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Michael Leon blogs at http://malcontends.blogspot.com. Michael is a writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. His writing has appeared nationally in The Progressive, In These Times, OpEdNews.com, and CounterPunch.

In Defense of Joe Lieberman

I don't care for Joe Lieberman as a U.S. Senator.

Lieberman went right along with the obscenity of the Iraq Invasion and the Patriot Act, among other imbecilities.

I don't care for Joe Lieberman as a public man.

Even among elected officials in Congress, Lieberman stands out as a lying propagandist.

A Change Is Gonna Come

Watching this video, my Georgia-raised mother told me this was the first time she cried, not even the Chicago speech did it.

That makes two of us.

Perfect Obama Fieldwork Operation in Wisconsin

Fitchburg, WI - Worked the early shift today at a high turn-out ward in Fitchburg, WI, next to Madison.

We received two separate knocks at our door in last three days.

I worked as an election inspector from 6:00 AM to 1:30 PM.

The register-at-the-poll crowd was huge in the morning, and was steady when I just left now.

Wisc AG Van Hollen hosts McCain 'victory' party

More evidence destroying the corrupt little shit called Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

Wisconsin is in the bag folks, no one is complacent here. We'll handle Van Hollen and the pricks.

From the Capital Times (Madison, Wis), John Nichols reports:

Wisc: Bring Cell Phones to Fight DOJ Asst AGs and Special Agents

Update: Gov Doyle, Sheboygan DA criticize Van Hollen plan for agents at polling places Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCocco, a Democrat, called Van Hollen's plan to use state agents and lawyers to monitor polls Tuesday a "dog and pony" show. DeCocco said his search of state law "did not locate any mandates of providing prosecutor coverage at polling sites, or any authority to do so." "The attorney general has no authority in this state to supervise elections," Doyle told reporters. He again said the move by Van Hollen is part of a national effort by Republican Party leaders to "try and raise questions" about the voting process - questions that they hope keep some voters from casting ballots.

We most likely are goin to win Wisconsin. But we are faced with our own government trying to prevent us from exercising our right to vote. It's anti-American but it's also a fact that Republicans have no respect for the victories of the civil rights movement.

Father Groppi, Dr. King, Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney? Attorney General Van Hollen could not give a damn about these heroes and 10,000s more civil rights workers. In Wisconsin, in this election, Milwaukee is ground zero

McCain's only shot at winning Wisconsin is to suppress Milwaukee blacks, and they know this fact well. Fight back! And McCain needs Wisconsin if Virginia goes Obama, otherwise it's over for them.

Big Colorado Voting Case Heard Today

Update: Voting-rights activists cut a deal with Colorado's secretary of state late Wednesday that will ensure some 20,000 voters removed from state rolls will get to cast a ballot.

Voting rights advocates will not back down!

Colorado is in play with a slight and growing Obama lead, and together with a Virginia win for Obama would all but guarantee a victory for the Democratic nominee.

The GOP is trying suppress voters en masse, courtesy of Colorado's Katherine Harris: Secretary of State Mike Coffman.

Fortunately, the judge hearing the case is Judge John L. Kane, a rule-of-law judge with an honest reputation.

McCain: Bad Liar and Loser

Update: Politics of bigotry may finally be over

Amid the voter suppression, the GOP corruption (for example Wisconsin Atty Gen. J.B. Van Hollen, US Atty Gen. Michael Mukasey), the appeals to fear and xenophobia (one can go on), an observer can plainly see why John McCain is going to lose.

Sure, the structure of the campaign in light of the economy and a divided GOP are instructive.

Judis and Teixeira Look Prescient

[Writer's Preface: We're going to win and we assume nothing beyond the rapacious, dishonest and corrupt nature of GOP political operatives exemplified by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen determined to thwart the will of the American people. Van Hollen lost, by the way.]

John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira's The Emerging Democratic Majority (Lisa Drew Books/Scribner, 2002) predicting the "end of Republican hegemony" looks politically prophetic a week out from Election Day.

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