…continued from Orange Juice

*** I loved Hillary like I loved Bill. She was a fearless woman. A first lady who drew comparisons to Eleanor Roosevelt and a great Senator, she’s a real ’stand-up guy’ so-to-speak, and I like that in a Presidential candidate, but I guess Obama’s not exactly a shrinking violet either. He can’t seal the deal, but neither can she, not delegate-wise anyway, so I finally agree that it’s about time she seriously consider dropping out. I’m starting to let her go. Letting it go. Breathing.

I will say this for the soon-to-be presumptive nominee: he’s ‘got scrap‘ as we say back east. I really wanted to see Hillary become President, but deep down I have to admit that Barack Obama will have a much easier time beating the proverbial shit out of John McBush than Clinton would. Barack Obama has all of John Kerry’s strengths (intelligence, credibility) and none of his weaknesses (aloofness, see ‘Al Gore’). John McCain has none of the strengths (money, solidarity) and has attached himself to all of the weaknesses of George W. Bush (Iraq, the economy). I’m getting a new vision, one in which we have an African-American President of the United States and the world is better off for it. Take that, racism!

*** Like so many other people in my life, Commie Girl is exceptionally stubborn. Most people don’t like to lose, particularly to someone who makes it look so easy and whom you think you have ‘dirt’ on. I know many of you remember the flame war levied against me on ‘The LBC‘ for speaking my mind on my subtle opposition to the concept of gay marriage, arguing that all marriage should be renamed to appropriately reflect its legal status as a ‘civil union,‘ leaving religious terminology up to churches. Insanity. I know. How dare I?

When I was later picked up to blog for Orange Juice I accused Commie Girl, Dan C (who naturally gave her book, a mere rehashing of her awful columns, ‘Commie Girl In The OC,’ rave reviews), and others on the so-called ‘Blue Blog’ of being bigoted. They denied it publicly while proceeding to bombard Art with calls attacking my sexuality. Hopefully, Art will tell us more about those phone calls in an upcoming post. Words that describe the verbal assault include, from best to worst: closed-minded, bigoted, presumptuous, inflammatory, disgusting, hateful, and libelous. I’ve been sitting on the proof for a while because to expose it would mean I’d have to disclose something private about myself.

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Hey everyone! Last week I said I was going to publish a weekly wrap-up every Saturday night. I’m writing this on Monday morning and I still haven’t slept. Maintaining a blog is hard work! I’ll try to have something up later on this afternoon or first thing tomorrow.

To anyone who’s tried to email me since the site upgrade, I wasn’t ignoring you. Turns out my email wasn’t reconfigured when I transferred the site. I fixed the error as soon as I noticed it and can now receive your emails at both addresses: editor@thecentristoc.com and centristocsales@thecentristoc.com.

Our tracking was also down all week as I forgot to put it back up when I rebuilt its widget. Whoops! Hey, I’m doing this by myself you know and I HATE CODE!!! *phew* Ok, better now. Anyway, I have no stats for the entire week. Sucks to be me.

On a better note though, not only has our sister blog Orange Juice gone up two more spots in the BlogNetNews ratings to climb to #3, but it knocked those cocky hacks at ‘The LBC’ from their undeserved perch at #1, down to #2. Unfortunately, this sent Red County to #1, so I guess you can’t win them all!

Oh, and The Centrist OC is now officially cataloged on their site as well thanks to some help from a friend (even though they’re still trying to get the feed to display correctly), so if there is anyone out there who wants to put their principles first and help advance our causes of freedom and justice, now would be a great time to come on board. Please email resumes and writing samples to editor@thecentristoc.com… and like I said, it actually works now, I’ve tested it!

Communications Directors, please also feel free to send press releases to the same address.

And you advertisers remember: we are now ready to take your orders for your FREE ads. We may even be able to offer design service. Email centristocsales@thecentrisoc.com!

SMS

Today on the ‘DPOC.com blog’ Sean Mill attacked our fair blog for its occasionally sensational journalistic style. Despite the fact that I personally approve all comments of a non-personal, non-threatening nature that do not use profanity, and even go as far as editing out curse words in some comments in order to post them anyway, even when I do not agree, I am still banned from ‘The LBC.’ My rejected comment to that cavalcade of extremism was:

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Wow! What a week of stories in the blogosphere!

First things first: The news in the 42nd Congressional District is that Ed Chau is the fundraising leader in that race. Big deal. No surprise there. Or is there? Turns out Ed lent his campaign 20-grand, so the gap isn’t as large as it seems. Some of the blogs have asked why he and some of his donors come from outside of the district. I said it before and I’ll repeat: This should be a non-issue. He lives just a few miles north of the border. Not exactly over the river and through the woods, now is it?

His Democratic challenger Ron Shepston has no political experience, add to that the fact that Ed got the CA Teachers endorsement, the only endorsement that can help him in this race in my opinion, plus the merely sporadic communication between Ron and the online community that made him known to begin with, and despite the hard feelings between Ed Chau’s campaign and me, I must lean towards him in this race, as I did at the start.

I also found an ironic website about a gentleman who happens to have the same name as the practically-unknown Demoblican in the race, Michael Williamson. Williamson, a Democrat in name only, describes himself on his campaign website as the ‘no-amnesty candidate.’ No thanks, but feel free to check out the link to the non-candidate Williamson’s site. He does mission work in Mexico!

Random ‘Weak’ly Updates:

From California Faultline:

John Myers of KQED’s Capital Notes opines:

Of course, AB 2914 could pose an interesting dilemma for some legislators, namely Republicans. After all, if you’re a social conservative you’d probably love nothing more than to see the XXX industry move out. But if you’re a fiscal conservative, you’re probably loathe to enact a new tax. Oh, the irony.

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There’s a new story on ‘The LBC’ about Paul Lucas’ involvement in the Nguyen/Tran endorsement scandal. A little over a month ago, I gave him the benefit of the doubt after he assured me he filed in the 1st District simply because of the lack of Dems, but according to the story, Paul did sign the statement that alleged that Janet provided him opposition research on Van Tran. Apparently, however, he claims he didn’t write it and Chris Prevatt believes him. Decide for yourself.

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Join Orange County elected women leaders and NWPC-OC for a “Meet & Greet” with Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez!

Sunday, April 27, 2008

4:00 - 7:00PM

The Auld Dubliner

2497 Park Ave.

Tustin CA

Members $35, Non-members $40

(Free to NEW members with a paid membership)

RSVP by April 24, 2008 to Arlene Sontag at 949-206-1919 or arlenesontag@comline.com.

The National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) is a multicultural, intergenerational, and multi-issue grassroots organization dedicated to increasing women’s participation in the political process and creating a true women’s political power base to achieve equality for all women.

I hope that you can attend!

Sincerely,

Melahat Rafiei, Executive Director

Democratic Party of Orange County

I saw this reprint of a press release on The LBC posted by Andrew Davey. It was very in-depth, yet it selectively neglected to mention that it was I, personally, that chose Brea for Ed’s headquarters when I was still with the campaign. This omission and the accompanying paragraph about Chau’s new union endorsements indicates that his camp, focusing solely on solidly-blue labor, is at a loss for fresh ideas.

*BREA, California* The Ed Chau for U.S. Congress campaign proudly announces the opening of its first Orange County Office.

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There’s no way Grandpa’s Olde Party is actually attempting to connect with the voters on the issues, instead of pushing their agenda on the masses… is there? Jon Fleischman is going to have a conservative coronary when he reads about this! The LA Times is reporting that an offshoot of a Republican group, ‘The New Majority,’ is focusing on, with both the encouragement and ire of different factions of the party, recruiting statewide candidates that represent the majority of voters in California, or as I like to call them, Centrists, or Moderates. Many are even called DTS! Remember that Dems, when Republicans say things like this:

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