Update: I am still reading Going Rogue, unfortunately, I'm well into over a hundred pages just on the second chapter alone! I'll update the book soon. However, there are far more important things going on in both Haiti and Massachusetts.
Please, please, PLEASE give whatever you can to a charitable agency that can help aide the relief effort in Haiti. Even pocket change can help, honestly. I prefer the Clinton Foundation. If you need any help with locating an agency to donate to, please let me know.
Now, to the very important matter of the special senatorial election taking place in Massachusetts tomorrow. Ted Kennedy's senate seat will either be filled by Democratic candidate Martha Coakley or " Independent" candidate Scott Brown. I use the term independent loosely as he clearly is a Republican in Independent'sclothing.
Not surprisingly I'm going to ask you to vote for Martha Coakley. However, it may surprise you to know that I am EXTREMELY disappointed in her campaign, or lack thereof. Martha must have thought that any Democratic candidate filling a Kennedy seat could breeze right in.... WRONG! Our country is still in the midst of an economic crisis and is trying to understand complex and extremely important measures such as health care reform. People need a leader, not the promise of one. With so much uncertainty out there, I'm shocked that no one, not even the DNC had the hindsight on this one.
Do I love Martha Coakley? No. Am I voting for her? Absolutely. Should you vote for her? Yes, and not only because she's both a Democrat and a woman, but because she will carry on Ted Kennedy's legacy and she is extremely competent. I think I'd rather support an Attorney General than a state senator. At least an Attorney General has fought for justice for Massachusetts residents despite their party affiliation. Scott Brown has been successful at voting for Republican agendas since he began in office. Furthermore, with denying a woman both the right to chose and the right to proper health care after she has been raped, supporting bonuses for those bozos on Wall Street as well as tax breaks for the super rich and defeating educational measures that would benefit our children Scott Brown clearly does not have the needs of the people of Massachusetts in mind.
Scott Brown tries to play off like he wants to fight the political machine... HA! The GOP can't wait to sink their claws into him and I am sure that he won't mind a bit!
Martha Coakley messed up. However, don't vote for that moron as a form of punishment because in the end, you'd only be punishing yourself.
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Tuesday, January 19
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thedemocraddict
on Tue 19 Jan 2010 09:39 AM PST
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