My friend emailed me another video that he made.  He said he was inspired by the history making Democratic primary and by Senator Clinton's speech on Saturday.  I just have one word for this video:  Amazing.  

It was so powerful and wonderfully captured the spirit of how we are currently living in a time that is truly making history.  Not many of us could truly say that before now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiV4p1AQr 4E

Check out the video...if it is something that resonates with you, leave a comment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiV4p1AQr 4E

I posted this over at DailyKos as well....

A friend sent me a link to this video that is now on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dyYNg8sz e8

I had no idea that McCain had actually said some of those things.  This absolutely makes me question why the Republican Party would choose someone so obviously unqualified to be their nominee for president.

Here's hoping for Democratic president in 2009.

This was posted earlier this evening on Swing State Project and cross posted here.  This is the original post:

Unfortunately, Congressman Sherrod Brown has decided to challenge Paul Hackett for the Democratic nomination in 2006. If Sherrod Brown wanted to run for Senate, the nomination was his. We urged him to run. But he chickened out. So Paul Hackett did what he has done time and time again: stepped up when duty called. Ted Strickland wouldn't run against Senate Mike DeWine, Sherrod Brown wouldn't run against DeWine, Tim Ryan wouldn't run against DeWine -- so Major Hackett offered to serve his country once more, this time in the U.S. Senate.

And now, on the eve of Hackett's kickoff, Sherrod Brown goes back on his word and says he is going to run against Hackett? A flip-flop? WTF?

Congressman Brown is going to waste a great deal of Democratic resources, but I can't comprehend the math necessary for Brown to win the primary. It looks like the Democratic Party is going to lose one of our best leaders in congress for no reason.

But it doesn't matter, Paul Hackett will be the Democratic Party nominee. After all of the scandals in Ohio, the last thing the voters want is another politician who can't be trusted.

The Top 10 Reasons Why Paul Hackett Will Be the Democratic Party Nominee

10. Sherrod Brown is already being mocked by the press for his waffle (or Decision Consistency Agility as you glass is half full types would say)

9. Paul Hackett's straight talk is loved by the press

8. Congressman Tim Ryan encouraged Hackett to run

7. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee urged Hackett to run

6. Hackett positioned himself behind the other Democrats, but has a nation-wide base

5. The Democratic Blogosphere delivered for Hackett -- even winning the Political Play of the Week

4. Hackett has a 70% pt. lead in the netroots

3. Unlike Brown, Hackett has great timing

2. Hackett can win in rural Ohio

1. In a nation at war, a Marine Major outranks a Washington Politician -- Congress needs an Iraq War Veteran

Sherrod Brown is a waffle, Mike DeWine is toast, and Major Hackett is hungry.

HERE IS MY RESPONSE:

The Top 10 Reasons Why This Post Is Full Of Crap.

10. Calling Sherrod Brown a waffle and being self referencial is tacky and crass. Bill O'Reily would be proud. (We can get you a loofah sponge if you need one.)

9. Perhaps Mr. Hackett's straight talk is loved by the press because it sells papers. It certainly doesn't win elections (see proof in 2005 special election results.)

8. Congressman Ryan endorsed Paul Hackett because he was afraid Bob Brigham would jump into the race and attempt to run the entire campaign from him basement wearing nothing but a tin foil hat and Spiderman underoos.

7. For answer to this one, see above.

6. Apparently someone forgot that a $25 donor from Alaska can't vote in an Ohio Senate election.

5. Talking about the Political Play of the Week again? I think the ego masturbation has finally gone out of control. You had better watch it or you will go blind and end up as the next Dick Morris.

4. Its too bad that the netroots doesn't have a congressional district of their own. Besides, not many of them are old enough to vote anyway.

3. Timing isn't everything. Winning is.

2. Hackett won? Does that mean he's in Congress now?

1. Haven't read your Constitution lately? The military is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American people. Hell, even Bob outranks a marine major.

Sherrod Brown may be a waffle and Mike DeWine might be toast and Major Hackett may be hungry, but Bob Brigham is definately syrupy.

SHERROD BROWN FOR SENATE 2006

(I'd like to thank contributor Bob "David Letterman" Brigham for helping with this post. Keep it up Bob, but don't go blind!) :-)

I am now ready to declare rational thought dead in this country.  I say this because of the things I have been reading recently in the "liberal blogosphere" about the state of the nation and by the statements and actions of the current President and his administration.

I will start first with the President.  President Bush has gone out of his way on numerous occasions to piss people off, solely to piss them off I believe.  The recent appointment of John Bolton to the post of Ambassador to the UN is perhaps one of the biggest examples.  He has succeeded in his version of cowboy diplomacy in his own country, dealing with his own citizens in a very uncaring way for no identifiable reason.  Surely the option to choose someone else had presented itself.  I am not asking for someone the Democrats would have chosen, but perhaps someone who doesn't have a history of throwing furniture and trying to fire people because they make him angry.