This e-mail from Barack Obama just showed up in my inbox. Listen to this:
As you know, we’ve won 27 of 41 contests and have maintained our commanding lead among pledged delegates.
But today I want to share another staggering number: supporters like you donated more than $55 million to this campaign in the month of February.
That’s [...]
Tag Archives: democracy
Where Does The Money Come From
March 6, 2008 – 05:53 pm
Links for May 11, 2007
May 11, 2007 – 07:55 am
Iraqi Lawmakers Back Bill on U.S. Withdrawal:“A majority of members of Iraq’s parliament have signed a draft bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels. The development was a sign of a growing division between Iraq’s legislators and prime minister that mirrors the widening [...]
The National Initiative For Democracy
February 28, 2007 – 01:36 pm
From The National Initiative For Democracy: “The National Initiative includes a constitutional amendment and a federal statute that equips the people with the central power of government, lawmaking. As lawmakers, the people in every government jurisdiction of the United States become a new Check in our system of Checks and Balances designed to control [...]
The American Interest
December 13, 2006 – 01:34 pm
From A Concert of Democracies: “The Bush Administration and its critics thus offer, respectively, 19th- and 20th-century foreign policies for a 21st-century world. We can and must do better than that.”
The will to undemocratic power
October 16, 2006 – 12:03 pm
I found this after following some links from the story Christina & Sean linked to. You might want to check out The will to undemocratic power. In it, , Philip Golub writes, “In the US, the scope of the democratic retreat has been breathtaking. Under the guise of an undeclared state of emergency, the Bush [...]
Can People Handle the Power?
February 23, 2006 – 03:47 pm
Dave, over at This Is Not News, is taking a couple of political science seminars this semester, and it has him asking, when it comes to democracy, can people handle the power? I think it is a very important question that any struggling democracy (such as ours) has to ask itself every once in a [...]
Democracy in Education
January 29, 2006 – 05:14 pm
One of my best friends, James M.F. Stone, has joined the blogging world. If you visit Fluid Imagination regularly, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy Jamie’s blog too. Not only is the kid a funny motherfucker, but he’s angsty too, which results in humorous and politically-motivated rants about whatever has got his nuts in [...]
On Palestine
January 27, 2006 – 01:35 pm
“…for a long period we acted as if our democracy were something that perpetuated itself automatically; as if our ancestors had succeeded in setting up a machine that solved the problem of perpetual motion in politics. We acted as if democracy were something that took place…when men and women went to the polls once a [...]
A People’s Convention to Revise the Constitution
February 11, 2005 – 05:14 pm
[Originally Posted on the old Fluid Imagination site; this particular post was a homework assignment for a U.S. Government class]
Representatives of the State of Harmony, seeking to devise institutions that will maximize pluralist democracy, hereby proclaim the desire to achieve the following objective:
Whereas the Constitution of the United States, as ratified and adopted in 1788 [...]
