Confession

Confession – I find the blog overwhelming. I don’t text message (okay well I try, but am VERY slow), use facebook, or myspace or any of the cool things the kids use these days… I stop at email. Every time I think I have a minute to read the blog - - I come to find it has expanded exponentially with new blogs and comments under current blogs (I may not even be using the proper terms here, perhaps the entire thing is a blog and each entry with a title is a new thread? I don’t know). Regardless, too many places to click for me : ) But seems to be great for everyone else!!

Anywho – I have been pretty absent and you probably won’t hear much from me again. But I will be reading, just not posting often. Probably not until we are down to who the candidates are…

On that note, contrary to my past political preferences…. I dig Obama. Really do. I am on his mailing list etc. and am reading his book. I find him refreshing. Can’t do Hillary and frankly if she is elected I am moving to Denmark (where the happiest people on earth live according to 60 Minutes last night).

So there, that is my contribution. Happy blogging all. I’ll be back later.

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Att: All "The Group" Bloggers
Here is an excellent link to learn about the role of superdelegates at the Democratic convention from CNN.

http://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en

Enjoy and Keep On Bloggin!
CincyBrownsFan

Tom--you bring up a point that is a window on to my exact problem with McCain, beyond policy disagreements. Somewhere between 2000 and 2004, McCain decided that becoming president was the most important thing, and so he began selling out. Exhibit A: he stuck by Bush's side, after what happened in South Carolina in 2000. 

Exhibit B: After his laudable denunciation of Falwell, McCain decided he needed those votes and went with his tail between his legs to Falwell's ridiculous "university" to make nice.

Seems like the "Straight Talk Express" got derailed a long time ago.  He was once a rebel; now he's a politician.

To Brad and Tamo and anyone else who may read this

On McCain and rebellion and drumming support for our blog

Thanks Brad for recognizing my NPR(my favorite radio station to which Mary Ellen and I contribute) like promotion of our blog on our blog. I was trying to stir up the silent majority beyond the core group that seems to participate. Now that Adam opened up the floodgates of admin, perhaps that will help. I challenge all of us to go to Facebook, My Space and any other blog to invite others to participate, well now that would be promotion! By the way, please click on the link of driving miss hillary and view a funny photo of the theme.

On McCain being a rebel. I will admit that most of his voting records are consistently conservative but he is ironically rejected by the hardline right wingers;Limbaugh, Hannity, Dr. Dobson, Ann Coulter, et al. Flying into the nations capital this week I read the not so conservative Newsweek cover headline, "They Want Blood". The story testifies to the fact that the right wing of the Republican party, whom I personally disagree with most of the time, are out to get McCain. To the extreme of Dr. Dobson encouraging his constituents to drop out of voting this next presidential election.
The reason I percieve McCain the rebel is just this article stated above. The ultra right wing hates that he is not the reincarnation of Reagan, although they won't admit to it. He has on more than one occasion, told his party to stick it, including all the blowhards like Limbaugh and Savage. And it cost him dearly in the last campaign against Bush when McCain called out Jerry Falwell for being out of touch with most of the mainstream in America. I could go on, but do the research for yourself, including reading this article, and make your own conclusions.
Take Care And Keep On Blogging,
Tom Eardley

Admin privs

Hi, all:

I've made you all administrators, so now you can officially change things and invite people, along with whatever else.  We are all equals.  Poke around and see what's up.

Tamo-
How do we invite people onto the blog? I'd like to invite Roo in. Her email is madmmemim@hotmail.com. Kudos to the first person to decode the reference.

McCain's no rebel...Of course, neither is Barack. Chuck Norris is a rebel. Find out more here...

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

Dad Eardley, I'm loving how you're trying to drum up support for the blog on the blog.

McCain the Rebel?

Hey, Tom:

Can you talk a bit about why McCain's a rebel? It seems he's on board with keeping Iraq's status quo, keeping the tax cuts that have helped us lose the surplus into this historic deficit, and he's raising his conservative "credentials" like he wants to fall in line with party officials and kingmakers.

Cincinnati Bell WebMail - Message

Hello all "The Group" Bloggers,
This is funny stuff. The question is,"Who's Zoomin' Who?" and Barack looks like he is" drivin' down the highway in a pink cadillac" as Aretha would say. Hillary needs to rally in 2 key states, Texas and Ohio. Get your freinds informed, involved and educated before they vote, if at all. Apathy is what destroys our political system.

Fellow bloggers, let me know. Also, lets check this blog at least once a week so we can have participation from a larger pool of opinion. We need more than three or four people participating to make this fun and exciting. Please share your opinions, your all important and vital to our blogs success!

Take Care,
Tom Eardley

Cincinnati Bell WebMail - Message

Why I should vote for Hilary

As a good Republican, though embarrassed by their performance in yesterday's Clemens' hearings, I should vote for Hilary since I think she will be easier to defeat than Adam's boy, Obama.

Women for Hillary?

Hi, all (esp. Bri, Lis, [and Kells?]):

Here's a good article containing an overview of press on Hillary lately; it's from today's WaPo.  But it brings up one point I thought I'd throw out there. This is from the National Review:

"Hillary Clinton has a man problem. And this time, it's bigger than just Bill. Take a look at the exit polls coming out of the primaries thus far: Men are going for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. In California, men went for Obama, 51 percent to Clinton's 39 percent, according to the San Jose Mercury News. In South Carolina, 55 percent of men voted for Obama, with only 23 percent going for Clinton. (Edwards took the bulk of the rest.)"

So here's my question: do you read this as men not voting for Clinton because she's a woman, or as women voting for Clinton solely (or especially) because she's a woman? To betray my own gut, it seems like the latter certainly seems a strong possibility.

Bradley T i left a post for you under "security"

Deal on WA primary

What a crazy situation...here's the info from the WA State Democrats webpage: Why is Washington State having Caucuses and a Primary? The Washington State Legislature was the body who voted to hold a primary. The means that the Washington State Democratic Party, which chooses how delegates are decided, had no participation in the decision to hold the primary, which will cost $9 to $10 million. The Washington State Democratic Party decided to choose their delegates through the Caucuses, as it always has. As a result, your vote for a Democratic candidate in the State Primary will not count toward delegate selection.

Sorry for the confusion, Lis. Bri and Lis, any thoughts about Clinton vs. Obama--I vote in MD tomorrow, and I'm open to consideration.

Actually..

The WA state primaries are held on Feb. 19th
The caucuses were held on Feb. 9th
look at comments under "Sorry to break the news" headline for more details.

Yes- Obama won. Great-I like him too.

New Artist (To me at least)

Okay for everyone's listening pleasure I'm gonna throw out there Nujabes. Apparently he's some Japanese DJ but his sound is pretty cool. If anyone has any of his stuff please let me know, he's not on iTunes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2w-SMW_nSE

Enjoy

Songs, III

Hey, Tommy K--so, I went to http://www.fileden.com/ and started a free account there (make sure you click past all the offers). Once you're in, you can upload files there, and then get the URL address. Copy it, and then when you write a post here simply highlight the words you want to be linked, paste in the URL in the pop-up box, and you're good to go. Let me know how it goes. Also, the vids at the side can be changed--they respond to keywords, so if there are youtube vids you want to share, feel free to edit the box.

Songs?!?!

Oh man, we can post music to here also? Awesome. Tamo, how do we do that, there are some great songs/artists I want ya'll to hear.

P.S. I'm going to have to get use to reading the blog entries and then the comments on them as well. This is gonna be fun.

Song, Part II

Okay, here's a new try--try clicking the link again, see if the whole song downloads: "The Drugs Don't Work"

Also, I invited my 'rents--and I see my mom has joined.  She's "Ledgedweller."  There's an odd history behind that name that I'll leave it to her to explain :)  After all, I'm just the spawn of the Ledgedweller.

Read the Comments

Blog Basics (for those who are new the to the process)...

Although everyone seems to get the idea so far, just wanted to remind everyone to click on the "Comments" button underneath each post to either respond to a post or to read other people's responses to a post. If you didn't know about this, you would have missed QCP likening me to our distinguished Veep/Cloaker/Penguin-in-Chief. Good times.

What a wkd for Obama! Come on, VA, MD, and DC!

Sorry to break the news...

but your primary happened and went for Obama.  You must've thought the 19th instead of the 9th.  What's behind your support of Hillary?

Hello from Washington (state that is)

Well, I am here

Hey y'all

Washington is not part of Super Tuesday. Our primaries take place on the 19th.

I'm not sure if this goes for the whole state, but in Whatcom county (my county) registered voters receive mail in ballots..no voting booths. Convienient yes, but at times I feel cheated out of the thrill from voting with my fellow registered comrades.

My point being, even though our primary has not taken place I have already voted. My vote went to Hillary.

be gentle with your judgements.

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Dad- if i may ask...Correct me if i am wrong of course but it seems that you feel more comfortable identifying yourself as a Republican. is it the fiscal policies, the social policies, foreign policies? What turns you off from the Democratic Party? Since it's hard to convey tone of voice... mine is of honest curiosity-no heat behind these questions. Love you pops!
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Adam thanks for the reinvitation.

For those of you who were at Olliges Debauchery 07..it was quite a scene. glad it happened, my god i was in pain the next day.

Love,

Lis