TImothy Egan slams Trump on all fronts - we should pay attention
in a New York Times column titled Burning Down the House.I want to examine the column, and also reflect more broadly on where we are, because the column challenges us to do that.The column is so...
View ArticleMr.Trump: Where are your campaign emails?
Hilllary Clinton is taking some heat from a number of sources for her campaign emails that were released by Wikileaks. And some of them do show the process of “making sausage” is less than pristine....
View ArticleThank you Mr. President !!!
He first came to public attention at his 2004 DNC Convention Speech .xYouTube Video Always the uniter !Then, he saw that our country needed him ! So, he ran for US President ! He was a great underdog...
View ArticleAnswerable Courage
The media’s claims of Donald Trump’s “pivoting” toward being more “presidential” in his congressional address got me thinking. What does “being presidential” sound like?And this is what I came up...
View ArticleIt wasn't cute when Ronald Reagan did it and it's downright depressing...
I’m not sure where you were in 1989 but it certainly wasn’t acceptable — at least to the liberals of the day or the progressives of the day that directly after leaving office former president Ronald...
View ArticleThe Moral Arc of History Bends Against Paid Speeches.
historynewsnetwork.org/...Former President Jimmy Carter "seldom accepts speaking fees," The Associated Press wrote in 2002, "and when he does he typically donates the proceeds to his charitable...
View ArticleUPDATED & Republished: Why Obama SHOULD Make That Speech - And Take The...
New Update: Last week I published a diary under the title above because many people here on DK were bashing Obama for getting paid to speak at a conference hosted by a Wall Street firm. The firm in...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough ties Bannon to Trump's Paris speech: 'Trump doesn't know...
Friday saw the 24-hour news outlets bringing people on to say one thing: Holy crap, what is President Trump doing? Except Fox News which probably just brought someone on to talk about why women should...
View ArticleCommunity Transcripts Project ⚙ New Group ⚙ An Invitation ⚙ Day 5*
Let’s Build Community. I welcome you to participate in the new Daily Kos group, Community Transcripts Project. This group will create transcripts of important progressive speeches and interviews which...
View ArticleTrump's tax speech was a real blast from the past.
That’s just the way it is, some things will never change. Bruce Hornsby and the RangeI’d like to say that it was great to see the Tangerine Tantrum Machine back on the road again, but I’m trying to...
View ArticleNotes on the March for Our Lives Rally
I walked in Boston on March 24 in the March for Our Lives but didn’t stay to listen to the speeches on the Common. Later, I saw some of the CSPAN coverage of the March for Our Lives In Washington, DC...
View ArticleHere are some Donald Trump Mad Libs you can play with your loved ones during...
Mad Libs are easy and fun. They’re a great way to teach children what adverbs are! They are also a simple way to have a laugh with friends and family of all ages, and we have the perfect subject in...
View Articlewatching the Iowa victory speeches
well oddly enough tonight everyone got to give a victory speech. I decided to watch the 5 front-runners, and tried to do it in unbiased manner. To see which I liked the best.Here’s my ratings from...
View ArticleThis Week: Two Speeches for History
Maybe I missed it, but I haven’t seen Whitmer’s “Tough as Hell” speech on the site. Just hours after it was revealed there was a plot to kidnap and kill her, when she could have justifiably overflowed...
View ArticleWATCH: One minute of Trump's foreign policy follies shows he's off his game
Donald Trump has always been an incompetent generalist. However, recent weeks have shown that something is missing from The Donald’s typical grotesquery and vitriol. He has mixed up which dictators...
View ArticleTrump can't be a Nazi because he's 'not a student of Hitler'
Donald Trump joined conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday to discuss politics and his campaign. The more than 30-minute interview was 30 minutes more time than one should ever spend with the...
View ArticleDr. Martin Luther King Jr. (15 January 1929 - 4 April 1968)
Fifty-six years ago today in Memphis, Tennessee, civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was martyred by a malicious white bigot. The assassin, a misanthropic Caliban, fled, unable to stand up...
View ArticleDNC Agenda & Speakers (and a little fun)
When we watch the political conventions on TV, we get to watch the big speeches, which are held in the evenings for prime time audiences. What we don't get to see are all of the meetings that are...
View ArticleWhat was your favorite speech at the DNC? There's no wrong answer
We can’t stop smiling in the Daily Kos newsroom after that amazing Democratic National Convention—how about you? It’s hard to choose a favorite speech, but it’s fun to try.Here are a few of our...
View ArticleTake a look at Kamala Harris' DNC speeches through the years
The powerful moment when Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination for president Thursday night wasn’t her first appearance at the Democratic National Convention.xxYouTube VideoYou...
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