Bennet Kelley
- Location
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Birthday
- May 04
- Bio
- Bennet Kelley is an award winning columnist, a political commentator, radio host and the former Co-Founder and National Co-Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Saxophone Club (its young professional fund raising and outreach arm during the Clinton years).
MY RECENT POSTS
- Why I Am Not Voting for Eric
Garcetti for Mayor
April 29, 2013 01:35AM - Romney, Marx and the GOP Brand
October 15, 2012 12:51AM - CISPA, Netizens and the
Internet's Coming of Age Party
April 29, 2012 11:17AM - The GOP Declares Bankruptcy
April 08, 2012 11:36AM - The Difference between April
and November Fools
April 01, 2012 09:31PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Frank - thanks for the
comment. I was not saying it
was over,
I just said they
a…”
April 09, 2012 06:48AM - “Frank - thanks for the
comment. As a Red Sox fan and
a
Democrat I've learned
to…”
November 12, 2011 12:09PM
Bennet Kelley's Links
Why I Am Not Voting for Eric Garcetti for Mayor
I have known Eric Garcetti since before he was first elected to City Council when we were involved in the west coast launch of a young progressive group called Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century. It may comes as a surprise to some, however, that I am not voting/… Read full post »
Romney, Marx and the GOP Brand
Romney, Marx and the GOP Brand
There is a long-standing strain in conservative thought that
America is essentially a conservative country that has been
led astray and duped by the “liberal media” and
Hollywood. The most recent articulation of this view is in
book/… Read full post »
CISPA, Netizens and the Internet's Coming of Age Party
Last week in Geneva the Internet elite gathered to celebrate the inaugural class of inductees for the Internet Hall of Fame at a very fitting moment. The Internet is experiencing a coming of age as not only has it surpassed television in terms of daily consumer usage, but it also is flexing/… Read full post »
The GOP Declares Bankruptcy
The GOP Declares Bankruptcy
With
Mitt Romney's recent primary victories in Illinois, Maryland and
Wisconsin, the inevitability factor has begun to set in and Romney
is now the presumptive nominee having prevailed over an
embarrassingly weak GOP field of candidates. The good news
for R/… Read full post »The Difference between April and November Fools
After Pope Benedict reiterated the Vatican’s long-standing condemnation of the United States’ fifty year-old embargo of Cuba, I noticed some chatter in social media that maybe the remarks could lead to a change in U.S. policy. After double-checking to make sure that pigs were not fl… Read full post »
Somber Anniv. Call to Reject Extremism
Last Crazy Standing: Is it Newt Time for the GOP?
Last Crazy Standing: Is it Newt Time for the GOP?
by Bennet Kelley
History can be savagely poetic and may be on the verge of doing so
again. As the Republican Presidential Circus reaches the doorstep
of the Iowa Caucus, Newt Gingrich is inching up in the polls ready
to emerge as/… Read full post »
Demanding Accountability for Wall Street's "Greedapalooza"
Within two months of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. auto industry began converting all of its production to the war effort and ultimately was responsible for 20% percent of all war time production. That was then.
Months after American's second Pearl Harbor… Read full post »
S&P and the Folly of Conventional Wisdom
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com