Hear ye, hear ye, for whom this bell tolls, it’s time to rise like the spirit of the mighty Phoenix and answer this call to action. Dust off the boxing gloves, put on the war paint and let’s get ready to rumble. This call is to all Arizona mules and donkeys of the mighty Democratic Party. If you’re old enough to remember the 60’s song “Time” by the Chambers Brothers, well, “Time has come today.”
Our president and party need our due-diligent commitment and steadfast support to secure a victory in November. Folks, it’s time to shout out loud: “I’m a Democrat and proud.”
Throughout the years, I’ve always been a loud, proud, kind of rough-around-the-edges in-your-face Democrat, especially when pulled into civil discussions with rival party members after they’ve first initiated dialogue about political issues around the state or country. Many times I’ve felt like the men at the Alamo surrounded and outnumbered by opponents, but have always stood tall and will never stand down. However several times after the fact, I’ve been approached by people who quietly stood back listening and sharing in a whisper they’re Democrats and agreeing to the positions or stance I took.
My fellow Democrats here in Arizona, we’ve been bombarded by conservative talk radio, guest commentary articles, hard-core, hard-headed my-way-or-the-highway group of individuals down at the state capitol coming up with bill after bill that makes one wonder what kinds of mushrooms they order on those burgers. Democrats, it’s time to come out of the living and bed rooms, the kitchens, backyards and that darn hidden closet that many sit back in quietly, only coming out to vote. It’s time take to the streets, call talk shows, display “Obama 2012” bumper stickers, write letters to the editors and guest commentaries. Folks it’s not against the law and no one is going to arrest you, I don’t think? Is there a Sheriff Joe sighting?
I know you’re out there, but I also know that being largely outnumbered can be intimidating. Folks, our party does hold that office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. so let’s get energized and excited despite all the elephant pucky being flung around. We’ve got a good man and a leader in the White House. I agree somewhat that everything is not all hunky-dory, but there’s been turnarounds and improvements. President Obama has been blamed for everything under, over, behind, and in between the sun.
Frankly I’m mad as a hockey stick and not taking it anymore. I’ve filed the application for a Statement of Candidacy for consideration to become one of Arizona’s 79 delegates or six alternates to attend the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. in September. I know my appointment will be a long-shot but I’m compelled to make an effort. If by chance I’m selected, every delegation from other states will know when the Arizona delegation enters that hotel and convention center. I will become the biggest 6-foot-3 280-pound cheerleader leading the Arizona delegation like a drill sergeant with cadence calls, chants and songs as we rally to keep our president in office. I can hear people now: “Here come those loud Arizona Democrats.”
To my fellow Democrats, this election is up to us to lose. Stand firm and proud with backs straight and remember big elephants can only ride your backs if they’re bent. I leave you now with the words of the Air Cavalry helicopter captain in the movie Apocalypse Now: “It smells like victory.”
Hee haw, hee haw.
John R. Goodie is a Gilbert resident and a Mesa MLK committee member.
manny99 posted at 6:41 pm on Wed, Apr 18, 2012.
spoken like a true p.d.c.s.p. member.
People Democratic Commie Socialist Party
THE SEVEN PILLARS OF DEMOCRATIC LIBERALISM
J - Just Deny It
A- Always Blame America
C- Clinton is Good, Perjury is Very Bad
K- Kill Innocent Babies, Not Convicted Murderers
A- Al-Qaeda has Rights, Christians Do Not
S- Support Our Troops by Rooting Against Them
S- Socialism: There Is No Substitute
mnjcpa posted at 7:00 pm on Sun, Apr 1, 2012.
You know folks it’s really not about being Democrat or Republican. And it’s not about trying to discard someone’s point of view when one fact isn’t precise – it’s the bigger message that needs to be understood. This election is about what America is going to look like in the future. And if we don’t get serious about our finances, America won’t be the one that any of us will know.
The 1% is the new enemy of the state. One percenters have the audacity to earn more than $250,000 per year. Heaven help someone who makes more than a million dollars a year; they must serve as an example to others and die a slow, torturous death. Good grief – I remember growing up and viewing high achieving, successful people were viewed as role models. Obviously this was before liberalism set in and little Timmy got a trophy just for showing up, sports stars made $20 million per year, or become a mega star because you starred in an internet sex tape.
Paul Ryan delivered a thoughtful, academic budget that will no doubt get to Obama’s right hand man Harry Reid and squelch Ryan’s fantastic work. Obama has operated without a budget since in office and that alone should tell you where he’s coming from. Ryan’s plan balances the budget in such a way that encourages free enterprise to grow. Obama called it “madness.”
The numbers are there folks - America is heading straight into bankruptcy. Reelect Obama; count on it. Bill Ayers once quoted, “I wake up every morning wondering how I can destroy capitalism.” He will get that wish unless we work together as Americans, not Democrat or Republican, and hash out our differences.
Daddyburger posted at 4:04 pm on Sat, Mar 31, 2012.
Love the list of all the Obama accomplishments. Just think--all that has cost us, our kids and grandkids ONLY $13 TRILLION (so far)!
Mike McClellan posted at 9:27 am on Sat, Mar 31, 2012.
Samkat, I agree that too often extremists on both sides of the spectrum drive the agendas. And that's partially our fault for not being more involved in the process.
But here in AZ, those left-wing extremists have little sway in our legislature. Right now, anyhow, the right side of the fence runs the Capitol.
RollerCam posted at 9:52 pm on Fri, Mar 30, 2012.
Yeah! Go Dems! Here's the guy you want to "rally 'round." He's gonna' be the most "transparent" President in history... AGAIN!
"The Obama records which have not been released include:
1) Passport records
2) Obama kindergarten records
3) Punahou School records
4) Occidental College records
5) Columbia University records
6) Columbia thesis
7) Harvard Law School records
8) Harvard Law Review articles
9) University of Chicago scholarly articles
10) Illinois State Bar Association records
11) Illinois State Senate records/schedules(said to be lost)
12) Medical records
13) Obama / Dunham marriage license
14) Obama / Dunham divorce documents
15) Soetoro/Dunham marriage license
16) Adoption records
17) ...and, of course. the long-form Certificate of Live Birth.
samkat posted at 7:10 pm on Fri, Mar 30, 2012.
John: While I condemn Leon for his ill advised attempt at humor, I agree with his comments. I have been a registered democrat for over 50 years and in my humble opinion, the democratic party has moved too far to the left; and, certainly has become too politically correct.
While I feel the same way about the republicans, I will be hard pressed to vote along the democratic party line when they seem to be comprised of splintered minority groups who look down on whites as a subspecies and universally racist. They tend to promote disharmony rather than national unity. While there is a Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, etc., etc Congressional caucus, these same groups would be screaming bloody murder if there was an attempt to establish a White Congressional Caucus. The list goes on and on.
I have known you for 25 years and frankly, if you are the kind of guy I think you are, you can carry my message to any democratic convention you attend and try to effect changes that promote harmony rather than discontent.
Mike, I would agree with you but in the same vein, I condemn groups such as La Raza, Mecha and white liberal proponents who seem to forget that we have immigration laws that need to be enforced and upheld as opposed to trying to circumvent or strike them down to grant amnesty to people who willfully broke our laws expecting another round of the same as 1986 mistake on a scale of tenfold.
Mike McClellan posted at 9:53 am on Fri, Mar 30, 2012.
What Mr. Goodie doesn't understand is this: This state is run by three entities, none of which is remotely connected to the Democratic Party.
The three: Cathi Herrod of the Center for the Family, the Goldwater Institute, an alleged think tank that's really a combination propaganda machine/lobbying firm, and ALEC, the national right-wing organization our Republican legislators annually pay fealty to and then run the ALEC-sponsored bills each year.
No matter how much Goodie wants Democrats to come out of the woodwork and proudly proclaim who they are, the Axis of Drivel that is Goldwater, Herrod, and ALEC will continue to rule the state leg. and thus the state.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 8:47 am on Fri, Mar 30, 2012.
Sorry for having another of my far too numerous "senior moments". My typing skills seemed to have deminished like everything else. The "g" and "h" keys are right next to each other or maybe...seeing a member of the Black House Caucus wearing a hoodie sweatshirt on the Floor of the House was stuck in my mind. I thought if a Caucasian Republican would have worn a white hoodie sweatshirt that Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer and all the other Left-Wing Liberals on CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC would have gone beserk.............SO MUCH FOR LEFT WING BIAS IN-GRAINED IN OUR TV AND NEWSPAPER MEDIA......NOT TO MENTION THE BLATANT ..."RACISM"...WE SEE COMING FROM PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN HIS OATH OF OFFICE TO PRESIDE OVER ALL AMMERICAN CITIZENS.........NOT JUST THE MUSLIM, BLACK AND HISPANIC ONES.
Arizona Willie posted at 7:32 am on Fri, Mar 30, 2012.
bobunf, the mistake you are making is in presenting FACTS.
Right wingers not only don't care about facts they actually HATE them.
That's one of the reasons why they are always cutting the education budget in Aridzona.
FACTS are irrelevant to the mental illness called right wing extremism.
They KNOW they are right and everyone else is wrong ... Rush says so.
If you observe the posts of the right wingers their language is full of anger / hate. They basically take the position that the whole world is s*c*r*e*w*i*n*g them. Everone is sponging off the government ( except them of course they never take unemployment or any other benefit nor do they take government benefits in their businesses ----yeah right ).
abimopectore posted at 5:35 pm on Thu, Mar 29, 2012.
bobunf,
The growth rates you cite at the end, although favorable need to be examined in light of the downturn that occurred previously, which makes them hardly anything really to tout. A more realistic indicator would be the unemployment rate and better yet the total unemployment rate if you included those that are not actively seeking employment because they've just dropped out of sight. Numbers can be deceiving in either direction and both sides use them to bolster their case. The real question will be whether Americans feel they are better off or not economically in giving the President a second term. As of this moment, it's going to be difficult to make this case no matter who's in the White House.
bobunf posted at 5:03 pm on Thu, Mar 29, 2012.
mnjcpa and I few of the other posters, when well established facts do not fit the desired conclusion, subscribe to the Hegelian “then so much the worse for the facts."
You need MSNBC, FOX news or the Comedy Channel to read the Department of Labor's statistics on unemployment rates and job growth. You all should try it sometime.
Nor to check GDP growth rate.
2007 +1.94% Bush all twelve months
2008 -0.02% Bush all twelve months
2009 -3.50% Can't really blame Obama - it was Bush's budget and the American economy doesn't turn on a dime.
2010 +3.0%
2011 +1.7% That's after the Republicans took control of the House.
Try the CIA World Fact Book for numbers about comparative health care expenditures and outcomes. There are oodles of other sources.
seeme posted at 2:00 pm on Thu, Mar 29, 2012.
Dear Mr. Leon Ceniceros,
The writer's name is JOHN R. GOODIE and not Hoodie as you so clearly are trying to make a derrogative and disrespectful statement.
This and some of the other postings just goes to show how evil and mean spirited some people are. Can we not all have diverse thoughts, opinions and beliefs without being so mean and condenscending? My Goodness!!
VofReason posted at 1:57 pm on Thu, Mar 29, 2012.
Yes, I am sure that will rally Arizonans. I am sure they are quite pleased that when the State citizenry voted on a law to actually enforce immigration, President Obama's admninistration has done everything it could to stop it. Even though it actually mirrors what the federal Law is. I am sure everyone reading this thinks, boy are we better off then we were before he came to office. Oh I know I know I know, that is because he is fixing everything that President Bush did wrong and that takes time. Yup, run with that. See you in 2012. If he loses, we will know he was another President Carter- way to the left and dreadful. If he wins, we will know that the people of America are more about being taken care of then owning responsibility. My bet is on the former
mnjcpa posted at 11:28 am on Thu, Mar 29, 2012.
And following my prediction a month ago in this column - straight from Obama's press conference rising gas prices are the big oil companies fault. Doesn't have anything to do with his moratorium on drilling or refusal to implement the Keystone pipeline. Obama never takes responsibility for his actions.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 10:04 am on Thu, Mar 29, 2012.
Dear Mr. Jon R. Hoodie,
As a Los Angeles transplanted ex-Democrat, I can only hope that the good clean air of Arizona cleans out all of that "Democrat-phobia" out of your heart and soul.
When the Democrats took over Los Angeles Politics back in the late 1960's....that was the beginning of the end for that once great City. The Los Angeles Unified School Board went first...then the City Administration followed suit. Corruption, ethnic and racial favortism became the...."Norm". Everyday a new scandal about Gloria Molina, Maxine Waters, City Councilman. The Los Angeles Police Department became a haven for every affirmative action and social diversity experiment that the Left-Wing Socialists could think up. Black and Chicano Activism became the ....Rule of Law.
Starting with the Watts Riots of Black Friday, August 13th, 1965 (the day that I enlisted in the Army) we saw neighborhoods split along racial or ethnic lines that were far more dangerous than the San Andreas Fault. The LAPD couldn't or wouldn't act and the California National Guard had to be called in over and over and over....again. Young Guardsman staring down the barrels of Jeep-mounted .50 caliber machine guns with their fingers on the trigger at all times patroling the perimeters of the riot areas...and scared to death at all times too (my buddy was in the National Guard at the time and told me what went of after I came back home on leave from Basic Training). The Racial/Ethnic Divide has never healed in Los Angeles....the inner-City and South-Central (where I grew up just a block West of Central Avenue between Manchester and Florence) has become "Ghetto-ized". The "White Flight" of the 70's and 80's to the suburbs has turned Los Angeles into the most segregated City in the United States.
So much for ........Democrat Party Politics. We just got a taste of this "Racial/Ethnic Divide" by our Democrat President, Barack Hussein Obama's remarks on the Trayvon Martin Shooting case down in Florida. Democrat Politics at it's very worst...the President of the United States pandering for election year votes by pushing the "Race" card.
mnjcpa posted at 7:52 am on Thu, Mar 29, 2012.
Great summary chatman - spot on assessment.
mnjcpa posted at 7:51 am on Thu, Mar 29, 2012.
bobunf - you are drinking some serious koolaid from the liberal trough - not one of your points is correct.
The Democrats have spun the job numbers such that anyone with a sixth grade education can see that unemployment numbers are seriously distorted and you actually believe it. The stock market is a cyclical animal and isn't a true reflection of a growing economy - GDP growth is an abysmal <2%. Obamacare - if allowed to stand - WILL take this country down in bankruptcy. The Obama administration has blocked any reasonable attempt to deficit spending. And regulation in banking has strengthened the big banks yes, but squeezed out community banks and competition.
If liberals would actually open their eyes and read information - not the MSNBC garbage that's nothing more than Obama's campaign tool - you could actually learn something. We're in trouble - the US is bankrupt.
You bet the opposition party is intent on defeating Obama. Give him another four years unfettered and no election to be concerned with will accomplish what he set out to do in the first place turning America into one we won't recognize.
bobunf posted at 11:53 pm on Wed, Mar 28, 2012.
President Obama has brought us
No new wars costing American lives, one less war and the other winding down. That's LEADERSHIP.
Job growth - from losing 600,000 jobs per month to gaining 200,000. That's HOPE
Dow Jones from 6,000 to 13,000 - really good for your 401K and pension. More HOPE.
The Affordable Health Care Act - a step towards addressing the fact that we Americans have the most expensive health care system in the world and far worse health outcomes than any other developed country. CHANGE for the better.
A start towards re-regulation of a banking industry that brought this country to its knees from their greed, corruption and incompetence. That's TRANSPARENCY.
All this and more with an opposition party focused solely on defeating the President without regard to their effects on the country. Blind opposition for partisan gain is NOT leadership, but craven opportunism.
chatmandu002 posted at 9:33 pm on Wed, Mar 28, 2012.
Yes democrats go out and prove you are the new liberal/progressive/socialist democratic party. The party of Big Government spending and deficits. The party of dependency and entitlements. The democrat controlled senate that has not passed a budget for over 1000 days. A democrat president that has brought us No hope, No change, No transparency and No leadership.
Slabside posted at 6:12 pm on Wed, Mar 28, 2012.
Arizona Willie and Cerulean, you two have a severe shortage of memory. The EVT regularly post letters from Tina Dupuy, Mcclellan and Beydler. Stop with the "woe is us poor DemocRATs" manure. The insanity of the left is well represented in the commentary section.
Cerulean posted at 2:30 pm on Wed, Mar 28, 2012.
Humm, I just noticed that Mike McClellan, Mark Scarp and others are also ‘guest’ commentators. I would not call them “raving right wingers”. However, I see many, many more “raving right wingers” in that spot than anyone else.
Cerulean posted at 2:19 pm on Wed, Mar 28, 2012.
Arizona Willie, Hell hath frozen over!! You are sooooo right. “They never never never never never put anyone but a raving right winger in that spot.”
We do have a good man and a leader in the White House. And, of the pool of presidential contenders, Barrack Obama is the best qualified.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 12:52 pm on Wed, Mar 28, 2012.
"IT SMELLS.............." alright but that ain't....."VICTORY"......lol......[wink]
Arizona Willie posted at 11:54 am on Wed, Mar 28, 2012.
good good almighty!!!! hell has frozen over today.
They actually put a Democrat in the Guest Editorial spot!
Someone is going to get fired for that.
They never never never never never put anyone but a raving right winger in that spot.
Accuracy posted at 11:40 am on Wed, Mar 28, 2012.
John Goodie’s conclusion: “To my fellow Democrats, this election is up to us to lose.”
That is especially suitable.
“LOSE” – to cause the loss – of the election – by the Democrats.