This guy is pretty special...

It takes a giant semantic leap of faith to get over the hurdle of the oxymoron, 'Admirable Politician', but this may be one of the few.

Apparently, he's head and shoulders above the current crop.

Worth a gamble.

I can neither endorse or rebuke this man until Mr. Soros tells me what I think (and accompanies my thoughts with a check). :)

If he wants to get elected, he should lose the beard. It make him appear sinister and, unfortunately, appearances mean a lot in politics. I like his Abe references. Lincoln didn't like the Confederacy, but he loathed war profiteers.

I live in Orlando and was around for Grayson's last campaign. The ONLY reasons I believe he lost to the really, truly AWFUL Ric Keller are these: 1. Keller swept in on Bush's coattails, and, 2. Voter fraud is rampant in Florida, at least as bad as GA, OH, NH & NM.

Support Grayson!! He will NOT back down from confronting corruption. He's the kind of Dem we need right now.

As far as losing the beard, can we please stop playing into homogenizing candidates? I can see it now, he hires a stylist, loses the beard and starts wearing earth tones. Please. If LOOKING sinister is a detriment, how did Darth Cheney ever get elected to anything? The guy looks like evil personified.....

WOW! excellent political advert! Not only do I applaud him, but his campaign manager is stellar!

A true representative of We The People!

I hope he wins!!

Nate, You're absolutely right, "It is the crime of the millennium."

I'm still waiting and hoping the American people will finally put it together: This is how they have bought election after election. This is how they fund voter fraud. This is how they have funded the extensive, nation-wide machine that is undermining our electoral process.

The people who brought us the amatuer money-laundering voter fraud that was the real crime of Watergate are in charge now and they learned from Watergate. Rove was there, so was Bush Sr. & Cheney. Cheney has always held that they only thing wrong with Watergate was that Nixon wasn't powerful enough to avoid being caught. As you can see, Cheney's been working very hard to make sure that didn't happen this time. And, so far, he's gotten away with it!

They use the power of their elected office to cheat, lie and steal billions. They take a hefty portion of their ill-gotten gains to underwrite the voter fraud crimes that keep their cronies in office. They take the rest of their stolen goods and take them out of the country where they avoid taxes and have even more to give back to funding their purchased elections.

Remember Enron? How much of what they stole from California citizens ended up funding Bush's campaign? Ken Lay was a Bush Pioneer or Ranger or whatever the fuck they called the biggest thieves they had working for them. Remember Worldcom. Huge ripoff of Americans, huge Bush supporters. They paid a tiny fine for their crimes here and then quietly got rewarded with an 11 BILLION dollar contract to rebuild the Iraqi cell phone infrastructure that Rummy so conveniently wiped out.

They have used the US Atty's offices to stop even normal fundraising by Democrats, (AR Gov.Siegelman's case is a perfect example of this) while they ensure that their good buddies will have a never-ending slush fund paid for by you and I, at the expense of our roads, schools, hospitals, environment, everything. They are bankrupting our children's future to keep their friends in office and their money flowing.

Why do you think Halliburton is moving it's headquarters to Dubai? Besides avoiding prosecution; all the money they have ripped off from us will be out of the country, untaxed. They will live like the Saudi Kings they love so much, and still be able to buy elections here and keep their no-bid billions flowing.

Alan Grayson is one of the very few standing up to them and fighting - and winning.

@ Coleshack: He should drop a few ideals as well. In Florida, along with the beard, that could cost him a few votes. There comes a point where we're going to be saddled with well-qualified candidates committed to reform who don't look like Mitt.

Alas.

coleshack @ 7:

If he wants to get elected, he should lose the beard. It make him appear sinister and, unfortunately, appearances mean a lot in politics. I like his Abe references. Lincoln didn't like the Confederacy, but he loathed war profiteers.

i guess you would have shaved all the presidential hopefuls. is everyone sinister
to you who has a beard? does that include spooky ole jesus?

I have a beard pure white and a head of hair also white, if I held a stone block in my hand you could call me Moses.
When I was young I had hair below my shoulders wore cut off levi's and beads and went to work everyday as a finish blade operator building roads and parking lots, a job requiring great skill-my appearance had nothing to do with anything but my skills did-you go Alan.

Funny thing is about the beard, it's gone now. Not because some PR person told him, but because he was with a bunch of Young Dems and he asked them about it. It was shaved off in good fun to show them he would bend over backwards to serve this community.

I gave up working on my own blog (www.teambio.org) to volunteer time as Alan's Netroots Coordinator. This area is ripe for a change. It is not overwhelmingly conservative. By election time it will be 2% Republican. Alan can beat Keller. He is the only Dem on the ballot who can. He is truly a progressive. It's time we have a politician who speaks for us, not to us.

Alan Grayson Rocks! Let's send this sherriff into DC and see how much real corruption he can find. All those "Top Secret" folders might just get a real eye opening look for once. Guys like Alan Grayson scare the day lights out of the folks that have not been honest with the American people.

I linked back to this post on Papamoka Straight Talk. Thanks for being in Grayson's corner.

For anyone interested in finding out more about Alan, Vanity Fair did an article that features him, and the unique lawsuits he brings (apparently successfully) against war profiteers.

The article is called "People vs. the Profiteers", and can be viewed online at the link below.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/halliburton200711

I think this is a guy that we can really get behind.

*** Warning ***
There is some graphic gore in the article, but it is REALLY fascinating, and those that read it will understand Alan's Lincoln reference.

Try it, you'll like it.

Go Alan.

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Now, he represents "CHANGE"...
Actual accountability.

QUESTION:
Is past performance indicative of future performance?
And if so, what is Hillary's and Obama's past performance on accountability in regards to the current Administration indicative of?
More excusing of their Administration and why accountability is not that important, maybe?

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The once-classic Van Dyke style has become the "face mullet" of the 1990s. They were an interesting style for, oh, about 18 months.

And with this guy, his is so bushy and thick it's hard to keep from staring at it and instead listen to what he has to say (which is eminently worthwhile!). Literally, I read about his positions and work and thought, 'Wow, that's wonderful' -- and upon first seeing the photo, the first words out of my mouth were, 'Jesus, that's a lot of hair. How can he eat past that thing?'

I knew a dude a while back who sported long, 70s-style sideburns. Couldn't stop staring at them. And then there was the older gent with the curled over handlebar moustache, and I couldn't stop thinking about the visible wax on it.

I'm sorry -- yes, I know it is 'look-ism'. But it's also a truth of human culture that sometimes someone's grooming and personal appearance can get in the way of their message.

This is just me, but truly -- I'm sick of the face mullets.