The Democratic Platform “Draft” Is Published
By SusanUnPC on August 7, 2008 at 1:34 PM in Democratic National Convention, Democratic Platform
You, and 3,000 good Democrats, have all filled out the IOwnMyVote platform survey — and if you haven’t, please do it now. You have also received all of the details on the Platform meeting and the Howard Dean rally in Pittsburgh this Friday and Saturday. (If you want to go to Pittsburgh, e-mail Proud Military Mom at luswife@yahoo.com.)
Now you must wade through these documents, prepared entirely by Obama staff, and respond by 1) contacting your representatives at the platform committee meeting, 2) contacting your superdelegates, and 3) getting to Pittsburgh to help us fight for our AMENDMENTS to this platform.
The documents:
* draft-2008-democratic-national-platform.pdf
– You will note that the word “caucus” does not appear anywhere in this draft. The long section on health care begins at the bottom of page 10. Please review it carefully, and share your findings below.
* platform-committee-pre-meeting-materials-update.pdf
AGAIN:
You, and 3,000 good Democrats, have all filled out the IOwnMyVote platform survey — and if you haven’t, please do it now.
You have also received all of the details on the Platform meeting and the Howard Dean rally in Pittsburgh this Friday and Saturday.
LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD!
(If you want to go to Pittsburgh, e-mail Proud Military Mom at luswife@yahoo.com.)
a quote from the article
“Leadership on these issues has been sorely lacking these past eight years. In the 1990s,
under Bill Clinton’s leadership, employment and incomes grew and we built up a budget
surplus. However, our current President pursued misguided policies, missed
opportunities, and maintained a rigid, ideological adherence to discredited ideas. Our
surplus is now a deficit, and almost a decade into this century, we still have no coherent
national strategy to compete in a global economy. The price tag for these failures is being
passed on to our families.”
did you see the section on Africa? Supporting Democracy in Africa. We are in effect going to be going to Africa under the same premise we went into the middle east. This is the AA version of Bush.
Agree. Several of Obama’s 300 foreign advisors made points of saying America was too soft on Africa and needed to do more.
Obama intends to take our troops out of the Middle East and put them into Africa.
One last thing, there is no section on election reform. Did you notice that?
Obama not agreeing to place Clinton name in nomination
Flying home to Chicago, Obama told reporters on his campaign plane that he talked separately this week to Clinton and her husband, the former president, and that they were enthusiastic about having a smooth convention at the end of the month in Denver.
“As is true in all conventions, we’re still working out the mechanics, the coordination,” Obama said. One such issue is whether there will be a convention roll call on Clinton’s nomination, he said.
“I’m letting our respective teams work out details,” he said. Asked if that meant he wouldn’t object to her name being placed in nomination and a vote taken, Obama said: “I didn’t say that. I said that they’re working it out.”
read it all: http://countusout.wordpress.com/
sounds like B.O. is more intent on setting off fireworks than having a peaceful convention.
I disagree,I really don’t like the guy,or what he stands for,but I really believe,he won’t put Clinton’s name into the nomination,because,he wants to be nominated firstly,and than hand it over to Clinton..He would be put in the record books,as being the first black nominee,that turned it over to someone else..imo…I really believe he wants to take credit,and show a good side of Obama,that no one has seen to date..
I think Clinton will be the nominee at convention.
Remember Pelosi said there would be a couple of surprises at the convention,and everyone would be unified in November…
1st — Surprise- Obama will hand reins to Clinton.
2nd –Surprise— I think Bill Clinton will speak.
This is all my own opinion,,, I’m sure I’ll be knocked down…
What are you on? Wow! Read up on what he did to Alice Palmer in ‘96? Same tactic … knock all your opponents off the ballot and run uncontested.
Denver is simply the venue for us all to watch the tiara being placed on Princess Obama’s head!
LOL, whatever you’re on, could you pass some of that over here?
Really…I want some of that stuff too!
Stop smoking that Crack!
But yet they preach…
Okay, I’m a liberal, I’m a lifelong Democrat (at least until recently). I believe in investing in America and Americans. Some people even accuse me of being a socialist. But holy crap! This Dem platform is flippin creepy. They got the government deeply involved in your life from the cradle to the grave. Early childhood education from the age of zero? Zero? Can’t we learn to sit up first? Employer provided savings accounts? If we have enough money to save, aren’t we all smart enough to go get our own account? And as an employer, do I really have to jump thru yet another hoop and manage all my employee’s savings accounts? I’m tired just thinking about it.
Yes K Street will love this. See how Obama is a closet fascist? And why so many Republicans giving this creep money?
He’s selling us out PERIOD!
You do realize that these ’savings accounts’ of various kinds are really just a mechanism for implementing consumption-based taxation, right?
Income taxes are imposed at graduated rates to ensure potential progressive allocation of the tax burden.
When consumption taxes replace income taxes, as they will gradually with Obama and his rightwing tax policy friends, income will be tax exempt, and only consumption (consumer) spending will be taxed — at flat rates like the European VAT taxes, which run as high as 19% on all purchases.
These consumption tax rates are highly regressive.
They also autonomically exempt any money saved and not spend on consumption items from consumption taxes.
Therefore consumption taxes sit much more heavily on those with low or mid incomes and most lightly on the rich.
That’s the real problem with the Dem platform — its now a Repub platform!!
“A great nation now demands that its leaders abandon the politics of partisan division and
17 find creative solutions to promote the common good. A people that prizes candor,
18 accountability and fairness insists that a government for the people must level with them
19 and champion the interests of all American families. A land of historic resourcefulness
20 has lost its patience with elected officials who have failed to lead.”
I am rolling on the floor- they have got to be kidding??? promote candor??? god I haven’t even got past the rpe-amble and I am hip deep in doo doo
I don’t see support for the equal rights amendment in there. Did I miss it?
I found it! It’s in there, that one little sentance they edited out in 2004.
I found it! It’s in there!
This is quite a chunk to digest, but I was thinking: Why are opportunities for women under poverty directly below Family and Work in Section I?
Why is the American Community section not in the beginning?
Just a few questions.
Because women only exist in the Obama policy universe as mothers and wives, that’s why.
And also because the Obama vision of helping women gain ‘equality’ is enabling them to be able to ‘choose’ between working for pay or staying at home to care for children, elders, husbands, real estate, cars, furniture, pets, clothes, food….
Notice that no one talks about how much money hubby has to make before a woman might be in a position to make that ‘choice’ — or about how working for pay is coming under increasing attack from left right and center.
Obama spent his formative years in Indonesia, a Muslim country. What he saw there is embedded in his brain, that is how learning takes place. He saw that women were second-class and submissive to men, and for the rest of your life that is normal.
This platform is not well organized from what I can tell so far. They’ve got some priorities out of sync IMHO. Also I think “Education” should have its own category. I don’t like where women have been placed in this either. How did we get below Poverty? LOL
Because John Edwards championed poverty, and Hillary Clinton championed women and children. They had to put Hillary “in her place”, below John Edwards, so Women were placed below Poverty.
Obama really started something.
The NYT covers a black woman running for congress who claims her white liberal democratic opponent is racist. She ran a commercial equating Congressman Steve Cohen with the Ku Klux Klan.
I’d love to give you the link, but it isn’t possible here.
Lute,
Well get ready to play your instrument, and make it something extremely melancholic because this is just the beginning of Reverse Slavery. We are going to hear this tune played ad infinitum until some of us finally gather up the discarded cajones and take back our freedoms.
NOBAMA!
That’s the story I reported last night,that was on Hannity and colmes..It’s in Tennessee,and she wants to take down this statue.
Isn’t Cohen Jewish? We all know how the KKK loves them some jews and vice versa.
You can find the link at Tennessee Guerilla Woman.
And Obama!
NEW MCCAIN AD- Democrats praise McCain, including Hillary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyBtIx-Eogw
“And Senator Obama Has a speech he gave in 2002″
Well at least he did that…..
Did he really give that speech? All we have is his word for it. No recordings. No actual impartial records. Nothing. Just a re-enactment. But of course the selected one would never do anything shady.
I hit the link and youtube said it is no longer available, after 37 views
Link just worked for me . . .
AWESOME AD . . . I love that McCain’s doing that. Go Hillary!
You mean the Dems won’t support the Equal Rights Amendement or legislating Roe v. Wade into federal statute? I didn’t see these in the platform!!!!
“opportunities for women” What the hell does this mean? Give them a boost, but not equality with men. We still have to sit at the back of the bus, but they will let us ride on it.
Obama threw women under the bus, including his mama and granny.
It’s in there, I found the ERA. I also found support for pro-choice.
But I don’t see much about gays and civil rights. Is it hiding somewhere? There’s a section about repealing “don’t ask don’t tell” but not much else.
Did I miss the…..
Position on GLBT rights?
Position on Election Reform?
??????
I hate to be a naysayer, but the I Own My Vote survey (I did fill it out) is going to be thrown in the trash by the Democratic Party, along with LGBTs, Jews, working class whites, etc. Get it straight…the party doesn’t want us. The party says they don’t need us. They can go to hell as far as I’m concerned. Hope their messiah keeps them warm at night.
LGBT rights is in a little sentence tucked away.
The platform format is very disorganized at this point.
We do have to do something with the pension system, but I am not sure I have the answer either. The outline is vague.It almost sounds like a variation of the federal system.
Still not sure about this “civilian defense force”.
After a forgery of their Messiah’s BC is revealed, Where all Obamabots?
Isn’t Obama bringing back a new BC on Friday from Hawaii? Thought his “staff” wouldn’t let him travel to all 57 states, including Hawaii.
shtuey-
i’m with you on that one - wording in the survey was off.
obamessiah and followers made a calculation to that effect at the outset…
ooh Will Bowers is on FOX right now!
OK everybody! Go read it- I skimmed it and it’s a pitiful collection of Barky’s speeches.
The global Poverty Act made it in, ERA made it in AFTER father’s and seniors- page 51 Roe V Wade- AFTER rewarding fathers fro doing theri F*** jobs middle of page 50
Opposition to Defense of Marriage Act page 52
page 35 Don’t Ask Don’t tell goes away
We, the American people get shoret shrift here- way down the lsit- Africa, Asia, the Middle East all come before us.
I haev to dash off to work. Happy reading folks- we are being told to bend over
I don’t have cable because I hate the mainstream…What did Will Bowers say, voterinexile?
Haven’t read it yet but…
Nothing on getting rid of Caucuses ??? Nothing on Mandates for Health Care??
ALERT MSNBC….Someone in FLA ARRESTED for Planning ASSINATION of OBAMA..on TV now..
I don’t believe it… least from MSNBC…
They are trying to score some “victim” points by creating fake outrage.
That’s the first thought that came to my mind. Poor Obama! Not….
shtuey wrote:
I disagree. I have been working with the IOMV folks on this and several other projects. Some of the people behind IOMV have clout within the DNC and are close with many of the long time players. IOMV also has the support of some of the DNC’s most generous donors who have been consistently maxing out to the DNC for many years.
Neither the survey or these individuals will be ignored. Obviously Obama has the greatest control over the platform committee and his campaign will push back against all of these platform points. This will not be an effortless project.
We can realistically force these issues to be discussed amongst the committee and can make sure all of these are offered as ammendments in Pittsburgh. If we all work together to get a total of 38 committee members to back each platform amendment we will be able to get a minority report written and the amendments will have to go to the full convention floor for a full discussion in front of the national media.
This is a home run. It’s easy to fight to preserve caucuses that benefit party insiders but disenfranchise the vote of many registered Democrats at an off year DNC meeting that gets scant media coverage. I really want to see the Iowa Chair talk about how a contest that most elderly voters in rural areas are not able to participate in, that considers 5% voter turnout a great year and allows independents to vote in BOTH the Democratic and Republican primaries in the same year, is really the most Democratic way for them to run their primary.
Send the link to the survey to everyone you know. Call platform committee members and urge them to support these planks and sign a minority report if the full committee doesn’t adopt them.
Here is a copy of a commenter’s reply to an article on Savage Politics:
Captain Roulstone,
I hope that you will catch this post - I thank you for your kind reply to me above.
I feel this is a gigantic story that the media will not cover, that Bill Clinton recently ‘alluded’ to, and that Hillary supposedly talked about to Super Delegates on the phone as early as April or May -
Barrack Obama’s Birth Certificate IS A FORGERY. Apparently they have found his sister’s name on the document after analyzing it thoroughly.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/05/breaking-sister-mayas-name-uncovered-on-phony-obama-birth-certificate/
Now - I see a series of unnecessary movements by his campaign (Obama’s) over the last 4 months or so. Now that we are blessed to have you here and thus a stronger link to the good Senator, I would respectfully request that you read the story and consider whether this would be something that the Senator’s campaign would like to validate.
Obama’s campaign, as I am certain you know, has done some very peculiar things in regards to his past. The msm is complicit as well by not following leads and killing stories that might air.
Obama’s campaign Foreign Policy advisor was the CEO of a company who’s employees broke into Barack’s passport records - or those of his mother. Of course if you toss in the Senators from NY and AZ - it looks like an act of someone interested in ALL the candidates, rather than someone trying to, perhaps, ‘fix a problem’ for one candidate in particular.
Add this to the unnecessary legislation that was put forward ‘clearing’ Senator McCain to run for office - when no such ‘clearance’ was needed. Sounds to me like a preempitve strike so that they can demand equal treatment should someone ELSE require ‘exceptions’ to the rules. Of course, again, Senator McCain required no such ‘permissions’ and to me, with Claire McCaskill heading the push - there is al ulterior motive here - and it is not judiciousness or magnanimous behavior. I believe that if Obama’s records prove he was not born in the U.S. - they will use this ‘permission’ given to McCain as a RACE ISSUE - infuriating the AA community into outrage that McCain was given a pass for not being born in the U.S. directly - so why not Barack. It just stinks to high heaven.
Then you have the birth certificate issue. First he wouldn’t or couldn’t come up with one. Then he started equivocating over it - then he issued on his website the certificate that now has been proven to be false. What on earth would the motivation be to substitute and manipulate your sister’s birth certificate to pass off as your own? If there is not an issue why toss up details about time spent in Kenya? Barack tells us his mother spent 72 hours immediately prior to his birth, in Kenya, and then returned to have him.
Now I have done reasearch and am a bit of an aviation buff. I went back to see just what aircraft were available and when, in order to fly someone to Kenya, in 1961, and then back again within 3 days. Not even going over the fact that today and even MORE SO in the past - a 9 months pregnant woman would almost certainly be denied the ability to fly, especially a long flight, probably originating in Seattle (as the hints and records seem to imply), over the Pacific Ocean.
The DC8 or Boeing 707 was operational for its first flights in late 1958. Few companies flew the 4 engine jet through 1959 - and only the most profitable, highly travelled routes would be using this ULTRA expensive aircraft. No routes to any African country were considered high-traffic routes, with only a London - Johannesburg route being a moderate traffic route.
The flight WITH the jet would have taken, from Seattle, approximately 24 hours to complete, with refueling and passenger changes. But what is more likely is that Obama’s mother would have taken a 4 engine propeller plane - like the Pan Am Super Constellation - overseas - requiring as much as 32 hours to complete with stopovers, refueling, and passenger changes.
There is NO WAY A.) that she was allowed to fly at her stage of pregnancy, and B.) that she flew to Kenya, stayed about 6 hours, and then hopped on the plane back to Seattle, and then gave birth.
There is a reason for all of this - and for the MSM not even to look into it is a serious, and to me deliberate, oversight.
I appreciate any response you might have and forgive me for the length of my thoughts. I just believe there is a HUGE story here - Bill Clinton doesn’t just drop Bon Mots for nothing. There is meat here, there is motivation here, and there is fraud here. What it ultimately proves to be, I am not certain, but someone in the McCain campaign needs to start digging and start digging deeply - and fast.
Thank you sir, an honor to have your ‘ear’
jp49,
Please tell me you sent this to HRC’s office. If it went to McCain’s office, they will hold it until after the convention. Send this out!
I have ceased to expect anything like fairness from the DNC under it’s present leadership. The only hope for the Democratic party is to clean house. For myself, I am going to take Donna Brazile’s advice and get lost.
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