Thursday, June 8, 2006

Everybody Should Sue Michael Moore
Pinellas Park, Florida
Bill Nelson's effort to kill so-called Death Tax
"It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children,".....more

A Tax That Affects Only A Few American's
Harris Or This Guy, What A Choice?

Maybe I'll Vote For One Of These Guy's
Floyd Ray Frazier
Brian Moore
Belinda Noah

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Panic in Liebermanland
Crooks and Liars

"Why doesn't Joe, instead of continuing to insist that we are winning in Iraq, come up with a plan either to win (yes, that would take more troops but his friend John McCain is for that option) or to get out?--The whole point of being Joe Lieberman used to be decency, dignity, and thoughtfulness. Lieberman's attack ads look like the appeals of just another sleazy, desperate pol, grasping madly to hold on to office. As one citizen, a Republican, said: We have always held him to the high standard he set for himself. We expected more of Joe."

The Lamont Blog has more on Holy Joe.

Go Ned...

Price of bid ($12.7-million) for GOP shocks mayor

Mayor Pam Iorio said Tuesday the city would spend no more than $1-million to stage the 2008 Republican National Convention, even though bid organizers were counting on millions more....more
Pro-War Pols Don't Deserve a Political Future

Only a total idiot, however, could have bought the most bald-faced lie in the 2002 war resolution: conflating Iraq with the 9/11 terrorists. Accusing Iraq of "continuing to aid and harboring terrorist organizations" like Al Qaeda, the resolution contains 19 variants of the word "terrorism" and 10 references to "September 11, 2001." But Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11....more
Dean on Senate Vote Rejecting Federal Marriage Amendment

"Today, the United States Senate rejected the efforts by President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to use the politics of fear and division in an attempt to distract attention from the failure of Republicans in Washington to address the real priorities of the American people....more

Tuesday, June 6, 2006


The World According to Howard Dean
Nathan Tabor

This organization is clearly misnamed. It should be referred to as Liberals for America. Or make that Liberals against the American President. Democrats who veer from the radical liberal line and dare to say a kind word for a Republican President need not apply for any political post—even if they do have a winning record....more


Stogie's E-Mail To Mr. Tabor

mr. tabor, i am sorry but the whole piece was false. i am a proud dfa member myself. the war in iraq? big mistake.....

"president’s war on terror"?.... "In a time of war—when our nation’s security is at stake"?

..... hogwash. meme for the fox crowd. do you think all americans are stupid. supporting the nominations of Justices Roberts and Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court? was not a good thing, i dont care what most americans think. it is becouse of people like you putting out dis-information that they think that way.
As far as Mr. Lieberman, i am sure he is a fine man. but if he wants to be a democrat, he better start acting like one.


as far as this

"And the irony here is that Democracy for America is adopting policy stands which, if put up for a democratic vote of the people, would probably lose hands-down"

i think you are dead wrong. we are mainstream america

"This organization is clearly misnamed. It should be referred to as Liberals for America. Or make that Liberals against the American President. Democrats who veer from the radical liberal line and dare to say a kind word for a Republican President need not apply for any political post—even if they do have a winning record."

who is calling who names? we are not radicals. we are democrats. and there is no radical liberal line if you took the time to read the party platform you would know that. i am honored that someone like you would have this chat with me. you have gained a new reader. peace, stogie


Dean to Republicans: Stop Using Marriage to Pander to Base, Deflect from Failed Leadership

A new Gallup poll that shows the American people want Congress and the Republicans in Washington to focus on real issues like Iraq, immigration, health care, energy costs, the economy, the war on terrorism and education. (Gallup, 6/5/06) But, instead of addressing these issues, Washington Republicans have once again ripped a page from the Karl Rove playbook by using marriage as a wedge issue to win elections by dividing Americans.....more

Monday, June 5, 2006


Dean Rallies Gay Democrats
Doreen Brandt, 365Gay.com

"I want to start today by thanking you for standing with me," told the conference Saturday night. "Not just through the recent controversy over my CBN interview, but for standing with me as we have fought side by side for equal rights under the law for all Americans. That fight continues, and the Democrat Party is standing with you by leading the fight against discrimination, and by helping you meet your electoral objectives this fall.....more

Sunday, June 4, 2006

Librarians Defy the FBI

The FBI ordered four librarians to turn over patrons' library records and shut up about it. The librarians refused to do either.....more

Yeehaw's Destiny awaits
A developer makes Florida's biggest land deal since Disney acquired its site 40 years ago.


Last year Pugliese, a developer here, joined with the founder of the Subway fast-food chain to make a successful $137-million bid for 27,400 acres of pasture land in southern Osceola County's Yeehaw Junction.
Last year Pugliese, a developer here, joined with the founder of the Subway fast-food chain to make a successful $137-million bid for 27,400 acres of pasture land in southern Osceola County's Yeehaw Junction.....more

Chemical Test Were Conducted Here In 1968.....more
Conservative Christians: "they are not very friendly....they all behave the same, and they all look the same.".....Howard Dean
Sean Hannity Attacks Howard Dean For Helping New Orleans’ Ninth Ward
Alan Colmes did a pre-recorded interview with Howard Dean that was relegated to the next-to-last segment on Friday night’s Hannity & Colmes.
“If we were in charge, we’d have the National Guard in here, with an enormous amount of federal support. We’d have a FEMA that actually works for people and we’d be restoring all this. Look, it’s not rocket science to do this.....more
Davis draws Bush's wrath

This is the guy, Congressman Davis from Tampa? The guy who is 10 out of 435 Congressman in terms of absentee, not being on the job, not voting, 10th worst in the Congress?
This is the guy who didn't vote for the reauthorization of the Patriot Act because he had to come down here and do a political stop.".....more
Difference Between GOP and Howard Dean

Bush calls for ban on same-sex marriages

Dean calls gays a vital force in campaign
By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, greeted members of the audience after giving a speech to National Stonewall Democrats holding their national convention at the University of Pittsburgh yesterday.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told a group of gay and lesbian political activists yesterday that he wanted to "work side by side" with them to fight discrimination and wrest control of Congress from the Republicans.....more

Saturday, June 3, 2006


Grassroots on Fire in 36th Congressional District
by Linda Sutton

In the 36th Congressional race, challenger Marcy Winograd wins the endorsement of the influential West Los Angeles Democratic Club over six-term incumbent, Jane Harman, by a nearly 3-1 margin!!!
Promising to support single payer health care as well as the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney, Winograd was the clear favorite as the crowd cheered and gave her a standing ovation at the Venice Center for Peace with Justice....more

Justice Department Wants Internet Companies to Save Personal Web Surfing Data

The U.S. Department of Justice has told Google, Microsoft and other major Internet companies that it wants them to keep detailed records of where people go while surfing the Web for up to two years.....more
Dean urges party to step up efforts to reach all voters

"We can't just win by talking with each other," said Dean, describing his mission of "rehabbing" a Democratic party shut out of the power centers of Washington, D.C. "We can win if we go out and talk to folks who didn't vote our way -- so we're going to be everywhere.".....more






Cindy Chavez more
"Democracy assassinated the family that was here."
--Graffiti on a house in Haditha, Link

Friday, June 2, 2006

Saturday, June 3: Protest at Baywalk.

Following the protest we will be going to The Old Northeast Tavern (2nd St. & 7th Ave, N). Reservations are needed, so please RSVP to serge@stpeteforpeace.org if you plan on going to the after-protest gathering. (more)
"We figure the 29 percent who are still Bush supporters didn't like us to begin with. So it doesn't matter."........Natalie Maines
Dixie Chicks : The Accidents & Accusations Tour

St Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FL, Thu, Oct 5, 2006 07:30 PM

On Sale Sat. 10am


Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever
By Robert Roy Britt

An apparent crater as big as Ohio has been found in Antarctica. Scientists think it was carved by a space rock that caused the greatest mass extinction on Earth, 250m years ago.
The crater, buried beneath a half-mile of ice and discovered by some serious airborne and satellite sleuthing, is more than twice as big as the one involved in the demise of the dinosaurs.

The crater's location, in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia, suggests it might have instigated the breakup of the so-called Gondwana supercontinent, which pushed Australia northward, the researchers said....more
"You know, I don't email, however. And there's a reason. I don't want you reading my personal stuff. There has got to be a certain sense of privacy." -- George W. Bush, J.W. Marriott Hotel Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005

Clinton blast GOP

Former president Bill Clinton keynoted a Phoenix Democratic fundraiser Thursday evening, saying the Republican Party is dominated by "right-wing, white Southerners."
Clinton also hit the GOP for favoring the rich and practicing "crony capitalism".....more

Thursday, June 1, 2006


Revenge
The Chicks Rule
#1 Billboard Chart's

It was clear that a neoconservative blood oath had been sworn against the most successful female group not just in the history of country music, but of all musical genres--having sold more than 30 million albums and CDs prior at the time the assault began. Conservatives may not keep all their promises, but they kept this one. With the approach of the late May release date for Taking The Long Way, the group's first album since Maines spoke up in London, the trashing began. At an Academy of Country Music awards ceremony in March, singer Reba McEntire read a scripted line about how she could host the event because, "[If] the Dixie Chicks can sing with their foot in their mouth, then I can do anything!"

Reba Who's Eating Feet Now?

Rush Limbaugh, Hannity and the rest of the right-wing ranters picked up the chorus and, by the time of the CDs finally hit the stores the official line was that the Chicks were finished as major stars. Country fans would abandon them. Country radio would not play unapologetic tracks such as the single "Not Ready to Make Nice." Congressman Kingston --

From his blog:
Chick's With Hit's

Last week, Congressman Kingston noted that America’s Bush-bashing-Democratic-divas, the Dixie Chicks, should stand clear of the political scene and focus more on their music.
According to the progressive magazine,
The Nation, this blog may have helped push their sales to the top. (Sorry about that.)

Conservative politicians, pundits and political writers — from Georgia Congressman Jack Kingston to Media Research Council president L. Brent Bozell and bloggers by the dozen — couldn’t wait to trash Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robison for releasing a new album that refused to make nice with President Bush and the thought police who screech “shut up and sing” every time a musician expresses an opinion.

We were starting to get upset until
John Nichols said this in his story:

Congressman Kingston –who, it should be said, maintains the most entertaining offical blog of anyone in Washington–used his “Jack’s Blog” to muse that Maines and her compatriots made a big mistake when they started talking politics.


Happy, happy, joy, joy! We welcome all of our Democratic readers to Jack’s Blog,
including our friends in Nancy Pelosi’s shop. Hehehe.

Who Is This Jack Guy? Do Not Click Here Do Click Reba And Tell Her How You Feel.


Taking the Long Way has shot to Number 1 on Billboard's country music chart and the overall Billboard 200 chart. In its first full week of availability, the latest release from the Dixie Chicks sold 526, 000 units. That's a way better entry into the charts than the latest release from Toby Keith, the country star who has been lionized by conservatives for his bombastic songs and his rhetoric cheapshots at the Chicks. Keith's White Trash With Money mustered sales of 330,000 in its first week.

What Is That 196.000 More Unit's Mr. Keith? The Chick's Have Crossed Over, Something You Will Never Be Able To Do. No White Trash Here.

This is sweet. Waiting a long time for this.

"turned my whole world around, and I kind of like it."......Natalie Maines

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?


Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.....more

Tampa Bay, You're on your own. Ready?

After a catastrophic storm, even the best-run government services might take 72 hours ( or 5 Day's) to get here. Surviving that long will be up to you.....more

Gore: Bush is 'Renegade Rightwing Extremist'

Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists"....more
Proclamation on LGBT PRIDE Month by DNC Chairman Howard Dean

Today, on behalf of Democrats across America, we join together in honoring the contributions that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their families make to our society and reaffirming our Party's abiding commitment to full equality for all Americans, including the LGBT community.....more

Wednesday, May 31, 2006



O’Reilly Defends Marines, Attacks Murtha

O’Reilly debates General Wesley Clark regarding the recent allegations that marines in Iraq slaughtered innocent civilians. O’Reilly chalks the alleged incidents up to stress, and attacks Congressman Murtha for “indicting” the military on national television....more

Key Race Is Seen as a Test of GOP's Vulnerability

Normally, this district is so Republican that Democratic strategist Donna Brazile says it's not just red, but "ruby red."However, with Bush's approval ratings severely hobbled by Iraq and other issues and Cunningham in prison for the biggest corruption case in congressional history, the GOP is running concerned, if not downright scared.....more

FRANCINE BUSBY FOR CONGRESS

McCain Bails on Bilbray (05/30/2006) (press release)After Bilbray Spends Hundreds of Thousands Attacking McCain Immigration Plan, McCain Cancels Fundraiser


'Granny D' in the West Virgina Woods
by Doris "Granny D" Haddock

Doris D. Haddock, known throughout the country as "Granny D," walked across America in support of campaign reform at the age 90. She turned 96 on January 24, 2006......more

Democrats prepare to welcome Howard Dean

Alaska Democrats are getting ready to welcome their outspoken National Committee chairman. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean will speak at a hundred-dollar-per-head dinner Wednesday at the Anchorage Hilton Hotel. Dean sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2004. He was elected party chairman a year later. He will speak on his 50-state strategy for making the Democratic Party competitive in every state and district across the country.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Exxon-Backed Pundit Compares Gore To Nazi Propagandist


Busted

Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, an organization that has received over $390,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. This afternoon on Fox, Burnett compared watching Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, to watching a movie by Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels to learn about Nazi Germany. Watch it:

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS
Providing Accurate Information on Energy & Environment Issues

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep........................ Woody Allen

Democratic candidate packs a house party full
By ALEX LEARY, Times Staff Writer

Blown away by a speech Rod Smith gave in December, Francine Simmons decided to throw a house party for the Democratic candidate for governor Monday....more
Demos can win religious voters, Dean insists

Howard Dean says Democrats must have faith in their ability to attract religious voters....more
If Not Hillary, Then Who?

The next Democratic convention will begin on August 25, 2008. While it's not clear where it will be held, at the moment Hillary Clinton is the odds-on favorite to be the presidential nominee. She has by far the most money and has cornered the market on big-bucks donors. Nonetheless, she's not the favorite of the Democratic rank-and-file, who've united in opposition, if not an alternative.....more

Monday, May 29, 2006

Dean: Frist's Scapegoating of LGBT Families is Wrong

Claiming that marriage "is under attack today," Bill Frist confirmed on Fox News Sunday yesterday that when Congress returns from Memorial Day recess he will use his power not to address critical priorities like the war in Iraq, skyrockeing health care costs and gas prices, the need to protect workers' pensions or raising the minimum wage, but rather will instead pander to the conservative base with a divisive measure.
Instead of finding solutions for the high cost of gasoline, or addressing the crippling costs of health care and the tens of millions of uninsured, Bill Frist and the Republican Senate will bring the divisive Federal Marriage Amendment to the floor of the Senate for a vote, using marriage as a wedge issue, and scapegoating LGBT Americans once again for political gain.....more

Statement by Howard Dean

"America has always been fortunate to rely upon the courage and fortitude of brave men and women of all backgrounds who have answered the call to service. These, the best and bravest our nation has to offer, are true patriots who have served with honor and distinction all over the world-a tradition that continues today, with the men and women fighting the war on terror and serving in Iraq'"Memorial Day is also a stark reminder that gratitude is not enough. Our men and women in uniform deserve civilian leaders who listen to military commanders and provide them the resources they need to complete their mission and come home safely.....more

4 Memorial Day's Later

"When Congress approved the President’s authorization to go to war in Iraq – no matter how well-intentioned – it was giving the green light to the President to set his Doctrine of preemptive war in motion. It now appears that Iraq was just the first step. Already, the Bush Administration is apparently eyeing Syria and Iran as the next countries on its target list".....Howard Dean April 17, 2003
Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State
By Allan Uthman May 29, 2006
Is the U.S. becoming a police state? Here are the top 10 signs that it may well be the case.

1. The Internet Clampdown

One saving grace of alternative media in this age of unfettered corporate conglomeration has been the internet. While the masses are spoon-fed predigested news on TV and in mainstream print publications, the truth-seeking individual still has access to a broad array of investigative reporting and political opinion via the world-wide web. Of course, it was only a matter of time before the government moved to patch up this crack in the sky.....more

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Neocons, Democratic Party?
Democratic neocons want to beef up the military and won't run from a fight.

These Democrats want to be seen as anything but the squishes who have led the party to defeat in the past. Interestingly, that's how the early neocons saw themselves too: as liberals fighting to reclaim their party's true heritage — before they decamped to the GOP in the 1980s. Their political champions include Connecticut Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and such likely presidential candidates as former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who is chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. ....more
A New Open-Source Politics

Will 2008 bring the first Internet president? The Internet lets candidates who catch fire raise millions in small donations practically overnight. That's why all the talk of Hillary Clinton's "war chest" making her the front runner for 2008 is the most hackneyed punditry around.....more
Hayden Hijinks

Unfortunately, there is no opposition party in Washington.
There is, instead, a Democratic Party that, when push comes to shove regularly allows itself to be shoved.
So it come as little surprise that Hayden's nomination has sailed through the Senate, winning approval Friday by a 78-15 vote. Most Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, joined the vast majority of Republicans in rubberstamping George W. Bush's poke-in-the-eye pick to head the CIA......more
Meteorologist Compares Al Gore to Adolf Hitler

In this weekend’s Washington Post magazine, meteorologist Bill Gray – one of the most prominent climate skeptics – directly compared Al Gore to Adolf Hitler:Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews.It’s telling that so many of the attacks on Al Gore and his movie are ad hominem, not substantive. There really is no credible scientific rebuttal to An Inconvenient Truth, so people are forced to attack the messenger.....more
About the Republican Accusation that Liberals Hate America

"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy”. – Ann Coulter

It infuriates me to hear hypocritical Republicans spout off about how “liberals hate America”. In the first place, it’s a meaningless and stupid thing to say, because the phrase “hate America” (or “love America”) can mean so many different things. But saying that “liberals hate America” makes a damn good sound bite, and there are many voters who are swayed by that phrase, under the principle that if you hear something said enough times it must be true. And anyhow, what else do Republicans have to talk about?.....more

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Strong Signs of Rift Among Democrats

"This is a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party," said Marshall Wittmann, a senior fellow at the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. "It will have repercussions for the 2008 presidential campaign and whether centrists will feel comfortable within the Democratic Party." ......more






The Law of Competitive Balance, Howard Dean, and the Democratic Party's Washington Establishment

Dean is the first Democrat to think "globally" by acting "locally." The key to power and a better nation is by strengthening state parties and taking the country back one precinct at a time. It's basic blocking and tackling in the ground game that has eluded the Democrats for a generation, as the establishment prefers to mobilize the same special interests coalition and rally behind the politics of expediency......more
Bush Can't Satisfy Howard Dean on Immigration Reform

The president "has stood on the sidelines while allowing extremists in his party to hijack the debate" over immigration reform, according to Dean......more
The Jimmy Carter attacks continue

I highlighted MAF's idiotic ad campaign to censure Jimmy Carter the other day. We have big problems in this country and Melanie Morgan handles it by going after Carter. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., who is the founder of American Spectator magazine, just wrote a piece called Jimmy Carter pens the worst book of 2005. It seems that there is a concerted effort to attack him. I guess we can call them the "Blame Carter Coalition."......http://www.crooksandliars.com/

Friday, May 26, 2006

Kenny Boy

From comfy corner offices, they engaged in chicanery that fleeced shareholders and pensioners....more
The Revolution Will Be Blogged

It’s one big progressive soapbox out there on the Internet.
This story, for example, is about how the progressive cause is advancing thanks to BLOGS....more
WMNF Heatwave Pics.....here
E-Mail From One Of Stogie's Conservative Friend's

Hey Stogie,

Thanks for the great picture of our fearless, gun-toten number 2 guy. I
need
you to step away from the mushroom tea and get real!!!!

I had a good laugh, but I'd like to see you socialists/communists help
the
nation get a fair tax installed so we rich, money making Republicans
can pay
the same tax as you rich, money making (ie Howard Dean) leftist do and
then
neither side can complain about "tax breaks". Check it out, dude....

Is it Football season yet?

KT sr


First: The Stogie is getting old. the only tea Stogie drink's now is Green Tea.

Second: What would give KT the idea The Stogie is a socialist or a communist? I think The Stogie makes it very clear where he is coming from.....is this just a typical right wing response?....The GOP, and everyone else is a communist?......In case KT forgot, there use to be a strong second party in this country. and by the looks of things they might be on their way back.

Third: Tax Cuts? Who are you fooling? You guys have been putting it to the rest of us since 2000. The latest here ......The last 6 years here. Thanks for looting the treasury and putting our children's future in debt.

Fourth: The Stogie has been to many DFA meeting's, and he doesn't remember many rich folk's there.

As for http://www.fairtax.org/

Stogie is still researching

luv ya, The Stogie

Dean on the Senate's Immigration Legislation

"We congratulate Senate Democrats for their continued leadership, led by Leader Harry Reid, on the important issue of comprehensive immigration reform. Democrats have consistently fought for immigration reform that strengthens our borders, protects U.S. workers and their wages, reunites families and allows hard-working immigrants who pay taxes and obey the law the opportunity to earn the right to apply for the responsibilities of citizenship......more
MARY CHENEY: BLISSFULLY WELL-ADJUSTED SECOND DAUGHTER

Mary Cheney:What the fuck are you talking about? In "Now I'm Turned On", I say how–
Mary Matalin:"Now It's My Turn."
Mary Cheney:No, it's my turn to talk, bitch!
Mary Matalin:No, that's the title of the book I, ur, you wrote. "Now It's My Turn." ....more
UK Police Target Anti-War Protester

"It was shocking. I would not have believed they could stoop so low. I thought they going to do it decently, to do it through the courts, when they came like thugs in the night. They have completely destroyed all the expressions of people who opposed the war in Iraq," he said."It seems I am going to die in this place now because I'm going to be fasting and praying. What else can I do as a Christian?......more
Journalist on Trial for Calling Putin “Russia’s Phallic Symbol”

The Prosecutor’s Office has launched criminal proceedings against the editor-in-chief of a Russian Internet newapaper for calling President Putin “Russia’s phallic symbol”.....more

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Dean: Dem's Legal Woes Don't Compare to GOP Corruption
Randy HallStaff Writer/Editor(CNSNews.com) -

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday that there is no comparison between the ethical problems faced by U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (D- La.) and what he termed the Republican "culture of corruption" in the nation's capital. A GOP spokesman dismissed Dean's criticism as "trying to sell a fundamentally flawed campaign slogan.""There's a difference between the involvement of Congressman Jefferson in activities for which there's been no indictment and the culture of corruption that extends throughout the White House, the vice president's office and both houses of Congress," Dean said during a press conference at the DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C......more
Democracy for America

Raised $20,000 for Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont within three hours of posting the endorsement on its Web site.....more

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Stogie Remember's The Good Old Day's

During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places, and reduced welfare rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination......from whitehouse.gov....click here
Florida Democrats Find Their Cojones (Maybe A Little Bit).......more

Got Cojones?......click here