James Carville as reported by Tom Paine.com: ""We have a president that is no longer interested in what happens to the next generation. We have a president that is no longer interested in what happens to the promise of America.

"I am telling you that there is so much at stake here. There is so much for us to fight for. There are so many people who don't want to give up the dream of generational promise.

"People always ask, 'What can I do? What can I do?'" Carville told the 1,000-plus crowd. "Sit down, shut up and write a check. And then after you do that, get to a phone bank and do whatever you can in your city or state."

It was critical, Carville said, for Democrats "to get behind our candidates and push them to talk about the kinds of things we really care about." He said Democrats in Congress as well as the presidential candidates were becoming bolder and had to be supported.

"Right now what we need to do, now that they are starting to fight back, we need to give them encouragement," he said. "We have to show them they have support. We have got to learn the value of supporting our people."

There were many clichés about Democrats that were false, Carville said, but one rang true: that the party too-often behaved like a collection of interest groups defending their turf, rather than a national political party with a larger focus. He said Democrats mustn't allow that to happen in the unfolding campaign.

Carville told the trial lawyers to avoid it and focus instead on what it will take to win against a Republican Party that's likely to use the courts and federal law enforcement to get the electoral outcome they seek.

"The candidates will come to you and say, 'I voted for this bill, or against tort reform,'" Carville said. "The first question from the audience, should be, 'Sir, tell us the kind of campaign that you will run to combat Republican thuggery.'

"If they run a campaign that doesn't fight back when the Republicans use the courts and law enforcement to win elections... I want to know what kind of campaign you will run. Are you going to take this stuff, or are you going to fight back?"

Recent political history shows Democrats win when they stand up and fight, he said.

"In '88 we let the GOP walk all over us. We lost," Carville said. "In '92, we fought back and won. In '94, we went soft and lost. They tried impeachment. We fought back, we won. In 2000, we let them walk all over us in Florida. In 2002, we let them roll over us in Congress. In 2004, we know better..."

"What the party needs to do is win the election on big issues, big contrasts," Carville said, adding "recent polls show people are starting to get tired of what's going on."

"If you look at the policies of this administration, the average guy, there ain't nothing for them," he said. "We've got to focus on how they are changing the very nature of what it is to be an American -- the generational promise."

"You will see a big turnout," Carville predicted. "This is a real test for us. Not so much to come together, but a time when we must insist on a government that includes all of us. Therein lies the real strategy."

As usual, James gets to the point and makes it with amazing clarity. Keep it up, Jimmy!

Condeleeza Rice, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, as the President's National Security Advisor, is the highest ranking black Alabamian to presently serve her nation. Her latest protestation to the press concerning her boss's using a lie to kickstart the Iraq war is very upsetting to most Alabamian's who want to be proud of Ms. Rice, who incidently, is the only black woman to have an Exxon oil tanker named after her. If her defense of this debacle-in-the-making, to wit, on Meet the Press in June, Rice claimed, "We did not know at the time--no one knew at the time, in our circles--maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency, but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery."; is done on the orders of her boss and his minion, Carl Rove, then is it evident that our girl Condi has been snookered by the white boys in Washington to do their dirty laundry. Being from Birmingham, Condi ought to be able to recognize just how difficult it is to work "down in the bowels" of Jim Crow's wash house. It is shameful that Bushco sees fit to use Ms. Rice and her Cabinet mate, General Powell, as pawns in their war against the civil freedoms of this nation. It is a greater shame still, that Ms. Rice and General Powell, who know first hand of the cruel edge of exploitiation of the weak by the strong, allow themselves to be so used.

This below is from Scotland on Sunday, at scotlandonsunday.com and is a report on the real threat our country faces concerning the whacko-right's attempts to include creationism in our schools. Can you imagine trying to do away with the basis of almost all science, that is, Darwin's Theory of Evolution, and replacing it with the fable of God creating the universe as told in the bible? Just imagine, we would then be at the same level as those people in we are fighting in Iraq and other third world countries. Here is what the article says:

US schools face new attack on evolution

JACQUI GODDARD IN MIAMI


AMERICA?S bible belt is gathering behind a fresh attack on the teaching of Darwin?s theory of evolution in schools.

Education officials in TEXAS are seriously considering a radical rewrite of textbooks to include claims that life on Earth was the result of "intelligent design" in a move that would affect all schools in the United States.

Evolutionists dismiss proponents of intelligent design as servants of the religious right, claiming the theory is simply a dressed-up form of creationism - the notion that God made man.

But on the other side of the debate are those who say that elements of Darwinism have been proved scientifically unsound and should be written out. They deny they are pushing a religious agenda.

Raymond Bohlin, research fellow at the Discovery Institute, a public policy think-tank in Seattle that is leading the call for change, said: "We feel that, for many years, textbooks have been given carte blanche to present all the strengths of evolutionism but none of the weaknesses."

Bohlin also heads Probe Ministries, a TEXAS group whose mission is to "bridge the frontier between the agonising questions man asks and the profound answers the Gospel offers".

Academics have reacted in horror to the idea of teaching 'intelligent design'.

Brian Leiter, professor of philosophy at the University of TEXAS, said: "Intelligent design is make-believe, but it's upsetting to people to be told that. It presents this real culture war."


TEXAS IS KILLING US!! This is the kind of world people like George Bush want us to live in, third world, where the rich control the poor and education cannot raise anyone up in class or economics because it is based on religion. Just another example of America's quick slide toward oblivion.