Wendell Potter on Messaging for Democrats
As George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “The single biggest problem in communications is the illusion that it has taken place.”
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We Appreciate the Breeze
Anyone raised on chow-chow and shoofly has reason to be interested in what other people have on their plates.
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The Corporate Takeover of America Is Now Complete
So, what will the pissed off peasants do to reclaim their democracy? Organize and overturn the 1886 Santa Clara corporate personhood case, on which the recent court case depends for precedent?
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Same Sh**, Different Day
Now, let’s add the known hazardous chemicals from the Marcellus Shale drilling sites to the toxic soup at the waste water treatment plant.
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The Unpublished Love Poems of Glenn Beck
Just in time for Valentine’s Day… Five short poems from Glenn Beck to his ‘inspiration’, Sarah Palin. (These Poems are Entirely Fictional, just the work of a somewhat bored student on a slow day)
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CommonSense2 February 2010-Breezy!
One last tidbit. Mr. Bob Millar, co-host of the Alternative News and Different Views TV program and yours truly will have a debate on What Democrats Have to Do to Win in November. Date and time will be announced in the next issue. Suffice it to say, you would be hard pressed to find two people who had less in common regarding their views of the Democratic Party and what needs to be done than Bob and myself. It should make the evening a lot of fun. Come out and bring your toughest questions!
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Sufferin’ Succotash
To be fair, those in Leigh Anne’s communal circle are not unfamiliar with stressful situations. After attending college on cheerleading and beauty pageant scholarships and marrying into families of Southern wealth and imperialistic opinions, these women deliberated over whether to co-mingle the inheritance of daddy’s fortunes with that of their husbands.
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The Myth of Consensus
These small failures of nerve are repeated over and over again right up the ladder to the national party.
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The Sky Is Falling, and I Have the Numbers to Prove It
Another truism—that with true compromise, no one is happy—exposes the bitter reality that it is difficult for people with different points of view to happily co-exist. It’s a basic instinct that motivates most of us: we defend our land, our stuff, our ideas, and our ideals. It’s an “I versus You” world. Nevertheless, in this country, we have constantly strived to co-exist even in the face of history…even in light of the fact that humans have always operated by another truism that “might makes right.”
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