We Refuse To Be Willie Hortoned
I write this diary because a true Peaceful Warrior cannot cower in the hour his or her voice is most needed. I write this diary because I stand with ALL the noble defenders of democracy and justice...
View ArticleWillie Horton Lives!
Kerry Healey does Lee Atwater proud. Healey has taken a page from Rove's mentor and has resurrected the infamous Willie Horton ad and given it a make over in her run for governor against Deval...
View ArticleDeval Patrick has amnesia.
Deval Patrick does not remember Willie Horton. Deval Patrick does not remember the swiftboating of John Kerry. Deval Patrick does not remember that Bill Clinton, his former boss, had a group in his...
View ArticleGOP Double Standard in Bay State
Here in Massachusettts, Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey is quietly running the most overtly racist campaign since the 1990 North Carolina Senate Race where Jesse Helms ran the "White Hands" commercial, implying...
View ArticleDoes bad karma give GOP strategists brain tumors?
Last Monday, former GOP strategist Greg Stevens died of brain cancer. Stevens, who was 58, was credited with creating the 1988 advertisement featuring Michael Dukakis in a tank.According to Adam...
View ArticleSept 11th, 2007
On Sept 11th, 2007, President George W. Bush will announce progress is being made on the Iraq front of America's long war on terror. The bad actors have left the stage, while Dems look set to lose...
View ArticleHuckabee played "Christian" get-out-of-jail free card
If this story was leaked about the Obama campaign, clueless DC pundits like the three Davids, mssrs. Broder, Brooks, and Ignatius, would all proclaim the campaign based on the audacity of hope would...
View ArticleFreedom, Race and Gay Rights
How grim is life today for America's once upwardly mobile people of color? Today's Wapo leaves little doubt: Forty-five percent of black children whose parents were solidly middle class in 1968 -- a...
View ArticleMitt Romney's "Willie Horton Moment"?
The Willie Horton story was likely a factor in the defeat of former Massachusett governor and Democratic Presidential nominee Mike Dukakis in the 1988 election, but it looks like former Massachusetts...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's New Willie Horton
Ferraro is a Hillary Clinton Cut-Out, putting on the white sheet, and raising the shade of Willie Horton, just in time for the Pennsylvania Primary. Meanwhile Hillary is shocked, just shocked that she...
View ArticleWillie Horton, with Grisham plot, comes to Wisconsin
In a campaign that has brought comparisons to both Willie Horton and John Grisham, a conservative candidate for Wisconsin's Supreme Court is airing a false negative, race-baiting commercial against a...
View ArticleNovember Campaign Issue #1: Reverend Jeremiah Wright (Update with Poll)
Incredibly...and sadly...the Republicans will make this Issue #1 in November.The Wright controversy is the only thing out there I can see that could cost Barack the Presidency. It's important for all...
View ArticleThis is what I was always was worried would happen to Obama
In 1988 for Dukakis it was Willie Horton.In 2000 it was the "I invented the internet"In 2004 it was SBVFTI knew there would be something that the RWSM would come up with to trash Obama and bring him...
View ArticleNew Willie Horton Ad Smears Barack Obama
The Jed Report provides a fuller backstory and explains how this links to Hillary ClintonThis story was written by Ari Berman at The NationRepublicans are sharpening their knives against Barack Obama....
View ArticleTime for the Obama Team to Rethink Their Strategy for the Remaing Primaries
The NYT says Obama is shifting his focus to McCain. I think this is best because we see that this tit-for-tat with Clinton isn’t helping him. He has a chance to win Indiana, and I think what’s not...
View ArticleObama "out of the woods?" -- Update
I usually enjoy Chuck Todd's "First Read" blog at MSNBC, simply because I think he's one of the most perceptive and intelligent reporters we have. There's a little nugget in today's edition that I...
View ArticleWilly Horton ad producer starts ads against Obama
The Swiftboating has started. Here's an ad by the Willy Horton producer from the swiftboating site http://exposeobama.com:Though Obama won't go negative, it's up to others to dish on McCain as much as...
View ArticleThe Email Lies Keep Pouring in About Obama
I am not sure how I received this email or why. It could have been forwarded by my mother who lost her enlightened hippie status when she started listening to Rush Limbaugh in the 1980's. Anyway, it...
View ArticleBush approves execution of Willie Horton, uh, Pvt. Ronald Gray
CNN says in Bush approves execution of Army private that President Bush has approved the Army's request to execute a soldier convicted of rape and murder, the White House announced Monday...
View ArticleSleaze Squared ...
Here it comes ... The Iowa Independent's Jason Hancock is reporting that "two media consultants who played key roles in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads in 2004 and the Willie Horton" ads have...
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