AAM Hosts AUTHORS TURNING THE PAGE at Denver Dem Convention

By Mark Green

with Sorensen, Krugman, Markos, Huffington, Dyson...

What better way to contribute to a political convention than with...content?
For those of you who may be in Denver, please come by The Big Tent #1 (at intersection of 15th and Wynkoop Street) at 3p Monday to hear Authors Turning the Page: Ideas on Election '08.

While we'll all be inundated with political news, tactics, polls this Convention week, Air America wanted to focus on the big issues that'll face the candidates and country this Fall, and then in 2009-2013. So working in alliance with The Progressive Book Club, housed with us in NYC, we reached out to many of the most prominent progressive authors in the country with this assignment -- apply some wisdom in your last book and apply it to the '08 presidential contest.

The line-up will be spectacular:

*Ted Sorensen will discuss his book Counselor -- and he'll discuss the eerie similarities between JFK and Barack Obama.

*Michael Eric Dyson & Jonathan Alter will do the same with their books about MLK and FDR.

*Paul Krugman will analyze economic populism vs. plutocracy through the prism of his book The Conscience of a Liberal.

*Arianna Huffington & John Podesta will discuss the continuing progressive v. conservative contest in light of their books, Right is Wrong and The Power of Progress.

*Markos Moulitsas and David Sirota will apply lessons from their respective books, Taking on the System and The Uprising.

*Jane Mayer and Anne-Marie Slaughter will focus on their specialties -- foreign policy and Iraq/torture -- to talk about how America can dig itself out of its deep hole in Iraq and internationally.

The three panels (see attached) will be moderated by me and by the incomparable Thom Hartmann, host of course of The Thom Hartmann Show on AAM and author/editor of 29 books, including the reassurance of his very popular The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight book.

We're pleased to announce that the event will be streamed live from Denver and will be broadcast twice next weekend, at 7pm on Saturday and 10am time on Sunday.

See you in Denver or on the radio or on the Web!

Special thanks to our event sponsor Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Foundation.

Mark Green
President
Air America Radio

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August 25, 2008
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Just curious. Anyone know

Just curious. Anyone know the latest stat for Clinton supporters planning on voting for McCain? It's trending up isn't it? Wasn't it about a month ago it was at about 10% and now around 15%??

Mccain/Fiorina '08

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By tropicaltoadAugust 25, 2008 - 12:05pm

Just silly pissed off

Just silly pissed off Hillary supporters who feel she wasn't treated with enough "respect" by Obama's camp after he beat her in the primaries.

Give me a break, she was the most successful woman candidate EVER, and Obama has given her credit for that. What more in terms of "respect" are her supporters looking for?

Any Hillary "supporter" who would vote for McCain is either (a) a spiteful idiot or (b) somebody who knows NOTHING about the issues (as McCain and Hillary are complete opposites on most issues) and was only voting for Hillary because she (and presumably the supporter) are both women. Again, another idiotic reason to support a candidate.

"I don't give a damn about Hillary's policies, but she has the same genetalia as me so I'll vote for her" --Hillary Supporter

-- McCain = Four more years of the same --

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By dtaylo75August 25, 2008 - 2:35pm

Neither camp played to spare the others feelings

It had something to do with both candidates being more popular than McCain (note how I spell his name correctly, because the fight is over).

Obama / Biden '08

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By dewbie dubaiAugust 25, 2008 - 2:51pm

Take that white

sheet of yours up to MN toady!
You'll blend right in with all the others waiting for the MC Cain coronation.

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By justintymeAugust 25, 2008 - 4:13pm

HOW ABOUT SOME REAL SCIENCE?

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If Obama were serious out a “real” energy policy, he would get together with scientists and engineers and the people that manage national resources and put together a serious policy.

Right now, energy is a political football with people making ridiculous claims on both sides. There needs to be a comprehensive investigation on what is and what isn’t possible.

This will absolutely NOT be decided in the political arena; however, it could certainly be stalled in the political arena.

John McCain is the wrong person for this. He believes science is a religion. He has only contempt for education. Listen to him talk. He says things like, “I know this man who one went to the 6th grade and ended up a multi-millionaire”. He throws these stories around like new homes. If you listen to John McCain, education is a waste of time and money.

So far, Obama is treating this election like a Harvard debate. Stay within the bounds of good etiquette. Win on philosophical points. If he keeps it up, then McCain will be president and he will make Bush look like a genius. Compared to McCain, Bush IS a genius. Everyone is.

If McCain is elected president, he will leave this country exactly the same way he left the Forrestal.

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By deanrddAugust 25, 2008 - 1:00pm

There's only two philosophies standing

The engines are old and there's no money to replace them, nor monies for "newer approach research" So we play it by day until we "have to" fix it.
"An ounce of prevention is worth spit, when you require more than a pound of cure." --aaazzz111

The other is cheap nano-cable strung into the stratosphere for free energy, and "fake mountain" housing modules.
"We lack free states of invention...'united states' doesn't have to mean 'anally compliant with every other state'." --aaazzz111

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By dewbie dubaiAugust 25, 2008 - 2:56pm

National Organization for Women president calls for

National Organization for Women president calls for Jones' resignation after 'Uncle Tom' remark

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/dnc/1125006,emilupdate082508.arti...

This was Obambi's "Mentor" in th IL senate.

"Obama - the judgement to have no nice friends, only thugs who can help out on the way"

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By its_so_overAugust 25, 2008 - 3:00pm

The remark wasn't "Uncle Tom"...read your own article skippy

The person said, "Doubting Thomas". It'll blow over. The room is noisy.

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By dewbie dubaiAugust 25, 2008 - 3:18pm

I did read the article. YOU didn't. And it's "Mr. Skippy".

from the article:

Told of Jones’ explanation, Cobb scoffed today and stuck by her version of the encounter.

“He knows what he said to me. He knows he called me an Uncle Tom. He’s trying to backtrack now. There’s playful jousting, and there’s stepping over the line,” she said. “He stepped over the line.”