Open Thread

We’re all busy with school - finals and papers and other stuff, so things have been kind of slow around here lately. So here’s an open forum to speak your mind.

In the news lately:

Hal Daub is considering a run for Senate in 2008.

Chuck Hagel, who currently holds that seat, is considering a run for President in 2008.

The Iraq Study Group will recommend a gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, getting most troops out by 2008.

John Bolton will no longer be the U.N. Ambassador for the United States.

Newly elected Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) wanted to “slug” Bush over an insensitive remark about Webb’s son.

22 Responses to “Open Thread”


  1. 1 john Dec 6th, 2006 at 5:55 am

    Welcome to the frontpage Dave!
    Remind me to pick up the slack once in a while…
    just send me a friendly email, facebook message, or tell me one of the like 5 times a week I see you at school, that I need to write more blog posts.

    But until, or if, I get around to ever doing that…
    …have fun frontpage posting Dave!

  2. 2 Chuck Dec 8th, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    Here’s a posting on http://www.personalk.com/links.php with a link (back to our blog) that says (I won’t use any punctuation):

    note: Just so everyone is clear, Omaha City Council Member Jim Vokal is not “gay.”

    I find it ironic that Republicans think that if you have a wife and kids, you can’t be gay. And, notice that after is says Jim Vokal the work gay is in quotes. That’s strange. Maybe Jim Vokal isn’t “gay” but maybe Jim Vokal has gay sex. Republicans probably don’t think the just having gay sex makes you gay…or do they? I dunno.

    Now with the realization that Adrian Smith is gay, we’ve got more gay Republicans in Nebraska than gay Democrats. Weird? Uh yeah!

    I will bet money that we never see Jim Vokal and Adrian Smith in the same room together.

  3. 3 Erin Dec 14th, 2006 at 12:42 pm

    Are you serious Chuck? Where is all this coming from?

    I was wondering who people were interested in seeing run for President, who they would not vote for, and who has a good chance of winning. I have been so swamped with finals that I have not followed the news much.

  4. 4 dave Dec 14th, 2006 at 1:10 pm

    I want Barack Obama to run. It’s looking more and more likely that he will. I’ll vote for the Democratic nominee for President, regardless, but I really don’t want to see Hillary Clinton get the nomination.

    For the Republicans? I wouldn’t vote for any of them. Not even Hagel (who I want to see run, for purely political reasons). But I think it’s likely McCain will get the nomination. And he’s gone nuts on Iraq.

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  13. 13 Keri Apr 15th, 2007 at 10:53 am

    I apologize for hijacking your blog like this but I have a request…

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    He has been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of Leukemia, and is in round two of chemo. So far he is holding his own, but his original prognosis was very grim.

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