Senator John Boccieri salutes troops and military families in national Democratic radio address for Memorial Day
State Senator John Boccieri, a Major in the United States Air Force Reserve and C-130 aircraft pilot as well as a candidate for Congress in Ohio's 16th Congressional District, will deliver the national Democratic radio address for Memorial Day on Saturday, May 24 at approximately 11:05AM.
Boccieri has served in the Reserve for 13 years and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan on four rotations during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
In his address, John reflects on the solemn holiday and the service and sacrifices made by our soldiers and military families. He also calls upon leaders in Washington to change direction on policies effecting our economy, jobs, veterans, health care, and Iraq to put America and our middle class families first again.
The word coming out of Columbus, Ohio, in the Tribune Chronicle for the passage of his vets bill "just in time for Memorial Day." Ian Walton, Campaign Manager, John Boccieri for US Congress has confirmed:
Huge News! The Veteran's Bill Sponsored by John has just been signed by the Governor.
The one thing his voters can count on is that they will ultimately be disappointed. Der Spiegelhas it exactly right.
Update [2008-2-20 14:37:51 by susanhu]: Ignore the silly press reports about the Machinist Union president's speech. More here. WATCH THIS VIDEO. Hear about the promises that Obama made to desperate Maytag workers, and how he then took piles of money from the Crown family of Chicago, that owned Maytag -- and the patriarch of that family says that Obama never talked to him about saving the Maytag workers' jobs:
But the union that represented most of those Galesburg workers isn't impressed with Obama's advocacy and has endorsed his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Its leaders say they wish he had done more about their members' plight.
What rankles some is what Obama did not do even as he expressed solidarity four years ago with workers mounting a desperate fight to save their jobs.
Obama had a special connection to Maytag: Lester Crown, one of the company's directors and biggest investors whose family, records show, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama's campaigns since 2003. But Crown says Obama never raised the fate of the Galesburg plant with him, and the billionaire industrialist insists any jawboning would have been futile. [BUT OBAMA COULD HAVE TRIED, DAMMIT]
The article also says that Axelrod had no clue that Crown sat on the board of Maytag. Guess they know now.
ORIGINAL: I already showed you a video of a panel of Obama supporters who were unable -- a single one of them -- to name any of Obama's legislative or other accomplishments. But even his elected supporters -- members of Congress and governors (!) -- cannot come up with anything. (Uh, you'd think that Obama's campaign would send them some talking points? If they can come up with a few?) (h/t Taylor Marsh and MyDD's "Breaking Blue")
Then there are Congressman Bobby Scott (D-Va) and Governor James Doyle, Jr. (D-Wisc), who can't think of a thing to say about their candidate's qualifications -- along with the concerns of Der Spiegel ("Change You Can't Believe In") and The Economist ("But could he deliver?"):
This is the picture of a campaign self-destructing. The video is positively cringe-making.
Hillary was on live on WKYC today, the Cleveland NBC affiliate, bobbing and weaving on the Cleveland State debate on Feb. 26. By my count, she agreed to a debate in Ohio 9 full days ago - the David Shuster pimpfest has been going on almost a week, and she is STILL playing some kind of weird victim game with the premier political reporter in Cleveland TV, Tom Beres. Beres literally begs her at the end to commit to the debate. She doesn't.
For a candidate who raised the biggest "debate me" stink I've seen in years after Super Tuesday, this is truly some of the most petulant behavior you can imagine from someone running for president. It has now become a self-parody. What an embarrassment. Here's the vid.
Seriously guys, you look like 8-year-olds fighting in the back seat of the car, only with incredibly well-informed ideas on American politics. There's nothing more embarrassing than having two of the (many, many, many) geniuses of the movement go tit for tat on the news feed thread.
First of all, this whole thing started because Sirota used BB to link to his own work on another site. As a general rule, it's not appropriate for anyone to use their BB privileges to link their own writing, unless (I suppose) it is chock full of other BB-worthy news articles (in which case you might as well just post the links to those articles on BB). Either way, there's no reason to use the breaking news feed to pimp your own opinions. Write a fucking diary like the rest of us.
Speaking of which, this is a diary, so you have to follow the link to read the last few paragraphs.
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