One Utah

“I’m asking you to believe.  Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I’m asking you to believe in yours.”

Here’s the Reverend Wright speech I referred to in my last two posts.
Reverend Wright, I HAVE NEED TO BE BAPTISED OF THEE & The Reverend Jeremiah Wright….Jeremiads are What the Bible Says
The sound bites being used to sell air time this week were clearly taken out of context. Wright said, ‘the black religious tradition, despite […]

I’m flabbergasted at the difference between my take of what the Reverend Jeremiah Wright said and what the national 24/7 cable stations are saying. I saw all of the Reverend Wright’s speech in the Middle West. It was, as I said, perhaps the finest sermon I’ve ever heard. I saw parts of […]

This moment in the political history of the United States is profound and unique for many reasons. A bankrupt and immoral administration is paving the way for a new administration to be led by (a) a warrior intending to carry out his predecessor’s agenda, more competently, but especially then with more disastrous consequences for the […]

I’ve just heard the finest sermon or speech I’ve ever heard in my life, given by The Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I’m old enough to have heard great speakers. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt after a shaky start in that venue; Hugh B. Brown, Harry Truman standing on the platform of the caboose in […]

A thrilling aspect of this election cycle is that practically every day I get email from either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
Never before have I had this sort of intimacy with an American President and an international celebrity.
Just this afternoon Bill took time out from the campaign to send me the following note:

A gaffe happens when a politician, accidentally or on purpose, speaks the truth in public. That’s what Barack Obama got caught doing.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has something to say about the “bitter” so-called controversy that’s been heavily promoted by the Clinton campaign and the media all weekend.

Male hourly wages began to drop […]

Withdrawal from Iraq is a foregone conclusion, given the state of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, and America’s worldwide security commitments. We just don’t have the 400,000 to 500,000 troops it would take to effectively occupy Iraq, and never did– even when the “Coalition of the Willing” was […]

If thousands of people weren’t being killed, this would be funny. Our politicians can’t keep track of America’s many, ever-changing enemies in Iraq. President Bush has never made it very clear who we’re fighting. It’s “a combination of terrorists, elements of former regime criminals and sectarian militias,” he said in October 2006, […]

Via DailyKos, Pulitzer Prize winning author Steve Coll speculates that Osama bin Laden (OBL) might be found before the November elections. His reasoning goes like this:

Pakistan’s Musharraf regime believed that their $10 billion aid package might be reduced if they tracked down too many al Qaeda leaders
Key elements of the regime had close ties […]

Pat Buchanan wrote an op-ed that pretty much confirms there is an invisble white pointed hood on his head.

What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure? Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, […]

It may have been the ugliest part of the presidential campaign so far. Just before the Texas primary, Hillary Clinton’s campaign ran a fearful TV ad. The message: our loved ones are in grave danger and only Clinton can save them. Like similar Republican appeals to fear, it worked. Texans who […]

The New York Times reports on March 19 that whereas the Bush administration sold the Iraq war to the congress as a $50 billion investment, the actual costs are more like–
1.) ultra-conservative Pentagon estimate: $600 billion and counting
(note: this Honest Abe estimate categorically excludes “extras” such as operations in the war zone, […]

There, I said it. This country can’t afford a President McCain. Hillary Clinton claims that McCain would be a better commander in chief than Barack Obama. She couldn’t be more wrong.

Josh Marshall today has a superb take-down of McCain’s CINC credentials, after yesterday’s gaffe provided a small opening for such criticism. […]

When I was a young Army officer, we had a sarcastic saying to describe a troublesome, unavoidable, and possibly career-suicide assignment: “it’s an opportunity to excel.”
Up to now, Senator Barack Obama’s campaign has been pretty good at dealing with a barrage of hypocritical accusations. Thanks to the right-wing noise machine and their […]

I was walking along on Murray-Holladay road just above Holladay Blvd. and my jaw dropped when I saw this billboard. Am I overreacting, or is this just outright racism peddled by the justice department? This is put out by an organization called “Project Safe Neighborhoods“, which is funded with billions of taxpayer dollars.

Robert Reich writes:
Are we approaching another turning point, like 1968, but one that reverses the great pendulum of American politics and moves the nation back to the left? The George W. Bush presidency has been such an abject failure — only 26 percent of Americans approve of the job he has done — that America […]

During last night’s debate, I heard something from Senator Barack Obama that I hadn’t heard before. The candidate and his staff are in touch with some members of the military, and listening to what they say. This is a necessary quality for anyone who wants to do well in the job of Commander […]

This is my reply to some other folks on the Moab Area Progressive Network in a dialogue about Barack Obama and electoral politics in Utah:
(1) In respect to initiation of paradigm shifts, John is correct that these are not initiated by INCUMBENT mainstream politicians. They originate in “closets.” According to Peck’s Microtrends, […]