wilson 2008 campaign blog - blogger: Kelcey Wilson

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Below are some blog entries from earlier than the posts available at the new blog.

(Please send any comments to kelceywilson@wilson2008.com, and be sure to indicate the date of the pertinent log entry.)

Thursday, July 19, 2007

I posted my TERRORISM plank. my ISRAEL/PALESTINE plank, and updated my IRAQ plank today. COMMENT

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

I posted my HEALTH CARE plank today. COMMENT

Wednesday, July 12, 2007

I posted my JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS plank today. It's short and simple, but I think it gets to the heart of the divided court problem. We cannot completely escape ideology, but some are more inhuman than others. COMMENT

Sunday, July 8, 2007

C-SPAN broadcast Edward Joseph (Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute) and Michael O'Hanlon (Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution) discussing their "soft partition" of Iraq concept at the School of Advanced International Studies today. In theory, it seems a pretty good concept, but it was odd to see these two Americans advocating this strategy while, according to the Bush administration, Iraq has a functioning government. What would the opinion of two American thinktank employees matter to the sovereign country of Iraq? During the question/answer time, there did seem to be an Iraqi in the audience... Maybe he was a representative of Iraqi policymakers... COMMENT

Thursday, July 5, 2007

After a long hiatus, which included finishing the school semester, and travel to Holland to deliver a presentation in a conference at Maastricht University on the climate of fear, I am back and will be working full time on the Wilson 2008 Campaign. I will be posting more often from now on. The main point of todays post is to announce the posting of my long-awaited plan for dealing with the Iraq fiasco. Please go to my platform page and scroll down to IRAQ. COMMENT

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Question of the day: Since the VA Tech terrorist was from South Korea, which is next door to "Axis of Evil" member, North Korea, and since North Korea had nothing to do with this attack, will President Bush use this as a pretext for invading North Korea? COMMENT

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Phrase of the day: "Cauldron of chaos." This phrase, uttered by the President today, sounds like it was cooked up by the same propagandist who brought us, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." Frank Luntz, maybe? The idea is that if we pull out of Iraq, it will turn into a "cauldron of chaos." If that's the case, what do we have now? A Crock-Pot® of chaos? COMMENT

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Phrase of the day: "I don't remember." Has anybody kept a tally how many times Kyle Sampson fell back on that phrase during his testimony? COMMENT

Sunday, March 25, 2007

I sent out a press release to a few outlets on Friday. I think conventional wisdom is that one shouldn't send out press releases on Friday, since that's the day big media reserves for speculation about who might inherit the money of dead celebrities and other crucial issues -- but I decided to send it anyway, just to see if it would get any response. I sent the release to the LA Times, the Oakland Tribune, Sign On San Diego, and the San Francisco Chronicle. I sent it to those guys simply because these are the email addresses I've received so far from one of the people helping me. Maybe I'll send it again when I get more addresses... I wonder what the ethics are of sending the same press release out on different days? The press release can be found by clicking on the PRess button, above.

Maybe I'll write a new press release when I sign the Freedom Pledge created by the American Freedom Agenda. COMMENT

Monday, March 19, 2007

Quote of the month: "Mistakes were made." The parents of this administration must be proud. I can just picture the childhood scenes: "[Son/Daughter], if you're ever caught lying outright, be sure to shirk personal responsibility by using the passive voice." Such good little boys and girls. COMMENT

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

I noticed the coverage of the Libby trial has fallen off drastically today, the day after the verdict. One big day isn't bad, really, for Cheney's Cheney. It's not as if he's the real story. Then again, it's not clear that the mainstream press has much interest in the real story. They didn't the first time around. We'll see what they do this time.

Considering that most of the coverage yesterday on CNN revolved around the expression on Scooter's face, and how his wife hugged the lawyer, I'm not optimistic. It's as if TV journalists believe images are more valuable than actual content and analysis. COMMENT

Monday, March 5, 2007

Today, I most of the morning riding my landlord's horse, Tess, and I spend most of the rest of the day working on a couple planks. I will post them soon, I hope. It was a pretty leisurely day.

For the rest of this week and most of next week, I'll be designing and writing a strategy for getting the word out about this project. COMMENT

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

(Posted 4/4/07) I've been reading about campaign finance. The rules on individual contributions and expenditures are pretty clear to me at this point. They seem mostly reasonable -- although they can be gamed somewhat. For example, while parents of minors can not technically tell there kids who to donate money to, this would seem impossible to enforce. No doubt there are plenty of politically active, unethical, and well-to-do parents out there who donate to federal candidates from bank accounts they set up for their tots.

The corporate and union rules are far less clear to me -- though I have been reading them with at least as much care. I may need to revise my campaign finance plank/sermon because, as far as I can tell, corporations are not permitted to contribute directly to federal election campaigns. There are loopholes, of course -- corporations and unions can start and pay the administrative costs of PACs and encourage stockholders to contribute to those committees, and those PACs can raise funds for federal candidates -- which pretty much amounts to corporate donations for federal candidates, but I need to do some more research so that I can be sure my plank is worded accurately.

The good news is, as far as I can tell so far, there are no limits on how much anyone or any organization can contribute to Project President because it is not a partisan political committee. COMMENT

Monday, February 26, 2007

(Posted 4/4/07) I am in Washington, D.C. today, visiting a friend. The sole reason for my visit is pleasure, though I was able to pick up a campaign finance book today at the Politics & Prose bookstore that I would have had to wait a couple weeks to get through Amazon. (Not bashing Amazon -- I love Amazon -- just also like good bookstores that are staffed with people who have heard of the books I'm looking for, and that have basement coffee shops where I can get a coffee and doughnut and eat it while reading in a comfortable chair until I nod off and, to everybody's amusement, begin to snore as a little trickle of drool runs down my chin.)

We visited the Washington Monument on Sunday and my friend took a picture of me in front of it. Maybe I'll post it when she figures out how to get it out of her digital camera and email it to me. It's funny -- I can't recall many pictures of politicians posing in front of the Washington Monument. I wonder if their image consultants know something I don't. COMMENT

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Stayed home from school today so that I could work on this site and prepare for my trip to Washington, D.C., which begins tomorrow. I didn't get much done on the site, however, though it's now in decent enough shape so that I can concentrate on other things for a little while.

Ultimately, I want to make a site that is far more useful, user-friendly, functional, and aesthetically pleasing (in more or less that order of priority). My biggest goal, which will especially add to the usefulness and functionality of the site, is to provide video of all aspects of the campaign. While I want everything to be on video, what I think will be of particular interest will be the kind of meetings and campaign work that has usually taken place "behind the scenes." I think it will be very interesting to see how conducting transparent campaigns dictates the behavior of the people involved, and, perhaps, changes the behavior of those who are conducting less transparent campaigns. COMMENT

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

I had hoped to be done with this site by now, so that I could study up on campaign finance accounting procedures, but I'm still torturously tweaking. I may not have time to go to class tomorrow in San Diego (I'm working on an interdisciplinary master's degree in liberal arts and sciences). What excuse will I make to my professors? I have not exercised since last Friday. COMMENT

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

I got a PO Box today in order to make it a little more difficult for people to find me and bother my neighbors. Otherwise, I've pretty much spent the entire day worrying about and tweaking the wording of everything I'm trying to say on the site. It felt like I accomplished nothing, and I'm still not happy with the site, so I'll do the same thing tomorrow. Hopefully, it won't take me all day. COMMENT

Monday, February 19, 2007

Chris Matthews was complaining that this holiday should be called George Washington's Birthday because, if I understand his argument correctly, it would help educate some people who may not know who George Washington was. At least one problem with that argument: according to my calendar, George Washington's birthday was the February 22nd.

It's Presidents' Day -- a good day to officially announce my candidacy. Does getting my Web site up and running constitute my announcement? It's hard to tell. Every state has different procedures for getting on the ballot -- and every party has difference procedures for getting the party nomination. I had intended to run without a party affiliation, but according to the research I've done so far on the process in California -- which included leaving an telephone message with and getting no response from the Secretary of State's Election Division -- it is not even possible to run without being a party member. What's more, running as a third party is significantly more difficult than running as a member of one of the major two. Apparently, somebody doesn't want to play on a level playing field in the marketplace of ideas (excuse the mixed metaphors).

Effectively blocked from running without a party affiliation, I decided last week to do what might be the next best thing and try to get the Unity08 nomination. I searched their site for information about how to proceed, and it looks to me like all I need to do at this point is to announce. (See http://www.unity08.com/faq.) So, in case the several times I've announced it before to friends does not count, I hereby announce my candidacy for the Unity08 nomination for President of the United States of America. COMMENT

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