Algernon Moncrieff
Algernon Moncrieff's JournalI have a favor to ask DU - ask Biden to grant clemency to Peltier
Hi.
If you have a moment, and the price of a stamp, write to the outgoing President Biden, wish him and Jill and Commander well, and ask him to kindly consider clemency for Leonard Peltier.
Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the 70's. He was convicted in the deaths of two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. He has admitted being present, but denies killing the agents. His trial has been considered questionable. Here are my thoughts:
- Peltier is an old man (80) and a threat to no one.
- The 70s were a politically fraught time.We should close that book.
- There is precedent. Jimmy Carter granted clemency to the surviving would-be assassin of Harry Truman. Oscar Collazo and his partner were Puerto Rican separatists. They killed one White House policeman and injured two others.
- Note that I never used the word "pardon." My thought is that Peltier should be paroled to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota and agree not to own firearms. He would have the status of a parolee.
Thanks for reading.
David Axlerod says we've become the Smarty Pants Suburban College Educated party
My take: Axlerod has gone from the guy who helped elect Obama to Spiro Agnew, who referred to us as "Effete Snobs." I can only suppose Axlerod realized today's Trump followers wouldn't understand "Effete."
I'm supposing he's fishing for a job at FAUX or Newsmax.
Hey Earl G! Could we have a "Blame & Recriminations" Forum?
Here's the plan:
In this forum only, Dem politicians and leaders can be attacked for campaign strategy or lack thereof.
Attacks on fellow DUers will not be tolerated.
On 12/1/2024, the Forum is trashed. Like it never happened.
Then, having gotten it out of our system, we move forward....or to a foreign country....
With less than a week to go, how do you feel?
Confident?
Excited?
Frightened?
Depressed?
Angry?
Anxious?
Serene?
As for me - I've seen the hanging chads and Gore V. Bush, so I'm working under the assumption we won't actually know who the next president will be or which party controls Congress until December.
I think Total Wine/ Wall to Wall Wine will be the real winners.
NBC: RFK Jr. plans speech on 'path forward' as his campaign weighs backing Trump
Kennedy's campaign announced he will hold the event in Phoenix on Friday. Trump, meanwhile, is also set to host an event on Friday night, in Glendale, a Phoenix suburb.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-plans-speech-path-forward-talk-potentially-backing-trump-rcna167606
David Axelrod - Opinion: Biden's defiant delusion
CNNEditor’s Note: David Axelrod, a CNN senior political commentator and host of “The Axe Files,” was a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns.
Biden could be excused for wanting to put his awful debate performance in the rear view mirror. That was his purpose Friday in sitting down for the interview — to try and quell the panic that has gripped the Democratic Party.
He didn’t succeed.
[...]
“I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and did as good a job as I know I can do … that’s what this is about.”
No, sir. It’s not.
Sometimes the Lord Almighty comes in the form of enlightened self-awareness.
The stakes are as great as Biden describes. And if he believes it, as I think he does, he will eventually do what duty and love of country requires, and step aside.
If he does not, it will be Biden’s age, and not Trump’s moral and ethical void, that will dominate the rest of this most important campaign and sully the president’s historic legacy.
Starmer set to be PM as Tories face worst defeat - exit poll
Source: BBC
Labour is set to win a general election landslide with a majority of 170, according to an exit poll for the BBC, ITV and Sky.
If the forecast is accurate, Sir Keir Starmer will become prime minister with 410 Labour MPs – just short of Tony Blair's 1997 total.
The Conservatives are predicted to slump to 131 MPs, their lowest number ever.
The Liberal Democrats are projected to come third with 61 MPs.
Read more: https://bbc.com/news/articles/cd1xnzlzz99o
UK - How the BBC reports this election
When are the results expected?We estimate 20 results will come in before 02:00 BST and the pace will pick up after that. Between 02:00 and 04:00 there will be 325 seats declared and between 04:00 and 06:00 another 275. The last few results come in later on Friday morning.
It is hard to say when we will know if any party has won the election, with enough MPs elected to form a majority in the House of Commons. It depends on how close the contest is, but it is likely to be sometime after 03:00 BST.
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So shortly after fireworks end on the East Coast, we might have an idea of whether Labour will take Parliament or if the Tories hang on.
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