Fighting Dem Vets Live-Blogging at kos

[jen4clark]

Continuing our efforts to connect Fighting Dem candidates across the nation with the grassroots (us!), we hope you'll join us over at kos and participate in the discussion. Today's Diaries:

NOW!-----> 1-3 ET - FIGHTING DEM TRIBUTE TO SARGES III: Grande Finale
Live blogging by Kick Butt NCOs.

This week we will pay tribute to Daryl Campbell (MI-07), Rick Cornstuble (IN-04), Bern Ewert (VA-05), Thomas Hayhurst (IN-03), Ken Howland (NY-25), Jim Marcinkowsky (MI-08), Charlie Sanders (OH-07), Fred Stack (MI-07), and Al Weed (VA-05), and Jeff Greer (TN-07).

Ironically, we have two sets of primary rivals among our veterans today. Bern Ewert and Al Weed are both running for VA-05 and Daryl Campbell and Fred Stack are both running for MI-07. In primaries where the races are intense and the battles rage, it is inspiring to see that Fighting Dem Vets not only have developed the skills of teamwork gleaned from their military service, they also have the values of fair play and good sportsmanship. They believe their opponent is a good man or woman, but that nevertheless they are the best candidate. The are rivals in the race, but they are all members of the Band of Brothers. May the best man win!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/9/131336/3235

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2-4 ET - "The Elephant in the Room and What's Next for the Fighting Dems": Live Blogging by Eric Massa (NY-29)
Will be at Daily Kos On Eric Massa's Diary

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3-5 ET - FIGHTING DEM VET SPOTLIGHT ON SOLO RACES: Live Blogging by some of the candidates - TBA as they show up!

[FrenchieCat]

1. Now......

[jen4clark]

2. Eric Massa's Diary is up

Please come join the discussion!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/9/1418/67601

Elephants in the Room and What Next for Fighting Dems

When is a leak not really a leak? When the President says so. Many of us wish that was just a bad joke, rather than a claim by an audacious White House as it attempts to, yet again, spin away damning information. Often equally as stunning is how Republican talking points pass largely unfiltered through much of the national mass media as it manages to ignore the hulking stinky elephants in the room.

The response of the Bush administration to Scooter Libby's claim that it was Bush himself who authorized the leak of information about Valerie Plame is one of its more stunningly audacious moments. Instead of denying that Bush authorized Libby's leak, the Bush administration is claiming that it has the right to classify and declassify at will, for nakedly political purposes, under the guise of National Security.

This is but one of a whole herd smelly of elephants in the room that have gone mostly unacknowledged by our national mass media.


~cont.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Folks too busy arguing as to whom is the "leader" of our party.....

To concentrate on bolstering the thought that "Democrats are a party of LEADERS!" :shrug:

[jen4clark]

5. ROFLOL!!

Not really funny, but the way you put it cracked me up! Thanks for checking in FrenchieCat!

[jen4clark]

3. Fighting Dem Spotlight On Solo Races

Please come on over to this diary at kos where the some of the following eleven candidates will be live blogging with us today:

Lee Ballenger (SC-03), Duane Burghard (MO), Jim Nelson (GA-01), Carl Sheerer (RI-Senate), Rick Sexton (NJ-03), Bert Smith (OK-05), Vic Spadaro (WI-96), Dennis Spivack (DE-at large), and Tim Walz (MN-01).