It's time to take a stand!

Okay, everybody. It's time to get our hearts pumping and blood circulating as we prime ourselves for what promises to be a "spirited" campaign season.

So, what's your issue? What issue will get you out of the house and into the streets, doing your part to agitate for change?

Are you, yourself, or do you know anyone who is among the 47 million (and counting) Americans who do not have access to health care?

Do you sometimes wonder what you would do with the money that we're sending to Iraq and Afghanistan?

Are you getting just a bit peeved at the commodities speculators who, according to experts even in The Wall Street Journal, are giving us $4+ a gallon gas, and higher food prices, and higher heating oil prices? Do you see a benefit in high heating oil costs--you get so steamed up that you don't need to use as much fuel?

Do you wish that we'd all start living a little more "green?" Or, are you confident that geoengineering will bail us out of the enviro-mess we're in?

Parents--how happy are you with the way our schools are teaching your youngsters?

Teachers--have your ability and flexibility to teach your subject been left behind?

Does Derry need Exit 4-A? Do you agree that "Pledge" is best as a furniture cleaner?

Keep those comments and counter comments coming! Election time is here!

--George M.

Visit our campaign headquarters

Anybody who drives along Broadway in downtown Derry has had a chance to see that the Derry and Londonderry Town Committees, along with the New Hampshire State Committee, have set up coordinated campaign headquarters at 7 Broadway.

We invite everyone to stop in and talk with campaign staffers.

Right now, in late June, much of the attention is on the Gov. Jeanne Shaheen's campaign for the U.S. Senate--we simply must have, and New Hampshire deserves to have, a responsive voice in that body. As the calendar moves into the summer and various campaigns move into higher gear, visitors might well be able to meet with other national and state candidates, including Daphne Kenyon, an outstanding replacement for the outgoing Mr. Letourneau.

We want everyone to view our coordinated campaign headquarters as a community center, where people come to learn about the issues and the candidates, to inspire and energize each other, and to contribute ideas and insights, time and effort, to keeping responsible government in New Hampshire and returning responsible government to Washington.

--George M.

McGovern Calls For Bush/Cheney Impeachment

In a recent Washington Post article, George McGovern called the impeachment of President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.


Read the article


What are your thoughts on George McGovern's points? Do you agree with his statement that "Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' to use the constitutional standard. "

A new CNN poll shows Huckabee would lose to top Democrats by double digits

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll (click here to read the story) indicates that Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee would lose to all three top Democratic candidates by double digits.

"In head-to-head matchups -- the first to include Huckabee -- the former Arkansas governor loses to Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York by 10 percentage points (54 percent to 44 percent), to Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois by 15 points (55 percent to 40 percent) and to former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina by 25 points (60 percent to 35 percent)."

What are your thoughts?

Administration Dragging Feet on CIA Tapes?

The CIA has destroyed video tapes that captured CIA interrogations of some al Qaeda suspects or plans to destroy the tapes and President Bush Claims that he "has no recollection" of the tapes accoding to a White House spokesperson.



Meanwhile Senator Joe Biden and others want an official investigation.

"This is one case where it really does call for a special counsel," Biden told ABC's "This Week."

"Were there things on those tapes that they did not want to have seen, that did not conform to what the attorney general would allow them to do?" Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, said explanations of the events were "stretching credulity."

Huckabee won't back down

Huckabee, on one of the Sunday talk shows, said he still thinks that AIDS patients should have been isolated from the public:

Click here to view ABC News Video on this story.

Huckabee acknowledged the prevailing scientific view then, and since, that the virus that causes AIDS is not spread through casual contact, but said that was not certain. He cited revelations in 1991 that a dentist had infected a patient in an extraordinary case that highlighted the risk of infection through contact with blood or bodily fluids.

"I still believe this today," he said in a broadcast interview, that "we were acting more out of political correctness" in responding to the AIDS crisis. "I don't run from it, I don't recant it," he said of his position in 1992. Yet he said he would state his view differently in retrospect.

Huckabee, as a Senate candidate that year, told The Associated Press that "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague" if the federal government was going to deal with the spread of the disease effectively. "It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents," he said then.