  Damon Member Username: Damon Post Number: 690 Registered: 11-2003 |
Newly anointed Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama will participate in the annual traditional Labor Day march in Detroit on Monday, according to a Web site for the Detroit Federation of Teachers union. Obama is expected to deliver an address at Hart Plaza at 11 a.m. Monday during a rally following the parade, the Web site said. The parade, whose theme is "Unions Mean Change for America," has a new time this year: It will begin at 9:30 a.m., according to the DFT Web site. http://detnews.com/apps/p.../8 08280453 | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 1387 Registered: 10-2003 |
Barf | ||
Iseries840 Member Username: Iseries840 Post Number: 877 Registered: 08-2005 |
Obama, Stay away from my Jazz fix. | ||
Lowell Moderator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4977 Registered: 07-2008 |
Welcome to the D Barack Obama! Don't worry about your jazz fix, the parade and event will all take place before the stages open. Democratic candidates traditionally kicked off their campaigns with Detroit's labor day parades. This is a return to that tradition. Q for the historians up in here. When was the last time a candidate came to Detroit for Labor Day? See ya there, | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 285 Registered: 10-2007 |
Bush Sr. came to Hamtramck in the early 90s for that Labor Day event. Secret Service lined the rooftops. One friend had a sign that read "Sit Down and Shut up" after a previous rally where they heckled the shit out of him, and that was all he could come up with. | ||
Hardhat Member Username: Hardhat Post Number: 252 Registered: 10-2003 |
Was Dukakis the last Dem? Gore came in 1992 as VEEP candidate, but Clinton never came in either of his two elections, Gore didn't come in 2000 and Kerry didn't show in 2004. Been kind of a lost tradition for Dems in recent years. | ||
Ladia Member Username: Ladia Post Number: 100 Registered: 05-2008 |
I definately plan to go,and be at hart plaza. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 5320 Registered: 02-2004 |
Ralph Nader was there in 2000. | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1806 Registered: 01-2004 |
I'll be at the Hart bright and early | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 675 Registered: 09-2007 |
All the Best to Obama...I wish him Luck; but, the Next President of the United States - John McCain - will be in Fairborn, Ohio this afternoon. | ||
Higgs1634 Member Username: Higgs1634 Post Number: 644 Registered: 10-2005 |
Did anyone catch Debbie Dingell's daily dose of douchbagerry from Denver on Paul W. Smith (what appeal this man has is beyond me...) where she questioned the safety of Barack because of the neighborhoods the march went through? I believe her words were "some of those areas are just not safe". I guess we'll just need to have Snake Bliskin ready to go get him out. | ||
Damon Member Username: Damon Post Number: 691 Registered: 11-2003 |
I wouldnt miss this parade and rally for all of the tea in China. This is going to be another historic event. Its time to bring the whole family. I have never been as excited to engage in politics in my entire life. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 5299 Registered: 02-2005 |
Let the obligatory union pandering begin. An early-September trip to Detroit sounds like the perfect time to lay out the urban agenda that neither campaign has been daring enough to offer up (nor any campaign for a long while). Let's hear about improving urban public schools, cutting down gang activity and adding police, and creating incentives for people to live and work in American cities. Oh wait, nah, it's better to march with teachers unions. Style over content. Rhetoric over real ideas. Our politics suck... But yeah, bring your friends and families to this "historic" hour of banal rhetoric. We sure as hell won't get to see a politician kiss a union's ass again, right? Enjoy your holiday, Lowell and friends. | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 680 Registered: 09-2007 |
Someone please tell Obama and Biden to stay home; time for them to throw in towel. CNN & MSNBC report that John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Game Over - Republicans Win....end of story. (Message edited by chuckjav on August 29, 2008) | ||
Foxyscholar Member Username: Foxyscholar Post Number: 219 Registered: 12-2007 |
Yikes! A (White) female for the Repub VP was a DESPERATE Hail Mary.... Oops! Dropped the ball! Shaky hands.... Obama/Biden '08! | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1809 Registered: 01-2004 |
I think McCain just really shot himself in the foot on this one. His reasoning for picking his VP was something to the effect "I'm not looking for someone who can step in at a moment notice to run the country, I'm looking for someone who shares my ideas" basically a "yes man, or woman". | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 786 Registered: 04-2006 |
quote:Have you read Obama's web page? He has an urban agenda very similar to what you described. You're correct in that McCain has nothing comparable, and in that no candidate from either party has had anything of the sort in a very long time. | ||
Emu_steve Member Username: Emu_steve Post Number: 711 Registered: 11-2006 |
bottom line: Either an African American pres or female VP. A (one) barrier will fall. | ||
_sj_ Member Username: _sj_ Post Number: 2501 Registered: 12-2003 |
Not for the right reasons. | ||
Zulu_warrior Member Username: Zulu_warrior Post Number: 3439 Registered: 10-2003 |
Will Kwame Bring the beer to hart plaza? | ||
Mrsjdaniels Member Username: Mrsjdaniels Post Number: 1300 Registered: 08-2005 |
go Wed Wings | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 5300 Registered: 02-2005 |
Bearinthebox: the way I see it, it's always implicitly there, somewhere under a pile of other crappy rhetoric in the Democratic Party platform, but is it made a priority or even spoken about? Certainly not outside of little-publicized events. Certainly not last night. If it is a focus on Monday, I would admire Obama for that. But we shouldn't expect that, nor should we expect any candidate to address it. Making cities livable for all people (i.e. cleaning up the mess our we've created over the last 4-5 decades) is a major component in solving the problem of our energy-use problem. The current political/economic climate would seem like the perfect time to address it. But it's almost too obvious, and challenging middle america to think about American cities again would not get many votes. And the market for VOTES is, admittedly, all that matters. | ||
Rogerjab Member Username: Rogerjab Post Number: 88 Registered: 06-2005 |
Kwame & Palin Hey guess what McSame's new running mate and Kwame have in common? They're both under investigation for firing police officers, don't ya love it? As mentioned earlier, Gov. Palin is embroiled in her own trooper-gate scandal up in Alaska. In short, she's accused of using her pull as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. The brother-in-law is embroiled in an ugly divorce and custody with Palin's sister. And after his boss wouldn't fire the brother-in-law, she fired the boss. Palin originally insisted there was nothing to the story. More recently, she was forced to admit the one of her top deputies had pushed to get the guy fired. Here's one our recent reports on the story. And we'll be bringing you an updated report shortly. Here's the local TV news report ... http://talkingpointsmemo.com/a rchives/211310.php | ||
Rogerjab Member Username: Rogerjab Post Number: 89 Registered: 06-2005 |
They're scrubbing these things faster than I can put them up, see if this link works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =6UojMnCgqVA&eurl=http://talki ngpointsmemo.com/ sound familiar? That McCain sure can pick em' | ||
Harpernottingham Member Username: Harpernottingham Post Number: 423 Registered: 04-2006 |
Seems to me that McCain might've just Mondaled himself. This election is starting to look like 1984 to me. Charismatic new blood takes on respectable other guy with female running mate. The only thing missing is George Orwell. (Or is he?) | ||
401don Member Username: 401don Post Number: 743 Registered: 11-2007 |
Anyone can look at Biden's resume and make a strong vp argument. Try doing the same with Palin. Guess oil drilling in the Wildlife Refuge is off the table. Won't Hart Plaza be a little crowded for Obama's speech considering all the other displays already there for the Jazz Fest? | ||
Mbshan Member Username: Mbshan Post Number: 51 Registered: 11-2007 |
Does this parade come down Woodward? I know that there have been labor day parades down there before. I tried to access the newspaper link but it didn't work. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 5302 Registered: 02-2005 |
Don't typecast the whole election just becaues there's a female VP candidate, HN. That's a poor comparison anyway. Reagan was an incumbent, too. 401don, I thought that she supports drilling there, while McCain does not. Basically McCain made a splash without making a splash. He chose a very unique person from a place that we don't normally hear about, but she represents conservative beliefs fairly closely, so McCain won't disgruntle people as he would have if he chose Lieberman. She is also a proponent of government reform, in keeping with McCain's overtones. Biden's resume includes going to a syracuse law school and quickly becoming a career senator. I don't know if that's the experience that counts towards a strong VP. And, he will secure lowly Delaware for the Dems, which allowed McCain to pluck someone from an equally insignificant state. I don't see where the high praise comes from, 401don. | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 687 Registered: 09-2007 |
Obamanationalists - it is futile to resist the compelling candidacy of McCain/Palin. Surrender Now...You Cannot Win | ||
J_to_the_jeremy Member Username: J_to_the_jeremy Post Number: 72 Registered: 03-2007 |
^hilarious that "compelling" is the only thing that can be said. Mackinaw is mostly on point imo. |
