Comments on: Blog Power

By: actus

actus — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:32:48 +0000

“It simply requires him to get in front of the camera and let the enemy know that in no uncertain terms was he shouldnâ€™t have used the analogy he used.”

What TV stations should play it? like, which ones does the enemy watch?

By: Baklava

Baklava — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:27:10 +0000

Apologize for something he did during a time of war JB? Sure we want it.

Robert Byrd (and his fellow Senators) apologizing for something thier party did (yet not mentioning that their party did it – filibustering anti-lynching laws), but the point is it wasn’t the people who did filibuster apologizing, it was people apologizing many decades later and yet failing to really say who was responsible for the action….

What were people on this thread saying JB? We were saying it was a waste of time and taxpayer dollars to DRAFT A RESOLUTION APOLOGIZING. Durbin should apologize (he still hasn’t) for putting more of our military men in harms way and aiding the enemy and lying and it doesn’t require DRAFTING A RESOLUTION (wasting taxpayer dollars). It simply requires him to get in front of the camera and let the enemy know that in no uncertain terms was he shouldn’t have used the analogy he used. He was wrong.

By: JB

JB — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:45:27 +0000

So…Now its ok to extract an apology? I thought last week apologies were a waste of time and tax payers money and resources of the legislature? Have we now found good use for apologies? Just a question…

By: actus

actus — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:50:43 +0000

“Go ahead, Actus, divert and distract and misdirect. Jeff Gannon wasnâ€™t on the ballot. ”

Of course not. but he worked on the campaign.

By: RedBeard

RedBeard — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:35:31 +0000

Go ahead, Actus, divert and distract and misdirect. Jeff Gannon wasn’t on the ballot.

The fact is that Daschle lost because people in his state were fed up with his negativism, his obstructionism, and his small-minded partisanship.

The same is possible in Illinois with Durbin the Turban, if enough folks are sick of his disgusting slander. It’s not likely, given the dirty ward politics in Chicago and the mindless nature of Chicago’s Yellow Dog Democrats, but it’s possible. I’ll send a few bucks to his opponent, whoever it is.

By: actus

actus — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:38:09 +0000

“Anybody else think his next campaign might look a little like Daschle v Thune?”

Ooh. is jeff gannon gonna work on it?

By: mj

mj — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:01:18 +0000

He’ll win in Illinois–people like him here (except for Republicans, which are not numerous).

By: SCSIwuzzy

SCSIwuzzy — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:42:07 +0000

I also think that someone tipped Durbin to the polls that came out this week, that most American’s think Gitmo should stay open, and that the reports of torture are BS. When the public and the state part machine are against him, he as to make a choice. He went with weasel non-apology with a dash of panty waist crying for good measure.
Anybody else think his next campaign might look a little like Daschle v Thune?

By: mj

mj — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:18:14 +0000

Daley was responding to the media frenzy and his advisors/media relations people. He’s even done that over snow.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:41:51 +0000

Y’all might be missing a tie-in here, vis a vis the Daly/Durbin scenario. Granted, blogosphere pressure was there, and rising. Durbin may or may not have succumbed to it, eventually (or maybe he did, I don’t know). But he did apologize (sorta, kinda) after Daly let it be known he was not happy. Does this timeline mean anything? Maybe.
Perhaps Daly only spoke out when HE became aware of the rising storm.

Leaving us with blogosphere -> Daly -> Durbin, rather than blogosphere -> Durbin.

By: mj

mj — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:42:14 +0000

“It was the blogosphere that forced Sen. Richard Durbin to apologize…”

I disagree. I live in Chicago and the mayor is very powerful. Even his enemies tend to succumb to him because he’s a strong politician and deal-maker. He publically said he wasn’t happy with Durbin’s comments, and then Durbin apologized.

But who cares if he apologized? It’s just for show and to be united with Da Mayor and the party. Durbin has consistently demonstrated his lack of solid values.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:17:58 +0000

Yes, it is.

By: actus

actus — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:16:07 +0000

“Quit whining. Karl Rove was 100% accurate in his assertions and you know it.”

heh. That is the way to address the people who fail to step in line. 9/11 families or not.

By: ratso ferrari

ratso ferrari — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:37:05 +0000

Listening to the weepy Durbin and Voinovich doesn’t give me much confidence in these elected “leaders”.As doctor Phil would say,”you need to get out of your doublewides take a walk in your backyard and smell the skunkcabbage.”

By: Gretchen Heitz

Gretchen Heitz — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:26:38 +0000

Hold on, I supported the war in Afghanistan, and so did all Democrats. I supported the Iraq War thinking it was a part of the War on Terror, but it clearly is not, and it was not handled well. I look to prominent Republicans like McCain, Lugar, and Hagel (although he shouldn’t have said we are losing). The bottom line is, the families of 9-11 are a non partisan group, and they don’t like that their deaths to be turned into a political issue. Lets face it, Karl Rove is not hte most masculine guys out there. He just adds to liberal talking points about attempting to talk tough, but when it comes to his real life, he dodged every one of his civic responsibilities (his duty to defeat Communism in Vietnam) We need to tone down this “we are losing rhetoric,” and Liberals are traitors because its not helping us in the Polls. Bush’s approval ratings are going down, and it’s because people are beginning to equate us as a party that is obsessed with a problem that doesn’t even exist: flag burning at gay weddings.