Speeches

Can't find any Hillary videos, but I did find her thanking volunteers (the video is not very good, looks like it was a cell phone.
Can't find any Edwards speech videos either, but while searching did find many of his trip to UCLA.
I'll post them when I find em, I'll sure they will show up in the next day.

Live Blog! From My Apartment In Westwood

K, so I just got back from the convention which was a great time. Definate highlights were the Hillary, Obama, and LaRouche speeches, and who can forget, the hospitality suites. I don't wanna write a wrap up of events, someone will come on and do that later. I just wanted to link over to some blogs that have been talking about everything going down. They actually had a little bloggers area to the left of the stage that the SF Chronicle even talks about.

Have fun:

Calitics
CA Progress Report
Daily Kos
CA Majority Report
LA Times
Rough & Tumble
Orange Juice
The Liberal OC

CDP Convention Starts Today

Bruin Dems are migrating south this weekend. Our whole board and around 20 general members will be in San Diego for the Caliornia Democratic Party 2007 convention (and yes I am about to get on the 405 for a 100 mile trip in the middle of rush hour ).

We will be voting on the California Young Democrats elected offices, meeting local elected officials, and possibly more presidential candidates, and all while having a terrific time in the Californian city known as a "whales vagina". We will attempt to blog while down there and give an update on the past days events every morning. Maybe I can get our newly elected President Kyle Kleckner or our newly elected External Vice President Jesse Melgar to make a post or two. We will be checking in and linking to some other blogs and see what they are saying about the convention.

Ok, see you all soon.

Ghafari-Ouuttttt

Damn Video Cameras Episode 3

Let's see him straight talk his way out of this one....

Oh, Johnnie

Let's Lay Down Our Right To Bear Arms

As Professor Plate of the Communications and Public Policy department says in this editorial:

"Some misguided people will focus on the fact that the 23-year-old student who killed his classmates and others at Virginia Tech was ethnically Korean. This is one of those observations that's 99.99 percent irrelevant. What are we to make of the fact that he is Korean? Ban Ki-moon is also Korean! Our brilliant new United Nations secretary general has not only never fired a gun, it looks like he may have just put together a peace formula for civil war-wracked Sudan -- a formula that escaped his predecessor.

"So let's just disregard all the hoopla about the race of the student responsible for the slayings. These students were not killed by a Korean, they were killed by a 9 mm handgun and a .22-caliber handgun."

Well put sir. I think it's outrageous to look at this in terms of race- it is nothing more than a poor excuse by gun-wielding crazies. Now I don't advocate completely banning firearms, but if the Virginia Tech tragedy and associated opinions like this are not good reasons for why we should start limiting them, than I don't know what is.

Check out the rest of the article here.

No Suprise Here

Obama leads in the youth vote (18-24).

Damn Video Camera's Pt. 2

Al Franken's Head Is Blowing Up Somewhere

O.M.G.

So We Are Back From Break

Lets catch up on some of the news stories we missed with a blog news roundup.

Chicago millionaire purchases Tribune company, which in turn means the LA Times has a new owner.

Nutjob Congressman Tom Tancredo announces Presidential bid based on immigration.

Obama has 30,000 more donors than Clinton in the first quarter.

Michael Ware says John McCain is living in Neverland.
McCain campaign feeds a made up story to drudge.
Ware responds.
Related: Details on McCain's security team in Iraq.

Obama campaign reveals "It's Time" clock.

Speaker Nunez is part of the "culture of death" according to Cardinal Mahoney. This has nothing to do with him being on MTV Cribs.

Papa Bear being Papa Bear.

Fox gives "Half Hour News Hour" thirteen more episodes. Hopefully there will be a laugh somewhere in one of them.

November was six months ago. Time for gas prices to go up. This years excuse: Iran.

Biden campaign releases "Head to Head" website.

Kissenger: "A military victory is not possible"

My former Congressman and now Chairman of the SEC Chris Cox, and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch eye Alberto Gonzalez's job.

Corzine endorses Clinton. No word on if he will kick down 60 million.

White House goes after Matthew Dowd.

NY Post not very selective on their Hillary photos.

Be friends with Arnold, and get a job.

Vilsack Endorses Hillary In Iowa

This should help her chances in picking the all too important state up. Can someone say Vice President?

Vote Different

Here's the internet ad that's generating a lot of talk.

Obama Won't Be Swiftboated

From politico.com:

This week, the Democratic operatives showed up and it turned un-fun pretty quickly.

During a question-and-answer session, a student got up and directed a question to Mark Penn, a top strategist for Hillary Clinton.

"Hillary Clinton voted for the war," the student said. "How do you convince those of us who are inclined to support her that she isn't inclined to get us involved in another war?"

Penn replied that Hillary Clinton is not the kind of person who would have started the Iraq war. He said that had she been president, she would have found out the truth about the weapons of mass destruction and there would have been no war.

But Penn didn't stop there. Even though he had been asked nothing about Barack Obama, Penn said that Obama's record on opposition to the war was "complex" and that Obama had made statements in the past that appear to support the Iraq war.

Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod, was sitting about six feet away from Penn and he was not going to take that.

Axelrod, who is normally soft-spoken and mild-mannered, replied: "I really think it is important, if we're going to run the kind of campaign that will unify our party and move this country forward, that we do it in an honest way, and that was not an honest way."

What's the big deal with that? Don't people on opposing campaigns accuse each other of being dishonest all the time?

No. Not in public, anyway. It is considered pushing the boundaries of what is done and not done.

Axelrod continued, "Are we going to spend 10 months savaging each other or lift this country up?"

"I think that is a false choice," Penn replied. "Are we going to look at everybody's record and everybody's votes and tell people the truth?"

Un-fun. But very interesting.

I have two thoughts about the exchange between Penn and Axelrod:

First, it is a sign that no campaign is going to risk getting "Swift-Boated." Any campaign that is attacked or thinks it is being attacked is going to respond quickly and vigorously.

Second, the Iraq war is not going to go away as an issue within the Democratic Party.

When it comes to the war, who said what when, how they said it and what they say about it now is going to continue to be a very big deal.

After the question-and-answer session, the campaign staffs, some reporters and some students retired to a large, off-the-record dinner.

And I figured Axelrod might use the opportunity to bury the hatchet.

"I want to go on the record to say that Mark is a longtime friend of mine, whom I respect deeply," Axelrod said. "But let's not throw out half-quotes that are aimed at misleading. I did not say a word about Sen. Clinton's choice to vote for the war in 2002."

That's burying the hatchet, all right. Right in Mark Penn's head.

iRack

For all of us political nerds out there who also happen to be tech nerds, enjoy!

The Truth Hurts

A new independent study finds that Democratic proposals for fixing the health care problem in America, are cheaper and more effective than the administrations.