It's all Greek to me

Delivering your message to Iowans

Yiannis aka Stephen Colber(t) for Vice Presiden(t) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:31:46 EST

Two-three other friends and myself will be driving from Baltimore to join the door to door canvassing efforts in Iowa.

1) In no more than 4 lines, what is the strongest message you want me to deliver to Iowans? Please consider this seriously and make it concise and believable, as if YOU were knocking on their doors.

For 8 days we'll be delivering your messages to Iowa. Lets bring about change. Meaningful change we can believe in.

2) Could you please help me and find the titles of every Iowa newspaper and Iowa elected official who has endorsed Barack?

Edwards fans

Yiannis aka Stephen Colber(t) for Vice Presiden(t) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:52:41 EST

Edwards' fans,

John Edwards has run a bright campaign pledging to fight special interests. Edwards"s supporters, the moment to topple the special interest regime Hillary Clinton defends is now. Join us in the anti-special interest vote.

Consider that John Edwards"s campaign has committed to accepting matching funds which will result he will be outspent by Hillary 4:1 in states in which she has been campaigning for 15 years. John Edwards will be unable to compete. We implore you to join us. Don"t let them drive a wedge among us.

Edwards supporters, our favorite candidates have debated respectfully on the issues. Their most compelling agreement and track record is fighting special interests. Barack Obama worked with Russ Feingold to do just that the moment he arrived in DC. The way of making your dreams come true depends on your willingness to align yourselves with the candidate who has a good chance of beating her in every state. Not because I or the pundits say so, but because it's the reality. Our campaign has 450,000 individual donors as we speak.

Edwards fans, just like a son of mill worker fought hard to claim the American, Obama rose from an under-privileged background to realize his potential. Together they represent the American dream both wanting to give back to their communities, fighting the quasi-incumbent who claims her husband"s executive experience as her own.

John Edwards fans: don't let them drive a wedge between us. Together we marched in DC and NY and San Francisco and against the occupation in Iraq. Only together we can reclaim the soul of the Democratic Party. We need you, in Iowa and across the country.

Edwards supporters your moment is now: let"s not repeat the mistakes of Florida 2000.
Barack understands that the game of "divide and conquer" has been used by right wing fascists throughout history. The only way to achieve progress is when we debate the issues not psychodramas. The only way to achieve progress is to join our forces and fight together. John Edwards fans, your moment is now.

A progressive activist

Iowa polls from Nov 11, to Dec 10.

Yiannis aka Stephen Colber(t) for Vice Presiden(t) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:48:02 EST

Of 4765 total votes in 8 different polls (all of likely voters, in Iowa since Nov 11th, Clinton has 1272 (26.7%) Edwards 1081 (22.7) and Obama 1319 (27.67%).

One needs to assume that if the same voters were called upon to vote more than once from the same pollster this was done similarly to every campaign.

Edwards's own internal poll has been excluded

Individual health care mandates are a conservative idea

Yiannis aka Stephen Colber(t) for Vice Presiden(t) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:32:34 EST

And who best to blast this conservative idea:

"The individual mandates create some additional problems, at least as we analyze them. It makes it very difficult to determine and monitor who is in the system and who is out. It would require tracking individuals as they move in and out of jobs, as they move in and out of the insurance market. And it would mean, if you provided a subsidy scheme to support low-wage individuals, a determination as to when their income reached some arbitrary level as to what kind of subsidy they would still be entitled to. It would require, in our view, the IRS to engage in an enormous administrative oversight of our health care system." - HRC, 1993

However in 2007:

"In our interview, Clinton said the models for her current proposal were the 1993 Republican plan and the individual-mandate plan passed in Massachusetts by former Governor Mitt Romney."

This is what appeasers learn while they stay in Washington DC.

For more info http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/10/116/99540

You can email Krugman, the columnist of the NYTimes who started this debate here.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html?8qa

Click write to Krugman

Clinton staffers perceive Obama as worse than Bush

Yiannis aka Stephen Colber(t) for Vice Presiden(t) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:41:36 EST

Well if you wanted to know where these new attacks come from have a read:

"When talking to Clintonites in recent days, I've noticed that they've come to despise Obama...They're not spinning for strategic purposes. They truly believe it.... They really, really hate Obama," one Democratic operative unaffiliated with any campaign, tells me. "They can't stand him. They talk about him as if he's worse than Bush."

The full blog post, written by liberal journalist David Corn, is here:

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/davidcorn/2007/12/hillary-on-obama-fear-and-hatr.html

Obama Swiftboating Operation Unfolding

Yiannis aka Stephen Colber(t) for Vice Presiden(t) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:32:43 EST

On November 17th, the columnist who outed undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame, published an alleged there's-dirt-on-Obama article quoting Clinton sources. To intimidate the Obama response the mainstream media, write of Obama's "overreaction".

Last Sunday, November 25th, one of the most loyal agents of Hillary Clinton, James Carville, issued a public threat, on meet the press: "I think that the—I think that these 39 days—whatever we’ve seen so far is nothing compared to what we’re going to see in these 39 days."

Today the Washington Post, leads it first page with this title:

"Foes Use Obama's Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him"

Some will point that the article which gives a lukeworm rebuke to the lies spread about Barack's time at a multi-cultural school in Indonesia. The author emailed me that he just wanted to rebuke the story. Well this story was rebuked 6 months ago. And what the heck is it doing in page 01 ?

Four years ago, Dean was plastered in a TV Ad next to Osama bin Ladden which proclaimed Dean facilitated bin Laden's purposes. It did not matter that Dean was right on Iraq. Three years ago, Kerry, was swiftboated when he did not react to attacks on his military service ferociously enough. It did not matter he had won 3 purple hearts.

Similar efforts are now underway against Barack. He has campaigned against "the politics of anything goes" but he must respond to this outrageous hitjob before it's too late. If not, direct mail and ads, will hit Iowa that Barack supposedly attended maddrassas. The Title will be quoted and noone will look at the article itself to give credence to these lies.

Respond to this outrage by writing to the author at

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/perry+bacon+jr./

Clinton campaign plants questions at events

Yiannis aka Stephen Colber(t) for Vice Presiden(t) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:06:47 EST

As the Boston Herald reported yesterday, Sunday November 12th, the Clinton campaign planted at least one question at an event in Iowa to highlight her position on energy.

"“One of the senior staffers told me what (to ask),” Gallo-Chasanoff told the paper, adding that staffers pointed her out to Clinton, who called on her after the speech."

Here is a link to the story:

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/general/view.bg?articleid=1044079

“A Clinton campaign spokesman sheepishly admitted, ‘On this occasion a member of our staff did discuss a possible question about Sen. Clinton’s energy plan at a forum.

How is this different from George W Bush sense of democracy? It's all Greek to me.

Update:

On Tuesday, a top aide to Hillary Clinton indirectly warned moderator Wolf Blitzer not to be too hard on her in Thursday’s debate. The warning was issued via the Drudge Report, an influential Web site that has received numerous leaks from the Clinton campaign on such topics as her fundraising prowess.

“This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,” a senior Clinton aide told cyberjournalist Matt Drudge. “Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull ‘a Russert.’ ”

Blitzer, who said he had not been directly contacted by the Clinton campaign, called the New York Democrat “a sophisticated, strong politician.” But he also issued his own veiled warning.

“If she can’t handle the heat during a Democratic contest, wait until the Republicans really start going after her,” he told TV Newser.

New Hampshire and South Carolina polls

Yiannis aka Stephen Colber(t) for Vice Presiden(t) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:05:42 EDT

To underscore the hard numbers in New Hampshire and South Carolina I'll start by pasting an article that shows how much **harder** our support is over Hillary's despite the name recognition poll numbers. Enjoy:

Despite polls, Obama, Edwards strong with primary state donors By Alexander Bolton November 02, 2007
"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is leading Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), her chief rival, by nearly 20 points in New Hampshire. But among campaign donors who have written checks worth $200 or more to the various White House hopefuls, Obama is crushing Clinton. Obama has raised $250,000 from residents of the Granite State during the first nine months of the year, according to data compiled by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Clinton has raised only $100,000... Obama is also much more popular than Clinton among South Carolina donors. That state will host an influential presidential primary shortly after New Hampshire’s. Obama has brought in $265,000 from South Carolina donors, compared to $140,000 for Clinton."

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/despite-polls-obama-edwards-strong-with-primary-state-donors-2007-11-02.html

How does Clinton really lead in support in these states? It's all Greek to me!