as Tuesday, and for the lunch at Sine's on Monday, then late wed morning bc of the victory party...

Damns.

Looks like it may take some canoodling...Well, I was a theatre major!  ;)

Who can we trust?

My money is on Danny Plaugher.

Ha. :)

...a card board cut out of Mark Warner!!

Anyone have any account there? Please go defend him.

Its outrageous what Miller is doing.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/9/17165/11168

I don't want Andy Resnick, Miller's campaign manager, ever on the Webb team if Webb wins the primary. This anti-semitic line is being deliberately pushed by the Miller campaign of which Andy is the head. I don't want him anywhere near the Webb campaign. Andy has tarnished himself greatly in my eyes.

I posted this before and got slammed for it but it hurts that Andy is involved with Miller's tactics. He ran outstanding campaigns here in Loudoun County for both David Poisson and Mark Herring (when he had the superior candidate in each race) so I was surprised that he could be a part of something like this.

I guess poor candidates make for poor choices.

This campaign will spoil his resume for a long time.

DK can't find anything at that link.

The diary was basically the anti-Semite propaganda from the Miller camp but all of the points were completely debunked...

and not just by RKer's...

we made our case QUITE WELL...

I believe the diarist pulled it.  But not until we had everyone posting agree that the diarist was out of his mind.  In fact, the diarist ended up agreeing with us as well.

It was your typical Miller diary-over a hundred comments, all pro Webb sans the 4 supporters Miller has on Kos, and only 3 recommends.

Ugh...more coffee...must lit drop...

As a matter of fact the commenters were outraged and insisted that it be pulled.  Many of them were Jewish and pointed out that Miller does a disservice to all Jews by calling the flier anti-Semitic.

Lowell, it was very helpful to post the side by side picture of the sketch and the photo. 

...and not in a good way, either. Many of them appear to be utterly clueless about what their candidate has done his whole life and what he's doing now.  It's bizarre.

They don't get it.  Just because someone calls themselves a "life long Democrat" doesn't make them so.
I would claim being an enemy to labor makes someone "not a Democrat".

Worse than straight up trolling. I don't have all that much to go on and I'm not 100% certain, but the diarist seems like a misguided but truly sincere Christian from North Carolina. Whether he was deliberately misguided is hard to say.

If he really was sincere, it's a shame.  And he'll no doubt think twice after being turned into chum by such a massive group of people. Sadly, I doubt if he bothers to speak out whenever he encounters real bigotry in the future. 

I'd email him, but I don't quite know what to say.

People all over the country see through this and it's humiliating.  More than embarassing.

Unlike a certain someone from STERLING VA...

Does anyone know him?  What's he like?  His posts are so bizarre, they make him sound totally crazy; is that the case?

He really is a piece of work.

1) Post a diary of undeluted Miller Propaganda.

2) Continually post replies to comments that debunk #1
  "You keep throwing out accusations" (I know you are but what am I?)
  "You have no proof" (i.e. I have no way to counter that).
  "You're uncivil" (projection).
  "Why are you acting like a troll?" (projection).
  "I DID NOT SAY THAT!!" (please don't scroll up).
  "Your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries" (OK, not really)

Our friend from STERLING VA will actually post dozens of comments that get zero recommendations IN HIS OWN DIARY.

This just might be worth a road trip from Richmond!

I think that Miller's decision to libel the Webb campaign regarding the cartoon and self-fund by $250,000 in the last minute of the final days was discusting enough to prompt Senator Kerry to really step up.  When John Kerry goes to bat for Jim Webb on Monday, Virginia Democrats will listen.

You guys may think that Miller's campaign manager was responsible for the nasty attacks - my guess is that the order came from Miller himself.  We have known Miller for years because of his attacks on IT workers.  He has always been a snake and always will be.

I personally liked the flyer but after viewing I knew instinctively that something bad would come out of it.  I wasn't sure what - in fact even after re-posting it on my blog it still didn't cross my mind that Miller was Jewish.  Those attacks caught me by surprise even after marveling for some time over the flyer - "Miller" isn't even a Jewish surname!!!

I think Harris Miller has tried to tarnish the reputation of not only Jim Webb but many of the decent people supporting him - not to mention the person who drew the cartoon.

I am not saying that Miller is not of Jewish descent (I believe him if he says he is), but I am saying that his looks or surname don't immediately cause one to conclude that he is.  Here is proof that Miller has an English surname:

http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/m/bl_name-MILLER.htm

Definition: 1- Usually an occupational surname referring to a person who owned or worked in a grain mill. 2- Could also possibly be derived in some instances from the Gaelic words "meillear," having large lips; "malair," merchant; or "maillor," a man wearing armor or a soldier.

Surname Origin: English

When I met with Miller in December, he was itching to level accusations of anti-Semitism agasint Allen.  He was hoping that Allen would make his religion or heritage an issue in the campaign.  He was gleeful at the idea.

My only proof is that Miller told me directly that he "hoped and prayed" that Allen would make this an issue. 

Miller and his campaign are forever bragging on their position papers, policy papers, white papers... A whole lot of paper shuffling going on... They seem to think that this mass of detail should overawe the multitudes and deliver them victory over Webb. So, wouldn't they also like to do a paper fight with Allen and maybe slay him with a lethal paper cut or something? Hoping for a pretext to accuse Allen of anti-semitism is an un-wonkish way to fight this campaign, isn't it...

But, then Miller isn't a wonk, or a tech exec, or a technology leader or leader of a business trade group or much of anything but a corporate shill lobbyist good at insider deals and stabbing American workers in the back...

Seems strange that he would say that - do you know him from before the campaign?  Or was this campaign related?

in late December 2005.  We met with him for 2 1/2 hours at Mezza9 Restaurant in Rosslyn.  Josh and I asked him a lot of questions, and found out a lot of things.  For instance, we learned that Miller was a big fan of the death penalty, wasn't going to "commit political suicide" by saying he'd roll back the Bush tax cuts, liked globalization an awful lot, and strongly supported the invasion of Iraq.  Until Josh reminded me, I had ALMOST forgotten about the anti-Semitism comment, but Josh is correct on this one. Interesting.

No, we didn't know Miller before that meeting. In fact, neither Josh nor I had ever heard of him or run into him in all our work for Clark, Dean, Kerry, or Kaine/Byrne/Deeds.  Where was he during those elections?  Who knows...lobbying, I guess.  The reason we met him in late December 2005 was that he wanted to talk to us, apparently to try to win us over to his side.  Obviously, it didn't work, but I'll give him credit for trying and for treating us to a nice dinner.  However, Josh and I were much more impressed with Jim Webb, on many levels, than with Harris Miller.  We still are.

So now it's almost election day, and I can't believe December 2005 seems so long ago. It's almost like a dream in some ways, and seeing Tim Kaine tonight made me realize even more that life goes by fast.  So play hard! :)

Thanks!  I know a lot of handwringing was caused by the news article out of Fredericksburg the other day. Your eyewitness testimony that Mr. Miller sought to play this card in the election clears some things up.  I urge anybody who was troubled one way or the other about Mr. Miller's actions to take heart that though every American is different, we are bound to one another by our (small d) democratic traditions.  Do your public work with honesty and optimism and don't be cowed when it our system doesn't work perfectly.  Lowell and Josh, you do go work. 

It's really too bad Mr. Miller peddled this to a reluctant press and found a last minute buyer.  I think if he was the kind of leader he styled himself to be he would have taken the high road.  Imagine if he hadn't peddled it and the moderator at the radio debate had asked him about it and he'd said "It's not an issue.  This race is about vision, not division.  Jim agrees with me on that. I'm going to be Senator and I might have to take some real lumps especially on the editorial pages.  I can handle it.  Next question."

Harris is a tragic figure: a smart guy who blew it.  I hate a lot of what he's done but I love him as a fellow human and I sincerely hope this guy turns his life around.  He's often talked out about helping women and minorities find jobs in high tech but as a cover for his guest worker program.  He never followed through. Maybe he can take that lobbying skill and accept a lower salary and really do something about it.  The guy needs to reprioritize and redirect to better things.  Harris, starting next Wednesday I wish you good luck.

Lowell and Josh are real heroes.  And so are you.  It's easy to lose perspective, but you really help. 

All I can say is WOW!!!  I am just about never suprised about Miller's actions, but I think what he said in that meeting was particularly revealing about his character.

Normally Harris is sneaky enough to not reveal that side of him.  Your personal statements on this - from both of you - is solid in my view.

The "conspiracy theorist" side of me believes that there is more to the cartoon than one might think.  It is strange how within days of the cartoon coming out - which hit very limited markets - they had professors lined up with spin on it and the speed in which it went to press.  It is almost as if they were expecting this. 

Try and find a professor with expertise in Nazi war propoganda on short notice.  Simply amazing how they were able to do that.

It would be interesting to see the timelines in these events.  What date the flyer was released and then each event following.  I don't want to say it was a plant because I don't know the inner details of the campaign or people involved, but I question just who was "baiting" who.

It was very common for immigrants from many countries to change their surnames to assimilate.  Jews in particular found it useful because of discrimination.  Some people don't even know they are Jewish until they do some geneology because their families kept it a secret after the terror of Nazi Germany.

Also, traditionally one is a Jew by matrilineal descent.

Anyway, it's a "very Virginia" thing to give boys family names for first names and girls family names for middle names.

Too bad about all of this when we have real problems to deal with. 

From Wikipedia

In 1996, Albright discovered that her grandparents had been murdered at Auschwitz and Terezin. Albright has stated that she did not know she had Jewish ancestors until she was an adult.

This is from Gene Weingarten's WaPo chat 'Chatological Humor' a couple of months ago...

Re: Last Week's Poll: Why did so many Jews assume that Albright was uncomfortable with the truth of her ancestry? Maybe it's because I'm not Jewish, but I assumed she was shocked at finding out that her father had deceived her for decades.

Gene Weingarten: That's very possible. But I can tell you that when it was "disclosed" that she is Jewish, a lot of Jews laughed. Like, duuuh. She looks EXACTLY like our grandmas.

Miller may not be saying so, but I bet he's pissed as hell at Kerry.  If there were any lingering doubts as to Webb's sincerity of party switch, the Kerry endo4rsement basically settles it.  And that was Miller's ace in the hole up till now.

How come the e-mail I got says 7pm?

at the Arlington JJ Dinner.

What's the timeon that.