Democratic Convention bloggers

Updated List of Democratic Convention Bloggers


Photo credit REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

• Convention Bloggers OPML XML site
• The Boston (D) Party DNCC blog
• Official Convention Site Dems2004.org
• Kerry/Edwards blog


Bloggers Confirmed as Credentialed

Kirk Johnson American Amnesia
Alan Nelson Command Post
Dave Winer Scripting News
Dave Weinberger Boston.com
Taegan Goddard Political Wire
Jay Rosen Press Think
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga Daily Kos
Rick Heller Centrist Coalition blog
Jerome Armstrong My DD
Aldon Hynes greaterdemocracy.org
Jeralyn Merritt TalkLeft
Matt Welch Reason.com
Mathew Gross Matthew Gross blog
Byron LaMasters Burnt Orange Report
Jessamyn Charity West Librarian.net
Natasha L.C Pacific Views
Tom Burka Opinions You Should Have
Paul McCullum Dinner for America
Jesse Taylor Pandagon
Patrick Belton Oxblog
Dave Pell Electablog
xian Power of Many, also blogging for Radio Free Blogistan, Greater Democracy
Bill Scher Liberal Oasis
Michael Feldman Dowbrigade
Peter Rukavina Reinvented.net (*See ReInvented's description of the credentialing process)
Gordon Joseloff Westport Now
Christopher Rabb Afro-Netizen
Joe Rospars BlogforAmerica.com, NotGeniuses
Allen Larson Larson Report.com
Matt Stoller BOPnews.com
Alison Teal hotflashesfromthecampaigntrail
Zephyr Teachout Blog for Victory
Nathan Paxton NateKnowsNada
Michael Andrew JREGrassroots.org
Dave Rock & Todd Beeton Dave & Todd's Wild Democracy Ride
Dave Johnson See The Forest
David Sifry and Mary Hodder Sifry's Alerts blog

Officially Credentialed, then disinvited:
*due to unforeseen lack of space at Fleet Center

Jude Nagurney Camwell Iddybud blog, Rational Liberal
James Landrith JamesLandrith.com
ANWR.com ANWR
Bill INDC Journal
John Tabin JohnTabin.com
Rob Galgano The Great Leap Forward
Justin Nawrocki Musings of a Drunken Monk


Others Who Will Be Blogging from the Convention:

Josh Micah Marshall Talking Points Memo
Atrios Eschaton
Zoe VanderWolk Gadflyer.com
Cate Read CateRaed.com (delegate)
Karl-Thomas Musselman musselmanforamerica (Texas delegate)
Brian Reich Campaign Web Review
Erik Cornelius Dem Senatorial Campaign Comm. (Convention speech videos will be here)
Ana Marie Cox Wonkette
Dave Barry Dave Barry, of course!
Arianna Huffington Arianna Huffington blog
Jesse BerneyDNC/Kicking Ass blog
Faithful Correspondent BarkBarkWoofWoof (Ohio delegate)


• Hyperlincoln is dedicated to the best in blogging at the 2004 Democratic Convention. David Beckwith (Anonymoses) and I will be keeping you abreast of the best of the Convention blogging information as it comes in.

• Note: The new Convention Bloggers Website is up and running. I noticed an entry there about the 20 disinvited bloggers, a list on which, unfortunately, I wound up.

• Photoblogging Election 2004 was launched to make it easier for convention bloggers to do some of the things that professional journalists' companies do for them: index and archive images and retrieve them quickly for publication. They say they have prepared links to every DNC Convention blogger they know of.

• Politics.Feedster is another Convention blog aggregating resource.

• Technorati has a new website dedicated to covering the bloggers in real-time at the Democratic Convention and the news they will generate. Titled "BlogWatch", it will include CNN.com’s up-to-the-moment review of numerous Web logs covering the convention marks a first for convention coverage using Technorati, the leading monitor of blogs. CNN offers its own convention blog on CNN.com with updates from Candy Crowley on the platform and from CNN anchors, analysts and correspondents, including James Carville and Tucker Carlson, both of Crossfire.
Technorati has a politics-devoted news aggregator for up-to-the-minute blog news.

• There is an open Yahoo Group set up for anyone interested in talking about the convention.

• Speaking of convention....Jon Stewart, whose Daily Show will cover the convention in their own (shall we say 'unique and delightful') way, speaks of Conventional wisdom in a conventionally wise way here. And there's nothing funnier than Ed Helms' timid-while-in-your-face challenges of "You're a jerk!" or "Labia! Urethra! Penis, penis, penis... vagina?" to a Boston cop from the "designated free speech zone" in Boston! I keep playing and replaying the (linked) video (titled "Freedom of Opression") and rolling with laughter.

One year ago-My thoughts

One year ago--My thoughts

I'd like to share with my readers some of the thoughts I had a year ago this week. What has changed since then? Are you satisfied? You decide.

Regards,
Jude

Atrios on Failure of Leadership

Atrios on Failure of Leadership

Atrios has a blogpiece on Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who is now sorry he philosophically bought into Bush's war and fear-mongering. I agree that he should have known far better. The failure of leadership rests with those in the choice positions in big media almost as much as the blowhards they are hired to challenge.

A citizen named Jackson Thoreau (who works in media himself) was more of a leader. He thought Cohen was overboard and stated so very early on. See his letter to the Washington Post editor back in December, 2001. (Third letter down).

"..I can't support us invading Iraq, under these circumstances. It's sad that I have to say we now seem more like the ones who want world domination than the ones who would fight against the forces that want to rule the planet."
-- Jackson Thoreau

David Corn: 9/11 report 'Bad news for Bush'

David Corn: 9/11 report 'Bad news for Bush'

Consider Bush's initial reaction to the attack on America (those seven frozen "My Pet Goat-ate my decisiveness" minutes); the administration not taking the threat of al Qaeda seriously enough; the vacationing Bush's poor reaction to the threat reports of "stem-cell"-summer, 2001 (limp-to-nothing), and consider the lack of proof of a solid alliance between alQaeda and Iraq (regardless of Stephen Hayes' and Dick Cheney's harmonied insistence).

As David Corn writes (tongue-in-cheek) in the Nation, "If this election to be a referendum on how [Bush] has handled the threat posed by al Qaeda, this [9/11 Commission] report--available now in local bookstores and online at the 9/11 commission's site--ought to be read by those 49 swing voters in Ohio who will be deciding the election for the rest of us."

At David's weblog, he discusses the topic and enables you to comment, if you so desire.

If America's Worst President is re-elected..

If America's Worst President is re-elected..

I've had so many positive comments on a link I posted here a few days ago that I'm going to post it again, this time in its entirety. It was written by blogger Anonymoses, who is a regular iddybud blogger.

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Democrats Win! World Erupts in Celebration! 

Celebration, relief and good cheer spread across the globe, as war-happy madman is replaced by sane and beautiful leaders who respect all peoples.  

OR...

Republicans win. America goes to war with Iran.
Foolwells get their Armageddon. Millions die needlessly. A handful of suits reap windfall profits.

It really has come down to this. And make no mistake about it...this is the most important election in the history of the world. It is a matter of life and death. Many, many deaths. And frankly, we can't afford it. Not in blood. Not in treasure. Not in the world community.

Those who see elections as mere sport may only bet on their own team, regardless of how much damage their "team" will wreak upon the enterprise. But this would be a foolish supposition. Even deadly. And don't think blood won't blowback, if only in the subtlest ways. There will not be enough beer to drown out the sorrow of so many innocent people being slaughtered needlessly, just because you had to have your way. Your way may not be the best way.

Regardless of any stats one may concoct, this president has done wrong by America and the World, and the overwhelming majority of people who happen to not live within our borders, are deeply troubled, to put it lightly, by our having such a bellicose leader and administration. And were we to re-elect him -- arguably the worst President in American history... after dropping the man who was perhaps the most prepared man in our history -- What are they to think, except that we are either insane, perverse, or jaded...and lacking all good judgement?

In this election, it is not, "It's the economy, Stupid." It is "It's the World, Stupid!"

Serendipitously, while writing my illustrious and correct thoughts, a song wafted from my speakers that sums it up pretty well:

"Out of the darkness, deliver me."


Indeed. May we all be so delivered.

Blogger Bill Scher on Air America Tonight

Blogger Bill Scher (LO) on Air America Tonight

The editor of the blog LO (Liberal Oasis) will be on AIR AMERICA this evening. Bill Scher will be on the "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garafalo at 10 PM ET. You can connect to Air America here at Iddybud (see left side of blog for connection).

Meet the Joint Presidency Candidates

Meet the Joint Presidency Candidates

David Crosby and Graham Nash announce their candidacy for joint presidency of the U.S.A. here.

Cheney VP Replacement?

Cheney VP Replacement?

Democratic Convention blogs

Updated List of Democratic Convention Bloggers


Photo credit REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
SEE UPDATE HERE

Quote of the Day: Jimmy Breslin

Quote of the Day: Jimmy Breslin

When he came into office, Bush regarded China as Enemy No. 1. It is good that he found Iraq before taking on China. [LINK]

Dean Speech Primetime Tuesday in Boston

Dean Speech Primetime Tuesday in Boston

On Tuesday night next week, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, ("The man who made it good for John Kerry"), will speak during primetime to the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Dean says, while he won't tell his delegates what to do, he clearly doesn't want any draft Dean movements from the Convention floor.

Joseph Wilson writes-L.A. Times

Joseph Wilson writes-L.A. Times

The right-wing campaign against me and Valerie does not alter the reality that someone in the Bush administration exposed her identity and compromised national security. I believe it was a malicious act meant to keep others from crossing a vindictive administration.

Most important, when it comes to the Niger claim — and so many other claims underlying the decision to go to war in Iraq — it is the Bush administration, not Joe Wilson, who spoke the words that have cost us more than 900 lives and billions of dollars and have left our international reputation in tatters.

[LINK (subsc or reg req)]

Devin McKinney on Pete Townshend

Devin McKinney on Pete Townshend

Having written my opinion on Pete Townshend last week, I was particularly interested in music writer Devin McKinney's article about the social politics of pop in the American Prospect. I consider it an excellent piece of writing where McKinney shows us precisely how "certain idols of a previous generation have made a small but unique contribution to our current culture of cheapened feelings and meatball ethics." Where Townshend is concerned, McKinney asks, "Why should you or I have ever guessed he would oppose the Iraq War? Or that Dylan would not one day shill for a lingerie catalog?" He asks what I consider to be an ironically delicious question: "Does anyone still look to pop stars for help in defining personal politics? Should we even expect them to define their own politics coherently, given that your typical pop star will be at once a soft liberal, a rapacious capitalist, and a dictatorial control freak?"

Some of McKinney's last lines are his best:

"If a song can bear the weight of politics, it will; if not, it will crumple like tin. The solution is simple: Trust the song, not the singer. Most of us have made the mistake of trusting the singer, believing the singer believed what we believed, what the singer seemed to believe. But that day is past; the idols are dead, and we need to grow up."

Thanks, Devin.

Michael Moore, Linda Ronstadt & the rising anti-Bush tide

Michael Moore, Linda Ronstadt & the rising anti-Bush tide

Are you aware that people on the conservative side of politics have been aware (and probably upset) with Linda Ronstadt's anti-Bush statements for some time now? Ms. Ronstadt's Aladdin Hotel dedication to Michael Moore wasn't a bolt out of the blue.

PR Damage Control: Planet Hollywood wants Ronstadt back at Aladdin hotel.


Why does this man make the GOP so nervous? Click on photo to find out.

What happened in Vegas didn't stay in Vegas...and that's become a real PR problem for the Aladdin Hotel.

The Las Vegas Sun's editorial should be read. It includes the simple statement:

Ronstadt has been touring the country since May and has been praising Moore at each stop. Las Vegas should be embarrassed at her treatment here.

Who do you suppose might be the biggest fan in Las Vegas of shock-jock Howard Stern? I think you may be surprised.

NYT Editorial:

"They have a right to voice their disapproval - to express their opinion as Ms. Ronstadt expressed hers and to ask for a refund. But if their intemperate behavior began to worry the management, then they were the ones who should have been thrown out and told never to return, not Ms. Ronstadt, who threatened, after all, only to sing."

Check out this blurb from the Las Vegas Sun:

Moore controversy

Aladdin prez Bill Timmins has left Las Vegas, but not to escape the firestorm of controversy surrounding his decision to have security escort Linda Ronstadt from the hotel after her remarks onstage Saturday night in support of Michael Moore.

Timmins left town Tuesday afternoon after turning down requests to appear on "The Today Show," "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Nightline."

Hotel spokeswoman Tyri Squyres confirmed that Timmins had left town, but said it was because he had a surgical procedure scheduled at an out-of-state hospital.

Timmins also reportedly received a long message on his voice mail from Moore himself Monday.
[LINK]

9/11 Press Conference: Failure of Imagination

9/11 Press Conference: Failure of Imagination

See the 9/11 Commission Report HERE.

An Institutional Lack of Imagination

There was a press conference held in Washington with the 9/11 commission. The panel agreed that 9/11 occurred due to an intitutionalized lack of imagination; there was no outright negligence on any particular person or agency's part. They refused to play politics by placing blame on presidents Clinton or Bush, but did comment that there was no "stimulating discussion on terror" before 9/11. It seems that no one envisioned terror as the problem it really was. The Commission concurred that neither president Bush nor Clinton was served well by Intelligence agencies prior to 9/11.

The name Tom Clancy kept popping up. It's obvious that Mr. Clancy's imagination is enviable, admirable and important to the members of this panel. The future of counter-terrorism is dependent upon creative-thinking people who can be respected for thinking "outside of the box".

Reform of Congressional Oversight Necessary

Broad recommendations have been made to reform Congressional oversight on Intelligence. This will entail the shut-down of a lot of long-standing Congressional committees and will require a lot of overinflated authority-snatching Washington DC egos to be checked at the new "door of reform". Commissioner Bob Kerry stated that he was hopeful, but not optimistic that some of these now-standing Committee leaders will gracefully step down and allow new and necessary Committees to be formed without partisan bickering.

Commissioner James Thompson publically laid it on the line to members of Congress, stating they need to unite; they'd best act quickly; doing any less will mean losing their political seats when the American people see that they're failing to act.


Presidential Candidate Comments

John Kerry said today that the is is not a time for bickering or politics. We are all Americans. We must move on this immediately, as a united people. If he is elected President and there's no sufficient progress in the next few months, he will lead by pressing Congress to rapidly enact reforms as suggested by the 9/11 Commission. President Bush said that he looks forward to reading the recommendations and hopes Congress will do the same and begin to act. If Bush makes a strong push for reform before November, it'll be tough for Kerry to distinguish himself on intelligence issues.

Other Observations:

I thought the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes used his opportunity for questioning the panel as a disgraceful and obvious way of attempting to redeem his own reputation after writing a book about the Iraq-al Qaeda connections for which he had no solid proof. The answer he received failed to save his sad reputation and credibility.

Commissioner Kean stated he had not yet seen Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11", but suggested that Saudi Arabia is just as much at risk as America for terror attacks and they need to join closely with us in the struggle to overcome it. He admitted the basis of our respective governments' relationship needs to be more than just about oil. Commissioner Hamilton said he'd like to see more "depth and texture" to the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabian governments. (I'd like to see more transparency myself).

Iran has denied links to 9/11, and at this morning's conference, that was confirmed (given the limited scope of the Commission's oversight). When asked about Iran, one of the Commissioners stated frankly that there was no evidence of the Iran government's pre-knowlege of 9/11 whatsoever. There was only the indication that somehow, al Qaeda members had been able to cross the Iranian borders without having their passports stamped. To what degree the Iran government sanctioned this was not conclusive in the 9/11 report.

The John Lennon song "Imagine" kept running through my head. Imagination ruled the day and is our only hope to overcome terror.


*Find out how to get a copy of the 9/11 Commission Report here.

Jason Kottke created an HTML version of the executive summary of the 9/11 report, with permalinks for each paragraph.

Flight 93 details emerge with 9/11 report

Flight 93 details emerge with 9/11 report

Apparently, the passengers who wished to reach the cockpit never actually had time to breach it before the Flight 93 crashed down to that Shanksville, Pennsylvania field.

Right-wing Group Seeks Donations for Boston Ads

Right-wing Group Seeks Donations for Boston Ads

A partisan group, RightMarch.com, is hoping to take out five-full-page ads in the greater Boston metro area, demanding that Sens. Kerry and Edwards resign from the Senate in order to run for President and Vice President, because they're there so rarely that there is no realistic way for them to actually represent their constituents. The group is looking for donations to enable them to run the ads. At their site, they rage against what they call the "loony left" and "America's elite liberal media". They also casually mention that, 'as an extra "perk," if Kerry resigns, under current law, his temporary replacement would be named by the governor of Massachusetts... who just happens to be a Republican! North Carolina has a Democrat governor--but 1 out of 2 ain't bad!'

From the Revealer: How soon we forget

From the Revealer: How soon we forget

At the Revealer, Jeff Sharlet has written about our hunger for stories and our boredom when, after most of the "good stuff" has been exhausted, every horrific photo begins to look the same. We've slipped into the heat of another presidential campaign season. There's a lot of traditional hype but not much difference between the candidates when it comes to a war which they both promote yet still cannot give us reason for the fight. Old stories, based on remembered cultural tradition, are made new again as we eventually let the reality of those bodies slip from our collective consciousness. Wait---should we remember? I suggest you pay the site a visit and see if any of the images strike a familiar chord. [LINK]

Trivia Quiz

Trivia Quiz

Who is the white-haired lady seated in the center of this photo?



Answer will be in the comments section at 5pm today if no one guesses it first.

9/11 Report Out Today

9/11 Report Out Today

I laughed at Maureen Dowd's summing-up of current events as the "bizarre investigation of Sandy Burglar" and the "bomb Ira- Ali G skit" and "Right axis/ Wrong evil".

Actually, I don't believe we ever should have thought of hastily making pre-emptive attack on EITHER "Ira-". What the hell was our Congress so afraid of when they gave Bush carte blanche on his rush to attack Iraq? I hate to say this, I think their biggest fear was the possibility of not being re-elected the following month (Nov 2002).

The 9/11 Report is ripping away at Congress for being watchdog-flunkies when it came to Intelligence oversight. Allegedly, one passage of the report found that Al Qaeda and the 19 hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government" over a long period. Officials have said the report did not directly blame the Bush or Clinton administration for the failures. It does harshly criticize the C.I.A. and F.B.I.

You can bet the GOP is scrambling to get a PR-list of changes they've enacted since 9/11 ready for the media to parrot for them. They make it far too obvious that they need to watch their political backs. It seems more important to them than dealing with and facing the hardest truths. Their pressing of the Sandy Berger-pants fiasco this week proved it.

While the commission may not conclude that Bush (or Clinton) could have prevented 9/11, at least ten missed operational opportunities will be spelled out in the report, showing there were several opportunities to intercept some of the activities of terrorists which led to 9/11.

I will be most curious to see the remarks of 9/11 victims' family members. especially Kristen Breitweiser who lost her husband Ronald in the attack and has been one of the most vocal proponents of the Independent Commission on behalf of victims' families.