Mr. Richardson, can we please get THE speech in Spanish?
Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 11:54:00 PM PDT
Warning: I only posting this diary because commenting hasn't worked. Therefore expect so droll extended verbage just to get to the minimum diary size.
Here's my complaint: I have searched the web out the kazoo and just can't find the March 18th race speech in Spanish. I know others who have searched extensively as well with no luck.
How about this idea...Bill Richardson make a voice over of the speech in Spanish and post it on YouTube. That should get some media attention.
As a diary on the recommended list now relates, it is important that Latinos/Hispanics "get" what Obama was talking about in that speech. My wife is a naturalized citizen from Mexico and I have tried explaining the speech to her, but she grew impatient and asked, "If it was important to us Mexican-Americans then it would be out in Spanish by now, right?"
Funding Health Care Cost – a Modest Proposal?
Sun May 20, 2007 at 01:31:09 PM PDT
I believe this plan has appeal across all classes and political spectrums. It has been bubbling around in my mind for years but I have never stopped to put it in writing because I just knew that such a plan would eventually have to come along and of course all our politicians and economic experts already knew that this was the plan that we needed and that it was just a matter of time before the existing system broke down enough to provide the political will to implement this plan.
Well, I’m tired of waiting, and I’ve begun wondering if the reason I haven’t seen "my" plan proposed yet is that I have overlooked some crucial factor which makes this plan unworkable. So, fellow kossacks, please explain to me why my plan would not work so that I can finally "rest in peace" and sit back and wait for someone else with better ideas and some actual political power to solve this problem.
The plan starts below the fold...
TEX:Populists VS Consultantocratic Nothingcrats
Sat Jul 23, 2005 at 11:09:24 AM PDT
... the Democratic base is much bigger than the votes the Democratic statewide candidates received...not much was done in those elections to motivate growth in the base voter turnout. Even when two minority-group candidates were put at the top of the ticket in 2002, the
consultantocracy made sure...[they] did not convey strong populist messages of the kind that would speak to the base vote.
It is time to cherish partisan Democrats and reject nonpartisan Nothingcrats. It is time to forget "right-left" analysis and install "right-wrong" analysis. It is time to replace the "liberal-conservative" spectrum with the "liberty-tyranny" spectrum. - David Van Os, 2006 Democratic Candidate for Texas Attorney General
The Texas State Democratic Party Chairman is determined to not let any race in the state go uncontested. Populist candidates are running for Senator, Governor, and especially Attorney General. Do these events point towards a potential battle in Texas between Populists and the "Nothingcrat Consultantocracy"?
Terrorism Thought Experiment
Fri Jul 08, 2005 at 11:26:16 AM PDT
The main stream media and political leaders seem to me to be runnning around like chickens with their heads cut off while no one is asking the public to consider the tough questions that need a concensus answer.
In this vain I offer below 7 "thought experiments". Provide your own answers or more questions as you see fit.
- If a purely criminal terrorist extortion group obtained a WMD and put a $1 billion ransom on a US city do you think our government would pay off? Should they pay off?
- Would you support a complete US withdrawal from the mid-east if Al Quaeda stopped their attacks on the west?
- Do you think we can indefinitely keep Al Quaeda from destroying a US city?
Bumper Sticker Blues?
Sat Jan 08, 2005 at 06:14:26 PM PDT
After the election, I just couldn't stand having any stickers on my car anymore. I needed a break -- a fresh start. I just couldn't stand to think of a Bush voter behind me thinking "Ha Ha! The Doctor wasn't in; you didn't re-defeat Bush; regime change didn't begin at home; Bush lied -- who cares, etc."
Anyway, I stripped all the stickers off by car and have been racking my brain ever since for something to express my disgust and re-determination to hit back harder next time. Nothing I saw online really hit the spot.
Anyway, today was cathartic for me and I had a gush of expression so I went to makestickers.com and made these babies using their politics and elections templates. Maybe this is just what others in our little community need to put a little wind back in their sails.
I feel better.
Update [2005-1-8 21:55:50 by casamurphy]:
Thanks to Kate below for the spelling correction. Hopefully the image correction uploads along with this update.
in case you forgot what a real populist sounds like
Sun Nov 28, 2004 at 07:24:38 PM PDT
Do we have any potential presidential candidates capable of talking to the people like this quote below from the top of the Democratic Ticket in Texas this year? Would our own leadership "allow" him/her to get the nomination?
We can recapture the South. The problem is not ideology, "left" or "right."
We need to stop thinking in terms of "left" and "right." They are an
artificial dichotomy that lazy journalism and lazy political operatives have
imposed on the nation's political discourse. Most working people and farming
people do not think in terms of a left-right spectrum. It is not real to
them, nor should it be, because it is not real. What is real is whether one
is on the side of the people or against the people.
Voters Tired of Being Called Stupid by Bush
Fri Oct 08, 2004 at 10:16:58 PM PDT
I had an epiphany during tonight's debate. It happened when George Bush kept screaming over and over again that John Kerry's positions where just "too confusing" to qualify him to lead. I asked myself, "Too confusing to whom?"...and then it HIT me. Bush is calling me stupid and also denigrating himself and his followers with such simple-minded criticisms.
Here's the logic. If Kerry's positions, which are no longer confusing to me are still confusing to Bush, then I'm smarter then him and therefore I have no business voting for him to lead me. If on the other hand Bush understands Kerry's positions, but just thinks they are too confusing for ME to understand then I resent his calling me stupid and of course will therefore vote for Kerry.
I think there just might be plenty of voters who haven't really paid much attention to this race up until now who are getting turned off by Bush for the reasons just outlined.
What do you think? Can we get some traction with this theme :
"Bush doesn't really talk about issues like John Kerry does. Either Bush thinks American is too stupid to understand John Kerry's positions OR Bush himself is too stupid to understand them. Either way he seems to be begging us NOT to vote for him."
