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I have one question for the diarist at the Daily Kos who said this…

Posted: January 17, 2010 by datechguy in elections, internet/free speech, opinion/news
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…in the first paragraph of his diary post:

You may or may not have heard: Massachusetts Democrats are waging a dynamic, all out effort for Martha Coakley in the final days of the campaign.

In the last 72 hours I have been to Brown and Coakley events and will be covering the president today. There are a lot of words that could be used to describe the democratic “effort” in this race. Dynamic would not be one of them.

Common decency prevents me from describing the Democratic effort in the most accurate terms available in the English language.

A current and former president demonstrate America’s greatness

Posted: January 17, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news, personal
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Friday night as I awaited the arrival of Bill Clinton I struck up a conversation with two Chinese exchange students doing graduate work at WPI. Both had been the US for 6 months and absolutely love it. They both hope to be able to find jobs to stay here, if not they will go back to China.

There they stood, two young men from a country that is our greatest rival and one of our potential enemies both about to be only 10 yards from the man who exactly one decade prior was the most powerful person in the entire world.

After they started moving forward I talked to a union steward who was there to support Martha Coakley. As we were both Italian we talked and had an awful lot in common. It was a pleasure to share his company and we both commented on how great a country it was where two guys like us could be just a first down away from the former president. We agreed that if we told our grandparents this, they wouldn’t believe us.

It was even greater than than he knew.

Consider, ten yards from me a man who was once the most powerful in the world was going to ask me to do something, and I was going to refuse with absolutely no fear that he would attempt to compel me otherwise.

Today after Mass (yes Adrienne he’s coming with me don’t get your hopes up) we are off to Boston to see the most powerful man in the world who will ask, not order ask me to do something that he really wants me to do for the sake of an agenda that he really believes in…

As on Friday I will refuse. As on Friday I will do so with the safe assurance that he will not attempt to compel me nor order others to do so. In fact even if he DID order others to do so, I have the certainly they they would refuse such an order.

That is the greatness of America, that is the freedom of America, that is the compact between the government, represented by President Obama and the Governed, represented by me.

Today I will be in the presence of a politician that I considered unqualified for his position, a product of a corrupt Chicago machine. A man I have criticized and ridiculed many times in the past and likely will criticize and ridicule many more times in the future. I will also have the great honor to be in the presence of the elected leader of my country, my president. I see no conflict in any of those statements. That is America!

Update: The Obama rally has been pushed back a few hours, good thing too because there was plenty to post about this morning.

Blue Mass Group proving Rush right

Posted: January 17, 2010 by datechguy in elections, internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Rush Limbaugh Friday:

It’s just not believable that he was only asked to go up there today. And when Gibbs says, “We’re not on the ballot,” that’s almost throwing her under the bus. But look out for the Boston Globe and a late hit piece on Monday.

Well it’s not quite Monday but here it comes.

To rational people this is not much of an anything, but to a media and a White House desperate for that vote and an Obama success, this is the card.

This afternoon it starts on the blogs, in time for it to be used on the Sunday morning shows. Then the President comes to the city and references it, and the Globe has two front page stories ready made. Blue man Group’s and the President’s reference.

However this will fail for two reasons:

1. The sheer volume of negative ads and over the top moves will put this into the entire pile.

2. As per my last post I suspect the reason the voters are not with Coakley is a good chunk of that 69% that voted Kennedy were voting the name and the clout, not the beliefs.

Without the Kennedy name and clout Martha Coakley is just another ultra liberal who thinks she is above the rest of us. That is no longer going to fly.

I can’t believe that I had to go to the comments section of Legal Insurrection…

Posted: January 16, 2010 by datechguy in elections, internet/free speech, local stuff, oddities, opinion/news
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…to find out my hometown paper endorsed Scott Brown.

We are endorsing Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate because we believe he is capable of bringing a common-sense approach to Washington, D.C., focused on serving the people of the state who are struggling to get by, rather than the special interests in the Democratic machine of which Coakley is such a big part of.

I don’t remember the last time they backed a republican. Read the whole thing, it sounds like a point by point indictment of Coakley.

The funny thing is I picked up the paper at 7:30 for Stacy but we never got the chance to read it.

And as Mayor Wong was at the Coakley rally I see the endorsement didn’t effect her opinion.

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