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[TheHouse]

The only thing that keeps me going is that i know that there are people out there reading this understand that our current President acted in the best interest of the United States given the information that was available to him. These same people also understand what difficult decisions had to be made by him after 9/11. These people understand that leadership means making very difficult decisions. These people understand that mistakes occur. These people also realize that placing blame does nothing. These people realize that the only conspiracy theory is in the mind of liberals that believe that our current government wants to do nothing more than “piss on the constitution”. These people understand that you should not simply listen to ABC, CBS, CNN or Fox News to form an opinion. These people choose not to be followers of “change”. These people also do not speak or blog out of passion, so you don’t know that they’re out there. But, they are!

:)

Can’t wait to debate with you libs Saturday night. You better start reading up!

[WSB]

we also reported on Eric’s status same day as the fire, as we had previous contact with him regarding his new business which we’d posted about some weeks earlier.

https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?p=6419

He’s also involved in a fun little program we’re part of at Chief Sealth High School this semester – the web design teacher is having his students build sites for local businesses that answered a solicitation to get involved (posted on wsb late last year) so we got to meet him at CSHS some weeks back — TR

[AdmiralJaneway]

I just read that Morton’s Drugs is going to be sold.(I hope they don’t change the name.) Someday we’ll reminisce that Morton’s was once locally owned.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/359488_mortonbrf18.html

[KatherineL]

I just had two pairs of shoes resoled at Admiral Shoe Repair. Nice job. I specifically asked him if he did other kinds of repairs. There were some leather handbags hanging there, too. He said yes, he does mending, too. One warning, though: he doesn’t take credit or debit cards. Only cash or checks. And he likes you to pay up front.

[Anonymous]

It’s been stated more than once by the republicans on here, to keep the casualty number in perspective. It’s only 4000 after all. And what of all the injuries.

(Reuters) – About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an independent study said on Thursday.

The study by the RAND Corp. also estimated that another 320,000 troops have sustained a possible traumatic brain injury during deployment.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/WireStory?id=4674945&page=1

[JoB]

beachdrivegirl..

I didn’t say it was wrong for the candidates themselves to try to expose the faults of the other.

it’s their job as candidates.

we will never know the answer to the question..

would i have thought Hillary went too far doing that at last night’s debate? …

because I am not going to watch that poor excuse for a debate so that i can either argue or validate your impressions.

We won’t even know my answer to the question..

did Obama do everything he could have done..

or did he just defend himself by deflecting the questions? … some of which are likely legitimate questions he should be answering…

We won’t ever know because i am not going to waste my time listening to that crap for any reason.

From everything i have heard, there is no redeeming value of any kind in that debate… and i heard far more sound clips today as a captive of radio and television than interest me.

What i was talking about is what you just did…

and i almost bit back with a response that would have undone two hours of hard work.

i didn’t because i still have hope…

[charlabob]

Are you talking about his participation in the MM march or something else? Non sequiters are not often useful in debates. :-)

[JoB]

so.. we begin to get to know Barak Obama, the politician…

this is interesting/

[JoB]

After the press conference today, i got to meet the other unintended victim of this fire… Eric Renn who has the business next door.. West Seattle Digital. 206-299-2635

His business is still closed due to damage.. although a lot of the interior work has been completed, he doesn’t think he will be able to open his store for another couple of weeks.

Eric says not to worry about him… he has a second job to carry him through and is still doing some business through telephone contacts… his problems aren’t nearly as drastic as those next door… but if we could send any business his way, he would appreciate it.

West Seattle Digital is a local connection for Clearwire Wireless broadband, XM radio and Dish network television.

Eric says the kind of community response to this fire is one reason he chose to settle in West Seattle.. that and our huge interest in healthy living and access to healthy food…. his work as a personal trainer is what is supporting him right now.

He had just moved here from Atlanta and opened his business before the fire and despite the setback is looking forward to getting it off the ground.

Eric is one of a large number of young small business owners who have settled in our community and often work more than one job to fund the luxury of keeping the doors to their small businesses open long enough to get established.

Eric is rapidly settling into the community. The program at the high school is helping him put a website together… and he confesses that he reads the West Seattle Blog to keep up on community issues.

Eric will be at the Admiral Pub on Saturday to show support for his fellow victim.. and to meet his neighbors.

I have to say, i was impressed at his upbeat attitude and willingness to do whatever it takes to make this work.. for himself and for his new community. If his response to this fire is any indication, i am pretty sure he will do everything he can to earn your business.

Both these guys are to be commended for not giving up in the face of these setbacks.

[charlabob]

The next shoe to drop — Obama attended The Million Man March in 1995. He may have been one of the organizers — not surprising, since he was a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago.

Interesting thing about this posting is that it comes from the Jewish Daily Forward and the calm reasoned ideas Obama expressed about the March and his participation.

http://www.forward.com/blogs/bintel-blog/13058/

[JanS]

Charley Gibson needs to stick with the fluff on Good Morning America, or whatever he’s on…and Stephanopolis? well, he was just overjoyed with Charley’s job…no comment on him…:(

[beachdrivegirl]

I mentioned this in the Obama thread, but will mention this here too. JoB you should have tried to watch the debate last night and you should still try to find it somewhere.

“This is why i see the tactic of builing support for your candidate by tearing down the other as fundamentally wrong. “-JoB last night when asked direct questions about Clinton, Obama did not stoop to the level of the reporters, but took the high road and tried to get the debate on track for what is really important the issues. Then, when Clinton was asked questions directly about Obama she had a chance to follow in Obamas footsteps; however she chose not to. She chose to in your words “tear down the other canidate” which in your words is “fundamentally wrong.”

[Erik]

I used to wear a pair of nice digital hearing aids, as I spent the first 40 years of my life somewhat deaf to the world. It was weird and a bit scary to be able to hear the fridge hum and other oddities such as strangers conversations on the bus, etc. Eventually I managed to kill both aids and have reverted back to my own little world where I can only pay attention to one person talking at a time. Maybe it’s time to venture into the world of hearing again?

[JoB]

Daniellep…

I am sure there will be some who will think this inappropriate on this thread.. but you opened a topic in a way that i think it might be possible to trade perspectives.. so i am going to try.

You said.. “What I hope you’ll take some time to think about is that, to me, it’s as important that people realize WHY Obama supporters don’t like Hillary as it is to know why we DO support Barack”

I have actually spent a lot of time thinking about this.. and reading everyone i can get my hands on who comments on it… so i know the reasoning.. but i can’t say that i actually understand it.

I do see what the Clinton’s and by association, Hillary, have come to be identified with by today’s media… and i understand fully that the young especially have no other context from which to evaluate her…

I even see how bitterly disappointed some are who saw the Clinton’s as just another broken promise… both Clintons. Bill for his personal lapses.. and Hillary because she didn’t make sure she could win the Health Care fight before she took it on.

Had she succeeded… this would have been an entirely different conversation.

but i think you are mistaken when you think that those of us who support Hillary don’t care about the same things you do…

which is why i see this entire storyline of party division as just another republican political gambit.

You and i are concerned about the same things.. we just see them being played out differently.

I too am an idealist.. starting in the early 60s… and i have lived my idealism with integrity.

I have invested in my community… in fact, in retrospect, i find my life’s purpose has been building community.

This is why i see the tactic of builing support for your candidate by tearing down the other as fundamentally wrong. That kind of divisiveness is counterproductive to my life work.. building community.

And, it is counterproductive to Obama’s message of unity.

Yet, it persists… and i think that is due more to manipulation than truth…

a desire for fundamental change and equality is not something new with this primary election. it is something many of us have been working towards our entire lives… and something we can collectively be proud of.

it is what both Jimmy Carter and BillClinton campaigned on and were unable to pull off working with a Republican congress…

It is what we all want… and have worked towards.

No, we didn’t get what we wanted yet… we are nowhere near achieving the dreams of our youth… but we have managed to create substantial change…

that change is why you expect so much today. so, when i look at the entire picture i see something entirely different than you..

i see how far we have come to have these two candidates… it is literally something that i could not have envisioned as a young democrat at the end of the 60s.

I was part of the group of young people who chose not to become part of the “revolution”…(counter culture… yes… revolution.. no)…

i believed then and still believe now that the process of revolution is ultimately unhealthy for women and children. I believed strongly in working from within to change the system…

i entered democratic politics. That is where i initially met a young and idealistic Hillary Clinton.

I only lasted through one political season trying to change the democratic party from within. But she stayed.

Your charge that she loves politics is true… That love allowed her to play in the least even playing field possible and to thrive in it… while still trying to get what she could out of the system for those she cares passionately about.

She really does have a 35 year history of working on issues important to women and children… you can check wikipedia.

what you see as selling out, i see as getting everything that could be gotten from the system at the time…

You fault her for not stepping up to the plate with heroism at what you perceive as her opportunity to do so. Yet, if she was the kind of woman who did that, she would not be a candidate for the democratic nomination now.

having lived in the system that produced her.. i understand all to well what was possible and what wasn’t. You expect far more from her than she can deliver… i don’t see that as a symptom of her failure.. but more a symptom of the collective success of our generation.

many of us have continued to live idealistic lives.. to change what we could when and where we could.. and we have changed some things… you can see possibilities that didn’t exist for us.

I say we because i have not been alone in my idealism or in my lifetime of activism. i try to keep it a secret, but i haven’t even just been among women:)

We too distrust the system. We too want real change. We just disagree about what will get us there.

It appears to me that all you can see is the system and that you have learned to identify Hillary with that system.

I see all kinds of evidence of that.. from the assumption of a Clinton/Bush dynasty to equating Hillary with McCain and looking for any evidence that she is one of “them”.

Yet, if you listen to her talk.. if you actually listen to more than the sound bits of one of her talks, you would find that she is one of us… and that when she isn’t busy defending herself.. which is difficult to find these days… she shares your ultimate vision for the world.

You want me to understand what Hillary is not.. how she has failed America and your generation… you think that her failures are something we somehow can’t see.

Speaking for those of us who support her from my generation, i can tell you that you are very wrong. We not only see her failures, but the failures inherent in all politicians.. even Senator Obama.

But I can also tell you that you are mistaken about many of the things you blame her for.

She played the only game there was well.. and now you fault her for playing the game.

I see the anger directed at Hillary. I see how public opinion has been manipulated to create that anger.. but no.. i don’t understand it.

Hillary is the first woman to play this game well enough to end up a candidate for President… against tremendous odds…

That you think it more important to hold her accountable for what you think she should have done or said than respect her for her accomplishments doesn’t bode well for another female candidate in my lifetime.

I won’t tell you that i don’t care whether she wins or loses, i feel as strongly as you do about Senator Obama… that the ultimate welfare of our nation hinges upon a Hillary Clinton presidency. I see that as the only path to real change.

But i have to tell you that i care more that the first female candidate for President be treated with the respect she deserves… if for nothing else than the enormity of her accomplishment… by every member of her political party.

the lack of basic respect for her candidacy and the unrelenting anger directed at her by Obama supporters is deeply divisive to our party… and to the causes we all hold dear.

i have spent over two hours carefully editing this post Daniellep.. because i wanted to say something that stood a chance of being heard…

I don’t know if i will ever be able to edit out my anger at the complete lack of respect that half of my party has shown to Hillary. I am personally deeply offended on more levels than i can say.

However I am writing in a attempt to say something beyond that… something i have learned as an elemental truth …

real change only occurs when you apply compassion and passion together…

I will admit to having fueled my passion with anger’s driving force in the past.. and occassionally i have won major battles that way… but i can’t see any instance that i have affected real long term change with my anger.

if i could pass along only one lesson from a lifetime of idealism… it would be that one..

i still have lingering hope that the blend of compassion and passion will fuel democratic unity creating victory this fall… and with that hope i write…

so that perhaps you can understand why i think.. why Obama supporters hate Hillary can’t be nearly as important as why they support Obama… if we are to win this fall.

[charlabob]

Jan, the point is that Obama wasn’t pushing any discussions of inane things. At any time, Clinton could have said, “Why are we talking about this crap?” She didn’t — she jumped on.

I’m not even angry with her–I’m disappointed and sad for what might have been, and what this campaign has become. And, NO, it isn’t something anyone did to her.

It’s going to be over soon. Sooner than June. The pressure is on, from inside and outside the Clinton campaign. It will not linger until June.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

The Clintons and other DLC folks may complain that Dean doesn’t have standing — they tried desperately, without success, to keep him from being elected. Running hacks against him. The hacks lost. He’s DLC head, he’s right, and the Supers will listen to him.

It will be over soon.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/27/new_pennsylvania_poll_shows_sl.html

[JanS]

walfredo…I was off selling raffle tickets for our fundraiser until just before 9pm, so I caught what was left of the debate after that time. I missed the first part,have only seen bits and pieces of it, so, yes, I’m aware that he seemd very calm, in control, and above board for that part that I did see. I’m simply frustrated that we never get to hear about actual things that need addressing unless the “askers” ask something like..”do you pledge to do so and so” to each one…and then we get..”yes’I’ll pledge to do that”…tell me how…get into the meat and potatoes of it…and make sure you tell me that you ain’t gonna do nuthin’ without the cooperation of congress…that’s what I want. I’m tired of the inane, picayune things going back and forth…she said she’d rather not bake cookies, he associated with so-and-so when he was 8years old. It’s disturbing to many of us – we don’t give a rat’s behind…there are far more important things to discuss than simply trying to impugn your rival with stupid things…

[walfredo]

JoB- to your point, that this is what you should expect if he wins.

This is what we do expect from the Rove-era politics, and this McCain group. Of course it is. Barack today said, last night you got a preview of how this race is going to be run in the fall. They laid it all out in front of you.

It’s actually a great speech, with a great tone:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC5Fd

What bothers me, and many democrats, is not the reality that the republican slime machine exists and is ready to pounce, but instead Clinton’s overwhelming embrace of these politics. The obvious “lessons” she has learned and embraced over the years from this playbook. In truth, it is impossible to distinguish her current campaign and its tactics with those used by Karl Rove and GW the past 8 years.

[walfredo]

JoB- I am mad that Sean Hannity gets to ask his radically extreme right-wing paranoid, lunatic fringe questions during a nationally televised debate. Now, if Sean got to ask these questions directly, any fair minded person would say- well he is so ridicilously biased and nuts that maybe that question is not fair.

But no, not only does he get the opportunity to have his question asked during a national debate. But he gets to have it asked through a “fair journalist” disguise, and have his radical rants injected into the mainstream media, and the general conversation.

This has nothing to do with Hillary, I’m not bashing her. I’ve tried to be fair to her about this debate.

Do you think Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity should get the right to frame the conversation for the democratic debates that are being broadcast on ABC? This is not a candidate issue, this is a big deal…

I said this morning, in a bit of sarcasm that if the Sean Hannity and the National Enquirer hosted this debate it would have had more dignity, and relevance. I had NO IDEA, not in my wildest conspiracy fascination, would I have guessed that in fact- SEAN HANNITY was the person writing questions asked during the debate! It’s insane…

JanS- to your point, Barack consistently and without exception, when asked an inane question tried to stear the conversation to those issues, even when he was asked about Bosnia and Clinton’s gaffe. Clinton consistently, and without exception got right down in the muck and started slinging it around. And she is getting credit to do for coming off more forceful and confident, because she was indeed far more comfortable in this type enviroment. I don’t see how you can say the two candidates were at all similar in response to the debate questions.

[beachdrivegirl]

JoB I suggest you find some way to watch the debate. I dont know what part Walfredo was upset about, but what I was upset about was the fact that they continually tried to air the dirty laundry of both canidates rather than concentraing on more important things like the issues.

If you had taken the time to watch the debate you may have had a different opinion of Obama today because not only did he take the higher road of the two canidates, but during the debate he continually tried to get the questions back on track to what is important the issues.

And when I refer to the higher road, I am refering to the fact, that when asked questions about “rumors” of his opponent he did not stoop to their level and play there game. He stepped above it and took the more admirable position. While Clinton on the other hand did not.

[swimcat]

That would be ‘Cycle 8’ of America’s Next Top Model. :) I think Tyra is trying to make the show seem classier than it really is by referring to the seasons as cycles. Embarrassingly enough, I still watch that crap, ‘cycle’ after dramatic ‘cycle’.

[cjboffoli]

Cassandra Watson, a contestant on Season 8 of the Tyra Banks produced America’s Next Top Model (UPN Network), is a West Seattle resident.

[hopey]

If “EdVed” sold his house it must be pretty recent, because no sale has been filed with King County records. It would not surprise me if he *also* has a condo somewhere, and uses that as his main residence instead.

[meow]

Hi, I visited the Audiologist today for a check on my hearing aids at Sound associates hearing aid place. They are on California avenue.Dr Munson is there and for me, i live alone and hearing is so important to me. They always make me feel so welcome and treat me so nice. i’ve been going there a long time. If you have trouble, go see her.

[JanS]

well, to be fair…Hillary is not above reproach when it comes to rubbing elbows with less than admirable people. It’s ALL a distraction…and I would like both candidates to tell the “askers” in these “debates” (a loose term)…to stop, to ask something important. There are so many issues that are more important to me. The priceof gasoline…going up, up, up, and of course, affecting the truckers, and food costs, etc, etc. etc. Who was it that said “It’s the economy, stupid”? And, yes, the war, and, yes, the rest of the middle east, and, yes, all those other things that affect us little people..insurance, mortages,…ABC dropped the ball…and the candidates allowed them to…it made me sick. I’m frankly fed up with the tactics of both candidates…let’s get real…

[Anonymous]

K5 did a great job, I thought. Switched over to KIRO afterwards. Small blip with no mention of WSB or the forum members present who are doing so much work. Said Admiral Pub was doing a benefit.

Kathy, you were da bomb! Looked/sounded great.