http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net Progressive thoughts from Michigan's West Coast Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:51:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am so geeked to vote tomorrow, I mean this is so exciting! Its been 12 years since my candidate won the Presidential election, and this time its a candidate I have supported from the get gonearly 18 months ago. So you can bet I am going to vote! This ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/11/03/vote-video/ Its been a long, LONG campaign. Every four years it seems to start earlier. I mean, Clinton announced her "listening tour" in January of 2007. Heck, remember all the pundits though the election wouldbe CLinton v. Giulini 911? Obama announced I believe in February 2007. But the outcome is looking ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/10/31/one-more-weekend/ Deep apologies for my complete lack of blogging, but moving and new job and all this has kept me away. But with a mere 2 weeks to go before the election, I felt I had to get back here. To start off, I read this amazing and heartwarming story today ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/10/23/2-weeks-to-go-and-im-back-finally/ And so the day came that I never was quite sure would come, Barack Obama, the first African-American candidate of a major US party, was formally nominated and accepted, And WHAT AN INCREDIBLE SPEECH! He was amazing tonight and that stadium was huge and rocking and inspiring. Over 75,000 people ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/08/28/obama-is-nominated/ Ah, now that primary season is over, there really hasn't been much happening. Sure, you have the daily yapping between the campaigns, but in the dog days of summer, you can see my blogging has become a bit sparse. I am also facing deadlines with my current curriculum job and ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/07/10/iraqi-pm-wants-a-timeline-for-us-withdrawl/ ...and what do you know, the court finds the government's case incredibly unfulfilling and lacking for any real evidence. To deny these prisoners fair habeas corpus hearings for over 7 years in our country is simply obscene. Check out this article in which it says:   In the first case to review ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/06/30/guantanamo-detainees-finally-get-a-fair-hearing/ So on Friday, we saw the lovely sight of HIlalry endorsing Barack Obama, in person and sharing the stage together. It was a a nice speech, well done I thought. Now get her out of the way and let's move forward. I was asked who I think Obama will choose ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/06/29/unity-but-not-a-dream/ I'm back now. Been on a little vacation--ie wedding weekend in Plymouth. Will be back to updating daily now! http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/06/23/hiatus-over/ Look, if there's a choice between having $84 million to run a fall campaign or raising your own funds from the over 1.5 million donors you already have, what would you do? All these people complaining that he's either going back on a committment or destroying the public finance system ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/06/20/obama-opts-out-of-public-financing-hallelujah/ In the last two days, John McCain and President Bush have come out in favor of opening up coastal areas now under a moratorium for oil and gas drilling. This includes most of the Florida coast. To put this in perspective, even his brother, Jeb Bush, governor of Florida for ... http://donutsandpolitics.gusweb.net/2008/06/18/offshore-drilling/