Obama picks up 14 more delegates Baltimore Sun Obama grabbed nine delegates in Iowa as the majority of John Edwards' delegates were awarded to him. And late Saturday night, he added five delegates in California. ...... If you take what happened in Mississippi and Wyoming, he won more net delegates in those two races than Senator Clinton did in Ohio and Texas combined ...... Tim Russert quoted Clinton saying in October about Michigan: "You know, it's clear, this election they are having in Michigan is not going to count for anything."
I have decided to show up for all DL21C events. If I am told by a DL21C officer that I may not go in, I will not go in. If in, if I am asked by a DL21C officer to leave, I am going to leave. But I am going to show up for the next event all over again.
There have been a few times in the past when Elizabeth has acted like she likes me. Nothing wrong with that. There have been times in the past when I have acted like I like her: she is just amazing as a person, and one of the most amazing political talents I ever met in a few different countries, in many age groups. But if she does not like me today, and regrets ever having acted like she likes me, the point is taken. To suggest I am not capable of taking that basic point is to accuse me of petty sexism. Every white guy who shows up at these DL21C events is at least five times more sexist than me. They do not get offended by social and work settings that are overwhelmingly male. I do, all the way to the paddy fields of India. Most of them end up with dry mouths when having to discuss issues in gender. I relish discussing race and gender and seek out opportunities to do so. I have yet to meet a female feminist who will outdo me in terms of my progressive policy positions on gender. (Looking For 10 Ninja Women) I mean, I am for total gender equality. I mean mathematical equality, dry ice equality.
New York City is 60% nonwhite, and DL21C is the premier political organization of young progressives in the city. But 98% of the people who show up for DL21C events tend to be white. So instead of making me feel unwelcome, DL21C should offer free beer to all black, brown and yellow people who show up until the ratio hits 50:50. What do you do with the membership money anyway? I mean, every time I show up for a DL21C event, I feel like I represent at least two different outer boroughs. I end up feeling like a major league elected official. As in, here I come DL21C.
I have actively mattered to the peace process to end a decade long civil war in a country with as many people as California minus the physical and communication infrastructure and with the largest, most ultra left, armed group on the planet since the end of the Cold War. The method - Web 2.0 - is as much news as the substance of the work I have done. Is there anyone else who shows up for DL21C events who can make a similar claim? (Madhesi Movement Victory In Nepal) I am also Obama 2008's self-proclaimed national shadow Campaign Manager. Why only in the audience, I qualify to be a guest speaker.
Barackface: The Need For A Race Gender CoalitionThe first time Rudy, the state director for Obama 2008, met me, he asked me if I was a "spy!" Spy for who? Hillary? Rudy? My blog cured him, but that was an ...
Message To Dan Jacoby Sent Over Facebook Email
I hereby forgive you for your "you should instead work in the porn movies" comment when I was talking to a young woman European journalist at a DFNYC monthly mixer that you made by barging into our conversation and made her feel very bad and out of place. Let's become Facebook friends.
Barack Obama's pastor quits campaign after explosive 9/11 remarks Telegraph.co.uk The clips show Mr Obama's spiritual mentor railing against Hillary Clinton because of her race, comparing Mr Obama to Jesus and blaming America for the Sept 11, 2001, terror attacks. In one sermon he takes aim at former US president Bill Clinton's supposedly good relationship with the black community...... "Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain't! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty," the clergyman boomed. ..... Geraldine Ferraro, a prominent Clinton supporter and 1984 vice-presidential candidate, had earlier asserted that Mr Obama was “only in this position” because of his skin colour. ....... a newspaper column in which Rev Wright was quoted telling audiences that they should sing “God Damn America” instead of “God Bless America”.
One wrong white woman, one wrong black man, both of them prominent, one having run for Vice President, another a pastor to a would be president. This is a perfect example of two wrongs not making a right.
Hillary is not responsible for what Ferraro said, Barack is not responsible for what Wright said. Neither Ferraro nor Wright will see the light any time soon, but both are out of the campaigns, and that is the best the two campaigns could hope for.
But let's get real. The sentiments these two expressed did not come from the moon. These sentiments pervade life in America, now they also need to be talked about in public life. Conversation is the best, most healing way to deal with the issues of race. Ferraro and Wright have given us an opportunity to discuss race openly. Race is the elephant in the room we too often ignore. I hope we also talk gender. But I hope we don't wait until some prominent Obama person says something so very clearly sexist.
I too was hoping this thing would be over on March 4. (Hillary Should Concede March 4) Instead it just keeps going on and on and on. I did not lose my temper, actually I am having fun. This can go on all the way to the convention, and I will be okay. But Ferraro and Wright blew off the top. They could not contain themselves. They lost their cool.
Ferraro is from a different generation. She probably thinks black people are poorer because they are lazy, stuff like that. I met people in Kentucky who talked of people living in the trees. That was their idea of foreign students.
Black America feels the frustrations. Black America has been wronged. History is testimony. Black America continues to be marginalized. There is concrete data on racial disparity. I felt the disenchantment as a Madhesi in Nepal. I have said after Nepal gets a new constitution that gives us Madhesis our own state, then, in that new Nepal, for the first time, we Madhesis can claim Nepal as our own country, a country that has never before really been ours. (Madhesi Movement Victory In Nepal) I can imagine blacks feeling the same way about America. We were born here, we live here, but this country is not fully ours. We are second class.
I hope we can capitalize on some of Wright's comments to stare focus on the concrete data on disparity.
There is legitimate anger in the black community in this country. That anger has to be vented. But that can only be the first step. Ultimately it has to be less about finger pointing, and more about dealing with the concrete data on disparity. That is why Barack talks little about race and talks mostly about education, health, jobs. But there is no avoiding race as a topic.
Ferraro and Wright are two Clinton and Obama fans who went overboard. We should forgive both.
Note To Ferraro
Barack is a white man. What do you mean? He was born half white. He was raised by his white mother and white grandparents.
A WiMax Breakthrough in India ...... Tata Communications unveils an ambitious plan to become global leader in wireless broadband by launching the world's largest commercial network India is about to become the frontier for high-speed, mobile Internet connections. ....... countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network, the largest anywhere in the world of the high-speed, wireless broadband technology. ..... by next year Tata will offer service in 115 cities nationwide. ...... "WiMax is not experimental, it's oven-hot" ...... a WiMax network in Washington next month, and in other U.S. cities next year. ..... Predicting that the new technology will make other types of Internet access obsolete, he boasts "Tata will set the cat among the pigeons." ....... The company has invested about $100 million in the project, which will increase to $500 million over the next four years as it begins to near its goal of having 50 million subscribers in India. ...... And as WiMax scales up fast, it will give service providers greater flexibility and costs will drop equally rapidly. ....... an early morning worship service at the famous Balaji temple in South India. The temple permitted Tata to install cameras so that Hindu devotees from around the world could watch the proceedings in the temple around the clock. ...... To get connected initially, users will simply have to go to a store, buy a router, install it, and then they become instantly connected. It will be as easy as buying apples ...... a chance to launch a brand new. fourth-generation technology that the world can follow. "India is becoming the knowledge center of the world; it should take the lead in this"
Message To David Pollak
Chairman Pollak, Sir. Do me a favor. Pass on this email to the Governor. You yourself are someone I hope to have on my corporate team some day, even if only like Terry McAuliffe tipping his toe in companies while still politicking full time. You are one of those people to have on one's side every day if possible.
Message To Governor Spitzer
Governor. Granted its been dramatic, but I see a silver lining to the cloud. I have a young, ambitious tech startup. The vision statement is "to connect every human mind to the web, and then some." That can not be a vision statement for one company, likely a few different industries, a vision statement for an ecosystem of industries and companies. But it is what it is.
My company hopes to play a key, defining role in the next era of computing, the IC era. Mainframes to PCs to ICs. IC, Internet Computer.
Internet access is the voting right for this century, and the agenda is global. Politics is war by other means. Business is politics by other means. You would come in as a small investor to start with. And you take six to nine months off. Then we together create a role for you that will get you plenty of telecommuting. You are plenty rich to never have worked, but you are too young to retire. You have not lived half your life yet. If you want to live long, get into another intense career. Don't tank, don't drift, don't wallow in the mud of tabloid attention. I promise you greater intensity than what you felt as Attorney General. We are going to be picking fights as we create markets, invent markets, eat into markets, destroy markets for others. Feel like a fresh college graduate all over again. Launch a new career. If the idea of public service through elected office is to do good, you will do more good for more people through this than anything you have done yet.
We will also be spearheading a major effort down the line of spreading democracy the progressive way, the war of communications technology way, the nonviolent way. We might be part of some battles with the military-industrial complex part of the way, and that's okay, you will love it. The government can be a huge customer. (Progressive Political Religion: No Place For Superpowers)
My man Friday on my corporate team is a guy named Adam Carson who starts looking like my personal hero Larry Ellison when he grows a slight beard. Adam wrote directly to the Morgan Stanley CEO Mack to create his 2.0 job a few years ago which he has now duly quit to come along with the startup. When he first said he will quit, they promoted him, but he quit regardless. Adam has raised most of the early seed money from his personal circle of contacts. Right now he is on a cross country road trip - his vehicle is much smaller than mine was, but then he is not the top guy on the team, is he? - with his wonderful Romanian girlfriend: he telecommutes to work. He learned this from me: before you take over a country, it is a good idea to take a good look at it.
Ellison has said he is too uncompromising to be any good in politics, precisely the trait that has made him a legendary CEO. Your candidate was better on merit but the legislators went ahead and appointed someone mediocre and you went ahead and campaigned against legislators from your own party who were part of such an idiotic move. Mofos. That uncompromising subservience to merit is not a bad personality trait at all if you are in a functional setting that Albany is not. My way you don't have to go through the indignity of asking for votes to make large, positive impact, especially votes of unaccountable Albany warlords who function best in smoke-filled rooms, never coming out to see daylight.
So what's it gonna be? I hope we can cook something up. We are listing this baby on Nasdaq. Come be part of the Silicon City dreams. Someone uniquely gifted as you deserves a front seat. You are perfect to be part of my team. This swing could last a few decades. All the early people will get hugely rich.
Let's meet and talk. I am not in the same borough but I am in the same city, the magic city, first place on earth where I felt really comfortable, first hometown I ever had. (Madhesi Movement Victory In Nepal)
We are the New York Mafia. And we are here to take over the world.
Paramendra Bhagat Chairperson, CEO JyotiConnect Inc.
Eliot Spitzer's Seven Deadly Sins BusinessWeek As a leader and manager, Spitzer made plenty of other mistakes ...... the lessons they contain for any leader or manager. ... 1. Failure To Deliver ..... a disappointment as governor. .... Lesson: You've got to deliver consistently. You're only as good as your most recent accomplishment. ...... 2. Wrong Tactics for New Job .... a combative nature, an unwillingness to compromise ...... 3. Alienated Too Many ... Lesson: You can't expect to get things done if you only have adversaries, not allies. ...... 4. Hypocrisy .... 5. Hubris ..... Lesson: No one is above the law; no one is untouchable, and no matter how smart you are, it doesn't matter. ........ 6. Underestimating the Crisis ..... Albany came to a standstill for two days ..... 7. Some sins just aren't forgivable. .... cheating, on a seemingly perfect wife, with call girls
Obama's calculus to victory Sydney Morning Herald, Australia In politics, there is spin and doctoring and downright monstering on message management, and it is waged with no holds barred 24/7. It's the foghorns of war. And then there is calculus and the clarity of numbers. ...... Obama is in fact closer to clinching the Democratic nomination. .... Even if Clinton wins Pennsylvania 55-45 per cent, Clinton will net a gain of only 15 delegates. In the polls today, the candidates are tied in Michigan and Clinton is comfortably ahead in Florida. Even if those two states revote, and the outcome tracks today's polls, Clinton would net perhaps 30 delegates. ..... Obama for his part is expected to do well in North Carolina, Oregon, Montana and South Dakota, where 250 delegates are at stake ....... he has more voter intensity behind him. ...... Democratic voters, by a 48-38 per cent margin, say that Obama has the better chance of beating McCain than Clinton. ..... Bill Clinton is now viewed unfavourably (42-45) by more voters for the first time in five years. ..... "I have the most delegates, have won the most states, have won them more convincingly, and am the more electable. Ratify the verdict of the voters of our party, and do the right thing." .... It will be hard for most of the supers to reach a different conclusion. .... Obama today is poised to win the nomination.
Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Support & Signatures Rally for Hillary Rodham Clinton! Meet-Up WE WILL ARRANGE FOR YOU TO PICK UP YOUR MATERIALS SIGNS and OTHER CAMPAIGN ITEMS Location in Central Park will be from Columbus Circle Entrance at 60th Street / Central Park South / Cen...
I've sent the friend request already. The english service at the temple starts at 11:30 tomorrow. Here's the website: http://www.newyorkbuddhistchurch.org/ Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow. 332 Riverside Dr New York, NY 10025 (212) 678-0305
Spitzer Resignation
Fucking FBI. Don't respect nothing.
In The News
Paterson Says He Is Ready Wall Street Journal Paterson Faces Early Test With State BudgetNew York Times Obama: Clinton Should Not Get Florida and Michigan Delegates CBS News McCain, Clinton, Obama together again in Senate Baltimore Sun Movie Stars Help With Obama Ad The Associated Press Oscar clout like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Michael Jackson will keep Neverland RanchLos Angeles Times Friends defend call girl who took down SpitzerMSNBC they have known Dupre for three years, but had never suspected that she was a call girl who adopted the name “Kristen” while allegedly employed by the Emperors Club VIP escort service. ..... “She’s a great person,” Mysterious said. “A lot of people are portraying her as this monster, which she definitely isn’t. She has the biggest heart.” ...... “The leftover food she wanted to take with us just so she could give it to the homeless — the guys who were sleeping out on the street ..... was leaving public life to “atone” for his “personal failings.” ....... “When I was 17, I left home. It was my decision and I never looked back. Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. ..... Dupre until recently shared an apartment in an upscale building in the Flatiron district of New York City with a boyfriend ..... a 22-year-old aspiring musician from Manhattan. Obama talks Spitzer, race, FL-MI MSNBC race and gender issues are very powerful in our society ...... I'm not naïve enough to think that we're going to solve the country's racial problems, and some of these other divisions in the span of six months or a year. What I do think is that our campaign has pointed towards the future, an era where these distinctions are less prominent in our politics ...... "Our campaign has been in conversations with the Michigan delegation, the Florida delegation, and the DNC Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton camps reject Michigan revote-by-mail MLive.com Maybe Bill Clinton should stay home Los Angeles Times As for Obama, the more voters saw of him -- or, at least the more they learned about him -- the more they liked him. How a Michigan Do-Over Would Hurt ObamaBusinessWeek Obama, in recent weeks, has not connected with working class white voters the way Clinton has in Ohio and Pennsylvania. ..... The official unemployment rate in Michigan is about 7%. But the real number is higher, perhaps in excess of 10% ...... one in ten homes currently in foreclosure proceedings. ...... The University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, and Kenyon College were among the Ohio schools on spring break for the Mar. 5 election. ....... the Obama campaign favors seating the Michigan delegation in the convention, with 50% going to Clinton and 50% going to Obama. ..... Axelrod says the best course for a Michigan do-over is a series of caucuses .... If Obama is forced to have a rematch in Michigan, one source of strength may be the Arab-American vote. Southeast Michigan is home to some 400,000 to 500,000 Arab-Americans. A WiMax Breakthrough in India ...... Tata Communications unveils an ambitious plan to become global leader in wireless broadband by launching the world's largest commercial network India is about to become the frontier for high-speed, mobile Internet connections. ....... countrywide rollout of a commercial WiMax network, the largest anywhere in the world of the high-speed, wireless broadband technology. ..... by next year Tata will offer service in 115 cities nationwide. ...... "WiMax is not experimental, it's oven-hot" ...... a WiMax network in Washington next month, and in other U.S. cities next year. ..... Predicting that the new technology will make other types of Internet access obsolete, he boasts "Tata will set the cat among the pigeons." ....... The company has invested about $100 million in the project, which will increase to $500 million over the next four years as it begins to near its goal of having 50 million subscribers in India. ...... And as WiMax scales up fast, it will give service providers greater flexibility and costs will drop equally rapidly. ....... an early morning worship service at the famous Balaji temple in South India. The temple permitted Tata to install cameras so that Hindu devotees from around the world could watch the proceedings in the temple around the clock. ...... To get connected initially, users will simply have to go to a store, buy a router, install it, and then they become instantly connected. It will be as easy as buying apples ...... a chance to launch a brand new. fourth-generation technology that the world can follow. "India is becoming the knowledge center of the world; it should take the lead in this" Obama counters with brass Chicago Tribune nine retired generals and admirals entered a room Wednesday with military precision ..... "no shock Barack" and "no drama Obama" Nepal party says 10 hurt in Maoist attack on rally Reuters India More than 4000 candidates to contest key Nepal electionEarthtimes Maoists struggle to win in KathmanduHindustan Times In 1768, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the conquering Shah King from Gorkha had attacked the kingdom of Kirtipur (Prachanda's constituency) and after a tough siege, the kingdom was captured. Angry with the resistance, King Prithvi Narayan Shah had ordered to cut off nose and lips of all the male residents. The people of Kirtipur have still not forgotten the ghastly king's torture.
Former Obama aid discusses 'monster' moment Seattle Post Intelligencer the Harvard professor has been hot news on two continents. ..... Power, a 37-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner ..... Power's 12-city U.S. tour for her new book, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World" a 535-page biography of the late United Nations commissioner for human rights. De Mello once was described as "a cross between James Bond and Bobby Kennedy." The Brazilian native was widely admired at the time of his death as a fearless troubleshooter around the globe. .......... Until last week, Power seemed to live a charmed life. .... She had gone to Bosnia as an unknown freelance reporter. and her work there led to her first book -- "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide," winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. ....... Only one U.S. official ever contacted Power to discuss her genocide book, a new senator from Illinois. Her long dinner with Barack Obama persuaded her to take a leave from Harvard and work in his Washington office. ........ He tended to care more about the needs of strangers than the needs of those around him. ...... the most compelling international figure of the last half-century, the most important person that no one had heard of ..... It's not a question of whether to engage but how to engage. Humility without paralysis is incredibly important.
This time the messengers were two female receptionists. I guess that makes it very gender neutral.
Digital Democrat
I am a digital democrat. My best work I do in the 2.0 environment. It feels like meditation.
Not Into Shaking Hands
That is what politicians do. I am not one.
Obama 08 Events
The movement does not end in November. It begins in January. I will have plenty of political events to go to. There are quite a few Barackface fans among the Obama crowd.
Nobel Peace Prize 2010
By then Nepal will have a new constitution, and will have had all its elections, and will be back on track. (पाँच बुँदा, पाँच चुनाव)
Startup
Every fiber in my body, every ounce of energy needs to go to the startup. Anything else will not do. It is high risk behavior. It has to feel intense.
Wet Clay Group Dynamics
I am to venture into 5.0, but this is going to be wet clay group dynamics. Group dynamics has to feel like technology. 2.0 does not go, but 5.0 comes with a vengeance.
Facebook
I belong with the Facebook generation.
Not Local
I think I will stick with the presidential stuff. Local races don't get me. Not even the mayoral race.
मनका हो तो अच्छा मनका ना हो तो अौर भी अच्छा
When what you want happens, that is good When what you want does not happen, that is even better - Hindi proverb
In The News
'Deeply sorry,' Spitzer to step down by Monday CNN Eliot Spitzer Resigns as NY GovernorWashington Post Trippi on Democratic Campaigns Washington Post Clinton insists Michigan, Florida votes should be countedLos Angeles Times Govt mulling India-Nepal border road construction Economic Times Ferraro 'absolutely not' apologetic on Obama remarks Los Angeles Times For Clinton and Obama, next six weeks are critical Christian Science Monitor With wins in Wyoming Saturday and Mississippi Tuesday, Obama made up most of the delegate losses from last week's defeats in Ohio, Rhode Island, and Texas. ....... Pennsylvania's 158 delegates. .... would throw 366 delegates back into play ..... would also raise the threshold to win the nomination from 2,025 to 2,208. ...... Neither candidate is likely to pile up enough pledged delegates – those awarded through voting – in the 10 remaining contests to seal the nomination. ..... a mail-in primary. ... 338 super delegates who remain uncommitted. .... Geraldine Ferraro, who told a California newspaper that Obama owed his political fortunes to being black. (Clinton later told the Associated Press that she disagreed with Ferraro.) ...... if the popular voting does not produce a nominee by the convention, analysts say, that could demoralize voters and cripple Democrats in November. Obama's Mississippi Win Blunts Clinton's Recent Gains (Update3)Bloomberg win gave Obama six more delegates in Mississippi than Clinton .... Clinton had a net gain of about six or sevendelegates after her comeback wins March 4 in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island ...... Obama's campaign projects he'll wind up with five more delegates because of the way they are apportioned and his advantage in the caucuses. In Ohio, Clinton, a New York senator, picked up at least nine more delegates than Obama ...... as counts were finalized in some of California's congressional districts, Clinton's delegate lead in the state slipped. ...... Even a 60 percent to 40 percent victory can mean the delegates are divided almost evenly. ..... In overall votes Obama has about 13.3 million to 12.6 million for Clinton Obama, Clinton seek to frame the race aheadBoston Globe a pledged delegate lead of 161. ..... The Obama campaign says it will not accept the January results, because Obama was not on the ballot in Michigan and did not campaign in Florida. ..... Plouffe criticized the Clinton campaign's approach to resolving the dispute as "heads we win, tails you lose." Clinton demands re-run of Florida and Michigan primaries Times Online honour the results or hold new primary elections ...... John Corzine, the multimillionaire New Jersey governor and a Clinton supporter, has said he would be willing to largely underwrite the cost of new primaries. A postal vote in Florida could cost as much as $10 million. Google could be superseded, says web inventor the "web of the future", which he said would allow any piece of information — such as a photo or a bank statement — to be linked to any other. ...... the "current craze" for social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace would eventually be superseded by networks that connected all types of things — not just people — thanks to a ground-breaking technology known as the "semantic web". ..... building web-based connectivity into any piece of data — not just a web page — so that it can "communicate" with other information. ..... direct connectivity between much more low-level pieces of information ..... creating a seamless web of all the data in your life. ..... One expected application is in the pharmaceutical industry, where previously unconnected pieces of research into a drug or disease, say, could be brought together and assimilated. ....... "mega-mash-up" .... "In the semantic web, it's like every piece of data is given a longitude and latitute on a map, and anyone can 'mash' them together and use them for different things." ..... security risks associated with large databases of information that were attractive to criminals and identity fraudsters. .... a new tipping point where different types of crimes become possible and lucrative Keith Olbermann to go after Hillary Clinton Baltimore Sun Last night, on his program Countdown, Olbermann called Ferraro's remarks "clearly racist." Clinton camp hit on race commentMelbourne Herald Sun The Clinton camp was accused of fanning racial politics when one of Senator Clinton's highest-profile supporters, Geraldine Ferraro, was said to have played the race card. ..... labeled her comments "patently absurd" and said they had no place in politics.
