Category: Politics

Quote of the day

The stepgrandson of an illiterate, barefoot woman in this village of mud huts in Africa may be the next president of the United States. Such mobility — powered by education, immigration and hard work — is cause not for disparagement but for celebration.
– Nicholas D. Kristof referring to Barack Obama’s Kenyan roots

Mike Huckabee rally

Laurie and I had a great time at the Mike Huckabee rally tonight in Plano.
We got a lot of pictures (you can find most of them on either of our Flickr pages) and I was able to get about 20 minutes worth of video. Unfortunately Huckabee didn’t get into the meat of his speech till 10-15 minutes into it so I didn’t get as much of what I would have wanted.
But you can see the video via CBS 11 KVTT online.

I thought it was a great speech. Not as inspiring as Obama’s speech from earlier in the day at Reunion Arena, but it contained a lot more substance and made me believe he knows what he believes in and he has a plan to make things happen rather than offer a lot of hope that something’s going to happen.

Should be a fun March 4th in Texas.

Campaigning on convictions

From the Mike Huckabee campaign:

My candidacy is, and always has been, about convictions – and the issues and core values that are critical to our country’s future, such protecting traditional marriage, the sanctity of life, individual empowerment and a revamping of our federal tax code to encourage productivity. It’s about lifting Americans up, from hope to higher ground, with a positive vision for America’s future that is grounded in a belief in our nation’s basic goodness, and defined by a ‘can—do’ spirit that knows how to gets things done. My goal is to offer Republican voters, a voice and a choice in this election.

The last four out of five U.S. Presidents have been governors, and there is a reason for this: the challenges facing our nation require steady, experienced, executive management. As governor of Arkansas for 10 ½ years, I delivered on my promises to cut taxes 94 times, reduce welfare by half, reform health care for children and our education system, and transform our transportation infrastructure. My record of results, achieved with a Democrat legislature, gives a meaningful viability to my candidacy.

There are millions of Republicans from across this country who have yet to be heard from. Clearly we were disappointed by the results in Wisconsin, but I look forward to campaigning hard in Texas and Ohio this week – and taking my case before the good people of those states.

The Shock Doctrine

Thomas shared this video via Facebook:

DIRECTED BY JONÁS CUARÓN. Alfonso Cuarón, director of “Children of Men”, and Naomi Klein, author of “No Logo”, present a short film from Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” http://www.shockdoctrine.com

Quote of the day

“Do you ever ask yourself why people try to come to this country? Do you think people deliberately and cheerfully leave their families behind and come to live in a situation of fear all the time, that they’re going to be deported again? No; they leave because they’re desperate. They’re trying to save their families.”

— Thomas Gumbleton, retired auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit and author of “The Peace Pulpit,” an online version of his homilies published by National Catholic Reporter
via DMN