Say Something POSITIVE Thread

[Jack_Dawson]

Sagging poll numbers, a nauseating convention, 9/11 exploitation, biased cable networks. All of it is pretty depressing. That's why I think we need to hear something that will pick us up.

My contribution: The Valerie Plame investigation will wrap up (and make big headlines) before the election.

[dave29]

1. I like pandas

and John Kerry will win

:)

[Ladyhawk]

48. I like parrots and snakes...and your signature. It's very clever. n/t

[porkrind]

56. Pandas are delicious.

I also like spotted owl fajitas grilled with red peppers. Mmmmm.

:) Come On, I'm just kidding. Actually I'm practically a vegetarian.

On the bright side, I found that I really like Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve and Michelob Amber Bock.

[wryter2000]

2. Backfire

The purple heart bandage thing is going to backfire on them.

On edit: Could we have picked a better representative for that bandage than that loathsome looking woman? She's a PR nightmare for them. hahahahaha

[Jack_Dawson]

4. That HAS to backfire...

what LAMEasses.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Already has

vets and their families are mad as hornets (at least the ones I know).

[Swamp Rat]

65. Yep.

[Alexande4Kerry]

80. What happens if boxes of purple heart band aids show up in vet hospitals

I bet that would go over really nicely.

They will certainly be collectors items

[wryter2000]

81. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. I still haven't heard one positive word about Shrub

by anyone I've talked to. Don't think anyone is watching the convention.

[Worst Username Ever]

6. I really, really like Chipotle burritos.

[vetwife]

7. We can win if we work hard enough !

[goju]

8. Ohh, where do you get them?

That sounds about right to me.

[AlCzervik]

9. The republicans will overplay their hand

and Kerry will take the gloves off.

[stavka]

10. I love my partner....

Going to sleep with her and my kittens is something that always provides enough energy to wake up and face another day.

[Arugula Latte]

34. Oooooh, kittens!

What could be better than kittens?

John Kerry should campaign with a kitten under one arm and a puppy under the other.

[goju]

11. Debates - Every repube I have talked to

is very nervous about the debates. Bush and the media might be able to focus on "war president" right now but, the debates WILL bring attention to the economy, health care, no child left behind, etc.

[Jack_Dawson]

12. If Debates are Free-Flowing, Kerry Will Smash Him to Bits

If they are heavily moderated w/ no follow-ups, well...hey I'm keeping it positive. Kerry will smash him either way.

[goju]

14. Well

The original proposal was 2 moderated (who knows to what extent) and 1 town hall meeting format. That should be an opportunity for kerry to take him to task on those issues and bush just doesnt have the answers. Still no formal agreement I guess but if bush backs out of any one of the debates, he will look like a coward

[wishlist]

13. I saw 5 new Kerry yard signs in the past 2 days in my NC neighborhood

adding to several already up and none for Dumbya yet. This has to mean something since in the past 25 years (6 past Pres elections) the only yard signs in my stomping grounds were one Dem and one Repub sign in 2000.

[onecent]

20. Republican sign on the edge of town - stolen--this is Great!

A 2 sided sign on the edge of town (home made and pretty good size) said

Flush out both Johns
Re-elect Bush

Someone apparently stole that sign ...(but the metal bracket was still standing)

Now on the sign in big black letters is:

Thou Shalt Not Steal on one side
and Return sign you Thief... on the other.

of which plastered over the words "return sign you Thief" is

a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker. My husband and I laughed all the way into Liberty, Missouri.

Clay County, Missouri.....Big Bush (religious area I guess) In fact, you can see 5 churches from where this sign is posted.

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. Hmmmm....This is a tough one, Jack

I'm in a sour mood right now so, this is not easy.

It's a beautiful day today. It's cool and sunny. :hi:

Citizens of New York (non-protesters) are making the convention attendees lives MISERABLE! They are telling them to go home and quit exploiting 911. Sweeet.

[Ripley]

16. The Giant Asteroid hasn't hit us yet.

Oh darn, will that cause undue panic that there may be a Giant Asteroid out there with Earth's name on it? Oops.

[tkulesa]

17. baked Polenta

With homemade mushroom gravy.

Pumpkin ravioli in a fall-vegetable soup.

Homemade roasted red pepper hummus on fresh baked bread.

Yum... :)

[IronLionZion]

18. I love America

USA is number one, despite the neo-cons who are so pessimestic to say we can't do better

[trof]

19. This place is starting to piss me off.

It's come down to this.
"Say something positive."
Talk about sunshine patriots and summer soldiers.

[Jack_Dawson]

27. Now is that positive?

Try again Trog...

:toast:

:beer:

[merh]

58. Trof and his van have done some tremendous campaigning in FL

and Alabama! Way to go trof!!!! :thumbsup:

[HootieMcBoob]

21. I just save a bunch of money on my car insurance

by switching to geico?

[Vox_Reason]

22. Tell people you know that you're avoiding the negativity of the RNC

Tell them that you prefer to focus on the future, and the positive--therefore, watching the Repug convention doesn't figure into your plans.

Drives them nutso! :nuke:

[LWolf]

23. GEORGE W BUSH IS A ONE-TERM RESIDENT.

:hi:

[Endangered Specie]

41. Bush is a ZERO term president.

[LWolf]

66. Exactly...his eviction is long overdue.

I would never have been allowed to move into a house and occupy it illegitimately for 4 years.

[bigwillq]

24. I love my Dad

and let's chill out on all the negative.

I think we all expected a bump for Shrub around this time. But I have faith in our Kerry-Edwards team. We will prevail.

[Octafish]

25. Bush is a CROOK!

And the Truth will be known.

Thanks, Jack_Dawson! I feel better already.

[librechik]

53. I'm POSITIVE Bush is a crook

I feel better too!

[tedoll78]

26. We're still statistically tied.

There ya go. :)

[Jack_Dawson]

28. Like that one a lot

But polls don't really matter, do they? It all comes down to a few states. Can Kerry win those states?

[Jack_Dawson]

29. It's a see-saw

And it will "see" the other way by November

[progressivebydesign]

30. Kerry looks cool windsurfing!!

Loved the photos! Bush comes out well because he is never the source of the attacks, and he is seen as an athletic, likable guy. (I think he's smarmy, but hey.. I'm not easily fooled). Kerry has people to handle the offense and the defense. I love seeing him doing regular stuff.. he looks happy, relaxed, and in control. Image is everything.

My 12 year old stepdaughter saw him at the Tacoma Rally. She was very close to the stage. She said she liked Kerry because he looked happy and smiling, and really healthy. Oh, and that he explained how he was going to do all the things he promised to do.

That's my happy stuff. k?

[Jack_Dawson]

31. He'll pull in the GenX and GenY crowd with his snowboarding...

windsurfing and para-surfing methinks. Bush will continue to reel in the bass fishing crowd.

[AnnInLa]

32. I love DU...it has saved my sanity!

[Jack_Dawson]

33. Roger that...

[Emboldened Chimp]

35. George W Bush will lose in November.

[WLKjr]

36. You won't see the end of the world till

as someone put it to me once, till you get married!


bada bump :D

[sampsonblk]

37. The Sky is only HALF falling-nt

nt

[Ilsa]

38. I'm positive

your negativity is on the mark. How's that?

[Ilsa]

39. Not really. I'm still hopeful when my meds are kicking in.

How about this: George isn't going to see Armageddon, at least not the way he thinks (Jesus coming and all that). He's going to grow old and die like the rest of us, with resources that are polluted by corporate greed, if they exist at all, and he'll only have himself to thank for his hysterical beliefs.

[Palacsinta]

40. Fire pit!!

My husband built one in the backyard for our thirtieth wedding anniversary. I just cooked hot dogs on it and drank two glasses of wine! HIC!! I know our velly, velly straight Repub neighbors are thinkin', "What are those damn hippies up to now?" YEE-HAW!

Also.............I don't know anybody who's switched from Dem to Repub, but I know THREE people who have switched from Repub. to Dem.!!! There art thou happy?

[Gin]

43. Something Positive!

g

[Palacsinta]

42. Fire pit!!

My husband built one in the backyard for our thirtieth wedding anniversary. I just cooked hot dogs on it and drank two glasses of wine! HIC!! I know our velly, velly straight Repub neighbors are thinkin', "What are those damn hippies up to now?" YEE-HAW!

Also.............I don't know anybody who's switched from Dem to Repub, but I know THREE people who have switched from Repub. to Dem.!!! There art thou happy?

[Palacsinta]

44. Sorry! Double post!!

Too much drinking! Too much smoke!

[Gregorian]

45. There are more liberals out there than it appears

I went below my property today to see who lives on the other side of the jungle that's down there. Well, what a surprise it was when I drove down a tiny dirt road, lined with trees, to see an old white haired man in his garden. He was feeding his two donkeys. We talked for a while, and he invited me for a walk through his beautiful forest. Huge trees and ferns. We talked the whole way. He and his neighbor both faught the logging company, and stopped the logging plan, upstream. After we got the feel for where we stood on politics, he invited me in to meet his wife, where we talked for another hour. These two old folks are absolute liberals. He is very involved in the community. And despite my entire neighborhood being a bunch of flag waving, bush loving assholes, he claims that the larger county is quite democratic. It was cathartic being able to vent about all the things I've learned here. As involved as they are, they had never heard of the PNAC. And he's a phd in biology, so I'd have expect him to have at least read about it. It told me that people are still learning. And that there are more of us out there than the polls have picked up.

And if it's any consolation, he thinks that as people get older, their experiences tend to turn them more toward liberalism than the other way.

So, if that isn't positive, I can't think of much else. Oh wait. Yes. Cats. And blackberry pie. I made my first ever, last night. And bike rides. Damn, I've got to make a fire pit like the poster above me.

[Jack_Dawson]

69. Great Post!

Now that's what I'm talkin' about...

[ttownman]

46. I love America

[marlakay]

47. I am leaving to hawaii on saturday!

and taking with me Run Against Bush shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, etc. I will fight whereever I go!! and I just found out AAR is on in both islands I am going to Oahu and Kauai!!

[Generator]

49. Well for the first time in my life I'm getting a chance to vote for

someone I like. Someone I admire. Clinton did some things that I so disagreed with that I only voted for him once. If Kerry lets me down that much,I still will always be grateful for him ending this nightmare that I've been in.

I liked Carter and I was just shy of being old enough to vote in that one-he was the last President I actually liked.

And Edwards is cute-can you say the anti-Cheney boys and girls?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

50. We're okay.

To be basically even at this point, as the challenger, is a good position and shows the country is ready to reject the shrub.

It's true that some momentum has been lost to the disgraceful smear. But you have to let it go, it has happened.

Unfortunately it appears that we will also simply have to accept that the majority of broadcast media will shill for shrubco to varying degrees through the election.

If the K/E team has a decent game plan here on out we will win.

[phylny]

51. My husband

who has voted for the Repub presidential candidate in all elections with the exception of Clinton's second term is currently "undecided." He thinks Kerry is "smart" and "makes sense."

Trust me, this is good news, and I'm working on him. What to do, what to do to get him to vote for Kerry...?

;)

[Jack_Dawson]

70. Do it, whatever it is

:toast:

[eeyore]

52. I still like the Kings better than my hometown Blazers

And I won't even accuse them of having no heart when it comes down to it.

And I really like the city of Sacramento as as whole - won't even call it Suckramento or Excremento like the haters do.

Nope. I'm nothing but a big pile of positive here!

Peace, love, butterflies and kittens -

eeyore

[Jack_Dawson]

71. That's the best post yet!

Here's to you and your good taste :toast:

[lostnfound]

54. Positives

and..WE are not ALONE..the world is with us even if 35% of our country is not.

[greblc]

55. I love when Republicans talk to me...

and I am given the opportunity to make them question their party.

[AgadorSparticus]

57. keyes is obama's dream come true opponent.

[Sugarbleus]

59. We're going into "indian summer" on west coast...it's beautiful

Warm days...my veggie garden finished up wonderfully. I have lot's of fresh organic veggies and cantaloupe to eat for less than what I pay at the grocer.

School starts tomorrow and the tourists go home; that leaves the Beach warm and mostly people free. Gorgeous time of year.

Eventually, Bushler's Karma will run over his dogma... :D

[LSK]

60. F911 on DVD in October

Cheers!

[Norquist Nemesis]

61. America has not forgotten

Regardless of the RNC trying to do a showbiz pulling the wool over our eyes, trying to create a 'strong leader' facade, re-promoting a 'compassionate conservative' front...we have not forgotten.

The last four years have been a demonstration of neo-con power and evangelical extremist control of the highest office in our land. Americans are smart. Americans know the man in office has failed in his performance as POTUS.

They lied to us about 9/11. They lied to the people going into the toxic soup of ground zero. They cut benefits. They make policies that reward the loss of jobs. They have begun to limit a woman's right to choose. They have used ideology over science in more ways than we can count. They have put 'dissenters' in Free Speech Zones whenever the president is to appear and arrested patriots for wearing t-shirts not supporting Bush. They have failed to enforce and fund Homeland Security...as promised. They have failed to fund the NCLB bill...as promised. They have outed a CIA agent risking lives and operations designed to provide humint efforts. They have made a choice to support Israel no matter what it does. They have relaxed environmental controls and not enforced existing controls. They have stated in no uncertain terms that gays should not have the same rights as a man/woman. They've thumbed their noses at the UN. They've pissed off the rest of the world making us less safe. They've restricted stem cell research based on religous faith/beliefs. They've re-written labor law to enable taking overtime from the rank and file. and on and on and on

Americans will not forget!

[Murdock]

62. Here's a small reminder...

The Media doesn't have a clue.... Don't give up, don't get discouraged...

[Behind the Aegis]

63. I had a crappy day today, but...

Yesterday, I saw a Kerry/Edwards sign in someone's yard...here in Bartlesville, OK!!! YEA!!!

[ChipperbackDemocrat]

64. I'm Positive That We Will Win.

After watching tonight's deception I am positive that we will win.

And more importantly, WE MUST WIN.

I do not fear you, Republican.
I do not fear your lies. I do not fear your cries.
I do not fear your bile, or your groupthink sieg heil.

I do not fear the Faux Patriotism or the Hannity derision.
Or another December Supreme Court decision.

I do not fear the Diebold, because this fall the truth will be told.

I do not fear the Factor.
I do not fear the Rush.
I do not fear Swift Boatsmen or the lies that they gush.

I do not fear the siege ahead, because this time we're not mislead.

You will fear me, Republican.
And you'll probably hate me, too.
As we head down the trails in the fall.
I will do what I must do.

I will bring the truth to your lies.
And see to it, national ignorance dies.

Your president is a sham, built upon a scam, Roved on a feeling and a backhanded plan.
A force of darkness claiming Christ's light.

False prophets working for profits, money changing at temple gates.
I will clean out you defilers of our United States.

You will fear, hate, blame as I put you to a collective shame.
Its time to shine the light and call evil by name.

Oh Say Can You See the war profits by the dawns fading light.
We walk in greed with green in sight.

Oh what a friend they claim in Jesus, yet none bear his cross.
Onward Christian Soldiers, who never paid their cost.

This little light of mine. I'm gonna let it shine, and help keep the GOP far behind.

Fear me, Republican as my number grow.
I bring all my people in tow.

I bring the black, the white, the yellow, and brown.
I bring all who've been put down.
I bring the working man, the fighting man, the family man, and the woman who keeps the land in hand.

I bring straight and gay, both look in dismay at the American dream slipping away into the nightmare of lassiez-faire and having no care exception for the coddling of the billionaire.

I bring resistance to the Gordon Geeko Insistence that Greed and Might make everything right and reality bites with a grip that rubs Lady Liberty raw and wrong.

I bring the Mainer and the Hawaiian, standing nationally defiant at Patriot Acts that ignore the facts.
I bring them all from the Rio Grande to Saint Paul. Trumpetting America so your walls shall fall into the decay of a past long dead toward a bright future just ahead.

Something's 'round the corner. Future 'round the bend. What I see just up the road is a just and peaceful end for a nation needing to be on the mend.

So, Republican enjoy your soiree, have your day and your say. Be extra bellicose in your scream and zealous in your shouts, because on November Second WE WILL SHUT YOU OUT!

"Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. In that verse Francis Scott Key made the essential link between democracy and courage. We will not perserve our democracy without our courage. Courage America! Freedome America! Be Brave, America!" --Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)

DU Comrades, They will attack us. They will call us names. They will try to divide America. They will play worker against worker. They will play men against women. They will play black against white. They will play working parents against single mothers. They will play white collar against blue collar. They will play south against north. They will play an electronic shell game with our votes, but if we do our part and fight our heart out what they do will not matter because we will bring so much truth to bear that they will need a billion Diebold machines to try to cheat us.

We are fighting for more than just an election. We are fighting to preseve freedom. Freedom is the ultimate right of all sentient beings. We are fighting for the ideals that have been the bedrock of our country, and that the neoconservatives are willing to sell for bowl of beans sold to them by Halliburton.

I am positive that we are in a fight that we can, will and must win. They are going to belittle us. They are going to send their minions out after us. They are going to question our patriotism. They are going to call us names. They will call us "Anti-American pinkocommunists gay-loving, feminazi, nigra-loving, UN-loving lefty elitists" or words to that effect.

They are going to say we are pagan and godless. They are going to wrap their Soviet Agenda around an American flag and call it good. They are going to wrap violence around a Bible and call it Christian.
They are going to wrap corporate feudalism around Adam Smith and call it free enterprise.

"All that serves labor serves the nation, all that harms is treason. If a man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor,he is a liar. If a man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece one is to rob the other." -- Abraham Lincoln

I'm positive that Abraham Lincoln would not be accepted into the "Party of Lincoln" in 2004.

This quote to me is the center of what they want to fear, and what they fear the most. The Hannitys, Limbaugh and Coulter, the Right-Wing Dead-Wrong All-Stars act on fear. They fear if too many people look behind the curtain, they won't have a living or a relevance. Their fear is carried on to the Cheneys and Bushes who have carried out the grandest of deceptions designed to enrich themselves at the expense of our country.

Once upon a time, I fell for their greedy message desguised as common sense until I saw the red ink pile up. They tried to sell us old-time religion of Franklin and Jefferson when we really got slick economic televangelism where the water of our tax dollars got turned to wine of deficits and red ink for us and massive gain for them and their friends.

The net result is they've made us choose. Do we fall meekly into their ranks and rise to defend them against our own interest, or do we become guerillas in the class war they started. I'm positive I've chosen the latter and I am not alone.

Yes, comrades. They will shriek, "YOU ARE CALLING FOR THEM SAME OLD CLASS WARFARE".
You darn right I am! We all know its started. It was started more than thirty years ago. We have finally decided to engage the invader.

I am positive that we are in a fight and the opponent will not play us honest. They will come at us spikes high and they believe that we will not fight back. In the past we haven't fought back. In 2004, we have no choice. WE MUST FIGHT BACK!

I am too weak to stand. STAND ANYWAY!
I'm not a good enough speaker. SPEAK ANYWAY!
I can't convince anyone. CONVINCE ANYWAY!
I'm scared of what they'll call me. RESIST ANYWAY!
The problems of our country are too great. SOLVE THEM ANYWAY!
I can't protest the war, so many people are for it. PROTEST ANYWAY!
My vote won't count. VOTE ANYWAY!
The Republicans have too much money and too many die-hard supporters for us to win. WE WILL AND MUST WIN ANYWAY!

[Jack_Dawson]

72. Wow! Was that off the cuff?

[gauguin57]

67. Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm, woolen mittens ...

[flvegan]

68. The more people that I talk to expecting them to be Dubyites...

The more I find that I'm wrong. Aaaaaaand...when I went to Home Depot the other day, Kerry/Anti-Bush stickers outnumbered those white W '04 stickers 10 to 1...

[Jack_Dawson]

73. In which state do you reside?

[flvegan]

75. Florida

[Jack_Dawson]

77. Cool! That's one of them important states...

[flvegan]

And I'm one of them important people that sends Bush back to TX

[dmkinsey]

74. The national campaign says

that our region (SW Mich) is KICKIN' BUTT on voter contacts.

[Jack_Dawson]

76. How so?

[bat17]

78. Air America in Madison, WI

Starting next Tuesday, Sept.7 (I believe), AA will be on 92.1 FM.

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=9331

[Jack_Dawson]

79. Hurricane Frances will detract from "The Bounce"