Sometimes the Clothes Do Not Make the Man
Via Bob Geiger:
All we have to do now
Is take these lies
And make them true somehow
(Warning: video contains some disturbing images.)
{ Daily Archives }
November 7th, 2006
109 Reasons
Think Progress has 109 Reasons To Dump the 109th Congress.
A Top Ten list just doesn’t do them justice.
This Guy’s Good!
Hey, this guy’s good! Bill Clinton on voter suppression:
They’re saying to these people, “It’s okay with us if you have a job and then you have to pay taxes. It’s okay with us if your kids put on the uniform and go to Iraq or Afghanistan and fight — maybe get wounded, maybe get killed. But if you’re not going to vote the way we tell you, well, we’re going to try to keep you home, no matter what we took from you, no matter what you gave to this country.”
On Congressional oversight:
This Congress spent eight times as many hours holding hearings on my Christmas list as on the no-bid contracts and the missing nine billion dollars in Iraq.
Now we’re laughing. I like to laugh. You know, it enables you to listen. But it ain’t funny.
On inadequately equipped soldiers in Iraq:
There’s a woman that my wife represents on Long Island who lost her son … she lost her son in Iraq, and she spent $7,000 on her credit card sending basic medical supplies to her unit, because the kids didn’t have it.
Video at Crooks and Liars. It’s long, but it’s worth watching.
Keep Going
Today is Election Day.
I don’t know what will happen today. I’ve been disappointed too many times to believe it will end in victory. What I do know is that, win or lose, this is not the end of the fight.
A few days after the 2004 election, I posted this quote from Harriet Tubman, who risked her life and her freedom to help slaves escape on the Underground Railroad:
Children, if you’re tired, keep going. If you’re hungry, keep going. If you’re scared, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.
There’s work to be done.
Vote.
I’m Sorry Now
Does this remind you of anybody?
