Fri
May 19 2006
10:26 am
By: Paul Witt
There's been a bit of a shakeup in the schedule for Truman Day. On Wednesday, Joe Biden backed out as the keynote speaker. Yesterday morning, Paul Hackett agreed to speak! That gives us the next U.S. Senator from Tennessee, Harold Ford, Jr. and a rising star in the Democratic Party, Major Hackett, as our two main speakers.
Tickets are still available!
Truman Day will be held tomorrow night, May 20, at the Knoxville Convention Center. A pre-dinner reception starts at 6pm on the Cumberland Concourse and dinner starts at 7pm. Tickets are $50 each or table for 10 is $450. There's also an optional, $100 per ticket, VIP reception at 6pm.
Tickets By Phone: Please call 540-4001. The message will direct those interested in tickets to press "0."
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Sounds Great! Truman Day is really about supporting the party and the candidates --Big Bird could come speak and I'd still come show my support.
Hmmm, I couldn't get excited
Hmmm, I couldn't get excited about hearing Biden. Hackett might be another matter altogether. Altho isn't he mad at the party for not supporting him over Sherrod Brown in the Ohio Senate race?
Maybe at the Ohio Democratic
Maybe at the Ohio Democratic Party. *shrug*
Hackett
This is exciting! But like Johnny said, I'd come here Big Bird as well, its about the Party and the chicken. Later, Stacey
Rising star?
Hackett lost the one race where he ever made it to the ballot, and dropped out of a Democratic primary a few months ago. He's popular in anti-war circles and that's all.
Les, Hackett almost won in a
Les,
Hackett almost won in a heavily Republican district. I'd call that a good beginning.
Schaivo
I couldn't help thinking about Les when Hackett was describing how he felt when he finished his tour of duty in Iraq, got to Germany on the way home and had a chance to take off his boots and sit in an easy chair in front of CNN, only to learn the nation he had been risking his life for was obsessed with a brain-dead woman on life support.
Critics of the war get a lot of flack for allegedly demoralizing the troops, but they aren't the ones who made a wartime election about gay marriage and whether Kerry's swift boat ever crossed the watery Cambodian border. They certainly aren't the ones whitewashing the war effort by forbidding our allegedly free press from printing photographs of flag-draped coffins, nor the ones relentlessly trimming of veterans' benefits.
This'll break your heart...
(link...)
Watch this documentary if you have access to HBO.
It's called Baghdad E.R. and it'll give an interesting additional perspective.
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coward
Curses! Biden must have caught wind of Julie's plan to make a chicken-wielding challenge during his speech. I was hoping to ask him a tough question or two during his press appearance too. The Delaware chicken industry must have had other plans for him.
Quote from Hackett February 14, 2006
"But there was no quid pro quo. I will not be running in the Second Congressional District nor for any other elective office. This decision is final, and not subject to reconsideration."
Aginners
Many folks would not be happy if he brought Truman back from the dead and served caviar. See you guys tomorrow, maybe anonymous/Hornbut as well. Stacey