http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061601734.html?hpid=topnews

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http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ggl_main&s_subsrc=DonateToRedCross&s_src=F7FWE001&gclid=CJO6sLSm-pMCFR6gnAodyy4PWg

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Anyway, here's McCain on Social Security:

He doesn't want to "privatize" it, he wants to let "young people" take money out of Social Security (money already spoken for by current benefits) and let them put it into an "account with their name on it". You know, a "private" account. Would it destroy social security to take money away from current retirees and give it to young workers so they could gamble it on the stock market? I should think so! Unless he's also proposing a massive new tax increase to cover the shortfall.

And that's McCain's plan: more volatile retirement funds and massive new taxes to pay for it. Awesome

In 2004 a man-- a black man-- walked out of Chicago, went to Boston and gave a speech. That speech about healing the nation's divide and moving beyond the politics of hate propelled him onto the nation's stage, and helped him claim the Democratic nomination.

42 years ago a black man was killed for the crime of applying for work. Next January a black man will be president. The pace of change may seem glacial, but progress is being made...

I think that will always be my image of the man: someone so longing for bourgeoisie respectability that he completely ignored all the cool grass-roots stuff that the students were doing.

Then again: this same criticism was leveled at Clark Kerr. Kerr was one of the greatest Chancellor's in UC history, and helped build the entire system-- including the CACCs. Perhaps in time I'll come to appreciate all that Vanderhoef has done for my now-Alma Mater. In the mean time, I hope we'll be able to get rid of the sports teams he nearly single-handedly built.

• the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• the Voting Rights Act
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Head Start
• Legal Services
• the War on Poverty
• environmental legislation
• OSHA
• bringing down Richard Nixon on the Watergate investigations
• ending the Vietnam War
• stopping military aid to the Contras in Central America
• the Martin Luther King holiday
• stopping Robert Bork
• the increases in the minimum wage
• Family and Medical Leave
• National Service
• S-CHIP

Things he tried really hard to do, but couldn't quite pull off:

• universal health care
• labor law reform
• stopping the Iraq war

(List gleefully stolen from: here)

Ted Kennedy is sort of like the Democratic Jiminy Cricket-- If Jiminy knew how to kick parliamentary ass.

What you may not have known is how Clinton made a (actually rather small) strategic mistake and left this tiny window open. The Silicon Valley boys and girls opened it wide and let Obama through. In return, all they seem to want is a more open Network. Sounds like a win...

This must be a fake, right?

Let California lead the way...