There is now only place in the so-called big tent of the Democratic Party for those Americans who go to church. There’s a word for this special kind of unity: Division.

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This is not one of those twisted right wing circuses in which lies, distortions and crazy conspiracy theories are the entertainment of the evening. We believe in exposing Barack Obama in a positive way, because he’s a positive candidate who runs a clean and decent campaign.

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Some people have tried to limit the scope of the speech, by saying that it is just about confronting racism. The speech is about a great deal more than that. It’s about what it means to be an American. It’s about how we can reconcile the promise of the American nation, and the reality of American failures, moving forward to form, not a perfect nation, but a more perfect union.

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Habeas corpus is your opportunity to prove that the proceedings that have led to your incarceration have been improper or incorrect, or have come to the wrong conclusion. Without habeas corpus, it almost doesn’t matter what the law is, because what the law is at that point has almost nothing to do with what the government can do to you. If there is no habeas corpus, it’s just a matter that if there are enough people to guard the cell that you’re in, then your detention stands.

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Hillary Clinton has to deal with the little people, the American people, We The Activists who care enough to vote. No multimillion dollar series of television advertisements is going to buy us off. If Hillary Clinton wants to win, she had better start paying attention to the “second-guessing” coming from the progressive grassroots. If she had listened to our “barrage of second-guessing” back in 2002, she wouldn’t have made that tragic vote in favor of starting a war in Iraq.

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This morning, Stuart Brody, chair of the New York State Democratic Rural Conference, sent out a message to other members of the New York State Democratic Committee representing rural counties, admitting that the race in Iowa is now “described as a dead heat… our voice can be especially helpful in Iowa, and then, five days later in New Hampshire”.

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