Comments on: Just doing our part. http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=just-doing-our-part one writer's daily download Wed, 23 May 2012 23:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: moe99 http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214361 moe99 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:05:29 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214361 http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015060.php I just hope that this does not result in open violence breaking out. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015060.php

I just hope that this does not result in open violence breaking out.

]]> By: Jolene http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214359 Jolene Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:45:26 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214359 The reports from the field on FiveThirtyEight.com are great, aren't they, Brian? They really give a sense of how effective the Obama campaign has been in developing a ground game, and the increases in Democratic voter registration are astounding. The reports from the field on FiveThirtyEight.com are great, aren’t they, Brian? They really give a sense of how effective the Obama campaign has been in developing a ground game, and the increases in Democratic voter registration are astounding.

]]> By: moe99 http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214358 moe99 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:40:08 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214358 Loove this onion video: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/portrayal_of_obama_as_elitist Loove this onion video:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/portrayal_of_obama_as_elitist

]]> By: brian stouder http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214334 brian stouder Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:06:07 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214334 http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ pssst - not only are the Obama numbers looking pretty stout (despite the McCain-Palin series of small-ball attacks), but INDIANA stars in TWO entries within a day of one another. Birch Bayh and Lake County, and Tippecanoe County (Purdue) get mentioned in one, and Bloomington (IU) in today's. Whatever else comes to pass, these are 'glory days', indeed (Indiana?!?! Why NOT!) http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

pssst – not only are the Obama numbers looking pretty stout (despite the McCain-Palin series of small-ball attacks), but INDIANA stars in TWO entries within a day of one another.

Birch Bayh and Lake County, and Tippecanoe County (Purdue) get mentioned in one, and Bloomington (IU) in today’s.

Whatever else comes to pass, these are ‘glory days’, indeed (Indiana?!?! Why NOT!)

]]> By: Jolene http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214281 Jolene Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:58:10 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214281 moe: You or your friend should write to the people at FactCheck.org. They're ordinary mortals trying to do a good job. I saw an interview w/ the main guy there this past weekend, and he was appropriately humble about the possibility of error. I'm sure they'd take whatever you have to say seriously. moe: You or your friend should write to the people at FactCheck.org. They’re ordinary mortals trying to do a good job. I saw an interview w/ the main guy there this past weekend, and he was appropriately humble about the possibility of error. I’m sure they’d take whatever you have to say seriously.

]]> By: whitebeard http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214280 whitebeard Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:43:30 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214280 I have read the NY Times' Reckoning series and the Rolling Stone's devastating article on McCain and watched the Dow freefall unfold while sitting in my $25 flea market recliner (feet up to escape The Deluge). I feel like I have been punched by those pieces on McCain and the economy; maybe I should not have read both the same evening. And it is Tuesday in Asia and stocks are still falling. The thermostat in the room we call the library is turned way, way down to keep the bogeyman (the oil delivery truck) from the door and I am wearing a thick sweater and using an imitation Martha Stewart sheepskin lap robe to keep my legs and full stomach warm. I am trying unsuccessfully to be Pollyanna and all I can come up with is that it isn't snowing yet even though it is getting darned cold (40 degrees). Is there a line somewhere about the Winter of Our Discontent? I am still freelance writing, which keeps me in those little bottles of Starbucks vanilla frappucino (or whatever it is called). I rejoice in my grandson's baseball prowess. five batters struck out, one walk and one giant leap from the pitcher's mound to catch a line drive (the only hit by the opposing team in the last two innings) to end the game. At a weekend scrimmage after a game that didn't happen, the coach brought my grandson the baseball he had hit, showing part of the cover ripped off and the innards askew and asked what my grandson had hit it with. Whoever said that a picture was worth a thousand words never talked about megabytes and 14,000 jpegs on my backup hard drive. Just rambling as I try to unlock my writer's block; maybe a movie or TV show (Bones) on hulu.com will help (multiple solitaire games didn't). I have read the NY Times’ Reckoning series and the Rolling Stone’s devastating article on McCain and watched the Dow freefall unfold while sitting in my $25 flea market recliner (feet up to escape The Deluge).
I feel like I have been punched by those pieces on McCain and the economy; maybe I should not have read both the same evening. And it is Tuesday in Asia and stocks are still falling.
The thermostat in the room we call the library is turned way, way down to keep the bogeyman (the oil delivery truck) from the door and I am wearing a thick sweater and using an imitation Martha Stewart sheepskin lap robe to keep my legs and full stomach warm.
I am trying unsuccessfully to be Pollyanna and all I can come up with is that it isn’t snowing yet even though it is getting darned cold (40 degrees). Is there a line somewhere about the Winter of Our Discontent?
I am still freelance writing, which keeps me in those little bottles of Starbucks vanilla frappucino (or whatever it is called).
I rejoice in my grandson’s baseball prowess. five batters struck out, one walk and one giant leap from the pitcher’s mound to catch a line drive (the only hit by the opposing team in the last two innings) to end the game.
At a weekend scrimmage after a game that didn’t happen, the coach brought my grandson the baseball he had hit, showing part of the cover ripped off and the innards askew and asked what my grandson had hit it with.
Whoever said that a picture was worth a thousand words never talked about megabytes and 14,000 jpegs on my backup hard drive.
Just rambling as I try to unlock my writer’s block; maybe a movie or TV show (Bones) on hulu.com will help (multiple solitaire games didn’t).

]]> By: moe99 http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214271 moe99 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:00:40 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214271 Just catching up here. Reporters were not allowed to interview <b>attendees</b> at a Palin rally today: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015053.php ---------------------------------------- Who They Are, What They're About 10.06.08 -- 7:04PM By Josh Marshall So we have McCain today getting his crowd riled up asking who Barack Obama is and then apparently giving a wink and a nod when one member of the crowd screams out "terrorist." And later we have Sarah Palin with the same mob racket, getting members of the crowd to yell out "kill him", though it's not clear whether the call for murder was for Bill Ayers or Barack Obama. It didn't seem to matter. These are dangerous and sick people, McCain and Palin. Whatever it takes. Stop at nothing. Just catching up here. Reporters were not allowed to interview attendees at a Palin rally today:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015053.php
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Who They Are, What They’re About

10.06.08 — 7:04PM By Josh Marshall

So we have McCain today getting his crowd riled up asking who Barack Obama is and then apparently giving a wink and a nod when one member of the crowd screams out “terrorist.”

And later we have Sarah Palin with the same mob racket, getting members of the crowd to yell out “kill him”, though it’s not clear whether the call for murder was for Bill Ayers or Barack Obama. It didn’t seem to matter.

These are dangerous and sick people, McCain and Palin. Whatever it takes. Stop at nothing.

]]> By: moe99 http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214262 moe99 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:28:29 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214262 Jolene, I'm finally at home and able to cut and paste a friend's comment on factcheck.org for you: <i>" I was just reading through factcheck.org and I was surprised at how superficial some of their own analysis is. For example, they were saying that an Obama ad was misleading when it referred to McCain's recent article saying that (paraphrasing) we should do for health insurance what we have done in the last ten years for banking. According to factcheck.org., Obama's ad claims that McCain said he would "reduce oversight of the health insurance industry ... just 'as we have done over the last decade in banking.' " But the ad takes the comments out of context, failing to explain what exactly McCain meant by the comparison to banking. He was talking specifically about allowing the sale and purchase of health insurance plans across state lines. Factcheck.org is not paying attention. McCain's proposal to allow the sale and purchase of health insurance plans across state lines is intended to create a national market that will therefore be less subject to regulation by the states, and he specifically said that his purpose (or one of them) was to open up the insurance market to "provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation." McCain's idea was to avoid state regulation in order to allow more "innovation" in insurance products. When abusive mortgage lending practices were getting out of hand here in Arizona, our state attorney general (Terry Goddard) wanted to crack down on some of those practices - and so did some other state attorneys general. They were told by the feds that the field was occupied and that additional state regulation or attempted enforcement action aimed at inadequate disclosures were preempted by federal laws and regulations. Obama's ad was right, and factcheck.org missed the real significance of what McCain is proposing. And even if they didn't understand what this issue is all about, when they said that McCain was "only" talking about allowing sales across state lines, they were flat wrong on the facts. He admitted in plain English that his purpose was to reduce state regulation and to encourage "innovation" in health insurance markets that would be less "burdened" by state regulation."</i> Jolene,
I’m finally at home and able to cut and paste a friend’s comment on factcheck.org for you:

” I was just reading through factcheck.org and I was surprised at how superficial some of their own analysis is.

For example, they were saying that an Obama ad was misleading when it referred to McCain’s recent article saying that (paraphrasing) we should do for health insurance what we have done in the last ten years for banking.

According to factcheck.org., Obama’s ad claims that McCain said he would “reduce oversight of the health insurance industry … just ‘as we have done over the last decade in banking.’ ” But the ad takes the comments out of context, failing to explain what exactly McCain meant by the comparison to banking. He was talking specifically about allowing the sale and purchase of health insurance plans across state lines.

Factcheck.org is not paying attention. McCain’s proposal to allow the sale and purchase of health insurance plans across state lines is intended to create a national market that will therefore be less subject to regulation by the states, and he specifically said that his purpose (or one of them) was to open up the insurance market to “provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.”

McCain’s idea was to avoid state regulation in order to allow more “innovation” in insurance products. When abusive mortgage lending practices were getting out of hand here in Arizona, our state attorney general (Terry Goddard) wanted to crack down on some of those practices – and so did some other state attorneys general. They were told by the feds that the field was occupied and that additional state regulation or attempted enforcement action aimed at inadequate disclosures were preempted by federal laws and regulations.

Obama’s ad was right, and factcheck.org missed the real significance of what McCain is proposing. And even if they didn’t understand what this issue is all about, when they said that McCain was “only” talking about allowing sales across state lines, they were flat wrong on the facts. He admitted in plain English that his purpose was to reduce state regulation and to encourage “innovation” in health insurance markets that would be less “burdened” by state regulation.”

]]> By: Dave K. http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214254 Dave K. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:53:48 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214254 Jolene, thank you for linking Richard Trumka's speech on Obama and Racism. I want to mention it here because some folks might have missed it at the end of 109 comments to "Paging Tim Gunn" thread. That speech was given at the United Steelworkers convention July 2 or 3 and I was fortunate enough to be in attendance. As one of the YouTube comments stated, "It looks like there were a lot of "Joe Six-Packs" in that crowd...". Indeed there were, and we rose to our feet in unison a half-dozen times or more in support of Mr. Trumka and his POWERFUL message. By the way, it was not only "Joe Six-Packs" standing, cheering and applauding. Men and women, black, white, and Hispanic, Americans and Canadians, were unanimous in support. If you haven't done so yet, please spend 7 minutes to watch and listen. We ALL have too much at stake to allow racism to determine the outcome of this election. More video from the USW convention can be seen at the usw.org website. Jolene, thank you for linking Richard Trumka’s speech on Obama and Racism. I want to mention it here because some folks might have missed it at the end of 109 comments to
“Paging Tim Gunn” thread. That speech was given at the United Steelworkers convention July 2 or 3 and I was fortunate enough to be in attendance. As one of the YouTube comments stated, “It looks like there were a lot of “Joe Six-Packs” in that crowd…”. Indeed there were, and we rose to our feet in unison a half-dozen times or more in support of Mr. Trumka and his POWERFUL message.

By the way, it was not only “Joe Six-Packs” standing, cheering and applauding. Men and women, black, white, and Hispanic, Americans and Canadians, were unanimous in support. If you haven’t done so yet, please spend 7 minutes to watch and listen. We ALL have too much at stake to allow racism to determine the outcome of this election.

More video from the USW convention can be seen at the usw.org website.

]]> By: nancy http://nancynall.com/2008/10/06/just-doing-our-part/#comment-214252 nancy Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:39:33 +0000 http://nancynall.com/?p=2370#comment-214252 The latest installment in that series is very good. I sent it to my sister today. The latest installment in that series is very good. I sent it to my sister today.

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