Lowell Feld is Netroots Coordinator for the Jim Webb for US Senate Campaign. The ideas expressed here belong to Lowell Feld alone, and do not represent those of Jim Webb, his advisors, staff, or supporters.
"Leadership we can be proud of" obviously doesn't make a profit, sad, isn't it :(
Fabulicious ad, what a REAL patriot Jim Webb is. He actually loves America more than lobbyists :D
Allen's approval has dropped about 5 points since mid-August (e.g. two percent decrease in approval from 51 to 49%; three percent increase in disapproval from 38 to 41%).
The current numbers are from a poll take last Monday.
Allen is beyond weak on this critical issue and it shows while Webb nails it perfectly.
So tell me, has the DSCC contributed any money to this campaign? If not, what are they waiting for?
Three military critics of the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq said today Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Webb would be an outstanding, independent voice on veterans issues in the Senate.General Wesley Clark, a retired four-star Army General and Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, former Marine General Anthony Zinni and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, joined Webb in a conference call with reporters.
"He has the courage and integrity to ask the right questions," Clark said.
The current Republican leadership, including Allen, has had plenty of time to prove it can lead our country in the right direction in these matters. It has failed miserably. And the people know it.
If we "stay the course" and keep the same leadership we'll get the same result. There is no way around that.
It's time for a change and Allen is one of the one's who must go if our country has any hope of improving this horrible situation people like Bush and Allen have gotten us into.
But good for you for trying to boost the moral of the dwindling Allen fans.
This "Webb hasn't explained his exit strategy" line is a talking point that is coming exclusively from the Allen campaign. No one else--in the media, among undecideds, or elsewhere--is regurgitating that point with a straight face. I keep hearing this though from Dick Wadhams and the A-Team. Of course, this is the "repeat it enough" dictum of truth-telling.
Btw, Allen has been given something of a free pass on this issue. In September he stated "Our strategy is they lose, we win."
How is "They lose, we win" a strategy?
The last commerical's timing is perfect, especially with the news that the administration is holding up the 2nd "very bleak" NIE on Iraq.
YouTube has been completely under estimated for its political impact. This is just great!
Tailspin George is getting a pink slip. I can feel it coming!
This ad is playing GREAT on my parent blog, firedoglake. I am also trying to raise funds on my own small blog mcegregious.blogspot.com
This one is a winner.
This once again justifies what that defense/foreign policy professional Jim Webb has been saying:
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
17 minutes agoWASHINGTON - The war in Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for Islamic extremists, breeding deep resentment of the U.S. that probably will get worse before it gets better, federal intelligence analysts conclude in a report at odds with President Bush's contention of a world growing safer.
In the bleak report, declassified and released Tuesday on Bush's orders, the nation's most veteran analysts conclude that despite serious damage to the leadership of al-Qaida, the threat from Islamic extremists has spread both in numbers and in geographic reach.
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"If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide," the document says. ***Virtually all assessments of the current situation were bad news. The report's few positive notes were couched in conditional terms, depending on successful completion of difficult tasks ahead for the U.S. and its allies. In one example, analysts concluded that more responsive political systems in Muslim nations could erode support for jihadist extremists.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a U.S. ally in Washington for a Thursday meeting with Bush, found himself drawn into the political dispute. He was asked in a CNN interview about an assertion in his new book that he opposed the invasion of Iraq because he feared that it would only encourage extremists and leave the world less safe."I stand by it, absolutely," Musharraf said. "It has made the world a more dangerous place."
Thanks, Georges.
And thanks for the projected trillion dollar bill for the war.
And for those people who might vote GOP because the price of gas has fallen a few dimes -- are you OOYFM?
The truth is more likely that removing US troops, who presently provide target practice for both terrorists and insurgents, will remove one destabilizing element. And, as Webb has indicated, they need not be removed to CONUS, but only as far as, say, Kuwait, handy if needed but out of the boiling stew that is Iraq. Besides, if Bush is so airheaded as to hit Iran with his bunker busters (or, worse yet, an A-bomb or two) launched from the newly arrived carrier strike force in the Persian Gulf, just what do you think will happen to our American sitting ducks all crammed into the Green Zone in Iraq? If they are not there, they can't be a target now, can they?
About the polls. While I agree with (Plan)B-American (never thought I would
Things have changed *a lot* within the past month, esp. in the past 10 days; we've had 2 debates (the one on MTP very visible) where Webb was his usual, unassuming but knowledgeable (spell?) self. We've had Allen behaving like "the gift that keeps giving", sticking one of the cowboy boots into his face with regulartity. We've had write ups in the press, including the "big dudes" like WashPo and NYTimes.
Yet, the pols still treat us "as if we'd fallen from under the stork's tail", to use a Polish phrase. You'd have thought that they'd at least take the patient's temperature, even if they have no diagnose to offer :)