Watch The Debate With No Sound
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As Rich Miller often points out, it reveals much more than listening.
It also explains the polling from tonight. John McCain verbally was decent, but his visual cues were a lot worse than Al Gore’s sighs.
Cratered
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Wow.
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Brutal
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I Have To Say
The bid to get rid of the VP debate was completely obvious, but I cannot believe they did it in such a ham-handed way–even for the John McCain campaign.
Overloading on Guffaws
This is worse than when Dole resigned from the Senate to show his resolve.
I Told You So
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Here’s the Play
McCain wants to cancel Friday so they have to then make it next Thursday and we, unfortunately, will have to go without a VP Debate.
A Very Clever Ruse
Sorry it took me so long to post on this, but I was laughing too hard:
Blagojevich accused Obama of buying into a “very clever ruse by the McCain campaign” in making a phone call Wednesday to Illinois Senate President Emil Jones that sought an expedited vote on ethics legislation. Jones, who mentored Obama in the state Senate, agreed to call senators back to work Monday to deal with the governor’s rewrite of an ethics bill.
Many lawmakers said the governor’s changes would kill the bill, not strengthen it, and accused Jones of helping Blagojevich by delaying a vote. The governor said Obama’s involvement would only hurt his reform platform in the presidential race.
Blagojevich maintained that if the Senate joins the House in overriding his changes to the bill, then “sometime in October, in battleground states, you’ll be seeing TV ads that Republicans are putting up and the McCain campaign is putting up that will start accusing Sen. Obama of coming back to Illinois to help his old friends in the Illinois General Assembly.”
A complete divorce from reality is a sign of mental illness and would be sufficient cause to impeach the man. If there was any question, there no longer is.
In fact, loony is becoming standard terminology for people discussing the Governor:
Cynthia Canary, director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, called Blagojevich’s comments “delusional” and “loony.” Her group opposed the governor’s changes and asked Obama to speak with Jones.
Personal PAC Response
It appears there has been some misinformation concerning Personal PAC’s involvement in political campaigns and the 17th House district race — in particular between Dan Biss and Beth Coulson. I hope to answer any questions people may have about our mission and work.
Personal PAC is a state bi-partisan pro-choice political action committee. Like all other political committees that are not aligned with partisan politics (nearly all public interest groups fall into this category including civil rights and environmental groups, labor unions, gun control advocates, anti-abortion groups, anti-LGBT groups, the NRA and business groups for example). Personal PAC supports candidates of both political parties. Like these other organizations, when there is a 100% leader running for re-election, we support that leader regardles of his or her opponent. And we do this for several very good reasons. When a pro-choice legislator like Beth Coulson, Jeff Schoenberg, Rosemary Mulligan or Lauren Beth Gash is lobbying a colleague to vote pro-choice who is hesitant to do so, Coulson, Mulligan, Schoenberg and Gash can look them straight in the eye and say, “I’m here to tell you that the pro-choice movement never abandons its friends and will be there for you 100%, regardless of who runs against you. I know, they were there for me and were absolutely invaluable in my getting elected and re-elected. You couldn’t ask for better supporters at election time.”
We must hold both Republicans and Democrats responsible for being pro-choice. Our opponents are bi-partisan in their support of ALL candidates who are anti-legal abortion. Illinois Right-to-Life endorses anti-abortion Democrats and Republicans across the state. There are not enough Democratic votes and there are not enough Republican votes to keep abortion legal in Illinois, but there are enough Democratic AND Republican votes taken together to make some progress. No woman who has been raped and cannot get a legal abortion will much care if it was a Democrat or Republican who cast a vote in the Illinois General Assembly to send her into a back alley for an illegal abortion.
Personal PAC and Planned Parenthood of Illinois are not the only organizations supporting Beth Coulson. Many labor unions including AFSCME, SEIU and IEA are supporting Beth, as is the Brady Campaign, League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club and the National Association of Social Workers-Illinois.
Personal PAC’s work, including our voter identification calls, on behalf of candidates is open and documented through filings with the State Board of Elections. Identification of who is placing the calls and paying for them is required by a new state law that became effective on July 1, 2006 in order to ensure that anonymous so-called “push polling” does not take place. If Personal PAC did not identify itself in our calls, we would have broken the law and that is something Personal PAC does not do. If anyone believes that someone is violating the law, they should file a complaint with the State Board of Elections and initiate an investigation. Personal PAC would be more than happy to assist with this investigation
Personal PAC’s calls on behalf of Beth Coulson have said the following: “In the race for State Representative, Elizabeth Coulson, has been a pro-choice leader in the General Assembly for many years.” This is the same script we have used for Beth in the past three elections and this is the first time anyone has misunderstood the intent.
I hope this makes clear Personal PAC’s mission and goals. Personal PAC’s most important focus for the next 6+ weeks is to turn at least 11 House and Senate seats currently held by anti-abortion State Senators and State Representatives into those held by 11 pro-choice leaders. We need everyone’s help to accomplish this task so we can pass a bill in Illinois that says abortion will remain legal in the state, regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court says in the future. There is a 1975 law on the books that states abortion becomes illegal in Illinois on the day Roe is modified or overturned. To keep abortion safe and legal in Illinois, we need your help. Please join us. For more information about Personal PAC, visit our website at www.personalpac.org.
Terry Cosgrove, President & CEO
Personal PAC