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(D) Phil Weiser
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(D) Jena Griswold
(D) David Seligman
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(D) J. Danielson
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(D) Brianna Titone
(D) Jeff Bridges
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Trisha Calvarese
(D) Eileen Laubacher
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
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August 11, 2008 03:22 PM UTC
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David — the note you wrote on Jared’s diary indicates he’s the first candidate to take you up on your offer to front page a diary from each of the candidates. Is that correct? On August 6 LynneaHansen posted a diary titled “It’s getting ugly out there” and indicated it was a “message from Will Shafroth.” Was that not in response to your offer? I thought your offer included front-paging comments from the candidates even if the comments are posted by one of their campaign people.
(I’m posting this here so I don’t muddy the topic(s) at hand on Jared’s diary.)
If she wants to repost it, I’m happy to front page it. Or if they want to write a new one, that’s fine too. Just let me know.
One requirement – it needs to be written 1st person by the candidate. Lynnea can post for Will, but it needs to be written by Will.
Lynnea posted Will’s comments on August 6. Also, as I read it, the message is from Will and is written 1st person.
Your offer:
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
Shafroth’s response via LynneaHansen:
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
I realize I’m picking nits here, but maybe we could get clarification from Lynnae as to whether her August 6th post of Will Shafroth’s comments was in response to your August 5 offer. I just wouldn’t want it to appear that only one candidate has responded to your offer when it appears two candidates have responded to your offer.
(FYI – I live in the 7th CD so I’m not a voter in the CD2 race.)
If I blew it on the earlier one, I apologize. I thought it came before.
I think the posts today are really good – especially Jared’s and Will’s in that they are more of a conversation directly to us here.
I don’t really think any Pols readers able to vote in those races are still undecided. But letting candidates speak unfiltered to the people is still a wonderful thing to do.
And where is JFG? Did she decide that it would be a waste of her time? Apparently her opponents thought it would be valuable enough to type out a few words.
….nobody on the campaign is filtering? What in hell are they being paid for?
🙂
“Read yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the way John McCain is now being managed by the Karl Rove proteges. It’s like McCain is some out of control adolescent and they’ve grounded him. No more cell phone. No more time with his friends.
So, the McCain campaign itself can’t trust John McCain with his own cellphone, but we’re supposed to trust him with the country? This is pretty crazy. I mean, it’s one thing for a parent to limit the use of their kids’ cellphones. The Bush/Rove operatives who are running McCain’s campaign are going to great lengths to control the behavior of their candidate. It’s like they want John McCain to become a bit player in his campaign’s operation:
Mr. Schmidt has sought to cut down on Mr. McCain’s use of his cellphone and limit the people who have regular access to Mr. McCain in an effort to keep him more focused, advisers said. He has been the impetus for an effort by Mr. McCain to limit sharply his engagements with reporters, the kind of freewheeling encounters that Mr. McCain enjoys – and that helped him charm the news media for years – but that often lead him to veer from his campaign’s message of the day.
There’s a reason. This isn’t John McCain’s campaign anymore. He turned it over to the Bush/Rove operation. They need a third term to keep Karl Rove out of jail.”
h/t Americablog
Maybe they could at least give him some prepaid minutes. Or an approved-caller list, like they do for Bush.
My 83 year-old grandmother knows how to use the internet.
does email, and visits sites in Portoguese.
She also clicks on things and moves things around and pretty soon I hear, “Paul, this isn’t working right.” And of course, it falls in my lap to cope with her Vista. Lord, I hate that OS!
…to Windows XP. I know only 1 programmer on Vista, and he’s not happy with it.
I’ve been mulling replacing my four-yearpold Dell but it still does the job and I dread having to face VISTA. Should I – A, take the plunge.
B-Hang on for another year and hope they get the VISTA bugs out.
C-Face the fact that I can’t play all my beloved computer games anyway because of my problems with repetitive motion syndrome and give up and buy a Mac.
You can still get it through Dell – just tell them you’re a business not a consumer. And keep playing those computer games – check out http://www.enemynations.com (created by yours truly).
Don’t know anybody who is happy with it but people who work at Microsoft, though oddly they seem to have their teeth clenched as they tell you about how wonderful it is.
Get a Mac. You can install Windows XP or Vista on it if you need to run Windows-only software.
My brother also has Vista on a new laptop. He and I are quite computer able, I won’t go into the reasons. He isn’t as unhappy about Vista as I am, but he is not pleased.
In quick summary, my beefs with Vista are: 1. Incredible RAM and resource hog, a real pig even with a lot of RAM. 2. The efforts to prevent hacking and fraud become highly annoying. Everything you try to do it sets up a barrier. And that’s with the User Protection (or whatever) turned OFF! 3. And all the ways you learned to do things and access things with NT, 2K, and XP are null and void. It’s like they just set up everything willy nilly just to make every learn new methods.
The only reason I moved from 98SE was because more and more programs (Google Earth, for a free example) only work on the NT kernel. And I didn’t do it until, coincidentally, Vista came out. I won’t install Vista until backed into that corner again.
This use case brought to you by the geniuses in Microsoft’s legal department
Has worked for the company for 10 years and he hates Vista. He says they get more complaints about Vista than they can handle. At least for now, avoid Vista until they work on improving it and work on getting the kinks out.
gets complaints about Vista. 🙂
We get more problems with our software on Vista than on XP. Yet 90% or more of our customers are on XP.
I’m real lucky. When I last worked at a large firm, the IT guy and myself were on great terms. He cut me an XP OS with Volume Licensing Key, I think it is called.
I have taken that and folded in Service Pack 2 onto one CD.
I feel that it is legal because the company apparently had many more licenses than installations and I was gifted them. I’ve never had any issue with Genuine Windows.
Hello, Bill, is tha you?
…with my new Sony laptop that’s loaded with Vista. So far, anyway.
And, I’m a technophobe when it comes to computers.
So long as they watch their stance.
cell phone and give it to McCain in a rope line.
That McCain hasn’t taken this week as an oppurtunity to hit Obama on every issue. He’s on vacation and it would have caught him off guard. But I guess with the media all in China, John McCain is just a small, wrinkled RINO (or is he?) who talks, but nobody seems to listen. And you know something my friends? I’m fine with that.
Nice summarization of the ridiculousness that is the CD-2 race from politico.com – http://www.politico.com/news/s…
Interesting quote from Polis campaign spokeswoman Dayna Morian: “Jared is only beholden to himself.”
Don’t you think Jared should be beholden to the people?
Jared is beholden only to himself
Jared is answerable to the people
Apparently Hawaii is too exotic and different to be part of the United States. I’ve got news for you Cokie – it’s as much part of the United States as any other state.
Maybe this picture will remind you of a bit of Hawaii’s history as part of the United States.
Sorry, couldn’t resist
…but at least we know now the strength of your interpretive skills
it’s one of the more amazing finishes I’ve ever seen….
http://www.nbcolympics.com/vid…
Go USA!!
that would be….Olympic:-)