The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, a typical mainstream newsprint, seems to have 2 reporters with a story on their hands:   Donations to the Obama campaign are higher or roughly equal to McCains in the Republican areas of counties surrounding Milwaukee.

Among the really big "old school" names

Hillary ?     No.     The people reject her and so do I
Al Gore ?   No.     He has already stated that the answer is "no."
Wes Clark ?  No.    Not charismatic enough and simply not VP material all-around
Bill Bradley ?   Say yes !      Talk about a powerful choice.  Age 64.
John Edwards ?   Pretty good, but not as good as Bill Bradley.
Russ Feingold ?  He probably will decline and he's a powerful force in the Senate now.

I have been anti-Hillary for a while because of her Iraq votes and un-progressive stance on Iraq.   But Kossacks are aware of more.

Each week she seems to pile on another piece of steaming crap.   This weekend was a double dump by Hillary.   The un-defense of the false smear that Obama is Muslim and the endorsement that McCain could be a better President than Barack Obama.

Without further ado, a vote.

The threads on McCain and Paxson

WAAAAAAAAAA-EEEELLLLLLLLL !

http://www.dailykos.com/...  Newsweek is reporting that McCain testified in a deposition five years ago that he personally spoke with the CEO of Paxson Communications regarding Paxson's business before the FCC.  This flatly contradicts McCain's denial yesterday that he'd had any contact with Paxson or his representatives regarding the matter.  http://www.newsweek.com/...

Stomachs of McCain supporters must be in knots !

Hilarious !

Huckabee said Saturday that the $250,000 his campaign had raised online in 24 hours was a sign of the health of his presidential effort.  CNN reports today

Does Huckabee drink ?  Kool-aid or wapatoolie ?  Where's the merry-go-round ?

So, the Democratic National Convention is in August 25 to August 28th.  The late timing of the convention allows for less solo campaigning by the eventual nominee  (HRC, Obama or Al Gore).

Howard Dean and others are warning about dangers of a brokered convention.

So, why not move the convention to July ?

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This morning, I visited one of Russ Feingold's listening sessions.

Some of the topics:  Iraq, Social Security, a local environmental issue, jobs, international trade.

A friend says:  WGN is reporting that the feds are arresting officials from all over New Jersey.

UPDATE:   http://www.bluejersey.com/...

Vote for your favorite musical of all time.

Enjoy the weekend.    

Gore announces for President in 10 minutes.    He's got a short list for Vice-President.

Kerry ?    Kerry is the best overall person to be VP, imho.

Feingold.     Thumbs up.

Edwards.    He was good enough to Kerry's choice for VP and he's better than last time.

Dodd.     Acceptable.

Richardson.    Hmmm.

Obama.   He might be on the short list.

HR Clinton.     She's on the short list.

CNET reports on mass deletion of people's stories at Live Journal  

Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.

I'm not interested at all in "worship".

On the other hand, I do not discount the possibility of a supreme being.

But my cyncism toward such a possibility is increased.

I'm now more atheist than agnostic.

Thoughts ?

These are my positions:

Pro-environment
Pro-choice
Pro-constitution
Pro-states rights
Pro-single payer health insurance
Pro-peace and stop the occupation of Iraq
Pro-balance in media
Pro-diversification of ownership of broadcasters and newspapers
Pro-union
Pro-paper trail in voting
Pro-tax simplification
and one more thing
Accountability and Integrity.

So far, I'm for a Al Gore / John Edwards ticket for President.  

The motivation to keep Gonzales around must weigh heavily on the minds of Bush, Cheney and other neo-cons.    It surely is weighing on the minds of Senate Republicans.

I've seen some pretty good signatures.   So, I picked out a couple big threads and snagged a few of the good ones.

Vote from this list of Kossack signatures

Gore.     The most outspoken of the pack.    What about the rest ?   Of the next 5  ---  Hillary Clinton, Wes Clark, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson --- who's the most pro-environment ?

Issues include:

global warming
biological diversity
wilderness preservation
wilderness restoration
heavy metal poisoning
organic poisoning
sustainable agriculture
acid rain
particle pollution
human population
renewable resources and recycling
renewable energies and conservation

A friend of mine asked me about the pro-choice presidential candidates.   She absolutely refuses to vote for someone who is in the pro-life camp.     It sounds like she always wants some hard info on pro-choice Dem candidates ?  

Any relevant links would be appreciated.  I don't trust the candidates' websites and its been a long day of driving.   So, I'm too wiped out to investigate this myself.