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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I will also be expressing my support for him at polling place.
Made my very first primary contribution today to reward Senator Dodd for his ACTION on this issue. I have yet to settle on who I'm voting for, but until today I had only really been considering Edwards and Obama. And if Obama doesn't start taking actions like this to match his rhetoric, he'll soon be outshadowed by Dodd as far as my consideration goes.
GG Thanks so much for supplying a link for this conservative to donate some cash to Dodd. The letters to my GOP rep on these issues go unanswered.
I continue to be shocked how this congress will blow up the Constitution so they won't be called (by conservatives, who won't stop no matter what happens)"weak on terror." What can the terrorists do, blow up some buildings? Only we can change the Constitution.
as this saga continues. Perhaps one of our sage pontificators will take a moment out to try and figure out why this matters.....
Nya.
As long as people are in a giving mood, the EFF can always use help as well.
Are you listening, oh my Senator?
I telephoned to let them know that SOMEONE has got to step up and do something. This is shaping up as issue #1 with me. Like he says, when the Constitution is wrecked, nothing else matters anymore.
because the front-runners look like Republican-Lite from where I stand. If Chris holds the fort on this one, though, I will contribute to his campaign at the least.
GO CHRIS DODD!!
I will vote for YOU for any office. Not Hillary, Not Obama. I have decided.
Dodd was faulted for not answering the questions. From the some of the responses, it seemed that Dodd was a "weak" candidate. Because of his actions today, did anyone change their opinion about Dodd? Please note that not everyone was negative towards Dodd, but even Glenn noted that the questions Glenn asked (and their follow ups) were never really answered (except for one).
I've asked a similar question in the previous post, but since this one is about Dodd, I'm re-posting here...
This was the decisive issue for me. Admittedly I didn't keep up as much as I should have with Dodd. A bit of laziness on my part, but in reading your interview with him not too long ago he became more and more enticing.
This vote was the turning point for me. Not only will I vote for him, I plan on campaigning for him as well. I was a bit undecided up to this point, but considering how strong I felt about this issue and how little the other candidates stated or acted in comparison to Dodd, the decision is easily made.
And that decision is final.
I went to his site and made a contribution. He is the only candidate who has my enthusiastic support. I hope he can stay in the race long enough that I get an opportunity to vote for him in the primary.
but today I sent his campaign $100 and called his Senate office to express my gratitude and respect for his actions.
Dodd gave me hope today.
Dodd was faulted for not answering the questions. From the some of the responses, it seemed that Dodd was a "weak" candidate.
I think it's important to judge people on their actions in the present. Sometimes people change (Al Gore is a good example). Sometimes they respond to what people are demanding of them (responsiveness in political figures is a good thing). Either way, people are tired of empty statements and want action. This was action - it's not Republic-saving action, but it's significant action nonetheless.
Be as generous as you can to Sen. Dodd, everyone. The guy is going up against big bucks in the form of telecom companies and all the politician-toadies who do their bidding.
We can only hope that the timid likes of Clinton and Obama will join the Dodd bandwagon, but we need to impress on them that there's a constituency - and money - in the pro-Constitution vote.
Dear Senator Whitehouse,
I understand you are trying to get a clear answer from Judge Mukasey about torture. The following is an excerpt from Jane Mayer's (New Yorker) article about the CIA Black Prisons. Please ask the judge if he thinks this is torture, under, say the 1949 Geneva Conventions or the CATCIDT.
Agency scientists found that in just a few hours some subjects suspended in water tanks—or confined in isolated rooms wearing blacked-out goggles and earmuffs—regressed to semi-psychotic states. Moreover, McCoy said, detainees become so desperate for human interaction that “they bond with the interrogator like a father, or like a drowning man having a lifesaver thrown at him. If you deprive people of all their senses, they’ll turn to you like their daddy.” McCoy added that “after the Cold War we put away those tools. There was bipartisan reform. We backed away from those dark days. Then, under the pressure of the war on terror, they didn’t just bring back the old psychological techniques—they perfected them.”
The C.I.A.’s interrogation program is remarkable for its mechanistic aura. “It’s one of the most sophisticated, refined programs of torture ever,” an outside expert familiar with the protocol said. “At every stage, there was a rigid attention to detail. Procedure was adhered to almost to the letter. There was top-down quality control, and such a set routine that you get to the point where you know what each detainee is going to say, because you’ve heard it before. It was almost automated. People were utterly dehumanized. People fell apart. It was the intentional and systematic infliction of great suffering masquerading as a legal process. It is just chilling.”
Thank you for your persistence,
Interestingly enough, the failure of SCHIP as well as the agreement from Rockefeller was immediately available on NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, Yahoo news, etc -- I can not find anything on Dodd's feat anywhere in the MSM. Failure of Dems on SCHIP, big news -- Dodds achievement, nothing. Or am I not patient enough?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
