Here's
An Idea ...
When doing your Christmas/Holiday cards this year, send one to the
address below. Think how much your card may mean to one of these wonderful,
special people who have sacrificed so much for us.
A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue NW
Washington D.C. 20307-5001
Obama
Holiday Message
Click
Here to view a short "Friendship for the Holidays" video
from the Obama family. (Nope, no puppy yet!) We guarantee it will
make you smile.
Lone
Star Project's Election Wrap-up
Click
Here to see how the smart guys in Texas view the statewide results
and offer insights on where our opportunities lie for the coming cycle.
Pledge
Your Vote
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picture. The survey is run by Congress.org, one of the more trustworthy
organizations around.
Who
Do You Really Support?
Go
to This
Site for a 13-item quiz. If you know your candidate's positions,
you'll have no trouble. (For extra fun, send it to your Republican
acquaintances!)
Important
Court Decision Which Will Affect Voting Rights of Senior Citizens
and Disabled Voters
Click
Here to
read the Lone Star Project report.
Smith
County Democratic Party
"Statement
of Values"
Click
Here to
read what we believe is important in today's times.
(Print this on legal-size paper and show to your "Republican"
friends. They may be surprised at how much of it they find agreeable
to their way of thinking.)
Video/Photo
Corner
Michele
Obama's Convention Speech -- WOW!
Click
Here to
see
the first Obama-Biden message!
Senator
"Corndog" (John Cornyn) Video
Dennis
Kuchinich's "Wake Up America" Speech (Aug. 25)
Rick
Noriega Speaks in Smith County (Aug. 17)
Howard
Dean Comes to Texas (Crawford, July 2008)
Stick
A Ribbon On Your SUV (Hysterical video)
Listen
to Iraq Veterans Talk About the War
Why
John McCain Can't be a Beach Boy
Bush
Sings "Home On The Range"
Which
Choice Would You Make?
Amount
the world spends on golfing each year:
$30 to $40 billion
Amount spent annually on cigarette advertising in the US:
$30 to $40 billion
Average daily total of military expenditures worldwide:
$30 to $40 billion
Estimated annual cost of providing adequate health care, education,
nutrition and clean drinking water to every human being on earth:
$30 to $40 billion
Source:
Fall '96 Yes! Magazine (http://www.futurenet.org) who cited a summary
of UNICEF data by Nonviolent Action
Aging,
but Still Interesting, Newsy Bits
--
What Republicans Believe (It's
a joke, man ... Print one out to show your buddies)
-- No Free Speech in Fort Worth (at least, not on Labor Day 2007)
--
Don't we have a Constitution, not a King?
(AlterNet
article)
--
Even the GOP is Worried About Bush-Cheney! (Martial
Law, Anyone?? No, we're not kidding.)
--
The
Governor's New Database? (Read the Texas Observer article,
courtesy of Sen. Eliot Shapleigh)
-- Lee
Iacocca Rants "Where Are Our Leaders?" (Great
article! This one will get you up out of your chair.)
--
Link to "The Texas Blue" (good website on Texas politics)
--
Article about U.S. Attorney General Controversy
--
Really scary, but probably accurate, article on Iraq "Redirection"
(includes link to Seymour Hersh's article on Iraq)
"Heil,
Leo!"
There are only two options in the immigration
debate. Until the country comes to an agreement on one or the other,
the rest of the discussion is futile. Either we begin a legalization
process so we can tax their income, however meager, or we deport twelve
million people, thereby crippling the U.S. and Mexican economies for
the foreseeable future.
What do we say
to the world while we are packing twelve million people into the box
cars and cattle cars in shades of Nazi Germany? Oh, excuse us while
we do our little ethnic cleansing, then we will come back to the issue
of Human Rights. Vladimir Putin would be pleased and relieved. The
Chinese government would happily discount the price of the box cars
and the cattle cars, and speed up the displacement of ethnic Tibetans.
The Iraqi Shiites would have free moral reign to eliminate the minority
Sunnis, and it would be the end of any talk about democracy in the
Middle East .
If our State Representative,
Leo Berman, wants to deport twelve million people, let him come out
and say it, defend the means and the consequences, and stop wasting
the legislature’s time and the taxpayers’ money introducing
frivolous legislation that is explicitly unconstitutional.
Presuming that
Republican lawyers in Smith County have read the U.S. Constitution
a little more carefully than Leo has – perhaps a stretch of
the imagination – they should give him a Short Course in Constitutional
Law 101 so that he stops embarrassing them. Then again, maybe they
told him that the Texas Legislature could re-define the terms of U.S.
citizenship. Wouldn’t that be a hoot?
David
Henderson
Smith County Democratic Party Chairman
Feb. 27, 2007
July 23, 2007
Letters to the Editor
Tyler Morning Telegraph
410 W. Erwin
Tyler , TX 75701
Dear Friends:
Your question about the image of Senate Democrats is an invitation
to some of your readers to scratch themselves silly trying to blame
the Democrats for the colossal failure of the Bush Administration.
Senate Democrats may have an image problem, but Senate Republicans
have a re-election problem: Most Senate Republicans who are up for
re-election next year cannot win carrying the legacy of Iraq into
the campaign.
Seventy percent of the American people understand that invading
Iraq was a mistake. The thirty percent who still think it was a jolly
good idea believe the lie Bush told that Saddam Hussein was behind
the attacks on 9/11. He wasn’t. Many of them believe that we
found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq . We didn’t.
But we all have a much larger war problem, and nobody in Washington
is making any sense about it. First of all, the leadership of both
parties refuses to identify the enemy. The war is not with some nebulous
group of terrorists. The war is with Militant Islam, and the non-terrorist
Islamic militants are strategically a greater danger than the terrorists,
because they are the ones consolidating power against the West.
Iraq has to be seen as a battle in a much wider war. Like Lee at
Gettysburg or Napoleon at the gates of Moscow, this battle was lost
before it was ever fought. By getting rid of Saddam Hussein, we are
now caught in a civil war between two factions of Moslems who have
been deliriously happy to kill themselves and each other since the
Seventh Century over bragging rights to the successor to their prophet.
How do we win in a civil war between Moslems that has been going on
for fourteen hundred years? Bush’s idea of sending more and
more troops is nonsense. If only we send enough troops, both sides
will throw down their arms and get baptized?
It is long past time to make a strategic redeployment of our troops
in Iraq . We will not be completely out of Iraq or far from it in
a generation. We need to secure the borders, especially the border
with our ally, Turkey , but we need a much smaller presence there
while we come up with a comprehensive strategy to contain and combat
Militant Islam.
The first step in that campaign has got to be a rational energy
policy leading to energy independence. We send billions of dollars
every year to our enemies in the form of crude oil purchases. The
great thing about American Democracy is that those of us on the local
level can affect national policy. The Smith County Democratic Party
is circulating a position paper on energy policy written by retired
Tyler oil man, Jack Huppler. We intend for this to be central to the
debates in the elections next year. You may download a draft copy
of it from our website: www.smithdems.org. [click
here]
We will soon be discussing and circulating a comprehensive strategy
to combat Militant Islam. Don’t say Democrats don’t have
a plan.
Cordially,
David M. Henderson
Smith County Democratic Party Chair
This video
message from the Democratic National Committee illustrates the contrast
between politicians' statements on Iraq and citizens' beliefs.
Click
Here to
see the video
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only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the
American public."
~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt ~~
By
the Way, Volunteers Are STILL Needed!
The 2006 mandate of voters all across the United States offers
us an excellent opportunity to gain ground in Smith County. (As
the old saying goes, make hay while the sun shines!) However,
making hay takes work .. and worker bees.
Many projects are underway, some of which you can do at home or
in a few spare hours. If you have even a few hours to help, please
call the office to offer your support: 903-593-7061.
NOW
is
the time to step up your level of involvement in political activity!
the November Elections will be here before you know it!
Does
"W" Plan to Flee War Crime Prosecution?
No, this is not a joke. An article in the Nov.
3, 2007 issue of The Week magazine reveals Paraguayan sources
have reported George H. W. Bush's recent purchase of a huge estate
near the largest freshwater reserve on the planet. The estate
is coincidentally near a US military base built several years
ago after Paraguay promised to grant American soldiers immunity
from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Even
more interesting is the report that Jenna Bush was in Paraguay
recently, shortly after authorities there were discussing non-renewal
of that immunity treaty. (Paraguay renewed the pact.) Hmmmm ...
NOTE: The U.S. State Department claims this whole
idea is all hokum. Click
here to see their
"Misinformation" webpage.
(But think about it ... where there's smoke, there's often fire.)
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