the convention dispute as of Friday evening.
But the proud liberal figures to be nonetheless popular at the convention.
He will speak and sometimes screen his latest film at receptions for the Congressional Black Caucus, union leaders and a rally dubbed "Take Back America" in Boston next week. Those events are all separate from the actual convention, however.
Traditionally, Moore has not had a chummy relationship with either major parties. He was a vocal critic of Democrats and Republicans - calling them virtually indistinguishable - in the 2000 presidential election when he actively campaigned on behalf of Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket.
This year, he briefly supported the Democratic campaign of retired Gen. Welsey Clark.
Riddle said he still is working with politicians he knows to get Moore access to the convention floor, but said it still isn't right.
"Michael Moore should not have to go through the back door of the Democratic primary," Riddle said.
I thought he was banned from the convention????
Note.....this is not the DNC, but ANOTHER convention Moore will speak at. Moore has been banned from the DNC.
Yesterday, Moore was complaining that he wasn't even allowed inside the Convention.
Looks like the Kerry campaign flipflopped on him just like that did with Hillary.
Moore is probably more representative of Kerry than the Clintons are.
Do any ordinary dims out there actually know where this stealth term "progressive" came from I wonder? They should do a little research!
The lineup for the convention tells us more than we want to know about the theme for this hatefest in BeanTown.
The liberal media have been shielding Kerry from the public for months. They only show occasional snippets of his stump speeches. They don't want America hear his empty rhetoric, convoluted rambling speeches. Every time they start showing Kerry's speeches, his approval numbers drop.
It will be interesting to see how his acceptance speech plays.
OK... Show us a picture of that "better country," PLEASE. Is it one of a million countries, all the same, sharing all the world? Are we handing out flowers to terrorists? When people attack us, do we ask what we did wrong to offend them? When something needs doing, does our Better Country first poll all other countries before deciding what to do? We wouldn't want anyone to be mad at us...
I recall hearing Mike Gallagher say something on the radio about Kerry saying that he wasn't responsible for the obscenities and hatred spewed by the Hollywierd sorts at that fundraiser that Whoppi Goldberg made "humor" about the president's name and her anatomy...but Mike also went on to relate that Kerry said he WOULD be responsible for the convention. Does anyone have the reference where Kerry said that? If so, he can be held to his word of accountability and it's clear that with the nutjobs such as Moore there he's going to have plenty to account for.
"The kiss of Death"